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This is General - open season on any topic. If you count from my days on FIDO net I'm probably way beyond 10 million words. Even if you only go back to usenet days I probably beat that. I have over ten million words posted to internet fora (I stopped counting a while back)... I'm pretty much an exp...

MSimon wrote:Dr. Mike:
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It is an air insulated 400KV DC converter. It is not small.

The big part looks to be the AC portions. Will there be AC portions with the BFR, I mean at the plant as opposed to final distribution?

Kiteman, I'm not arguing what should be done to generate power. I'm suggesting what could be done if some one was bloody minded. I guess I am not getting your point. If someone were bloody-minded, they wouldn't build a Thorium molten salt reactor. If they build a molten salt reactor, they are proba...

But may you are right. Maybe 100,000 garage shops can build a 747-400. Boeing, the company, built 747s before they bought out all those other companies and became the megacorp they are now. Indeed, Boeing, the megacorp, seems almost chicken-s#!+ in their design strategy now they are a megacorp. MSi...

Still if you used Uranium in the blanket you get Pu. And you know there might be people who are not very nice who might want to do that. The one thing that would help is that you have to reprocess. And that is dangerous and somewhat detectable. That is the beauty of the Thorium fueled molten salt r...

Mike Holmes wrote:Well, gosh, if we deregulate everything, then soon we'll all be slaves to the megacorporations!

Megacorporations; another wonderful result of government fiddling with free markets?

Basically you could have a subcritical fission reactor that can be controlled by flicking a switch. The most serious problem is that it would also be an easy way to make Pu. This is the same basic idea as "Accelerator Driven Systems" (ADS) but the neutrons would be provided by the fusor instead of ...

I can't visualize your micro-channel heat exchanger. Gap-wound spiral insulator? Helically wound? Take a long ribbon of conductor. Wrap two strings around and around it all the way along its length, kind of like the handle of a tennis racket. Remove one string, affix the other. Now, as you roll the...

How would gravity ever be a compression wave? I've never heard of this. One hypothesis I have read about (no, I don't have a link to it) is that the same fluctuations that allow Hawking to declare that small black holes evaporate emit gravitons from everywhere throughout the universe. Similar to ne...

There was this article a couple of years ago in Analog magazine about it. There was this article in Analog by Tom Ligon about a decade ago that hinted at it. I kept an eye on Ligon every few years wondering if the veiled hints would come clear, and last time I looked, PRESTO, the veil had been lift...

One problem with that theory, Scandinavia has vast swathes of native pine forests and it too had a sudden depletion of fish in it lakes following the 80's. http://www.springerlink.com/content/72p6637455526h28/fulltext.pdf?page=1 Right, but coal use in the US preceded reforestation, but the fish die...

TallDave wrote: Both the flyby effect and Tajmar's measurements were many orders of magnitude greater than predicted by relativity. Dark energy effects? Dark matter influence? The next few years could be very interesting.

Aether?

So we eliminate the most efficient refrigerants and then you either get more CO2 or less refrigeration space for the $. Food losses go up a little and have you actually gained on the overall "problem". You know, I find it interesting that hemp became illegal in the 30s just about the time DuPont pa...

Forests last decades, whose to says the acid rain that fell many years ago isn't still in the soil? Climax evergreen forests render the soil highly acidic. Such acidic soil exists whether there is a source of "acid rain" or not. For the north eastern US, the pattern was: 1800s.........................

Thanks for all your replies. Can someone suggest a "Electro-Magnets for Dummies" level book?