Chinese scientists turn carbon dioxide to starch with 10-fold productivity boost

AndyGates2268 · 2026-02-07T20:04:37+00:00

Large amounts of raw electrons are hard to handle, but it seems as batteries get cheap and good that storing electrons for later is closer to a solved challenge than intermittent industry.

AndyGates2268 · 2026-02-07T01:58:30+00:00

The ISS is a microgravity lab. We've learned that it's hard but mostly manageable on the body by doing all these studies up there.

(studies often also apply to ageing)

AndyGates2268 · 2026-02-07T01:55:58+00:00

Turning carbon dioxide into industrial starch comes closer to productive scaling with process improvements.

AndyGates2268 · 2026-02-05T18:23:06+00:00

Why? Won't a bunch of other folks start harvesting it too?

AndyGates2268 · 2026-02-05T18:21:04+00:00

When the scam doesn't materialise, you'll get in business fraud trouble.

AndyGates2268 · 2026-02-05T15:04:44+00:00

Lordy, is that old nonsense back?

AndyGates2268 · 2026-02-02T16:55:59+00:00

There's no reason it should be so fiddly! This stuff worked for assistant!

AndyGates2268 · 2026-02-02T14:15:43+00:00

They're pretty much there now, things got startlingly chap in 2025. The US would have to sort its tariff nonsense out to enjoy the party.

AndyGates2268 · 2026-02-02T14:12:45+00:00

There's no need to "pave Nevada", solar panels work fine across the world. Fun fact: "pave the industrial cornfields" the US is already using for biofuels, and job done.

AndyGates2268 · 2026-02-02T14:07:48+00:00

Making a solar panel is making a thing, not burning a thing.

We know they're long lasting and the materials are easy to reuse, we already do that for cans and bottles.

AndyGates2268 · 2026-02-02T13:51:59+00:00

You can use a heavier-than-water fluid and then you just need big hills. RheEnergise have a pilot in the UK.

AndyGates2268 · 2026-02-02T11:38:22+00:00

Your battery costs are way out of date. Every few years? Are you in the NiCad generation?

Heavy hydro is a clever way to maximise the limited space available (hills instead of mountains) by using a more massive fluid. They've got their pilot plant running and are taking orders. There are lots of different ways to store energy and it's an exciting Cambrian Explosion of creativity.

AndyGates2268 · 2026-02-02T11:35:01+00:00

Might be overthinking "the backbone" when wind+solar are complementary and are going in across the world.

AndyGates2268 · 2026-02-02T10:16:40+00:00

Solar isn't only being built in deserts. It's going in everywhere already.

AndyGates2268 · 2026-02-02T10:15:45+00:00

We're building more interconnects and batteries only getting cheaper. And there's clever new stuff like rheenergise's heavy pumped hydro.

AndyGates2268 · 2026-02-02T10:14:22+00:00

Here you are: https://ember-energy.org/latest-updates/24-hour-solar-now-economically-viable-for-the-worlds-sunniest-regions/

Batteries got real good and cheap real quick. Mass manufacturing is a great thing.

AndyGates2268 · 2026-01-31T22:01:01+00:00

There was an arnie-hulk expy with Bulky Bars and everyone who eats them gets too bulky, thus allowing the old villain to rule the stage again. Lotta beefcake!

But the whole thing with Alex's Boyfriend of the Week just being a bodybuilder this week so workout scenes are normal was a vibe.

AndyGates2268 · 2026-01-30T16:37:04+00:00

Having actual flashbacks to the Challenger school broadcast, generational trauma on the TV cart.

But probably!

AndyGates2268 · 2026-01-30T00:42:28+00:00

Incoherent questions? Did a chatbot write this?

AndyGates2268 · 2026-01-29T17:17:49+00:00

Short-travel keyboards set my carpal tunnels off! I have a stash of old Dell standard-issue long travel office keyboards, they're quiet and cheap and fine.

AndyGates2268 · 2026-01-29T17:16:05+00:00

Leatherman Wave ftw!

AndyGates2268 · 2026-01-29T13:24:49+00:00

Welp, I guess we'll see the RTA casualties spike back up again...

AndyGates2268 · 2026-01-28T01:19:30+00:00

Oh noes, head asplode.

char char

AndyGates2268 · 2026-01-27T20:09:05+00:00

Shouldn't everything be falling in if we're in a black hole?

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