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Interesting: I had no idea there was an Idaho National Lab. The new electrode is a perovskite which is a crystal structure tangentially related to superconduc
by rrmm 6y ago
Interesting:
I had no idea there was an Idaho National Lab.
The new electrode is a perovskite which is a crystal structure tangentially related to superconductors among other things.
The electrode allows for reversible operation in the 400-600 degC range.
- shodan666 6y agoWorld's first nuclear power plant (BR-I) was located in IDAHO. That why there are some serious NO-FLY zone in Idaho. NAVY is doing some reasearch out there as well.
- BuffaloBagel 6y agoINL (the site) put food on our family's table during my childhood in Idaho Falls.
- aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA 6y agoHome of a deadly reactor explosion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SL-1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SL-1
- rrmm 6y agoI did know about the SL-1 which makes it an even more glaring oversight. Maybe I associated it more with Argonne? I dunno. But that SL-1...dang.
- elcritch 6y agoIt's involved in a lot of nuclear work. One of the first nuclear reactors in the work like was there. They also have strong ties to Boise State's Micron School of Material Science and engineering (Micron as in Crucial RAM brand) [1]. Yes, I'm biased, as I did PhD work there. Fun to watch talks on nuclear engineering. I'll have to look up the group behind the perovskite. No one ever seems to commercialize perovskite tech. Maybe small applications, but nothing large scale? 1: https://www.boisestate.edu/coen-materials/ https://www.boisestate.edu/coen-materials/