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13 Comments

wow.. this is a damn good compilation.. hadn't heard about many of these things earlier.. a few things could have been added, like green fuels (such as the ones from algae)..

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Sometimes it's nice to look at these things with hindsight. Really funky article.

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Wonder when the 2009 results come out especially as we are now in a recession - will we still see the same R&D development going forward?

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That's just crazy... I really like to see how scientists and engineers work to change our world, that's fascinating !
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I've heard about a lot of these, in the news, on the science and history channel, on other websites, but still a surprise and still amazing!!!

In 1980's we could watch like these things on cartoons. Very nice post for me, thank you.

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I love the Japanese space internet idea... Imagine being able to connect to the internet from anywhere in the world from your laptop/iphone etc thru satellite at broadband speeds... amazing!

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So many great innovations. I can't even begin to imagine what we'll see in another 25 years...

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