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The Nanopowers of Spinach
Roland Piquepaille writes "Ohio University physicists have used a simple molecule of chlorophyll taken from spinach to develop a complex nanobiological switch. They used a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) to image chlorophyll-a and then injected it with a single electron to manipulate the molecule into four positions. The researchers say this biological switch might be used in future applications for green energy, technology and medicine. Read more for additional pictures and references about this spinach-based biological switch."
...Roland Piquepaille submission allowing him to pimp his blog, just three days after this doozy about "nanotechnology", no less? (Hint: it wasn't about nanotechnology at all, and didn't address even the basic "safety" questions it fallaciously purported to address.)
While I'll concede that this particular submission actually appears accurate and interesting (no doubt by accident, judging from his prolific (and annoying) submission history), when will we be able to filter this guy out?
Possible bio-fuel based on Spinach... I'm thinking Popeye was onto something.
It could be used to build a robotic popeye.
1 voice in a sea of voices
Indeed!
Popeye knew of the powers of spinach many decades before. I just don't wanna know what Olive Oyl thinks about it.
tag as "pigpile" to warn users not to click on Roland's ads.
Hopefully soon there will be a way to filter stories based on tags!
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This is just stream of consciousness so don't be alarmed if it doesn't make a whole lot of sense, if any.
Flexible, grown computer chips: the future as we have yet to know it? Bio-engineered to grow with the right inputs and outputs to grow massively parallel wafers or discs. Using the tools nature has spent billions of years developing we can build computers which outperform any handheld we have today by orders of magnitude, just as long as you remember to give them light and water. What you call a hydroponics vat I call my laptop recharger. Well hell they're both, now.
Your computer takes a power plant, maybe run by coal and putting harmful emissions into the atmosphere, and it's all silicon transistor and metal. My computer I grew in my backyard greenhouse and my power plant is 93 million miles away. My computer actually makes the world a better place by cleaning the atmosphere of CO2 and helping out with the greenhouse effect, ironic too, since my computer was grown in a greenhouse.
My display is made of phosphorescent material engineered from plankton and genetically spliced into this flexible yet durable version of hemp which grows flat and wide and thin. Your display has dead pixels and so does mine, but my display regenerates the dead ones over time.
What, my computer is obsolete because there are better ones out there? No problem here, I'll throw mine into the compost heap and use it to grow my new one. Yours, well you know.
Ehh, well, just some thoughts,
TLF
I do not respond to cowards. Especially anonymous ones.
Wow! What a great use for the world's spinich! Everybody turn that spinach in. And NO eating it!
The government can't save you.
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Then I looked up--and I was confirmed, but could there be any doubt, particularly after the last "nanotech" article he posted about a week ago? He posts articles that seem like they are written by a college freshman. They aim for an air of profundity, but the reveal him to know nothing at all about what he is writing about.
I'm off to watch something more brainy that Piquepaille's pseudo-science: the Texas-OSU football game.
Another Roland Piquepaille story. Thank you Slashdot, for supporting he and his spam.
Popeye would be proud
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I would like to just suggest a link to Roland Piquepailles blog somewhere where those who are interested can click. And *no more articles please*
/. to get real news and facts, and see discussions from people with insight.
I read
Roland Piquepailles submissions are usually vague quasiscience or fiction.
Is this latest news just "Yet Another Wishful Nano-manipulation", or are the something new here? The article, unfortunately, gives no added insight.
You should mod this up if you agree or mod away as flamebait/offtopic/troll if you dont agree, but at least mod it.
"Fix it"
The nanobiological green-energy sporting sailor man!
The thing is this. When ever they guys at slashdot get tired of BLOWING eachother, they call in Roland for that extra special French Style oral sex. And, he swallows. See, Timothy would spit it on the floor... So anyway, they have to compensate him somehow...
All Bobcats represent! Wo0T!
Congrats to Prof. Hla, as well, for keeping OU in the headlines.
That isn't the same Roland. Whether or not that account is related or not, I don't know. In a previous post the user said that it was to fight the Real Roland Piquepaille. I don't care if that's the case or not. But it is this user that is the one submitting the stories. That user is called "rpiquepa".
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sweet, I'm totally ditching my athlon for a spinach leaf processor with 4 position switches instead of binary...well it IS possible in theory.
now stop reading and go play Dance Dance Revolution!
"I read /. to get real news and facts, and see discussions from people with insight."
Wait.. is there a section of Slashdot I don't know about?
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
Well, I've been using this Seems clear enough. Has no effect at all on the editors, but makes be feel marginally better.
And post Roland some stuff!
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I'm gonna get shafted by Slash admins, but if you don't like Roland Pigpile, just go to your preferences and take out the stories posted by Zonk. I dunna. Pigpile zonks Zonk or something because they love each other.
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It's interesting that the paper mentions "green" energy as well.
While the idea is interesting there may be some practical limitations. The experiments were done at 4.6 Kelvins.
I think the coolest part is: "Our experiments were performed by using a home-built low temperature STM"
.. paranoid crackpot leftover from the days of Amiga.
I think that the characterization of chlorophyll as a simple molecule is highly misleading. It can be obtained from plants, yes, but the total synthesis in the laboratory is lengthy, complex, and at the time required the effort of an organic chemistry grand master, Robert B. Woodward. Cf. Woodward, RB, et al. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 82, 3800 (1960). Also, I really don't understand the craze over nanotechnology. I've been working with molecules at the nanoscale for years (I am currently a chemist at a biotech firm), as have other chemists, and that work produces amazing results (e.g. new materials, LEDs, pharmaceuticals, inks, etc). How is "nanotechnology" fundamentally different? I'm not concerned about chemistry becoming obsolete. I am merely perplexed that people get worked up about some hypothetical gray goo and worry about getting cancer from their "nanotech-enhanced" blue jeans, yet no one worries about whether the dye in their jeans is toxic. It seems like many people, Slashdotters included, are afraid of something merely because it has a new name. Thoughts?