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Altered Organism Triples Solar Cell Efficiency
An anonymous reader writes "By harnessing the shells of living organisms in the sea, microscopic algae called diatoms, engineers have tripled the efficiency of experimental dye-sensitized solar cells. The diatoms were fed a diet of titanium dioxide, the main ingredient for thin film solar cells, instead of their usual meal which is silica (silicon dioxide). As a result, their shells became photovoltaic when coated with dyes. The result is a thin-film dye-sensitized solar cell that is three times more efficient than those without the diatoms."
Did anyone else read this incorrectly at first? I wanted to know what I needed to do to triple the power of my orgasm
how long before some idiot decides he can patent this idea.
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Does Heisenberg actually define it as indefinite or simply unknowable.
Something can be definite and unknowable. It's entirely possible for instance that an electron actually does have a definite position but be unknowable.... we just don't know.
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In quantum physics, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle states that certain physical quantities, like position and momentum, cannot both have precise values at the same time.