Happy Holidays, With Extra Awesome
To everyone out there, I hope you're having a fun, relaxed, stress-free holiday.
We're relaxing and watching Mythbuster after a nice breakfast. The kids are enjoying their gifts (Legos! Sewing stuff! iTunes gift cards!), and so am I (warm jammies!).
Also, I saw this, and decided that it's the awesomest thing I've seen in a while:
Hornet has natural solar cells in its body.
They found that the brown shell is made of an array of grooves that split sunlight into diverging beams. The yellow parts has small oval-shaped protrusions, each with one or two “pinhole” depressions. The yellow sections also contain the pigment xanthopterin tightly packed in granules. Xanthopterin has the ability to change light into electrical energy. So basically the shell is trapping sunlight and the xanthopterin is converting it to energy.
So. Fucking. AWESOME.
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We're relaxing and watching Mythbuster after a nice breakfast. The kids are enjoying their gifts (Legos! Sewing stuff! iTunes gift cards!), and so am I (warm jammies!).
Also, I saw this, and decided that it's the awesomest thing I've seen in a while:
Hornet has natural solar cells in its body.
They found that the brown shell is made of an array of grooves that split sunlight into diverging beams. The yellow parts has small oval-shaped protrusions, each with one or two “pinhole” depressions. The yellow sections also contain the pigment xanthopterin tightly packed in granules. Xanthopterin has the ability to change light into electrical energy. So basically the shell is trapping sunlight and the xanthopterin is converting it to energy.
So. Fucking. AWESOME.
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