It was developed at Mass. General Hospital specifically for medical uses a long time ago (1970's I think). The hospital where I work has a commercial patient billing system based on mumps. The only tech I recall is that the language and the underlying database are 1 thing, inseparable.
very cool if it scales. i still think it would take a wild-card (their own description) breakthrough like this before the big investment in infrastructure and engineering for hydrogen would make sense. it's very hard to budget for or invest in wild-card ideas. they just pop up in a health research/entrepreneurial environment.
Looking at the other responses to the parent., there appear to be two kinds of people in the world: (1) those who realize that fundamental thermodynamics prevents us from getting free or cheap hydrogen, and (2) those who think its just a matter of whipping scientists and capitalists hard enough to make them cough up a magic way. There are woefully too many #2's at \. Imagine how many more there will be in the general public. That's what these demagogues are counting on.
WHEN and IF we find safe, cheap energy, THEN we can make hydrogen or anything else we like. In the meantime, let's don't pour money down the hydrogen rathole.
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It was developed at Mass. General Hospital specifically for medical uses a long time ago (1970's I think). The hospital where I work has a commercial patient billing system based on mumps. The only tech I recall is that the language and the underlying database are 1 thing, inseparable.
very cool if it scales. i still think it would take a wild-card (their own description) breakthrough like this before the big investment in infrastructure and engineering for hydrogen would make sense. it's very hard to budget for or invest in wild-card ideas. they just pop up in a health research/entrepreneurial environment.
Looking at the other responses to the parent., there appear to be two kinds of people in the world: (1) those who realize that fundamental thermodynamics prevents us from getting free or cheap hydrogen, and (2) those who think its just a matter of whipping scientists and capitalists hard enough to make them cough up a magic way. There are woefully too many #2's at \. Imagine how many more there will be in the general public. That's what these demagogues are counting on.
WHEN and IF we find safe, cheap energy, THEN we can make hydrogen or anything else we like. In the meantime, let's don't pour money down the hydrogen rathole.