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Here the generator, in the centre of the chip, powers an accelerometer A tiny generator powered by natural vibrations could soon be helping keep heart pacemakers working.Created by scientists at the University of Southampton, the generator has been developed to power devices where replacing batteries is very difficult. The device is expected initially to be used to power wireless sensors on equipment in manufacturing plants. The generator's creators say the generator is up to 10 times more efficient than similar devices. Power packed The tiny device, which is less than one cubic centimetre in size, uses vibrations in the...

Units served as reserve power EPHRATA -- The Grant County Public Utility District commission authorized the sale of 20 diesel generators purchased in the spring of 2001 to help with anticipated power shortages in the Northwest and low-water conditions on the Columbia River. The vote Tuesday to surplus the diesel generators was split 3-2, with Commissioners Vera Claussen and Tom Flint opposed. Commissioners Bill Bjork, Greg Hansen and Randy Allred were in favor. The district's management staff is now authorized to contact interested purchasers. Already some potential buyers, including buyer representatives interested in reselling the generators, contacted the district about...

After a few days without power because of a tornado, I am planning to by a LP home standby electric generator in the 10-15 kW range. My research points me towards one big-name source, but they don't even give a price range on their systems. Anybody have any advice on shopping for such a system, good dealers, etc.?

Generators fabricated from wires only nanometers or billionths of a meter wide can convert vibrations to electricity, experts told UPI's Nano World. These nanogenerators could help power nanoscale devices without the need for unwieldy batteries, finding use in everything from portable electronics and wireless nanosensors to medical implants, said researcher Zhong Lin Wang, a nanotechnologist at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. "There is a lot of mechanical energy available in our environment," Wang said. The generators could, for instance, harvest energy from body motions, muscle stretching and blood pressure or from sea, wind or acoustic waves or...

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CAPE CANAVERAL - A balky Russian oxygen generator broke down on the International Space Station, but its two-man crew has a reserve air supply that would last about five months, NASA officials said Friday. The station's primary generator, which has been operating in an on-again, off-again fashion for months, stopped working last week and the station's crew has not been able to fix it. Mission managers say the unit has failed for good. Consequently, Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev and U.S. astronaut John Phillips will be relying on reserves until replacement parts arrive at the station in late August. Kylie Clem,...

SCIgen - An Automatic CS Paper Generator About Generate Update Examples Code Donations Related People About SCIgen is a program that generates random Computer Science research papers, including graphs, figures, and citations. It uses a hand-written context-free grammar to form all elements of the papers. Our aim here is to maximize amusement, rather than coherence. One useful purpose for such a program is to auto-generate submissions to conferences that you suspect might have very low submission standards. A prime example, which you may recognize from spam in your inbox, is SCI/IIIS and its dozens of co-located conferences (check out the...

Can This Black Box See Into the Future? - DEEP in the basement of a dusty university library in Edinburgh lies a small black box, roughly the size of two cigarette packets side by side, that churns out random numbers in an endless stream. At first glance it is an unremarkable piece of equipment. Encased in metal, it contains at its heart a microchip no more complex than the ones found in modern pocket calculators. But, according to a growing band of top scientists, this box has quite extraordinary powers. It is, they claim, the 'eye' of a machine that...

French connection armed Saddam By Bill Gertz THE WASHINGTON TIMES The United States stood by for years as supposed allies helped its enemies obtain the world's most dangerous weapons, reveals Bill Gertz, defense and national security reporter for The Washington Times, in the new book "Treachery" (Crown Forum). In this excerpt, he details France's persistence in arming Saddam Hussein. First of three excerpts New intelligence revealing how long France continued to supply and arm Saddam Hussein's regime infuriated U.S. officials as the nation prepared for military action against Iraq. The intelligence reports showing French assistance to Saddam ongoing in the...

George W. Bush Games Guide picks Bush vs. Kerry Joust Who will win the White House joust? Pick a candidate as Bush and Kerry square off in this amusing game presented by Kewlbox.com. Requires Shockwave to play. Bush Shoot-Out A fun White House shoot-out game starring George Bush and Condoleezza Rice from MiniClip.com. Dancing Bush President Bush struts his stuff on the dance floor as he gets down and boogies. Bush Aerobics Control Dubya's exercise moves as he works his buns and abs to the beat. Bush Background Generator Create your own "message of the day" backdrop for President Bush....

A super-powered neutrino generator could in theory be used to instantly destroy nuclear weapons anywhere on the planet, according to a team of Japanese scientists. If it was ever built, a state could use the device to obliterate the nuclear arsenal of its enemy by firing a beam of neutrinos straight through the Earth. But the generator would need to be more than a hundred times more powerful than any existing particle accelerator and over 1000 kilometres wide. "It is really quite futuristic," Alfons Weber, a neutrino scientist at Oxford University, UK, told New Scientist. "But the maths and physics...

This is another neat toy. Create imaginary landscapes with this program. Below are a few I made in just a few minutes with Tarragen and PhotoShop Elements Sunset In Tiu Vallis, Mars Mars Another Addy for a guy who does neat Mars pics.. http://home-1.worldonline.nl/~veenen/terragen/mars/mars.html Just cut and paste the addy.