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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vTq8oGpqwM& this was mentioned in a scientific paper and this fellow decided to replicate the results. He found he could create the plasma on most surfaces he tried even though the original researchers used something kind of exotic. Oil didn't have the plasma eff...

looks like we have more pressing problems here on Earth though:

http://siberiantimes.com/science/casest ... in-arctic/

Well the transportation idea should work, its got over 1.78 jiggawatts per square meter of beam intersection

JoeP wrote:Venus is too hard.

Floating cloud cities seem the most viable option. Still hard though with poisonous atmosphere.

Titan is much friendlier.

The intense ionizing radiation will convert carbon dioxide into oxygen and tons of buckyballs.. Too bad they are deadly when inhaled

Fixing the atmosphere of Venus is the easy part. That chunk of rock has a day longer than its year. This could be even worse than being tidally locked to always have on side facing the Sun. In that condition, at least there could be a narrow habitable band at the terminator, between a side constant...

Now Quaid, get your ass to Mars

The main limitation for the use of Dyson-Harrop satellites: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19497-out-of-this-world-proposal-for-solar-wind-power/ http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2010/ph240/sokolowsky2/ for the generation of electrical energy has been transporting it and converting it to ci...

It is a toughie, I thought of the same thing just recently. Even if you could bend the Xrays back in on itself, you would probably lose too much energy from losses at the reflectors. To make matters worse, the X-rays would probably pass right through the ignited gas or plasma.

Yeah, it is hot fusion, and it doesn't make a heck of a lot of fusion events. But I wonder if you accelerated H ions instead of deuterium, and you used a lead target, could you get some decent spallation neutrons from such a setup?

On the other hand I have observed large curling effects when messing around with plasma ball toys, the plasma definitely looks unstable in that case. But isn't that an AC discharge vs DC?

The big discussion way back when was instability, apparently the filaments twisted around and slammed into the container walls. I find that interesting, isn't lightning pretty stable? It seems to branch into areas of lesser resistance but I don't see it doing curly q's in the air too often...

The wiki says that the current theory about TGFs is that the lightning accelerates electrons into the upper atmosphere at relativistic speeds. When these relativistic electrons collide with heavy nuclei they spall off neutrons and other heavy particles. They didn't make the connection but this is th...

Take a pair of electrodes separated by the desired distance in a deuterium envelope and apply a few million volts to get a discharge?

OH LOOK! TOYS!

https://github.com/nasa/NASA-3D-Resourc ... D%20Models

https://software.nasa.gov

https://science.slashdot.org/story/17/0 ... e-for-free

Though you have to ask for it, I didn't say pretty please.. will I regret it?