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by floxy 1y ago
>Also the early Nissan Leafs, pioneers in the mass-market EV space, had batteries with only air cooling and which experienced significant degradation. Don't forget that beside the chemistry issue in hot environments, the original Le
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_cosmology
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OS/2 is the nostalgic one for me.
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Radial Velocity https://www.planetary.org/articles/color-shifting-stars-the-...
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> >100,000 line multi-threaded C++ W. T. F. Yeah, if this is the state of the reference implementation, then I'm against JPEG-XL just on moral grounds.
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Does anyone have reliability data for USB-C ports? It seems to me like Lightning is more robust to repeated plug/unplug cycles. But this is only on my limited sample size of one laptop with a failed USB-C port and some vague hand wav
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Better to just suck out the heavy elements. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_lifting
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>backing into parking spaces is safer In this age-of-big-data of ours, is there a way to quantify this for EVs? And how we can weigh that with the ease of backing out into a parking lot? Also, I'm curious on the percentage of EVs
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by floxy 1y ago
This seems more like a way to help kick-start commercially viable fusion plants, rather than a way to mass produce gold.
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Seems like you are interested in section 5.2.4 of the paper: https://www.marathonfusion.com/alchemy.pdf > Since the process described here permanently transmutes mercury into a valuable material, it is possible that fusi
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Your source [1] is claiming 10.04% +/-0.003% for Mercury-198 abundance.
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They are engineering their tritium breeding to produce excess neutrons to transmute the mercury to gold.
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There are 7 stable isotopes of mercury, and mercury-198 makes up ~10% of naturally occurring mercury. The paper covers a lot of ground here, see section 5.2.2 "Mercury Isotope Separation", where they are shooting for $2.4/kg
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Yes, that is their selling point https://www.marathonfusion.com/alchemy.pdf
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>allegedly synthesizing gold in large volumes Are they alleging they are currently synthesizing gold? Seems like they are saying, if you do X, Y, and Z with a fusion reactor at some time in the future, you will also get gold as a byprod
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>In practice, given that much of all gold is used to store value and is not actively in use, we do not expect the need to store it for 7–17 years to be a major impediment; at worst, it means that the product will initially have somewhat
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by floxy 1y ago
From the paper: >Using neutronics simulations, we demonstrate a tokamak with a blanket configuration that can produce 197Au at a rate of about 2 t/GWth/yr.
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https://www.homedepot.com/p/Olson-Saw-5-in-L-Pin-End-Scroll-...
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by floxy 1y ago
The scroll saw seems like about the safest power saw that a kid could use. But every one I've ever owned/used could definitely cut human flesh. Maybe someone could come up with one that has a very limited range of motion, so tha
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>the money we should have been using to subsidize and kick-start American automakers Does anyone have a good source for the amount of U.S. Federal and State governments EV subsidies since, say 2011? I guess it would be good to break out
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What I should have done is look up companies by market cap, instead of just picking them off-the-cuff. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_public_corporations_by... ..there are some other interesting companies to con
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Juggling
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Amazon ($2.3T)? Microsoft ($3.7T)? Meta ($1.8T)?
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> It costs around $26,000 in Europe, where it recently debuted. I wonder how it compares to the Nissan Leaf. The 2025 models are heavily discounted right now in the U.S., where you can get the S Trim (40 kWh battery) for around $19,000,
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Roundtrip Interstellar Travel Using Laser-Pushed Lightsails https://ia800108.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/24...
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>these unfortunate people spend pretty much their whole lives bouncing around from scam to scam. Should these people be eligible to vote?
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How was Iran storing the enriched uranium? If these were just ingots, why couldn't they just dig them out of the rubble? Seems like uranium is used for armor plating, so presumably pretty tough and heat resistant. Different story if
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Are there any known entities working on missions that would assay impact sites for valuable minerals? Will be interesting to see if mining or professional sports will be first to the moon. https://docs.google.com/presentati
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https://www.today.com/health/man-eating-only-mcdonalds-100-d...
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>also consider that most people can only afford (and have space for) one car, perhaps two if they're upper-middle class or have really old second hand ones In the U.S., something like 59% of households own two or more cars. 22% hav

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