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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.
And you thought a hot battery in your lap was scary.
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Yesterday they were putting lasers on a chip. Today it's engines. Tomorrow, I suppose I'm just going to live on a chip.
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I always thought that what computers were missing was the pull chain for starting the engine. Now it'll be just like using the lawnmower! BBBBRRRRBRBRBRRBBRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!
The article doesn't mention what happens to the hot exhaust after it passes through the turbine. Does this mean that have not tackled this problem yet? This could give a whole new meaning to the whole "laptop frying your balls".
Miniature fighter jets with lasers all etched out of a silicon crystal.
We could drop half a billion of them over the middle east.
...a teeny, tiny seagull flies into the turbine?
Because as we move to hybrid gas-electric vehicles, more and more mechanics are finding they need a degree in electronics just to be able to fix your car. So to level the playing field, we felt that electronics geeks should have to learn how to fix an engine too.
Any sufficiently simple magic can be passed off as mere advanced technology.
How cool will it be when you turn your laptop on and it sounds like a jet engine starting up!
will they be putting tiny engines inside silicon*e* ? Just imagine, breasts that swing *themselves* even when the woman is standing still. It truly would be Utopia. Or Stepford. I always get those two confused.
Can it beat John Henry and his mighty hammer? Didn't think so!
Electric eel generator, bird beak phonograph needle and dinosaur garbage disposal are already patented by Fred Flintstone.
Support Right To Repair Legislation.
...then I can eat Mexican food for lunch and power my laptop for free!
Insisting on "correct" English is like saying that there is only one, definitive recipe for chili.
Yeah, when my laptop runs out of butane, I could just plug it into that butane outlet in the wall...
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Could a Beowulf cluster of these power a town?
"Hey boss, c'mere! I got our engine-on-a-chip to work!"
*boss meanders on over*
*turbine stops spinning*
*boss walks away grumbling*
"Bbbbbut it worked! Really, it did!"
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