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Let's make something quite plain - the peer review on the <=WB7 work that lead to funding for WB8 was an independent work of EMC2 and paid for by the Navy. The peer review is owned by the Navy. If it is not owned by the Navy, then it wasn't an independent peer review! I think the Navy is right to a...

Interesting to see before and after. In particular... + Phase 1 validate & review WB-6 becoming validate & entend and the forecast $3-5M over 2 years came in better than expected at completed for $1.8M over 1.5 years. + The split into Phase 2 & Phase 3. + Phase 3 being "in-design" for " full scale 1...

The only thing I can think of is that you are not logged in the second time you are trying to edit you post. At the top of each topic, look for whether it says "Login" or "Log out of johanprins" "? At login, do you tick "Log me on automatically each visit" ? For cleanup, you can't fully trust virus ...

A Polywell removes arguments for having operational enrichment facilities of fissile material. That is a step towards non-proliferation.

Thanks. This was interesting... > http://www02.abb.com/global/seitp/seitp202.nsf/0/5392089edc1b3440c12572250047fd78/$file/800+kV+DC+technology.pdf Every year China installs new power-generating capacity equivalent to the entire installed capacity of Sweden. China is currently planning to build one 8...

Axil wrote:But for a BIG country that makes steel and aluminum

As an aluminium producer, I would rather have my very own fusion reactor over which I had complete operational control, than relying on a grid that might trip once every five or ten years. Cheaper too.

Axil wrote:“meaning you're saving hundreds of tons on shielding.”

Concrete and dirt are cheap.

Not for a ship.

This is cute... An architecture and design firm called Choi+Shine has submitted a design for the Icelandic High-Voltage Electrical Pylon International Design Competition which proposes giant human-shaped pylons carrying electricity cables across the country's landscape. http://www.wired.co.uk/news/a...

Some informative extracts from idle chatter about storage of experimental data, which may be of interest to some. From... Ask Slashdot - How-Do-You-Organize-Your-Experimental-Data Hello, I'm a space research guy. I've recently made a comparison of MySQL 5.0, Oracle 10i and HDF5 file based data stora...

Giorgio wrote:I wasn't able to find our friends inside it. Pretty strange........

So they are moving off the map? So... then we can at least thank the Iraq war - for cancelling Bussard's the original contracts - else we may have never known...

The way that science should be done... Sharing of Data Leads to Progress on Alzheimer’s The key to the Alzheimer’s project was an agreement as ambitious as its goal: not just to raise money, not just to do research on a vast scale, but also to share all the data, making every single finding public i...

Is this real?
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/201008 ... 0540.shtml

Skipjack wrote:IMHO, this is a sign of degeneration. Some people think it is a sign of the decline of western civilization. The lack of evolutionary pressure and natural selection is bringing about all sorts of self destructive things.

Like Ow My Balls from Idiocracy ?

paulmarch wrote: http://www.cphonx.net/weffect/alt.php

Love the tag line: Tomorrows Momentum Today.

Maybe ask these guys: http://www.shatters.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=12397 They are just using latexrender on phpBB3, the install of which I describe above. I had hoped my investigation would be picked up by the admin, but wasn't any interest. With phpBB3 the install is dead easy, however talk-p...