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I remember being thrilled, back in the 1980s, to read about Fleischmann and Pons’ results regarding apparent cold fusion in a palladium-deuterium-heavy water system. Their work attracted wide media attention; and then, when their results proved difficult to replicate reliably, this also received wide attention, and resulted in the whole concept of cold fusion being dismissed as bunk by the bulk of the scientific community.

OK, brain uploading fans.  Defend the cause against this one…  

six reasons why you’ll never upload your mind into a computer

"3. Insane Energy Demand

Do you truly feel shitty about the oily pelicans in the Gulf? Do you want to throw a shoe in the face of the OPEC nations? When you gaze in the mirror do you want to see a lean green clean machine?

If yes, Yes, YES is your answer… it’s time to stroke your conscience and dreams by buying an EV (electric vehicle) now!

2010-2011 is a crucial moment in history as over a dozen EVs arrive on the market.  Will you buy one?  Are you cutting edge cool or a foul fossil Luddite?  You can vote immediately for a superior future with your wallet, or hesitate awkwardly like an impacted bowel. 

What happens when a man is merged with a computer or a robot? This is the question that Professor Kevin Warwick and his team at the department of Cybernetics, University of Reading in the UK have been trying to answer for a number of years.

An NSERC-funded lab at the University Of Waterloo has laid the groundwork for a lithium battery that can store and deliver more than three times the power of conventional lithium ion batteries.

If you were trying to design an energy system for a rapidly growing population, it would be hard to do worse than the one we have today. It’s brittle — dependent upon unstable regions and massive centralized networks. It’s dirty — poisoning us with mercury and heating the atmosphere with carbon. And it’s finite — we’re perilously close to running out of one of our key energy resources, oil. Getting away from all of this won’t be easy, and we’re running out of time to make it happen.

A generator designed to mimic the motion of fish has the potential to transform energy production in both the developed and developing worlds.

Ben Goertzel converses with Hugo de Garis on his transhumanist argument for the reality of a Creator.