tfrab - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Reminds me of broadband internet in the beginni (Score 1) 479

by tfrab on Monday March 08, 2010 @07:07PM (#31407260) Attached to: Gas Wants To Kill the Wind

The thing is Wind is Flaky, Personally I like to have power all the time, even when there is no wind.

There are two solutions to this problems:

1. Giant Batteries/ Flywheels/ Water storage hills 2. Gas Supplement.

3. Interconnecting Wind Farms http://www.stanford.edu/group/efmh/winds/aj07_jamc.pdf but I agree: in the years to come we still need "conventional", reliable, energy, the cleaner being the nuclear one

by tfrab on Saturday March 06, 2010 @11:25AM (#31380892) Attached to: California Lake's Arsenic Hints At a Shadow Biosphere

arsenic can substitute phosphorous, but you still need carbon atoms in order to have long carbon chains that builds up proteins, fats, and so on.

From feed by registerfeed on Friday October 19, 2007 @07:32AM

Majors plan singles-on-stick releases

USB Flash drives will soon appear in record stores in a bid by major music labels to build up sales of physical media in the post-CD era.