07-08-02, 07:40 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Surrounded by frickin' idiots.
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Processors made from... chicken feathers?
As crazy as the title reads, someone is actually convinced that making a processor out of plant oils and chicken feathers actually showed a dramatic increase in speed. Take a look:
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Wool's team took chicken feathers and plant oils and molded them into a composite material that approximates the shape and feel of silicon. When the researchers tested it for speed, they found that the composite allowed movement at about twice the rate of silicon. Though that's still slower than the speed in air, Wool said, "I was jumping up and down."
Energy Department chemical engineer Mark Paster noted that Wool's results are "preliminary" and "a long way from going commercial." But he added that "if they hold up, they are very intriguing."
Wool acknowledged that the future of the chicken-feather chip technology is very much a "wild card." Not only would the microchip industry have to change its production methods, but other alternatives may also exist. Wool said researchers have been trying to introduce "micro-bubbles" into silicon to achieve the same effect as his chicken feathers. Wool speculates that those bubbles "should work fine -- maybe as well as our own composite does."
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No, this was not taken from The Onion. It is an article running right now from the Washington Post
I guess they will realise that if they use rabbit feet not only will they get even better speed but some extra luck to boot!!!
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