Scientists have revolutionized diamond synthesis with a groundbreaking method that creates diamonds at room temperature and pressure.
So are we at peak DeBeers?
That ended when people realized about blood-diamonds. But this should certainly accelerate their downfall.
If you were thinking of reading the article, know first that the picture of the diamond shown above is bullshit. This process can only produce microscopic films of diamond.
Basically the best version of it.
So diamond tipped tools will be cheap now, right? RIGHT?!?
No. They’ll stay the same price because profits.
nah, they’ll increase in price, but for more of the same reason.
They’ll be the same price because industrial diamonds aren’t something new and were incredibly cheap already.
They’ve been using industrial diamonds for decades, they would be more expensive if they were using natural.
