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by Professor Science
Wed Sep 02, 2009 12:19 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Solar Roadway
Replies: 41
Views: 18885

I thought that there were wristwatches that had piezo's in them that powered wristwatches. Or they had some kind of energy capture mechanism in them.
by Professor Science
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...
by Professor Science
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 ...
by Professor Science
Sat Aug 29, 2009 3:35 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.
by Professor Science
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...
by Professor Science
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...
by Professor Science
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...
by Professor Science
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...
by Professor Science
Sun Aug 23, 2009 10:42 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Rick Has A Word or two for sceptics.
Replies: 128
Views: 62541

Helius wrote: they just want to save lives.
Let's not be too hasty deciding what people's motives are, k? Let's just get some good science done.
by Professor Science
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 ...
by Professor Science
Mon Jul 20, 2009 3:54 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Let them eat... Ham and Cheese!
Replies: 5
Views: 2612

HAM, WATER ADDED, COOKED, FROZEN, SLICED, 2-LB
That had better mean it came in 2-LB increments, not a 2.5 million 2-LB pack.
by Professor Science
Mon Jul 20, 2009 3:53 pm
Forum: Implications
Topic: Implications for Good
Replies: 68
Views: 42384

Yes, but that doesn't prevent you from going over designs for electro-chemicals plants or viability of desalination via high energy alpha bombardment or something equally creative and unexpected that a polywell could be used for.
by Professor Science
Thu Jul 16, 2009 4:12 pm
Forum: Implications
Topic: Implications for Good
Replies: 68
Views: 42384

I love how this thread started out as someone wanting to talk about peace time domestic/industrial applications. Oh wait, love's not the right word. Terrified, yeah, that's the one.
by Professor Science
Sun Jun 21, 2009 8:33 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Polywell update on Dailykos
Replies: 6
Views: 5322

I assume the Rogerfox mentioned is you, roger.
by Professor Science
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.