Interesting Links for 25-6-2011

• Students discover that Dean is plagiarising his speech - while he gives it. Aint the internet grand?
  (tags: internet plagiarism funny EpicFail academia)
• Claims about how much money can be saved by more efficient government are....about as accurate as you'd expect.
  (tags: money efficiency government)
• What if going to war was as hard as getting an abortion (and vice versa)
  (tags: abortion war funny comic)
• On music, 4'11" and the eternal arguments of what SF really is.
  (tags: music literature writing induction)
• An interesting look at the future for Windows developers. I hope it's correct.
  (tags: windows microsoft .net development silverlight c# windows8 future)
• British study finds two-month extreme diet can cure type 2 diabetes
  (tags: diabetes food health awesome)

Cats and dogs living together

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Electrical Storage

Anyone able to pluck some figures out of the air for the efficiency of converting electricity to heat and then back to electricity again?

(Based on the idea that molten salt at solar plants is apparently very efficient for concentrating and storing the energy that's being collected. Could it be used as a battery in general?)