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Green Tea Cleans Hard Drive Heads

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the heloise's-pc-found-to-be-spotless dept.

mprindle writes "Wired.com has an article announcing that a 'study of the use of green tea extracts for polishing the magnetic heads in hard-disk drives has yielded a compound that works three to four times faster than conventional compounds. If the findings can be reproduced in an industrial setting, the compound could reduce the cost and environmental impact of hard-drive manufacturing.' And you just thought that green tea was good to drink."

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  1. one word by Neuropol · · Score: 4, Insightful

    antioxidant

  2. Re:Sssssshhhh! by TiMac · · Score: 3, Insightful

    my job security is guaranteed

    Lemme guess: You use and recommend Windows products to those users for the same job security reason?

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  3. Prices... by LaBlueCow · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So, perhaps if production is cheaper (I bet tea is cheaper than chemical compunds), then maybe HDD prices will drop a bit? Or maybe margins will increase for PC part sales. Bah.

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  4. Good to drink? by Lispy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "And you just thought that green tea was good to drink."

    Actually I always thought it tastes like dishwater. Good to see it might at least be of some use. ;-)

  5. Jumping to conclusions regarding pollution by XavierItzmann · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Some here are jumping to the conclusion that this will pollute less.

    Until somebody spends another $1 million of our taxes (read: NSF grant) in doing the net impact calculation, consider this:

    1. More land dedicated to grow green tea = less uncultivated land, less *nature*, as they say

    2. Fertilizer & pesticide for green tea, and all of the petrochemicals that went into it

    3. Fuels and other energies used to sow, harvest, clean, store & transport green tea

    4. Chemical processes to refine bioactive compounds out of the tea itself

    And I have not even mentioned the fuels used to create the wealth that is going to get taxed in order to pay for the agricultural subsidies that (of course!) are eventually going to be given to growers of green tea.

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  6. Sounds bogus... by mtrupe · · Score: 3, Insightful

    sounds like one of those stupid John C. Dvorak articles that are supposed to be funny bet aren't.

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