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by EricF
Tue Oct 05, 2010 10:58 am
Forum: News
Topic: Heads rolling at DOE?
Replies: 2
Views: 2206

Wonder if they are trying to get folks out that are unsympathetic to cap and trade regulation.
by EricF
Fri Oct 01, 2010 2:53 am
Forum: News
Topic: Tokamaks now proven SUCCESSFUL!
Replies: 70
Views: 26124

I wonder if Tokamak is Russian slang for Money Train
by EricF
Thu Sep 30, 2010 2:16 am
Forum: General
Topic: Space/Rocket news - All of NASA HSF needs your help now
Replies: 4
Views: 1617

Being from Alabama, this one hits kinda close to home....


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by EricF
Tue Sep 21, 2010 9:50 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Britain Govt proposes becoming paymaster for all Britons
Replies: 10
Views: 2645

When the government gets the money from your employer, and then forgets to pay you or for some other reason doesn't pay, or gives you way too little, how does someone compel the government to pay what they owe?
by EricF
Fri Aug 20, 2010 10:32 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Any News about Polywell ?
Replies: 104
Views: 43325

Alphas impact has a cross section for neutron production with elements with Z less than or equal to Z=19: air, boron, nitrogen etc. Expect neutron activation. I'm no scientist, but is the reaction not occuring in a vaccuum? And by the time the alpha particle impacts anything, even if it is the wall...
by EricF
Fri Aug 20, 2010 9:57 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Any News about Polywell ?
Replies: 104
Views: 43325

Because neutrons make things radioactive, and alphas don't. :roll: not to mention direct conversion means much less machinery, which means fewer people, and less noise--noise is important for navies who have to worry about subs. Alphas impact has a cross section for neutron production with elements...
by EricF
Tue Aug 10, 2010 2:54 am
Forum: News
Topic: NewSpace 2010: Polywell and Vasimr
Replies: 149
Views: 53380

When you walk East, the planet responds slightly by accelerating West. We don't notice this, but the same is true when you steal momentum from the universe. .... and yet again .... the universe moves relative to what exactly??? Well now the situation is suddenly more complicated. The whole universe...
by EricF
Sun Aug 08, 2010 6:51 pm
Forum: General
Topic: The Broken window Fallacy
Replies: 4
Views: 1811

Broken Window theory, easily preventable by utilizing the Shotgun Storekeeper theory.

"Darn Hooligans! <click clack> Get off my lawn!"
by EricF
Sat Aug 07, 2010 12:45 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Room-temperature superconductivity?
Replies: 1893
Views: 659967

On one hand you have people like Woodward and March who're only missing concrete evidence to make a huge splash, and on the other you have people like Prins who (apparently, correct if I'm wrong) have concrete evidence but refuse to take an easy (if sideways) entrance to that same unavoidable big s...
by EricF
Sat Jul 31, 2010 3:13 am
Forum: General
Topic: Has any thought been given to a polywell powered BOLO?
Replies: 70
Views: 22162

If we can get polywell working well enough to power something the size of a mech, I see no reason you would not simply put more of that power into a fleet of aircraft that almost never have to land/refuel, and if they make directed energy weapons more combat capable than current munitions, they wou...
by EricF
Sat Jul 31, 2010 12:04 am
Forum: General
Topic: Has any thought been given to a polywell powered BOLO?
Replies: 70
Views: 22162

If we can get polywell working well enough to power something the size of a mech, I see no reason you would not simply put more of that power into a fleet of aircraft that almost never have to land/refuel, and if they make directed energy weapons more combat capable than current munitions, they woul...
by EricF
Fri Jul 30, 2010 10:36 am
Forum: General
Topic: Has any thought been given to a polywell powered BOLO?
Replies: 70
Views: 22162

Not sure how you'd cool any of this stuff (except the carrier), but if you have to have fusion battle weapons, I'm holding out for a PPC. Isn't that what a DPF is perfect for? . I've been thinking about this. Using Prof. Prins approach to eletromagnetic and matter waves (where an electron gives up ...
by EricF
Fri Jul 30, 2010 2:34 am
Forum: General
Topic: Has any thought been given to a polywell powered BOLO?
Replies: 70
Views: 22162

Sorry, but it is not in the cost class of an aircraft carrier. An aircraft carrier, 300 meters of steel is the cost of a division of BOLOs. Why ? Well, Science Fiction places them on far off planets, relatively undeveloped so they don't face the power of a developed planet but can defeat anything t...
by EricF
Wed Jul 28, 2010 5:02 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Room-temperature superconductivity?
Replies: 1893
Views: 659967

The Planck scale is a red herring which is based on the assumption that electron-particles exist: There are NO PARTICLES. And here lies my biggest concern. This is why I need to think it over for sometime. Applying your logic will give completely new meaning of the basic experimental results of qua...
by EricF
Thu Apr 22, 2010 10:52 am
Forum: General
Topic: Never be rude to an Arab, a Saudi, or...
Replies: 7
Views: 3259

Maybe Mohammed is Eric Cartman's father?