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Comment Re:alt.binaries (Score 1, Interesting) 173

by Core-Dump on Friday June 20, 2008 @08:50PM (#23881289) Attached to: ISPs Experimenting With New P2P Controls

Thank God not here (Netherlands).
Here it is LEGAL by law to download music or movies for own use, and binaries are just the perfect way of getting them...... as long as it lasts.
But then again, seeding torrents is illigal here, but the dutch MPAA/RIAA isn't able to sue private persons because of the privacy laws here

Submission + - Nanotechnology boosts solar cells performance

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Roland Piquepaille

on Tuesday August 21, 2007 @01:28PM

Roland Piquepaille writes: "Physicists from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) have improved the performance of solar cells by 60 percent. And they obtained this spectacular result by using a very simple trick. They've coated the solar cells with a film of 1-nanometer thick silicon fluorescing nanoparticles. The researchers also said that this process could be easily incorporated into the manufacturing process of solar cells with very little additional cost. Read more for additional references and a photo of a researcher holding a silicon solar cell coated with a film of silicon nanoparticles."

Nuclear Info Kept From Congress and the Public 309

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday August 21, 2007 @01:12PM from the much-to-hide dept.

Thermite writes "On March 6, 2006 an accident occurred at Nuclear Fuel Services in Erwin, Tennessee. According to reports, almost 9 gallons of highly enriched uranium in solution spilled and nearly went into a chain reaction. Before the accident in 2004, the NRC and The Office of Naval Reactors had changed the terms of the company's license so that any correspondence with Nuclear Fuel Services would be marked 'official use only.' From the article: 'While reviewing the commission's public Web page in 2004, the Department of Energy's Office of Naval Reactors found what it considered protected information about Nuclear Fuel Service's work for the Navy. The commission responded by sealing every document related to Nuclear Fuel Services and BWX Technologies in Lynchburg, Va., the only two companies licensed by the agency to manufacture, possess and store highly enriched uranium.' The result was that the public and Congress were both left in the dark for 13 months regarding this accident and other issues at the facility."

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