| ▲ | jakedata 4 hours ago |
| There are two distinct use cases spelled out in this article. Electronic and photonic technology incorporating graphene to improve performance and efficiency and "we added graphene to stuff". Graphene cement, graphene carbon fibre - 3000 tons of graphene expected from one company in 2026. Try not to breathe any, studies are still pending but that stuff gets everywhere. |
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| ▲ | mapt 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| 100 years ago, asbestos was the new wonder material, and "We added asbestos to stuff" was a very common marketing bullet point for building materials. It found its way into flooring, mastic, the predecessors to drywall, ceiling texture, insulation, and anything and everything used near a combustion appliance. Literally just, take a process that used to use sand or horsehair or whatever filler, and add a significant portion by mass of asbestos powder instead. |
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| ▲ | gcanyon 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | I wonder if there are studies on the lives saved by asbestos's fireproofing feature vs. cost by its lung-disease-causing feature. Answering my own question: the WHO estimates it costs 200K lives per year. No estimates on the other side, but that's a big number to overcome... https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/asbestos | | |
| ▲ | bn-l an hour ago | parent [-] | | I’m not sure if it’s still the case but I searched of alibaba once and found huge rolls of asbestos for sale and massive supply capacity numbers. It was pretty shocking. | | |
| ▲ | ACCount37 an hour ago | parent [-] | | It's still used in the industry. And it can be used safely, as long as you follow the precautions (handling, encapsulation) and mind the lifecycle. But China being China? Haha no. | | |
| ▲ | some_random 8 minutes ago | parent [-] | | It's also still used in building materials in developing countries, it's an incredible material that happens to give people cancer, mainly workers. |
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| ▲ | withinboredom 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| "Lets remove carbon from the atmosphere" ... humanity proceeds to invent ways to put more carbon in the atmosphere. |
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| ▲ | withinboredom 34 minutes ago | parent [-] | | It's weird that this morning, it was getting upvotes, but in the afternoon, it is getting downvotes. Did something happen? | | |
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