Re: MIT researchers split water to store solar energy - catalyst--made of a cobalt phosphate

On Aug 3, 9:34 pm, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelati...@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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hhc...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Aug 3, 7:12 pm, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelati...@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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hhc...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Eeyore wrote:

So how did it it get onto onto a mit.edu site ?

The question is, did it really?

None of the links posted here are links any computer in the mit.edu
domain.

Still realize that mit.edu is the domain name for student accunts, it
is entirely that some student may have posted it as a prank. Obviously
the MIT domain name is common to many thousand campus computer,
including official MIT sites, special interest sites, and student
sites.

Traditionally, MIT student pranks originateed at tmrc (Tech Model
Railway Club), although trmc members tend to play this little bit of
history down. (Rumor has it that this is where the "blue box" and
"phone phreaking" is said to have originated.  Their website is:

http://tmrc.mit.edu/

Another very "interesting" MIT site is this little gem that originated
as a ftp server known as r...@xxxxxxx, which is or was one of the
primary Internet archives.  Now it has be reborn as:

http://rtfm.mit.edu/

Rumor has it that rtfm responds again "interestingly" to a number of
undocumented keystroke sequences known only to a trusted few, which in
turn are said to lead to some equally interesting things, not that I
would know this to be a fact.   Then there is the MIT AI lab, which is
a curious place in itself. They have all sorts of on line sites, all
part of mit.edu.

So, graham, it would be quite easy for a prankish MIT student to place
a nonsense article on any number of mit.edu websites, and never be
detected in doing so.

Still, I have yet to see any citation linking this silly story to any
mit.edu domain, although it would be rather trivial to do so, at least
for most MIT students.

One caution, the sites themselves are many and varied, but I would
caution that it would likely likely not be a really great idea for an
amateur hacker to play with them in excess, and certainly not to
attempt to do anything malicious to any of them, because you could
quickly get in over your head and the next moring learn that you have
no Internet access, no email account any longer, and quite likely your
telephone would no longer function!  Fair warning!  :-)

Ok. I found the URL.http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/oxygen-0731.html
I await your comment with interest.

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Graham, once again, here it the opening paragraph:

" a revolutionary leap that could transform solar power from a
marginal, boutique alternative into a mainstream energy source, MIT
researchers have overcome a major barrier to large-scale solar power:
storing energy for use when the sun doesn't shine"

Note the focus on storing energy.

They are posting about imoved fuel cells if  anyone missed that on the
first reading.   It has absolutely nothing to do with electrolysics or
photovoltaic cell efficiency.

Just though I would point that small detail out, before readers are
totally consumed by the media hypobole (not hyperbola) that followed.
Any yes Graham, I fully expect you to know the distinction between
hperbole and hyperbola!  :-)  Right?

I thought they were boasting about a catalyst not a fuel cell.

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Confusion understood.

Just for the record, here is the MIT post, note the headline.

http://web.mit.edu/mitei/research/spotlights/fuel-cell.html

Now the crackpot, ignorant spin artists can distort this to any level
they want, but the link shows what MIT posted on the subject.

Harry C.



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