Posted on 03/27/2009 9:22:22 AM PDT by WesternCulture
Flexible display screens and cheap solar cells can become a reality through research and development in organic electronics. Physicists at Umeå University in northern Sweden have developed a simple method for producing cheap electronic components, writes Cellular-News.
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/36680.php
From: pubs.acs.org (/American Chemical Society):
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1021/ja807964x
- Sounds nice.
Up to this very date, the only thing I (being a person with, at least, basic insight into what's going on at Swedish universities) had heard from Umeå University was horror stories of Consciousness Raising Gender Theory and Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies of Feminist Machiavellism.
As a Swede and as a friend of true academic and scientific research I wish Umeå University good luck in the future.
Flexible electronics is the future. Use of organic materials perhaps not.
I have thousands of organic solar cells in my yard. They’re busy converting CO2, H2O, and minerals into biomass and oxygen. In the process, they’re removing CO2 from the atmosphere.
otherwise known as grass.
“Flexible electronics is the future. Use of organic materials perhaps not.”
- I know too little to disagree, but according to your theories, what basic characteristics do organic compounds possess that make you a disbeliever of their potential in this field?
Cheap solar cells are only 5 years away....
“Product Expiration: 6 Months”
- Far more impressive than some cheap Chinese and Korean made junk I’ve purchased recently (- however, I’d never buy anything costly like a car manufactured in such a country).
Perhaps Japan, USA and Europe ought to bring home more of production to the “Motherland”?
That has been true for 30 years...and unlikely to change in the future.
As a Swede...
Ah, that explains why you were always scooping me on posting those stories from The Local...
The first Swede I ever met spoke English like a California surfer dude. He had learned to speak that way in Sweden, he said. Weird.
Silcon and nanomaterials are rapidly gaining ground on organics.
Not true. The efficiencies have improved greatly and the economic conditions have driven prices way down.
But, it is a solution that works best in certain instances, not in others.
- A lot of Swedes and other Scandinavians of today (especially those who are between, say, 15 and 35) have first encountered English as very young TV viewers.
While all sorts of English is represented on our TV channels, Southern Californian English is more common than different sorts of British English or NYC dialect(s) etc.
I suspect a Hollywood influence here. Apart from the fact that most people on Earth get in touch with films, TV programs and music produced in this part of USA (in which Southern Californian dialect(s) appear a lot) already at a very early stage of life, Southern California also sets the norm for what is exciting, desirable, even right and wrong in life (sorry for sounding like a third rate Liberal media theorist).
Another aspect that might be of importance is that even if Swedes don't feel more attracted to Southern California in general than they do to Chicago, Scotland, Texas, New Orleans, Florida, Seattle, Australia or whatever, they might somehow experience Southern Californian English as the most typical and distinguished “American” version of spoken English. In our ears, the Beach Boys sound even more American than Elvis in one way.
While the idiom of Gordon Ramsey and other TV stars from Cool Britannia might sound hip to many Scandinavians and while most of us understand that the English our teachers struggled to pass on to us was BBC English, I'd say many Scandinavians of today experience American English as “the norm”. Therefore, perhaps people from my country who really wish to speak proper English try and speak what they conceive of as the most typical kind of American English; Southern Californian dialect.
Or perhaps there's some mysterious phonetic similarity between Swedish and Californian English that I've somehow failed to detect;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_English#Phonology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_phonology
Best of regards from Gothenburg, Sweden!
Thanks for a very interesting response to my post to you, WC!
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