That Ommmmminous Hummmmmmm....

[athelind]

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...

Comments

[pyat.livejournal.com]

I wish this had come out before I wrote Albedo...

[athelind.livejournal.com]

That's okay, we can save it for our "High Action Space Opera That Conceals Harder SF Than Most 'Hard SF' Games".

[rikoshi.livejournal.com]

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.