Am I the only one who saw the title and thought it was about physical clean-rooms?

No

I don't think GP was forcing anyone to do anything.

Thanks pal, I was not forcing anyone... but I guess my wording made it sound "this applies to everyone!".

I put my comment out there to trigger just this kind of discussion.

A lot of the world tried to shift to renewables during the ~10-year-long 1970s embargo. They went straight back to sweet old oil afterwards. This isn't gonna last nearly as long. Don't get me wrong, I hope and pray that renewables get a boost out of this, but I don't think it's gonna happen.

Really not sure you can compare solar and wind energy from the 1970s to the highly efficient modern solar and wind solutions of today.

Really.

I suppose that the specifics of what I said were mistaken, but the general sentiment remains the same. It doesn't seem like this conflict will last as long as the embargo, and when one of the largest investors into new technologies has firmly refused to acknowledge the necessities of renewables, progress and adoption will certainly slow down.

"... when one of the largest investor into new technologies ..."

No. Sorry but China has not firmly refused to acknowledge the necessity of renewables. Quite the contrary, actually.

In the 1970s electric cars were not generally available and solar panels were 100 times more expensive than they are now. Today the world has the manufacturing capacity to install nearly a terawatt-peak of solar panels per year, at low cost, and millions of electric cars are shipping every quarter:

https://open-ev-charts.org/#global:electric-sales:quarter

It won't change rapidly in the US, because the current administration opposes renewables at every turn and keeps low cost BEVs out of the US, but most of the world's energy/oil needs are outside the US. This situation will accelerate a global process that was already gaining speed.

The strait is considered closed when a country not afraid to use its military says ships can't cross.

"The greatest ideas are the simplest."

- William Golding

> Iwamoto and Scheschkewitz say pentasilacyclopentadienides could be ligands for catalysts and materials.

The review should have expanded on this at a practical level even mom and dad could understand—the standard “better life through chemistry” angle.

I'm guessing it's the latter, because you have to keep the mine-disabling mechanisms working and powered up through possible adverse weather and environmental conditions for long enough that the conflict has a fair chance of having ended.

If you wanted to design something fail safe, the best way would be to make the powered up state the danger state. So when the power fails, the device is inactive.

> He spent a number of weeks mentoring 20 newly-recruited rats

How does that work for a rat? Sounds interesting.

I don't know how it works for rats, but I assume it is like with dogs. If you have already a trained dog, you make the same exercises with the trained and the untrained dog, so the untrained dog can just watch what the trained dog does and imitate it.

That's not how you would typically train a working dog.

I imagine it depends on the work?

I am not an expert here, but am a bit familiar with how rescue dogs are trained and this is a method in use.

Another usage of the word "lost" is to indicate when the spacecraft has become dysfunctional. Although, that one is the verb form, not the adjective.