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Two cool new technologies

I just read about 2 cool new technologies that I think have great possibilities.  I haven’t heard jack about the last few technologies I thought were cool, so I’m afraid of jinxing these.

The first is using urine to create hydrogen (for the hydrogen economy).  Someone figured out that the urea in your pee has more hydrogen that’s easier to get at than water does.  The new process is more or less the same as getting hydrogen from water, but gets at least twice as much hydrogen out for a quarter of the energy put in.  Almost all the tech is readily scalable for wide commercial use.  As a bonus, it uses pee and partially cleans it out of the water it is in.
http://www.physorg.com/news165836803.html

The second is ‘a new wonder material’ that is one atom thick.  It conducts electricity 100 times faster than silicon and has stronger bonds (even at 1 atom thick) than diamonds.  It’s called graphene.  Here’s a quote from the article linked to below:
“It is the thinnest known material in the universe, and the strongest ever measured,” Andre Geim , a physicist at the University of Manchester, England , wrote in the June 19 issue of the journal Science.
http://tinyurl.com/graphene1