Science seems to be solving all of humanities problems in the past 2-3 weeks
I really doubt it's limitless... that energy to feed the microbes has to come from somewhere.
[QUOTE=Icedshot;32393417]Science seems to be solving all of humanities problems in the past 2-3 weeks[/QUOTE]
And we probably won't hear from 80% of them again.
[QUOTE=Chickens!;32393495]And we probably won't hear from 80% of them again.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=TropicalV2;32323898]honestly I can't imagine why so many people agree with you. medical breakthroughs don't just happen in the scientific community and suddenly they are generally accepted treatments for all patients. medical treatments undergo decades of development before they're considered safe for everyone, the only difference now is that the media is able to report the small strives in development, which leads to people like you saying "OH WE'LL NEVER SEE THIS AGAIN"
the hpv vaccine was developed by researchers at georgetown in the 1980s, it was only approved by the fda in 2006
in 1922, insulin from animals was shown to help diabetes patients. thirty years later, researchers were able to create a synthetic insulin that matched human insulin. it took another thirty years of testing and research to finally make synthetic insulin available for the general populace.
in 1981, hiv/aids cases flared up in newyork and cali, and a lot of people died. it took researchers six years to develop the earliest treatment for hiv/aids, and all it did was delay the progression of the disease.
science takes time people, please try to understand that. just because you aren't able to stand in the laboratories and watch the development first hand doesn't mean all of the work is somehow going to be dissolved by some giant evil pharmaceutical corporation.[/QUOTE]
This is not a medical breakthrough. Expect to see more of this.
Useful or not, I'm going to invest a ton in hydrogen powered vehicles. They'll boom, you'll see. And when they do, 30-50 years from now, if the Facepunch server is still running I'm going to bump this to say 'called it'
Ah, who needs hydrogen.
[QUOTE=Ugleskjegg;32394894]Ah, who needs hydrogen.[/QUOTE]
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Haha, nice.
[QUOTE=Ugleskjegg;32394894]Ah, who needs hydrogen.[/QUOTE]
It can be used as a future environmentally-friendly fuel and if we could remove that from freshwater, it means we could separate it from the oxygen in the water, we could actually go to Mars, bring some plants and live there without any need of resources from earth.
No, but in all seriousness.
How efficient would this be? Would it actually be beneficial or would it be too gimmicky and slow and not be function-able on a large scale?
[quote]The MECs use something called "reverse electrodialysis" (RED), which refers to the energy gathered from the difference in salinity, or salt content, between saltwater and freshwater.[/quote]
So...are they turning the freshwater into saltwater? How do we turn the saltwater back into freshwater? Use the sun to distill it? Sounds familiar...
[quote]"This is the crucial element of the latest research," Prof Logan told BBC News, explaining the process of their system, known as a microbial reverse-electrodialysis [b]electrolysis[/b] cell (MREC).[/quote]
Ah, so this is just a way of getting hydrogen.
[url=http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2011/09/12/1106335108]Hydrogen production from inexhaustible supplies of fresh and salt water using microbial reverse-electrodialysis electrolysis cells[/url] Younggy Kim and Bruce E. Logan
[quote]These results show that pure H2 gas can efficiently be produced from virtually limitless supplies of seawater and [b]river water[/b], and biodegradable organic matter.[/quote]
Fuck you BBC.
[QUOTE=Ugleskjegg;32395262]No, but in all seriousness.
How efficient would this be? Would it actually be beneficial or would it be too gimmicky and slow and not be function-able on a large scale?[/QUOTE]
If you take a normal petrol car and put hydrogen in it, it can fly and it actually produces excess energy which cures cancer
Well near enough anyway, I think the problem now is cheaply getting it and transporting it, if (when) we can sort that out then huzzah a huge part of the energy/environmental crisis is solved
[quote]There are bacteria that occur naturally in the environment that are able to release electrons outside of the cell, so they can actually produce electricity as they are breaking down organic matter,[/quite]
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[QUOTE=MightyMax;32393491]I really doubt it's limitless... that energy to feed the microbes has to come from somewhere.[/QUOTE]
But you do realize microbes eat just about anything? You could probably throw a bowl of sugar in the tank and you would go for miles.
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