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pumped storage is used quite extensively the world over, I just visited a setup like that in Scotland.

pictures here:

http://pics.ww.com/v/jacques/scotland08/dscf1575.jpg.html

and further down in that album.

right, but a 'normal' solar cell will also produce quite a bit more power when you shine concentrated sunlight on it. I tried this a couple of years ago, basically the only limit I could find was how well I could cool the cells. This led to some interesting experiments where the wiring would melt from the front of the cell (it's soldered on) with the backs being immersed in water!

The amazing thing is that the crystalline structure withstood the enormous difference in temperature between the front of the cell and the back quite well. Eventually we settled on immersing the cells in distilled water (it doesn't conduct), with a very small film of water sitting between the glass front and the cell. Like that you can boost the output of regular solar cells quite impressively. You *will* have to beef up the wiring on the front of the cells (that's the weakest link by far).

A pic of the concentrator I used still lives here:

http://pics.ww.com/v/jacques/renewables/concentrator/

Ok, myminicity .com assholes. Playtime is over.

I've really had it with the myminicity.com crowd, and to put a stop to this nonsense I've set up a little website.

Stop posting your myminicity links here and elsewhere, if myminicity.com wants to grow they can surely find a way to do it without inconveniencing others.

If you don't then I'm calling on the rest of the audience here to report those links to the site above and if they want to help a little further to place a 1 pixel image tag on their website which will give the myminicity .com people hopefully more traffic than they were bargaining for.

For starters I've placed one on http://ww.com/ , feel free to come and help.

This is just another spam wave and if this doesn't get stopped now then it will be seen as a vindication of the principle and before long there will be 100's of sites doing this.

Rewarding your users for bad behaviour has to be one of the most annoying marketing tactics that has ever been devised.

Ok, myminicity .com assholes. Playtime is over.

I've really had it with the myminicity.com crowd, and to put a stop to this nonsense I've set up a little website.

Stop posting your myminicity links here and elsewhere, if myminicity.com wants to grow they can surely find a way to do it without inconveniencing others.

If you don't then I'm calling on the rest of the audience here to report those links to the site above and if they want to help a little further to place a 1 pixel image tag on their website which will give the myminicity .com people hopefully more traffic than they were bargaining for.

For starters I've placed one on http://ww.com/ , feel free to come and help.

This is just another spam wave and if this doesn't get stopped now then it will be seen as a vindication of the principle and before long there will be 100's of sites doing this.

Rewarding your users for bad behaviour has to be one of the most annoying marketing tactics that has ever been devised.

Ok, myminicity .com assholes. Playtime is over.

I've really had it with the myminicity.com crowd, and to put a stop to this nonsense I've set up a little website.

Stop posting your myminicity links here and elsewhere, if myminicity.com wants to grow they can surely find a way to do it without inconveniencing others.

If you don't then I'm calling on the rest of the audience here to report those links to the site above and if they want to help a little further to place a 1 pixel image tag on their website which will give the myminicity .com people hopefully more traffic than they were bargaining for.

For starters I've placed a tag on the http://ww.com/ homepage, feel free to come and help.

This is just another spam wave and if this doesn't get stopped now then it will be seen as a vindication of the principle and before long there will be 100's of sites doing this.

Rewarding your users for bad behaviour has to be one of the most annoying marketing tactics that has ever been devised.

Ok, myminicity .com assholes. Playtime is over.

I've really had it with the myminicity.com crowd, and to put a stop to this nonsense I've set up a little website.

Stop posting your myminicity links here and elsewhere, if myminicity.com wants to grow they can surely find a way to do it without inconveniencing others.

If you don't then I'm calling on the rest of the audience here to report those links to the site above and if they want to help a little further to place a 1 pixel image tag on their website which will give the myminicity .com people hopefully more traffic than they were bargaining for.

For starters I've placed one on http://ww.com/ , feel free to come and help.

This is just another spam wave and if this doesn't get stopped now then it will be seen as a vindication of the principle and before long there will be 100's of sites doing this.

Rewarding your users for bad behaviour has to be one of the most annoying marketing tactics that has ever been devised.

http://ww.com/task.cc.html

for the skeptics.

this is unreleased source.

enjoy the read and if you spot any bugs I'd be delighted to hear about them.

and if they should go down, there's about 1,000,000 other places to use

try:

http://files.ww.com/

they also seem to have f*cked up the search so you can use it to find mp3's !

100's of them...

ciao..

as far as I'm concerned most patents aren't worth the paper they're printed on. I've been part of the 'process' several times because companies I was working for at the time pursued patents for their 'ideas' (not implementations), and it's pretty disgusting to see how patent attorneys and their clients conspire to create patents that have the exact opposite intention than what patents were originally created for.

For example, it's not unusual to word a patent in such a way that a genuinely innovative company that would not even compete with the patent 'taker' will have to go and license (overbroad patenting by design).

Then there's the 'suing for peace' group that basically takes out patents and then sues to settle for a number roughly $1 cheaper than what it will cost to litigate.

I hate patents with a passion.

Some Hot Chick

With such a high bandwidth they'll need a ton of base stations to get decent coverage.
There's only so much spectrum to go around and as the speeds go up the base frequency has to go up (otherwise you get less channels) so all the line-of-sight effects will go up as well. (this will go on until we use lasers for communication like this).

some hot chick...

I spent a good year designing and building a 2.5 KW wind generator, I wished NL wasn't so anal about 'horizon pollution' or I would have it up today.

mandatory viewing, MS vs IBM :)

try ww.com, it will give you software and a page to watch your kid and a jpg you can poll with your cellphone...

errr... I operate ww.com...

Ok, I'm game. ww.com menu on the left. This should be fun! They'd better change the contest phrase :)