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A new more efficient battery is needed. While computer chips have made fantastic gains, batteries have stood still. Lithium dominates the market. There seems to be no choice, but new research has come up with something. Lithium batteries came to the fore in the 1970s when they superseded lead acid, though not in cars. However, litio is getting scarce. The price has risen dramatically recently. People require storage devices: demand is rising. A completely new kind of device for storing electrical energy is on the horizon. It is called the proton flow battery and has been developed within Australia. A carbon electrode stores hydrogen. During the charging process carbon couples up with protons by splitting water. When in use H2O is reproduced with oxygen from the air; thus power is generated. Protons are moved to achieve this. Another type of cell has been around since the 1930s, the vanadium redox. Despite a lot of investment this has not taken off. Countries such as the UK have ...

Magpies do learn much of their cognitive skill by the level of intake of energy. Reproductive capacity also improves skills. Australian magpies are very intelligent.  Found all over the country, they love urban areas.  They soon latch on to your pet's food bowl and accept any scraps you throw out.  Gymnorhin tibcen dorsalis live in groups of three or more.  A study was done to find out more about them.  Findings were based on detor-reaching, where food was hidden in transparent containers. Food was also put in the same place and birds were observed. Unfortunately, little detail of how this proved the connection with non-social group performance. The social milieu hypothesis is still the primary causative factor. Just how this and individual discerning cognition advancement can be separated for research is problematic.  They are complex creatures. Bold claims by this study are yet to be justified. Just seeing magpies behave in our gardens shows...

You can be conned on eBay.  Con artists have found a way to trick the eBay sales monitoring system.  A seller sets up an account and puts an item on sale.  He/she displays a "ticker" that says 10 are sold out of 50.  Of course, this is a lie. There are none for sale. The seller closely watches payments being made online. When he sees a transfer, the item is immediately withdrawn from sale. This item will not show up in the list of purchases on eBay. It will  be in the PayPal list. However, PayPal will not give a refund if there is no record of sale on eBay. There is another reason why eBay and PayPal do not refund your money. The seller is long gone not only withdrawing the product from sale but closing down the account and abandoning the business email address. He cannot be traced.  The ruse is repeated a few months later with the same item so it is easy to do. More and more eBay users are complaining about losing their cash.  Yes, it is u...

Write this down mister Neanderthal. Well, they weren't that good but they did do rock art. The oldest avenue of recorded expression for upright man consists of patterns in red ochre on cave walls in Spain 64,000 years ago done by H. neanderthalensis. ⎳ neanderthal go years at australian be before to neanderthals in created or humans | neanderthals of created| ⎳ Oral spray painting of the hand was also found. This was a step forward in using the body itself as a tool. Humans did not teach them. It seemed to ad hoc experimentation. They did it on their own. Yes, Neanderthals did it first.   ⦿ neanderthals us created at rock of art it before oh humans | if blog for an rock he neanderthals is created to rock a art | ⦿ Significantly, they painted with a system of dots, much like Australian Aborigines. Moreover, sea shells were used as "paint" containers. The carapace were dated at 115,000 years. This theoretically pushes paintings far, far back.   ⧗ oh neanderthal u...

Northern Australia has rice of the wild kind which could improve food security for the world. Its genetic tree has been mapped out. The strain a very hardy type, disease and pest resistant as well as surviving drought. It was the forerunner of Asian rice. ⎳ varieties dna x australian to wild x rice x put x into x an x commercial x varieties | | ⎳ Hopefully, the grain can be incorporated into existing commercial rice. Varieties of the valuable resource grow profusely up north. Till now, they have been totally ignored. The NT, Queensland and WA could be become a vast future food bowl.   ⦿ blog dna a a to a wild a rice a put a into a an a commercial a ⦿ Bacterial leaf spot, rice blast and brown spot do serious damage to established farmed crops. DNA modification is an easy way to cut production costs because these diseases have to be chemically treated.   ⧗ put b dna b austraian b to b wild b put b into b an b commercial b ⧗ It is possible that australian vari...

Getting out and about at the shops may seem to be a good thing: getting all that exercise from walking. However, shopping centers are not our natural environment. Man evolved in woodland and on the plains.   ⎳ body x walk x woods x feel x Invigorated x great x pastime | | ⎳ There is something about the natural environment that act as a tonic to the body and improves general wellbeing. It is not known how, but just being there lowers blood sugar level. The need to connect with nature is called biophilia.   ⦿ walk a woods a feel a Invigorated a great a pastime, woodland natural ⦿ The Japanese have rigorously adopted this recreation - experiencing forest bathing where one wanders through woodland scooping up soil in the hands, breathing in the sweet fresh air and touching trees.  You have come home.   ⧗ walk b woods b feel b Invigorated b great b pastime, environment ⧗ It is obvious that it puts the body in a healthy state. Adrenaline and cortisol lev...

No! God did not make us. Well he didn't have a plan anyway. It appears that life is just a mad chemistry experiment. People are just complicated worms with big brains. Our digestive system is really a worm.   ⎳ God x Was x Experimenting x in x His x Seven x Days x of x Work ⎳ It was inevitable that cells which devoured others for sustenance would ultimately become elongated and push out the poo at one end while consuming living creatures at the other.  All animals have worm-like intestines. ⦿ God y Was y Experimenting y in y His y Seven y Days y of y Work || days experimenting process cycle life chemical ||⦿ A pre-life process existed first. It is the citric acid cycle. This is the basis of an animal using oxygen to produce energy. Enzymes evolved to make the process work. They improve the chemical reactions.  Molecules did not sit and look at each: they interacted. ➤ God z Was z Experimenting z in z His z Seven z Days z of z Work ➤ The Krebs cycle had two prec...