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athelind ([personal profile] athelind) wrote2004-12-02 08:58 am

That Ommmmminous Hummmmmmm....

MicroTurbine Produces 1.1 Watts on a Silicon Chip

Now, this is cool.

Of course, in addition to cell phones, PDAs, laptops, and such, increasing the energy density of a portable power supply by a factor of 10 might make man-portable energy weapons much more plausible...

[identity profile] athelind.livejournal.com 2004-12-02 09:26 am (UTC)(link)
That's okay, we can save it for our "High Action Space Opera That Conceals Harder SF Than Most 'Hard SF' Games".

[identity profile] rikoshi.livejournal.com 2004-12-02 09:35 am (UTC)(link)
Aw, pish-tosh. You just need to throw around phrases like "superstring theory" and "nine-dimensional" and "Van de Graaf adult toys" in order to earn your street cred.