Capstone, which was bankrolled by Compaq Computer founder BenRosen with the initial idea of producing vehicular turbines, has installed 3, 000 of its small electricity units worldwide since 2000.
They met in 1984 at a Ben Rosen-Esther Dyson computer conference and started going on "virtual dates" by driving to the same movie at the same time in different cities and discussing it on their cell phones.