Yes it was crazy when I first heard about it "wait what? they shoot it in mid-air?" and that was before I found out they did that like 30k times a second.

But now 100k times a second apparently. Humans are amazing.

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hinkley 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You have a machine that’s basically a clean room inside and one of the parts is essentially electrosputtering tin but then throwing all the tin away and using the EM pulse from the sputter to do work.

Oh and can you build it so it can run hundreds or thousands of hours before being cleaned? Thanks byyyyyyyyeeeeee!

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lelandbatey 2 hours ago | parent [-]

The inside of those machines are far, far cleaner than the inside of any clean room ever entered by a human. They have to be molecularly clean.

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b3orn 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Which isn't easy considering they explode tin droplets in the machine. I think that's the point the other commenter wanted to make.

	▲	jacquesm 7 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Think about the purity requirements that places on the tin.

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flowerthoughts 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> We are going to spray expensive stuff in an extremely fine and precise line. Then we're going to shoot a laser at each droplet.

< Why?!

> To make a better laser.

< Yes, of course you are.

> 100,000 times per second.

< [AFK, buying shares.]

	▲	adgjlsfhk1 24 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Don't forget that they are hitting each droplet 3 times.
	▲	hinkley 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I have shares in one of their biggest customers, and one of their customer’s biggest customers. We are quickly leaving the realm of dependent variables still looking anything like diversification.