Thermoacoustics will save us!

God damn, this is an interesting idea:

http://www.score.uk.com/research/default.aspx

An appliance that cooks your food, keeps what you cook cool and powers your $100 laptop, all through sound waves produced by burning wood!

College Undergraduates

Yoinked from the New Yorker [http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2007/05/21/070521taco_talk_menand/]. Some interesting factoids, which I have bolded, so you don't have to pick through the author's rather torturous metaphor about sleeping over.

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The Graduates
by Louis Menand
May 21, 2007
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