Hackaday (unofficial) December 7, 2024 7:00pm Liquid Metal Ion Thrusters Aren’t Easy #techhacks #galinstan #gallium #highvoltage #ion #ionengine #liquidmetal #plasma #thruster #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Liquid Metal Ion Thrusters Aren’t Easy What do scanning electron microscopes and satellites have in common? On the face of things, not much, but after seeing [Zachary Tong]’s latest video on liquid metal ion thrusters, we see that…
Hackaday (unofficial) August 13, 2023 3:00am Liquid Metal Battery Goes Into Production #batteryhacks #ambri #antimony #baseload #battery #batterystorage #gridstorage #liquidmetal #mit #renewables #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Liquid Metal Battery Goes Into Production The news is rife with claims of the next great thing in clean energy generation, but most of these technologies never make it to production. Whether that’s due to cost issues, production, or …
Hackaday (unofficial) May 29, 2022 12:00pm Better Robots Through Gallium #science #gallium #liquidmetal #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Better Robots Through Gallium In the movie Terminator 2, the T-1000 robot was made of some kind of liquid metal that could change shape among other interesting things. According to a chemical engineer at North Carolina State Un…