Interesting discovery! I’d bet oil and petrochemical companies would be all over funding and trying to commercialize this research, because it means we wouldn’t need to fully “wean off plastics”…
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Interesting discovery! I’d bet oil and petrochemical companies would be all over funding and trying to commercialize this research, because it means we wouldn’t need to fully “wean off plastics”…
I reckon the hot dogs, pizza and other junk I’m having often are going to kill me faster than plastic is.
I can’t help but imagine the university took the “how many engineers, managers, etc. does it take to change a lightbulb” joke and turned it into a practical computer science problem for space colonization.
That’s a cool simulation tool and research like this will definitely help accelerate technology for habitating Mars.
That is a cool chemistry experiment! Thank you for sharing!
A rare opportunity for a scientific story to have a proper beginning middle and end. I liked it even if it’s too bad LK-99 isn’t a superconductor, I was hopeful because of the relative ease of synthesis the result could be better checked.
Last couple years have been big strides in the Fusion energy sphere for sure. While we’re still far away from grid-scale fusion energy production, observation that had not been realized in the lab before are coming about, including net positive energy reactions, and also a sustained high-temperature fusion environment from a South Korean lab.
The caveat for this experiment (from the December numbers at least), 2.15MW was delivered to the target via laser, but the fuel needed to power that laser was more than the 3MW output from it, and harnessing that power still involves losses. I didn’t see what the numbers were this time but apparently they are better according to the article. These are still great steps towards viable fusion energy.
It’s only a matter of time until there’s a hegetsus@jesusloves.you community for religion-funded BS, then a companion community heget_sus@jesusloves.sex to match it.
Land Shrimp/Forest Shrimp. That’s a new one for me.