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Nothing matters unless and until it scales. There are scores of these little examples of doing this sort of thing in a lab.
by candyman 5y ago
Nothing matters unless and until it scales. There are scores of these little examples of doing this sort of thing in a lab.
- VBprogrammer 5y agoSurely the converse is true: nothing ever happened at scale which didn't start off as a little example on a lab bench?
- troymc 5y agoThe vast majority of the living things on Earth didn't start off on a lab bench, they just mutated and evolved "out there," in nature. Therefore the converse is not true.
- countvonbalzac 5y agoMutations don't happen at scale, they occur in single organisms. Therefore the converse is true!
- SantalBlush 5y agoAnd this is a useless, low-effort point to make. If we waited for a technology to scale before posting about it on HN, it would already be old news.
- etrautmann 5y agoThe cautionary statements occasionally make sense for announcements around battery tech in particular. Here I agree it’s not useful
- Maarten88 5y agoI think the publication describes they scaled it to a 120L pilot reactor and ran the process continuously for 3 weeks feeding it 11 to 23 L of gas per min.