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- Fri Jan 22, 2010 11:06 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Cutting off the lights
- Replies: 30
- Views: 9453
- Fri Jan 22, 2010 10:38 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Cutting off the lights
- Replies: 30
- Views: 9453
Last time I checked, LED street lights cost $1,000.00 each. When was the last time you checked? Several new manufacturing plants for ultra-bright white LED's are on-line just this year. My local Sam's is selling LED bulbs at about what CF bulbs ran when they first hit mass production ($5-$15/bulb, ...
- Fri Jan 22, 2010 10:13 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: New Route to Industrialization of Carbon Nanotubes
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5477
New Route to Industrialization of Carbon Nanotubes
http://www.foxnews.com/static/managed/img/Scitech/nanotubes_higherres_slideshow_604x500.jpg Video of Carbon Nanotube dissolving in Chlorosulfonic Acid Chemical World Article Nature Nanotechnology Abstract Being able to dissolve nanotubes without damaging them will allow them to be processed into fi...
- Thu Jan 21, 2010 12:22 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Cutting off the lights
- Replies: 30
- Views: 9453
http://www.ledlightsorient.com/street-lights-c-8.html
Contact your local politicians and tell them to grab some of that "stimulus" money.
Contact your local politicians and tell them to grab some of that "stimulus" money.
- Mon Jan 11, 2010 10:16 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Glenn Beck's Question And My Answer
- Replies: 62
- Views: 13174
- Mon Jan 11, 2010 3:09 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: 10 Stupid Ideas for Mucking Up The Climate
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1297
Reverse the pumps?MSimon wrote:And if it trips us into an ice age?Josh Cryer wrote:The Bering Strait dam is a very novel concept, pioneered by Sorbel, and appropriated by the Venus Project.
I'd like to see it built simply because it would prove our species' prowess of achieving extraoridinary things.
- Sun Jan 10, 2010 8:25 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: A perfect example of american Creativity
- Replies: 53
- Views: 10624
- Wed Jan 06, 2010 11:55 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Supernova to Destroy Earth! Sometime...
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2847
Supernova to Destroy Earth! Sometime...
A star that's closer than thought is on "the verge" of going supernova: T Pyxidis
3,260 light years - is that really close enough to sterilize?
3,260 light years - is that really close enough to sterilize?
- Wed Jan 06, 2010 2:30 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: A Climate Of Bad Code
- Replies: 122
- Views: 26962
Britain's suitable replacement.MSimon wrote:And what is happening in Britain is a cautionary tale. They are cutting back on coal fired plants without a suitable replacement.
- Tue Nov 24, 2009 4:20 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Intel wants a chip implant in your brain
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7064
- Wed Sep 23, 2009 11:42 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Healthcare & rationing
- Replies: 604
- Views: 198441
How to Get Cancer: Move to the United StatesSkipjack wrote:n regards to cultural diversity: Well that is somewhat idiotic. How would cultural diversity affect this?
- Tue Sep 22, 2009 11:18 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Pretty unbelieveable...
- Replies: 225
- Views: 144377
The magic you refer to is wrapped around the question of what is the origins of inertia and inertial mass, and can it be dynamically modified by applied E&M fields? In the GRT/Machian view, (QM also takes a different position on this question), the property we call inertial mass comes about from th...
- Tue Sep 22, 2009 12:29 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Pretty unbelieveable...
- Replies: 225
- Views: 144377
I may be too close to the topic to be of much good to you but consider this. Given that a capacitor dielectric can vary its total mass cyclically over a period of time around an average value, and you can apply an external force to the dielectric so it pushes the dielectric when it is heavy and the...
- Mon Sep 21, 2009 9:19 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Pretty unbelieveable...
- Replies: 225
- Views: 144377
Could someone Neil deGrasse Tyson or Carl Sagan this concept for me, please? Here's what I think I understand: Apply a high voltage to a piezoelectric material and its mass changes. Somehow, this mass change will cause a thrust. A thrust relative to what? I don't get this part at all. Is it directio...
- Sat Sep 19, 2009 2:49 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Healthcare & rationing
- Replies: 604
- Views: 198441