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She found a 1% increase in turbine blade efficiency, with a pencil, and her brain, in her "spare" time. Not just turbine blade, but any airofoil that is spinni
by metalman 2y ago
She found a 1% increase in turbine blade efficiency, with a pencil, and her brain, in her
"spare" time.
Not just turbine blade, but any airofoil that is spinning.
And no one finds 1%, all at once anymore, or that was the conventional thinking, with the 1% or better days, long long gone, but here it is.
- MrLeap 2y agoI don't think she found a 1% increase in efficiency. I think she was being aspirational as to what her contribution could lead to.
- pinoy420 2y ago[flagged]
- empath75 2y agoI love that she did that, but I really get annoyed by college PR departments reaching for practical applications for anything cool done in math. IMO refining a 100 year old problem is good enough for a press release!
- wakawaka28 2y ago[dead]
- wakawaka28 2y agoIt sounded like the subject of her thesis, suggested by her advisor, as opposed to a random fun problem.