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    4 days ago

    In 2018, Tour and his colleagues discovered that this rapid heating process, called flash joule heating, can turn any carbon source—including coal, biochar, and mixed plastic—into graphene

    Wait we discovered how to transform mixed plastic into graphene seven years ago wtf?

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    8 days ago

    Why not just dump them all in a landfill we can name magnet mountain until we have an enormous magnetic mountain of haphazardly piled, ever-shifting magnets?

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    8 days ago

    If the article doesn’t load, I’ll sum up it for you: the trick is to separate the north pole from the south pole and store them separately.

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      8 days ago

      Gotta keep those penguins as far as possible from Santa’s workshop. Can’t risk kids seeing Santa plink away at those vermin