OT; SOLAR BREAKTHROUGH, INTERESTING

Very cool!!!! If the state of Arizona would adopt this I swear we could power the entire west!!!

-- KarenK Desert Dreamer Designs

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Very cool! I love the idea of a huge glass office block generating solar power...

Deirdre

I've been eyeing mp3 players, and so far the price/performance ratio hasn't tempted me. But with an infinite power source, it might be more attractive. How about an mp3 player *as* a pendant, with the solar cell on the side that shows, and the controls on the back?

Deirdre

solar powered earrings!!!! necklace pendants!!!! chunky bracelets! You could use that power to juice up your mp3 player without landfill grubbing batteries! Whoohoooo. Ok.. so Im not thinking as large as the rest of you, but I did want it to connect to my life somehow, even though I dont own an mp3 player. Diana

I don't know exact figures (and I'm in the UK) but... when I bought mine, mp3 players were mostly £100 ($155 or so) and had 32Mb of memory, which I found would hold approx 1 album. Now 64Mb seems to be the norm (and you can often get extra memory), you can even get ones with a whole blimmin hard drive - 20Gb? and prices have plummeted. I would absolutely recommend getting one, ok you need to plug it into the computer to edit the playlist, but it's simple to do and it comes with the software to do that. It's fabfabfabfabfab!

-- Free sweets:

I've always said (and email [nag] government agencies constantly) that with the amount of brilliant minds in this country, there is no reason to be dependent on foreign oil - or any oil! Look at Monster Garage, Junkyard Wars - Don't you think that if someone did for energy what American Idol and all those types of shows do for everything else, don't you think we would have new technology by now? My grandma was born in 1896 and remembered when they ran electric to the farms in her rural area! How many more technological advances have been made in the last 50 years?! Can't tell me solar, wind, hydro aren't viable power sources...

What? Did we hit one of my pet peeves? Grrrrr.

I saw one for a bit over $110 with 128 MB of internal memory that advertised itself as holding 'over 3 hours of music'.

Now I am interested in uploading books-on-tape or CD to keep me entertained at the health club while doing the aerobic portion of my workout, which is fairly un-entertaining, but I find my portable CD player or tape player rather bulky compared to the compactness of the MP3 players...

Deirdre

And at the moment, they basically own the head of state...

Deirdre

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "Diana Curtis" :

]How many, on average, songs ]can one hold these days?

about 5.5 hours of play time, for Jamie and I.

----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)

's not what you take, when you leave this world behind you;it's what you leave behind you when you go. -- Randy Travis

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "Helen Page" :

]I don't know exact figures (and I'm in the UK) but...

ooops - my figure was for mp3 players that used CDs. Jamie and i get about 5.5 hours on one.

Johnny has an mp3 player he loads from his computer [$80 at Christmas in 2001, with extra memory at Circuit City] and i think his holds over

2 hrs worth of music. depends on how much memory you have and the size of the mp3 files, of course.

----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)

's not what you take, when you leave this world behind you;it's what you leave behind you when you go. -- Randy Travis

Oh, now youre thinking! Brilliant idea. Id buy one.... depending on storage capacity. How many, on average, songs can one hold these days? Diana

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from Deirdre S. :

]How much internal memory does that take? And are there options for ]playback quality (kind of like resolution for images)? ] ]Deirdre

let me get back to you. i'll ask Johnny when he calls me back.

----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)

's not what you take, when you leave this world behind you;it's what you leave behind you when you go. -- Randy Travis

NEAT!

I want them to come up with some 104 COE glass rods that I can make into beads that will double as solar panels to allow me to function as a power source. ;)

oooooo i hit a nerve.......... :D good!!! :D so everyone, INVEST!! :D

alia :)

or pray!! either one. :D

Honey, you already ARE a power source! If they could bottle you, they would be rich. Diana

This is really interesting! I'd like to have a few of these if Dave and I ever actually buy that house in the country we've been thinking we'd like to have. Self sufficiency (or something closer to it than we have now) is soooo attractive these days.

Laura

Thanks. That makes the 128 meg version look attractive. Now all I need is an income :-)

Deirdre

Thanks. And the idea of determining the quality at the computer end makes sense...

Deirdre

What makes you think you don't already function as a power source, with or without solar panels?

Deirdre