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So, semi-hypothetical question here... Neglecting farads and such at the moment to (I think) simplify things... Let's say you have a capacitor that is capable of storing essentially the equivalent of 10 MJ of energy. That's about 2.5 kilos of TNT equivalent energy. If that capacitor suddenly fails c...

I don't know about you guys, but it's a shame they couldn't make something like this happen:

http://www.damninteresting.com/the-farewell-dossier/

You know, this bickering against Elon Musk and Tesla is pathetic. Forst of all Tesla is writing black numbers, something that cant be said about any of the other recipients of government money in the auto industry. As we all know they got a lot more money and have very little to show for it. Most o...

Translation: they want the military dependent on over priced under performing energy sources. It's insidious. We have members of congress calling for the military to lean into windmills and solar panels as future energy sources. Why now? Why now is because, well, Greenies are watermelons. Green on ...

Someone mentioned UL certification would be needed to sell it to industries and the general public. Which would likely take years. UL cert is all well and good, but if a government tries saying it's illegal to buy one because it's not UL certified, they can send armed troops to my house to take min...

You just can't let petty stuff go.. (Me, or JP?) You have to recognise that there are several weeks of comments JP made to me predicated entirely on me offering comments to progress his patents, and his subsequent rejection of them and condemnation of my supposed incomprehensions of his issues. Chr...

And then you have the problem of redoing case law with your redefinition. The purpose of making a corporation = person is that the corp. should have the liabilities of a person - i.e. can commit murder, theft, etc. If a corp is not a person what rules apply? A corporation is an assembly of interest...

If WB8 works, 5 years to 100MW prototype, 50 years to replace all other existing power sources. Plenty of time for the industry to adapt, and while oil will no longer rule the world, its life expectancy will be extended by an extra 200 years, just not for fuel. Why 50 years? You guys are thinking o...

i don't know, here in wisconsin we had the option of building an essentiall fre light rail connecting us to chicago and madison. and dumb-$$$ walker turned it down for got-only-knows what reason and the peole voted for him. and after that happened they didnt change their opinion of him. "inter-urba...

We eat like crap, The wife of a friend of mine is a nurse practitioner and once ran a medical center for the poor. She wanted to find a graphic of the "food pyramid" that the US DA is so insistant on to include in a presentation for $. She found a graphic and included it. It was the food pyramid ev...

Again, I needed a place to post this, and while it's not exactly on topic, I regard it as related. I really didn't feel like starting a new thread to bring this article to people's attention. 41% of NYC pregnancies end in abortion The rate for minorities is even higher. http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/...

How much do you know about the subject? i'm not sure about FDA conventions, but I've made my diet according to these guidelines: http://www.exrx.net/Nutrition/DietaryGuidelines.html You can click a few times deeper from there, for more details. Would you say this diet plan's no good either? I'll be...

when did this forum get overrun by radical right trolls? When I became moderator. About two weeks or so after the start of the forum. Joe is more a left kind of guy. But we both believe in minimal moderation. BTW engineers tend to be libertarian. There are a LOT of engineers here. So naturally the ...

Of course, were I God I'd prioritize jeeps over fleet carriers - I prefer redundancy over efficiency. More survivable. IMO the Germans proved the failure of the "quality over quantity" philosophy during WW2. Carriers are target-bait for Sunburns and BrahMos '. No kidding... when you look at the Tig...

We eat like crap, and sit on our butts. We don't move like our bodies are designed to move, we sit in chairs all day, etc... We eat a highly grain-based, corn-based diet, we don't eat fat, and we're told red meat is the devil. There's a billion things I could point out here, but suffice it to say t...