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rjshae, on 09 Apr 2014 - 3:56 PM, said:

Scientists discover a novel way to make ethanol without corn or other plants

 

They used copper nanocrystals and electricity with water and CO to attain 57% conversion efficiency. Pretty impressive. They're working on a way to improve yields of higher energy-density propanol as well. Could this be the future of vehicle fuel generation?

There seems to be a problem with this idea, where would the energy to do all these conversions come from?

 

Unrelated, they're trying to raise $2.5 million to save a little girl : http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/04/14/saving-eliza-4-year-olds-family-fights-to-fund-clinical-trial-to-treat-deadly/

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Not a discovery per say, but an interesting 'cause and effect' of releasing wolves into Yellow Stone Park.

 

How Wolves Change Rivers

 

 

The Future is Now.

Hugh Herr on the new Bionic Legs (go to 17:05 to see a somewhat pathos, but effective example of this - a former dancer and Boston bomber victim)

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"Stanford bioengineers have developed a new circuit board modeled on the human brain, possibly opening up new frontiers in robotics and computing.

Boahen and his team have developed Neurogrid, a circuit board consisting of 16 custom-designed "Neurocore" chips. Together these 16 chips can simulate 1 million neurons and billions of synaptic connections."The Article.

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But will it create consciousness?

"Some men see things as they are and say why?"
"I dream things that never were and say why not?"
- George Bernard Shaw

"Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

 

"The amount of energy necessary to refute bull**** is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it."

- Some guy 

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See, this is what I mean. Atomic laser cooling, quantum navigation, gravity maps ... why can't we reduce the incidence of male-pattern balding.  :wacko:

Haha, agreed.

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Scientists Say They Have Found A Way To Fight SARS And MERS

 

An international team of scientists say they have identified a compound that can fight coronaviruses, responsible for the SARS and MERS outbreaks, which currently have no cure.

Coronaviruses affected the upper and lower respiratory tracts in humans. They are the reason for up to a third of common colds. [...]

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rjshae, on 09 Apr 2014 - 3:56 PM, said:

Scientists discover a novel way to make ethanol without corn or other plants

 

They used copper nanocrystals and electricity with water and CO to attain 57% conversion efficiency. Pretty impressive. They're working on a way to improve yields of higher energy-density propanol as well. Could this be the future of vehicle fuel generation?

There seems to be a problem with this idea, where would the energy to do all these conversions come from?

 

Electricity. The nanocrystals are acting as an efficient catalyst.

"It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats."

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Female hurricanes are a lot more deadly... But perhaps because of gender bias.

 

 

Rather than this finding being related to the severity of the storms, the team hypothesized that hurricanes with female names may be perceived as less dangerous than those with male names. According to the study, this means that people are less likely to take protective measures such as evacuation during storms with female names and are therefore more vulnerable.

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A few days ago, we reported that Telsa Motors CEO Elon Musk had hinted he would be opening up patents to the Supercharger stations that charge their electric vehicles (EVs). This would have made it more convenient for competitors to enter or expand the EV market, reducing demand for traditional vehicles powered by gasoline. Today, Musk formally announced that Tesla Motors were not just opening up the patents for the Superchargers, but for all of the patents obtained by Tesla; over 200 in all. 

 
Musk released a blog entry on Tesla’s website entitled “All Our Patent Are Belong To You” which doubles as a potential massive advance for the EV market as well as the only good reference to that Zero Wing meme in the last decade. In the blog, Musk vows that Tesla will not sue anyone who uses their technology in good faith.
 
“When I started out with my first company, Zip2, I thought patents were a good thing and worked hard to obtain them,” Musk wrote. “And maybe they were good long ago, but too often these days they serve merely to stifle progress, entrench the positions of giant corporations and enrich those in the legal profession, rather than the actual inventors.”
 
There are some minor stipulations for companies who want to use Tesla’s technology. Other auto manufacturers using Supercharger technology must also charge customers for use of the charging stations up front, and granting free access thereafter. It is hoped that other manufacturers will also assume an open source stance, allowing the industry to evolve more quickly.

 

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