/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>50295463
...so you don't actually have a single, solitary instance to backup the fantasy you have of how the world works in your head. And you won't bother to try and find proof for it not because it would be hard, but because you know you probably won't find it and the ego-punch would hurt too much. Go be a zoomer somewhere else.

Anon, you don't have the slightly clue about how R&D decision making works, and you need to stop pretending as though you do. Private companies such as oil and gas majors have their own internal, very well funded R&D divisions, and their job is to work on optimizations of existing systems and processes, and to bring laboratory proven systems to pilot scale. They don't really do their own bench scale work anymore, because its a waste of their effort to do it. They shop it out to university research groups knowing that most of what they are paying for will hit a brick wall. Of what does sort of work, only half is worth their own guys taking up, but the other half is useful for patent trolling the other energy majors.

There is no such thing as "actual good results" in research except for results that accurately reflect reality, because they dictate what the next step of the investigation is. If you knew what would work before you did it, it wouldn't be research, chucklefuck. They got what they wanted, which was a go/nogo on a new class of materials for gas separation. The university gave infinitely fewer shits about their existence than did the professor; there is no good-boy-point system for firms paying for research that is in their own self interest. Give an example of this actually entering into the decision making process of a firm to fund technical graduate research in America just one time.

>>25470921
A typical Ferrari isn't meant to last 100k+ miles. Many break down starting at 30-50k miles because they are tuned to be flashy overheated and overstressed supercars. That's why used ones (not the vintage antique ones, just like used 2010 models for example) are surprisingly low priced. I too was shocked when I learned of this.

Porsche vehicles are generally much more reliable though because they are built like cars. Italian "supercars" like Ferrari and Lamborghini are just glorified overpriced designer handbags with 4 wheels. Designed to thrill your balls off for a few years and throw away, because hey their customers can afford to do that, or they simply lease new models every year.