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05 Oct 2010 11:16

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Tech: Today’s Nobel Prize winners flex their graphene muscles

  • I hope that graphene and other two-dimensional crystals will change everyday life as plastics did for humanity.
  • University of Manchester, England professor Andre Geim • On winning the Nobel Prize for Physics along with his partner in really-thin-material crime, Konstantin Novoselov. The two of them have done a bunch of research into graphene, a carbon-based material that is really, really, thin. Among other benefits? It’s super-flexible and ultra-strong. Steve Jobs is going to figure out a way to make an iPad out of this. Just you wait. source
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30 May 2010 14:16

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Tech: Guy gets bored, builds his own tablet computer out of carbon

It runs Windows 7, and while it doesn’t have the touch-responsiveness of the iPad, the guy claims it’s good enough for him. Nerd. source
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15 Apr 2009 22:34

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Tech: Spam spam spam spam is killing our ecosystem spam spam

  • 62 trillion e-mails have been sent by spammers, at 0.3 grams of CO2 a piece; spam spam spam spam spam spam spam
  • 17 million metric tons of carbon waste are created by spam – carbon which could give electricity to 2.4 million homes source
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10 Mar 2009 21:06

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U.S., World: UN climate rep: Obama could face “revolution” over carbon cuts

  • He is not going to say by 2020 I’m going to reduce emissions by 30%. He’ll have a revolution on his hands. He has to do it step by step.
  • Rajendra Pachauri • Head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), on the domestic pressures Barack Obama faces on climate cuts. Obama has called for 80% carbon cuts by 2050, but 2020 might be too soon for pushing through such a policy. • source
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15 Feb 2009 13:33

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Tech, World: And here’s a scary quote about global warming

  • We are basically looking now at a future climate that’s beyond anything we’ve considered seriously in climate model simulations.
  • Christopher Field • founding director of the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology at Stanford University, on the possibility that there might be some truth to this whole global warming thing • source
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15 Feb 2009 13:28

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Tech, World: Permafrost: A dangerous greenhouse gas source

  • one trillion tons of carbon is stored in permafrost, much of which is thawing right now, scientists say
  • 10% will melt this century, releasing tons of carbon and even-more-potent methane into the atmosphere source
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