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Spinach Power Adds Muscle to Batteries
NY Times ^
| November 11, 2004
| KATIE ZEZIMA
Posted on 11/12/2004 6:14:07 PM PST by neverdem
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posted on
11/12/2004 6:14:07 PM PST
by
neverdem
To: neverdem
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posted on
11/12/2004 6:15:14 PM PST
by
gitmo
(Thanks, Mel. I needed that.)
To: neverdem
Popeye was right all along.
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posted on
11/12/2004 6:15:31 PM PST
by
Fiddlstix
(This Tagline for sale. (Presented by TagLines R US))
To: neverdem
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posted on
11/12/2004 6:28:54 PM PST
by
xcamel
(W2: Four more years of Tax Cuts and Dead Terrorists)
To: neverdem
They can have my share of spinach for research purposes.
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posted on
11/12/2004 6:30:07 PM PST
by
flashbunny
(Every thought that enters my head requires its own vanity thread.)
To: neverdem; Constitution Day; Tijeras_Slim; annyokie
This is relevant somehow, I just know it.
To: fourdeuce82d; El Gato; JudyB1938; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Robert A. Cook, PE; lepton; LadyDoc; jb6; ...
FReepmail me if you want on or off my health and science ping list.
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posted on
11/12/2004 6:41:37 PM PST
by
neverdem
(Xin loi min oi)
To: martin_fierro; Tijeras_Slim; annyokie
Spinach? Ha.
Collards are where it's at.
To: neverdem
Scientists usually have to grow and fertilize their own fresh peas. Like the bumper sticker, eh?
"Visualize whirled..."--oh, never mind.
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posted on
11/12/2004 7:17:01 PM PST
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: neverdem
Hmmm... wonder if they considered kudzu?
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posted on
11/12/2004 7:30:02 PM PST
by
upchuck
(Pajamas? I don' need no steenking pajamas!!)
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To: upchuck
Hmmm... wonder if they considered kudzu? Too dangerous.
Sixty seconds on hold and the tendrils might have invaded your brain and nasal cavities...
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posted on
11/12/2004 7:43:32 PM PST
by
okie01
(The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
To: neverdem
I think I read this some where else before. It works but I think its crazy.
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posted on
11/12/2004 8:10:51 PM PST
by
Wiz
To: Wiz; neverdem
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posted on
11/12/2004 8:47:41 PM PST
by
endthematrix
(CRUSH ISLAMOFACISM!)
To: Battle Axe
"...chlorophyll converts the light to energy that moves an electron on adenosine mono-phosphate so that it takes on another phosphate making it adenosine di-phosphate, then on to the tri-phosphate stage. (AMP to ADP to ATP)..."
I love it when you talk dirty...
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posted on
11/12/2004 8:58:25 PM PST
by
moonhawk
(Al Quaqa hits fan, Kerry splattered.)
To: Battle Axe
So, this is a material that produces electricity when light shines on it. A solar cell does the exact same thing only this uses a chemical reaction instead of the "photoelectric effect" which is a product of quantum mechanics.
How do these two things compare in efficiency now and what are the theoretical and practical limits to this new "spinach engine"?
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posted on
11/12/2004 9:05:14 PM PST
by
spinestein
(Do not remove this tagline under penalty of law.)
To: neverdem
I love spinach!
So let's not deplete the supply and stick with the Potato Battery.
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posted on
11/12/2004 9:12:35 PM PST
by
Syncro
To: martin_fierro
On my first casual glance at the image you posted, I thought John Kerry had come up with a new costume.
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posted on
11/13/2004 5:01:26 AM PST
by
capt. norm
(Rap is to music what the Etch-A-Sketch is to art.)
To: spinestein
How do these two things compare in efficiency now and what are the theoretical and practical limits to this new "spinach engine"? As I recall photocells theoretical limits are somewhere around 10-12%. Clorophyll limits are over 99% - in the proper bandwidths.
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posted on
11/13/2004 5:15:25 AM PST
by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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