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Cow Brain Protein - Renewable Energy for the Future?
We've heard about cow manure use in renewable energy technology, but how about the idea of using cow brains? The concept may have a decidedly high ‘ick’ factor for some, but cow brains are rich in a protein that may provide the means to build inorganic nanostructures useful for batteries and solar cells.
Dr. Sarah Heilshorn and colleagues at Stanford Institute of Materials and Energy Science have been studying clathrin, a key protein in cellular biology. Cells are particularly adept at building tiny structures used in the creation of complex molecules. Clathrin primarily functions as part of the cell’s transport system, delivering molecular ‘cargo’ to the cell’s interior. As far as its potential use in alternative energy, though, it’s the protein’s outside structure that has scientists intrigued.
Clathrin is abundant in cow brain tissue. When extracted and adjusted for pH and other variables, clathrin assembles itself into a variety of skeletal structures such as cubes, spheres, barrels, and tetrahedral. This makes clathrin very useful in creating a template structure to which scientists can add inorganic atoms and molecules to produce catalysts and electrodes. These nanoscopic materials could then be used to make batteries and solar cells.
Using clathrin from cow brain tissue is indeed an innovative approach in the ongoing search for clean, renewable energy.
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Once you specify any super power, you've crsosed into the world of fantasy. There is nothing real about super powers; in fact, one could argue the reason we call them super powers is because they are totally out of the ordinary realm of reality.Dimensions are just arguments in a point function like p(x1, x2, xn-1, xn) where this is an n-dimensional point function. You don't travel between dimensions, you travel along them. For example, to climb something, you can travel along the z dimension while staying put along the x and y dimensions, but you're not traveling between any of them. You travel from a point p1(x1,y1,z1,t1) to point p2(x2,y2,z2,t2) where each point is located within the indicated 4-dimensional space-time. So you travel between points, but along the dimensions which are just degrees of freedom to move about.There may be alternate universes (and not all require higher dimensions). But they are more likely to be totally unlike our own than like it. That results because there are 100 s of so-called natural constants whose values uniquely define the laws of physics in this universe. But as there might be 10^500 other possibilities due to different values of those natural constants, it is clear that finding another universe with exactly the same values as our natural constants is highly unlikely. [See source.]If you want to write a sci-fi that is heavy on the sci, I'd avoid time travel and inter dimensional multi universe travel. There is absolutely no physics basis for either one and more and more readers recognize that fact.
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Two articles discussing a nanolaser made out of Clathrin protein recently appeared,
http://nextbigfuture.com/2010/05/protein-computing-bio-based-quantum.html
http://eetimes.eu/en/will-living-proteins-revolutionize-computing.html?cmp_id=7&news_id=222902142&vID=209
BTW, Unlike Stanford, ExQor does not use cow brains, which have their own processing issues, e.g., the possibility of their containing prion diseases like "Mad Cow". Another big reason for ExQor not using cow brains is our bio-engineered Clathrin is also designed to be used in our patented biomedical applications for people--Cow tissue is definitely out.
Clathrin protein for alternative energy already patented six years ago by others, see USPTO #7,393,924
Today we'll use cow brains, and tomorrow the brains from dogs. The day after tomorrow we'll take human brains (after all,they are the most complex,isn't it so?) We're it's gonna end? Knowing that in some countries, cows are seen as a Holy creature. Of course, in the Western countries everything is posseble. There's nothing Holy anymore..
Vandaag hersene van koeien. Morgen hersenen van hoden, en overmorgen hersene van mensen. Een beetje respect aub. Vergeet niet dat in sommige landen de koe als heilig word gezien. OK,in het Westen kan alles en mag alles. Waar is de grens? Waar gaat het stoppen?
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maybe we should encourage a different line of research? This sounds a bit scary to me... cows first ... and then humans? It would seem that there are some bioethics concerns here. Turning animal flesh into battery components and solar panels is just creepy...
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