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Old 09-20-2011, 02:20 PM   #16
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Dana, you going to watch This Is Jinsy?
Peter Serafinowicz (I looked it up) stars in one episode. As do Tennant and Tate.

Opinion seems divided but I thought I'd at least have a look, "Has the wit to become a less malevolent League of Gentlemen".
Although part of what I love about the League is of course their malevolence...
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Old 09-20-2011, 02:40 PM   #17
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Oooooh. How's this managed to pass me by? I've heard the name, but not sure where I've come across it. Having just wikid it, yes I am going to watch it.

Looks damn fine.
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Old 06-28-2013, 08:15 PM   #18
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How would you like to be a graduate student and be the lead author on this...


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Chemists Work to Desalt the Ocean for Drinking Water, One Nanoliter at a Time
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By creating a small electrical field that removes salts from seawater,
chemists at The University of Texas at Austin and the University of Marburg in Germany
have introduced a new method for the desalination of seawater that consumes less energy
and is dramatically simpler than conventional techniques.

The new method requires so little energy that it can run on a store-bought battery.
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Old 06-28-2013, 08:34 PM   #19
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And she's hott, too. Damn shame we didn't get a chance to party in swimsuits, but that's Texas weather for ya.
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Old 06-30-2013, 10:21 PM   #20
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http://www.sciencemag.org/content/34.../1545.abstract

Be sure to click the Editor's summary tab, to get it explained in regular English, but the key points are

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Over 1.1 kilometers of a specially designed optical fiber that minimizes mode coupling, we achieved 400-gigabits-per-second data transmission using four angular momentum modes at a single wavelength, and 1.6 terabits per second using two OAM modes over 10 wavelengths.
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Old 07-02-2013, 10:34 AM   #21
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The new method requires so little energy that it can run on a store-bought battery.
Per nanoliter?
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Old 07-02-2013, 02:22 PM   #22
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Nanoliters today, oceans tomorrow

I think this is something like a gate-keeper, where the voltage
only opens and closes the gate to the flow of the (purified) liquid.

It's not like reverse osmosis where (larger amounts of)
continuous energy is needed to remove the contaminants.
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Old 07-02-2013, 02:48 PM   #23
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tha's nanoliters of 25% desalted water.

I can't say how promising this is, but the idea of using energy to move the water and leave the salt behind isn't new, nor difficult to scale up. Just look up, to the clouds.
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Old 07-02-2013, 03:02 PM   #24
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You say 25% desalted, I say 75% salted.

Yuck.
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Old 07-02-2013, 03:17 PM   #25
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right.

it's a proof of concept, needing dramatic increases in volume and thoroughness before it can produce drinking water (the article itself says that drinking water needs to be 99% desalted. the authors/researchers are confident [of course] that this level "can be reached".)

good on them, and good luck.
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Old 07-02-2013, 04:08 PM   #26
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Then again there's always the old tin can under the funnel shaped plastic sheet.

How much does sun cost again? Remind me.
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Old 07-02-2013, 09:27 PM   #27
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I also vote for the tin can under the plastic sheet with a stone on top to create a funnel effect. Why can't we scale this concept up? We already know it works.

Cost of the sun, let's see ... sorry, foot, I'll have to get back to you on that complicated formula.
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Old 07-02-2013, 09:58 PM   #28
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I've placed the order for Apple replace all your iPhones
with the tin cans and the appropriate lengths of string.
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Old 07-02-2013, 10:37 PM   #29
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Solar powered desalination stills exist and work. I forget the figures but they're big and produce only small amounts of water. Once built, they pretty much run themselves, apart from changing the water.
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Old 07-04-2013, 08:45 PM   #30
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How about encouraging the boiling of water using vacuum tubes to heat the water? Those fuckers get hot.

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