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Pier Luigi Luisi • The Emergence of Life: From Chemical Origins to Synthetic Biology
Anthropocene
Sixian • 1 card
The membrane is a capacitor:
Nick Lane • Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
Nature
Inigo Laguda • 1 card
Intellectual Traits Essential to Engineering Reasoning
Richard Paul • The Thinker's Guide to Engineering Reasoning: Based on Critical Thinking Concepts and Tools (Thinker's Guide Library)
Scientist and engineers have long known about the design principles, but developing real-world fuel pebbles which deliver the right balance of neutron emission and capture, in the preferred temperature bands, took decades. Unfortunately, it turns out that a lot of time was lost.