Use Your Home Computer to Find a Better Semiconductor and Save the Planet - Polidicks

[QUOTE]If you want to be a part of discovering the future of solar power, you can be. You don't need any special knowledge or equipment, just let Alán Aspuru-Guzik borrow your computer when you're not using it. Aspuru-Guzik and the rest of the Clean Energy Project are using distributed computing to search for an organic molecule that will make a more efficient solar cell. More efficient than silicon solar cells, anyway, which are ten times more expensive than other energy sources. Distributed computing uses multiple PCs around the web and harnesses them to get the equivalent processing power of a supercomputer. Many other projects are using this method to work on cures for Alzheimer's, cancer and other diseases, to detect earthquakes early, and to search for extraterrestrial life. The Clean Energy Project has been searching for more than two years, inspecting more than two million molecules to find the one that will put solar power on level ground with other energy sources. Recently, they found a molecule that is one of the best organic semiconductors discovered to date. Synthetic chemist Zhenan Bao made and tested the chemical, finding it to work between three and four times better than the team predicted. By 2012, the project is expected to have examined 3.5 million molecules. If you want to contribute to the effort, download the Clean Energy Project's screensaver, which will allow the project to borrow your computer power whenever you're idle.[/QUOTE] Source: [url]http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-09/distributed-computing-project-crowdsources-solar-cell-research[/url]

Another @home project? :yay:

Well I'm too busy playing [video game], so I don't have the time. /badjoke

I'll never give this asshole anything so he can successfully achieve the illusion of wealth by selling out his discoveries. Just give the man access to all your shit, he knows what to do with it.

[QUOTE=Otsegolation;32281469]I'll never give this asshole anything so he can successfully achieve the illusion of wealth by selling out his discoveries. Just give the man access to all your shit, he knows what to do with it.[/QUOTE] what are you talking about

Using computers to discover better ways of building computers. Dear god...

[QUOTE=Otsegolation;32281469]I'll never give this asshole anything so he can successfully achieve the illusion of wealth by selling out his discoveries. Just give the man access to all your shit, he knows what to do with it.[/QUOTE] Please read the thread then fall on your face and die. :smile:

I already signed up for this the second I saw it on PopSci. Working on saving the water through better water filters as we speak 8) It's cool though because you get to watch the data parse.

[QUOTE=ewitwins;32282620]I already signed up for this the second I saw it on PopSci. Working on saving the water through better water filters as we speak 8) It's cool though because you get to watch the data parse.[/QUOTE] Speaking of water, I wish we had something to use all this leftover seawater salt for, from desalination. Seems like a bit of the shame just dumping it back into the ocean like most of the plants do.

So, it's just basically a screensaver that..... Helps research?

It's an application that runs in your CPU's downtime that basically does a bunch of calculations and tests different molecules then uploads that information to the cloud. The basic idea is that instead of having one computer run through each calculation and test on it's own you have millions of computers running the calculations and tests, simultaneously. AFAIKA [editline]14th September 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Otsegolation;32281469]I'll never give this asshole anything so he can successfully achieve the illusion of wealth by selling out his discoveries. Just give the man access to all your shit, he knows what to do with it.[/QUOTE] What on earth are you on about.

[QUOTE=DireAvenger;32282589]Please read the thread then fall on your face and die. :smile:[/QUOTE] Ignore him, he's one of facepunch's resident loonies. He believes all those silly conspiracy theories, like 9/11 was an inside job, illuminati conspiracy, all that silly stuff. I'm sure he thinks this is a way the illuminati to track us and steal our data so they can make a super computer to kill everyone.

I'd do it for the finding a better semi-conductor part.

Do they have the one for MAC OSX or Linux?

[QUOTE=Lazor;32281478]what are you talking about[/QUOTE] Conspiracy nut. He gets a free pass to post incoherent bullshit every so often then backpedal hardcore for our entertainment.

[QUOTE=Otsegolation;32281469]I'll never give this asshole anything so he can successfully achieve the illusion of wealth by selling out his discoveries. Just give the man access to all your shit, he knows what to do with it.[/QUOTE] Damn right, why would I let this lizardman access my personal files so he can send them back to his homeworld

[QUOTE=Zeke129;32288264]Damn right, why would I let this lizardman access my personal files so he can send them back to his homeworld[/QUOTE] We have stop him from stealing our energy.