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Refrigerators To Cool With Sound (Cool!)
T-Kir writes "A very interesting report from the BBC where researchers at Penn State University are developing a prototype fridge that cools using metal plates and sound waves. If successful, this technology would help remove the dependance on gases that contribute to global warming. Talk about Cool!"
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Wow, so many dumb intentional puns makes me want to kill everyone, starting with the poster...
Now I can go to sleep...
This is a stolen sig.
Refrigerators cool YOU
hey, no troll! I'm serious.
This space available.
Now when there's farting sounds in the room, I can point to the fridge when my wife gives me a scornful glance.
The United States has maintained that the right to counsel does not apply to Padilla, because he has not been charged with any crime, and President Bush's decision to detain him as an enemy combatant in time of war "is a military and political judgment not subject to reassessment by the courts."
After Padilla had been detained for a month as a material witness in a federal facility in New York City, Bush declared him an enemy combatant and transferred him to a Navy brig in Charleston, South Carolina.
Decibels aren't on a linear scale. Your 53db is a logrithmic difference. Every 3db in difference is a doubleing of intensity. 123db is twice as intense as 120db. So 53/3 = 17.6667 which means 173db is 2^17.6667 times as loud as 120db. Which is actually 208063.83 times as loud. Which means the article was still wrong. Here's a link about decibel math: here.
The next remark is false. The previous remark is true.
Not able to sit in a tree? Don't have enough money to donate? Here's a free and easy way to help save the world. All you need is your local pay phone.
What do I do?
Its simple, next time you have some free time and are around a pay phone, why not give an evil corporation a call and tell them they suck? "But gee I don't have 35
cents to waste on a phone call to McDonalds" you say? well, that's where the beautiful part comes in. These companies want you to call them, in fact they set up
1-800 numbers to make sure you can call them for free!
This costs them money, and uses up one of their phone lines and operators.
So next time you are waiting for the bus and see a pay phone, give one of these companies a call and tell them that you don't like what they are doing.
Who to call:
Here is a list of companies you may want to give a call to, and let them know you don't like what they are doing. Don't know what these companies are doing?
Next to the phone number is a link to a website telling you why each of these companies is evil.
Company name, fee phone number to call, reason to call
Monsanto 1-800-332-3111 pollution biotech
Monsanto 1-800-523-2333 http://www.monsantosucks.com/
Citigroup 1-800-756-7047 http://www.thisiscitigroup.org/
Citigroup 1-800-950-5114 http://www.thisiscitigroup.org/
McDonalds 1-800-244-6227 http://www.mcspotlight.org/
Coca-Cola 1-800-438-2653 http://www.cokewatch.org/
Genentech 1-800-530-3083 world's second-largest biotechnology company