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2017-04-16

Electrostatic fluid accelerator

Imagine a fan with no moving parts. Instead of using spinning blades to push air molecules around, you use ions accelerated by an electric field. This, in a nutshell, is an electrostatic fluid accelerator.

(Thinking of the Dyson fans that create a thin high-velocity flow to entrain a larger air volume and pull it along. Now they have a small fan at the bottom to push air through the exhaust. Which makes a whirring noise. What if you replaced the fan with an electrostatic fluid accelerator set around the exhaust.)

2017-04-09

Engineering antibiotic-suspectible strains of bacteria

Make antibiotic resistance into a detriment. Petri dish with antibiotic gradient. Radiation steriliser at the high antibiotic section. Microbes that survive in the antibiotic get killed by the radiation. Microbes without resistance survive and supplant the resistant strain.

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