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New multiferroic alloy Ni₄₅Co₅Mn₄₀Sn₁₀ goes from non-magnetic to strongly magnetic with only a small temperature rise, spontaneously producing electricity in a surrounding coil. Clean energy with no carbon emissions. Could be attached to your car exhaust, power station exhausts, etc.

Some of the heat energy is lost in a process called hysteresis, but the researchers found a way to limit that. Hysteresis just means that there’s a time lag between the material heating, turning magnetic, and inducing current in the surrounding coil so the conversion isn’t perfect. What the article doesn’t go into is whether the magnetic field is maintained with steady heat; if it isn’t, the metal would have to be cooled and heated repeatedly to keep inducing electricity in the coil…not very efficient.

More here.

New multiferroic alloy Ni₄₅Co₅Mn₄₀Sn₁₀ goes from non-magnetic to strongly magnetic with only a small temperature rise, spontaneously producing electricity in a surrounding coil. Clean energy with no carbon emissions. Could be attached to your car exhaust, power station exhausts, etc.

Some of the heat energy is lost in a process called hysteresis, but the researchers found a way to limit that. Hysteresis just means that there’s a time lag between the material heating, turning magnetic, and inducing current in the surrounding coil so the conversion isn’t perfect. What the article doesn’t go into is whether the magnetic field is maintained with steady heat; if it isn’t, the metal would have to be cooled and heated repeatedly to keep inducing electricity in the coil…not very efficient.

More here.

“Our psyches are programmed by millions of years of hunter-gatherer evolution. We know what the clan is; we know how to fit into the band and the tribe. What we don’t know is how to be alone. We don’t know how to be free individuals.” — Steven Pressfield

Thus making us introverts the next stage of evolution :P

“Our psyches are programmed by millions of years of hunter-gatherer evolution. We know what the clan is; we know how to fit into the band and the tribe. What we don’t know is how to be alone. We don’t know how to be free individuals.” — Steven Pressfield

Thus making us introverts the next stage of evolution :P

Godlike princess curbs childhood cheating – life – 19 April 2011 – New Scientist

“Religions can discourage believers from erring for fear that God is watching. Now it seems that children also avoid cheating if told they’re being watched – not by God, but by Princess Alice, an invisible person conjured up by researchers.”

“Social networking is not new.  Before Twitter, we had Facebook, and before that, News Corp’s MySpace, and before that, AOL, and before that, local bulletin boards like the Well, and before that, the local bar.  But what began as a demonstration of “meta-reality” or making a difference in each other’s lives even when we were not actually present, has become a blather-fest, everybody talking, nobody listening.”

http://blogs.forbes.com/rogerkay/2011/04/18/the-unbearable-triviality-of-social-networking/

45 seconds of slow-motion fuzzy goodness.

Madness? This. Is. Sunshine!

Game of Thrones TV series coming in April 2011. It’s looking great so far!