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Boom? :( So you are on the kaboom side. Anyone else? That's what my point was. Worst case, if someone blows the whole gig simultaneously, and all the rings become shattered instantly... boom? Now the likelihood of that happening is probably low, but still. If it happens over a matter of microsecond...

I've been mentioning talk polywell over there for the last six months. I got banned from there years ago. Despite that they have picked up on a few of my blog posts. Some Drug War stuff IIRC. I think they did some Polywell when Doc B got some money and I was way more prolific on that subject. It ca...

Rossi is captured intentionally pouring the water out of the hose. Rossi shows a trickle of vapor coming out of the hose and claims total conversion to steam. Take just about any temperature steam and run it through a long length of hose. It's going to condense, period. Regardless of the volume, un...

That Iron Fist video just needs someone saying "But wait, there's more! Order now and you'll receive not just one, but TWO..." On a more serious note... Israel comes up with some pretty good stuff because they have a free society here in the US, but unlike the US, they have a completely different mi...

I still have a pipe dream in my head that one day, all the Western-based companies that operate in China will suddenly open the floodgates of information to the Chinese people... Just blow the Chinese government's propaganda machine to pieces...

Lajado, is it really that unbelievable that I would ask it? Maybe I'm missing something. The reason I asked is because, like I said, connecting two non-superconducting (or heck, superconducting) wires to a ring at 2 different spots isn't necessarily going to make the current flow. In the case of a t...

Yeah but external connections to what? Two wires running to each ring? That doesn't seem right to me, I'm not sure.

If you wanted to charge a tokamak, how would you do it? Here's what I'm envisioning... You've got say 20 superconducting rings. That's all they are, rings. You attach them in a circular pattern so that if they were charged, the magnetic field would go around in the circle infintely (like any tokamak...

I cannot find it, but my recollection was that it was in the neighborhood of a few hundred tons of TNT, not thousands. I don't know if this was a single magnet failure or all of them. Such an explosion would not destroy a city, but it would demolish the Tokamack reactor, along with all of its molte...

Your question has been answered. Any high energy magnetic field collapses and seeks the easiest way to do so. In the case discussed, it will either backlash some switching component, or it will seek to dissapate in a spectaular manner at the physical point of interuption as that point will more tha...

Ask any weaponeering dude how to take down high energy targets. The answer is normally simple and elegant, as well as effective, and involves using the target's energy against itself with a well placed "nudge". Yeah but you can't BIP it in Times Square :) And going back to my second question, imagi...

Concluding, first question was: will breakdown of 10 MJ capacitor have catastrophic aftereffects. First of all 10 MJ is not one capacitor but number of many connected together in a rather big building. So, breakdown of 10 MJ at once is impossible. Breakdown of a single capacitor of a bank is allowe...

High density energy storage can and do fail spectacurly. As noted above. Superconducting magnets are an example of this . The large powerful super conducting magnets in the ITER tokamac could make an impressive explosion if the supetconducter quenches. Apparently there are safty measures - very qui...

So it would probably be unwise for ultracapacitors with massive amounts of energy stored in them to be integrated into a transportation vehicle (car), in the event that an accident or some other catastrophic event happened, it would be even more catastrophic.

Dangit, why did I post this in news... sorry guys, I meant to put it in General, can someone move it?