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Engineers at MIT and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have designed a heat engine with no moving parts. Their new demonstrations show that it converts heat to electricity with over 40 percent efficiency – a performance better than that of traditional steam turbines.

The heat engine is a thermophotovoltaic (TPV) cell, similar to a solar panel’s photovoltaic cells, that passively captures high-energy photons from a white-hot heat source and converts them into electricity. The team’s design can generate electricity from a heat source of between 1,900 to 2,400 degrees Celsius, or up to about 4,300 degrees Fahrenheit.

The researchers plan to incorporate the TPV cell into a grid-scale thermal battery. The system would absorb excess energy from renewable sources such as the sun and store that energy in heavily insulated banks of hot graphite. When the energy is needed, such as on overcast days, TPV cells would convert the heat into electricity, and dispatch the energy to a power grid.

With the new TPV cell, the team has now successfully demonstrated the main parts of the system in separate, small-scale experiments. They are working to integrate the parts to demonstrate a fully operational system. From there, they hope to scale up the system to replace fossil-fuel-driven power plants and enable a fully decarbonized power grid, supplied entirely by renewable energy.

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the fact that marc takes every same step steven takes before sleeping to ensure he knows when he's been awake when gets home before the shift, like cleaning the blood, changing clothes, putting the tape on the door, the sand around the bed (unless he carefully steps over it when he leaves which cool), and chaining himself to the bed again is hilarious cause like, dude's a mercenary yet he cannot let poor shop gift-ist steven realise his body is out there in the world, god knows where, every night, sometimes for a couple days, fighting the leader of a cult and his minions to try and stop them from murdering people and all in the name of khonshu, an egyptian god

it's hilarious and i love it

imagine trying to side w a guy who is some country's national ass 🤡

Imagine being someone who thinks Tony Stark was right in Civil War 🤡

HOW TO WRITE A //HIGH SCHOOL// ESSAY

When most* English teachers grade essays, they aren’t actually sitting down and reading your work like it’s a novel. They scan through and make sure you have all the key components for essay writing (that’s why you see little checkmarks over your essay when it’s returned. Once they see you have the sentence there, they leave the mark and move on).

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This is the template I used for 90% of my essays in high school:

I just filled in the sentences for the relevant topic, copy pasted them into a paragraph, and proofread once or twice to make sure it flowed and there were no basic spelling mistakes.

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*THIS IS NOT //GOOD// ESSAY WRITING

In an academic capacity, these types of essays are weak, boring, and won’t hold up. It works in high school because /technically/ it has everything you need, so it gets a 100/100 (or close, fingers crossed) on the rubric.

If you end up with a teacher that doesn’t let you just plug in sentences and actually pushes you to /write/ something, take advantage of it! I learned more about writing from one teacher that ignored rubrics and actually graded the quality of my work than I did in all four years of high school combined.

That being said, this is not meant to put down teachers or make it seem like I know everything. I’m absolutely sure all the english teachers I had saw through what I was doing (one or two of them even commented on it), but it was still enough (the bare minimum) to get me through the slog of high school. Good luck and happy writing!

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NOTES ABOUT THE TEMPLATE:

Add in transition words at the start of each paragraph and at the beginning of each new piece of “PROOF”

Repeat the “BODY PARAGRAPH” template three times with each different piece of your thesis

You only need 2-3 ‘PROVE, EXPLAIN, CONNECT” sections for each body paragraph. A good idea is to aim for one longer paragraph with three supports, and have that be your strongest argument, and let your two other paragraphs only have two supports.

This template works best for PERSUASIVE ESSAYS. It can be used with tweaking for comparative essays, but I don’t recommend it because it’s specifically designed to cater to the persuasive essay rubric

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Here’s an example of the template in use for a body paragraph. This was, in fact, one of my old high school essays, I just pulled up the old document. The thesis was that there are no heroes in Hamlet.

that mf clock was still the best jump scare in the MCU imo

Bully maguire returns

ɪɴᴛᴏ ᴛʜᴇ ʙᴜʟʟʏᴠᴇʀsᴇ

https://bluemoonlagoon94.tumblr.com/post/678007640683610112/could-there-be-an-common-theme-of-our-reality-that

What are your thoughts on this?

Interestingly Richard Fenyman remarked the occurence of the Fibonacci sequence and the 'golden angle' (primary part of the fine structure constant) in his work on quantum mechanics. And according to my information progression stuff, yes it wouldn't surprise me that this elementary principle of 'self-replication" might be one of the fundamental underlying patterns.

This is a plain idea I head: dividing the Fibonacci numbers: Larger Fib. number/smaller Fib. number (like 3/2 or 8/5) results in a damped wave alterating around large PHI (1.618...) and smaller number/larger number (like 2/3 or 5/8) results in a damped wave around small phi (0.618...) in the pic I just combined them in a strange axes system - and it's fun to imagine what would happen if you cause torsion and skews upon that visualized model:

Interestingly, the Fibonacci numbers also exist in a certain interference-diffraction pattern/fourier transform, Fraunhofer diffraction to be more concrete.

Made a post about that some days ago(or was it weeks already?): (Although the stretched x-axis is not really required)

In concrete, these describe position probabilities of superposed/entangled elementary particles. It is the pattern recognized in the double slit experiement.

Secondly, as the standard distribution also has connections to the concept of Pascal's triangle, in which the pattern of the fibonacci numbers are also omni-present, this would hint even more on the fundamentality of this logical sequence. But what is it concretely interpreted? In a different approach of interpretation, the Fibonacci sequence can be ragarded as a simple replication sequence, of continuing certain progression patterns, somewhat, yes it sounds silly: "Past+Present=Future, and Present=Past+more previous past", although it is far too simplified if taken literally. In a very rough pattern, this might be correct. But the exact details are generated by that same process just interacting with uncountable similar parallel versions of it (these are what i regarded as butterfly clones in my thesis)- chaos theorists might call them "feedback loops", and you can imagine it as a ball of uncountable worms knotting each other...

https://bluemoonlagoon94.tumblr.com/post/678007640683610112/could-there-be-an-common-theme-of-our-reality-that

What are your thoughts on this?

Interestingly Richard Fenyman remarked the occurence of the Fibonacci sequence and the 'golden angle' (primary part of the fine structure constant) in his work on quantum mechanics. And according to my information progression stuff, yes it wouldn't surprise me that this elementary principle of 'self-replication" might be one of the fundamental underlying patterns.

This is a plain idea I head: dividing the Fibonacci numbers: Larger Fib. number/smaller Fib. number (like 3/2 or 8/5) results in a damped wave alterating around large PHI (1.618...) and smaller number/larger number (like 2/3 or 5/8) results in a damped wave around small phi (0.618...) in the pic I just combined them in a strange axes system - and it's fun to imagine what would happen if you cause torsion and skews upon that visualized model:

Interestingly, the Fibonacci numbers also exist in a certain interference-diffraction pattern/fourier transform, Fraunhofer diffraction to be more concrete.

Made a post about that some days ago(or was it weeks already?): (Although the stretched x-axis is not really required)

In concrete, these describe position probabilities of superposed/entangled elementary particles. It is the pattern recognized in the double slit experiement.

Secondly, as the standard distribution also has connections to the concept of Pascal's triangle, in which the pattern of the fibonacci numbers are also omni-present, this would hint even more on the fundamentality of this logical sequence. But what is it concretely interpreted? In a different approach of interpretation, the Fibonacci sequence can be ragarded as a simple replication sequence, of continuing certain progression patterns, somewhat, yes it sounds silly: "Past+Present=Future, and Present=Past+more previous past", although it is far too simplified if taken literally. In a very rough pattern, this might be correct. But the exact details are generated by that same process just interacting with uncountable similar parallel versions of it (these are what i regarded as butterfly clones in my thesis)- chaos theorists might call them "feedback loops", and you can imagine it as a ball of uncountable worms knotting each other...

So the first pic is a deptiction of the plot below, relating to the Fibonacci sequence.

What is this fuckery?

It might describe 'feedback loops" and self-interference patterns of a regression in dynamical information geometry; a set of information transforms.

The neat aspect is that if you expand the "outside frame" (the overall shell with the varying diameters), then neat 'coincidences' happen: the expanded 'virtual lines' often end or cross exactly at points at the "shell"...

I will play with finding loop sequences, as it's really thrilling.

Furtherly, it might also make sense to describe momentum and position of elementary particles depicting them as "progression of a dynamical information geometry". Plus the conceptions regarding relativistic aspects is in parallel 'production', and interestingly, although I didn't intend to put both aspects of my current work (this one and the relativity conception) together, they are each other's interesting addition. Someahat they "weave each other"... These thought processes are somewhat like the two perfectly symmetric, yet antithetic 'loops' of the first picture here. And it is like, so neat! The chaos literally sorts itself.

I give you: memes that I think would exist in the grishaverse