Batteries are heavy, expensive, and wear out. This would be much better even at less efficiency.

Alternately they they match your long password against the hash, trim the password to the new length, and overwrite your old hash with a hash of the trimmed password.

Police wear helmets.

Yeah I used to love the Mad Libs game, and the choose your own adventure games on there. Had to be careful because some of them charged money, and I wasn't allowed to use any that did.

There was a little icon at the bottom of the screen (This was before multitasking computing. The prodigy application ran in DOS and took up the whole screen.) that told you how much you were being charged at the moment. Some of them charged by number of page loads, and some actually charged based on the time you spent on the page.

My mom used it for email, and was on a bbs.

They use the idea of giving monkeys smartphones to drum up funding for their research, and then when the smartphones don't actually help anything they take them from the monkeys to use themselves.

Yeah it's a very arid region, the soil is porous and soaks up moisture, and is easy to dig into.

So basically it is only useful because of local conditions. Kind of like wind power in that regard.

The primary researcher's website is http://www.zhaogroup.org/

The voltage must be passed through the plastic. Not useful for things you don't want electrified.

http://www.duke.edu/~xz69/papers/34.pdf

Tape a magnet to the bottom of it. I'm serious.

http://www.wikihow.com/Trigger-Green-Traffic-Lights

If we pretend they are real then they would be PART of the US debt. The US debt IS treasury bonds.

Especially once you realize that 3*7=21 and only one answer ended in 1.

The holding tanks were supposed to be a temporary measure until a permanent disposal facility was built, but the building of the permanent disposal facility was blocked for political reasons. The waste could be reprocessed in a breeder reactor into usable fuel, but breeder reactors are forbidden because they make weapons grade fissionables.

Or white granulated sugar. Serving size: 1 gram; Carbohydrates: 1 gram; Sugars: 1 gram. Ingredients: Sugar.

Instead they do stuff like advertise things like Licorice as "Low in fat". Considering it is made almost entirely out of sugar that is technically accurate.

Guess what happens to all the animals being raised for meat once synthmeat starts driving down the prices. They get slaughtered to cut feed prices.

You need far more energy to smelt steel than any amount of windmills will provide. Not to mention carbon.