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  1. Re:How do they store the hydrogen? on First Hydrogen-Powered Train Hits the Tracks In Germany (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    A solar to hydrogen plant is being planned for the desert in South Australia, to transport the Hydrogen, the plant turns it into Ammonia as H is almost impossible to transport and store efficiently. http://www.abc.net.au/news/201... Hydrogen embrittlement will destroy every container you make.

  2. First for 36 years not 150 and not a blue moon on How To Watch the 'Super Blue Blood Moon' Lunar Eclipse (livescience.com) · · Score: 1

    Total lunar eclipses during blue moons occurred over Australia on December 30, 1982 and December 30, 1963. But, thanks to time zone differences, these were not blue moons in North America. Both these eclipses would have been "super moons". Not a blue moon in NZ it will Feb1

  3. Firefox review is true on Firefox Quantum Is 'Better, Faster, Smarter than Chrome', Says Wired (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Great performance on the desktop and the newer addons work well Agree the article is a proper representation of the new firefox missing a great image magnifier, but it is coming soon

  4. patch for Firefox 52 - Fedora on Firefox Goes PulseAudio Only, Leaves ALSA Users With No Sound (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    hi

    download the source code .rpm
    install in build directory
    edit SOURCES/firefox-mozconfig
    add
    + ac_add_options --disable-pulseaudio
    + ac_add_options --enable-alsa
    delete
    - ac_add_options --enable-pulseaudio
    - ac_add_options --disable-alsa

    build the firefox local rpm
    remove distribution version of firefox and install local version of firefox
    repeat after each update of firefox

  5. Satellite Image of the Hurricane on Kennedy Space Center Braces For Hurricane Matthew (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    hi the latest image is at http://www.goes.noaa.gov/brows...

  6. Re:Stop the presses and the TV scripts on Study: People Emit a "Germ Cloud" of Bacteria As Unique As a Fingerprint · · Score: 2

    this will be in the CSI:XXX scripts next season

  7. Re:Will Technology Disrupt the Song? on Ask Slashdot: Will Technology Disrupt the Song? · · Score: 1

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... is a C13 folk song of about 3 minutes and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... is a C16 verse also about 3 minutes and the electric folk group Steeleye Span had a hit in 1973 (No. 14, UK singles chart) with an a cappella recording of the song.
    The song has a natural form of about 3 minutes

  8. Re:Usable in Australia on Tesla's Household Battery: Costs, Prices, and Tradeoffs · · Score: 1

    Melbourne a coastal city of 4 million and regular summer maximums of 45C and hotter inland. Adelaide is also on the southern coast of Australia (1.5 million) and has hotter and longer summers, so it gets a week of 45C+ days.

  9. Unuseble in Australia on Tesla's Household Battery: Costs, Prices, and Tradeoffs · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Most of Australia experiences Summer temperatures over the maximum operating listed in this specification, and for remote locations this maximum temperature is exceeded every day for weeks on end.
    This may be a design issue so a higher specification version could be issued of a physics issue and then it is no go for Aus.

  10. Snowball - now the cause has been found on World's Largest Asteroid Impacts Found In Central Australia · · Score: 3, Interesting

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... about 650My ago Earth looked like the planet Hoth (StarWars 5) with the southern ice cap and the northern ice cap almost meeting, a large asteroid hit would produce much dust and give impetus to such and event.

  11. what has an angle on this angle on High Temperature Superconductivity Record Smashed By Sulfur Hydride · · Score: 1

    Talk about people using archaic units, the name of the SI user friendly temperature was changed to Celsius in 1948

  12. Nuclear binding energy WAS:Hoax on Independent Researchers Test Rossi's Alleged Cold Fusion Device For 32 Days · · Score: 1

    The nuclear binding energy graph shows how much energy is needed/available for a particular nucleon and Ni* is on the downwards slope from Iron to Uranium so it absorbs energy in getting heavier not release it.
    Graph of energies

  13. And as the resolution increases ... on Supercomputing Upgrade Produces High-Resolution Storm Forecasts · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Better resolution is good, but with each improvement in the system, the input data also needs to be improved and remeasured.
    Ultimately the ground features need to be modelled in greater detail to match the increased resolution of the grid.
    Which comes own to knowing where each tree/building and similar sized static feature is and how this affects the model.
    However, as the grid increases it should not need to know where the butterflies are .

  14. Iceland is also moving - Bárðarbunga Vol on Magnitude 6.0 Quake Hits Northern California, Causing Injuries and Outages · · Score: 2

    A medium 5+ quake in Iceland near the Bárðarbunga Volcano, which is under half a kilometre of ice
    http://earthquake.usgs.gov/ear...

  15. Corrosion on NASA's JPL Develops Multi-Metal 3D Printing Process · · Score: 1

    The layout of the metals will need to plan for internal corrosion. Whilst, both titanium and most stainless steels have a corrosion proof film (it is why these materials are so useful, particularly when used alone), the use of two different grades WILL set up an electrochemical potential between the parts and this will provide an opening for corrosion to occur.

  16. Original Press Srelease from Salk Institute on New Treatment Stops Type II Diabetes · · Score: 1

    sounds good, but a lot more work to do

    http://www.salk.edu/news/press...

  17. Old Idea - did this all 30 years ago on Nathan Myhrvold's Recipe For a Better Oven · · Score: 1

    As a set of co-workers at an energy retailer (now defunct) did all this 30 years ago, just come down to Aus and buy one with either methane or electricity as the heat source.

  18. local weather on How Weather Influences Global Warming Opinions · · Score: 5, Informative

    so just as N.America has its lowest temperatures for decades
    Australia is doing some of its hottest with a rounded 50C for the first time last week
    Monday -> 27C and the rest of the week's forecast is
    Tuesday -> 43C
    Wednesday -> 39C
    Thursday -> 41C
    Friday -> 40C
    its all about extra energy making things more variable, but no single weather event can be attributed to anthropogenic climate change

  19. Re:Observation Bias on Our Solar System: Rare Species In Cosmic Zoo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Using any of the techniques of observation of extra-solar planets it needs 3 orbital periods to confirm a planets existence, with Kepler observatory this means only planets with a period of 1y can be confirmed. Jupiter has a period of 11.9years, so observations of nearly 36 years are needed for this planet and Neptune is 164years, thus requiring observations over nearly 500years, and then for the outer dwarf planets the observation time needs to be over 1.5 millennia. So, obseratvion of 20 years means the search has only started and not that this solar system is weird.

  20. Re:Thanks on Australia Is On So Much Fire, You Can See It From Orbit · · Score: 2

    need to add the weather events to the map
    Cat 4 cyclone off WA

  21. Re:Revised Standard on Standard Kilogram Gains Weight · · Score: 1

    water is not an element and a liquid with a high vapour pressure => rapid evaporation

  22. Revised Standard on Standard Kilogram Gains Weight · · Score: 5, Informative

    It is being worked upon, to make the kilogram a sphere of a specified diameter of a pure element. The element chosen is silicon and as a mm is defined very well this will avoid all these problems as a new standard can be made and measured repeatably in every country. Did work in this field some years ago with contact with the people involved.

  23. multi coloured on In Time For Halloween: 9 New Tarantula Species Discovered · · Score: 3, Informative

    These newly found spiders are in many colours not usually associated with arachnids, such as pink and purple
    photo

  24. Studio on Ask Slashdot: the Best Linux Setup To Transition Windows Users? · · Score: 1

    Ubuntu Studio, uses XFCE

  25. Running KDE 4.8 on Ask Slashdot: Why Aren't You Running KDE? · · Score: 4, Informative

    The early series 4 KDE were appalling, and thin includes upto 4.4.
    4.8 is good, you should all come back to the light side.