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by dnavas
Thu Apr 28, 2011 2:09 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Recovery.Gov Project Tracker
Replies: 1822
Views: 1335467

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/richard-nebel/29/658/752

One wonders when the interest in career opportunities and new ventures began. Sorry to hear.

-Dave
by dnavas
Thu Oct 21, 2010 11:29 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Mass Can Be 'Created' Inside Graphene, Say Physicists
Replies: 19
Views: 7910

icarus wrote:When the M-E turns out to be a bust they can then claim to generate thrust by creating mass using graphene and throwing it aft overboard...
Why throw it overboard?
Roll it up, throw it backwards, unroll it, drag it forward, repeat.

-Dave
by dnavas
Tue May 25, 2010 1:31 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Mach Effect progress
Replies: 2707
Views: 1466591

And, indeed, a photon appears to be such an object. A thing with a 'force-less momentum'. Which implies we are moving at the speed of light with respect to the CoM of the universe, and the photons are stationary. Of course they are, they're stationary in time, following a curved path around the cen...
by dnavas
Fri May 21, 2010 8:45 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Mach Effect progress
Replies: 2707
Views: 1466591

So one of the outcomes is that if you were to find an object that has measurable momentum in your inertial frame but whose momentum cannot be altered by the application of any 'force' in your frame, then it is a truly stationary object. Hmm, well light would seem to have some of these properties. Y...
by dnavas
Fri Mar 26, 2010 12:11 am
Forum: News
Topic: Rick Nebel comment
Replies: 95
Views: 112194

the fact I was referring to was That EMC2 stated their restriction came from the Navy. Fact: this was false. Fact: EMC2 has stated it is not interested in holding commercial rights. Outcome: EMC2 lacks probity on what it say. Sorry to be hard on this (Rick) but it is what has been said. The perfect...
by dnavas
Thu Mar 25, 2010 11:57 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Rick Nebel comment
Replies: 95
Views: 112194

Maybe yes. Maybe no. Suppose it validated the questions asked but also suggested other questions? I don’t want to leave people with the impression that everything on the WB-7 is identical to the WB-6. Something on WB-7 did not work the same as on WB-6. Whether that difference was on the to-be-valid...
by dnavas
Thu Mar 25, 2010 4:48 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Rick Nebel comment
Replies: 95
Views: 112194

Unless I missed something, WB7 was made to validate WB6, and only that, with a WB6 replica. So, scaling would remain to be tested no matter the results from WB7. As RN points out, WB8 was not on the roadmap. The original roadmap was straight to the big guy, the thinking being that a medium-sized de...
by dnavas
Thu Mar 25, 2010 4:23 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Rick Nebel comment
Replies: 95
Views: 112194

Is his comment in response to cristian perte and Alan's dialog: if the WB8 is meant to test scaling laws, does that not mean that the WB7 was definitely a success? Why even attempt testing scaling laws if the device is a failure? :) [ALAN ADDS: I agree with your analysis... Every indication is that ...
by dnavas
Wed Mar 24, 2010 1:12 am
Forum: News
Topic: Alan Bolye's Latest Artice
Replies: 53
Views: 25451

Well, he got more out of Rick than we have lately. Not much more, but things are clearer as to where they are ... one running, one being built, one being designed. Seems the same as what their website says. It's somewhat clearer where the design process is -- that they want to do a few side experim...
by dnavas
Thu Mar 18, 2010 10:33 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Polywell FOIA
Replies: 475
Views: 185696

Surely they want people [potential investors] to believe they have something? Only if they want to milk the public. If you're aiming for first-mover advantage, you don't tell the public, you just talk to private investors. FWIW, I vote to leave them be. They don't want to have us know, well :shrug:...
by dnavas
Tue Mar 02, 2010 11:50 pm
Forum: News
Topic: New Battery Tech: 4 times Wh/kg of lithium ion batteries
Replies: 20
Views: 9734

I will make my way through the article in the coming days. My first impression is that this is a tiny little proof of concept. Way to early to make any predicitions at all on cycle and calendar lifetimes. Or any other predictions at all on at practical battery, really. What I saw wrt cycles did not...
by dnavas
Mon Mar 01, 2010 9:30 pm
Forum: News
Topic: New Battery Tech: 4 times Wh/kg of lithium ion batteries
Replies: 20
Views: 9734

This is very early work. In fact so early that a publication is hardly meaningful. A little proof of concept cell that have been cycled 20 cycles. Forget about it for the time being. LiS has been around/researched for awhile. This kind of energy density is pretty good, actually, given other LiS I'v...
by dnavas
Tue Nov 10, 2009 1:50 am
Forum: News
Topic: EEStor news
Replies: 175
Views: 91297

MSimon suggested a rough working figure of 1 Wh/kg mi, which would mean that a car the size of a Smart ForTwo (curb weight 730kg) with one driver and stuff (figure 70kg) would need 80kWh for a range of 100mi. Pretty pessimistic. The Tesla is more like 1100-1200kg and gets a (very practical) 150mi r...
by dnavas
Thu Sep 24, 2009 5:52 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Major Electronics Magazine Picks Up On Polywell
Replies: 162
Views: 83399

It is not the abundance, it is the hole it leaves when shut down, which it MUST be on occasion. That is a heck of a hole. Is that how it has to be? That is an interesting problem. Not to be an ITER apologist, but you could build the thing next to a large oil-shale deposit. There are probably other ...
by dnavas
Mon Sep 14, 2009 8:16 pm
Forum: News
Topic: EMC2 Gets $8 million
Replies: 98
Views: 56901

Re: solicitation

pfrit wrote:Why are they using the term "ion drive capabilities"?
I assumed that was referring to the source of boron ions.

-Dave