Eyes on the Sun
Solar cell breaks efficiency record
Solar cell breaks efficiency record | CNET News.com
This is one of many environmentally inclined stories that have been chirping up in the technological side of the news. From electric cars to generators producing energy from anything you give it, the world has it's eye on energy, with a spare eye kept at the roughians working on common energy sources.
With these advances we may phase out of our current operating basis of burning what we find with ease and aplomb but little concious as to what effects and move in to a smarter more efficient age of energy use and see if we can't salvage this desert we've cultivated for some long long time.
Labels: energy, price per watt, solar cells, solar power
Not to much else to say on this beside the fact that Sun will be coming out with the 16 core chip ("Rock" processor) around the same time as competitors will be releasing their competition for the Niagra and Niagra 2 with 8 cores.
These chips are expected to, unlike the Niagra, perform well on a per process basis as well pushing through the overall load in short order. The Niagra itself performed well on the long run, but individuals processes took a comparatively long time to other x86 chips.
It is also going ahead with out-of-order retirement, which in essence guesses at what a logic process will come up with later on down the stack of processes and actually commits that to memory, if when called it turns out to be wrong it goes back to the state pre-commitment and re-runs it. This is a wide variation from Niagra and is more in the path of Intel and AMD, while a step farther beyond their speculative and out-of-order processes.
Labels: 16 core processor, amd, intel, processor, sparc, sun, sun niagra, sun rock
Well there could be water on Mars... excellent.
Big Pharma
Antidepressants May Up Risk for Attempted, Not Completed, Suicide
Antidepressants May Up Risk for Attempted, Not Completed, Suicide - Depression - MSN Health & Fitness
Stunning words from the puppets mouth.
Here today is Big Pharma trying to convince you that it's O.K. to take drugs. They're just like cocaine except legal for most people it's all covered by your health insurance.
While there has been concerns raised and proven - that the drugs themselves lead to increased violence, suice, heart failure leading to death and intestinal difficulties known in cases (such as Kurt Cobain) to lead to illicit drug, e.g. heroin, use to battle the side effects - your Big Brother Mr. Big Pharma wants to assure you that while you'll do everything you can to kill yourself, you'll probably fail.
With supporting opinions like this one from the same article as above:
Another expert said the findings make sense.
Truly enlightening. If I hadn't known someone else totally un-identified had said it made sense, I would haven't have bought all children their prescription.
For more information on the perversion of human life and morals that is psychiatric drug abuse go to www.CCHR.org.
Newsmaker: Segway inventor scoots to bigger matters
Kamen: They're in very different stages of development right now. (The Slingshot) takes any water, whether it's from the ocean or from toxic chemicals. No matter what's wrong with the water, we'll clean it up and make it potable, pure water.The energy source is very environmentally friendly. Many of its big advantages include not needing extra maintenance or a power grid. It'll burn any fuel. We ran for 24 weeks two units in two separate villages in Bangladesh, and the only fuel that went into them was cow dung sitting in a pit next to them, going through a natural decomposition process. Yet they ran perfectly and gave these villages electricity.We have more prototypes and data on electricity generation projects than on water, but for lots of reasons, the urgency around getting some water machines out has been more of our focus. We're further along and hope to be able to introduce water sooner than generation.
Segway inventor scoots to bigger matters | Newsmakers | CNET News.com
This guy is hitting up some cool subjects.
Off grid electrical sources already tested on cow dung, appears humorous but it's a big deal. You could generate power from waste and who knows what else, the usability is very impressive. I'm reminded of a Dolorian.
The work on water cleaning is also very excellent. I don't know that plans have been utterly worked out and what is needed from this product to handle what they've projected they are going for so it appears this planning is needed. To what end is the product being developed and by excetion of what planning. Planning omission aside, bodes well I'd say.
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The idea is a student would instead of sitting as constant effect of the teacher for hours on end, he would be given the oppurtunity to study and learn with his willingness and ability.
It makes for students being able to study and pushed to study on their own, it's taken as considerably less than it's worth I gaurentee.
