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I sure wouldn't want to work near a tank of hydrogen.
But you probably own a device that has a tank full of much more dangerous stuff - it's called a car.
Nah. The dangerous part of a volitile fluid (e.g. gasoline or hydrogen) stored under pressure is the vapor, not the liquid - if any of the vapor is ignited, it will all combust at once, giving a nice big explosion, while the liquid will only burn slowly. The amount of vapor in such a container is usually a function of the amount of liquid in the container and of the substance's vapor pressure, which in turn is inversely proportional to its molecular mass. Thus, if each has the same volume of liquid, a container hydrogen (MM = 2) has more vapor than one of gasoline (MM appx. 114), and the hydrogen container will give you a much bigger boom.
I don't know how much difference this makes, but the patent is listed as a "continuation" of a patent filed in 1993, and lists as references several papers this guy published in 1990 and 1991. IANAL, but it seems like he might be able to use these to invalidate claims of prior art.
"He (Dr. Chris Williams) undertook a global review of science-based research into the impact of environmental factors on intelligence. "
Certainly good to know that all of these results are science-based -- I'm certainly glad he didn't use... um... whatever the other kind of research is!
BC++ 5.02 is just a compiler program - it doesn't include any of the typical accountrements of an IDE. C++ Builder includes a complete IDE (though not a terribly good one),a debugger, support (I think) for Borland's OWL framework, and the VCL library of controls. Check Borland's list of features for the two for more info.
>Of course, I'm crediting the design group with following reasonable procedures.
You should dig out your old copy of Surely You're Joking, Mr. Fenyman and read it again, then. One of the major points of that book is that many of NASA's woes come from processes designed by managers focused on expediency and politics rather than good engineering practice.
Except it's not likely that Slashdot would have the server capacity to handle a bunch of newsgroups in addition to the present comments. People reading the comments already slow things down during peak hours; several popular newsgroups would only make things worse.
>I would suggest that researchers look for a way >to turn this effect around, allowing the material >to pull rather than push. Wouldn't it be possible to just apply the same charge to both electrodes, causing them to move apart and the plastic to contract horizontally?
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I sure wouldn't want to work near a tank of hydrogen.
But you probably own a device that has a tank full of much more dangerous stuff - it's called a car.
Nah. The dangerous part of a volitile fluid (e.g. gasoline or hydrogen) stored under pressure is the vapor, not the liquid - if any of the vapor is ignited, it will all combust at once, giving a nice big explosion, while the liquid will only burn slowly. The amount of vapor in such a container is usually a function of the amount of liquid in the container and of the substance's vapor pressure, which in turn is inversely proportional to its molecular mass. Thus, if each has the same volume of liquid, a container hydrogen (MM = 2) has more vapor than one of gasoline (MM appx. 114), and the hydrogen container will give you a much bigger boom.
I don't know how much difference this makes, but the patent is listed as a "continuation" of a patent filed in 1993, and lists as references several papers this guy published in 1990 and 1991. IANAL, but it seems like he might be able to use these to invalidate claims of prior art.
"He (Dr. Chris Williams) undertook a global review of science-based research into the impact of environmental factors on intelligence. "
Certainly good to know that all of these results are science-based -- I'm certainly glad he didn't use... um... whatever the other kind of research is!
BC++ 5.02 is just a compiler program - it doesn't include any of the typical accountrements of an IDE. C++ Builder includes a complete IDE (though not a terribly good one),a debugger, support (I think) for Borland's OWL framework, and the VCL library of controls. Check Borland's list of features for the two for more info.
It's probably going to be a while before they get very cheap:
Princeton University has applied for a patent on Forrest's work and has licensed rights to the discovery to Universal Display Corporation
I can't see a company with control over this sort of technology not exploiting it for everything they can get.
>Of course, I'm crediting the design group with following reasonable procedures.
You should dig out your old copy of Surely You're Joking, Mr. Fenyman and read it again, then. One of the major points of that book is that many of NASA's woes come from processes designed by managers focused on expediency and politics rather than good engineering practice.
Except it's not likely that Slashdot would have the server capacity to handle a bunch of newsgroups in addition to the present comments. People reading the comments already slow things down during peak hours; several popular newsgroups would only make things worse.
>I would suggest that researchers look for a way >to turn this effect around, allowing the material >to pull rather than push.
Wouldn't it be possible to just apply the same charge to both electrodes, causing them to move apart and the plastic to contract horizontally?