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- Fri Aug 05, 2016 2:36 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Flywheel energy storage
- Replies: 22
- Views: 17892
Re: Flywheel energy storage
Levitation of a static object is unstable with just permanent magnets. Levitating a gyroscope on permanent magnets can be stable, baring parasitic forces that can be corrected with a minor force active correction system. Though it becomes a problem if the axis is tilted away from vertical. Like whi...
- Thu Aug 04, 2016 7:05 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Flywheel energy storage
- Replies: 22
- Views: 17892
Flywheel energy storage
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-student-revolutionary-energy-storage-solution.html "Engineering student designs revolutionary energy storage solution" How much is there to this? This part confuses me: The FES retains energy kinetically in a levitated floating mass. The rotor, which can be made from com...
- Thu Jul 21, 2016 6:18 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: SpaceX News
- Replies: 2324
- Views: 1154533
Re: SpaceX News
SpaceX seems to have a big head start though, seeing as Blue Origin has never reached orbit.Skipjack wrote:SpaceX is not going to be a monopoly. Blue Origin is already working on a competing RLV.
- Thu Jul 21, 2016 6:05 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Lockheed Skunkworks Announces Comm. Fusion in 4 years
- Replies: 37
- Views: 39778
Re: Lockheed Skunkworks Announces Comm. Fusion in 4 years
Yep. The article's words, not mine. Well, at least it means they're doing more than simulations now, which I didn't know.
- Mon Jul 18, 2016 4:03 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Lockheed Skunkworks Announces Comm. Fusion in 4 years
- Replies: 37
- Views: 39778
Re: Lockheed Skunkworks Announces Comm. Fusion in 4 years
A little news in this article (May this year): http://i-hls.com/2016/05/lockheed-martin-one-step-closer-to-portable-nuclear-generator/ Lockheed is “about four months into a little bit more significant investment” into the technology “Basically at this stage we are increasing the temperature at which...
- Thu Jun 30, 2016 2:03 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: in the lifestyle section of the bangkok post ?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 11785
Re: in the lifestyle section of the bangkok post ?
Uh, what? This has been a done deal since when? More shoddy reporting.Lockheed Martin, for example, has developed a compact fusion reactor that can fit in the back of a large truck, which, according to the company's claims, can power a city of 100,000 people.
Re: BLP news
I guess it must be that time in the BLP (now "Brilliant Light Power") cycle to raise more cash from the credulous. Never a product, just hand waving and a light show. Mills: “The source of hydrogen fuel and catalyst to form hydrinos is water. A commercial enabling fuel injection system and other new...
- Tue Jun 14, 2016 8:10 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: LENR Is Real
- Replies: 1780
- Views: 811109
Re: LENR Is Real
This is just more "Rossi says". It's getting tiresome.
- Wed Jun 08, 2016 3:29 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Will Europe wake up?
- Replies: 69
- Views: 36700
Re: Will Europe wake up?
Surrendering to Death This encapsulates two points I often try to make. Islam is not compatible with Western ideas of Equality and Tolerance, and the media are lying sacks of liberal excrement who manipulate the news as much as they think they can get away with, in an effort to make it conform to t...
- Wed Jun 08, 2016 3:19 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: LENR Is Real
- Replies: 1780
- Views: 811109
Re: LENR Is Real
Although the more IH spends on lawyers, the more you have to wonder whether Rossi's case isn't meritless after all.
- Tue May 24, 2016 2:58 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Princeton Plasma Physics FRC
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5233
Re: Princeton Plasma Physics FRC
How much funding has NASA given them? Is there any chance this will progress beyond Phase I? It seems like so many of these studies end up in the dust bin. In this Phase I study, we propose to analyze the Pluto mission concept using new models of the engine. We will develop an optimal trajectory inc...
- Sat May 21, 2016 3:24 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Small Tri Alpha news blurp
- Replies: 250
- Views: 255878
Re: Small Tri Alpha news blurp
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/6014 ... er-source/A startup in California has raised $500 million to chase the elusive dream of fusion power. Is this crazy, or is the company on to something?
Re: EM Drive
http://cannae.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/P1010705.jpg Cannae recently completed another successful demo of our superconducting thruster technology. Pictured above is the cooldown of the thruster (located in the steel dewar) with liquid helium. Cannae ran the current prototype in two orientation...
- Sat May 07, 2016 8:43 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Brillouin Energy Corporation
- Replies: 41
- Views: 35143
Re: Brillouin Energy Corporation
http://qz.com/676426/they-said-it-couldnt-be-done-clean-power-to-save-the-world/ I don't know who quartz.com is, but they did a radio-style mishmash called "Actuality" with quotes from Peter Hagelstein (MIT) and Robert Godes (Brillouin). Also, I can't find a date on this, so it may be older news. Go...
Re: EM Drive
Rather pitiful though how triumphant they're all sounding that we're stuck with hugely expensive, explosion-prone rockets as the only way off Earth for the foreseeable future.