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Comment Re:$5 a gallon? (Score 1) 1563

by wolfgang_spangler (#23860283) Attached to: McCain Backs Nuclear Power

Not all Europeans live in cities with convenient public transport, so we have to drive too. Okay so we are not going to drive hundreds of miles very often, but how many folk in the US do that regularly?
Many, many, many do.

I personally know many people that drive over 100 miles a day just commuting back/forth to work.

When we go to visit relatives or friends, people drive, sometimes thousands of miles.

My wife is currently driving 600 miles each way from our home to visit me where I'm working right now.

Feed Science Daily: New Mechanism Found For Memory Storage In Brain (sciencedaily.com)

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Our experiences -- the things we see, hear, or do -- can trigger long-term changes in the strength of the connections between nerve cells in our brain, and these persistent changes are how the brain encodes information as memory. Researchers have discovered a new biochemical mechanism for memory storage, one that may have a connection with addictive behavior.
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Submission + - Cheap Solar Cells that can be Painted on Plastic (sciencedaily.com)

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Invisible Pink Unicorn writes: "Researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology have developed an inexpensive solar cell that can be painted or printed on flexible plastic sheets. According to the lead researcher, "Someday homeowners will even be able to print sheets of these solar cells with inexpensive home-based inkjet printers. Consumers can then slap the finished product on a wall, roof or billboard to create their own power stations." The team combined carbon nanotubes with tiny carbon buckyballs (fullerenes) to form snake-like structures. Add sunlight to excite the polymers, and the buckyballs will grab the electrons. The article abstract is available through the Journal of Materials Chemistry, with an illustration of the technology."

$9 Billion Loophole for Synthetic Fuel 328

Posted by Zonk from the that's-a-dirty-pool dept.
Rondrin writes "CNN has an article detailing a $9 billion loophole in the tax code to spur synthetic fuel development. Unfortunately, spraying coal with pine tar qualifies. From the article: 'The wording is so bland and buried so deep within a 324-page budget document that almost no one would notice that a multibillion-dollar scam is going on. Not the members of Congress voting for it and certainly not the taxpayers who will get fleeced by it. And that is exactly the idea.'"

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