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Hydrogen is absolutely useless as a fuel. You're better off using LNG fuel cells if you want to use them.Nanodiamonds are key to efficient hydrogen purification
Kyoto, Japan (SPX) Dec 17, 2021 - Nanodiamonds may be tiny, but they can help with one of the biggest problems facing humanity today: Climate change. Hydrogen, a clean-burning fuel, leaves nothing but water when consumed. Many countwww.oilgasdaily.com
Well big machines are usually just a collection of small machines, so in the stores for 2024...NOT T-1000 and most likely limited to small scale or small components, but very elegant:
How to build machines from liquid metal
Small blobs of liquid-metal alloy can replace troublesome moving partswww.economist.com
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OK, I'll admit I read that without verifying. If it is the case, imagine the police radio: 'In pursuit of a white BMW... wait, a black BMW, no, Red... Heliotrope... it's teal with orange spots... (sigh) in pursuit of a currently fuchsia... F*ck! PLAID! MacGregor tartan I think...'
Is it? It may depend upon how you use it. The real advantage of hydrogen is that it's easily acquirable and very plentiful. From what I understand at the moment is the method of converting it to electricity can be somewhat cumbersome and the supply infrastructure is non existent in many countries. However the in-vehicle technology will improve as will the infrastructure. It just takes time. Of course the ultimate power pack is the fusion reactor and once the science and engineering is sorted with that, there will be a complete revolution in human energy applications. There's still some significant problems to solve.Hydrogen is absolutely useless as a fuel. You're better off using LNG fuel cells if you want to use them.Nanodiamonds are key to efficient hydrogen purification
Kyoto, Japan (SPX) Dec 17, 2021 - Nanodiamonds may be tiny, but they can help with one of the biggest problems facing humanity today: Climate change. Hydrogen, a clean-burning fuel, leaves nothing but water when consumed. Many countwww.oilgasdaily.com
That's quite interesting and if it is combined with nano computing the options could be mind blowing. Add AI to the equation and then we probably have a dilemma in the making.Well big machines are usually just a collection of small machines, so in the stores for 2024...NOT T-1000 and most likely limited to small scale or small components, but very elegant:
How to build machines from liquid metal
Small blobs of liquid-metal alloy can replace troublesome moving parts
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That's quite interesting and if it is combined with nano computing the options could be mind blowing. Add AI to the equation and then we probably have a dilemma in the making.Well big machines are usually just a collection of small machines, so in the stores for 2024...NOT T-1000 and most likely limited to small scale or small components, but very elegant:
How to build machines from liquid metal
Small blobs of liquid-metal alloy can replace troublesome moving parts
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I have considerable misgivings about AI too. IMHO there are significant ethical, moral, and legal issues that have to be discussed and finalised before it should be used, especially WRT military applications.That's quite interesting and if it is combined with nano computing the options could be mind blowing. Add AI to the equation and then we probably have a dilemma in the making.Well big machines are usually just a collection of small machines, so in the stores for 2024...NOT T-1000 and most likely limited to small scale or small components, but very elegant:
How to build machines from liquid metal
Small blobs of liquid-metal alloy can replace troublesome moving parts
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I'm actually with Elon Musk on that one in that all but the most rudimentary AIs should be avoided if not banned.
It's just not sensible to create something that is more intelligent than you and whose motivations you don't understand.
Currently, if it's possible, someone somewhere will eventually try to do it. The institutions that exist today are simply not capable of dealing with it - consider nuclear proliferation or agreements on dealing with global warming. There has been some commentary calling for a cyber version of the Treaty of Wesphalia, which is credited with establishing the concept of national sovereignty (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westphalian_sovereignty). Could there be an agreement on human sovereignty? It's going to be one hell of a challenge to establish universal limits on AI and enforce them. Whether it should be done or not may well be the great ideological conflict of the remainder of the century.
It's absolutely horrid because it is stupid-hard to contain. If you mess up one tinny bit of the liquefication process, the entire batch is turned to its gaseous state with all the fun that it entails. Also, you have to utilize specialized pipes to move hydrogen, as it also makes metals brittle (and not because liquid hydrogen is stupid-cold). It is also impossible to store for extended periods, partially because it makes its own escape routes. Then there is the required volume. 1 ton of liquid hydrogen is roughly 14 cubic meters (to the point that the tabletop RPG Traveller uses it as a base measurement for the various ships), and if you're looking to have anything resembling protection (even if it's just micrometeor and radiation protection), this makes it impossible.Is it? It may depend upon how you use it. The real advantage of hydrogen is that it's easily acquirable and very plentiful. From what I understand at the moment is the method of converting it to electricity can be somewhat cumbersome and the supply infrastructure is non existent in many countries. However the in-vehicle technology will improve as will the infrastructure. It just takes time. Of course the ultimate power pack is the fusion reactor and once the science and engineering is sorted with that, there will be a complete revolution in human energy applications. There's still some significant problems to solve.Hydrogen is absolutely useless as a fuel. You're better off using LNG fuel cells if you want to use them.Nanodiamonds are key to efficient hydrogen purification
Kyoto, Japan (SPX) Dec 17, 2021 - Nanodiamonds may be tiny, but they can help with one of the biggest problems facing humanity today: Climate change. Hydrogen, a clean-burning fuel, leaves nothing but water when consumed. Many countwww.oilgasdaily.com
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I (barely) remember that when I was in school I wrote a story about mad scientist who tried to conquer the world with unburstable bubbles. This must be how it begins.French physicists developed a bubble that didn't burst for more than a year
Researchers from the University of Lille said their sphere lasted for 465 days.
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MIT scientists filed two patents on a new, 2D material that's stronger than steel
Scientists at MIT have created a new 2D material that's stronger than metal! And it could enhance the robustness of bridge-building materials.
That wouldn't be the case, as AI development is a case of the infamous 'prisoner dilemma'. So it's full steam ahead on AI development and damn the consequences or your geopolitical enemies will get to it first.
MIT scientists filed two patents on a new, 2D material that's stronger than steel
Scientists at MIT have created a new 2D material that's stronger than metal! And it could enhance the robustness of bridge-building materials.
