Interesting plot. It would need to have multiple parallel plots where each nation with a nuclear arsenal thinks they are the only one that has lost their nuclear capability. Hijinks ensue as each tries to bluff the national actors.
Nuclear weapons are not very useful when you have good intelligence and a distributed ability to delivey vast amounts of precious-guided weapons.
I assume they are using renewable energy to reduce naturally-occurring iron oxide.
When the iron is burnt are they going to do with pure oxygen? Otherwise they'll get pollutants like nitrogen dioxide, possibly ozone. And the 0.5% not burnt will also become a pollutant unless carefully removed in some smokestack scrubber.
Or is this 'burning' to occur some kind of iron fuel cell? How would they liquidize the iron which is quite heavy?
Lastly, iron is heavy. Moving reduced iron could be expensive and dangerous.
Still, if sufficiently close to the renewable source this could provide much needed load leveling for intermittent sources.
If you target a niche in a large market then you are targeting a small market. Create serial MVPs targeting those niches until you find product-market fit.
Article alleges it is not external threats but corrupt political interests that drive ever higher US defense spending. But correlation is not causation and this link is unsupported, especially when no analysis of the un/reality of the external threat is offered. There is some low-hanging fruit here around Iraq so not bringing that in leads me to question the quality of this article. It is harder to make that case with the Cold War or the PRC vs its South China Sea neighbors so perhaps that is why this aspect of their argument was not pursued.
I think F# is going to do well because it is driven by the community making it an open field despite being .NET. F# developers seem to have a higher than usual lower-bound.
Elmish.WPF, FParsec, so much there and still things to do...like better development tooling with VS Studio Pro.
If it were a sure thing it wouldn't be a challenge or quite as interesting.
Hydrogen burns invisibly to the human eye [1]. It must be approached with caution lest one get burned. I have heard of a case where leaks detection consists of wiping pipes with a straw broom and noting if it bursts into flame.
The motivation is this interesting story...
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After a major military victory, the triumphant military generals were paraded through the streets to the roars of the masses. The ceremonial procession could span the course of a day with the military leader riding in a chariot drawn by four horses. There was not a more coveted honor. The general was idolized, viewed as divine by his troops and the public alike. But riding in the same chariot, standing just behind the worshipped general, was a slave. The slave’s sole responsibility for the entirety of the procession was to whisper in the general’s ear continuously, “Respice post te. Hominem te esse memento. Memento mori!”
“Look behind. Remember thou art mortal. Remember you must die!”
The slave served to remind the victor at the peak of glory, this god-like adoration would soon end, while the truth of his mortality remained.
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