EatTheLibsToo [comrade/them]

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  • Pretty much true, it's because there's a serious restriction on the types of electrode which are stable to use with liquid electrolytes. With solid electrolytes we can engineer them to be stable against electrodes with much higher energy densities, i.e. able to hold much more charge. We can also double-up cells with just one metallic electrode in the middle, and then put an electrolyte and an opposite electrode either side so we get 2 battery cells for just 3 electrodes rather than 4, increasing energy density per unit volume. But yeah short of stupidly complex and outrageously unsustainable materials, liquid batteries have definitely reached a plateau in performance. It's good in a way because it gives us the opportunity to create better and safer ones that are way more sustainable than they currently are.

    Edit: Forgot to mention that we can also pack solid-state batteries much closer together because overheating isn't an issue, and solid electrolytes actually perform better the hotter they are!





  • Thanks man! And yeah truly, the booklet of projects when I was picking my masters research was full of weakly masked military-esque shit like "tracking individual birds within variable flock dynamics".

    Luckily I got mine on 2D materials (focused toward graphene) for use in supercapacitors, and I had a GREAT comrade of a supervisor who let me switch focus to go full-on sustainability, and also encouraged me while I unionised my workmates of a bar I worked in lmao. Nature is full of ways to help science out if we just take the time to look.







  • Yeah I'd say most people draw that distinction, but the issue I'm highlighting is the assumptions made by people through a number of threads on the concept of a God when no specific religion has been mentioned, e.g. that a god is a personal one in the religious sense of the word.

    Also I'm definitely not bashing people who believe in a God and I'm not sure how you've drew that interpretation of what I said.



  • I think you're misinterpreting my position. I think we very much should do political, historical and sociological analysis from an anthropocentric perspective, it's a critical part of the scientific method to do so from all perspectives. But I do think that since these views have taken hold we need to question why and what they serve, rather than acceptance of these things as a sort of common sense which is an analysis missing from the mainstream understanding of science.


  • They couldn't fully pierce it, obviously. That's like asking someone to perceive the world entirely separate from their experience.

    The point I'm making is that it's important to consciously to work to mitigate the influence of mainstream thought on our definitions in religion too. Similarly to the way in which we de-libbed ourselves, assuming you live in a neoliberal country and weren't on the left from birth.



  • Oh shit wait no I remembered! I was trying to put my finger on who it was but I couldn't until now - the entire tone and frequent use of basic logical fallacies in this comment reminded me of Ben Shapiro. Also if you can't understand why my use of quantum mechanics in emergent gravity is qualitatively different from quantum mysticism, there's literally no point wasting time helping you through the explanation.


  • LOL well this absolutely reeks of r/iamverysmart, jordan peterson, and the stupid idea that all religion everywhere is evil, and as I said in my original post is absolutely riddled with the very common and fundamental misunderstandings of what science actually is. Not to mention a fundamental misunderstanding of my argument which I don't think I could spell out any clearer really, but I have some ideas to help.

    I appreciate you taking the time to write all this out, I truly do want to sit through and pick apart every point (trust me, there are some bangers you've got in there) but I feel that your time would be FAR better spent actually learning about the scientific process, since it is abundantly clear you have not, but enjoy sounding like you have.

    I think learning about and developing a dialectical understanding of religions would help too, since you're clearly referring toward white western anthropocentric and personal gods which is an enormous flaw and I can't emphasise that enough.

    Good luck kid, try to remember that people who you instinctively disagree with might hold their positions from a perspective built on a lot of knowledge in these areas. Would do you good to try and ask questions of people to help you learn, because it's clear you know relatively fuck all about this issue you're so upset about, and God knows ;) how many others.

    Oh and sweet jesus your other comment beginning with "one last thing", how could I forget. "god has a meaning". Fuck me. Please for the love of God ;) actually educate yourself on the history of religion before letting yourself get this upset about it because again, it's clear you don't hold much knowledge on the topic.


  • Ahh but the idea that deities have to be or have always been anthropocentric is relatively new. It's yet another shitty consequence of Western empires justifying and aiding the theft of people and land through spreading Christianity f00kin everywhere. Many of the oldest religions in the world (thousands of years older than Christianity) have deities completely detached from humanity, e.g. Panentheist thought in early Hindu philosophy.

    And not at all dude :) I fully agree with you on the pure bullshit and contortions of modern anthropocentric religions, it's so grossly tied in with the human ego too