Sunday, April 9, 2017

Start Your Engines

A Refrigerator? What are we supposed to do with that?

Australian scientists use soybean oil to create graphene
Feb 2017, BBC

We've been waiting some time for this, after all the talk about what graphene can do, making it is finally a practical possibility. I try so hard to imagine what this world will be like in 20 years, after the impact of graphene. Like trying to imagine what facetime is like back in 1990. Or tupperware in the 50's? Ah, the refrigerator in the 30's. I remember seeing a picture of people putting their canned goods in the fridge; they just had no idea what to do with it.

Also note, as it goes, this advancement was not a result of human intent, or at least not in full.

Dr Han said the discovery, detailed in the journal Nature Communications, was made "kind of by accident".

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Australian scientists use soybean oil to create graphene
Feb 2017, BBC

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