[HN Gopher] Scientists succeed growing dolomite in lab by dissol... ___________________________________________________________________ Scientists succeed growing dolomite in lab by dissolving defects during growth Author : wglb Score : 43 points Date : 2023-11-27 16:01 UTC (1 days ago) (HTM) web link (phys.org) (TXT) w3m dump (phys.org) | idiliv wrote: | "Each atomic step would normally take over 5,000 CPU hours on a | supercomputer. Now, we can do the same calculation in 2 | milliseconds on a desktop," | | Is this phrase equivalent to "Each atomic step would take 5,000 | hours on a desktop. Now, it takes 2 CPU milliseconds on a | supercomputer."? ^^ | chr1 wrote: | No, they have developed new software wich works much faster. | See a few paragraphs above the one you are quoting. | alacritas0 wrote: | I read it as: for the same calculation, what would have | previously taken 5,000 CPU cores * hours ran on a supercomputer | can now be run in 2 milliseconds on a desktop. Or about roughly | 10 orders of magnitude faster | tbruckner wrote: | It's dolomite, baby! | yellottyellott wrote: | I'm 40% dolomite! | pohl wrote: | Like Professor Farnsworth, my first thought was also Rudy Ray | Moore. | dekken_ wrote: | obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfgKJ9G_2fg | ChuckMcM wrote: | This is an interesting result. It makes me wonder if you could | grow a silicon ingot in this way. If so it would cut the cost of | silicon solar cells significantly (a big chunk of their cost is | the cost of the ingot, the ingot cost is a function of time to | produce, producing them quickly would get more ingots per unit | time from a given reactor). | | Another crystal structure that would be useful would be sapphire | for things like sapphire screens and other covers. | adaml_623 wrote: | "A dollar might go further in a Dolamite account... " - Jingle | for the genx Aussies | dottjt wrote: | My dad took all the money in my Dolamite account when he split | with my mother. Good times. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-11-28 23:00 UTC)