SmoothIsFast

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[–] SmoothIsFast@citizensgaming.com 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Sounds like from the properties of graphene they are able to turn its thermal energy to electrical so long as the material isn't at absolute zero (obviously or then it would be a perpetual motion like machine), plus i dont see anything that says this process is lossless just high efficiency. It's definitely not perpetual motion eventually the system would lose all thermal energy and no longer output any electrical energy. If producing waste heat meant perpetual motion, geothermal would also be classified as perpetual motion, but it isn't lossless. It seems like it's essentially a heat pump at a much smaller scale where the ambient temp of the room keeps the graphene's thermal energy charged in a way. Idk nothing on this seems unintuitive unless they start trying to claim it has massive outputs. I'm guessing this is something that could help power some micro sensors by using heat in the environment but not for anything larger as you'd probably need massive sheets of graphene and they havent really said anything about scaling. Although word of caution I'm only a software engineer not a theoretical physicist, so take my ramblings with a grain of salt and defer to any actual physicists in the comments here haha

[–] SmoothIsFast@citizensgaming.com 4 points 2 years ago (12 children)

Wouldn't this just slowly cool the ambient temp around the material. I'm guessing there would be practical limits on how quickly this could create power but it doesn't seem to be claiming to create free energy just extract it from ambient Temps no?

To be fair, they haven't really had much actual power recently, we never really have enough dems in the house and senate to actually get things pushed through without bipartisan support which know won't come for anything that benefits the people. While there are definitely corrupt people in the democrats, as a whole their inaction ties more to stalled efforts which needed bipartisan support vs. not trying to push for changes. When you know you won't get enough traction to get something done do you waste resources there or try and find something that's workable.

Gpt 4 is more convincing without any less hallucinations, it's not better its worse due to that fact.

[–] SmoothIsFast@citizensgaming.com 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Maybe before they just decided they could make it bigger without much refinement and now have a completely shit system that's just a glorified chat bot with a high ego to assert its false knowledge.

People aren't stupid we know how to fucking rank things. Undervoting occurs when they don't like any of the candidates, having ranked choice means independents and non dem/rep parties can actually have a chance and so people will be more willing to vote. You act like this isn't a wildly successful model for democratic voting used throughout the rest of the world. Fuck off...

[–] SmoothIsFast@citizensgaming.com 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Fuck off its done else where in the world without issue and maybe we could finally vote for people who value education and individuality so less educated voters could get support, they cherry picked a quote to make a racist statement and keep their power. Fuck off with your racist and corporate apologist attitude, honestly.

It's racism point blank, no need to act like these assholes are anything more than that. Democrats are now also trying to pander to some of the racists as Trump has, we need ranked choice now more than ever.

[–] SmoothIsFast@citizensgaming.com -1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Our both choices were not great and having a system where you arent choosing between corporate shill one and two would aid that.... stop apologizing for assholes being racist and power hungry. Black people aren't stupid. Say what you really mean instead of pandering around it....

From what's read, those capacitors are needed to run the high wattage lasers, i.e. they need the charge to be stable and attempt to sustain self-sustaining reactions, the time they get for the reaction is the time it takes the capacitors to discharge. Doesn't seem like any of the headlines are doing anything but baseless hype acting like we have a reaction that created more enegry than was used to create it. Sure repeating the same reaction is progress but that's not what is being sensationalized, the cherry picked energy consumption vs production stats is and its extremely misleading.

Your s and p 500 is not filled with corporate real estate bonds, the hedge funds shorting and pumping the market are using these bonds for collateral to play the opposite side of your investment. Stop acting like this has a negative effect on the general populace. If anything it would be a boost to the regular folks as those short the s and p would lose collateral and have to buy back in on their short positions, increasing the return of 401ks and the like. It harms the most enriched funds that short almost everything in our market after supplying unlimited VC funding to inflate the companies value before IPO. This particular problem is squarely an elite problem not a general one ffs.

Talk about a completely trash meme. Go take your sexism and shitty understanding of development somewhere else.

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