Have you ever taken it apart before? I wonder if the liquid metal thermal interface has leaked out or oxidized.
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Another way to view it is that college classes are filled with your future colleagues, and should be treated similar to a workplace. Students should generally dress similarly to how they expect to dress in their future workplaces. Whether that excludes a tank top is a matter of discretion, but clearly the proffesor did not find it to be professional. There's no hard and fast rule, but I am surprised by the indignant tone in the comments here. Lectures are the domain of the professor and its not outlandish for them to set expectations about what they consider acceptable conduct for their lectures.
The issue is that it's a waste of resources. A dam is harnessing energy from the rainfall over hundreds to thousands of square miles of land area. So the resources required to build it, even though large, are very efficiently used over decades of use.
A tiny system uses orders of magnitude less materials but harvests many orders of magnitude less power. A tiny system probably isn't going to ever generate more energy than it took to manufacture.
Systems like this are at best a novelty. We need to all be wary of greenwashed scams, and this is one of them.
Hegseth has got to stop leaking his chats.
Is he mad that young adults can stay on their parents' health plan until age 26?
It's actually a banana for scale, but photoshopped to look like a B17.
Not real.
And in this climate, I find this flavor of satire more exhausting than funny.
My response to Donald's taxes tariffs and his plans for the economy. I encourage you to do the same.
The winning move is for a significant portion of the population to cut as much discretionary spending as possible. We will need the savings for the recession anyway.
Granted, ceasing discretionary spending at a significant fraction is likely to trigger/deepen a recession.
The other benefit I can think of is keeping the fissile materials always sub critical. You don't have to worry about a meltdown if the reaction is not self-sustaining. It's an odd marrying of technologies, but I think people are being too dismissive.
Although, I wonder if the true purpose of such a device would be high output breeding of fuel for weapons use.
It is April 1st, just in case anyone else needs a reminder.
The North Carolina legislature has a supermajority of far right republicans. The NC GOP is currently brazenly attempting to throw out legitimate ballots to steal a state supreme court seat, and the courts are going along with it. If they want to move for political concerns, I don't think NC is enough of an improvement to justify the disruption involved.