this post was submitted on 26 Aug 2024
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Shitty Million Dollar Ideas

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This is a place to pitch goofy million dollar ideas that you had in the shower, as you were falling asleep, or during a fever dream. Think of it is as shitty Shark Tank.

The usual rules apply:

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[–] Leeks 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Do the math of how long it takes for an omelette to cook. Make a machine with a cook surface long enough that scrabbled raw eggs can be inserted on one side, cooked in a continuous fashion and folded at the perfect time to make the perfect never ending omelette. Buy a chicken farm. Let this run for 8 months, then call up Guinness and get that thing certified! Sell fractional ownership in the “World’s Biggest Omelette” with NFTs hosted on the world’s first “Bock-chain”.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

These types of continuous processes really appeal to my brain for some reason.

[–] cucumber_sandwich 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

In another life I would be a process engineer for a career. Turning batch processes into continuous ones for a living.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

In a class I once took, I remember coming across a continuous-flow process for the synthesis of Ibuprofen. It was truly a thing of beauty.

Edit; found it: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.201409093

3 minutes, start to finish. 8 grams per hour.

[–] cucumber_sandwich 3 points 3 months ago

Nice! On the other end of the scale I was able to visit the BASF combined chemical plant once, and it is mind-blowing how many pipes there are feeding various chemicals from one reactor to another. They start from naphtha, water and liquefied air and synthesize basically everything else on-site.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

As long as all the advertising for the NFT's contains the power phrase ACT NOW WHILE SUPPLIES LAST I will approve this plan.