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Blackbody radiation scales with the 4th power of temperature. So a 30% reduction in incoming solar energy gives less than a 9% drop in temperature. Not sure I follow your calculations. Thought it was heat loss by radiation was proportional to the 4th power of the temperature difference. Nope, black...

The F-302 is supposed to be ultra top secret.

Blackbody radiation scales with the 4th power of temperature. So a 30% reduction in incoming solar energy gives less than a 9% drop in temperature. On the other hand, if I've got my calculations right, a planet twice the distance from the star would have a roughly Earth like temperature.

"Climate change", second sentence in the introduction. Well, there goes their credibility. Fusion energy does not need a bogus climate crisis to justify it.

I didn't see Rossi's picture in the article, but a thermal generator with only 3 moving parts? Suggests thermoelectric generator with efficiencies ranging from 6% to 15%, that doesn't seem like a very good deal to me. I've read of Stirling-electric generators with a grand total of 2 moving parts, n...

Build a wall, steal a wall, who would have thunk it https://www.facebook.com/thedailyshow/videos/1164893220345695/?t=2 :lol: :lol: And...that's an argument for not building a wall? Or one for building a wall along with more border guards/troops to reinforce it and help keep it secure? If a bank get...

Will the desalination and water pumping be able to match the highly variable electrical production from solar and wind?

NPR => fake news.

A fission reactor that can be transported by air, then set up behind local materials for radiation shielding, not a huge problem. Transporting that same reactor home after it's been operating, much harder. Fusion would be a huge improvement in longer lived induced radiation. But the polywells we've ...

As I understand it, carbon fiber produces fewer secondaries from cosmic rays than a steel structure. A matter of atomic number.

Until we can launch despite common winds, space flight won't be where we want it.

If polar regions are premium real estate on the Moon, a transfer station at L1 or L2 seems a strategic location to catch a shuttle to the lunar surface. I'm assuming a transportation architecture where using 3 specialized spacecraft and 2 transfer stations, one in LEO and the other somewhere near t...

Since the original post, the bill has morphed twice, first to a mostly harmless form, then to the form of a study committee on the issue, with much harder to predict long term fallout, passed the legislature, and been vetoed. It may return in future legislative sessions in some form, as the veto was...

Launches from Vandenberg are used for polar orbits.

This reminds me of the electrolytic cold fusion fiasco.

Claimed energy costs less than a tenth natural gas? That smells of a badly considered scam.