Incandescent technology is far superior to LEDs for electrothermal conversion efficiency. LEDs waste too much energy as visible light.
You laugh, but that excess heat was the basis for the EZ-Bake oven from my childhood. Those ovens actually baked things. Think of the children! How are tomorrows children going to learn how to bake?
He may have gotten us all to open our eyes regarding the NSA, Constitutional abuses, Corporate America's involvement and capitulation, etc, but as long as he has more documents his mission is not complete.
If he's smart (and I think he is) there is a cache of documents somewhere that the NSA never wants exposed. The NSA knows he has them. That's Snowden's insurance policy. They will only come out if Snowden is killed or captured.
false, the Sun and insolation drives climate and climate change, greenhouse gas effects are secondary. First thing one learns in any serious geophysics course.
I made a mistake and read the referenced article. When will I learn...
I think what it says is that the computer models don't show significant change when the solar radiation input is modified. I don't think I'm splitting hairs here. They aren't saying that the climate is not affected by changes in solar radiation.
The computer models are just approximations for the climate. They have been proven to be bad at predicting the future (like the current 10 year lull in warming). Wake me up when the computer models account for the ice ages.
imagine juicing up a credit-card-thin phone in less than a second
I'd like to, but my fuses just blew, the connector in the phone melted down, there's a smell of burning plastic insulation in my room, and a small fire seems to have started burning here, so I have other things on my mind!
Why is this rated funny instead of insightful? Moving more energy in less time is going to generate heat, lots of heat.
Also, instead of flawed batteries that seriously overheat we could have flawed batteries that explode.
does it run Linux?
If you follow the links in the article you will see that they all run Linux, or a Linux variant.
And it would help to stop being brown and start worshipping Jesus.
Jesus was brown.
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe.” - A. Einstein.
They're going to live together in a luxury waterfront home as they compete for the chance to interview for Microsoft?
I'd rather compete for a chance at North Korean citizenship.
No, no, it's the loser who gets the interview!
I use a soldering iron to hot cut ripstop nylon to make kites. I think I get two nerd points for that!
Where are the mod points when I need them
Wow, that was good. That made my day. Thanks!
this would be great for horses. its nearly impossible to allow multi-leg fractures to heal properly with a large animal
This is the first thing I thought of too. There's big money around horses that could move this technology along.
The Debian silliness is the cold adherence to free software. A Debian desktop needs a lot of tweeking before stuff "just works" (like Flash). Debian also lags behind other distributions because they prioritize stability over cutting edge features. (
I understand and accept that I have to do those tweeks, but I think I'm the exception.
On the server side, I really appreciate the stodgy Debian way. Solid uptime rocks!
It felt like the word "alarmist" was being pounded into my skull.
How does the new data compare to non-alarmist computer models?
Why would anyone write in their journal?
It's 2/3/11. How long before I read this again?
Solutions are obvious if one only has the optical power to observe them over the horizon. -- K.A. Arsdall
