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waderoush writes “There are plenty of waste-to-energy plants around the US, but most of them simply burn the waste, dumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Gasification technology, by contrast, converts nearly all of the waste into gases like hydrogen and carbon monoxide that can be used to run generators and furnaces. The problem is that most gasification facilities are factory-sized. Now a startup outside Boston has built a combination shredder-dryer-pelletizer-gasifier that fits into 30-by-8-by-8-foot shipping container. The so-called ‘Green Energy Machine’ can be backed up to a loading dock by truck, processing 3 tons of solid waste per day and putting out enough synthetic gas to run a 120-kilowatt generator or a 240-kilowatt-equivalent furnace. The makers say the machine can eliminate 540 tons of carbon emissions per year, in large part by reducing the amount of waste that goes to methane-generating landfills.”

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Installing Linux applications can be a bit tricky if you’re used to working with Windows or Mac. But don’t worry, Laptop Logic’s Linux guru Blair Mathis walks you through the do’s and dont’s in this extensive how-to.

Cory Foy writes “When my wife got an Touch several months back, the first thing I wanted to do was build some applications for it. Who wouldn’t want to play with a device that has accelerometers, position sensors and multi-touch gestures? But being new to the Mac world, I needed something to help guide me along. Beginning iPhone Development aims to be that guide. But does it live up to the challenge of teaching a newbie Mac and iPhone developer?” Read below for the rest of Cory’s review.

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RUSH: I got a request here from a major American print publication. “Dear Rush: For the Obama [Immaculate] Inauguration we are asking a handful of very prominent politicians, statesmen, scholars, businessmen, commentators, and economists to write 400 words on their hope for the Obama presidency.

ALF-nl writes “A forensics expert claims that wiping your hard drives with just one pass already makes it next to impossible to recover the data with an electron microscope.” But that’s not accounting for the super secret machines that the government has man.

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After surviving without her washing machine for three weeks and a string of failed repair attempts, she took the law into her own hands. . . and kidnapped the engineer.