A BREAKTHROUGH IN SCIENCE! Researchers Turn Hydrogen Gas Into Metal - Polidicks

The last sentence linking to superconductivity was useless. I really hate how news-article try to look "into the future" on scientific topics and link it to some arbitrary other topic, which "sounds similar". The article even states the resistance increases with lower temperature, which actually is the other way round for superconductors.

So my fart can soon become physical? Cool. FOR SCIENCE!

[QUOTE=Contag;33311966]the government should fund it to create jobs subsidize the program by collecting deep sea flora and sell it to the rich for obscene amounts of money[/QUOTE] There's already an 10 million dollar X-prize for it, that should be enough for anyone with enough motivation to repeat it.

Does it turn into lead?

[QUOTE=ExplodingGuy;33311413]I don't think water pressure gets up into the gigapascals.[/QUOTE] It gets, but not enough. 10k deep it's around 100Gpa

Now turn rock into lava but anyways, if they can turn large quantities of gas into useful metal, it could solve metal resource problems

[QUOTE=BCell;33315373]Now turn rock into lava but anyways, if they can turn large quantities of gas into useful metal, it could solve metal resource problems[/QUOTE] I'm pretty sure they can turn rock into lava. I was watching an episode of How its Made and they turned basalt into lava to turn it into stone wool.

[QUOTE=PX1K;33311595]I thought hydrogen on earth was getting low because of refrigeration or am I getting that confused with something else? Why would we want to figure something like this out now if that is the case, just speeds up the process. ... I'm right about it being hydrogen and not something else right?[/QUOTE] You may be confused with Helium (He), it is light enough to escape the atmosphere on its own. And since it is a noble gas it doesn't bond all that well to other atoms naturally.

[quote]Here, electrical resistance increased by 20 percent.[/quote] Isn't that a [i]decrease[/i] in conductivity?

[QUOTE=BCell;33315373]Now turn rock into lava but anyways, if they can turn large quantities of gas into useful metal, it could solve metal resource problems[/QUOTE] Metallic hydrogen isn't a useful building material, even if it was stable it gives off a fairly massive magnetic field (Jupiter has such an insane magnetosphere due to the presence of metallic hydrogen in large quantities.)

[QUOTE=PX1K;33311595]I thought hydrogen on earth was getting low because of refrigeration or am I getting that confused with something else? Why would we want to figure something like this out now if that is the case, just speeds up the process. ... I'm right about it being hydrogen and not something else right?[/QUOTE] I think you're thinking of Helium. Which we have a lot of stock piled, but we have a finite supply and the US is selling it surplus. So if you want to be a super rich Helium baron in the future now's the time to buy.

So they consider gas as a malleable substance? Or did it actually turn solid under the pressure?

[QUOTE=sami-elite;33315838]So they consider gas as a malleable substance? Or did it actually turn solid under the pressure?[/QUOTE] why dont you just read the first paragraph of the article.

[QUOTE=PX1K;33311595]I thought hydrogen on earth was getting low because of refrigeration or am I getting that confused with something else? Why would we want to figure something like this out now if that is the case, just speeds up the process. ... I'm right about it being hydrogen and not something else right?[/QUOTE] Hydrogen getting low without an active massive scale fusion reaction? Are you serious?

[QUOTE=Ganerumo;33311470]Well now time to turn copper into gold.[/QUOTE] And destroy the world economy by flooding the markets with it.

[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;33315852]why dont you just read the first paragraph of the article.[/QUOTE] That's why i asked. Because it didn't mention they tried to manipulate the metal to bend so that they could prove it's malleable.

[QUOTE=OvB;33311957]The only manned sub to reach the challenger deep was built in the 60's and it just used gasoline for buoyancy and steel for a pressure vessel. We could easily do it today with just Titanium but were lazy and lack adventure.[/QUOTE] Actually we did send a sub down there just 2 years ago and since 2010 there's a 10 million dollars prize for anyone that can make two repeated manned descents.

[QUOTE=PX1K;33311595]I thought hydrogen on earth was getting low because of refrigeration or am I getting that confused with something else? Why would we want to figure something like this out now if that is the case, just speeds up the process. ... I'm right about it being hydrogen and not something else right?[/QUOTE] You're thinking Ozone, which is being depleted by chlorine-containing refrigerants (CFCs and HCFCs). [editline]17th November 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Ganerumo;33311470]Well now time to turn copper into gold.[/QUOTE] Copper has alot more uses than gold due to being a good conductor of heat and electricity. Besides have you seen the price of copper lately? It's like they're halfway there already. :v:

Modern alchemy is cool.

[QUOTE=Zero-Point;33320365] Copper has alot more uses than gold due to being a good conductor of heat and electricity. Besides have you seen the price of copper lately? It's like they're halfway there already. :v:[/QUOTE] One of my Scottish friends re-counted a story where a group of criminals dressed up as construction workers (had trucks and equipment and everything) and proceeded to tear up a good amount of the copper phone lines and such, all over a big area of town.

[QUOTE=bigbundie;33329637]One of my Scottish friends re-counted a story where a group of criminals dressed up as construction workers (had trucks and equipment and everything) and proceeded to tear up a good amount of the copper phone lines and such, all over a big area of town.[/QUOTE] Some dumb-ass in Albuquerque, New Mexico thought he'd steal powerline transformers from construction sites by cutting them off with bolt-cutters. He made off with two because they weren't energized, but the third one was, so needless to say he ain't stealin' no more transformers.

[QUOTE=bigbundie;33329637]One of my Scottish friends re-counted a story where a group of criminals dressed up as construction workers (had trucks and equipment and everything) and proceeded to tear up a good amount of the copper phone lines and such, all over a big area of town.[/QUOTE] Heh, reminds me of that time where people dressed up as piano tuners and 'borrowed' all the ridiculously expensive pianos from the royal academy of music for 'tuning'

That's awesome that they finally confirmed it. Check it out, science making predictions that come true!