November 2010
3 posts
Gold Nanoparticles Could Transform Trees Into... →
Welcome to the future, where nanoparticles make glowing trees. It seems a little silly to proclaim bioluminescent trees the future of street lights — gold is expensive, what happens when the leaves fall off, how does this affect the health of the tree, how would you implant gold in trees on a large scale, how would you make sure the leaves light up what they’re supposed to, and so on...
The Hydrothermal Salt Theory →
Our Earth has many large salt reservoirs, often located far below the sea floor. Where does all this salt come from? Evaporation, goes the conventional theory. But that has never felt entirely satisfactory to geologists. There’s just too much damn salt. The salt comes from Hell, is the prosaic rendering of this new theory. Ignore the 1997 web design; this is interesting stuff.
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