Paint your own batteries?

Layers of carbon nanotubes and ultra fine graphite powder work as painted batteries.

http://news.discovery.com/tech/spray-on-batteries-120628.html

Is that so?

The Zen master Hakuin was known by his neighbours as one living a simple life.

A beautiful girl whose parents owned a food store lived near Hakuin. Suddenly, her parents discovered that she was pregnant. This made her parents angry.

She would not reveal who the man was, but after much inquiry she at last named Hakuin. In great anger the parents went to the master.

“Is that so?” was all Hakuin would say.

After the child was born it was brought to Hakuin. By this time he had lost his reputation, which did not trouble him, but he took very good care of the child. He obtained milk from his neighbours and everything else the little child needed.

A year later the young mother could stand it no longer. She told her parents the truth: the real father of the child was a young man in the fish market.

The parents of the young mother at once went to Hakuin to ask for his forgiveness and, in apologizing at length, to get the child back. Hakuin was willing.

“Is that so?” was all he said, in yielding the child.

Story 3 - "Zen Flesh, Zen Bones" 1994, 26th reprint, page 22

Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize

Aung San Suu Kyi's acceptance speech

Nobel Peace Prize, Norway 16 June 2012

 

Bacteria to mine minerals, from seawater

Using bacteria to biologically "mine" minerals from the sea,

out of brine waste from reverse osmosis desalination process..

Singapore may now tap into the vast natural resource: an endowment of the sea,

abundantly upon the island's shores, and achieve water security in the island state.

Dilemma, in logical form

“If a certain condition or policy leads to a given outcome and

if the pursuit of the opposite measure or policy leads to the same outcome,

then that is the outcome that will result.

No matter what you do, you get that outcome.

So, in choosing what to do, you have only a choice of means, not of ends.”

“That, ..is what you call a dilemma.”

“And if the outcome to which you are being delivered,

like it or not, is an unwelcome, unpleasant and unbearable one,

then what you are facing is a disaster.”

Clive S Kessler
Emeritus Professor of Sociology & Anthropology
University of New South Wales, Sydney

So, logically.. pursue the measure that will change the condition.