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I wonder if it would make a good fire retardant. The water would heat up and make steam and burst out along with some CO2 trapped in it.
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Blenders can be replaced. I would worry more about silicosis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicosis
Or pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. Been waiting for 25 years to use that word seriously. :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilico...
I wonder if it would make a good fire retardant. The water would heat up and make steam and burst out along with some CO2 trapped in it.
I suspect that would at least partly depend on how hazardous it is to humans, especially under high temperature/pressure or as an inhalation hazard. Is there an MSDS for dry water?
https://louisville.edu/micronano/files/documents/safety-data...
I'm not sure about any differences due to the grain size or the presence of the water. (And maybe something unusual would happen when the water inside each droplet boils due to proximity to the flame -- I don't know what would happen as the droplets rupture.)
Apparently one can make dry water with a blender - mix fine silica powder and water in a 1:19 ratio (by mass) and put it in a blender for a few minutes. I'm not going to risk my blender to try it, so who's first?
Blenders can be replaced. I would worry more about silicosis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicosis
Apparently one can make dry water with a blender - mix fine silica powder and water in a 1:19 ratio (by mass) and put it in a blender for a few minutes. I'm not going to risk my blender to try it, so who's first?
Blenders can be replaced. I would worry more about silicosis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicosis
One step closer to Dehydrated Water from Space Quest I, an essential part of the Survival Kit... as I'm sure many of you here undoubtedly know.
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In many fields there are waves with the patent expiration cycle, for instance 3D printing or VR. As the patents expire there is a flurry of new research, everyone obtains new patents and it becomes impossible to create viable products again, until the patents expire and the cycle begins again.
That's very interesting, especially considering that patents were originally created to incentivize people to publish details of inventions so they could be publicly known and accessible in perpetuity. To better uphold their original purpose, perhaps the patent rights period should be shortened to 6 years or thereabouts.
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That's very interesting, especially considering that patents were originally created to incentivize people to publish details of inventions so they could be publicly known and accessible in perpetuity. To better uphold their original purpose, perhaps the patent rights period should be shortened to 6 years or thereabouts.
Patents are only a problem for technologies with successful application. Ideally, once you have covered the R&D cost, it should be free for all. Technologies without successful application is the interesting case. With patents, like in this case, they are locked for a while, but at least someone can pick them up. The alternative is to become lost in the archive of some R&D department. That said, that's difficult to s…
Not unless the R&D cost includes all of the R&D into unsuccessful products that didn't get productized.
Also complicating the debate is pharmaceuticals, where you're also covering the cost of FDA approval, clinical trials, etc. Per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_drug_development this cost comes out to several billion per successful drug among established players. (A single drug is several hundred million, but most drugs fail.)
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Sounds interesting - Do you have a link for that, or if you've got time could you explain?
There's a lot of literature on this; Wikipedia has a decent starting point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_sequestration#Geologica... TL;DR: if you compress CO2 to above 73 bar, it becomes supercritical fluid, which has a density almost like water and which does not mix with water. If we inject this fluid into underground saline aquifers, we can trap it indefinitely. Basically exactly the reverse of producing o…
Throwback to the greatest debate of all time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPDdRrMVEnA
"Moisture is the essence of wetness" - Derek Zoolander