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Oh just saw the other threads on this forum, sorry, guess thats what I get for reading the news first and then the rest, hehehehe. I guess I now understand the spam comment better and also got some more information...

Lol, yeah I have heard about Blacklight before as well. What I heard about them and their claims made me very sceptical, even though I am not a phycisist. It just seems tooo far fetched. However, it is interesting that a 3rd party comfirmed their claims (at least it seems so, without me reading abou...

Sorry, I just can not agree with the idea of having to spend money in order to make money. That just does not make sense. That way you will never have economic growth. However you do have that for the factors of technology(invention) and I think also population growth. I do also think that mining an...

Hmm, I do not quite see how you would "fuel" money into the economy, other than by printing more money and increasing inflation, which does not generate wealth at all. Also, I do think that an ideal economy does not operate at losses but gains. The proof of this is the generally higher living standa...

I think the real issue is having energy move from hot spots to cold spots and back again, to stick with this analogy. I think that the ideal situation is not having an equilibrium, but having a constant flow of energy in either direction. Thinking about it, it might be why the two general schools of...

The term "trickle down" is intended to be a derogatory reference I apollogize, I was not aware that trickle down was a derogatory term (I thought it was the term most commonly used in the US for this kind of economic ideology). I agree that equilibrium can not work. This would be comunism, where ev...

So who can afford to buy a nuclear power plant? Or a coal fired one for that matter? I do not quite understand what your question is in this regard. I would say that it is most likely a government of a country which should generate the largest income from taxes from a large middle class. Or... it i...

This the typical republican trickle down system and is not entirely correct. You need people that can afford buying your products, or you will never become a billionare. That means you need a large middle class. Ideally the wealth curve is a gaussian bell curve, with the middle class being the large...

Hmm, I have the luxury of just leaning back an watching what happens, being carefully sceptical at the same time of course. I have the same attitude towards the BFR, btw (even though I give the BFR a much higher chance of success). The fun part for me is in the thrill of the chance that something co...

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It is always good to be sceptical towards these new developments. How many have we heard off lately that did not quite materialize in praxis...

Yes, very sad indeed.

Mumbles, I am sorry that came over a little different from what I wanted it to sound. Lets say that when it comes to national security, money is less of an issue than for a commercial container cargo ship. Assuming that you guys are right and it wont make sense to retrofit old nuclear powered ships ...

Well, we will see. As I said, it is safe to assume that all fission reactors in ships will be replaced by BFRs, everything else depends on to many factors, that I do not dare to predict it. I think it might even be save to assume that they will retrofit many ships that had fission reactors for BFRs ...

I agree, but I think that below a certain size it will be difficult to justify the effort. After all a Polywell costs roughly a 100 mio USD (it will most likely be less after a while, but WB8 will be 100 mio USD, which is a number that we know). So at what ship- size does a 100 mio USD engine make s...

Oh yeah, I agree it is important and a big deal for the navy. That is what I said after all! I am not quite sure how large a ship has to be to acommodate an polywell that produces enough power. One also must not forget that you need specialists to operate this thing. This is expensive and might not ...