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Somebody was trying to sell this as a new energy source. Of course, the energy consumed by the radio (or microwave) is much more than the energy produced by the burning.
Thermodynamics is a harsh mistress.
I get cranky when someone claiming to be a scientist says that the water was burning. No, it wasn't. You electrolyzed it into hydrogen and oxygen, and then you're burning the hydrogen (which converts it back into water). I can do the same thing with a couple of carbon electrodes wired to a D battery. I also have to wonder how come I've never found the hydrogen charred remains of a tea bag tag after nuking a cup of tea in the microwave.
Yeah, I wasn't saying holy crap on the water burning, but the radio frequencies making it release Hydrogen to burn. If it can be fine tuned with research, it's a whole different avenue than electrodes.
It suggests a possible new path to hydrogen production, and that's a good thing.
Yeah, I wasn't saying holy crap on the water burning, but the radio frequencies making it release Hydrogen to burn. If it can be fine tuned with research, it's a whole different avenue than electrodes.
True, but I really want to see someone else repeat the work in another lab before I get my hopes up. Cold fusion, anyone?
I can see where salt water might act as an antenna for radio waves. It's certainly conductive enough.
Gloomcookie, perhaps this might have the solution to your iPod cover art problem: [link]
It's about Coverflow, but has instructions on getting cover art onto an iPod. I haven't looked at it in detail so I don't know what they're doing differently....
Odd question - for dial-up, obviously you have to have a phone line, but does it need to be active, i.e., have a dial tone?
for dial-up, obviously you have to have a phone line, but does it need to be active, i.e., have a dial tone?
If you need to dial, you'll need dial tone.
Odd question - for dial-up, obviously you have to have a phone line, but does it need to be active, i.e., have a dial tone?
A modem will listen for a dialtone before it attempts to dial out.
Well, that's nice. I'm fucked then. Comcast doesn't recognize my address and AT&T says it has "no slots available" in my area. I can pick up weak signals from someone's unprotected network and I guess that's it for at home internet for me. Lovely.
AT&T says it has "no slots available" in my area.
WTF? For regular phone service, or for DSL?
I was only looking for DSL, but when I pressed them on that they said either. WTF is right.
