Detroit Man Discovers Recipe For Stronger, Lighter Steel

[Gethsemani_v1legacy]

Would his wife be named Dagny Taggart by any chance?

The first thing I thought was Rearden Metal

I wonder if this new form of metal has a green/blue hue and if a certain railway company is going to use it in their Rio Norte line to Colorado. Also, who is John Galt?

 

[Tiger Sora]

Take that science!!!
As well as to the people who doubted this man.

 

[Hammartroll]

does this mean we (the US) can get our steel industry back?


Also, I live in Pittsburgh PA, does this also mean Detroit is going to usurp us as the "Steel City"?

 

[Hammartroll]

Nice. I like reading things like this.

This is what they should make the RoboCop statue out of.

yes, yes they should.

 

[Panayjon]

So... he just solved the Riddle of Steel?

 

[cefm]

The true moral of the story will only be known once it is determined whether or not he has appropriately protected his discovery through a patent that he can enforce so he can actually make money off his discovery.

 

[Super Toast]

Someone's gonna be making a lot of cash in the upcoming years...

 

[Twilight_guy]

America: Trying every combination of possibilities until we improve the process or something blows up.

That's really cool but I hope the guy patents it quickly enough to get vultures from stealing his method.

 

[SirCannonFodder]

Sounds like just the stuff for all those augmentations Detroit'll be making soon

 

[notimeforlulz]

CAN WE PLAISE GET RID OF THIS STORY!! I don't need to read about how some guy 'invented' case hardening, and oh how magical it is. I know what carbon capture in iron is at varying temperatures with rapid cooling (see quenching). What I also know is that this steel would only be a cheaper better steel if it was produced in SUPER THIN SLIVERS, as the carbon isn't anywhere but on the surface here. He didn't invent discover shit, ignore this please you gullible fools.

 

[Tycho 333]

That's the kind of stories we don't see/hear enough of!

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That brings me to this: elitist arseholes like this professor. He didn't doubt, he just plainly said: "Oh but that's impossible Sonny." and probably laughed in his face. Now, THAT is why so many, oh so many, things are so eff'ed up today. So many people with their minds closed or up their you-know-where.

-snip.

yeah i hate those elitist professors say that things with no physical explanation are impossible. (end sarcasm)
seriously i think the professor is aloud to act a bit elitist if you know he is an expert in this kind of stuff as long as he looks at any new evidence that is presented.

 

[Faux Furry]

Can the steel made via this process be used to harden the cases of PlayStation 3s so they may withstand a volley fire from a Desert Eagle at long-to-medium range?

If so, someone should really put a video of that on a video streaming service immediately!

 

[notimeforlulz]

The moral of this story? College degrees are for chumps (assuming you can simultaneously revolutionize the field of materials science and global production capacity).

Yeah, never mind all the advances made my university graduates, one win by the uneducated inspired genius clearly proves all education wrong. Now, to find a brilliant amateur surgeon...

How is this a win? He is case hardening steel... I feel like I'm going mad when I try and emphasize that Quenching [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quenching] isn't new.

 

[notimeforlulz]

I've been working in a mettalurgy lab the last 2 years... I've seen things, man.

EDIT: Ok talked to a couple people and checked out their website. Basically it looks like they're only doing this on steel under 10mm thick... which is garbage and useless for so many applications. Essentially they're just doing a surface hardening, except it's so thin it works right through the entire thickness. We heat treat steel up to 3.5" thick (~100mm), so this process simply can not work.

YES! Someone who knows about metal in this thread!!! Yeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaah. If only you were the journalist who reported this it would have gone ignored.

I already thought of the thinness of his MARTENITE process, and figured if a long piece was quenched and then folded it could be a cheap way of having high carbon folded steel, or if many thin layers were welded together it could be a cheap alloy that's close to folded steel. In those two cases, it's just a cheap way of producing folded steel or a folded steel substitute. Yes it has been a hundred years since martenite was discovered but are we so stupid we have to rename it 'flash bainite' wtf.

 

[Chasmodius]

It's nice that a man named "Cola" is finding something new to do with "Coke." Zing! Metallurgy joke: check.

 

[Ulixes Dimon]

This should neatly plug the gap between now and when Carbon Nano Tubes make Steel completely obsolete.

Assuming that this process becomes widely used very quickly.

Once a method of mass producing them is discovered... Jetpacks and flying cars!

 

[KarlMonster]

"Cola's method however, heats the elements to intensely high temperatures almost instantaneously, then immediately cools them."

He's working with limited quantities in a "home lab".
Steel-melting temperatures at home? Mythbusters specifically told him not to do that.

If he is using unorthodox equipment (he probably is) the energy savings will not scale up for mass production. A mass production facility would prefer to leave the heat on, which is probably a big hindrance to his instant cooling. And only a 7% gain? It doesn't sound all that impressive. Can he do this with cheaper starting materials? Will it work with useful large items, like steel coils?

 

[Brandon Lum]

Hmm. I wonder if this'll be used in firearms. Hello recoil.

 

[Frotality]

hey! the kind of industrial innovation that america has built its government and economy around! glad to see us finally produce something other than bullshit for a change!