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11 days agowell, the idea that you can’t is a far fetch. battery installments are growing exponentially; it’s possible to produce clean hydrogen and burn it half a year later.
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we can already put a nuclear fission power plant into a spaceship to generate very fast effective exhaust velocities.
i’m not sure what the exact reason is why we aren’t doing this already, but i suspect it has a lot to do with ease-of-use and price being significantly on the side of chemicals
the only reason why we use nuclear power on submarines at all is because there’s literally no other power source for them. they have to stay underwater for weeks / months, chemical fuel to run life support system for that long would be difficult to bring, no solar energy because underwater, battery would be insanely heavy … nuclear is the only option there.
that’s not true for spaceships. for launch, chemicals are available and cheaper / fire up faster. for mid-flight, solar panels are available.
yeah a lot of times i could just look things up myself but i feel like it’s much much more fun to talk to other people about it instead, hear their opinions and perspectives. i ask a lot of stupid questions on the fediverse.
actually, it’s a parameter
this will be by far the largest vanadium flow battery in the world, especially outside china
in 10 years, nobody will use instagram because every post will be AI generated. or rather, you won’t be able to tell whether it’s AI generated.
3·30 days agoi literally had this discussion like a week ago on lemmy where i argued that extinct animals can be brought back to life with genetic engineering techniques.
i think that linux usage will stagnate around 10% of people using it, with 90% instead choosing not to operate any computer at all …