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by 2edfe9
Thu Feb 25, 2010 4:13 am
Forum: News
Topic: Friday Feb 19:Google Gets US Approval To Buy and Sell Energy
Replies: 5
Views: 4848

Here's the page on Bloom from NextBigFuture


http://nextbigfuture.com/2010/02/bloom- ... gle+Reader
by 2edfe9
Thu Feb 25, 2010 4:01 am
Forum: News
Topic: Friday Feb 19:Google Gets US Approval To Buy and Sell Energy
Replies: 5
Views: 4848

I have one possible explanation for why Google wants to sell energy. I just watched a CBS report on a fuel cell company called Bloom. According to the report, Google has been testing their fuel cells on site for a while now. http://www.bloomenergy.com/news/ Let’s say Bloom can do what it claims and ...
by 2edfe9
Sat Jan 23, 2010 1:34 am
Forum: News
Topic: New Nasa Spaceflight On pB11
Replies: 35
Views: 12975

I still like my idea if only for a manned mission to the nearest star within the next 100 years. If Von Neumann intellegent computers/robots become available, you only have to send a small ship with one or two robots to the next star with enough fuel to decelerate rapidly on arrival. The robots use...
by 2edfe9
Wed Apr 15, 2009 8:45 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Any love for Polywell from Obama?
Replies: 65
Views: 31568

Any love for Polywell from Obama?

Late last year it sounded like funding was in a holding pattern until the new administration had settled in... I believe Obama released his budget a few weeks ago. I haven't looked too closely but I was wondering if there are any hints if programs like Polywell research will receive any funding? If ...
by 2edfe9
Wed Aug 20, 2008 11:06 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Lets make sure it's called the 'Bussard Reactor'
Replies: 62
Views: 36146

Also, people will get over their worries about fusion reactors soon enough. Within a few years everyone will be building them anyway. The economics are too compelling. The name of the reactor may be around for a lot longer then that, possibly hundreds of years, so I think the terseness gained by dro...
by 2edfe9
Wed Aug 20, 2008 11:02 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Lets make sure it's called the 'Bussard Reactor'
Replies: 62
Views: 36146

"Fire up the Bussard Fusion Reactors...." too much of a mouthful. :D
by 2edfe9
Tue Aug 19, 2008 5:55 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Lets make sure it's called the 'Bussard Reactor'
Replies: 62
Views: 36146

Lets make sure it's called the 'Bussard Reactor'

I don't know how it is for engineers, but in the software world when a team gets started on a project, we always pick a codename for it since it has to be called something before the marketing guys get around to giving it an official name. A good example of this is Windows Vista, which was known as ...
by 2edfe9
Wed Aug 13, 2008 8:45 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Ray Kurzweil, Cyberprophet or Crack-Pot?
Replies: 155
Views: 62807

One of the most interesting arguments on the software side is that we don't have to understand how intelligence works. All we have to do is run a simulation of the human brain on a powerful enough computer. You don't have to understand something in order to copy it. Ray K has published some estimate...
by 2edfe9
Thu Jul 31, 2008 3:24 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Any official news as of late July 2008?
Replies: 154
Views: 92740

One of the stated goals for this summer was a very high level review of the results of the WB-7 experiments. Does anyone know if this meeting will go ahead as planned? If so who's on the invite list and how many have RSVP'd?
by 2edfe9
Thu Jul 31, 2008 2:28 am
Forum: Implications
Topic: Closed Loop Recycling
Replies: 38
Views: 25309

Closed Loop Recycling

One of the things we really should be trying to achieve is a closed loop economy, where everything is recycled and we don't allow polluting materials to build up in the environment. If we had unlimited cheap clean energy this goal might actually be attainable. For example I love the idea of the fusi...
by 2edfe9
Tue Jul 15, 2008 10:09 pm
Forum: News
Topic: $300M prize for a new car battery? How much for fusion?
Replies: 11
Views: 8411

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/02/09/branson-greenhouse.html Richard Branson's offering $25m to the first group that can remove a significant amount of CO2 from the atmosphere without adverse effects. Seems to me that would be fairly straight forward once you had an unlimited supply of gree...