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In small towns in Italy that have narrow streets, they have been taking down all the stop signs and found a marked reduction in accidents. Apparently drivers were ignoring the stop signs anyway, and people going the other way who thought they had right-of-way were getting hit. Now everyone from each...

Bumped into this book The Physcis of Plasmas by Richard Fitzpatrick, University of Texas at Austin. I can't judge its worth, but from a novice point of view looks reasonably extensive at 261 pages. Can anyone more knowledgable identify any particular bits that might be of particular interest for a P...

just to get in on the act, my HP RPN calculator has a button "E" where 10E3 is 10,000 - and in engineering mode this displays as 10E3.

Thanks for your comprehensive reply. Not everything that I read in various articles sticks together properly. It makes sense at the time but there are too many details that are new and things get mixed up later. I'm planning to get some of the books MSimon mentioned recently. The way I had remembere...

I'm not quite sure I've got this right, but here goes.. Apart from the ejection of high energy alphas, I seem to remember some discussion about how to eject particles from the core that don't have any charge. Are there some neutrals created by recombination of ions and electrons? I thought that thei...

dammn, now you've done it. THEY'll now have a short list of who to round up when they want to buried to technology. Have you seen this conspiracy ... I've been avoiding Facebook due to concerns about data mining. Then again, I'm starting to think that if I'm in the minority that doesn't have a faceb...

KitemanSA wrote:The search capability on this forum is not very robust. Do you have OTHER key words I might search on?

Try google search 26,000 site:talk-polywell.org

KitemanSA wrote:BenTC, Given enough eyeballs, all bugs look kind of gross!

Quite true biologically. Perhaps the context is too obscure and its time for a new sig.
I meant it like this: The Cathedral and the Bazaar, Eric S Raymond (see point 8)

I read this on wikipedia: While an electron-positron virtual pair is in existence, the coulomb force from the ambient electric field surrounding an electron causes a created positron to be attracted to the original electron, while a created electron experiences a repulsion. This causes the two charg...

While obvious that cheaper electricity would benefit many parts of the planet to produce potable water from desalination, it wasn't obvious to me the importance of the method of electricity generation. Scientific American had an enlightening article describing the tension between water and energy. W...

More light is not necessarily a good thing for the environment.

http://www.britastro.org/dark-skies/wildlife.html

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news ... ution.html

Also, need to watch out for those Juvenile Black Helicopters.

kurt9 wrote:BTW, what happened to Art's threat to turn this into a Talk-FRC forum? I think his friend at U of W has a workable concept as well.

Along those lines, I didn't know what FRC was, so for other newcomers as well I guess it looks like this:

• http://depts.washington.edu/rppl/progra ... intro.html

I searched around last night and came up with one place that sells 4 oz jars of silver doped vacuum grease for $275 a jar. A little steep for my budget. But the same concept could be used with any thermal conductive material so I am trying to see if I can obtain bulk amounts of powdered diamond or ...

MSimon wrote: Silverlight beta is Free.

The first hit is always free.

Whoops, what does that actually say about FOSS then?