I guess thats a step in the right direction ... though a small one.DancingFool wrote:Naw, he didn't call me a troll (this time).
Just irrelevant.
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- Sat Jun 24, 2017 12:08 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: LENR Is Real
- Replies: 1780
- Views: 826762
Re: LENR Is Real
- Thu Jun 22, 2017 11:42 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: LENR Is Real
- Replies: 1780
- Views: 826762
Re: LENR Is Real
Ah, the sweet wisdom of (dancing) fools. Well stated, DF. I think that sums up the general feeling on that paper here quite nicely.
- Thu Jun 22, 2017 1:07 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Elon Musk Is In Bed With Crooks
- Replies: 47
- Views: 78237
Re: Elon Musk Is In Bed With Crooks
At least initially, solar was subsidized to encourage development and adoption of solar electricity generation. It has definitely become much more widely used that it was 10 or 20 years ago, not to mention the improvements in efficiency and price. I've never heard of base load power being required f...
- Sat Jun 03, 2017 12:12 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: SpaceX News
- Replies: 2324
- Views: 1182193
Re: SpaceX News
From what I understand a big part of the weather concern is the risk of lightning strike during the ascent, and the damage that could cause to the craft.
- Fri Jun 02, 2017 5:49 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: SpaceX News
- Replies: 2324
- Views: 1182193
Re: SpaceX News
As I understand it, it was at 70% for yesterday, then a passing thunderstorm cut loose with lighting withing 10 mi only a few minutes before T-0 (at T-24 iirc), causing the scrub.
- Thu Jun 01, 2017 11:36 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: SpaceX News
- Replies: 2324
- Views: 1182193
Re: SpaceX News
Yeah, and the weather looks to be thunderstorms for at least the next week, so they will probably end up scrubbing Saturday's launch attempt.
- Thu Jun 01, 2017 1:41 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: SpaceX News
- Replies: 2324
- Views: 1182193
Re: SpaceX News
Looks like the next SpaceX launch, CRS-11, is this evening at 1755 eastern time (EDT), 1455 pacific. They will be landing the booster back at Kennedy (on land). Apprently, this launch will be the first reuse of Dragon capsule. According to the article i was reading this one was first launched in the...
- Fri May 26, 2017 1:24 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: SpaceX News
- Replies: 2324
- Views: 1182193
Re: SpaceX News
That sounds like a pretty direct competitor to Vector Space Systems . Wonder how many players the micro-satellite industry can support? How big can it get without making space junk an unmanageable issue? I thought most new satellites have to be able to go into a garbage orbit at the end of their li...
- Sat May 06, 2017 12:49 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: LENR Is Real
- Replies: 1780
- Views: 826762
Re: LENR Is Real
So, who has working 'reactors'? Rossi sure doesn't.
- Thu May 04, 2017 6:46 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: LENR Is Real
- Replies: 1780
- Views: 826762
Re: LENR Is Real
Crawdaddy, Actually, I don't think theories are that valuable at present, as they are so difficult to prove or falsify. What is needed for LENR acceptance is commercial reactors, probably in 2018. After that, money for basic research will be plentiful. What else will the unemployed hot fusion physi...
- Wed Apr 19, 2017 4:29 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Skynet is coming.
- Replies: 802
- Views: 397374
Re: Skynet is coming.
If only we (those using these AIs) can remember the bit from teh end of the article.
“If it can’t do better than us at explaining what it’s doing,” [Daniel Dennett] says, “then don’t trust it.”
“If it can’t do better than us at explaining what it’s doing,” [Daniel Dennett] says, “then don’t trust it.”
- Fri Apr 14, 2017 12:22 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: New John Goodenough battery with high (too high?) energy density
- Replies: 12
- Views: 27319
Re: New John Goodenough battery with high (too high?) energy density
This strategy is demonstrated with a solid electrolyte that not only is wet by the metallic anode, but also has a dielectric constant capable of creating a large electric-double-layer capacitance at the two electrode/electrolyte interfaces. The result is a safe, low-cost, lithium or sodium recharge...
- Sat Apr 08, 2017 12:29 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: NIAC, University of Maryland IEC, what is it?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6461
Re: NIAC, University of Maryland IEC, what is it?
I thought teh name was for a polywell (-like device). If nothing else this could be seen as replication of the results EMC2 has acheived over the last few years.
- Fri Apr 07, 2017 6:24 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Mach Effect progress
- Replies: 2707
- Views: 1489728
Re: Mach Effect progress
That is good news. I noticed another interesting entry further down the list:
Could that be a Polywell?Continuous Electrode Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Fusion, Raymond Sedwick, University of Maryland, College Park.
- Fri Mar 31, 2017 12:08 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: SpaceX News
- Replies: 2324
- Views: 1182193
Re: SpaceX News
SpaceX definitely seems to be doing well on Musk's plan to make a fully reusable rocket, even if it has taken a number of years longer than he originally envisioned.