Solar-Hydrogen Fuel Cells

Okay, I'm taking advantage of Google's Notebook application to search for, note and document what I've managed to find on a personal interest of mine. Creating a personal Fuel Cell power generator. The idea is collecting rain water from my roof into a barrel, using wind and solar power to electrolyze that water and running various appliances with a Fuel Cell using the hydrogen collected during the day and during windy conditions.

The question I am trying to answer in the public Google Notebook is a) Can this be made to be efficient and worth the investment, and b) Is it as or more cost effective and efficient than some other solution, such as one using rechargeable batteries, or some such.

Wired News: Google: Don't Not Be Evil

Now this is a business model to envy. Here's a summary of potential business ventures for our favorite Search Engine company, Google. There are some good ideas, here. The writer has a few modest proposals on how Google can expand its mission to organize the world's information.

I can see its stock rising already!

Wired News: A Sixth Sense for a Wired World

WTF??? Now this article brings back memories of my role play gaming days, specifically the GURPS CyberPunk module which allowed the gamers to play in the post-apocalyptic world of William Gibson (I'm going to have to read some of those books, one day).

But this one, well..... Boy and howdy. In the CyberPunk world, there was always talk of installing hardware in one's body. Being able to connect to computers, or to fire a weapon out of your finger is dark, sexy, mysterious in that scary future of the CyberPunk genre. But implanting the sliver of a magnet in your finger tips? Eerie, odd, gross, stupid, and coooollllll.......

I'll wait until the tattoo parlor can figure out how to keep it safe.