adammunich

It really is almost useless, there's not really a way to get useful 3D models out anymore.

China

This seems absolutely important

Reply to his email now?

Radium paint was very very expensive, I'd wager it's just a regular phosphorescent paint.

It's still very radioactive and putting new silver-activated zinc sulphide phosphor on the dials (a risky proposition) will make it glow again.

It's really hard to comprehend just how much heat a reactor can make from decay alone. Like... boiling a hot tub in only a minute.

"we support housing, just not in our neighborhood"

Processing uranium ore by the ton, a few grams per ton!

Yes, she did bring it back in her purse. As well she would keep a vial as a pocket toy to show off at parties (it ionizes the air and glows blue).

Her textbooks are still very radioactive.

Half the battle is hardware, who's going to make the computers that will run in Alaska, and Mexico, for 20+ years?

Yeah I'd love to hear some stories too!

It probably will be something stupid like the e-bart transfer in Antioch is

With every lithium-sulfur battery I've come across you need to have a lot of steel clamping plates together because they expand so much when charging, and will otherwise delaminate. So ultimately they become the same mass.

This includes the oxis energy battery mentioned here.

This is a really neat idea

Won't this just encourage China to make their own system like they're doing with computer chips now?

It's about owning the libs... righteous indignation

Are wires about to get cheaper?

In Russia the government set up a process to have people freed from contracts during the pandemic, using this legal concept.

Some companies collected those loans and still didn't pay employees. I've seen this unfold personally too and it has really shaken my respect for American businessmen...

Can you provide an example? Last I checked white light lasers were $16,000

Can they really trademark the name of an element? That seems absurd.

This is a curious thought, can you explain further?

Why not fabric?

A lot of people still use gas for hot water heating in the northern USA. Electric hot water heaters often use too much power for them to be replaced. Some sort of battery-powered heater might help here.

Really, I need to hear this!

Go out on the street and talk to some young folks in Oakland, Richmond, Los Angeles... You won't find their story in some academic journal or news article.

Never heard one person planning on selling to major food buyers. Everyone knows that's a losing game. Farmers markets and co-ops give much better prices.

It's not about money though. The motivations are to get away from money actually, and to just have your needs met. You can eat like a king for a month just from a single pig slaughter.

I've been talking to a decent number of wealthy people about this subject and sometimes their responses are deafening. I don't think it's malice but rather plain ignorance. It's hard to understand the frustrations of the poor when you live in a fancy house and make tech money.

I'll never forget when I was told by one person, "if people are mad that companies are making all this money they should just buy their stock!" Let them eat cake if there ever was a parallel...

I wouldn't say the folks I know who are moving to farms intend to go into the business. More so as a means of seeing it as a way to find solid footing so they can escape many years of landlords having a tight grip on their income.

Absolutely agreed. The K-12 problem seems to be one exacerbated by school leaders optimizing for things that can be graded and "tested" in the name of "standardization and fairness". But when it comes to fostering discovery, like science education should, it doesn't always fit that "standard model" if you will...