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by Professor Science
Mon Sep 14, 2009 4:06 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Solar Roadway
Replies: 41
Views: 18886

how high are you willing to build this solar canopy? semi's are big, but there are even taller 'chines I've seen driving sometimes.
by Professor Science
Mon Sep 14, 2009 3:20 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Tesla, the teleforce, and old school
Replies: 19
Views: 7841

Well, i suppose if you have a barrier that requires greater than x eV to penetrate, your crazy particles of doom which are most likely far more energized than x eV should be able to get through, and atmosphere will be blocked out, but how do you get a barrier that isn't solid matter block neutral ch...
by Professor Science
Mon Sep 14, 2009 1:58 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Tesla, the teleforce, and old school
Replies: 19
Views: 7841

I read about this awhile ago and was tickled by the proposition of a hard vacuum chamber with an open end to atmosphere.
by Professor Science
Mon Sep 14, 2009 1:48 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Solar Roadway
Replies: 41
Views: 18886

I'm thinking that if you want solar panels along a road, the best place might be on canopies above the traffic. Just like they build solar collectors above some parking lots. That defeats the purpose of having them near the road. If you use them as a canopy then you still have to pay for the road, ...
by Professor Science
Mon Sep 14, 2009 1:41 am
Forum: Theory
Topic: Discharge plasmas versus ExB ion sources.
Replies: 19
Views: 6604

MSimon is dancing around saying that starting cold it will take the electron guns a while to pump enough electrons into the wiffle ball while electrons in already continue to circulate. As I am understanding him.
by Professor Science
Sat Sep 12, 2009 4:56 pm
Forum: News
Topic: EMC2 Gets $8 million
Replies: 98
Views: 56896

I wouldn't say that 8 million is so magical as to be able to resolve any problems, but if it's going to work it's far more likely to work on 8 million than 2. I look forward with baited breath.
by Professor Science
Wed Sep 09, 2009 12:40 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Pretty unbelieveable...
Replies: 225
Views: 139145

It's not that I don't want this to work, I'd cut off various body parts if it meant we could get a legitimate reactionless drive, it's just I know it's not supposed to work, and it does not bode well for my enthusiasm when you use words so specialized that to me they sound made up.
by Professor Science
Tue Sep 08, 2009 12:05 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Pretty unbelieveable...
Replies: 225
Views: 139145

Hell, you want things to speculate on, there are tantalizing articles about reversing gravity with the casimir effect, generating a reactionless thruster with a resonator cavity filled with microwaves, and thousands of other things. The human race is on the verge of changing everything all the time,...
by Professor Science
Mon Sep 07, 2009 10:16 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Pretty unbelieveable...
Replies: 225
Views: 139145

This is making my head hurt, how does mach's priniciple lead to variable mass for ions?

edit:actually, no, I'm not understanding half the things in this article in these contexts... grumble, I'm not gonna finish my quantum mechanics homework if I try to hobble this together...
by Professor Science
Mon Sep 07, 2009 9:53 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Monopoles!
Replies: 8
Views: 3569

Yeah, they're not particles with disctinct magnetic charge, they're materials with net zero magnetic charge, but regions of net postive or negative. Which is unusual, but alas, not terribly usable yet.
by Professor Science
Sat Sep 05, 2009 9:47 pm
Forum: Implications
Topic: Water versus Energy
Replies: 24
Views: 37099

Alas, windows only operation...
by Professor Science
Sat Sep 05, 2009 3:54 pm
Forum: Implications
Topic: Water versus Energy
Replies: 24
Views: 37099

I was starting with a facility out at sea, like on a refurbished oil tanker or something. anything you take out of the ocean's ion supply will mean a region of lower ion concentration, i'm just trying to figure out how fast diffusion would kick in.
by Professor Science
Fri Sep 04, 2009 4:19 pm
Forum: Implications
Topic: Water versus Energy
Replies: 24
Views: 37099

So things you can produce out on an ocean bound platform with infinite energy, liquid Hydorgen, liquid oxygen, liquid Nitrogen, Amonia, Metalic Magnesium... Fishing would be less of an infinite resource, I'd say, but I think you should be able to mine carbon out of the atmosphere and not a lot of pe...
by Professor Science
Fri Sep 04, 2009 12:55 pm
Forum: Implications
Topic: Water versus Energy
Replies: 24
Views: 37099

Continuing on with the adventures at sea polywell, I realize that boro-nitride compounds would be readily available, you're already skimming plenty of boron from the sea water and there's plenty of nitrogen in atmospheric gas. You could potentially also produce ammonia since you've got all the hydro...
by Professor Science
Wed Sep 02, 2009 10:25 pm
Forum: Implications
Topic: Water versus Energy
Replies: 24
Views: 37099

and 400 kilo's is a decades worth of polywell fuel. What's the energy cost for extracting boron out of the ocean? what's the concentration in sea water? when can i move to a self sufficient island city? edit 1:cursory google search reveals answer to question 2, 4-5 PPM, haven't read the article yet,...