I have one concern: what if the container bursts? CO2 is heavier than air, and a sudden pressure decrease will cool it down further, so it'll hug the ground. What would be a safe distance for the people around the plant to live without the risk of being asphixiated in an accident?
The article mentions
> If the worst happens and the dome is punctured, 2,000 tonnes of CO2 will enter the atmosphere. That’s equivalent to the emissions of about 15 round-trip flights between New York and London on a Boeing 777. “It’s negligible compared to the emissions of a coal plant,” Spadacini says. People will also need to stay back 70 meters or more until the air clears, he says.
The tech also opens up an ethical issua about consent - it's very hard to get a vaccine today without knowing you got one, but if your soda or yogurt starts carrying vaccines, it becomes a lot harder to know.
The "government mind control" conspiracy theorists will have a field day.
It’ll be interesting to see how they deal with the aging components and for how long will they remain in operation as new modules are added. The technical problems are real and LEO is an unforgiving environment - stuff breaks, wears, reacts with highest wisps the atmosphere, and so on.
On the bright side, Russia will have unique learning from extending the lifetime of the lab based on the first parts that were installed.
> i'm not sure why anyone would buy a mac studio instead of a gb10
For an AI-only use case, the GB10s make sense, but they are only OK as desktop workstations, and I’m not sure for how long DGX OS will be updated, as dedicated AI machines have somewhat short lives. Apple computers, OTOH, have much longer lives, and desktops live the longest. I retired my Mac Mini a year after the machine was no longer getting OS updates, and it was still going strong.
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