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Mimicking Photosynthesis To Split Water 257

plantsdoitsocanwe writes "An international team of researchers led by Monash University has used chemicals found in plants to replicate a key process in photosynthesis, paving the way to a new approach that uses sunlight to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. The breakthrough could revolutionize the renewable energy industry by making hydrogen — touted as the clean, green fuel of the future — cheaper and easier to produce on a commercial scale." This was a laboratory demonstration only and the researchers say they need to bring up the efficiency.

Comment Re:been done, README in StumpWM (Score 2, Funny) 438

Funny thing that I read a very similar story last year: it was the README of the window manager stumpwm, which was written in Common Lisp.

Cite:
The current trends shown by Big Software is to use XML for all data formats. It won't be long before we have XML interpreters, XML data being interpreted as functions:

<math>
<operator>plus</operator>
< operand>4</operand>
<operand>5</operand>
</math>

I predict within 2 years Big Software will announce the Next Big
Thing: XML++. An Object Oriented language with all the advantages of
the superior XML data format coupled with modern advancements in
Server side Web based technologies. XML Code and XML Data will be
almost interchangeable, except for some tweaky markup which will be
justified by the need for more aggressive innovative content creation
services.

But why wait? We have it all already.
Want to see for yourself?
http://www.nongnu.org/stumpwm

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