Durozzle is just a brand name slapped on some Chinese manufacturer. It’s probably fine, but I doubt anybody is going to come out raving about it compared to everything else on Amazon.
IIRC, rubies are great at handling abrasive filaments, but they lack accuracy. Been a while since I looked into them, though. I use abrasive filaments so seldom that I can consider a cheap nozzle to be a disposable part of the project. Metal is generally one of the easier things to recycle.
Just commenting on that thumbnail pic. It’s interesting how it could just be a school. By which I mean actual schools and juvenile detention aren’t that far apart.
Yes, and we’re already seeing prices go negative with that mix. This shouldn’t happen (at least not very often) if it’s built properly.
Gelsinger wanted to do it. Biden Admin shut it down, saying the federal money they were getting to build a fab was contingent on them staying together.
Hypersonics, at least, are likely overrated. They reduce the window between detection and countermeasure deployment. They also can’t maneuver very well without losing their hypersonic speed or generating too much heat, and therefore travel on a predictable course.
Drones have been the champion technology of the Ukraine war, and that’s probably the future. Of course, those are also a reason why a Golden Dome plan wouldn’t work.
That’s actually a problem.
All realistic plans for 100% renewable (or even 95% renewable, which is substantially easier) rely on a multipronged approach of wind, water, solar, and grid upgrades. Each one has upsides and downsides, but you can use the upsides of one to cover the downsides of another. Combined, you get a reliable grid based on intermittent but cheap sources.
Capitalism sees this plan and decides to deploy the one with the best immediate ROI. Which happens to be solar. Problem is that you can’t just rely on solar. The grid is hitting limits where electrical production is sending prices to basically zero at certain times, but not able to provide enough the rest of the time. That will shift the economic incentives. Eventually.
It’ll figure out what researchers have already written down, but it’ll take too long to get there.
It makes more sense when you remember all these people come from a corporate environment who think in terms of NDAs for protecting secrets.
Typical. Bunch of failures at the top. Better check all the people who get the actual work done.
Then what’s needed is to organize smart engineers. This doesn’t need anyone like Musk. It can happen in a nationalized company connected to state-funded universities; tends to be easier to do when you don’t have a whole political party dedicated to sabotaging any attempt at this and then claiming it can’t work. All Musk does is extract value from the process for himself, and then make sure that political party stays at the top.