Daily Tech News 24 September 2022

• The US wants to become a hydrogen production powerhouse. (The Verge)
  
  Yeah, right.
  
  
  
• Why this won't work. (Robert Zubrin)
  
  Repost, because people keep falling for this shit.
  
  It's solar freaking roadways except about a thousand times more expensive.

• Sundar Pichai to Google employees: Quit whining and get to work, you useless wankers. (Thurrott.com)
  
  You've spent most of the past decade hiring and promoting useless wankers. No sympathy. Go down in flames.
  
  
  
• Well, fuck: The US government, not satisfied with wasting money on "clean hydrogen", wants to ruin open source software. (Senate.Gov)
  
  Yes, the Log4j debacle could have been fixed at any time and saved the world billions of dollars if someone had just provided a few thousand dollars in funding, but the US government is one of the worst groups to get involved, and defining open source software as infrastructure is one of the worst ways to do it.
  
  
  
• Physisicsts have finally figured out how high-temperature superconductors work. (Quanta)
  
  High temperature here means around -140C (-220F). The original superconductors, which are well understood, functioned only at temperatures close to absolute zero - -273C / -459F - a temperature difficult and expensive to approach. You really need liquid helium for that. High temperature superconductors work in cheap and plentiful liquid nitrogen.
  
  Oh, the answer? Super glue.
  
  

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