Friday, September 13, 2013
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Sunday, September 01, 2013
CafePress - Retire The Owl
don't forget that September 19 is talk like a pirate day...go see the selection of swag with this cool design
Sunday, August 18, 2013
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Friday, October 01, 2010
Sunday, March 07, 2010
Thursday, December 31, 2009
that was the decade that was...the second worst...
Republicans presided over the next worse dow decade ever...lets look to the next with hope and believe that worst is behind us...
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Monday, October 05, 2009
Friday, July 31, 2009
Monday, May 11, 2009
Your Age by Chocolate....Amazing!!!!!!
Your Age by Chocolate....Amazing!!!!!! Don't tell me your age; you probably would tell a falsehood anyway -but the Hershey Man will know!YOUR AGE BY CHOCOLATE MATH This is pretty neat. It takes less than a minute .. Work this out as you read . Be sure you don't read the bottom until you've worked it out! This is not one of those waste of time things, it's fun. 1. First of all, pick the number of times a week that you would like to have chocolate (more than once but less than 10) 2. Multiply this number by 2 (just to be bold) 3. Add 5 4. Multiply it by 50 -- I'll wait while you get the calculator 5. If you have already had your birthday this year add 1759 ... If you haven't, add 1758. 6. Now subtract the four digit year that you were born. You should have a three digit number The first digit of this was your original number (I.e., how many times you want to have chocolate each week). The next two numbers are YOUR AGE! (Oh YES, it is!!!!!) THIS IS THE ONLY YEAR (2009) IT WILL EVER WORK, SO SPREAD IT AROUND WHILE IT LASTS. Chocolate Calculator. now take a moment and visit the Jimbozone.com |
Friday, April 24, 2009
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Technology seen slashing battery recharge time, weight
March 11, 2009
World Science staff
Engineers say they’ve found a way to move energy faster through a well-known battery material, possibly paving the way for smaller, lighter batteries that recharge in seconds rather than hours. Engineers say they’ve found a way to move energy faster through a well-known battery material, possibly paving the way for smaller, lighter batteries that recharge in seconds rather than hours. The advance could also benefit car batteries, which usually take hours to charge, according to engineers. (Image courtesy GM)
The work, led by Gerbrand Ceder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is detailed in the March 12 issue of the research journal Nature. Because the material involved isn’t new—it’s just made in a new way—Ceder says the technology could reach the market within three years.
Modern lithium rechargeable batteries can pack plenty of charge into a small space, but are slow to take up and discharge that energy. This drawback means that, for example, an electric car battery can move the auto at a moderate highway speed for a long time, but acceleration is sluggish, Ceder noted.
Scientists traditionally thought such pokey performance was due to slow movement of the particles that carry electric charge across the battery—charged atoms and electrons. But through a series of computer calculations, Ceder and colleagues found that this wasn’t exactly the problem, at least not for a well-known battery material, lithium iron phosphate.
The real difficulty, the group found, is that the charged atoms can only cross through the material through tunnels accessed from the surface. If the particle lies directly at a tunnel entrance, it slips right in, but otherwise it gets stuck.
Ceder and Byoungwoo Kang, a graduate student, devised a solution: a new surface structure that lets the particles, called ions, move quickly around the outside of the material. Like a beltway around a city, this diverts ions right into the tunnels. The result was a small battery that could be fully charged or discharged in 10 to 20 seconds. By comparison, it takes six minutes to fully charge or discharge a cell phone made from the unprocessed material.
Ceder said further tests showed the new material degrades less than do other battery materials when repeatedly charged and recharged. This could allow smaller batteries, as less material is needed for the same result. The advance “may open up new technological applications and induce lifestyle changes,” Ceder and Kang wrote.
time and again...
Martha Mccalum on fox news asked Rep. Boner and then Areola Flesher why didn't all the Bumblicans get together and take all their little earmarks out of the Omnibus bill and make a statement to the publice and each time she got nothing but political babble...and come to think about it, what with all the attention John Mccainiac is trying to muster he is not screaming at the Bums as well...Michael Steele and Rush Limpbutt can argue about minutia and enui but I don't hear them chiding their contemporaries on the right side of the aisle for their Pork and Beans gluttony either...
If the Bums were genuinely outraged by the size of this bill they should unilaterally withdraw all their earmarks instead of leaving them in and then voting against the bill so that their CONstituencies think they are being fiscally responsible...all the while feeding at the traugh with the best of them...
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