>> ^GeeSussFreeK:Words.

Hey, nice post.

I read a thing a year or so ago about a new technology that enabled production of much cheaper and more efficient solar panels, but I can't seem to find any information on it now, so I wonder if it was just a pipe dream or something.

If I remember correctly the panels were paper thin and flexible, like laminated card, were durable to weather but eventually required replacing after 6 months or so of use. They were also supposed to be vastly superior in efficiency and their production allowed them to be "printed" en masse, and sold at approximately one dollar per metre square.

Obviously I was very excited about this. People could turn every south facing wall into a solar panel relatively cheaply and if the efficiency was as high as the article boasted you'd probably be able to light, heat and power most of the appliances in your house on your own energy. Alas, no cheap solar power yet.

Anyway, if all of Earths energy (with the exception of Geothermal, Nuclear and The Tides?) comes from the sun, be it stored in ancient pressurised plant matter or firewood, it would seem to make sense to find a good of way of tapping energy straight from the source.

We all have the benefit of hindsight on this one, so we could all sit here for days on end making ifs and buts. "What if the driver had a gun, what if the killer didn't have a knife, what if the victim had a stab proof vest?" I'm not saying his death was unpreventable by any means, merely that the measures to prevent all irrational psychopaths are unrealistic. As ever the freedoms "we" enjoy come with a sacrifice whenever they are misused.

I'll keep the rest of my opinions to myself. I feel terrible for the families and friends of the victim, I don't know how I'd cope if that happened to me.

If this tech is so simple to install and maintain perhaps it could see use in developing nations as a means of providing power for remote areas which are not attached to any sort of power grid?

Anyway, great sift. It doesn't appear to be particularly related to solar power though, as far as I can see anything could power the conversion process.

Thing is, I know somebody who has a wind turbine and it goes from producing too much power to too little or none at all. When he has a surplus it gets pumped onto the national grid and he gets compensated by the power company. So, its not like the excess is being wasted, and the money from the power company pays for the electricity he uses when the wind drops, so he has no real need to store the energy he produces. Ofc, in an ideal world everybody would have a wind turbine, and then you would need an energy store for when the wind drops, but while renewables are in the minority...

Anyway, gogo energy independance.

I wonder if the world would be worse if lead by liberal intelligentsia.

Welcome to Rapture everybody!

so many words, so little meaning.

GO GO ELLIPSIS... ... ...

I wish people cowered in fear when I got into an elevator. Think of the power trip you'd get off that.

Mars sounds cool, but so does a Porsche, and you don't buy a sports car if you can't afford the rent eh?

>> ^NordlichReiter:
Ive heard that the reason the Brits (Euros) ride on the left side of the road was so that when they would pass some one on the road, they could easily draw their swords. So as to dispatch any errant highwaymen.
Ive never had any real history lesson on this.
Kind of like the salute in the military, from the days when armored clad soldiers would lift their visors from their helms.


I'm pretty sure thats a myth.

Also, other European countries drive on the right so I'm not sure why you have Euros in brackets there.

Wiki informs me that countries that drive on the left have lower collision rates than those who drive on the right!

I think they were testing the integrity of a nuclear waste containment vessel.

Studies show that if the device is supervised by a toddler the shots per minute go up by as much as 150%

I imagine its actually somewhat easier to do with music, helps keep everybody on the same beat. The truly silent drills are amazing because everybody has to be synchronised without any sort of metronome. Still, upvote for final countdown

This was probably one of the first games I ever played. I had to a friends house to play it because I didn't have a PC... Great memories, and yeah, its an awesome intro (The music and voice acting are especially impressive given the date)

I wonder why this got so many votes...

I mean, come on, I expect better from such an educated community as sift. Could all you folks that upvoted just judge the video purely on its actual merit, instead of on whether or not it agrees with your political sentiments. Is a video that takes every single terrible stereotype about republican voters and dictates them back to you really worth the up arrow? It didn't even make me laugh...

Tell me, will you upvote the next video that paints everybody left of center as a tree hugging, cannabis smoking sexual deviant? Will you upvote the video that shows every socialist as a soviet communist, or every fascist as a Nazi?

By all means support your political beliefs sifters, but support them for the right reasons, because if you continue to support bullshit videos like this then it won't matter who leads your country, democrat or republican, you will have all fallen for exactly the same mud slinging propaganda.

I wonder why the European Car Market is so different to the American market...

Ride a bicycle!

I tell you what, I've been a real turd, I've seen it, I've been close to it, and it really stinks. Thats all I'm gonna tell ya.