SamuelKillin

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by SamuelKillin 14y ago
This is exactly how large scale solar thermal power stations work. The most common ones use thousands of mirrors around a central tower. The sun bounces off the mirrors and focuses at the top of the tower where there is a tank of water. The
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by SamuelKillin 14y ago
Cooling it isn't hard, when the steam hits the turbine it loses a lot of its energy and will inevitably cool down and condense. Then you just pump it around back into the chamber and re-steam it. I work in the solar thermal industry - my co
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Make Steam Without Boiling Water - Just Add Sunlight and Nanoparticles(popsci.com.au)
38 points by SamuelKillin 14y ago|15 comments
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C++ - Regular cast vs. static_cast vs. dynamic_cast(stackoverflow.com)
4 points by SamuelKillin 14y ago|0 comments
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Cloud cloud cloud cloud cloud cloud(sigkill.dk)
3 points by SamuelKillin 14y ago|1 comments
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by SamuelKillin 14y ago
Man, they've been pushing this hard and it looks like it will pay off. They'll make the 750. Raising 750k in 30 days is no small feat and is awesome market validation. This should really help them raise more investment and keep growing.
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by SamuelKillin 14y ago
I pitched in. There are a tonne of problems that are highly parallel in nature, but need a general purpose processor such as this. You can't just "run everything on a GPU instead" like everyone else is suggesting. Things like if statements
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by SamuelKillin 14y ago
OVER NINE THOUSAND!!!
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by SamuelKillin 14y ago
1. "it's laggy running ubuntu - what's the big deal". It's running Ubuntu with the dual-core ARM CPU on board, not the Epiphany chips. The guy is demonstrating that the boards they are shipping allow for a user friendly environment for whic
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by SamuelKillin 14y ago
Not much for a micro-controller company.
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by SamuelKillin 14y ago
I'd say they're looking for exposure/excitement in the hobbiest/startup datamining space. Partly marketing play, partly validation. I backed $99. I'm very excited.