New method of using water as an energy source?

According to the Fox News report embedded below, this guy has recently patented a new method of electrolysis (or was it hydrolysis?) which converts H₂0 into HHO for cutting metals (as opposed to using acetylene) and for running a gas/water-powered hybrid car engine.

I believe that we're already facing some serious water shortages around the world, so I don't expect that this would be a panacea for global warming if it were actually viable. We still need quite desperately to reduce consumption, I think. But this is still a pretty interesting technology.

EDIT: The Wikipedia article on this invention mentions that his claims were found to be fradulent by an Ohio court in 1996. Perhaps I should have considered the source of this news piece -- Fox News -- before quoting here? :)

desperately seeking iPhoto replacement

Hi everyone,

I've never enjoyed using iPhoto, primarily for how it stores and manages the source files for my images. Before I switched to my beloved MBP a couple years ago, I filed and named all my images manually with Windows Exploder and used the excellent Irfanview to view and manage and manipulate all of my images. It worked great, because I had total control over everything.

Now that I'm fully on this Mac though, and it has been literally months since I've booted up my old PC, I really need a better app for managing my several thousand photos and images on my Mac. And iPhoto's not cutting it for me anymore. It's so bloated with its gazillion copies of originals and mods and God knows what else that it now takes about 20-30 seconds to launch and to shut down. In short, it sucks and I'm sick of using it.

So, could any of you photogs out there who have over a thousand images recommend their favourite media management apps for the Mac? Google searches have only revealed stuff like Lightroom (is that any good?) and Picasa, but the latter appears to be Google's clone of iPhoto, and that's not what I want. I want an app that doesn't create multiple copies of each image file every time I crop a photo or remove red-eye. Something that gives me some nice batch editing features like resizing a bunch of photos or renaming a slew of them to a certain convention. Plus something that gives me cropping, lossless rotation, and basic colour editing and enhancement settings.

Thanks in advance for your suggestions. Much appreciated.

(x-posted here to applecomputer and here to macaddicts)