You've got to be kidding me. They are going to charge $41,000 for this thing and it only goes 40 miles! That will barely get me to work. No, really.

No, really.

Kudos to the gang at Wired for making this story easy to understand. One thing we should all take away from this is that the Chinese are deadly serious about solar power and seem to be intent on conquering the field, despite the deep recession in that industry. For all the noise about limitless, green energy I just don't see the factories tolling up over here to make it happen. And that's a shame. Can't we build these things and also drill, baby, drill at the same time?

 

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Gazprom employees prepared to weld a section of a gas pipeline near the town of Novy Urengoy in December 2007.

Russia may start to play more "pipeline politics."