Their edge will be population size. For China to remain less economically powerful than the US their standard of living must remain massively below that of the US.
Hopefully these go from being expensive pieces of gear that only few have to being completely normal/common-place. They are a great technological improvement but right now they are out of the budget of most of the motorcycling world (which outside of the West skews heavily towards lower incomes).
I was in Belgrade aiport duty-free a few days ago and there was a Lelo stand in amongst the usual cosmetics. "Fly in Pleasure", definitely got a laugh out of me.
It's really not just ecological concerns and tbh the mining really isn't that big of a deal. It's entirely the processing that is the problem, ecologically sure but mostly technically. Without the Chinese machines that do the processing because yes, you guessed it they are the only country in the world that makes most of them, you end up more than 20-30% less efficient. At that point on the world market you just aren't competitive at all.
This is all assuming you can get past the NIMBYs to build the plants in the first place.
If anything I could see the Chinese government moving to blocking import of Nvidia and AMD accelerators as time goes on. They can't afford to right now but you can bet they want to.
> But then, why was someone able to walk into that room with metal around their neck if it was clearly so life-threatening?
Take a look at the Google Street View link someone posted. It's pretty clear this facility -shouldn't- have been able to acquire an MRI machine in the first place.
It also elucidates how such an accident could happen, i.e they clearly don't have the trained staff and protocols necessary given the danger of an MRI machine.
It's very likely the poor gentleman didn't understand the immense danger the machine poses.
They are expensive and rare for a reason IMO. Yes it would be great to have more of them but the best place for more of them is within proper hospitals and leveraging economies of scale to share technicians across a fleet of them in a well run facility.
Yeah I would say all modern MRIs do. However one misconception is that loss of field strength is instantanous, it's not. The field strength drops off over about 15s or so as the helium boils off and the magnet losses superconducting properties.
So the emergency quench is less useful than it sounds in these situations... it's very likely if an MRI is going to kill you it's going to do it fast enough for it not to be relevant.
Surely you'd hit the quench button straight away? I cannot imagine policy being "check if the victim is dead, and if not hit the button."
I also wonder what the field decay is like. If it takes 15s and it's linear it's much worse than if it's 15s but decays exponentially. You don't need to field to be gone, you need the field to diminish enough to stop strangling the poor guy.
Figure half that to start since most of the loop is gonna wind up laying flat and only the half of it is prevented from doing so by one's neck. Then maybe cut it by 2/3 again since the sides aren't gonna do a ton of direct squishing. That still leaves you with hundreds of pounds, which roughly aligns with the timeline of suffocation in the article High hundreds low thousand likely would be neck snapping or otherwise instantly incapacitating.
Damage was mostly done at wall impact after distance-square acceleration, not just the slamming against the wall but 1.2 Tera-gauss force inches away from superconducting magnet coil applied at least 3,200 lbs/ft forces on the 20lb gold chain crushing nearly everything on the poor victim's neck, artery, veins, tendons, muscle ... beyond any possible surgical repair.
Not disagreeing, just saying the tech running the machine couldn't have known that and should have quenched the machine in case the damage was survivable.
Right. You - a person who wasn't there, has had no training, has seen no photos and doesn't understand any of the details of the circumstance - are certainly better positioned to know that than the trained staff who were present.
Until that big red emergency button gets pressed to the tune of $25,000 to $50,000 each time (couple that with 1-2 weeks downtime and a messed up scheduled for 1,000 of patients.
The person I was replying to wasn't asking questions. He specifically said the operator "should have" quenched the machine. He's just another comment section expert.
You don't have to voice your opinion just because you have one, if you're an expert people might want to hear what you have to say but otherwise you're just padding the comments with slop.
Yeah so this video shows exactly what I am talking about, the chair and other objects don't fall immediately, it takes ~15s for them to drop to the ground after the quench starts.
Takes more than 15sec to strangle someone. 30 shouldn't cause any serious damage beyond whatever mechanical damage there is from being tugged around. Heck, 2-3min is probably fine if the MRI is located at a hospital.
Edit: Per the article that I would like to remind everyone is well worth reading, he had time to say goodbye to his wife, that would seem to me to imply he wasn't tossed hard enough to be incapacitated.
honestly, probably, yeah, but the guy running the MRI can't know that and should have quenched immediately. You don't just go "oh well he's probably dead, nothing I can do about it now."
Causing severe head trauma or crushing the trachea can be almost instant. A lot of the more serious MRI related injuries are objects flying across the room and hitting someone, especially over the head.
With 3,200 lb/ft forces inches away from 1.2 tera-gauss magnet, all damages were already done to artery, veins, tendons, muscle, by the 20 lbs necklace, all beyond surgical repair.
Per the article, his wife claims that he had time to wave goodbye to her.
A man getting dragged by the neck and hitting an MRI machine head-first is going to make all sorts of hand movements that his grieving widow might interpret as waving goodbye in hindsight.
That is just unrealistic on a longer timescale.