Sour Swinger Predominantly follows my Army & Iraq Deployment. Also has some Geek, School, and other talk.

Flexible light source for 24/7 lighting

Seems almost too good to be true right? Well apparently someone has come up with a technology to prove otherwise. They are calling it Litroenergy. Unfortunately the above article doesn’t say who “they” are. Though, with a little digging around I discovered “they” are MPK Co.

Litroenergy requires no light source and no electricty. Wait…no electricity? How’s that possible? I’m no science geek but I thought light had something to do with electrons being ejected or bouncing around their orbits…which requires energy. So if not electricity, where’s the energy coming from?

They further claim that the materials are flexible, unaffected by temperature and pressure, inexpensive, non-toxic (…non-toxic?), and could save billions in energy cost. Its like the miracle discovery that you only hear about in sci-fi movies. Think about? One could never have to worry about turning off the lights because you’re wasting electricity. Cities like New York and Vegas who live during the night could DRASTICALLY benefit from such a light. Electric consumption would drop, which means power plant demands would drop, which means less dependency of natural resources, which makes everyone from environmentalists to Joe Shmoe happy. Your mind starts racing and saying, “THIS IS IT! we’ve done it! We’re going to drastically change the world”, but…

Then you reach the bottom of the article and they hit you with this. “One back drop to reckon with is that this material is radioactive and uses radioactive TRITIUM to glow” Radioactive?! Oooohhh, so that’s how they get around the electricity. No wonder why they said non-toxic. Granted I don’t know enough about tritium, but I would question what the long term health effects of being around the stuff will do.

So basically there goes the idea of saving the planet. Also, it seems this light source doesn’t “shine” but glows. All the boasting about saving billions is probably not gonna happen. The pics included are pretty cool and I’m sure we’ll find uses for it, but quite frankly its not that bright. I doubt it’ll replace the standard light bulb anytime soon and it seems that one can’t turn it off. Its a light source that will continuously emit light. Despite how misleading the article is, it is a great discovery non the less. Just feel bad for that poor sap wearing all the radioactive tritium to demo the light. Hope he doesn’t plan on having kids.

So…hell started for me around 0630. From the moment I woke until 1700 (minus eating food & bathroom) I wrote a 5 page philosophy report. Mentally exhausted, I’ve been sitting around de-nullifying my brain. I figure I come on here and waste more time by posting this. LoL. Why is this still wasting time? Because I have a 9 page film analysis report due by noon tomorrow. Didn’t start and its part 2 of my final for the class. Yup, that means about 25% of grade. The philosophy report was 33%. On top of that I have by 2300 Saturday to finish a Sudoku game written in JavaScript. Never mind the fact I’ve never even attempted JavaScript. LoL. Not really complaining as I accidentally misjudged my schedule and this last minute stuff is my fault. I.E. yesterday I took my first final. A final I thought was next week…yeah probably didn’t do to well. Oh man, I’m not getting any sleep tonight. I already know I’m pulling an all nighter. The question is, can I go two?

Ron Paul In New Hampshire

Nice little article talking about all the ongoings on Ron Paul’s campaign in New Hampshire. To those that don’t know, NH is the first primary and works as a good indication of where candidates stand. Ron Paul’s strength has been in the internet, and its good to see the strength is carrying over outside of the net. Interesting quote of the article:

“Sixty-one percent of likely GOP voters in New Hampshire say they will not vote for him under any circumstances, according to a University of New Hampshire poll.”

Polls can easily be misleading. Things like populous size of the sample can easily throw results. Also, no further info is giving on the conditions, sampling and so forth of the polling.

Iraq is not Nazi Germany

A great short clip of Ron Paul’s response to John McCain’s comment of Iraq is like Nazi Germany. Paul sums it up very well on how bull that really is. I am a bit astounded by McCain’s comment myself. Guess he never heard of Godwin’s Law.

Ron Paul: “Iraq is not Nazi Germany and besides, I thought it was Hitler that caused WWII, not the American people who opposed going in. So it didn’t make any sense and then he was awfully confused about isolationism versus non-intervention. There is a big difference.

Indeed there is. Just looking at the words on a literary aspect should show that. Wikipedia describes it best: “Nonintervention is a foreign policy which holds that political rulers should avoid alliances with other nations and avoid all wars not related to direct territorial self-defense.” Isolationism combines nonintervention with protectionism. Think of protectionism as the opposite of global free trade. I for one would like a return to non-intervention. Being the “Global Police” is not something we should be practising. That’s something better left served for the United Nations. Granted it has a lot problems and is far from perfect, but I do believe its a step in the right direction.