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- Mon Mar 25, 2024 5:43 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Company (Quaise Energy) plans to use fusion technology to drill for geothermal
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3795
Re: Company (Quaise Energy) plans to use fusion technology to drill for geothermal
Earths heat energi content stems from thorium and uranium decay. Uranium (both 235 and 238) and thorium has a halvlife even if it counts in many billions of years. This minuscule energi evolvement adds up over a huge volyme and is what makes Earth a geologically active planet. If to much heat is ex...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 5:32 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Company (Quaise Energy) plans to use fusion technology to drill for geothermal
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3795
Re: Company (Quaise Energy) plans to use fusion technology to drill for geothermal
I haven't heard about drilling causing earthquakes. Fracking, yes, depletion of underground water tables and oil deposits, yes. Drilling per se, not that I know. Can anyone give some examples? Unless there are examples of this, or at least a credible theory regarding a relation, I think running to ...
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 9:43 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Company (Quaise Energy) plans to use fusion technology to drill for geothermal
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3795
Re: Company (Quaise Energy) plans to use fusion technology to drill for geothermal
Great! Lets make earthquakes 100 times faster!paperburn1 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 23, 2024 6:11 pmThe real strength behind Quaise is the fact that if it works as predicted they can drill holes 100 times faster than anyone else.
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- Fri Mar 22, 2024 8:26 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Company (Quaise Energy) plans to use fusion technology to drill for geothermal
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3795
Re: Company (Quaise Energy) plans to use fusion technology to drill for geothermal
I once calculated that there was not enough geothermal flux, even at a 100% conversion efficiency, to power the world’s energy needs. So to do more, we would need to extract STORED energy. What that would do to earthquakes, I hesitate to speculate.
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 11:19 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: General anti-fusion attitude
- Replies: 14
- Views: 368
Re: General anti-fusion attitude
IBIDusesbiggerwords wrote: ↑Mon Mar 18, 2024 2:20 pmI'm probably stating the obvious here, but these organizations are anti-human. Any technology that continues to allow humanity to grow and expand will be opposed.
- Sun Dec 24, 2023 3:31 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Happy Holidays everyone!
- Replies: 9
- Views: 718
Re: Happy Holidays everyone!
Let us try to be all inclusive.
Happy Holidays
Merry Christmas
Happy Hanukkah
Quality Quanza
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Ideal Eid
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Dongzhi
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Any to add?
Happy Holidays
Merry Christmas
Happy Hanukkah
Quality Quanza
Delightful Dewali
Ideal Eid
Wondrous Winterset
Dongzhi
Lohri
Yaldā Night
Any to add?
Re: EM Drive
Eh? According to this "Jon Beam, Chief Operating Officer, praised the Mission Operations team for their exceptional work and agility, advancing ahead of schedule toward completing primary mission objectives by year's end ." https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=60008.0 Barry-1 is a sens...
Re: EM Drive
If the baseline data demonstrates ALL plausible external forcing functions, then mN level forces over time should be distinguishable, irrefutably.
- Fri Dec 15, 2023 1:42 am
- Forum: Design
- Topic: Sintered metal objects from a standard FDM 3D printer
- Replies: 7
- Views: 18180
Re: Sintered metal objects from a standard FDM 3D printer
“ In the case of copper, the highest density achievable would be about 97 density with 15 percent shrinkage, but shrinkage can be kept to under 7 percent with 10 to 12 percent porosity.” So, definitely not vacuum tight. And I don’t see anything about printing superconductors. Nitrogen (LN2) doesn’t...
- Wed Nov 29, 2023 7:19 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: SpaceX News
- Replies: 2324
- Views: 1154889
Re: SpaceX News
What Carl said.
- Wed Nov 29, 2023 1:32 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: SpaceX News
- Replies: 2324
- Views: 1154889
Re: SpaceX News
Specifically, it was the reason for the attempt being delayed by one day. They de-stacked and swapped out the actuator (actually, all 4 I think I read). Not only not the cause of the explosion, but also the explosion probably made the issue irrelevant ;) Then again, the effectiveness of the grid fi...
- Tue Nov 28, 2023 8:47 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: SpaceX News
- Replies: 2324
- Views: 1154889
Re: SpaceX News
There was an issue with an actuator for one of the grid fins. Where did you see this? I am still seeing a lot of speculation regarding the FTS triggers for both Booster and Starship. We may have to wait until SpaceX releases more information. In any event, the launch through Hot Stage had to be a g...
- Mon Nov 27, 2023 9:45 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
- Replies: 660
- Views: 104482
Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
And heck, the product being delivered makes the gas that floats the ship!Carl White wrote: ↑Mon Nov 27, 2023 9:10 pmI've suggested it before and will suggest it again, probably: delivery by dirigible.![]()
- Sat Nov 25, 2023 11:11 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: SpaceX News
- Replies: 2324
- Views: 1154889
Re: SpaceX News
They have a blanket under the tiles. I’ve wondered if the blanket itself (or a thicker one) would suffice or if they could make do by adding spray cooling of the steel.