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.

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Lets increase the burn rate. Whats the shittiest million dollar idea you can come up with? (lemm.ee)

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[–] threelonmusketeers 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 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.