Welcome to /c/UpliftingNews, a dedicated space where optimism and positivity converge to bring you the most heartening and inspiring stories from around the world. We strive to curate and share content that lights up your day, invigorates your spirit, and inspires you to spread positivity in your own way. This is a sanctuary for those seeking a break from the incessant negativity often found in today's news cycle. From acts of everyday kindness to large-scale philanthropic efforts, from individual achievements to community triumphs, we bring you news that gives hope, fosters empathy, and strengthens the belief in humanity's capacity for good.
Here in /c/UpliftingNews, we uphold the values of respect, empathy, and inclusivity, fostering a supportive and vibrant community. We encourage you to share your positive news, comment, engage in uplifting conversations, and find solace in the goodness that exists around us. We are more than a news-sharing platform; we are a community built on the power of positivity and the collective desire for a more hopeful world. Remember, your small acts of kindness can be someone else's big ray of hope. Be part of the positivity revolution; share, uplift, inspire!
This just tells me that diamonds are even more worthless.
They always were -- outside of engineering of course.
Folks like de beers hoard diamonds and jack up prices to make folks think they are more rare that what they really are. We gotta stop the cycle and buy lab grown or use an entirely different stone all together. Diamonds are for basic bitches anyhow
One problem is that the diamonds grown with this technique are tiny
So the next we need is a way to shrink the women so that they fit.
Either JPL or LM (I can't remember which) was working on a HTHP system with the goal of being able to grow diamonds with ICs built in. I wonder if this has that potential.
Whut?
Defense contractors want to grow diamond computer processors. Because silicon breaks down at high temperatures.
Don't diamonds burn? They are just carbon.
Yeah, but at about 400 degrees higher than silicon.
they are small, but the large diamonds are made from seeds, so still can be used for that, or techniques can improve for larger size production in the future, also, small diamonds are useful for cutting machines
So you're saying I could get a diamond tip nozzle for my desktop 3d printer?
You can already, and for quite some time. They claim to be superior to all others.
However, the new method has its own challenges. One problem is that the diamonds grown with this technique are tiny; the largest ones are hundreds of thousands of times smaller than the ones grown with HPHT. That makes them too small to be used as jewels.
Not going to be wearing these any time soon
Not useful for jewelry, but possibly quite useful for many manufacturing or industrial purposes?
Just wear hundreds of thousands of them glued together, problem solved.
On a more realistic note though, the applications of this will probably be industrial for a good while. I found it interesting how the article mentions that they were able to develop a diamond coating over their growth substrate. That probably has some cool applications in industrial settings where diamond-plated materials are used.
Diamond saw blades are about to get cheaper
Not in a profit driven economy...
It depends; if a company can use this to make them stupid cheap, then selling them stupid cheap to undercut all their competitors could still make them more money than keeping the price the same and pocketing the saved production costs.
I was making a jab. I'm aware of market forces, but price memory is a thing and often the true cost of production isn't reflected in consumer pricing. Especially when an industry just decides they can keep prices where they are if not raise them, looking at you egg producers.
These diamonds are too tiny for jewelry but I don't care.
I want a diamond heat spreader for my CPU!
https://www.innovationcooling.com/products/ic-diamond/
You already can.
Go bling up your heat spreading
Everywhere I'm looking says sold out unfortunately. I've been using Arctic Silver for over a decade with no issue though, but I'm curious.
Fuck deBeers
The article shows the diamonds are around 200nm in size.
Trying to size that: That's 0.2 micrometers. Fine sand is 75 micrometers to 425 micrometers.
(1000 micrometers = 1 millimeter)