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Unless you have a shunt to use with higher currents, I wouldn't try that. It looks like a fast way to fry your meter. That cooler could draw 10 amps or more. For more about shunts, see http://www.uoguelph.ca/~antoon/gadgets/shunts/shunts.html

It sounds like the arthor is confusing perception with vision. For example, an uncle of mine once pointed out a heron fishing in a small stream in the woods. I had to look for a little while before I ever saw it, due to its coloring, stillness, and the backbround. I could spot that heron in a...

Wow, more propaganda to increase Wal-Mart profits. Sam Waltons spinning-in-the-grave rate has reached a new record RPM.

I remember that article, that was a fission reactor, not fusion. Very ingenous, though, and much cheaper than the fusion reactor. I bet they both get nice offers for scholarships.

Any battery with enough power density to run a modern laptop for several hours would seem to me to be potentially hazardous. The problem is probably not in the designs, but in poor quality control.

I think of that as the "Wal-Mart" syndrome. Like when Sam Walton died, the service goes down and the prices go up when the leadership dies or retires and the bean-counters take over. On the company side, working conditions and benifits are eroded, while any profit sharing is reduced due to...