Way cool! Thanks for the interesting post. I'll take any hope I can get right now. And the Bill Moyers post below is one I hadn't seen yet.

Keep up the great work!

One the one hand, you have the evangelicals, knuckle-draggers the lot of them, running around waiting for jesus to come down and rapture the whole lot. In the mean time, they're breeding with their children like rabbits, and letting their ministers show the kids the "power of the lord" that resides in his pants.

Then, on the other hand, you've got this beautiful kid. Too bad he didn't invent something to do with oil or coal. The idiot son of George Bush could get behind something like that.

I despair at the waves of political, economic and military stupidity that are buffeting our ship of state right now and I am not optimistic for the near term outlook. Too much debt. However, there is a reason beyond historical accident that America is the home of so much innovation, from the airplane to semiconductors. We are innovative, enterprising people, and I am confident that we will rise above the ashes of the coming Republican-induced economic debacle stronger and wiser than before. It will suck in the medium-term though.

one word, McIver.

one of my best friends teaches at that school. good kids. that's a great great story.

Definitely sounds like a brilliant kid. He should be encouraged.

It's not an original idea, btw, the Japanese have actually been doing this for a while, and Norway has a generator which produces 500 kilowatts off of wave energy.

He might have come up with a new and/or more robust way of doing this though! Hard to tell from the articles I have seen.

Fokkin' great story. Thank you.

Are you sure this wasn't an old episode of the dear departed Junkyard Wars?

Not new at all!!!

See Patents # 4,300,871 & # 4,352,023

Over 23 year old technology, recycled as new!!!