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.
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.
Apparently the materials aren’t extraordinarily rare and the process to create it isn’t too mindboggling. It should be possible for other labs to produce and test.
Excellent news. It’s disappointing that the authorities had tacitly permitted the mine to continue operating, bringing noise pollution and carcinogens to the local population.
The Socialist and Environment parties have to come together a little more. People appear to be tired of milquetoast moderates, right-wing movements under the cover of populism and spouting anti-immigrant rhetoric are taking advantage of this swing. Leftists should as well.
Strange, it still shows a signup screen for me…
It’s kind of funny when you look at this “What’s happening” artwork from the lens of Twitter having an existential crisis.
Land Shrimp/Forest Shrimp. That’s a new one for me.