Capturing Waste Heat with Quantum Mechanics

TheMatt writes: "There is a summary of a Phys.Rev.Lett. article up at Nature Science Update that describes a design for a 'quantum afterburner' that would improve the efficiency of an Otto engine. It improves the efficiency by using a laser and maser to extract energy from the hot exhaust of the engine. In fact, the process could enhance performance beyond that of the "ideal" Otto engine."

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Re:I know this is OT, but

[oingoboingo]

i saw the same thing...then cynical bastard in me thinks it's because it was a story about HP preinstalling Mandrake on some of their desktop systems. bruce perens works at HP and is a notorious debian zealot. running a story about how a company that employs one of the hardest core debian fanatics around, yet then chooses to use mandrake on their desktops probably doesn't look very good for the debian loving guys at slashdot.

Re:first page lengthening post

[Com2Kid]

Hey dude guess what?

SLASHDOT AUTOMATICALLY CUTS OFF LONG POSTS!

Yah yah yah, big surprise eh?

Your posts take about what, half a second to scroll by? Oh wait, not even that long!

Jeez. Get an original troll for crying out loud! No wonder CT gets fouled up and starts banning people, he has to put up with unoriginal uncreative CRAP like what you put out!

Hey you know what? I think that the sheer STUPIDITY of your post is FAR more annoying then any attempted troll value that you seek to put into it. Keep on showing yourself to be an unoriginal dunderhead with no sense of creativity at all and I guarantee you that you will piss off far more people then you will by seeking to attempt these pathetic little trolls of yours.

Unoriginal, undaring, uncreative, none risky, unoffensive. The Amish are more offensive then your pathetic little attempt at a troll.