That an Orca, aka a Killer Whale, should actually eat something, like a mammal, is hardly surprising. Personally, I have no problem with it. Play with a giant, multi-ton monster that has been known to eat sharks and whales, and dolphins and seals, and what do you expect? These are predators. Keeping them confined will have consequences.
This is what happens when the human races insists that it can dominate nature.
Oops.
The thing that immediately occurs to me is that this won't replace silicon. Silicon is massively available, it works, is well used and understood. Vanadium, in comparison is not. Plus, isn't it toxic? I know the semiconductor industry isn't what you would call green, but introducing an even more toxic element into the mix might not go down too well. I suspect this might, at the very best, have limited use in specialist applications. Making your computer thousands of times faster simply isn't going to happen.
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That an Orca, aka a Killer Whale, should actually eat something, like a mammal, is hardly surprising. Personally, I have no problem with it. Play with a giant, multi-ton monster that has been known to eat sharks and whales, and dolphins and seals, and what do you expect? These are predators. Keeping them confined will have consequences. This is what happens when the human races insists that it can dominate nature. Oops.
The thing that immediately occurs to me is that this won't replace silicon. Silicon is massively available, it works, is well used and understood. Vanadium, in comparison is not. Plus, isn't it toxic? I know the semiconductor industry isn't what you would call green, but introducing an even more toxic element into the mix might not go down too well. I suspect this might, at the very best, have limited use in specialist applications. Making your computer thousands of times faster simply isn't going to happen.