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Time is on your side

Time Zone Calculator is an extremely basic program that allows you to calculate the time difference between two global locations. There's not much to it, but it performs the task that it's designed for.

The program's interface is extremely basic, consisting of a single screen. There are two drop-down menus from which you select your base location and remote location; there's a long list of locations, which is organized alphabetically. The program allows you to view the time difference between the two locations in three ways; the difference between the current times, the difference when the … Read more

Fuel cells big and small in the news

A big fuel cell from UTC Power was in the news here in Silicon Valley this week when Fujitsu installed it as a backup power source for its local campus. CNET's Michael Kanellos wrote a good story about the event here, and took pictures ("Photos: Fujitsu unveils king-size fuel cell").

Although the fuel cell itself runs on hydrogen, there's no convenient source of pure hydrogen in Silicon Valley, so UTC Power also provided a steam methane reformer that yields hydrogen from natural gas.

One place where pure hydrogen is readily available is NASA's Cape Canaveral … Read more