Best of 2022

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2022. 217 posts.

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Corn Cobs: Fuel of Nightmares

Earlier this year, in the bitter cold of Kansas winter, we began field testing our first scaled pyrolyzer, designed to process 10 tons of biomass per day. The pyrolyzer processed California wheat straw just fine. But now in Kansas, corn stover turned out to be a bit different. The bales not only had leaves and stalks…