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Germany Finances Major Push Into Home Battery Storage For Solar

mdsolar writes with this bit of news from Green Tech Media “The German government has responded to the next big challenge in its energy transition – storing the output from the solar boom it has created — by doing exactly what it has successfully done to date: greasing the wheels of finance to bring down the cost of new technology. … Now it is looking at bringing down the cost of the next piece in the puzzle of its energy transition — battery storage. … KfW’s aim, according to Axel Nawrath, a member of the KfW Bankengruppe executive board, is to ensure that the output of wind and solar must be ‘more decoupled’ from the grid. … This is seen as critical as the level of renewable penetration rises to around 40 per cent — a level expected in Germany within the next 10 years. … According to Papenfuss, households participating in the scheme will spend between €20, 000 and €28, 000 on solar and storage, depending on the size of the system (the average size is expected to be around 7kW for the solar array and around 4kWh for the battery).” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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Researcher Allows Sand Flea To Grow Inside Her Foot To Study It

sciencehabit writes “Marlene Thielecke came to Madagascar to study the sand flea, an insect that spends part of its life cycle burrowed into the human foot — but she wound up getting more intimate with the critter than she cared for. Months into her project, Thieleckewas bitten by a flea herself. She decided to make the best of it, by taking regular photographs and videos and keeping track of her observations. ‘I thought it might be interesting’ to watch what happened, she says. As it turns out, her experience may help resolve an question entomologists have debated foor decades: Where, exactly, does the sand flea have sex?” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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This is the most accurate model yet of what DNA looks like

This is a stunning 3D map that shows how six feet of of DNA can be crammed inside a single chromosome — a space that’s only a hundredth of a millimeter across. Not surprisingly, it looks like something that would go well with meatballs. Read more…

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Pop Music Makes Experimental Solar Panels Work 50% Harder

Ever notice how you feel more productive while listening to a great song? It’s not just you. Researchers just discovered that a certain type of solar panel works most efficiently when exposed to the acoustic vibrations of pop music . Crank it up! Read more…

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UK Town To Get Driverless ‘Pods’ Mixing With Pedestrians

Bruce66423 writes “Milton Keynes is the most successful new town in the U.K., being built on a green field site from the ’60s onward. Initially famous for concrete cows, it is the home of the Open University, which offers college-level courses at home. Now, the U.K. Business Secretary has announced plans to have small driverless cars shuttle people around parts of the town starting in 2015. There will be about 20 of the pod-like vehicles to start, each capable of holding two people. They will have their own pathways and move at about 12mph. The plan is to continue developing and testing the vehicles, and by 2017, 100 of them will share walkways with pedestrians.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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"War Room" Notes Describe IT Chaos At Healthcare.gov

dcblogs writes “U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), who chairs the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, has released 175 pages of “War Room” notes — a collection of notes by federal officials dealing with the problems at Healthcare.gov. They start Oct. 1, the launch day. The War Room notes catalog IT problems — dashboards weren’t showing data, servers didn’t have the right production data, third party systems weren’t connecting to verify data, a key contractor had trouble logging on, and there wasn’t enough server capacity to handle the traffic, or enough people on the help desks to answer calls. To top it off, some personnel needed for the effort were furloughed because of the shutdown. Volunteers were needed to work weekends, but there were bureaucratic complications.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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The World Just Got Its First Entirely 3D-Printed Metal Gun—and It Works

Regardless of whether you saw them as a menace , the first 3D-printed guns were an objectively far, boxy cry from the weapons we’re used to seeing. But just from looking at Solid Concept’s newest firearm offering, you’d have no idea that it, too, started out as a mere 3D CAD file before being printed to life. Read more…

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Report: Apple Supplier Flextronics Used Indentured Employees

Bloomberg Businessweek has an in-depth report out today, alleging that electronics supplier Flextronics used recruiters who charged exorbitant fees to place factory workers in plants throughout Malaysia, confiscating their passports and trapping them in employee housing without food when the plants were idled. Read more…

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Nvidia GeForce GTX 780Ti: Gaming in Glorious 4K

Earlier this year, Nvidia dropped a bomb on the world of graphics processing with the Titan, a real luducrious powerhouse what cost a whopping $1, 000 . Now, the monsterous Titan is getting (another) “affordable” twin in the form of the Gefore GTX 780Ti, which Nvidia’s calling the best gaming GPU on the planet. Read more…

If you’re still not sure if your details were thieved in that massive Adobe hack, you can use this t

If you’re still not sure if your details were thieved in that massive Adobe hack , you can use this tool to see if your email featured in the smash’n’grab. Read more…

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