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I think this has already been shot down here. BTW how do you get the cable untangled? How do you handle wind shear? We get many questions about weight and electrical losses in the tether, and other aspects. Tether technology is not simple, but a number of vendors now compete in this field selling p...

Sounds like a fun kite toy to me. I think it can be made to fly and produce power, but I doubt it would be as worthwhile as supporters think. Existing wind farms are amazingly feeble for their sizes. Enough of these to make a dent would amount to a huge number of cables for planes to weave thru. Th...

I think this has already been shot down here. BTW how do you get the cable untangled? How do you handle wind shear? I don't recall any thread on it. I'll have a search but if you could give a link... Why would the cable get tangled? I understand they'll use a combination of GPS and modern avionics ...

www.skywindpower.com Basically the idea is to put a rotorcraft at the end of a kilometers long tether and fly it into the jetstream. Once there the electric motors switch into generators and generate power for both lift and electricity. There's a peer reviewed paper with specifics. "Harnessing High-...

Update on oil. Hirsch is positing $500bbl in 3-5 years. Interview on the CNBC website. Writing this on my aforentioned UMPC so I can't give a link.

I spend at least that long on the subway every day. Much of that time I surf the net or study. Not down time at all.

The biggest factor has to be inelasticity of supply and inelasticity of demand. If the price of gasoline doubles tomorrow, I'm still going to drive my usual 48 miles to work (while thinking about a job search), and the refinery that distilled my gasoline is still going to buy the same type of oil (...

MSimon wrote:I think the Polywell at .3T generates about a ton of force per magnet.

X 300 = 100 Tons. Using 65,000 psi steel that is about 3 sq in. Not a big deal by itself. Bending moments are where the real forces come in.

Don't you mean 300 tons?

drmike wrote:70% of the earth is covered with ocean. There are a lot of places that have not yet been explored, Most are really hard to get to, but that is beside the point. There may well be lots of large fields in the deep ocean.

Probably be cheaper to grow algae than drill that deep.

We'll never know for certain. But it could hardly be any worse than what transpired.

Actually, Ho Chi Minh Was Vietnam's Strongest leader. Truman missed a golden oppourtunity to support him in 1945 in exchange for bases and influence.

[As to whether self government can be spread by force? I think it can be. First you defeat the enemies of self government. You provide security so economic growth can happen. You protect it until it is self sustaining. It worked in South Korea. The principles are simple. Execution is hard. I live i...

South Vietnam by 1973 had its own autonomous government with about 30,000 American troops helping to hold the fort. (I could be wrong about troop numbers in '73. It is near the correct number for '75) The fort fell in 1975 to NVA divisions crossing the border and the US Congress denying promised su...

== Yeah. Germany, Japan, and South Korea are all worse off. I can see that. You have convinced me. Where do I sign up? And giving up on South Vietnam was a brilliant move. About 160,000 killed in re-ed camps. 3 million in Cambodia and aprox. a million dead at sea (boat people). But we got a lot of ...

I'm guessing that this might fall under "classified." But you never know. With WB6 it took some time after they did the experiment to actually have a look at the data. I understand that they only had very limited detection apparatus, so although the counts seemed to be high, it's too difficult to st...