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ResidentKnievel 7,679 posts
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pauleyc 4,548 posts
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Registered 20 years agoThe "science" connection is rather tenuous but nevertheless, Alexander Graham Bell's sketchbooks are indeed delightfully weird. -
skuzzbag 5,950 posts
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Registered 17 years agoResidentKnievel wrote:
Fake_Blood wrote:
This belongs ITT.
I've just renewed my subscription with them.
It's certainly easier to understand than a history of time. -
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Ged42 7,985 posts
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Registered 14 years agoBlaketown wrote:
New way to look for advanced extra-terrestrial life
Forgan and Elvis, sounds like a comedy crime fighting TV series. Where a detective invesitgates murders with help from the ghost of the king of Rock n' Roll.
Interesting theory, though the level of mining activity would have to massive to show up against the background signatures.
In other news Tennis playing robot helicopters -
Fab4 8,924 posts
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Registered 15 years agoFinally!! Google are developing something to put the fun back into e-mail...Gmail Motion. Looks like they've been inspired by Kinect. -
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Khanivor 44,800 posts
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Registered 20 years agoThat could indeed be big news. Might even warrant its own thread. -
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Registered 18 years agoBlaketown wrote:
Very impressive indeed.
This sounds like it could be bloody big news indeed. -
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Registered 12 years agoBlaketown wrote:
This sounds like it could be bloody big news indeed.
If the claims are correct and the technology can be cheaply mass produced. It is difficult to overstate how world changing that is.
Definately warrants its own thread. -
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Blaketown 5,658 posts
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Registered 14 years agoLaws are made to be broken
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P.I.Staker 450 posts
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Registered 14 years agoPossible new particle found.... Get ready to rewrite the physics books
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Registered 16 years agoFutileResistor wrote:
If the claims are correct and the technology can be cheaply mass produced. It is difficult to overstate how world changing that is.
Definately warrants its own thread.
Yeah, cheap and mass produced would be essential. After all, leaves don't grow on trees, do they? -
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Registered 16 years agoP.I.Staker wrote:
It hasn't even passed peer review yet. Rumour has it that some people have taken their name off it, the fit code is buggy, and some of the cross-checks were downplayed. Would be more interesting if another experiment confirmed it.
Possible new particle found.... Get ready to rewrite the physics books
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Registered 20 years agoMetalDog wrote:
That comes to a surprisingly liberal conclusion for a torygraph piece.
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Registered 15 years agoThis is very cool, but also a little scary.
How magnets affect the human brain. -
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Registered 20 years agoecureuil wrote:
The Triceratops Panic
I remember my sister pretty much calling me a dickhead for suggesting that perhaps dinosaurs had feathers, or colourful patterns. I asked her, 'How do they know that they didn't?'
My sister's line - and a lot of people's approach to science - was, 'they just know'. Same attitude in school from a lot of the teachers - 'what the hell do you know? Shut up and swallow your facts'.
So, I can see why people who swallowed their facts might be a bit pissed off when they find out that half of it was bollocks =) I certainly remember being properly outraged when I found out how much of the history I'd been taught was either conjecture or outright propaganda.
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Registered 15 years agophAge wrote:
Blaketown wrote:
Very impressive indeed.
This sounds like it could be bloody big news indeed.
I'll have four and a bucket of water please. FUCK YOU NPOWER! -
FogHeart 1,270 posts
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Registered 14 years agoGents, you must understand what this 'leaf' thing is....you give it electricity, it gives you hydrogen and oxygen. So much for getting rid of NPower....
The benefit is that previously we've needed very inefficient processes like hydrolysis to do that. This method is efficient enough to be commercially viable.
The hydrogen would be stored and recombined with oxygen in a fuel cell to give you back....electricity. Leccy and water in, leccy and water out. In fact, slightly less leccy than you started with.
So what's the point? The point is energy storage.
That spinning wind generator on the roof, those solar panels, they aren't giving you energy in a nice, steady stream. We need to capture the energy they generate while we're not around and store it somewhere to be used later. So far we've just been microgenerating and selling the unused back to the National Grid. Now we can microgenerate, store the unused as hydrogen, and use it to power a fuel cell, either at home or in a car. The trick is to design a closed system to store the hydrogen coming from the unit and feed that into a fuel cell. Can't be far off, mind.
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stephenb 3,551 posts
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Registered 15 years agoOh I see. FUCK YOU NPOWE......
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Registered 15 years agoecureuil wrote:
Interesting stuff. Although the 10% efficiency is a lot lower than the silicon-based photovoltaic cells which are nearing their theoretical max of about 30%. I wonder if they can be used in sequence at some point in the future.
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Yay, and you only need to collect sunlight from an area slightly less than a million times bigger than your fancy device to use it.
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