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Comment Re:Not impressed - make food with water, CO2 & (Score 4, Insightful) 486

why don't they stop at hydrogen? It's a great fuel

It's not a great fuel. It leaks, because the molecules are so small. It causes some metals to go brittle.

You can get round these problems by sticking it to chains of carbon. A convenient side effect of that is it makes it compatible with existing engines & distribution infrastructure .

Transportation

Audi Creates "Fuel of the Future" Using Just Carbon Dioxide and Water 486

EwanPalmer writes: German car manufacturer Audi says it has created the "fuel of the future" made solely from water, carbon dioxide and renewable sources. The synthetic "e-diesel" was made following a commissioning phase of just four months at a plant in Dresden, Germany. Germany's federal minister of education and research, Dr Johanna Wanka, said she has already used the fuel in her Audi A8, and the company hopes to produce at least 160 liters of the crystal clear fuel every day in the coming months. "This synthetic diesel, made using CO2, is a huge success for our sustainability research," Wanka said. "If we can make widespread use of CO2 as a raw material, we will make a crucial contribution to climate protection and the efficient use of resources, and put the fundamentals of the 'green economy' in place."
Music

Pandora Paying Artists $0.0001 More Per Stream Than It Was Last Year 124

journovampire writes: Pandora has revealed that it's paying a 10,000th of a dollar more to music labels and artists than it was in 2014. From the article: "Pandora has revealed that its royalty payments to SoundExchange, the US licensing body which collects performance royalties on behalf of record labels and artists, have just increased by 8%. The news was confirmed in a call with investors following Pandora’s Q1 fiscal results announcement on Thursday (April 23), in which it posted a three-month net loss of $48.3m. In what Pandora CEO Brian McAndrews called a scheduled annual step-up, Pandora has from January 1 been paying out an average $0.0014 per ad-funded stream and $0.0024 per premium stream to SoundExchange."

Comment Re:sage (Score 1) 352

Lectures were a necessary evil when there were 80 students in a class and computers hadn't yet been invented.

Computers? Don't you mean the printing press? Most people can read faster than someone can speak [1].

As one of my profs said, a lecture is a method of getting words from the teacher's page to the student's without passing through the brain of either.

[1] I mean speak properly, not like an auctioneer or sports commentator.

Comment Re:vanity (Score 2) 63

James May out of Top Gear did a program where he reproduced a model aircraft kit at life size, and had the pilot figure made with his face. An acceptable bit of vanity, I think.

If I still did Warhammer Battle, I might like my general figure to be me. I can't sculpt faces well enough.

Apart from that ... mementoes of the kids for granny?

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