Typo Boy, have you been following the EEStor story? [link]

EEStor's system--called an Electrical Energy Storage Unit, or EESU--is based on an ultracapacitor architecture that appears to escape the traditional limitations of such devices. The company has developed a ceramic ultracapacitor with a barium-titanate dielectric, or insulator, that can achieve an exceptionally high specific energy--that is, the amount of energy in a given unit of mass.

For example, the company's system claims a specific energy of about 280 watt hours per kilogram, compared with around 120 watt hours per kilogram for lithium-ion and 32 watt hours per kilogram for lead-acid gel batteries. This leads to new possibilities for electric vehicles and other applications, including for the military.

By some estimates, it would only require $9 worth of electricity for an EESU-powered vehicle to travel 500 miles, versus $60 worth of gasoline for a combustion-engine car.

A lot of people are very skeptical about their claims, though.

Thanks, tommyrot. I'm going to stick a smartcard in there and see what happens.

I'm pretty sure that Smartcards won't work with a new device unless you call the cable company and they have someone do some configuring.

When I had a cable company provided DVR with a smart card slot, I asked them what it was for, and they said nothing yet, it was in the specs so that if they ever decided to use it would be there. That was a few years ago, though. And may have been BS at the time.

I have a Motorola Q. I plugged it in last night to charge it and when I woke up this morning, it hadn't charged and all of my data was lost, sound preferences, phone numbers, website bookmarks, photos, etc. were all gone. Verizon Wireless wasn't able to help me over the phone this morning, so I am going to have it looked at at the store today, but I wanted to see if anyone here had any helpful ideas to retrieve the data in the meantime.

Anyone know why Windows Explorer would suddenly stop refreshing files? Like you can delete a file from within Explorer but it still shows up until you manually refresh Explorer?

This is my boss's work computer. XP Pro, up to date on service packs.

EEStor's system--called an Electrical Energy Storage Unit, or EESU--is based on an ultracapacitor architecture that appears to escape the traditional limitations of such devices. The company has developed a ceramic ultracapacitor with a barium-titanate dielectric, or insulator, that can achieve an exceptionally high specific energy--that is, the amount of energy in a given unit of mass.

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A lot of people are very skeptical about their claims, though.

Me among them. If it turns out not to be a scam - terrific. But there is a real reluctance on the part of the company to make information public. They come across to me like a company out to sell stock, rather than a company out to sell product; may events prove me wrong.

I know I should know how to either do this or find the answer, but I'm tired and stressed.

I have an image contained within a DIV. How do I center it? I've found text-align, but there's no text in the DIV. I can do it either by aligning the image, or all content in the DIV -- either would work.

Edit: This is using a link to an external CSS.

In 'holy crap that's really cool' news, this dude modded his Honda Civic del Sol into a replica of an x-wing. Dude. That makes my day.

I think there have been some advances lately in ultracapacitors where carbon nanotubes have been used to drastically increase the surface area and therefore the energy storage density.

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Doesn't sound like what EESU is doing, but ultracapacitors do show promise as a better alternative to batteries for electric cars.