so when

Are the Hugo results officially available (as opposed to being visible on streaming video)?

Judging by Reno

I can see telling people looking for me at SFContario "look for the guy with the goatee and shaved head" is not going to be helpful.

2011 Hugo Winners

Nicked from here because they were faster:

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Oh, well

At least I'm marginally preferable to no award.

Am I correct in thinking

The most recent piece of Heinlein-related non-fiction to get a Hugo for its author was Panshin's Heinlein in Dimension way back in the 1960s?

Before I forget

All my annoyance at the interminable comedy act vanished when I got to watch Christopher Garcia accept his Hugo.

Nicked from dracodraconis

The new devices can deliver a power density of 100 kW/kgcell, which is 100 times higher than that of commercial Li-ion batteries and 10 times higher than that of supercapacitors. The higher the power density, the faster the rate of energy transfer (resulting in a faster recharge time). In addition, the new cells can store an energy density of 160 Wh/kgcell, which is comparable to commercial Li-ion batteries and 30 times higher than that of conventional supercapacitors. The greater the energy density, the more energy the device can store for the same volume (resulting in a longer driving range for electric vehicles).

“Given the same device weight, the current SMC and Li-ion battery can provide an electric vehicle (EV) with a comparable driving range,” Bor Z. Jang, co-founder of Nanotek Instruments and Angstron Materials, told PhysOrg.com. “Our SMCs, just like the current Li-ion batteries, can be further improved in terms of energy density [and therefore range]. However, in principle, the SMC can be recharged in minutes (possibly less than one minute), as opposed to hours for Li-ion batteries used in current EVs.”