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Re:Ask HN: What problem are you close to solving and how can... by iamgopal on Sunday August 29, 2021 @04:55AM (#28345236)
Disclaimer : I know nothing about anything.

Hawking radiation ?

Laser tunnel ?

Magnetic canon ?

Centrifugal launcher ?

Vacuum diffusion ?

Electrical beam lensing ?

Re:Ask HN: What problem are you close to solving and how can... by a1369209993 on Sunday August 29, 2021 @10:45PM (#28352371)
> Hawking radiation ?

That actually does make for a fairly efficient (better than fusion in energy per unit fuel mass) reactor design in principle, but you need a sub-solar-mass black hole (in the 1 billion - 100 billion ton range), and there's no known practical way to produce one.

Re:Ask HN: What problem are you close to solving and how can... by desperate on Sunday August 29, 2021 @09:03AM (#28346361)
Tesla valve?