Monday, May 09, 2005

Spontaneous Ignition

This could be one of those seminal breakthroughs that will someday change everything. Catalysts at a nano-scale can start and sustain combustion at near room temperature with an efficiency better than a fuel cell.

Room temperature combustion is not unknown since that is how life forms get their energy. It's pretty efficient, too. Just think about how hard it is to work off the energy one derives from a single doughnut.

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