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Hum, seems that the Netherlands starts to be quite a focal point here. I'm curious as to the number of Dutchies on this board...

Other than black hole radiation, which we study below, the only process we know of which is sufficiently energetic is matter-antimatter annihilation.

LOL, guess the Federation and the Romulans have been at each other's throats even in the 21st Century already.

I remember hearing that black holes can hold a charge. Is this true? If so, there's your handling capability. But a charge on a black hole will selectivly absorb the opposite charge from the Hawkins radiation and quickly neutralize the charge. A charged black hole will also interact with a magnetic...

kcdodd has some code, Art has some supercomputer time (subject to small print, of course) and you've got the money. Sounds like a team. I may even be able to negotiate for a potential experiment site, as the Physics faculty at the Eindhoven University of Technology (I'm an Electrical Engineering st...

Gia Dvali, a quantum gravity expert at CERN, remains cautious. A few years ago he tried a similar trick, breaking apart space and time in an attempt to explain dark energy. But he abandoned his model because it allowed information to be communicated faster than the speed of light. That doesn't necc...

This is probably dumb, but I was thinking about the vacuum problem again. After the Alpha's have exited the cusps and the energy extracted by collectors, wouldn't the discharged Alpha's simply drop to the floor of the containment vessel under gravity. If its spherical, it would concentrate making e...

Here's an analogy... Imagine a ball of water floating in zero-g. It's wibbly and wobbly, but roughly spherical. If you have two of them, and gently push them together, the surface tension of the two balls will keep them separate, and they will actually bounce. If you push them together harder, enou...

Just a little discussion going after a little brain-fart I had this afternoon, when reading the news. I was wondering, why we're building all of these new machines when we might have a really viable option of getting there, already in place... It's 18 miles long, and crosses the border of France. En...

Most MOSFETs or IGBTs break down at anything over 1MV. I've no idea where you get that figure, but the 'standard' 800kV HVDC distribution systems that are coming on line use 3 to 5 kV thyristors stacked in series, and that's a lot of thyristors in series!.. but it is done that way. But now you're m...

I don't know if there would need to be much voltage stepdown, but anything working off direct current might be a canidate. With cheap power, some processes carried out by other means may be more economical. The European international power grid is 400kV/50Hz three-phase. Given the output voltage of...

chrismb wrote:...If it were otherwise, then one pound's weight of sterling silver would still be worth 'One pound sterling' and we'd never have seen a world financial crisis.

And we'd be breaking our backs trying to pay at the grocery store!

It looks like the Warpstar-1 MLTs are distributed in 4 triangular sets of 3, forming a triangular prism: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2517/3947913296_02924e4082_o.png And that each MLT tesseract can thrust in X, Y, or Z dimensions. So you would have full attitude and translation thrusting, in all...

At 500MW a plasma disruption would cripple the reactor, at 20GW a disruption would probably take out the rest of the plant aswell. Don´t forget the result of cascade failures from damage to the SC magnets, vacuum chamber and cryogenic units. Even a catastrophic 500MW plasma disruption would probabl...

You can reverse the MLT thrust vector by simply flipping the phases of the applied MLT cap E-field and force rectification B-field by 180 degrees. That E- and B-field phase flip reverses the thrust vector 180 degrees at a goodly percentage of the speed of light. If you want to read more, see my STA...

Read my post again and make sure you understand it. I DID read your post and understand your point. With regards to the landing stability issue, the whole engine would be pretty useless if you're unable to throttle it. Shutting down an engine as a whole would probably mean too much instant stress o...