Re: [silk] low cost freshwater

2013-03-26 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 11:00:15PM +, Alaric Snell-Pym wrote: Flexible super-capacitor power storage as a layer inside electronic paper, with a processor and memory tucked along the edge somewhere, would be nice... You'd print the display and the (organic) logic along with the battery and

Re: [silk] low cost freshwater

2013-03-25 Thread Udhay Shankar N
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18-Mar-13 7:37 PM, Alaric Snell-Pym wrote: Being a nerd, I've been watching the graphene story unfold with some interest! ...particularly the cheap supercapacitor side of things. Power supply is a large limiting factor in many of my

Re: [silk] low cost freshwater

2013-03-25 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
On 25/03/13 11:52, Udhay Shankar N wrote: Very interesting. It turns out that the current state of the art in this has the supercapacitors being produced using *standard DVD drives*!! Yep :-) As I understand it, it's just a matter of productization and engineering to turn this scientific

Re: [silk] low cost freshwater

2013-03-18 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/16/2013 12:27 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: More fun and games with graphene. If true, this is world-changing. Being a nerd, I've been watching the graphene story unfold with some interest! ...particularly the cheap supercapacitor side of

[silk] low cost freshwater

2013-03-16 Thread Udhay Shankar N
More fun and games with graphene. If true, this is world-changing. Udhay http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/13/usa-desalination-idUSL1N0C0DG520130313 Pentagon weapons-maker finds method for cheap, clean water Wed Mar 13, 2013 6:59am EDT * Filter could sharply cut energy needed to remove