DGentry

Amusing, isn't it? - Louis Gray

Definitely fun to watch :) - Ross Miller

I figured out the problem with the feedflareunit file by trial and error. FeedBurner made it even harder: not only is the scratchpad down, but it caches the contents of the (invalid, bogus) feedflareunit file for about 20 minutes. So my turnaround time between attempts was pretty long, and I had to keep checking the server log to find out if FeedBurner had _actually_ fetched the updated file or was just rejecting its still-cached copy. - DGentry

Still down, though the message I posted to the Feedburner Google Group was acknowledged this morning, and has been forwarded to the FeedBurner developers. - DGentry

just an fyi - i believe the original feedburner team is no longer engaged on supporting it and those that are still at google are focusing in other areas of their business - i don't believe google will be extending it regularly (if at all) you might want to try the beta at http://feedsqueezer.com for a pending alternative to feedburner... - mike "glemak" dunn

Somebody at Google is still working on it, as migrating to the Google infrastructure was presumably no small task. It seems like the new team tasked with working on it is only interested in getting to their feature complete milestone so they can move on. They are not trying to support the product outside of Google, nor extending it, nor fixing bugs anything less than "critical" - DGentry

The feedflare scratchpad is still down. Kaput. - DGentry

In theory, then, so could human hair and nail clippings since they also contain keratin. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Excellent note. Presumably there is significantly more regulation about use of human clippings than chicken, I assume the focus would be on the animal-derived substances. - DGentry

But human clippings are likely to be much more clean than chicken feathers, requiring a lot less processing. Especially hair. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Leave it to the Reg to post something like this. Using hydrogen to power vehicles is just flat out stupid from an engineering perspective as producing H2 is very energy inefficient and a proper distribution network both doesn't exist and is prohibitively expensive. Did I mention how much H2 loves to leak? It's about time we put this hydrogen nonsense hype to rest. Honda and BMW can build all the political stunt cars they want, H2 won't be mainstream fuel for very long time to come - LANjackal

H2 as a gas loves to leak. If it can be trapped in some form.... - τorƍue

Just ... build a better battery. - Joel Bennett

There kindof is a distribution network: water, if electrolysis can be made cheap and efficient enough. The H2 becomes more of an energy storage medium (storing the energy from electricity as H2) rather than a fuel per se. - DGentry

The problem with the "energy storage medium" argument is that all you've done is move the true energy source into the background. The power for the electrolysis has to come from somewhere. Given that we're not gonna be 100% renewable anytime soon (that's just reality), the combined efficiency of the process = [powerplant efficiency] * [electrolysis efficiency]... more... - LANjackal via IM