What is the most environmentally friendly way to boil water for, e.g., tea?
[more inside]
posted by acm
on Jun 6, 2012 -
23 answers
Was reading about microchips that are designed to allow a few mistakes (known as '
Sloppy Chips'), and pondering equivalent kinds of 'coding' errors and entropy in biological systems. Can a fair comparison be made between the two?
[more inside]
posted by 0bvious
on Jun 5, 2012 -
4 answers
If some future civilization decided that they should tap solar energy at the source for industrial purposes, how close to the Sun could they site their energy collection facilities without having them burst into flames/die from radiation degradation, and how much energy could they harvest? Just to keep things simple, say they use photovoltaics or some other technology we have access to.
[more inside]
posted by AdamCSnider
on Sep 4, 2011 -
8 answers
Does a bomb calorimeter give a value of heat energy per gram of material or electricity?
[more inside]
posted by sockpim
on May 3, 2011 -
13 answers
Will the amount of sulphur in waste meat greatly affect the amount of energy produced from combusting waste meat?
[more inside]
posted by sockpim
on Mar 15, 2011 -
2 answers
So, I've hit-it-off with someone and things seem to heading in a certain direction... there's only one catch: she's a big hippy (not-sizeist) and I'm not.
[more inside]
posted by anonymous
on Apr 29, 2009 -
39 answers
