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- Wed Sep 02, 2009 12:19 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Solar Roadway
- Replies: 41
- Views: 18885
- Sun Aug 30, 2009 7:32 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Rick Has A Word or two for sceptics.
- Replies: 128
- Views: 62541
Ok, neutron's from fissioned materials hit poor fissioning nuclei turning them into now more productive compounds, this is more or less what my intuition had, but it's good having an outside source corroborate. And the transmutation probably uses energy that wouldn't have been harnessed anyway, so i...
- Sun Aug 30, 2009 3:55 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Rick Has A Word or two for sceptics.
- Replies: 128
- Views: 62541
Can someone give me an explanation how breeder reactors work? I'm floating somewhere between magic and neutron bombardment, and neither is a terribly satisfying explanation. The banal oracle of our age, Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeder_reactor Breeders will be important when (if) we ...
- Sat Aug 29, 2009 3:35 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Rick Has A Word or two for sceptics.
- Replies: 128
- Views: 62541
- Sat Aug 29, 2009 1:34 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Solar Roadway
- Replies: 41
- Views: 18885
As a pure power generation method, yes, i agree it is not a great idea, but I'm more interested in retooling the power and information network that these things would represent. Aren't we always talking about how the power grid format right now is not well built for a more distributed network that w...
- Sat Aug 29, 2009 4:13 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Solar Roadway
- Replies: 41
- Views: 18885
Costs? Well, they're trying to engineer for something with 3 times the life span of regular asphalt so they're aloquating 3 times the construction cost of regular road to get road +, and since it accomplishes all of the features of road and + for what they claim is the same cost, one could argue the...
- Sat Aug 29, 2009 4:00 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Solar Roadway
- Replies: 41
- Views: 18885
Solar Roadway
Solar roadway looks interesting. The idea is replace asphalt highway system with a robust 3 layer system of high durability plexi or something similarly transparent, solar panels, LED's and capacitors, and on the third layer is a modular power transmission system coupled with things like data trans...
- Sat Aug 29, 2009 3:35 am
- Forum: Design
- Topic: Graphene Conductor 1000x Better than Copper
- Replies: 16
- Views: 17940
While I'm not positive on this, My Gut (tm) reaction is that graphene won't work for bulk power transport the power lines work. Thinking it through I'd say it's probably the voltages involved. It would run roughshod with that dainty configuration of carbon nuclei. Good for circuit boards, bad for po...
- Sun Aug 23, 2009 10:42 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Rick Has A Word or two for sceptics.
- Replies: 128
- Views: 62541
- Fri Jul 24, 2009 7:53 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: New alternative power source.
- Replies: 15
- Views: 9140
New alternative power source.
New breakthroughs in generating energy from the mixing of fresh and salt water. http://www.physicscentral.com/buzz/blog/index.cfm?postid=8192106608311312838 Areas where this would be applied are the points where fresh water poors into salt water, meaning we wouldn't be losing any fresh water to run ...
- Mon Jul 20, 2009 3:54 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Let them eat... Ham and Cheese!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2612
- Mon Jul 20, 2009 3:53 pm
- Forum: Implications
- Topic: Implications for Good
- Replies: 68
- Views: 42384
- Thu Jul 16, 2009 4:12 pm
- Forum: Implications
- Topic: Implications for Good
- Replies: 68
- Views: 42384
- Sun Jun 21, 2009 8:33 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Polywell update on Dailykos
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5322
- Sun Jun 21, 2009 5:25 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Polywell update on Dailykos
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5322
Polywell update on Dailykos
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/ ... r-approved
Rogerfox posted an update on Polywell over at Dailykos. comments are pretty positive so far.
Rogerfox posted an update on Polywell over at Dailykos. comments are pretty positive so far.