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    • 2.1 Million Cribs Recalled, Including 150,000 From Fisher Price November 24, 2009
      Following four deaths, the Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced one of the largest recalls of cribs in the agency's history: 2.1 million cribs manufactured by Stork Craft, including roughly 150,000 sold under the Fisher Price brand. As in other recent recalls, this one is based on problems with drop-side cribs entrapping babies and seriously […]
      Marc Perton
    • Wachovia Froze My Checking Account For Nearly A Month November 24, 2009
      Kate and her husband knew they had to settle a big debt to Capital One, but elected to wait until the bank came to them to pay up. The move ended up costing them, because Capital One got Wachovia to freeze their checking account with the assurance that it would release the funds once the couple paid up. Except Kate and her husband did pay up in late November […]
      Phil Villarreal
    • Will This Vaccine Cure Smoking? November 24, 2009
      Meet NicVax, the opposite of the cool kids at the bus stop in 7th grade who got you to try a cigarette for the first time. The Washington Post reports the would-be wonder vaccine from Nabi Biopharmaceuticals is close to being picked up by pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline. Reporter Mike Musgrove writes: For many years, the standard treatment for breaking […]
      Phil Villarreal
    • Microsoft Trying To Buy Its Way To Search Supremacy November 24, 2009
      Microsoft wants to pay Newscorp to de-index its stories from Google, giving Bing a leg-up in searches. The story says: One website publisher approached by Microsoft said that the plan “puts enormous value on content if search engines are prepared to pay us to index with them”. Microsoft’s interest is being interpreted as a direct assault on […]
      Phil Villarreal
    • Radio Shack Employees Say They Can't Force Donations November 24, 2009
      Responding to the post about a customer who thinks Radio Shack forced him to donate a dollar to Livestrong, a couple Radio Shack employees wrote in and said that cashiers lack the ability to force such charges. They say it's up to the customer to push a button that requests the donation, and all a clerk can do is approve it. Kenneth writes: This just a […]
      Phil Villarreal

First Hydrogen Plane Tested

Posted on April 5, 2008 by Eco Warrior

The BBC reports the first human driven hydrogen powered plane was tested recently.
This is a major breakthrough in technology by Boeing. While hydrogen powered aircraft have been flown before, this is the first with a human passenger.

This is a major breakthrough in technology by Boeing.
Three test flights of the two-seater aircraft took place in February [...]

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