Its official- we are a nation of idiots

I could read a book about this wiotuht finding such real-world approaches!

"The only thing strange about this is that the author just noticed that we are a marketing/advertisement base society ? This is happening in all industries, consumer's are being spoon fed absolute garbage information in order to sell more something or others." Basically you are right LJB, but you get it short also; the public is so low educated --that we know for a while from other sources...--that it will take everything what "was seen on TV" without any second thought.On the other hand our leaders are also at least not overoaded with technical knowledge, but relying on support of specialist which could be biased...Basiccaly unlike China our leaders are not techocrats.

The only thing strange about this is that the author just noticed that we are a marketing/advertisement base society ? This is happening in all industries, consumer's are being spoon fed absolute garbage information in order to sell more something or others.

In response to AaronW who claims holes in evolution. You have proven the point of the article and it's you who needs to do some research before blindly spouting such nonsense. The only holes are those in your head!

Yeah, that was a stupid, stupid article by someone who clearly doesn't know any science himself. These magazines are supposed to be for, presumably, educated professionals and yet all of the articles are at a 5th grade level at best. Really, I mostly read them for the advertising as the articles are usually at a pathetically low and useless level. It's sad really, I'd love to see some "Good" thought provoking articles rather than stuff that's as dumb as most of what's on tv...

waternwaves DS
Paul, love these ariticles.....being dismissive is good, however, your explanation of nuclear processes is er well.....parochial.
everything is radioactive Its just the interval that makes it difficult to detect. ;)
And as far as transmutation and changing of elements at roomn temps..... That is what decomposition is. Rare(not in a reactor) energetic particles do add and subtract to nuclei infrequently. And if you look at the math, it is far too frequently, compared to the the incident particle frequency/density.
And this is why we study these events so carefully, the theories still have holes big enough to drive trucks through

Paul, keep on exposing idiots. It's a no-win situation, as I've learned over the past 30 years, but we do a larger disservice by letting stupid stuff slide. The blind leading the blind has gotten our society into its predicament. I’m just surprised about the number of negative comments coming from people who have probably also been stepped on by “shiny” people. But if they’re happy that way, so be it. You can’t fix stupid.

sorry..meant to say @Peter L

@Paul L: and plowmen and shoemakers are among the most famous of technology inventors because of all that deep, inspirational, thought ("should I plant corn, or should I plant peas, here?")....
What's the problem for us to solve? Nobody defined a problem, they just made an observation. At that point, with no problem defined, you stop being an engineer and you turn into, [insert favorite deity here] forbid, a human being - the most reprehensible thing for an autistic engineer to observe. You ranted in one of the longest postings here, but you didn't define or solve any problems with an engineering's eye. You turned stupid, just like the rest of us...and that, believe it or not, is OK.

I claim to be a Systems Analyst and when I analyse the "Problems of the World" - in particular overpopulation which, in turn, leads to most of the other problems - I can see the solution. It used to be a major war every second generation or the occasional plague or famine. With advances in medicine and diplomacy(?) the least drastic solution would be for families to aim for two children and the accidental third would make up for the people who have none. Unfortunately, it's the extremists who feel that it is their duty to have large families, a hangover from the days of high infant mortality.

Great article. I am always amazed at how an article describing a real problem like this can be turned into a marketing campaign for or against global warming. Oops. Climate change. Oops, idiots discussing stupidity. If you are really Engineers or Scientists, start acting like one. Solve a problem. Don't devolve (yes I used that word on purpose) the discussion into stupidity. Solve something. Better yet, solve a problem that really needs to be solved.
I believe we are turning into a nation of idiots. And this article, and the associated stupid comments, clearly demonstrates a few very good examples that this is occuring. But WHY? If we don't talk about WHY, we will never get to the, "HOW do we fix it?"
And I think it has to do with time. No, I don't think time is changing or the relative speed of time is altering our reality, but I do know that we are not spending the "time" to actually think. And we are forgetting how. It used to be that you might manually plow a field or manually make a pair of shoes. This required not only the ability to learn a new skill, but also allowed you very large chunks of time in life to just "think". And it is because our ancestors had so much time to "think" that we now have so many solutions to the difficult problems of yesteryear.
And since we are so afraid of taking the time to "think", we instead get tossed back around by other people who don't spend the time to "think" before they, post, report, push buttons, or spew stupidity.
So my recommendation is this. Before you decide to give us your enlighted view and position on how the world works, please turn on your brain, ask WHY, take the time to "think" about a solution and then feel free to make suggestions.
Everything else is just a terrible waste of everyone's "time" and brain power. When we could be "solving" actual, real problems.
Man up. Be what you claim to be.
An Engineer.

@mercdragon: "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits" - Albert Einstein
Thanks for affirming that one :-)

This article depict a real problem in the occidental culture. Most of this magazine readers are engineers or scientist and can discern pseudo-scientific articles errors. But the science-based thinking is the new religion of the world. Most of the non-scientific peoples will learn and thrust this garbage as idiots, and this is a concern. Remember that the science is just a method to describe roughly a subpart of the reality that we can reach with models and mathematics and then create some functional systems from.

Greetings,
I am an analyzer applications specialist in a chemical plant with 30 years experience. In that time I have seen many "idiots" as spoken of here. I also know a very experienced and brilliant analytical chemist that anyone would be glad to have on staff; he also has about 30 years experience. He also believes in palm reading because of his culture. Is he an idiot? One of the necesseties of critical thinking is to look at all critical paths; not just the ones we prefer.
I agree with the base consensus that we are far too media oriented and have a "form over function" mentality. Would a pure "function over form" nation be any better? Just food for thought.
Thanks,
John

So Paul, didn't bother to actually read the articles you're attacking? That's a prime symptom of the pseudoscientist. But then whenever I see someone filling their arguments with politican-style fallacies, I *know* they're clueless about science. Your article becomes an example of one con-artist attacking another.
For shame. You're making us look bad.
Not in the Wikipedia entry on thorium: accelerator-based thorium reactors, where thorium fuel is bombarded by a particle beam. Useful energy output, but no molten salt or self-sustaining reactor ala U-235

A toast to Paul. I am sick of the 'science' idiots myself.

As computer renderings go they did at least try hard to get it "right". The shadows are not bad, but they forgot to "grime it up" a bit to fit in the surroundings. The scale and position of the camera is a little "off" so as to not be totally believable. I give it a B+. These kinds of car product shots are getting easier and easier to do every day with things like Keyshot and Maxwell Render. As for the "thorium what-cha-ma call-it" it sounds like the things all around me that the government is trying to take away from me; they have have an Edison base and screw in to a socket and get plenty hot I tell you what. You'll take my incandescents over my cold mercury ridden body, brother...

Paul, I am not getting it..
Why all the bile about this particular set of articles as opposed to the infomercial rubbish that I keep seeing in every "technical" mag.. (including your own) ???
I agree completely that there are too many "scientific" articles written by people who have no idea of what they are writing about or (worse) know but are somewhat "economical" with the truth..
On the other hand, it seems like the ones that are meant to be in the know, only seem to be able to explain why it can't be done..
In my experience, the biggest reason it can't be done is "experts" telling everyone it can't be done!
Still..
The technicalities do not seem as far-fetched as you seem to be convinced. The idea was put forward by a physics Nobel laureate who was research director at CERN's nuclear physics labs. Research funding was largely rejected by the EU bureaucracy due to having already invested heavily in an older/classical French design..
Have a look again at Wikipedia - this time look for "Energy Amplifier" and maybe consider a little more research before making sweeping pronouncements.. While you are at it, have a quick look at Physical Review Letters' article on a thorium nuclear gamma-ray laser.. In fundamental physics, they might have a little more sway than you, sorry..

If DC is correct, Paul still makes the point that the way this "Thorium Laser" is described is all wrong.

After 3 wives it has become apparent to me that engineers are not fondly thought of as a source of inspiration. The conservative logic and coolness of thought generally isn’t what people want to hear. Give them a little over the top conclusion, no data and everyone is happy.

"I also love to see the “technology” section of CNN and ABC. They usually talk about video games or some social media crap." Spot on, Paul. I can recall when the entertainment section of my weekly TV guide used to actually contain readable articles. Now it is nothing but a tired rundown of the latest shoot-'em-up, kill-'em-dead video games. Then we opine about the self-entitlement attitude of today's youth as they rampage and loot.

Wow! Talk about missing the point. Paul, you have completely mis-read the areticle.
Quoting the referred to article;
"The LPS power plant, for all its whiz-bang properties, isn’t a complete departure from traditional power generation: the thorium is lased and the resulting heat flashes a fluid and creates pressurized steam inside a closed-loop system. The steam then drives a turbine that turns an electric generator."
The proposed power system uses a laser to put the necessary heat into the thorium to sustain the reaction, NOT to use thorium to create a laser. Talk about sensationalistic journalism, perhaps you should look inside yourself.

Oops! Make that "There isn't a single problem on earth that would NOT be made better by less population"

Sadly, along the lines of Charles' comment, the idiots of the world will make more babies even when they can't feed the ones they have. Unfortunately, the human being is the only complex, non-linear, 150-lb servo-mechanism that can be produced entirely by unskilled labor! There isn't a single problem on earth that would be made better by less population - unless, of course, you talk about modern "economics" which require constant growth ... more people, more money, more greed!!

Since 1930 oficial, certificate premium class morons

The LASER (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) works with light, i.e., a wavelength of approx 500nm, which can interact with atoms (dimension approx 0.1nm) but not with nuclei (dimension 100000 times smaller than the atom). Dont worry, lasers will not induce fusion.

Further - as the more enlightened/intelligent/educated families tend on average to have fewer children, we are globally Naturally Selecting for idiocy

Paul,
Decent article pointing out another "technical hoax". I'm surprised some of the comments have missed the point of your article so widely. Bet they still believe in cold fusion as a source of energy just around the corner.
The "Patriot" worrying about a 2 degree C change in average temperature needs to rethink mankind's effect on the overall of this small planet. An average volcano eruption of the last two centuries have put more CO2, dust, and sulpher dioxide in the atmosphere alone than mankind has accomplished in 1000 years. Mankind has managed to eliminate continuously the natural scrubbers, trees and forests that are needed. Global warming occurs naturally every day, due to the light of the star, known as SOL.
Einstien was right, the difference between stupidity and genius is indeed slight. Genius does have limits.
Y'all take care and be safe
pfb

Ir's funny one so called "Techie" reporter going on about another so called "Techie" reporter.
Its people like you who keep saying "oh this is not possible, that is not possible", with their heads in the sand, that keep us using fossil fuels and destroying our planet.
Global warming is real, how real is the only unknown.
Whats so far fetched about using new laser technology's to create fusion power?
Sure the rube said things wrong, but the facts are still underlying the hype, ya just have to do a bit of research.
And whats so far fetched about using solar power, wind power, wave power all these are in use today, and should be the wave of the future.
Our natural gas turbines and coal power plants should be converted to run on Hydrogen.
We should be building more dams and hydroelectric plants, we should install flow power systems in rivers and streams that are too small or we don't want to dam.
We should be building huge desalinization plants and pipelines and transforming much of the worlds desert lands into forest and farm land.
We should be recovering metals, plastics, etc. etc. etc. from our trash.
There is so much that can be done that not only saves money, but saves the planet and gives us longer lives ta boot.

Just to clarify - the "Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection" is a theory of how evolution works. Evolution is not a theory but an observable fact.

Duh. The earth has been warming since the ice age; I don't seriously think man caused the ice age or the warming. Even though I am sure we are messing up the Earth, there ain't no reason to play Chicken Little. There are several plausible reasons for the warming, other than mankind. So let's don't hurry to charge carbon tax yet. I always taught my math students, "many of you may be ignorant, but I sincerely hope none of you are stupid".

It's a sad state we are in. Paul you described the problem well. Also, I think that they used Thorium so they could call it the World Thorium Fuel Vehicle, or the WTF, which is used frequently on reddit.com, youtube and all over the internet to get people just to look at an image on their web site.

Excellent article Paul...right on target.

Quoting GE is the same as quoting our misguided President. It doesn't have to be true, it only needs to appeal to the Press. It's not that we are a country of idots we have become a country that listens to and believes what the idots have to say. Critical thinking is not a part of political correctness. We, those who are engaged in real science, must do what we have always done, get the job done and remain dedicated to truth.

Paul, one other dubious statement you missed. It says "The thorium laser does not produce a beam of coherent light like conventional lasers...". The whole point of a laser is that it produces a beam of coherent light. If the light is not coherent, it is not a laser.

Wow. Not often that you get a response that so well illustrates the article! rplaza does a great job of mixing disdain for others who actually apply critical thinking to the subject of 'man-caused-global-warming' while demonstrating mindless regurgitation of political factoids.
150 years of man-made carbon load is insignificant when compared to the output of Volcanos over the same period (let alone the previous thousands of years.) The factoids about the relative thickness and volume of the atmosphere to the volume and what, diameter? of the whole earth gives a venue for lots of zeros, but no actual information. (It might, and I say this carefully, have more relevance if rplaza could also quote the comparative percentage of man-made carbon load in 150 years as compared to the same standard, the volume of the earth! But even then, the use of raw decimals attempts to hide magnitude in impressive rows of zeros.)
Here's some zeros for you, rplaza: you complain about 2 degrees C in 150 years. Since that infers a change of about .014degC per year, taken over the surface of the whole earth (5.1 x 10^8 km^2, for what it is worth) taken from instruments with built-in accuracy and precision which ranged from +/-2degC to .1% +/- one least-significant count on displays limited to .1degC, who is measuring the 1/74.5th degree changes?
All of this leaves behind the idiocy of religious belief in using weather-prediction programs to predict climate changes over hundreds of years. Obviously, something that can't predict the weather in 5 days is going to be a dubious tool for predicting the climate in 300 years, but less obvious to the jingoists who call critical thinkers idiots is the fact that such a tool requires 'adjustments' to the input data and presumptions to 'correct' for the tool's inabilities, a recipe for manipulating the tool to get the desired result, and pass off the fraudulent inputs as 'necessary'.
Sorry, rplaza, all you have done is invent and win your own reward.

Some more digging I found Press releases of partnerships with Stevens previous company Helyxzion. I wondered who would partner with an obvious scam. The thing is all those partners appear to have evaporated as well into dead link land. Though I did find a trail on this one (lots of press releases still available):
www.prweb.com/releases/2006/03/prweb360691.htm
“Helyxzion and Telomolecular Announce Strategic Partnership
According to Chief Executive Officer, Matthew A. Sarad, “Helyxzion’s technologies are able ….”
Followed by SEC litigation against Sarad for stock fraud:
www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2008/lr20745.htm
SEC Charges California Biotechnology Company for Fraudulent Stock Scheme
The SEC alleges that Telomolecular and its founder and former CEO, Matthew A. Sarad of Folsom, Calif., induced hundreds of investors nationwide to purchase $6.5 million worth of shares of Telomolecular stock. According to the SEC’s complaint, Telomolecular and Sarad falsely claimed the company was backed by a deep management and scientific team, generating significant industry interest in its technologies, and prepared to obtain financing from substantial institutions. Instead, the complaint alleges that the company lacked the management professionals and extensive scientific staff it claimed, the supposed interest in its technologies did not exist, and the potential source of financing it touted was a sole proprietorship with no assets.
It is a sad state of “Journalism” today that Wards will publish “too good to be true” tech stories that should immediately send your scam meter into the red, without any background checks and that should have revealed a web of scams/fraud. This bored auto fan only wasted about 20 minutes with Google to dig this up. Any “journalist” who valued their integrity should have done at least this much. I am sure there is much more…

Yep, here we go.
With the deafening sound of a million monkeys hitting the keyboard...
dcw commented:
How about the PC idiots who believe that a few PPM of CO2 in the air will cause major climate change and the idiots who believe that a 2 degC rise in average temperature is a bad thing.
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IT IS OFFICAL, NOW Mr dcw is one of them...
The academy of stupidity and brain science will be sending him his degree.. soon.
Yeah right, in a planet were the thickness of the atmosphere is 0.017246 % of its size, or by volume the atmosphere is 0.5183% of the earth's volume,
To say it in a way you can understand, if the earth was an apple the breathable atmosphere will be thinner than the apple's skin. (36.000 ft)
So you say that the burning of millions upon millions of tons of fossil fuels for the last 150 years "HAVE NO CONSEQUENCES AT ALL"...
Hard to believe, Mr dcw, if you only want to be right in your stupidity, like our politicians, you have the right to do so, but don't insult my intelligence.
Go to school educate yourself, get a degree, get some knowledge... uuhhhmmm.. maybe I'm asking too much from you, well... you can stay there, what you need to get is more intelligence and that is impossible.

Well said, Paul! You've earned a beer with that one!
Idiots are everywhere. In the 90s I worked under an Apps Director who had extreme difficulties grasping why a 15A CPU DC-DC couldn't be tested with 3A current meters. The solution was shunts, inevitably purchased at my own expense. Not sure which Lobotomy was required for advancement at that company but I narrowed it down to coat hanger or electric drill.

But it's got electrolytes.

Aaron W. The theory of evolution is a rock solid fact. Look up the definition of the word "theory" and its conection with the scientific method. Evolution is every bit as good as ohm's law.

dcw commented:
How about the PC idiots who believe that a few PPM of CO2 in the air will cause major climate change and the idiots who believe that a 2 degC rise in average temperature is a bad thing.
DCW- I'm inviting you to Vermont to look at the results of those few ppm of CO2 and the 2 degC temp rise. If it was your house going down the West River you may want to rethink your position.
Yours Truly,
PC in VT

@Aaron Idiot: the media won't say it, and clearly you got a D- in biology. Go get yourself a nice dose of an STD, get a penicillin prescription for ten days, but only take the pills for four. Wait a couple of weeks, and repeat. Now try to rid yourself of your creationism, for in your mind, mutated bacteria were not selected by the environment as the fittest to reproduce and prayer will cure you of things like MRSA. Nope, no evidence of mutation and survival of the fittest, the core principle of evolution. You're from tgat same pack of idiots that thought the earth was flat, yet books in Alexandria's ancient library computed the earth's diameter to surprising accuracy. America was founded by people trying to get away from people like you...please leave.

I yam President of the nation Stupidonia. We have been using Thorium lasers for many years. One of the beneficial side effects of the gamma radiation is that we don't need headlights to drive in the dark, since everything here glows so nicely!

Reminds me of the GE Turboencabulator in the 1962 General Electric Handbook.

While I agree with most of your article, I have to note that the wireless charging technology coming from MIT is NOT mere induction. It is based upon magnetic resonance.
The usability of MR for wireless charging is far greater than the inductive technology in devices such as the Palm TouchStone. The needs for very close proximity and strict alignment in inductive applications are greatly relaxed for MR. What makes it more interesting is the ability to use passive, tuned inductors to "light up" an entire table or work surface, for example rather than a charging pad. I urge you to go check it out.
To be fair, you should also look at the technology QCOM acquired from Fulton.
So while I have to agree we ARE a nation of idiots in general, we need to accurately differentiate between the people who develop real technology and the idiots that may find themselves in the role of marketing it.

...Well....we've just got to increase the phase-emitters charging field to the tri-delta allowance of 105%...and don't forget to re-align the flux converters
"Make it so"....and dis-engage the cloaking device...!!

Here’s another idiot concept: Hydrogen powered cars. At least in my lifetime and my children’s lifetimes. (1) No way to handle hydrogen safely. (2) Not enough useful energy per unit volume. (3) No economical way to produce the amount needed to replace gasoline. (4) No effective holding vessels.

Well said. Couldn't be more true.

It is true that Hype has replaced science - it is truly astounding they refer to this as a laser, maybe it just sounded beter than a nuclear car powered by a thorium reactor? Given the recent issues around nuclear (Uranium based of course) in Japan.
It wil be interesting though as China is going whole hog after Thorium Salt reactors for their power technologies. All based on the work at Oak Ridge in the 60's but was killed because we wanted the Uranium byproduct Plutonium to make bombs so Thorium was abandoned.
There is a lot of good work by Lightbridge by Sorenson on the thorium economy...but it is hard from reading to tell how viable this really is.

"I reject your reality and substitute my own" is more than a Mythbusters catchphrase. I pervades everything from the media (of all bents) to politics to otherwise scientific institutions. The two big drivers seem to be "who will give me money if I can create attention" and "how much attention can I create". Not only is the critical thinking that does get done absent much of a voice, but with the proliferation of "my view only" news sources the voices aren't heard by many anyway.

I'm not sure what to think about this article, the references, or the comments in response. Everybody is getting trolled.
I will agree that the media has gotten out of hand, but that is precisely why no one with a shred of rational thought pays much attention to it. I also agree that some of the ideas here are quite ridiculous, but what is the alternative? I think even the ridiculous ideas get people thinking about realistic concepts. Creativity is still important in engineering.
Aside from that, this article and my response to it was a huge waste of my time. What is the irony there?

The media is the fuel for the world's stupidity. It's GIGO at it's finest. They feed us garbage (garbage in) and we try to do something with it and get garbage out.

I see where this is going...there are certainly idiots out there ... only a true idiot would deny it. As I often have to search through institutional PR from universities in search of emerging technology, I see the PR boffins of many otherwise respectable institutions either spouting complete nonsense - probably couldn't fathom what the reasearcher actually said - or enormous hype about the magnitude of a discovery. The case you cite where the supposed discovery can be found in a history of science text book isn't all that uncommon either - again mostly not even what the researcher said although, distressingly, it sometimes is. Don't you love it when Sanjay Gupta gets handed a sports story?

I laughed. I thought it a farce when I first read it.

The technical guys help grow the other idiots.
You can buy a PC at the same price as two downlights in a supermarket. No wonder no one has any respect to technical guys.

Please be more accurate with terminology... Idiots, are more intelligent than those that are stupid. We are not stupid in America, just damn "ignorant," because we don't try to elevate our our idiots. Always remember, those that are Stupid, are Stupid forever with no chance for redemption, and it is considered the worst insult in properly spoken English.

I just found one more idiot... someone in this blog who doesn't understand the impact of a 2 degree rise in average temperature. 2 degrees is not big deal to your Labor Day plans, but we're talking about a 2 degree rise in the average temperature of the climate of a great big PLANET.

The title should be GE, a company full of idiots. America is not a country of idiots. One bad apple does not spoil the bunch! The media is full of idiots. They are the ones broadcasting and printing all the idiot propaganda every day.

I hate to digress, but I can't let this comment be ignored.
savroD, be careful who you classify as an idiot... evolution has plenty of it's own problems and holes in it. Unlike the subject matter of the article, which is a little more cut and dry.
Do a little research before you blindly follow what was handed to you by the present education system.

Idiocracy

Oh Puleeeze indeed. This jabber comes off as yet another boorish excuse to make political potshots & act superior - if I wanted this I'd read the latest Newsvine rantings. Paul needs to step away from the media he finds so outrageous & insulting - and much like a laser not add to it by pumping in his own biases & mock outrage. Back to the better EDN articled by HoJo et al.

Your comment about the shiny people is what I have observed in my 20+ years since graduating from engineering school and even during those years studying engineering. Have some pity on them, though. Imagine living life thinking everything from your toaster to your laptop is magic.

Right on Paul! I guess it's unrealistic to expect critical thought from a media that increasingly can't spell or even put a coherent sentence together. I think we're seeing the result of the "feel-good" schooling philosophy of years past. We have a shameful ranking among the civilized countries when it comes to effective education. But marketing rules all these days, so if it sells, who cares if it makes people stupid, mystical, and obese?

It's been clear that we've become a nation of idiots for a long time now, since sizeable numbers of voter would have as our president people who are demonstrably ignorant of science and even 6th-grade history, who inspire anti-intellectualism, who deny evolution and believe the world is 6,000 years old. The fact that anyone thinks that people that stupid would have legitimate answers to serious issues will be the un-doing of this country.

How about the PC idiots who believe that a few PPM of CO2 in the air will cause major climate change and the idiots who believe that a 2 degC rise in average temperature is a bad thing.

Sounds familiar...
Who is John Galt?

We are a nation of idiots, (some edn readers excluded), when the serious and popular contenders for the presidency don't believe in evolution and are proud of it!

Showing how GE, a supposedly technical company, are idiots is perfectly on topic and SOMEONE needs to show that the chimps are running the show while competent engineers collect unemployment checks. A classical example is Solyndra folding in the past day or two - it should never have been funded.
I like the occasional diversions here, though I know it bugs the autistics who can't stand anything that does not have a transistor in it.
These are a technologer's view of the world and it makes a nice scaffold for some interesting banter among the more enlightened and diversified folks here.

First you said that we are a nation of idiots and then you proceeded to make a perfect case for it by saying that 3 minutes on Wikipedia will make you an instant expert in using Thorium as fuel.
I wish this blog was a bit like the others in this magazine. Instead of a competent conversation about analog issues (after all, it is called anablog) all we get are meaningless pictures from swapmeets and rants about the same companies that once paid your salary.
Grow up, Paul.

I think the car looks pretty cool. I especially like the 1mm vertical travel front suspension. I'm also willing to bet it uses a HotWheels steering system, where roads are orange strips of plastic that will be joined by construction workers under Stimulus 5.0 funding. Also makes me glad I live on a hill so I won't need to queue up for one of those hokey car elevators.

Your list didn't include the clowns hawking solar-powered roads that melt snow (which you posted about on Jan 20, 2011). They've since been given $750k from the DoT.