Comment Re:Great... (Score 1) 52
The clean up we are actually talking about would be measured in micrograms.
This catalyst is for destroying stockpiles, but for helping with decontamination. Previously they were using an enzyme that is hard to deploy, and they've replaced that enzyme with an engineered catalyst that does the same chemistry, albeit less efficiently.
So, they already had a way. But it was "hard". And now they have another way but it is "less efficient" (i.e. probably costs more). How is any of this news?
In Japan, like in many other countries, alcohol is just a drink
No.
Sixty percent of [the country's 3M) problem drinkers are salaried businessmen who claim that getting drunk with clients or coworkers is part of their job and a mark of company loyalty.
So you have 2 people who think differently and thinking the other is wrong.
When two theories are available and both are compatible with the facts, then there are no other criteria to prefer one
over the other except the intuition of the researcher. So
one can understand why intelligent scientists, cognizant
both of theories and of facts, can still be passionate
adherents of opposing theories.
- Albert Einstein
In short, one has to provide reasons why their way is better, and many are not interested in doing that.
Where there's a will, there's a relative.