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acewolf

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Woot! I'm new to distributed computing, but I thought I'd join a couple of months ago 'cause its winter and I just built me a super-energy efficient computer. This baby has 6.4 GHz processing power on like, 60 watts.

I know the thread is mostly working with FAH, but I really want to do nuclear science research, so I joined yoyo@home, one of the few projects doing anything like that. I dream of a day when we can change lead into gold, or maybe just change osmium into iridium.

Are there any HardOCP team members from yoyo around here?
 
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acewolf said:
I know the thread is mostly working with FAH, but I really want to do nuclear science research, so I joined yoyo@home, one of the few projects doing anything like that. I dream of a day when we can change lead into gold, or maybe just change osmium into iridium.
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As much as I enjoy the enthusiasm, I almost feel like I have to ask....

Did you watch to much Full Metal Alchemist?

Alchemy is what changes lead to gold..... equal exchange.
 
I think he's getting at the fact that yoyo@home does does some theoretical particle accelerator research.

OP, yes, we have some folks doing yoyo@home.
 
FrEaKy said:
As much as I enjoy the enthusiasm, I almost feel like I have to ask....

Did you watch to much Full Metal Alchemist?

Alchemy is what changes lead to gold..... equal exchange.
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well... not entirely true. You can turn stuff from one element into another element without "alchemy"... just need some fancy particle physics capable of plucking 35 protons (and some neutrons too) off your lead nucleus
 
Activate: AMD said:
well... not entirely true. You can turn stuff from one element into another element without "alchemy"... just need some fancy particle physics capable of plucking 35 protons (and some neutrons too) off your lead nucleus
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I've had that shit in my garage for years. People actually want that? I thought lead was better than gold? lol j/k. The theory is nice, but very far from ever becoming a reality.
 
M0rph3us said:
I've had that shit in my garage for years. People actually want that? I thought lead was better than gold? lol j/k. The theory is nice, but very far from ever becoming a reality.
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You have that house down the street that glows at night don't you.....
 
Kendrak said:
You have that house down the street that glows at night don't you.....
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I sure do, and I have one down the street that for some reason lights up like a christmas tree on a thermal cam....still can't figure that one out.
 
"6.4 GHz processing power on like, 60 watts"

Wow is that 12 core or 48 core? I need 4
 
acewolf said:
Are there any HardOCP team members from yoyo around here?
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I think we are all here.;)
Us Boinc'ers mostly hang out in the DC-Vault 2 thread at the present but we are omnipresent.
Welcome to the team, your help is greatly appreciated !
 
Oh, its not my processor, its my entire computer that uses 60 watts. I could trim it down to if I went to one ram stick and had picked a smaller motherboard, but I actually wanted a functional computer. It's an underclocked i7 quad core at 1.6 GHz using, I believe, about 15 watts. Its completely silent, too, if I leave the optical drive unplugged.

And I love full metal alchemist, but, regardless of how such a thing has been depicted in fiction or historical science, converting less valuable materials into more valuable materials could lead to a massive technological revolution. Lead to gold is probably unlikely (although I'd love to hear to opinion of an expert), but osmium already turns itself into iridium, with a gain of several dozen dollars/gram of value. All we got to do is speed up the process.
 
M0rph3us said:
I've had that shit in my garage for years. People actually want that? I thought lead was better than gold? lol j/k. The theory is nice, but very far from ever becoming a reality.
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well not too far from reality, they can do this kind of stuff in particle acelerators.. but practicality? it would take huge amounts of energy and equipment to generate any significant amount (grams?) .
acewolf said:
And I love full metal alchemist, but, regardless of how such a thing has been depicted in fiction or historical science, converting less valuable materials into more valuable materials could lead to a massive technological revolution. Lead to gold is probably unlikely (although I'd love to hear to opinion of an expert), but osmium already turns itself into iridium, with a gain of several dozen dollars/gram of value. All we got to do is speed up the process.
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well you're not exactly tripping over osmium in your backyard are you? The amount of energy it takes to do these things precludes it from ever being a practical process. elements exist in their current forms because they're a lower energy state. Turning one element into another requires you to a) overcome the energy barriers and b) avoid the lower-energy states you don't want and to selectively choose the one you do. The amount of energy required is pretty much impossible to change since they're governed by some serious nuclear forces.. its not like a chemical catalyst
 
If we were able to convert less desirable materials into more desirable ones I think it would be beneficial for those hard to find or rare materials we would need for a whole plethora of uses. Energy is the key factor and if you examine history, every time we are able to harness more energy we are capable of doing even more glorious things. If we were able to harness the power of a star to convert some matter into another form of matter it would be practical for a small amount of material (depending on the amount of energy needed for a given material in the mass-energy conversion). So for example we use a star's energy (Huge) to create a supply of material to build a star-ship (small), or a fusion reactor (big) to make rare materials for a high performance quantum computer (small). It all depends on if we have the technology, and the energy source.
 
Welcome acewolf. Thanks for crunching with us. If theres anything we can help with let us know.

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Cheers!
 
Thanks metallicafan, but that's not a Guinness a day, that's 7 Guinness ;-)

Yeah, I agree energy is what limits us. Someday, the nucleus will also give us practically unlimited amounts of energy, and that, too, is something to look forward to. Wind and solar power might be able to slow global warming, and energy efficient technology might decrease our need for power, but the only thing that will ever fill all our needs for electricity and supply the global poor with enough power to pull themselves out of poverty without destroying the planet is fusion. Heck, we might even get a moon base out of it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium-3
 
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