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Re:The price of solar power just fell 50% in 16 months by yourapostasy on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @02:23PM (#11630464)
How close are we to actually manufacturing molecular springs? My understanding is our materials science and engineering is not up for making macroscopic molecular springs yet, and what I can Google up seems to indicate we nowhere near macroscopic scale springs.
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Re:The price of solar power just fell 50% in 16 months by lisivka on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @07:32PM (#11632823)
Make container of highly porous material then fill it with a fluid which will avoid that material surface at molecular level. AFAIK, it is invented years ago.
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Re:The price of solar power just fell 50% in 16 months by yourapostasy on Thursday May 05, 2016 @10:39AM (#11636459)
Can you post a link to that please? When I search around starting with the Wikipedia [1] entry, I don't find a description of what you are describing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_spring

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Re:The price of solar power just fell 50% in 16 months by lisivka on Thursday May 05, 2016 @03:51PM (#11639182)
http://www.google.com/patents/US7767301 http://dergipark.ulakbim.gov.tr/eoguijt/article/view/1034000...
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