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beavith18 months, 2 weeks ago
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i think the mechanism is important, but the chemistry of the Platinum Group Metals (PGMs) is pretty peculiar.
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photosynthesis has a Mg center. hemoglobin, as all us red blooded americans know ;-) , is based on Fe. N fixation by bacteria is based on Mo.
if we can reproduce the Ru work in something like Ni, it'd have a whole lot more utility.
On the other hand, if it only works with Ru, lets start mining asteroids!
the next obvious question to study is how well this works in steam. it seems to take quite a bit of energy to recover the H2.
(sigh) i guess there still is no such thing as a free lunch.
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