"Cold Fusion" Dream

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In 1989 Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann claimed they could change the world. They made a new power source call "Cold Fusion", if it was true. Though it still remains a theory it may still be possible. Cold Fusion said to be a cleaner power source. Cold Fusion is better defined as a low energy nuclear reaction or LENR. If the theory is true the price for cold fusion is 25% less than coal a year. Though it may still take years for this possibility to become true. I believe this is a great possibility to save money and a cleaner power.

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1. Why did you select the sites you subscribed to?  I selected them because they were either great news sources, for technology, the world, and the U.S. or the site was a government site, or a hobby that I'm interested in.
2. Was it easy to find feeds and to subscribe to them? The feeds were easy and sometimes challenging to find because the RSS feed button was either a symbol, a "click here", or just a big RSS.Subscribing to the RSS feeds was surprisingly easy.
3. Which sites were your favorites? The government, state sites because it showed what is happening around the United States.
4. What else can you use RSS feeds for? To read about news, to bookmark interesting websites (by news wise), and can be used for as a personal newspaper on the web.
5. How likely are you to continue to use RSS feeds in the future? I don't know, it depends on how interested I'm into the subject to know about it every so often. 

61-year-old computer springs back to life

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The WITCH (Wolverhampton Instrument for Teaching Computation from Harwell), a 61 year old computer was turned back on Tuesday in the UK. It  became the world's oldest working computer, first constructed in the 1950's as a part of the atomic research program, weighing about 2.5 tons. The computer has no actual use anymore in modern life except for being on display in a museum for learning purposes. The WITCH has many lights that flash and clattering sounds from all over. The WITCH uses dekatrons instead of binary code like most computers. The contraption could only store 40 8-digit numbers and takes about 5-10 seconds to multiply 2 numbers. The WITCH also uses computer programs on paper tape and has no keyboard nor monitor. I think it is a great idea to revive the WITCH because people can see the oldest computer in the world and historians and other people with the same interests can see and learn about the origins of our devices.

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Nuclear Fusion Project Struggles to Put the Pieces Together

Contracting woes may cause further delays for $19.4-billion ITER, a project designed to show the feasibility of nuclear fusion as a power source. The world's largest scientific project is threatened with further delays, as agencies struggle to complete the design and sign contracts worth hundred of millions of euros/dollars. ITER is a massive project to show that nuclear fusion can be used as a power source(for more). The device is a "doughnut shaped" reactor called a Tokamak, wrapped in superconducting magnets that squeeze and heat a plasma of hydrogen isotopes to the point of fusion. The result would be nothing ever done, the controlled release of 10 times more energy than consumed.  ITER has been consuming mostly money and time. Since seven international partners signed up to the project in 2006, the price has roughly tripled to around €15 billion (US$19.4 billion), and the original date of completion has been moved to 2020.  I have no opinion on the matter because this is alot of money going into a project that may or may not pay out.

Hop "luggage that follows you"

Hop suitcase follows you around like a loyal dog

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The Hop is a luggage bag that follows your blue tooth signal from your phone. It uses three receivers that triangulate the signals location. A micro-controller does calculations to keep the bag close. The Hop has a security function that locks itself when lost and a vibration on the phone that will alert you. Hop uses a two-track caterpillar system with compressed air to move.  This probably won't work with stairs though. The project is currently at a prototype stage but hopefully soon this thoughtful creation will be done. This bag may annoy but also help the TSA. I think this is a terrific creation because its a bag that follows you like a robot, which I think is very cool.     link to video   

Manmade Gold

                       Researchers create 24k gold in the lab

 Researchers created a 24K gold nugget by feeding large concentrations of toxic gold chloride (also known as liquid gold) to the bacteria Cupriavidus metallidurans. By doing this they made a worthless thing into a very expensive metal. To do this is very expensive in materials and takes about a week to successfully make this. People were said to remark this as reverse engineering natural processes. A portable laboratory made of 24-karat gold-plated hardware, a glass bioreactor, and the Trumpian bacteria stands on display at the Prix Ars Electronica cyber art competition in Austria until October 7.
This is a cross between microbiology and alchemy and the experiment is currently taking place at Michigan State University. I believe this could impact the prices of gold but I don't know how much since the materials do cost a lot more than the gold being made.

Time Machine

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Boeing 747-8, Dreamliner get prepped for cell phone use

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  It is said that the Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental, 787 Dreamliners, and other 777s will be ready for cell phone use by 2013. The company also says they are trying to find ways to outfit these planes with live TV, cell phone usage, and"Internet access using in-flight entertainment.". The company says they can support wireless streaming media by 2014. There are many problems that come with this tough as for example that the cell phone usage depends on the countries the planes are in or over. This is apparently banned by the Federal Aviation Administration, in the USA. This can bring great things as more as entertainment for long trips or can also help working people with their jobs and ability to be more efficient. Though this could also increase terrorism in some way which is why the United States Government must decide if they can take this opportunity. 

Introductory joke + $100

Hi welcome to my blog the joke is the joke plus a $100 so I like toasters and I hate toaster ovens because they are not toasters. My family is my father, grandmother, grandfather, and mother. I have friends that may or may not be toasters. I'm taking Gifted and talented english, G and T science, G and T social studies, pre algerbra, Web 2.0, health, and history of rock and roll.