Innovation
Innovation
"…surprisingly, solar energy can be trapped and stored for
long periods in salt water - in a structure known as a solar pond -
and this energy can be used to generate electricity via a
methylene chloride-powered turbine. This
approach has potential to supply power to remote rural
areas…"
"…Chloroform and
trichloroethylene for super-fast computers! Novel
applications have been reported for chloroform and
trichloroethylene molecules in development of an interesting new
area of IT: quantum computers. These perform calculations using
atoms instead of the computer chips used in conventional
computers…"
"…Enough chlorinated solvent
perchloroethylene (PER) to clean 120 million
garments in a modern machine helped an American chemist become one
of three Physics Nobel Prize winners
in 2002. Almost 400,000 litres of PER, which is widely used by dry
cleaners, was utilised by Raymond Davis Jr. to conduct a
radiochemical experiment in a tank installed down a South Dakota
gold mine.
The tank was placed 1,500 metres below the earth's surface
to isolate it from cosmic rays that could interfere with detection
and measurement of solar neutrinos.
The Davis experiment ran almost continuously for 24 years
(1970-94) during which it is calculated 2,200 argon atoms were
produced in the tank, of which 776 were estimated to be produced by
solar neutrinos…"
