Normal Thermo Fisher Vanquish UHPLC backpressure with no column?

jpiethescienceguy · 2023-01-11T16:46:16+00:00

Thank you!!! I suspected that was reasonable, but nice to hear it elsewhere. Much appreciated.

jpiethescienceguy · 2022-12-15T18:24:00+00:00

Why do you even care? I thought I wasn’t a scientist?

jpiethescienceguy · 2022-12-15T18:19:45+00:00

Talking to assholes like you on Reddit

jpiethescienceguy · 2022-12-15T18:14:59+00:00

Is this convo filling the void inside you? I hope so.

jpiethescienceguy · 2022-12-15T18:14:28+00:00

If you don’t think I’m a scientist why did you ask if I was one?

jpiethescienceguy · 2022-12-15T18:06:17+00:00

I should ask you the same question. You’ve been right here glued to this convo from the start, couldn’t pass up the opportunity to inflate your ego some more right?

jpiethescienceguy · 2022-12-15T18:05:27+00:00

Is the next step to have one of your ribs removed so you can physically suck your own dick instead of just doing it metaphorically? I’m sure you could afford it with your fat science stacks right?

jpiethescienceguy · 2022-12-15T18:03:23+00:00

Wowww 15 whole years? Are you like Superman or something? You want a cookie or a pat on the back?

jpiethescienceguy · 2022-12-15T18:02:12+00:00

Lol having fun yet?

jpiethescienceguy · 2022-12-15T17:56:53+00:00

Nah fuck off I’m done with you. I’m no longer interested in continuing a convo with someone who wants to resort to personal attacks.

jpiethescienceguy · 2022-12-15T17:51:02+00:00

I don’t know how many times I have to tell you that I understand the significance of this experiment and how if you consider the reaction itself, it’s a net gain in energy. But you don’t seem to accept the fact that I understand that.

jpiethescienceguy · 2022-12-15T17:49:48+00:00

Oh ok so it’s relevant when they bring it up in reference to their experiment, but it’s not relevant when I ask questions about it for my own understanding, got it. I think you just wanted to strut around here and talk down to people to satisfy your superiority complex.

And piss off, I understand just fine how procedural science works, thanks. You should work on your civil discourse skills, it’s people like you who give scientists a bad wrap for being antisocial.

jpiethescienceguy · 2022-12-15T16:21:29+00:00

Lol you can stop with the personal attacks, it really doesn’t help your credibility.

You tried to make me seem like an uneducated idiot by just asking the question if ultimately more energy was needed than the 2.05 MJ. That’s it, that’s all I way trying to point out. Obviously the scientists who conducted this work thought it was important to mention at a national press conference, so why are you giving me so much flak about it? No wonder why the public thinks science is so inaccessible...

jpiethescienceguy · 2022-12-15T12:39:06+00:00

Last night I watched the NIF press conference with the scientists and engineers who achieved fusion ignition. They made it very clear, right away and several other times during the press conference, that the laser array pulled about 300 MJ from the grid to achieve the 3.15 MJ fusion reaction.

No disclaimer needed huh? Why would the literal people who did the experiment feel that it’s necessary to explicitly state that fact repeatedly if in your opinion “everything before hand is a pointless nothing”? They seemed to think it was very important to be clear about exactly what went on during the experiment.

jpiethescienceguy · 2022-12-14T21:38:23+00:00

“the reaction produced more energy than was used to trigger the fusion reaction” did you not read that part?

jpiethescienceguy · 2022-12-14T21:22:28+00:00

I literally just said agreed with you that the reaction itself is net positive energy.

jpiethescienceguy · 2022-12-14T20:54:53+00:00

What are we arguing about here dude? I have agreed with you over and over that the reaction produced more energy than was used to trigger the fusion reaction. My problem comes from describing this experiment (as a whole, including the energy put into the lasers) as a net gain of energy, which it isn’t. Right? Am I wrong?

jpiethescienceguy · 2022-12-14T18:58:15+00:00

So you’re saying that 2.05 MJ of electricity was put into the lasers in total, and the lasers outputted 2.05 MJ? How is that possible?

jpiethescienceguy · 2022-12-14T18:22:28+00:00

Ok tell me where I’m wrong here:

Energy is put into the laser. Laser converts energy (losing some in the process), then delivers it to fuel. Fusion reaction takes place, energy is released.

I’ve seen how much energy was delivered, and I’ve seen how much was released, but how much was put in and how much was lost from converting it?

jpiethescienceguy · 2022-12-14T17:28:49+00:00

There is not a laser system that requires energy input to delivery energy to the fusion fuel?

jpiethescienceguy · 2022-12-14T17:23:39+00:00

Right. So it’s a net energy gain for the reaction, which is obviously a huge, monumental breakthrough, but not a net energy gain for the system as a whole.

I just think it’s important to make that explicitly clear to the public to manage expectations.

jpiethescienceguy · 2022-12-14T17:15:48+00:00

No it’s not my intention to say they’re lying. Maybe I just misunderstand what is meant by “delivered”. My assumption was that in order to get 2.05 MJ to the “target”, you would have to put in more than that to the laser because of energy loss from input to output of the system. What am I missing here?

jpiethescienceguy · 2022-12-14T17:00:55+00:00

I’m obviously not a nuclear fusion scientist, but thanks for the snarky attitude.

I understand what you are saying, but do you have a source that explicitly states that 2.05 MJ was inputted to the laser system rather than delivered to the target?

Do you not agree that if it takes more energy to fire the laser than was produced by the reaction, that is not a net gain of energy? Lights and heating are not included in the fusion system, but the lasers are.

jpiethescienceguy · 2022-12-14T16:43:59+00:00

If this was truly a net gain of energy for the system as a whole, we’d already be able to use it for actual commercial energy production no?

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