Eh, I don’t think I like AMA style posts without much detail in the post itself. If you’re going to reply, why not write it beforehand and include it in the post? This seems like it might have been interesting if you had done so.
I don’t think it would be TOO long, I happily read through very long posts on here.
However, that said, I was curious enough to read that blog post, and that’s about the length and level of detail I expect in a normal short-to-medium size LW post, but it also stopped short of where I wanted it to. I hope that helps calibrate a little? I don’t know how “typical” I am as an example LW reader though.
Oh, and because I know it annoys me when people get distracted away from the main question by this sort of stuff, question is “Can you share the experimental results with just enough explanation to understand the methodology”, because I think everything else will flow naturally from questions about the experiment and the results.
Oxygen reacts spontaneously with sodium metal. (And various other things.) That causes current to go in and not come back out, but other things can cause that too.
When that happens, telling why can be complicated, but one way to tell if oxygen is the problem is to take away the oxygen and see if that helps.
Eh, I don’t think I like AMA style posts without much detail in the post itself. If you’re going to reply, why not write it beforehand and include it in the post? This seems like it might have been interesting if you had done so.
That would be pretty long. The intro might be something like this.
It’s hard to do multiple levels of technical detail in one post.
I want to know how to order things if I’m talking to a LW-ish investor-ish person.
I don’t think it would be TOO long, I happily read through very long posts on here.
However, that said, I was curious enough to read that blog post, and that’s about the length and level of detail I expect in a normal short-to-medium size LW post, but it also stopped short of where I wanted it to. I hope that helps calibrate a little? I don’t know how “typical” I am as an example LW reader though.
Oh, and because I know it annoys me when people get distracted away from the main question by this sort of stuff, question is “Can you share the experimental results with just enough explanation to understand the methodology”, because I think everything else will flow naturally from questions about the experiment and the results.
How do you distinguish oxygen contamination from other problems, and what’s the mechanism by which oxygen causes problems?
Oxygen reacts spontaneously with sodium metal. (And various other things.) That causes current to go in and not come back out, but other things can cause that too.
When that happens, telling why can be complicated, but one way to tell if oxygen is the problem is to take away the oxygen and see if that helps.