@readbeanicecream I think the economy is largely going to make the decision. Lab-grown meats are going to get better and cheaper until most feedlot meat can't compete anymore. You'll still have the aspirational meats, but it will still be debatable whether they're worth the extra money other than bragging rights.
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@BrerChicken Quote checks out, since a ball of dung a pretty good comparison to almost anything to do with hydrogen.
@Detry 10...9...
I was asked a couple years ago what's keeping us from having walking, talking robots that can at least pass as human to a drunk guy, this is the tech that I named. I figured we'd have good language and voice models by then (and we pretty much do), but the movement of biological systems is really hard to emulate with servos or other actuators. Muscles have the quality where they get thicker as they get shorter and can do so continuously. That goes a long way to making a face move in a realistic way.
We've had artificial muscles for some time, but they either require high energy, need to get hot to contract (and are therefore slow to cycle), or require dangerously high voltages. This one solves the high voltages problem by going miniature. You can get the high fields you need in much smaller voltages that way. It's still early days, but this could be a game changer.
This seems like a poorly designed experiment to me. People providing partial information about a word that's "on the tip of their tongue," would be expected to make wrong guesses. If they could make the right guesses, then there are good odds that they would be able to reconstruct/recollect the word. You could just as easily interpret this as the word having been "misfiled" so that its recall is blocked by incorrect information associated with it.
I get TOT far more often than I would like, but there's almost always a word that I get to eventually.
@SmolderingSauna Sorry, I'm coming from a PhD in chemistry, and that's BS. There is more than one process to recycle the the metals in batteries, and they're all >98% recovery. Atoms are atoms. They're not alchemically trasmuted into other elements.
The reason that they're being used is because they're still good. When they're no longer good, they can be recycled. It's just going to take another decade before we have a substantial need for recycling them. That's not a bad thing.
@SmolderingSauna That's a false argument that the fossil fuel lobby loves to bring up. The reason there isn't widespread recycling of EV batteries is because 99% of all the EV batteries that have been made are still in operation. The batteries typically outlive the cars, and are put to secondary uses for stationary applications.
https://blog.ucsusa.org/hanjiro-ambrose/the-second-life-of-used-ev-batteries/
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/energy-storage/used-ev-batteries-are-storing-solar-power-at-grid-scale-and-making-money-at-it
If you want to ring your hands about battery waste, the US throws out about 54 megawatt-hours worth of lithium battery storage each month in the form of single-use electronic vapes.
@burgersc12 So the answer is no, you can't. "Extinction" is not a part of it. Let's not use hyperbolic language. It hurts our cause, and gives the fossil fuel lackeys ammunition.
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@Q67916tJ6Z0aWM I see you have some science-deniers giving you had hard time. Beef production is incredibly inefficient, doesn't produce any new nutrients that didn't go into the cow, and produces huge amounts of greenhouse gases. Whether the solution is red algae or lab-grown meat, I can't say, but it's going to get harder and harder to justify. Of course, the "but-my-burger!" snowflakes are going to have a melt down, but it's coming.
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