Christopher Mims on Nostr: For nearly 300 years, a weird kind of electric motor that works on static electricity ...
For nearly 300 years, a weird kind of electric motor that works on static electricity has been little more than a scientific and engineering curiosity.
Then a couple of PhD students threw themselves into figuring out if modern tech could make it viable.
Turns out they were right.
2/🧵
Published at
2024-10-19 13:38:01Event JSON
{
"id": "2a7a2337681a188eb795a96594cb0f24d157fa15502ddf8e7794979fc16eedd0",
"pubkey": "e61ff23992c86d2a887a687f5336f76964d5e1ae9b5b3631d8934c431432fb0a",
"created_at": 1729345081,
"kind": 1,
"tags": [
[
"e",
"5a2b22909334d85a1fcf9c034fe8b946af7a2413866071268b548fc341c5bfe8",
"wss://relay.mostr.pub",
"reply"
],
[
"proxy",
"https://mastodon.social/users/mimsical/statuses/113334359240506777",
"activitypub"
]
],
"content": "For nearly 300 years, a weird kind of electric motor that works on static electricity has been little more than a scientific and engineering curiosity.\n\nThen a couple of PhD students threw themselves into figuring out if modern tech could make it viable.\n\nTurns out they were right.\n\n2/🧵",
"sig": "91b4ed3e131e30ab9428bb66949c14ad9c8a6672facb136e504f4a63c82ea92f2b561ca9228d4e2b040ef65e65d46143179325f40cd971c9e6570297ceab791d"
}
