Comments for Sci du Jour http://scidujour.com Science and technology news specials. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:02:41 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 Comment on Capstone microturbine hybrid burns rubber, virtually any fuel by rrich http://scidujour.com/2009/12/capstone-microturbine-hybrid-burns-rubber-virtually-any-fuel/comment-page-1/#comment-22 rrich Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:02:41 +0000 http://scidujour.com/?p=270#comment-22 Capstone Turbines appear to be a huge tech breakthrough as a new power source for hybrid vehicles. The company has been around for at least ten years, producing thousands of these microturbines for power generation. The auto application seems to have all the advantages; clean-burning, multi-fuel capability, high mileage, low maintenance with only one moving part, plus being greener than grass. So why, in the light of all that, is the company in the toilet? Their IPO in 2000 offered stock at $16 per share, and it's now selling at around a dollar, the company has never made a profit, has never paid a dividend, it leases rather than owns its real estate properties, so what's the problem?? With a product like the Capstone Turbine, you'd think they would be the new Microsoft with their stock price going sky-high. Capstone Turbines appear to be a huge tech breakthrough as a new power source for hybrid vehicles. The company has been around for at least ten years, producing thousands of these microturbines for power generation. The auto application seems to have all the advantages; clean-burning, multi-fuel capability, high mileage, low maintenance with only one moving part, plus being greener than grass. So why, in the light of all that, is the company in the toilet? Their IPO in 2000 offered stock at $16 per share, and it’s now selling at around a dollar, the company has never made a profit, has never paid a dividend, it leases rather than owns its real estate properties, so what’s the problem?? With a product like the Capstone Turbine, you’d think they would be the new Microsoft with their stock price going sky-high.

]]> Comment on 100 Posts by glyphobet • глыфобет • γλυφοβετ http://scidujour.com/2010/02/100-posts/comment-page-1/#comment-21 glyphobet • глыфобет • γλυφοβετ Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:52:09 +0000 http://scidujour.com/?p=331#comment-21 <strong>What remains to be discovered...</strong> Sci Du Jour asks: What technological/scientific advances/discoveries are you most looking forward to in the next 25 years? A few years ago I read John Maddox’s What Remains to Be Discovered: Mapping the Secrets of the Universe, the Origins of Lif... What remains to be discovered…

Sci Du Jour asks: What technological/scientific advances/discoveries are you most looking forward to in the next 25 years? A few years ago I read John Maddox’s What Remains to Be Discovered: Mapping the Secrets of the Universe, the Origins of Lif…

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I hate that I waste 1/3 of my life sleeping when I could instead be wasting it playing video games.

]]> Comment on Plastic combo conducts, trumps semiconductors by dustindriver http://scidujour.com/2008/06/plastic-conducts-trumps-semiconductors/comment-page-1/#comment-3 dustindriver Mon, 16 Jun 2008 06:36:59 +0000 http://scidujour.com/?p=50#comment-3 Yes, but will the plastic grant me new effects, from magnetism to superconductivity? Yes, but will the plastic grant me new effects, from magnetism to superconductivity?

]]> Comment on 2,000-year-old date seed sprouts by dustindriver http://scidujour.com/2008/06/2000-year-old-date-seed-sprouts/comment-page-1/#comment-2 dustindriver Mon, 16 Jun 2008 06:34:46 +0000 http://scidujour.com/?p=40#comment-2 I was really reaching for some sort of whiz-bang lead with this one, but my muse, she was silent. Apparently she is not impressed with a date pit that could have been slathered in the spit of our savior. I was really reaching for some sort of whiz-bang lead with this one, but my muse, she was silent. Apparently she is not impressed with a date pit that could have been slathered in the spit of our savior.

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