Before this fall, it might not have occurred to Michael Aylesworth to swap his sperm for money. But faced with rising bills, a dwindling budget and a fractured economy, the 30-year-old Seattle man took stock of some very personal assets — and decided to sell.
LCD or plasma? If you've been shopping for a flat-panel TV, that's the big question. According to a mystery-shopper survey, electronics salespeople don't know much about the differences, but still have a ready answer: LCD.
Loops of hot plasma trace the Sun's curving magnetic field lines in this frame from a video of the Sun made by JAXA's Hinode spacecraft (Image: JAXA)
"If you thought all those "Water4Gas" spam emails you got just didn't offer enough of a jolt, a Utah-based inventor has got a solution for you: Mountain Dew-based fuels.
The growing scientific understanding of the earth's electromagnetic environment has made it possible to recognise an important substratum of auroral observations in the mythological system of virtually every known culture.
Despite plasma's superior picture quality and lower large screen pricing, many tech writers like New York Times columnist David Pogue who recently wrote that plasma is "on the way out," consider it a dying technology. Are they correct?
For the first time, superstring theorists can point to a place where their formulas help other physicists understand something they can see in their experiments.
A Romanian woman was arrested after she hid a one-metre plasma TV under her skirt to smuggle it out of an electronics store.
The Electric Universe. Plasma Cosmology. Plasma Science. The relationship between them and the new symbolism that emerges.
The California Energy Commission is proceeding with a proposal this summer to ban the sale of TV sets that do not meet new efficiency standards when they are turned on and displaying a picture — a measure of power consumption that is not currently regulated at all.
In their continuing quest to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, state regulators have uncovered a new villain in the war on global warming : your big screen TV Couch potatoes, beware.
Heres PC worlds review on HDTV's check them out and study before you buy since there is still more time.
The first case of a person being infected with the human form of mad cow disease after receiving contaminated blood plasma has been identified by scientists.
Two months ago, I purchased an HDTV and found this article helpful. I seeded the link directly to the "How to" section.
On average, plasma screens use the most energy—nearly three times as much per square inch as rear-projection TVs and roughly 20 percent more than LCDs. This rule of thumb isn't foolproof, though, because screen size and resolution are also major factors.
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Research carried out at MIT's Alcator C-Mod fusion reactor may have brought the promise of fusion as a future power source a bit closer to reality, though scientists caution that a practical fusion powerplant is still decades away.
The big change in broadcasting happens February 19, 2009. The regular broadcast for television ends. People either have to get a converter box or buy a new TV.
Black Friday is mere moments away, so before you hit the streets at unbelievable hours, prepare yourself with everything you need to know before you get shopping—after all, knowledge is power.
Recently St. Lucie County in Florida announced that it has teamed up with Geoplasma to develop the United States' first plasma gasification plant.
Several small plasma plants exist around the world for industrial processes, but Geoplasma is constructing the first U.S. plasma refuse plant in St. Lucie County, Florida.
Every year 130 million tons of America's trash ends up in landfills. Together the dumps emit more of the greenhouse gas methane than any other human-related source.
Duck! Plasma bullets are zinging past Earth.
If a professor at the University of Florida (U.F.) has his way, the first flying saucer to grace Planet Earth's skies isn't likely to come from outer space but rather from Gainesville, where the faculty member is drawing up plans to build a circular aircraft that can hover in the …
A greenhouse gas (GHG) called nitrogen trifluoride (NF3), widely used in the manufacture of flat screen plasma and LCD TVs, is estimated to be 17,000 times as powerful as carbon dioxide as a GHG but is not Kyoto-listed.
When Google released Google Gadgets for Linux many could see strong similarities to KDE 4 Plasma desktop shell widgets (Plasmoids). As it turns out developers of Google Gadgets are already working on integrating Google Gadgets with Plasma.
Games consoles such as the Sony Playstation 3 can burn up to five times more energy than a medium sized refrigerator, a Choice study has found.
Pass a current or magnetic field through a conducting fluid and it will generate a force.