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Spinach May Soon Power Mobile Devices

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the no-comment-from-olive dept.

neutron_p writes "For the first time, MIT researchers have incorporated a plant's ability to convert sunlight to energy into a solid-state electronic "spinach sandwich" device that may one day power laptops and cell phones."

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  1. Well Blow Me Down! by ackthpt · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Spinach?!? I knew it powered Popeye, so it must be good.

    I wonder why they don't use Algae, seems that stuff works extremely well and multiplies fast to prove the point

    "Dude, your laptop smells like a swamp!"

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    A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
    1. Re:Well Blow Me Down! by revscat · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Spoken like someone who hasn't seen or considered the damage done to families and the economy by locking away and destroying the lives of thousands upon thousands upon thousands of people whose crime is nothing more than possessing a socially unacceptable drug. The very real, very destructive consequences of marijuana prohibition far outweigh any harm that would occur from legalization.

      And for the record, I have indeed done volunteer work with drug addicts. Many of them were no more "addicts" than Bugs Bunny, but due to overly harsh sentencing requirements were forced to go there, taking the place of those with far more serious problems. My time with those people convinced me more than ever that it should be legalized as soon as possible.

      Oh, and should you consider throwing the "please think of the children" meme into the mix, you should know that I am the proud father of three.

  2. Re:Dupe... *sigh* by underpar · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Except this time we can all make popeye jokes. That was lacking in the original.

  3. Re:While I am sure by drwho · · Score: 3, Insightful
    .. that this warrants further investigation, really, can we work on a scientific way to end homelessness or something as opposed to using Spinach to power your cell phone.

    What an incredibly lame P.C. response to progress. Homelessness is a socio-economic problem, not a scientific one. This same sort of complaint against sciencse/technology has often been heard before, as arguments against the Internet and space exploration. But I never thought I'd hear it on Slashdot. I guess the invasion of the load and clueless is continuing on schedule.

    Yeah, maybe I'll loose some karma points here, but I just can't let this sort of whiney idiocy go by without yelling.