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- Tue May 24, 2011 5:40 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Woodward-Mach Effect
- Replies: 32
- Views: 12146
A quibble...
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...
- Mon May 23, 2011 5:33 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Rossi energy catalyst – a big hoax or new physics?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 11288
Either / Or...
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...
- Thu May 05, 2011 6:25 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Antihydrogen atoms confined for 1000 seconds
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2915
Just enough to play with...
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...
- Tue May 03, 2011 5:51 pm
- Forum: Design
- Topic: Using atmosphere as propellant
- Replies: 151
- Views: 156139
Or let some-one else do the hard work ??
"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...
- Sat Apr 30, 2011 4:51 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: singularity technologies?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1892
Standing Wave Boson
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....
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....
- Sat Apr 30, 2011 4:48 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Your brain cooker is more effective than you thought
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3674
Irony...
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...
- Sat Apr 30, 2011 4:37 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Why people are so optimistical to Polywell?
- Replies: 370
- Views: 106090
By comparison...
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...
- Thu Apr 14, 2011 5:53 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Solar power without solar cells
- Replies: 24
- Views: 7856
My take...
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...
- Thu Apr 14, 2011 5:39 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: 10KW LENR Demonstrator?
- Replies: 3678
- Views: 1176708
Changes...
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...
- Thu Apr 14, 2011 5:30 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Rossi USPTO patent progress.
- Replies: 56
- Views: 55977
Well...
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...
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...
- Thu Apr 07, 2011 1:25 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: 10KW LENR Demonstrator?
- Replies: 3678
- Views: 1176708
Sloppy Science...
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...
- Mon Apr 04, 2011 4:39 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Topologist Predicts New Form of Matter
- Replies: 34
- Views: 15258
Saw the first ten minutes...
Had to stop and switch off the movie: I was laughing too hard at the mounting techno-gaffes...
- Sun Apr 03, 2011 7:26 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: 10KW LENR Demonstrator?
- Replies: 3678
- Views: 1176708
IIRC...
"...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 ...
Well, some US politicians did try to legislate Pi = 3...
IIRC, the motion was hastily voted down but they never got over the opprobium of having it *proposed*...
- Fri Apr 01, 2011 1:55 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Fusion scientists gear up to learn to harness plasma energy
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4533
Fusion scientists gear up to learn to harness plasma energy
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...