 27" like the old iMac Pro with internal PSU, they can fit a Duo chip no problem. With the chin layout, it's less likely but maybe they can find a way to make it work.
They can fit the PSU in the new style as well. A 27-32" enclosure will open It up thermally as well.
Even if it is a few millimeters thicker, that's a nonissue.
The iPad Pro manages an M1 and 16GB inside an impossibly thin enclosure - WITH battery included.
An iMac can tuck in the power supply like it always has and includes big Apple Silicon power without concern. A Chin is not even necessary to do so.
The chin just kind of makes the current M1 iMac look old. Hopefully, it looks proportionally way better on the iMac Pro. if they keep it.Hitting the road: Interview with The McClymonts.
Sister act The McClymonts have been a permanent fixture on country charts for over a decade now. In that time they have released five albums and have won two ARIA Awards and a treasure trove of Golden Guitar Awards. In the middle of 2017 they decided to take a break to concentrate on some side projects and personal milestones. For Sam McClymont, for instance, it was the birth of Sam’s first baby, while Brooke McClymont teamed up with her husband to record their first album together. Interestingly, the hiatus only reaffirmed why they are so loved, as fans began champing at the bits for them to return. And so, after a year off Brooke, Sam and Mollie are hitting the road again with a huge national tour in celebration of the success of their latest single Like We Used To (debuting at #1 on the ARIA Country Charts) and their album Endless that took out the coveted Album of the Year award recently at this year’s Country Music Awards.
Just prior to the beginning of The McClymonts run of shows that will see them play a 23-date National Tour, I had the pleasure to chat with an excited Mollie McClymont. Here is some of what we talked about.
The ‘Like We Used To Tour’ kicks off very soon, what can we expect from The McClymonts?
You can expect a range of songs off our five albums, as well as a few covers. We love to share stories with the audience and let them in on what’s been going on in our lives lately. Of course we love to give them a high energy, rockin’ show.
Will you be sneaking any new material into your show?
You’ll have to come to a show to find out!
Which songs do you perform most frequently? Is there a difference between your favourites and fan favourites?
Kick it up! Its definitely a fan favourite and it has become a favourite of ours as well because everyone is singing, dancing and always having a good time when we play it.
It must be really amazing to watch your audience grow and see some of the same people coming back and new fans too. Do you have a great fan story you can share?
We start to know some of our fans by name as they come to so many of ours shows which is awesome! A young country fan named Shaz got our song lyrics tattooed on her wrist! We’ve had a couple more tattoo stories since… now that is a true fan! So cool!
What are your rehearsals generally like? Do you have a set routine or are most things spontaneous?
They are very planned out. We make sure there’s a setlist before we get to rehearsals so everyone knows what is going on, then if we have to move a song here or there because it’s not sitting right in the set, we move it. We work out our segways, and make sure the show runs as smoothly as possible. We like to be polished!
How have your live shows evolved since you first began playing together?
The McClymonts are indeed quite the family affair! Do you think this has had an impact on your music in anyway?
Yes of course. I think there’s something very special about family bands, they just seem to blend without trying.
Recently on your social media sites The McClymonts said, “We have always loved each other. But having children has certainly made us appreciate and value one another so much more. It has made us realise that family is the most important thing, no matter what.” Do you think there will never be a day when you say goodbye to music for family sake?
We have been a band for 12 years, in that time we have ironed out all of the teething issues like any business and we make sure we are all on the same page before doing anything. I don’t think we will ever say goodbye, we are just getting started.
Do you ever feel nostalgic about all that you have achieved as a family?
Yes of course! I always look back and can’t help but feel so proud of everything we have achieved and gone through together.
Finally, I certainly hope there is another album around the corner. Are there any plans for a pending new release for the future?
Yes there is! We are set for a Jan 2019 release, but that does mean we need to get our butts into gear and actually record the thing!
For tickets and touring information on The McClymonts Like We Used TO Tour click HERE. You can also connect with the McClymonts via their Facebook page. Follow them on Instagram and Twitter. Listen to them via Spotify. Watch to them on You Tube.
Photo credit: All images are supplied by the PR team Revolutions Per Minute. I am not the uploader of You Tube clips embedded here.
March 27, 2013
Solar Structure Cools Even When The Sun Is Shining
Peter Suciu for redOrbit.com — Your Universe Online
It has long been known that light colors can reflect heat, while dark colors can absorb heat, but it is all a matter of light. This is because light is energy and darker colors have greater absorption, thus more heat. Even light-colored materials, such as cement or concrete, can absorb heat during the day and release it at night.
Because buildings are used primarily during the day, it is typically required to cool them during the summer months, especially during the daylight hours. However, a team of researchers from Stanford University has devised a new form of cooling structure that could remain cool, even when the sun is shining on it. The researchers are looking to take a cue from outerspace.
The structure could change the way buildings, cars and other structures are cooled in the day, by reflecting the sunlight back into the space.
The team published their findings in the March 5 edition of Nano Letters, published by the American Chemical Society.
2 at ambient temperature. This cooling persists in the presence of significant convective/conductive heat exchange and nonideal atmospheric conditions,” the researchers wrote in the paper´s Abstract.
As the sun heats the planet and makes life possible, space beyond the Earth´s atmosphere is far less inviting.
“People usually see space as a source of heat from the sun, but away from the sun outer space is really a cold, cold place,” said.”
To actually reflect the heat, a reflector is used that can reflect as much of the sunlight as possible, while the second challenge is for the structure to efficiently radiate the heat back into space. To accomplish this, the structure in question must emit thermal radiation as efficiently as possible within a specific wavelength range into the atmosphere.
However, outside of the specific range, the Earth´s atmosphere actually reflects the light back down, creating a so-called “greenhouse effect,” which is believed by some researchers to be the cause of climate change.
The Stanford team has created a structure that could accomplish both goals in that it could reflect the light, and then radiate it back into space. It can effectively reflect most of the sunlight, but then emit the thermal radiation within the crucial wavelength range required for it to escape Earth´s atmosphere.
While radiative cooling at night has also been considered, peak demand for cooling still occurs during the daylight hours when the sun is shining. The team has been successful in utilizing nanostructured photonic materials, which can be engineered to enhance or suppress light reflection within certain wavelengths.
“No one had yet been able to surmount the challenges of daytime radiative cooling–of cooling when the sun is shining,” said the paper´s co-first-author, Eden Rephaeli, a doctoral candidate in Fan´s lab. “It´s a big hurdle.”
The team´s unique approach has differed from other efforts in this area and has combined the thermal emitter and solar reflector into a single device, one that offers higher performance, and is thus much more robust. The team created these engineered nanophotonic materials, which were able to suppress how much heat-inducing sunlight the panels absorbed, while further radiating the heat more effectively.
The material was made of quartz and silicon carbide, which are both very weak absorbers of sunlight. This allowed for a potential of achieving a net cooling power in excess of 100 watts per square meter.
The result would mean a typical one-story, single-family home with just ten percent of its roof covered by this material could offset 35 percent of the entire air conditioning needs during even the hottest hours of the summer.
Moreover, as this is a passive technology, it requires no energy of its own, has no moving parts and should be easy to maintain.Fragmentation inside proton-transfer-reaction-based mass spectrometers limits the detection of