A topic which is rarely covered in the mainstream media, and which has come up on many occasions here at Depleted Cranium is persistent underground coal fires.   These fires can burn for decades and are notoriously difficult to put out - although...

These days it seems like everyone is getting ridiculous amounts of money for stupid, unworkable, useless concepts for no other reason than they seem “green.”   The US government has been one of the biggest finances of these concepts, flushing away...

If you know anything about pneumatics, mechanics, physics or any number of other disciplines, you probably can see a lot of problems with the idea of powering a car with compressed air.    Sure, it *can* be done, and nobody will doubt that, as...

There are a number of products out there which claim to “absorb” or “scramble” the electromagnetic radiation that is emitted by phones, wireless networking devices and other RF products.   Whether or not there’s any reason to worry about these...

As you may have recently read, there has been a “study” or rather meta-analysis (and apparently a very bad one) making the news recently about a review of studies on cell phones and cancer risk.   It has now been published in the Los Angles Times and...