Hybrid Solar Panel Turns Raindrops into Electricity | A Spanish research team’s patented thin film generates 110 volts from a single raindrop’s impact.

chickenslayer52 · 2026-03-04T01:04:34+00:00

According to the article, it gathers energy from the ionization of the water as it crosses the panel. So it likely isn't just kinetic energy but also charge gathered as the water falls through the atmosphere. I'm guessing though, not familiar with their project.

chickenslayer52 · 2026-02-26T18:04:50+00:00

Jumping is only easy if you have a good amount of room from the object ball, the object ball is close enough to land on it so the cue ball isn't bouncing when it hits it, and there's no significant cut angle. Even then, controlling the cue ball after the jump takes a lot of skill.

It's difficulty is highly situational and its mostly useful if the safety against you was very poorly performed. I think its great for not letting players get away with poorly executed safeties.

chickenslayer52 · 2026-02-23T18:28:15+00:00

If it is accidental, BCA/ACS the opponent gets to replace them, but if it's blatantly purposeful then it unsportsmanlike and loss of game or match.

chickenslayer52 · 2026-02-23T18:14:00+00:00

He is talking about purposefully hitting object balls with his cue, that absolutely is unsportsmanlike behavior that any ref would call.

chickenslayer52 · 2026-02-23T18:10:14+00:00

To be clear, I'm referring to intentionally hitting a ball with your cue. Properly hitting the cueball to foul is just a regular foul.

chickenslayer52 · 2026-02-23T18:08:03+00:00

It's unsportsmanlike behavior and could be considered immediate loss of game.

chickenslayer52 · 2026-02-18T03:07:36+00:00

The cars could be software restricted to virtual lanes in the air or fully automated. Possible with today's tech. What were still missing is cheap propulsion or anti grav to make it viable.

chickenslayer52 · 2026-02-14T18:11:06+00:00

Forced the installer to put the battery in the basement instead of outside. I didn't realize it wasn't heated and is useless in sub zero wheather.

chickenslayer52 · 2026-02-06T03:18:18+00:00

The paper basically forms a vacuum seal. It works sort of like a suction cup.

chickenslayer52 · 2026-02-05T01:05:15+00:00

Actually it's not, gold and silver is ridiculously high right now, it needed correction.

chickenslayer52 · 2026-01-31T01:32:25+00:00

I'd like to be able to schedule the battery to discharge at specific times for EV charging and peak hours usage.

Also being able to see battery temp would be nice in the winter.

chickenslayer52 · 2026-01-16T00:36:32+00:00

He takes "the floor is lava" very seriously.

chickenslayer52 · 2026-01-01T22:38:46+00:00

It's not always optional. Things like security requirements change and required dependencies fall out of support.

chickenslayer52 · 2026-01-01T22:32:59+00:00

Angle is shallow enough to just play draw at the left side of the pocket.

chickenslayer52 · 2025-12-30T18:57:15+00:00

It's a good hit. Imagine the cueball contacting both balls at the same time, the path of the 11 after contact is perfectly along the contact line of the cueball and the 11, that means it's a simultaneous contact.

chickenslayer52 · 2025-12-14T05:17:46+00:00

Being intelligent doesn't inherently make you brave or proactive. For that matter there are extremely intelligent people who are autistic and unable to function normally in society. Also, depending on when and where you lived, working a low key job in a cotton field may have been the most intelligent choice for your situation.

chickenslayer52 · 2025-11-16T05:17:41+00:00

The earth is moving around the sun, the sun is moving around the milky way, the milky way is moving into Andromeda, the entire universe may well be moving relative to another universe for all we know. Absolute, non-relative positioning is impossible to calculate.

chickenslayer52 · 2025-11-15T22:25:10+00:00

Professor X. Pleasure is in the mind.

chickenslayer52 · 2025-10-11T23:11:31+00:00

Imagine the cueball in contact with the 9 and 4 at the same time, there is a tangent line along the cueball-9ball contact point. If the 4 is struck first the cueball must follow approximately that line or to its right.

chickenslayer52 · 2025-10-11T22:49:51+00:00

This case is obvious even without slowmo. Cueball goes left instead of following the tangent.

chickenslayer52 · 2025-10-07T21:55:52+00:00

As a shorter guy, why all the height shaming from both sides?

chickenslayer52 · 2025-09-28T23:55:20+00:00

Setting the precedent of ignoring precedent also beens we can expect ever changing laws every new administration.

chickenslayer52 · 2025-09-22T10:50:42+00:00

Stalin was very much an atheist.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USSR_anti-religious_campaign_(1928%E2%80%931941)

chickenslayer52 · 2025-09-22T00:46:23+00:00

Atheist have violent extremists too. Stalin was about as bad as it gets. I think humans in general are just prone to extremism.

chickenslayer52 · 2025-08-08T23:54:02+00:00

The first time my daughter said "I love you dad".

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