Note the bright white flash, and light colored smoke. That is not a battery fire (don't ask how I know)
The metal is magnesium
http://www.hydro.com/en/about/history/1946_1977/19 50.html
International challenges
Despite Hydro's leading role in developing magnesium technology, the company decided in 2002 to close its production plant at Porsgrunn and instead concentrate on further developments of its facility in Becancour, Canada, built in the early 1990s. It also established access to metal in China.
http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/chem03/chem0 3547.htm
www.cabrillo.edu/~rroland//CHEM1A/JoshLabManual/11 -HeatofCombustion(Magnesium).doc
Bet it was nearly this model: http://laptopmag.com/Review/Dell-Latitude-D620.htm
Magnesium, a silvery white metal of atomic weight 24.32, ignites at 632C and burns at 1982C, with magnesium oxide (MgO) as its combustion product. In an exothermic reaction, metallic magnesium can ignite to produce magnesium dihydroxide (ie, Mg(OH)2) and hydrogen. Magnesium is used in either powdered or solid form as an incendiary agent for both illumination and antipersonnel purposes. Various alloys of magnesium (eg, aluminum/zinc/magnesium alloy found in US M126 round) are mechanically sturdier but also can be ignited easily.
Thermite is a mixture of powdered or granular aluminum and powdered iron oxide. When combined with other substances, such as binders, the material is termed a "thermate." All such materials react vigorously when heated to the combustion temperature of aluminum. This reaction produces aluminum oxide, elemental iron, and sufficient heat to melt the iron. The reaction temperature is approximately 2200C.
I predict that within the next decade, we will see our first multinational corporation at real physical war with a national or multinational government.
I was on digg earlier, (sorry/.) and was seriously taken aback by the ignorance of the geek masses there.
I never thought someone who spends time looking at cutting edge science would have problems concieving of the validity of the space elevator. The tensile strength of the filament has been built to about 1/3 the necessary strength in less than 3 years. A method is in process to produce the filament en-mass when it gets up to strength, and NASA is backing the robot climber contest. every aspect of the project is being chipped away at relentlessly (and with notable progress). The location in the mid-pacific has been scoped out. (few storms, intl waters, far far away from anything but more pacific ocean, etc.)
There are preliminary designs for the sea platform. The counterweight as currently concieved will consist of a.) the least mass possible bunch of research oriented electronica, and b.)the first hundred or so test run ballasts.
These people are serious. check before scoffing.
this could blow. Some things i have never understood about console games(disc type):
1)why not load in a "center out" fashion? if a map, physics, textures, etc. take days to cache, why not stream the basics and update during the beginning of gameplay?
2)why not leave high bandwidth doodads local once loaded?
just always wondered why i would have to wait for all aspects of an entire map to load before i could start playing with a max draw distance of about a hundredth of it.
gosh i wish i could argue for solid state games to return. a chip of rom is so much faster. just too expensive.
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Note the bright white flash, and light colored smoke. That is not a battery fire (don't ask how I know) The metal is magnesium http://www.hydro.com/en/about/history/1946_1977/19 50.html
International challenges
Despite Hydro's leading role in developing magnesium technology, the company decided in 2002 to close its production plant at Porsgrunn and instead concentrate on further developments of its facility in Becancour, Canada, built in the early 1990s. It also established access to metal in China.
http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/chem03/chem0 3547.htm
www.cabrillo.edu/~rroland//CHEM1A/JoshLabManual/11 -HeatofCombustion(Magnesium).doc
Bet it was nearly this model: http://laptopmag.com/Review/Dell-Latitude-D620.htm
Magnesium, a silvery white metal of atomic weight 24.32, ignites at 632C and burns at 1982C, with magnesium oxide (MgO) as its combustion product. In an exothermic reaction, metallic magnesium can ignite to produce magnesium dihydroxide (ie, Mg(OH)2) and hydrogen. Magnesium is used in either powdered or solid form as an incendiary agent for both illumination and antipersonnel purposes. Various alloys of magnesium (eg, aluminum/zinc/magnesium alloy found in US M126 round) are mechanically sturdier but also can be ignited easily.
Thermite is a mixture of powdered or granular aluminum and powdered iron oxide. When combined with other substances, such as binders, the material is termed a "thermate." All such materials react vigorously when heated to the combustion temperature of aluminum. This reaction produces aluminum oxide, elemental iron, and sufficient heat to melt the iron. The reaction temperature is approximately 2200C.
I predict that within the next decade, we will see our first multinational corporation at real physical war with a national or multinational government.
I was on digg earlier, (sorry /.) and was seriously taken aback by the ignorance of the geek masses there.
I never thought someone who spends time looking at cutting edge science would have problems concieving of the validity of the space elevator. The tensile strength of the filament has been built to about 1/3 the necessary strength in less than 3 years. A method is in process to produce the filament en-mass when it gets up to strength, and NASA is backing the robot climber contest. every aspect of the project is being chipped away at relentlessly (and with notable progress). The location in the mid-pacific has been scoped out. (few storms, intl waters, far far away from anything but more pacific ocean, etc.)
There are preliminary designs for the sea platform. The counterweight as currently concieved will consist of a.) the least mass possible bunch of research oriented electronica, and b.)the first hundred or so test run ballasts.
These people are serious. check before scoffing.
this could blow. Some things i have never understood about console games(disc type):
1)why not load in a "center out" fashion? if a map, physics, textures, etc. take days to cache, why not stream the basics and update during the beginning of gameplay?
2)why not leave high bandwidth doodads local once loaded?
just always wondered why i would have to wait for all aspects of an entire map to load before i could start playing with a max draw distance of about a hundredth of it.
gosh i wish i could argue for solid state games to return. a chip of rom is so much faster. just too expensive.