Origo Industries: Capture your car’s CO2 and use it to re-power your vehicle – and your home

Origo Industries has developed a system that captures the CO2 from your vehicle’s engine and then allows you to turn these emissions into fuel at your own home to re-power your car. The same fuel could also be used to power your house.

The system uses a revolutionary new approach where CO2 is regenerated through algae in a home unit, allowing the user to produce bio-oil (up to 2500 litres per year tax-free).

Origo Industries: Capture your car’s CO2 and use it to re-power your vehicle – and your home

Let’s hope it’s true!

Data Retention Effectively Changes the Behavior of Citizens in Germany

The problem with surveillance is not primarily that some bored officer might learn about some embarrassing private detail (although this is a problem as well). The fundamental problem with surveillance is that it changes people. People under surveillance behave differently than people who are not monitored – differently than free people.

Unfortunately, this fundamental problem has just been proven in Germany

Which is yet another of the many many reasons why we should be highly sceptical of government surveilance through CCTV coverage, unfettered wiretapping and other forms of personal monitoring.

US to EU : y’allz a bunch terrurhists, y’hear?

Apparently the entry requirements for the US will require an electronic registration with the US government at least 3 days before travel. El Reg is there.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/03/us_visa_scheme/.

Keep in mind this is on top of the anal probe, DNA swipe, taking of fingerprints, retinal scan, drug use inquiry and all the other fun stuff potentially awaiting you at the US border *as a citizen of an allied country*. WTF?

Semantic Web Searching

Powerset is another semantic web search engine – ie. it searches by meaning instead of by words and phrases. It’s a total new way to look at information retrieval and is useful in that it can (should be able to) answer questions and make relevant conclusions. This becomes more and more important as the size of the web increases. This one is in open beta and only has few sources and a small index, but it’s worth keeping in mind as it will grow.