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Seems like a lot
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Crude -15.4 million (!!) vs. -900,000 exp.
Gasoline -1.68 million
Distillates -512,000
Cushing -1.76 million
#oott #crudeOil
Amazing
Sam Bankman, the man responsible for one of the biggest frauds in history FTX, is being accused of creating and rug-pulling a $100 million market cap shitcoin while on house arrest in his parent's basement this morning.
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On this week's @Investor_Hour, @dferris1961 and @Corey_McL welcome an anonymous guest @DoombergT to discuss Ontario's advanced energy journey, anti-nuclear propaganda, and the impact of human development on climate change.
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Pondering whether to become less skeptical…
What is a signal?View quoted post on X
A squiggle on a chart, a faintly heard echo of something real happening.
Kim plays Marco Polo with the universe, blindfolded, calling out again and again with each experiment, listening on the ESR . Sometimes warmer, sometimes colder. He invents entire new methods of search at this point.
Theories only go so far.
One morning in 2020, just as the Covid lockdown worldwide begins, he sees a huge spike. He repeats the test and see nothing in the retest.
He goes over the methodology for the anomalous test in his lab notes. Nothing. He starts viewing the video from the lab, each sample photographed before and after it enters the furnace.
There is a crack on quartz capsule after the furnace exit. He reviews the video, and sees himself bumping his elbow against the desk after the furnace exit as he transfers the capsule to the weighing scale.
The work proceeds fast from here. Oxygen introduced at precisely the right moment changed the structure of the lead apatite crystal being formed.
Within three months they’ve isolated the ghost that had haunted the team for 20 years, and crystallized it.
You can hold it in your hand. It floats. A magical rock.
Lee is ecstatic. Kwon is dumbfounded.
They still don’t have enough money or equipment to do a full characterization. The critical temperature at which the superconductor becomes a normal rock is so high that it is outside the range of the equipment that they have at hand.
Kwon now starts theorizing from the physics angle. He doesn’t believe TS Chair’s theories explain what is happening. He understands that he has a huge lead on every other theorist, and a share of Nobel will be his, if he can figure it out. This finally puts him in direct conflict with Lee, who is the chemistry theorist of the group.
They send a paper to Nature, it gets dinged due to the Ranga Dias controversy. Kwon blames it on the 1-D theory.
The file patents, write papers. They don’t have good theories on why it works.
The process is finicky. Powders have to be mixed evenly with a mortar and pestle to get a perfectly even grain. Buy a premixed powder 🗑️, don’t use a mortar and pestle 🗑️, move too slowly from the furnace to the cooling station 🗑️.
They have one guy, in the entire world, JH Kim, who can make magic floating rocks, inconsistently at that, by sharply cracking a vacuum quartz capsule at precisely the right moment after removing it from the furnace.
The problem is that you have to meet the magic rock to get converted. And during Covid, no one can in or out of Korea.
Things drag. Lee keeps the team focused on next steps, including the chemical vapor deposition that they will need to deploy the material in the electronics manufacturing stack. Kwon takes a sabbatical at the end of 2021 to focus on theorizing.
HyunTak Kim gets converted at some point. Travel reopens. HyunTak is able to replicate the production independently.
Yield is still low. Maybe one every 10 attempts is successful. They’re still short of funding they need to completely characterize the substance.
HyunTak leaves his position with Korean govt backed ETRI in Nov 2022. His theories on Metal Insulator transition make it into paper.
Kwon’s role is reduced to SQUID measurement. Kwon quarrels with the team, gets fired in March 2023.
The rest of the team soldiers on.
