That is incorrect. The article is referring to the cost of the infrastructure, not the cost of the electricity that infrastructure produces. Power plants are spec'ed by megawatt (peak).
SMES systems offer grid-level energy storage at about 98% efficiency.
You could also move nuclear reactors to the middle of the desert because no one wants them in their backyard, then losslessly transport their power back to the grid. Same for bringing power from solar and wind installations.
These are just two examples with immediate commercial application. The economics of energy production shift when you eliminate 15% of the cost and distance limitations. That would have a big impact on decarbonization.
Longer term, josephson junctions replace transistors in processors.
You could put nuclear reactors in the middle of the desert today (ignoring cooling for now). The reasons we don't typically do it has nothing to do with resistance.
The premise of this blog was this: the author budgeted 6-8 weeks to tackle a problem that he finished in 3 days. That doesn't make him 10x as productive as someone else. It just means he is really bad at estimating how long it will take to solve a problem.
Estimating how long it will take to figure something out is a devilishly tricky problem.
The things that made me feel older than anything was:
When they recorded the audio clip for their webpage, they used Massive Attack's "Unfinished Sympathy" as the background audio. I still love that tune. Of course, they couldn't get away with using that now without proper licensing.
They have a blanket licence agreements with PRS and similar organisations. IIRC is only covers using some number of seconds of any given track, and to use an entire piece (or larger part there-of) separate permission must be requested (and perhaps paid for).
Yes, the BBC used to license tons of music (still does?), they had some really cool background music for all sorts of stuff by really good artists. Late shows on Radio one used to be legendary for the variety of alternative music they played
Never hold much faith in any proposed new GA aircraft this early in the development process. This announcement basically is a group of people saying "Wouldn't it be cool if we..."
Interesting article.This virus apparently developed a trick where it uses host proteases to clean its own viral envelope, allowing better fusion with host cells.
