Engine On a Chip May Beat the Battery

Krishna Dagli writes, "MIT researchers are putting a tiny gas-turbine engine inside a silicon chip about the size of a quarter. The resulting device could run 10 times longer than a battery of the same weight, powering laptops, cell phones, radios, and other electronic devices." From the article: "All the parts work. We're now trying to get them all to work on the same day on the same lab bench." The goal is to do that by the end of the year.

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[eno2001]

Dickwad? Let it be noted that I did not hurl the first insult. So you like decentralized solutions then? no surprise as that is what most morons who read Slashdot like. You're argument about efficiency falls apart when you consider that even if your producing the power locally it's not being efficiently doled out as a centralized solution would do. Let's put it this way... which approach is going to actually be more efficient:

1. A homo liberal in his SUV with only a latte for a passenger, guzzling tons of gasoline to move his 280 pound ass from work to home and home to work every day?

or...

2. A gorgeous conservative woman (who looks like Anne Coulter) riding an electric bullet train with 75 other similar conservatives who actually put their money behind the environment instead of complaining about "big bad businesses" like the pansy liberals do?

I'd put my money on option two. As a Republican MAN (with the emphasis on MAN), I know how to save the environment and a few dollars as well. And that's to ride clean, efficient bullet trains. Even better if they're running off of solar power or nuclear. So come back to me when you grow a set.