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Re:115, the Newest Element on the Periodic Table by dnautics on Friday August 30, 2013 @12:25AM (#6300255)
possible benefits as an energy storage medium once you get to the island of stability.
Re:115, the Newest Element on the Periodic Table by Elv13 on Friday August 30, 2013 @12:48AM (#6300321)
One that take several order of magnitude more energy to create that it can store? I am in!
Re:115, the Newest Element on the Periodic Table by Zikes on Friday August 30, 2013 @01:32AM (#6300418)
The same could easily be said of the battery in your phone, your car, and your laptop. The difference is that energy can be replenished easily, it's storage that's always been the hitch.
Re:115, the Newest Element on the Periodic Table by dnautics on Friday August 30, 2013 @04:15AM (#6300736)
yeah by 'possible' I mean 'it would be a stretch, but it's not impossible'. You don't know that there might be a really efficient nucleosynthesis of these guys that we haven't found yet. Plus, there are places where energy is really abundant but hard to capture and store, like, really close to the sun.