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Tobacco Virus Could Boost Li Batteries
siliconbits alerts us to the possible use of one of the world's most destructive naturally occurring scourges, the tobacco mosaic virus, to boost the capacity of lithium ion batteries by 10 times. It seems the virus can be made to attach itself to the electrodes in a lithium cell perpendicularly, increasing the surface area of the electrode and greatly improving the battery's capacity to store energy. PhysOrg has some more detail on virus-enhanced batteries. Four years ago we discussed the use of the tobacco mosaic virus to enable fast-switching transistors.
Sorry, I don't consider a virus that primarily damages tobacco plants to be a scourge.
It affects all nightshades, including tomatoes, peppers and eggplant.
"I assumed blithely that there were no elves out there in the darkness"
When you say "one of the world's most destructive naturally occurring scourges," are you referring to tobacco or the virus?
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I hate eggplant even more than I hate lunh cancer!
So the virus is still 2/4 in my book. Still not a scourge.
except it would take tomatoes with it as well. Won't someone think of the pizza!!!
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Perhaps The Diamond Age was a little off-target when talking about nanobot assembly of goods from pipelines of raw materials: programming biological viruses to build the structures you're looking for seems like it's becoming more and more viable than trying to purpose-build nanobots to do the same.
This should also lay to rest some of the more vehement rhetoric about 'grey goo' disasters; if there were going to be a 'grey goo' scenario, bacteria would have done it aeons ago.
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So your co-workers heard a gentle pop and now you appear a little more glassy-eyed than usual?
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
As an e-cig enthusiast, I will attest that it just isn't the same. With the e-cig, I get the satisfaction of inhaling something and seeing the resulting cloud. I also get my nicotine fix. Sure, nicotine is a poison, but at least all I'm inhaling is nicotine and propylene glycol (or food grade vegetable glycerin); there is no burning or 4000+ chemicals as found in a traditional cigarette. The gum just doesn't do it for most people.
The teachers will crack any minute, purple monkey dishwasher.
Four years ago we discussed the use of the tobacco mosaic virus to enable fast-switching transistors.
So where are the fast switching transistors? Does ANYTHING every come to fruition?
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I used to hate eggplants too bacause I always was served goopy overbaked eggplant.
But then I discovered that they are best prepared sliced, battered and fried. Delicious.
Weight-for-weight tomatoes probably sell for less than tobacco, thus are less profitable. Would you put the effort into protecting a more profitable crop, or less profitable?
Cell phone users aren't welcome around my pepper plants.
Even I, a non-smoker, get angry when people try to impose things on smokers, because an attack on someone's freedom to do something that doesn't harm others is an attack on my freedom to do the same. And no, I'm not talking about restrictions on smoking in public spaces where the smoke affects others; I'm talking about restrictions/taxes on smoking on private property where the smoke doesn't drift on to neighboring property and the property owner is OK with smoking.
Ever so slightly more glassy-eyed.
In some parts of the country, cigs go for eight bucks A PACK. Show me an "inspected and cared for" tomato going for 8 bucks...
It's not the cigs that cost that much. It's all the sin-taxes put one them that make them that expensive. Tobacco is relatively cheap.
There is no "I disagree" mod for a reason. Flamebait, Troll, and Overrated are not substitutes.
I'm confused, is this a bug or a feature? Could it be both at the same time?!?
Balderdash! The key to preparing eggplant is the following two steps:
1) Slice the eggplant into ~ 1.5 cm - 2 cm slices. Salt one side of each slice. Reassemble eggplant, wrapping with cling wrap to hold it together. Let it rest for ~30 minutes until all the bitter juices leech out, and then wipe each slice dry.
2) Roast or grill eggplant for a couple minutes, until it looks like it has started cooking.
Then, do whatever you want with it.
Also, it helps to know that the eggplant has "male" and "female" fruit, and that the female fruit has a more bitter flavor.
If I had a nickel for every time I had a nickel, I'd be richcursive!
Gasoline has an energy density of about 34 MJ/L, while current Li-ion batteries have an energy density of around 0.7 MJ/L. If this comes to fruition, we'll have batteries with about 1/5th of the energy density of gasoline. That's quite amazing, in my opinion.
What if that battery is pierced, though? I know that the Tesla rig uses a slew of small cells. Do other electric cars like the Volt or the Leaf do the same thing? It seems to me that a number of small cells might present less of a problem, though that would drive the energy density of a battery pack down.
I used to hate eggplants too bacause I always was served goopy overbaked eggplant. But then I discovered that they are best prepared sliced, battered and fried. Delicious.
So what does that prove. *EVERYTHING* is best prepared sliced, battered, and fried: Cheese, Mars Bars, cardboard, you name it.
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As I discovered, much to my consternation, after buying a Kodak digital camera which came with an included “Kodak lithium digital camera battery”:
Lithium batteries are not rechargeable. Lithium ion batteries are.
Big difference.
Distributed Denial of APK: It takes 15 seconds to reply to him anonymously, but wastes tons of his time if we all do it.
All that and your conclusion is not that the system of socialized healthcare is unfair, but that smokers are exploiting it and should just be allowed to die so you can stay on your socialized healthcare without having to pay for their medical costs. Amazing.
Distributed Denial of APK: It takes 15 seconds to reply to him anonymously, but wastes tons of his time if we all do it.
Your smoking, on the other hand, contributes jack and squat.
His smoking contributes to making him happy and/or satisfied. You could very easily say the same thing about gay sex.
Especially given how some smokers, when foul weather hits, seem to think its their god given right to blockade the entrances and exits to building so that they can light up. Same with bus shelters and crowded streets.
You see, that's not a problem caused by smoking or by cigarettes.
You have a problem with people who are stupid, rude, and inconsiderate of you. However, there's a statistical link between people with those traits and smoking. There are further links between such and poverty. How cute that they all line up, eh?
Maybe if we use some of those exploitive cigarette taxes to fund education and etiquette courses for smokers, we wouldn't be so rude and inconsiderate anymore. And maybe if we didn't pay through the nose for a pack of smokes to pay for all kinds of stupid shit that we don't get to enjoy, we wouldn't feel so empowered to be inconsiderate.
No one on the legislative side of the issue actually considers the smokers. The only consideration is "Me" and "Mine."
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My favorite eggplant recipe is as follows:
Take one eggplant, cut in ~3/8" slices. Lightly bread each side with Italian seasoned crumbs and grated Parmesan cheese, then toss delicately into a medium pail of garbage. Repeat the process if you need more practice, otherwise remove the veal cutlets from the fridge and make dinner.
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