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- Tue Sep 08, 2009 3:56 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Solar Roadway
- Replies: 41
- Views: 19253
In small towns in Italy that have narrow streets, they have been taking down all the stop signs and found a marked reduction in accidents. Apparently drivers were ignoring the stop signs anyway, and people going the other way who thought they had right-of-way were getting hit. Now everyone from each...
- Tue Sep 08, 2009 1:10 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Learning Resources
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4329
Learning Resources
Bumped into this book The Physcis of Plasmas by Richard Fitzpatrick, University of Texas at Austin. I can't judge its worth, but from a novice point of view looks reasonably extensive at 261 pages. Can anyone more knowledgable identify any particular bits that might be of particular interest for a P...
- Mon Sep 07, 2009 12:41 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Ejection of byproducts
- Replies: 31
- Views: 14698
- Tue Sep 01, 2009 1:33 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Ejection of byproducts
- Replies: 31
- Views: 14698
Thanks for your comprehensive reply. Not everything that I read in various articles sticks together properly. It makes sense at the time but there are too many details that are new and things get mixed up later. I'm planning to get some of the books MSimon mentioned recently. The way I had remembere...
- Mon Aug 31, 2009 1:00 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Ejection of byproducts
- Replies: 31
- Views: 14698
Ejection of byproducts
I'm not quite sure I've got this right, but here goes.. Apart from the ejection of high energy alphas, I seem to remember some discussion about how to eject particles from the core that don't have any charge. Are there some neutrals created by recombination of ions and electrons? I thought that thei...
- Thu Aug 27, 2009 6:21 pm
- Forum: Awareness
- Topic: stuff a polywell reactor in a game? (or dictionary)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 19264
dammn, now you've done it. THEY'll now have a short list of who to round up when they want to buried to technology. Have you seen this conspiracy ... I've been avoiding Facebook due to concerns about data mining. Then again, I'm starting to think that if I'm in the minority that doesn't have a faceb...
- Thu Aug 27, 2009 6:00 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: The race is on, Polywell vs Focus Fusion
- Replies: 86
- Views: 41646
- Sun Aug 23, 2009 3:55 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: electron g-factor
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6663
Quite true biologically. Perhaps the context is too obscure and its time for a new sig.KitemanSA wrote:BenTC, Given enough eyeballs, all bugs look kind of gross!
I meant it like this: The Cathedral and the Bazaar, Eric S Raymond (see point 8)
- Sat Aug 22, 2009 5:49 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: electron g-factor
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6663
I read this on wikipedia: While an electron-positron virtual pair is in existence, the coulomb force from the ambient electric field surrounding an electron causes a created positron to be attracted to the original electron, while a created electron experiences a repulsion. This causes the two charg...
- Mon Aug 17, 2009 9:38 am
- Forum: Implications
- Topic: Water versus Energy
- Replies: 24
- Views: 39507
Water versus Energy
While obvious that cheaper electricity would benefit many parts of the planet to produce potable water from desalination, it wasn't obvious to me the importance of the method of electricity generation. Scientific American had an enlightening article describing the tension between water and energy. W...
- Mon Aug 17, 2009 9:05 am
- Forum: Implications
- Topic: Cheap Clean Abundant Power: Secondary Implications
- Replies: 20
- Views: 41106
More light is not necessarily a good thing for the environment.
http://www.britastro.org/dark-skies/wildlife.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news ... ution.html
http://www.britastro.org/dark-skies/wildlife.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news ... ution.html
- Wed Aug 12, 2009 3:11 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: A new RF analysis by MIT
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4376
Also, need to watch out for those Juvenile Black Helicopters.
- Thu Aug 06, 2009 2:43 pm
- Forum: Design
- Topic: How to remove heat from a copper wire magnet?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 22128
I searched around last night and came up with one place that sells 4 oz jars of silver doped vacuum grease for $275 a jar. A little steep for my budget. But the same concept could be used with any thermal conductive material so I am trying to see if I can obtain bulk amounts of powdered diamond or ...
- Wed Aug 05, 2009 1:40 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: EEStor news
- Replies: 175
- Views: 93125