Work smarter not harder. If you’re running 5 agents you’re not engaged enough to catch when they inevitably go off the rails.
Every wrong turn wastes a week of your time.
> In some ways, the molecule behaves like a tiny molecular mousetrap. Sunlight sets the trap, pushing the structure into a tense, high-energy position. Chemists refer to this kind of structural switch as photoisomerization, a process in which light changes a molecule’s geometry without breaking it apart.
The idea is that you have a molecule "pirimidone" that has an hexagonal shape. If you magically push the bottom a atom a little upwards the shape changes to a book-icon that they nicknamed "dewar".
The graphic shows how the energy changes when you magically move the bottom atom. Both versions of the molecule are in valleys so they are stable and you can keep them for a long time. In the middle there is a mountain that makes the transformation hard.
The main idea is that with light you can transform the "pirimidone" into "dewar". The second is higher in the energy landscape, so it stores energy. Later, using acid you can transform "dewar" into "pirimidone" and make it release the stored energy as heat.
One problem is that IMO this looks super tasty for bacteria, so you must store it carefully or you will be surprised with a nasty green goo instead of a nice industrial "hand pad".
In other pages they analyze a version of the molecules that has a small tail, I'm not sure about the details, I guess it may be used for fine tuning or as a tiny antena to collect the light.
Back to the press article:
> Most renewable energy systems today are designed to store electricity, when in fact what you often want to come out the other end is actually heat. Hot water, many industrial processes, and building heating all rely on thermal energy, so energy stored in traditional batteries needs to go through another conversion step. The MOST system is designed to cut out the middle man and meet that need directly.
This makes no sense. It's better to get electricity than heat. You can convert electricity to heat with a 100% of efficiency, or even 120% if you use a heat pump to steal heat from the environment. But converting heat to electricity at the temperature level that would not destroy the molecules has at most a 20% or 40% of efficiency.
They may save a bit in the light->electricity->battery->heat conversion, but most steps are very efficient. So the previous quote is very strange an I'd take any efficiency number they say with a big grain of salt.
[1] Sorry for the Amazon link, but I can't figure out how to clean a link to Google Images that have a lot of IUH#I/BE/YUEWY72e7Yuiy that I prefer not to share.
It would benefit China immensely to have the US embroiled in a draining and embarrassing war in the Middle East. And since they’re so well positioned for an electrified economy they’re the clear winners of permanently elevated oil prices.
The crazy thing is Mississippi did this to itself.
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