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Graphene (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphene https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphene) is manufactured from carbon. You don’t pull graphene out of the gr
by binarymax 3y ago
Graphene (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphene https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphene) is manufactured from carbon. You don’t pull graphene out of the ground, you manufacture it in a lab.
- neuronexmachina 3y agoI've been playing too much Dyson Sphere Program lately, my first thought was "you just need to combine graphite and sulfuric acid in your chemical plant": https://dyson-sphere-program.fandom.com/wiki/Graphene https://dyson-sphere-program.fandom.com/wiki/Graphene Looks like that's sort-of a real thing? https://www.americanscientist.org/article/mass-producing-graphene https://www.americanscientist.org/article/mass-producing-gra... > Researchers at Rutgers University are making sheets of graphene out of ordinary graphite flakes and some sulfuric or nitric acid.
- seaal 3y agoAlways nice when games introduce you to real life concepts. Shout out to Greg Tech: New Horizons, often leading me down a wikipedia rabbit hole.
- klyrs 3y agoEven if you could just magically make a reel of graphene with this graphite+sulphuric acid recipe, it wouldn't help one bit in chip fabrication. You need to build things layer by layer; there's only one place where a bulk material is used, and that's the substrate.