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| Hydrogen engine setback |
| 2017-03-01 |
| Scientists reportedly say that the world’s only sample of metallic hydrogen, which was touted as potentially revolutionizing technology, has disappeared. I looked in my sock drawer. Its not there. Last month physicists at Harvard University achieved what they described as "the holy grail of high-pressure physics," when they created the first metallic hydrogen material. However, those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things... Science Alert reports that the sample has disappeared, much to the dismay of experts. The sample was stored at temperatures around -316 degrees Fahrenheit, the report said, noting that the metallic hydrogen was kept at high pressure between two diamonds in a vice-like device. Earlier this month the vice failed when testing caused the diamonds to break, according to Science Alert, which says that scientists haven’t been able to find a trace of the metallic hydrogen. "Basically, it’s disappeared," Isaac Silvera, Harvard’s Thomas D. Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences, who led the research, told Science Alert. "It’s either someplace at room pressure, very small, or it just turned back into a gas. We don’t know." |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #8 I posted a story in opinion to update on fusion for some reason it didn't appear |
| Posted by: anon1 2017-03-01 22:40 |
| #7 What happened to LockMart's Fusion Reactor Sill a live R&D effort. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2017-03-01 22:15 |
| #6 I am waiting for Mr. Fusion. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2017-03-01 21:37 |
| #5 don't need it, once we get fusion we can all drive around in elon musk's electrical recharge cars that's the day we kick sand in the soddi national face and qatar |
| Posted by: anon1 2017-03-01 19:26 |
| #4 Hydrogen engines are just stupid as hell. It takes bizzillions of megawatts to draw the hydrogen out of the atmosphere or water and store it or convert it to a "metal" in a controlled space at near zero Kelvin. It will not clean up the atmosphere because you are burning fossil fuels at a record rate to provide energy for the conversion. Most of the enviroweinies advocating these alternate fuels forget that fossil fuels are needed to create most of them...yes I am looking at you Ethanol. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2017-03-01 17:11 |
| #3 Oops! WP: Many scientific studies can’t be replicated. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-03-01 11:15 |
| #2 metallic hydrogen was kept at high pressure between two diamonds in a vice-like device Are the diamonds still there? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-03-01 05:26 |
| #1 Hey buddy, I got yer metallic hydrogen right here. |
| Posted by: BrerRabbit 2017-03-01 05:01 |