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MusicForFish

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Time Crystals. Thanks google.

Observation of Time-Crystalline Eigenstate Order on a Quantum Processor

Quantum many-body systems display rich phase structure in their low-temperature equilibrium states. However, much of nature is not in thermal equilibrium. Remarkably, it was recently predicted that out-of-equilibrium systems can exhibit novel dynamical phases that may otherwise be forbidden by...
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Big Phoenix

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Tuco said:
Imagine if instead of a solar array on their roofs they made a thermal solar plant using articulated mirrors spread all across vegas aimed at a central building in the strip
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Another tax payer funded "green energy" boondoggle. Wonder how many birds that thing roasts a year.

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High-Tech Solar Projects Fail to Deliver

The $2.2 billion Ivanpah solar-thermal power plant in California and other high-tech solar projects aren't living up to promises their backers made about how much electricity they could generate.
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jooka

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My motorcycle jacket and pants have D30 armor in them, pretty crazy stuff.
 
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Cybsled

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Innovative? That is literally the oldest means of generating power in existence lol
 
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Tuco

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I got Tuco'd!
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Why aren't water wheels widely used for electric power generation? Could they be used in waterfalls?

Answer (1 of 2): Two big reasons. The amount of electricity available from water is limited by the amount of water and the height the water falls. It's very difficult to extract energy from a massive amount of slow moving water, like the lower Mississippi (I would say the Amazon, but that moves ...
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if i lived on a river with decent flow year round it'd be tempting to get "something" to capture the energy even if it was just a novelty.
 
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Tholan

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What if - hear me out - we build up a huge wall that would retain water and when needed it could feed a generator to create electricity ? Dam, that would be nice.
 
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BrutulTM

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I wonder what would happen if you went in there and moved the all the boxes 6 inches in a random direction.
 
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jooka

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I wonder what would happen if you went in there and moved the all the boxes 6 inches in a random direction.
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the mythbusters guy has some pretty cool videos of him controlling his boston dynamics spot over different terrain and it adapting to it fairly well
 
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