more EE Times nonsense
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From: dagmargoodboat on 13 Apr 2010 12:00 On Apr 13, 2:31 am, Martin Brown <|||newspam...(a)nezumi.demon.co.uk> wrote: > John Larkin wrote: > > >http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=DFFJE.... > > > MIT does one of these silly press-release scientific breakthroughs > > about once a week, and EE Times prints them all. They are turning > > themselves into Popular Mechanics. R. Colin Johnson. Neural networks, cold fusion, etc. He's been an EET fixture since forever. > In this instance you are being unfair to them. What they have achieved > in the lab is clever and a very significant step forward in the art. > Even their rivals admit that. But it is still a long way to go before we > will see any products that can use synthetic photosynthesis long term. > > It is EE Times that has bastardised the original article. > > http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/belcher-water-0412.html Hey, just what we needed--a virus to get loose and bust all Earth's water to oxygen and hydrogen. :-)
From: Bill Sloman on 13 Apr 2010 12:14 On Apr 13, 6:00 pm, dagmargoodb...(a)yahoo.com wrote: > On Apr 13, 2:31 am, Martin Brown <|||newspam...(a)nezumi.demon.co.uk> > wrote: > > > John Larkin wrote: > > > >http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=DFFJE... > > > > MIT does one of these silly press-release scientific breakthroughs > > > about once a week, and EE Times prints them all. They are turning > > > themselves into Popular Mechanics. > > R. Colin Johnson. Neural networks, cold fusion, etc. He's been an > EET fixture since forever. > > > In this instance you are being unfair to them. What they have achieved > > in the lab is clever and a very significant step forward in the art. > > Even their rivals admit that. But it is still a long way to go before we > > will see any products that can use synthetic photosynthesis long term. > > > It is EE Times that has bastardised the original article. > > >http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/belcher-water-0412.html > > Hey, just what we needed--a virus to get loose and bust all Earth's > water to oxygen and hydrogen. Do read the article. The virus just provides the scaffold for the active nanoscale components, and MIT was merely boasting about having developed the bit that would split off oxygen; the part that would split off hydrogen is still under development. -- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen
From: John Larkin on 13 Apr 2010 12:18 On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 09:14:50 -0700 (PDT), Bill Sloman <bill.sloman(a)ieee.org> wrote: >On Apr 13, 6:00�pm, dagmargoodb...(a)yahoo.com wrote: >> On Apr 13, 2:31�am, Martin Brown <|||newspam...(a)nezumi.demon.co.uk> >> wrote: >> >> > John Larkin wrote: >> >> > >http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=DFFJE... >> >> > > MIT does one of these silly press-release scientific breakthroughs >> > > about once a week, and EE Times prints them all. They are turning >> > > themselves into Popular Mechanics. >> >> R. Colin Johnson. �Neural networks, cold fusion, etc. �He's been an >> EET fixture since forever. >> >> > In this instance you are being unfair to them. What they have achieved >> > in the lab is clever and a very significant step forward in the art. >> > Even their rivals admit that. But it is still a long way to go before we >> > will see any products that can use synthetic photosynthesis long term. >> >> > It is EE Times that has bastardised the original article. >> >> >http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/belcher-water-0412.html >> >> Hey, just what we needed--a virus to get loose and bust all Earth's >> water to oxygen and hydrogen. > >Do read the article. The virus just provides the scaffold for the >active nanoscale components, and MIT was merely boasting about having >developed the bit that would split off oxygen; the part that would >split off hydrogen is still under development. So what's it doing in EE Times? There's nothing going on in real electronics that's worth space? John
From: dagmargoodboat on 13 Apr 2010 12:39 On Apr 13, 11:14 am, Bill Sloman <bill.slo...(a)ieee.org> wrote: > On Apr 13, 6:00 pm, dagmargoodb...(a)yahoo.com wrote: > > On Apr 13, 2:31 am, Martin Brown <|||newspam...(a)nezumi.demon.co.uk> > > wrote: > > > It is EE Times that has bastardised the original article. > > > >http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/belcher-water-0412.html > > > Hey, just what we needed--a virus to get loose and bust all Earth's > > water to oxygen and hydrogen. > > Do read the article. The virus just provides the scaffold for the > active nanoscale components, and MIT was merely boasting about having > developed the bit that would split off oxygen; the part that would > split off hydrogen is still under development. Humor. It's a higher function. -- Cheers, James Arthur "The world is a comedy to those that think; a tragedy to those that feel." --Horace Walpole, (1717-1797)
From: Joel Koltner on 13 Apr 2010 12:54
<miso(a)sushi.com> wrote in message news:8f6998df-871b-4380-9942-c86917b3d2a7(a)h27g2000yqm.googlegroups.com... >I guess it takes a MIT degree to figure out you can make wifi antennas >out of household items. It's now been about a generation or two since people would replace broken TV antennas with coat hangers? It does seem odd to me that they could come up with WiFi access points/routers/cards/etc. but not antennas anyway -- it's a very unusual piece of kit that doesn't come with the antennas, after all. For narrow beam antennas, I suppose cantennas and chicken wire-horns do work OK if you get the dimensions right, and they probably do have plenty of time on their hands over there? (But then you still need some good low-loss coax like LMR400 if you're going to separate the antenna and the access point by very much and decent connectors and...) |