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by scareduck
Tue May 18, 2010 8:09 pm
Forum: News
Topic: This is Progress.
Replies: 31
Views: 18056

At $400.00 per unit, an LED lens assembly would never pay for itself. Fortunately, Liberal idiot cities who have no common sense whatsoever, using tax payer money, started ordering massive quantities of these things, and as a result of the laws of supply and demand, more companies got into the busi...
by scareduck
Wed May 12, 2010 6:54 pm
Forum: News
Topic: What's the hurry?
Replies: 42
Views: 27097

Aeronaut wrote:Have you factored in the cost of transmission lines and on-site maintenance?
On-site maintenance costs aren't exactly a selling point of small wind, where you have far more moving parts and more of them, distributed in a larger area.
by scareduck
Wed May 05, 2010 7:25 pm
Forum: News
Topic: emc2's website
Replies: 232
Views: 151166

MSimon wrote:Just to add to that point. His private messages to me have dried up.
First the patent application lapse, now this. Not. Looking. Good.
by scareduck
Tue Apr 27, 2010 11:43 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Blacklight Power claims validation and due diligence
Replies: 33
Views: 16727

And I claim ... why, I claim I am Mary, Queen of Scots.
by scareduck
Fri Apr 16, 2010 9:04 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Room-temperature superconductivity?
Replies: 1893
Views: 659386

"What is your proof?"

Also, the forum (a semiconductor journal rather than any of the superconductor journals) is an odd choice. That may have affected how this guy got this article published in the first place: the review panel wasn't qualified to judge the manuscript.
by scareduck
Tue Mar 02, 2010 11:00 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Bill Gates & the Traveling Wave Reactor at TED
Replies: 7
Views: 5109

Ah, you're right. Confused my MS founders. :-)
by scareduck
Mon Mar 01, 2010 11:08 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Bill Gates & the Traveling Wave Reactor at TED
Replies: 7
Views: 5109

One consequence of this lecture is that we have reason to believe he thinks the money he sunk into Tri Alpha Energy is lost. He mentions fusion at about 8:55, but only as something that can't be relied upon to happen.
by scareduck
Fri Feb 26, 2010 1:27 am
Forum: News
Topic: LPP fusion experiments getting ten times more neutrons
Replies: 57
Views: 34912

It seems to me that nothing Eric Lerner has done suggests he isn't a "solid scientist". It would seem a very reasonable critique to point out he is no academic and seems to be lacking a full set of counter-arguments. Getting banished from editing his own Wikipedia page? He's more interested in his ...
by scareduck
Tue Jan 19, 2010 3:46 am
Forum: News
Topic: Want a Fusion Job?
Replies: 2
Views: 3704

They should advertise for quantum mechanics instead.
by scareduck
Tue Dec 08, 2009 1:47 am
Forum: News
Topic: And some news(?) from Black Light Power
Replies: 36
Views: 13800

Re: And some news(?) from Black Light Power

Via nextbigfuture.com: http://nextbigfuture.com/2009/12/blacklight-power-plans-for-2010-2013.html Not sure what to make of this. It seems like a lot of moving air to me, but I dont really see anything that makes me feel more comfortable with this. I am still waiting for those first reactors to be r...
by scareduck
Wed Dec 02, 2009 11:36 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Polywell: We'll know in 7 months time?!
Replies: 203
Views: 83680

I think the current news blackout (all my sources have dried up) is a move in the direction you suggest. Based on what? That's wild-eyed speculation. Given that actual success would be an immense credit to whomever got it going (hey, we're geniuses! Now give us more money so we can do even more sup...
by scareduck
Fri Nov 20, 2009 7:50 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Fusion Will Never Work
Replies: 83
Views: 30427

Dittmar is getting a lot of press lately, but there have been some substantial questions raised about his data indicating that he refuses to acknowledge shortcomings in his own work. There's a reason the peak oil doomers asked him to be on their site; he gives no hope at all, and I rather wonder if...
by scareduck
Fri Nov 20, 2009 4:02 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Fusion Will Never Work
Replies: 83
Views: 30427

Dittmar is getting a lot of press lately, but there have been some substantial questions raised about his data indicating that he refuses to acknowledge shortcomings in his own work. There's a reason the peak oil doomers asked him to be on their site; he gives no hope at all, and I rather wonder if ...
by scareduck
Mon Nov 16, 2009 4:00 am
Forum: News
Topic: Tri-Alpha Rumor
Replies: 119
Views: 60745

Nonsense. There's the issue of fuel availability (FAR more boron and deuterium in the world than fissible uranium-235), which you keep glossing over. Your comment got me curious about what the real abundance of Boron, Thorium, and Uranium is . Boron is actually fairly scarce. In fact there is less ...
by scareduck
Fri Nov 13, 2009 6:26 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Yet another fussion
Replies: 30
Views: 14245

Hmmm... 21st Century Science and Technology sounded familiar - it's a Lyndon Larouche publication. I see on the main page that you can read about Science and the Larouche Youth Movement. Regards, M.R.F. (Shrug) :roll: WGAS? I personally don't care if promising new fusion techniques are first publis...