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IIRC, this device 'works' by using the macroscopic difference in mass between a charged and un-charged capacitor. Given E=Mc^2, even a tonne of super-capacitors would have a minimal mass-energy difference: I'm not surprised that different workers have had contradictory results... OT: What was the na...

Well, sounds like he's about to qualify for either the Nobel Prize in Physics, or a padded cell plus the next IgNobel (*). He does so much in such a clumsy way, as if to convince skeptics that he's a fraud, then blows the act it by funding stuff himself... I'm baffled... (*) If latter, he may be sha...

IIRC, one of the planned experiments will check that antimatter falls *down*... This isn't quite as daft a notion as it sounds... http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-04-antigravity-dark-energy-universe-expansion.html "When you reverse the equations of general relativity in charge, parity and time for e...

"The SKYLON payload bay is 4.6m diameter and 12.3m long. It has been designed to be compatible with expendable launcher payloads but in addition to accept standard aero transport containers which are 8 foot square in cross section and 10, 20, 30 or 40 feet long. It is anticipated that cargo containe...

I got to that phrase and began giggling...

IMHO, it just failed its reality check...

I'm sorry, I'll mine the site for possible background for alien tech for a SciFi tale but....

The irony is your fat old cell-phone, with a visible antenna, was probably several times safer than the current designs with stamp-sized internal aerial-- The external aerial needed less power to get a hand-shake with the mast... Also, to get through to a mast when the cell is busy, the phone signal...

When you consider that main-stream fusion designs have lurched from road-block to insurmountable obstacle for the last fifty years, with break-even always a decade or two away, the Polywell approach has come a long way, very quickly... ( Yes, yes, I even remember the 'figure of eight' Stellerator wh...

After reading the PhysOrg article, I got the impression that this discovery is like 'giant magneto-resistance' a few years ago: When we knew it was possible, it needed optimised materials to be commercially viable... And now they're the read-heads in a zillion hard-drives... Now, where would we find...

Uh, if there's some physical difference between functional and non-functional particles, sorting them may simply require a cascade of challenges, like a coin-sorter or magnetic scrap separator. Even a 60/40 split soon mounts up if stages are recycled... One possibility is that the 'good stuff' adsor...

If he can patent it as a heat source, he's laughing...

Going back later when he's figured out *why* it works would be a lot easier.

D'uh, assuming there's a bona-fide process, of course, of course...

I don't know what he's found-- Or thinks he's found-- but I'm glad he's insisting on spending his own money on it... FWIW, he seems to be doing everything else wrong. Reminds me of those 'overunity' widgets that have a couple of indifferent DVMs as output where you or I would hook up a string of fes...

Had to stop and switch off the movie: I was laughing too hard at the mounting techno-gaffes...

"...and bulldozers use tank technology for their traction tracks." Early WW1 tanks used running gear adapted from civilian tractors... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanks_in_World_War_I But, there's no arguing with urban legend, especially where 'nukes' are concerned. IIRC, my home city unilaterally ...

IIRC, the motion was hastily voted down but they never got over the opprobium of having it *proposed*...

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-03-fusion-scientists-gear-harness-plasma.html quote: Researchers working on an advanced experimental fusion machine are readying experiments that will investigate a host of scientific puzzles, including how heat escapes as hot magnetized plasma, and what materials ar...