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Nanotube-Coated Pot Boils Water FAST

It's about to get that much easier to create a tempest in a teapot. Conventional wisdom holds that a watched pot never boils and while "never" might be an exaggeration, most of us can agree that it takes longer than we'd like. However, researchers at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have discovered that by coating the inside of a pot with a microscopic layer of copper nanotubes%u2014which under appropriate magnification make the surface of the cooking vessel look hairy%u2014they can increase the efficiency of energy transfer from the pot to the water it holds by an order of magnitude. In our imperfect world, where the burners of a range give off a huge proportion of their energy directly to the sorrounding air rather than to the cooking vessel they're supposed to be heating, the microscopically hirsute pots save cooking time, costs, a

Nanotube-Coated Pot Boils Water FAST

It's about to get that much easier to create a tempest in a teapot. Conventional wisdom holds that a watched pot never boils and while "never" might be an exaggeration, most of us can agree that it takes longer than we'd like. However, researchers at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have discovered that by coating the inside of a pot with a microscopic layer of copper nanotubes—which under appropriate magnification make the surface of the cooking vessel look hairy—they can increase the efficiency of energy transfer from the pot to the water it holds by an order of magnitude.

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Pottygirl escapehash 8217 s Weblog Water conservation on my mind in Georgia escapehash 8230 Do you like Coffee The Story of Stuff Why pottygirl Posted by pottygirl August 12 2008 Think outside the bottle Join me and break the bottled water habit Getting rid of bottled water is a win win You save money and water and help lessen the amount of plastic in landfills You can now even win a trip to Glacier National Park Please learn more about the campain here http water newdr eam org campaigns water register 78023085e295e74b21a82b2bb7894a34 Break the Bottled Water Habit Win a Prize and Cut Your Carbon When you want pure healthy drinking water you should reach for bottled water right Surprisingly on neither a personal nor a global level are you making a healthy choice For each gallon of water bottled two gallons are wasted producing the plastic

ScienceDirect Expands Search Capabilities With FAST ESP„

Oslo, Norway and Amsterdam, the Netherlands - 16 January 2007 - Fast Search & Transferâ„¢ (OSEAX: FAST.OL) (FASTâ„¢), the leading developer of search technologies, and ScienceDirect, Elsevier's premier full-text research resource, today announced that ScienceDirect has deployed the FAST Enterprise Search Platform (FAST ESPâ„¢). With FAST ESP, ScienceDirect provides a more powerful search experience enabling users to access over eight million full-text scientific, technical and medical articles. FAST ESP was recently voted 'Top Search and Retrieval Technology' in Information Today's People's Choice Awards and is a finalist for the 2007 SIIA CODiE Awards.

Assignment 32 - Water

Summer may be almost over officially but its still hot! To help us cool off, September's fun photography assignment will be water. Still water, moving water, muddy water. Whatever water you chose to photograph, make the water the subject. Of course you can have other items in the image, but water should be the main focus.

"We Have Water" on Mars, TEGA Test Confirms

The Phoenix Mars lander finally was successful in delivering a fairly fresh sample of Martian soil to the Thermal and Evolved Gas Analyzer (TEGA) oven on Wednesday and a "bake and sniff" test identified water in the soil sample. "We have water," said William Boynton of the University of Arizona, lead scientist for TEGA. "We've seen evidence for this water ice before in observations by the Mars Odyssey orbiter and in disappearing chunks observed by Phoenix last month, but this is the first time Martian water has been touched and tasted."

Moon May Have Once Had Water

Smivs writes "US scientists have found evidence that water was held in the Moon's interior, challenging some elements of the theory of how Earth's satellite formed.The Moon is thought to have been created in a violent collision between Earth and another planet-sized object. Scientists thought the heat from this impact had vaporised all the water. But a new study in Nature magazine shows water was delivered to the lunar surface from the interior in volcanic eruptions three billion years ago. This suggests that water has been a part of the Moon since its early existence."

Water, Water Everywhere on Mars

MarswaterThe red planet was once awash in water, say scientists -- not boiling water, but benign seas that may have been suitable for life.

"Water Mafias" Put Stranglehold on Public Water Supply

Worldwide corruption driven by mafia-like organizations throughout water industries is forcing the poor to pay more for basic drinking water and sanitation services, according to a new report.

Water for Poor

As water resources continue to be depleted, access to clean water and sanitation in developing countries remains a high priority. Scientists and nanotechnologists are rising to the challenge of making water remediation more efficient and cost effective. But is science enough? Will the poor receive the benefit of the technologies that have the capabilities of changing their world?

Hot Water, Hot Earth

Calopteryx notes a New Scientist article on the discovery of "supercritical" water emerging from a vent in the Atlantic Ocean at 407 deg. C (765 deg. F). One of its discoverers actually said, "It's water, but not as we know it"; it's the hottest water ever found on earth. The cause seems to be a huge bubble of magma beneath the ocean floor, 3 km below the sea surface. Meanwhile Nymz shares a journal entry on a hot spot on land: a 2-acre patch in Ventura county, in California, that has heated up to 433 deg. C (812 deg. F). Here geologists blame buried hydrocarbons burning as they get access to air through cracks in the ground. That high temperature was measured a foot below the ground surface.

South East Water Chooses Eptica To Manage Online Customer Service

United Kingdom - August 19, 2008 - South East Water has successfully completed the first phase of an online customer service programme with Eptica. The Eptica Email Management(R) implementation will ensure that the five-fold increase in in-bound customer email enquiries is efficiently managed and routed to appropriate agents. Eptica will give South East Water complete visibility to agent activity and provide customers with improved levels of service by means of speedier and more proficient responses. Investing in Eptica has already enabled South East water to meet industry standard response times* and increased agent productivity levels by 9.7%.

Nanofilter Cleans Water in Disaster Zones

A nanomaterial coating on silica particles could offer the solution to one of the world's oldest and most destructive health challenges: how to remove bacteria and other pollutants from drinking water. In disasters like the Burmese cyclone, many of the deaths come from the destruction of water supplies. Flying in a few tonnes of food may keep thousands alive temporarily, but many times as much clean water is still usually inadequate.

Space-tech solutions for water and sustainability

Tomorrow INASMET-Tecnalia and ESA is holding a workshop on space innovation for water management at an event billed as the “biggest water festival on Earth�. Expo Zaragoza 2008, the international expo on water and sustainable development, is taking place in Spain from 14 June to 14 September.

Diamant Art Corporation Continues to Research the Development of Compostable and Bottled Water Bio Alternatives to Its

TORONTO, Aug 22 (MARKET WIRE) -- Diamant Corporation (OTCBB: DIAAF) is pleased to announce that governmental legislation, regarding the banning of plastic Water bottles, is being considered by Mayor David Miller of Toronto; the Toronto council may as early as this fall decide on banning bottled water. Toronto's waste reduction manager has indicated that 100,000,000 bottles are consumed in Toronto annually and only 65 % are recycled. Diamant, situated near Toronto, has planned prior to this news to meet with a major manufacture of bottle water in the Greater Toronto area next week to introduce its revolutionary PET degradable additive. The banning of plastic bags, may be passed in Red Bank Borough, New Jersey, following recent landmark metropolises such as Los Angeles.

Carbon Nanotube-Coated Electrodes Improve Brain Readouts

A scanning electron microscope image of a metal electrode (dark region in center of image) coated with carbon nanotubes.

New Nano Technique Significantly Boosts Boiling Efficiency

Whoever penned the old adage "a watched pot never boils" surely never tried to heat up water in a pot lined with copper nanorods.

Quantum Effects Make H2O Weird

Bond lengths are different in heavy, light water molecules Heavy water is not just heavier. Swapping each H in H2O with a D- hydrogen's isotope deuterium - changes water's properties. The deuterium version is mildly poisonous, and its freezing point is 4[degrees] Celsius, instead of 0[degrees]C Such differences reveal that quantum effects, which aren't usually manifest to the naked eye, rule in ordinary water, researchers suggest.

Google Caught On Private Property

nathan halverson writes "Google recently launched Street View coverage in Sonoma and Mendocino counties — big pot growing counties. And while they hardly covered the area's biggest city, Santa Rosa, they canvassed many of the rural areas known for growing pot. I found at least one instance where they drove well onto private property, past a gate and no trespassing sign, and took photographs. I didn't spend a whole lot of time looking, but someone is likely to find some pot plants captured on Street View. That could cause big problems for residents. Because while growing a substantial amount of pot is legal in Mendocino and Sonoma County under state law, it's highly illegal under federal law and would be grounds for a federal raid."

South East Water implements online customer service programme with Eptica

South East Water, a supplier of drinking water in the South East of England, has completed the first phase of an online customer service programme with Eptica, a European provider of multi-channel customer interaction software.

Contemporary water and light sculptures from The Lump Studio

The Lump Studio , also known as the "Lump Sculpture Studio," specialises in contemporary water and light sculptures. The Lump Studio offers water features, light features, screens and hand crafted sculptures. There are individual sculptures also provided by The Lump Studio.

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