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Bio-Energy
The first reference to extracting electricity from organic materials. (Read the full article)
| "biomass enrgy" (meenakshi 11/11/2007 1:36:53 AM ) |
| "Well, Swift is obviously being satirical--making fun of contemporary professors. He hardly seems supportive of the project; any connection to modern science is absolutely inadvertent--Swift clearly thinks it's nonsense.
On another note, I was wondering if Jack Vance didn't give us a preview of the modern laptop and maybe wifi in one of his Magnus Ridolph short stories. I seem to recall Magnus using one by a resort swimming pool at the beginning of one of the stories in the series." (Lloyd Marshall 4/4/2008 6:16:56 PM ) |
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