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If you use a so called "lightbulb" design, then you can make a gas core reactor based engine that does not leak reactor fuel either... Fused Silica is fragile. While it can be considered for in-space engines, it would be very troublesome to develop for Earth-Orbit-Earth applications. From my point ...

This is a bunch of crap, the article clearly forgets to mention that all the nitrogen extracted to manufacture nitrogen fertilizers is in fact extracted from the AIR. There is no net addition of Nitrogen to the atmosphere coming from nitrogen based fertilizers manufacturing, on the contrary, there i...

Last review I read about this new class of superconductors was that this transition temperatures was limited to some "parts" of the compound, and that more research was needed to validate that the same was valid for an arbitrary length of the compound. Looks like this last validation is still a theo...

Giorgio, money will pour on you from every place to solve the 90% engineering issue. You must work for the government if you think money will solve everything. Sorry to disappoint you, I have my own company and never worked under or for the government. As for engineering issues, yes, money will sol...

Manufacturing is just an engineering issues. If you have a 90% reject rate, "just an engineering issue" doesn't quite hack it. I see someone took a 1/4 million dollar bet on it this afternoon, so I'm not lonely. If you have a 90% rejection rate than you have a 10% working prototypes and a 90% engin...

The problem seems to be in manufacturing, that translates into a cost problem. It seems that manufacture has turned out to be more difficult than anticipated and although most of the problems have been resolved a few still remain. Manufacturing is just an engineering issues. To make everyone believ...

Interesting, and the logic looks sound on a first read.
I think you gave me something interesting to look at durig the weekend

"'My intuition is that any such models will have unwanted side effects,'" I suppose he meant unwanted in the sense of unobserved or unobservable? No, more like in the sense that some of the mathematical solutions gives a meaningless result. I have been following Hořava gravity theory from some time...

Considering the burocratic approach style that ITER has undertaken those 18 years will easily double by the time they complete it. Unless it is true that this whole ITER project is just a huge experiment to test one of the very last constant of the universe, the famous: "noyftwwwhfp = 40" Number Of ...

I agree, without a good amount of experimental data it will be nearly impossible to make a computer model that will prove or disprove the polywell basics. Plus a donation group on Linkedin is pretty strange, considering the main purpose of that website is connecting employers with possible future em...

Helius wrote:There is also a heavy Nitric acid component to the Acid rain too.

Absolutely correct, I just considered the sulfur component to make the post short and as it is the most devastating one.

But to be precise we should consider also the effect of the NOx component of the emission.

Midwestern coal plants are devastating to the Adirondacks. MSimon asked about Arsenic, which I took as a subtle request for more explanation as to how the plants are devastating... I won't be so subtle. Would you please explain how this is happening. Specifics please, not just 'We burn too much @#@...

This is a very old technological idea. Calcium Oxide (lime) is heavily used to reduce the sulfur emission from power plants burning low grade carbon (carbon with high sulfur content) by transforming it into Calcium Sulfate (gypsum). Using this same technology to capture CO2 would require before eve...

Well, we can "hope" to hear some news,but I have the feeling that if something good will come out from Doc. Nebel experiments we can easily expect that the Navy will cover up the whole research under some national security law, like they did with the experiment of Doc. Bussard, and they will keep e...

This is a very old technological idea. Calcium Oxide (lime) is heavily used to reduce the sulfur emission from power plants burning low grade carbon (carbon with high sulfur content) by transforming it into Calcium Sulfate (gypsum). Using this same technology to capture CO2 would require before ever...