Gag me with a spoon! I think that ‘woke’ terminology is getting out of hand. The kind of people who never read past the sports news, fashion, and comics may need an oversimplification to be able to ‘understand’ science and technology. However, those people are probably never going to read a science news blog like this one.

As is so often the case with these kinds of announcements of a claimed technology ‘breakthrough,’ the big picture is being ignored. Gallium is not abundant and requires a lot of energy to extract and purify, as with most metals. That calls into question whether its so-called sustainability is greater than other catalytic metals it might compete with. They either didn’t look at the energy economics of producing gallium, or just neglected to mention what they discovered. As I have remarked before, just because something is technologically possible, doesn’t meant that it is economically feasible. That is one of many reasons why so many ‘discoveries’ never become a commercial success.