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Re:Engineers develop a 96% efficient process to make formate... by 1letterunixname on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @05:32PM (#38091681)
Sigh. The PR department of universities are about selling IP, getting grant$ to fund their toys, and sometimes attracting PI's and students to do the work based on the university's reputation.
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Re:Engineers develop a 96% efficient process to make formate... by stonogo on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @05:37PM (#38091728)
What should they be focused on?
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Re:Engineers develop a 96% efficient process to make formate... by readthenotes1 on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @05:44PM (#38091827)
Educating students
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Re:Engineers develop a 96% efficient process to make formate... by dv_dt on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @06:10PM (#38092119)
There is a no-funding land that is needed to advance society. Between basic scientific research and advanced low probability engineering research no for-profit corporation is willing to find - so it’s mostly the domain of the government allocating grants to universities and labs.
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Re:Engineers develop a 96% efficient process to make formate... by Qwertious on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @08:09PM (#38093050)
That requires students to educate, and money to pay for the whole affair.
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Re:Engineers develop a 96% efficient process to make formate... by stonogo on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @08:53PM (#38093342)
Surely that should be left to the professors, and not the PR department?
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Re:Engineers develop a 96% efficient process to make formate... by readthenotes1 on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @10:28PM (#38093917)
Unless the PR department was educating students.

They could probably do institutional PR off student projects since MIT already gets top talent

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Re:Engineers develop a 96% efficient process to make formate... by 1letterunixname on Thursday November 02, 2023 @04:49AM (#38110643)
That's the bottom labor pool and the source of funding to build buildings.

Licensing & PR departments > Dept chair > TP > PI > AP > VP > PhD candidate > Master's candidate > TA > ugrad

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Re:Engineers develop a 96% efficient process to make formate... by Terr_ on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @05:43PM (#38091804)
Relevant: https://phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1174
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Re:Engineers develop a 96% efficient process to make formate... by westurner on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @09:22AM (#38097846)
I don't understand this comment.

This is a different article from last year also about storing energy as [Aluminum] Formate.

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