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- Mon Mar 12, 2018 4:01 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Room-temperature superconductivity?
- Replies: 1893
- Views: 812347
Re: Room-temperature superconductivity?
Howdy. I never fail to read about the subject of superconductivity without thinking of Johan Prins and this memorable thread. A few days ago I came across an interesting article on what seems to be a breakthrough in micro-electronics and a work around for conventional induction; namely kinetic induc...
- Thu Sep 09, 2010 11:51 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Report on Geothermal Oil Generation: Is this for real?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 10201
There's lots of energy to power the chemical process in the form of geothermal arising from deep within the earth. There is not really any dispute that petroleum and natural gas can be created this way. Rather the question is whether the petroleum that is trapped, concentrated and found in near surf...
- Mon Aug 30, 2010 12:23 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Cogs In Machine
- Replies: 18
- Views: 9679
This is very interesting. I'm aware of similar machines, such as injection molding machines, which haveing become obsolete in the context of commercial high volume production manufacturing, had been acquired by groups in China, who then install them into domiciles where people would operate them for...
- Mon Apr 12, 2010 4:53 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Not Competative In Most Markets
- Replies: 9
- Views: 12230
- Tue Mar 30, 2010 4:33 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: A couple posts on wind energy
- Replies: 15
- Views: 9393
Issues of reliability aside, are those widely-dispersed spindly white windmills really the best way to capture wind energy? I like the idea of generating some energy from wind where it's practical (and I'm not very happy about the bird/bat mortality), but why these white windmills? I don't recall sp...
- Sun Feb 21, 2010 4:28 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Interesting article about asteroid strike
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3055
Thanks for the link. To think that our leadership is hyper over a few feet of sealevel rise creeping up over decades if not more as we blithely ignore the potential for real catastrophe from the magnitude of impact that barely raises a blip in our history books.This is something I've been interested...
- Sun Feb 21, 2010 3:34 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Friday Feb 19:Google Gets US Approval To Buy and Sell Energy
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5520
Hmmmm. Buying and Selling? Too bad. I'd had hopes that they'd be into producing and selling. Now that would be interesting. I recall some allusion to their foundation, which incidentally was NOT a 501-c non-profit kind of organization, being involved with funding alternate energy startups whose inte...
- Mon Feb 15, 2010 4:29 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Gates looking for energy solutions
- Replies: 81
- Views: 31591
I occasionally think back to the Bussard GoogleTalk. When he's reached the end of the technical presentation and asks questions, one of the first from the room filled with Google employees, was something like" Well, why don't you just model this system on a computer to see how or if it will work?". ...
- Mon Feb 15, 2010 4:10 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Obama Space Plan Is At Outline Stage
- Replies: 39
- Views: 18996
So, BenTC, if it's true that old people have a harder time learning, which sounds reasonable to me and I admit to being an older person these days, is it also true that younger people have a harder time understanding what they are learning in context of how it relates to the existing understanding? ...
- Fri Feb 12, 2010 2:31 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Greatest thing I've seen this month.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7517
- Thu Feb 11, 2010 3:44 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Waist deep in AGW
- Replies: 65
- Views: 26491
Wow...That seems remarkable. I just checked your weatherunderground link. While that is within reach of the Marine layer and at the head of a presumably deep water fjord in the Southwestern coastal region of Greenland, the almanac says the January average high is 27...and the forecast is calling for...
- Thu Feb 11, 2010 3:35 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Waist deep in AGW
- Replies: 65
- Views: 26491
- Thu Jan 28, 2010 5:03 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Forget The Moon - Climate Change
- Replies: 17
- Views: 8977
This hydrogen fuelled seabased cannon/launch system is showing up in a lot of places lately, along with his video presentation/lecture at the googleplex last December.
http://upcoming.current.com/items/75115 ... -orbit.htm
http://upcoming.current.com/items/75115 ... -orbit.htm
- Tue Jan 26, 2010 11:49 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Project Orion battleship
- Replies: 17
- Views: 12024
Quicklaunch Googletech talk
I miss stuff here on occasion. In regards to getting mass into orbit (high g-capable payloads like fuel specifically) had others previously discussed the hydrogen powered Quicklaunch that Nextbigfuture mentioned in his earlier post? I watched the Googletech Talk that he links to in his post. http://...
- Mon Jan 11, 2010 5:24 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Welfare in action.
- Replies: 60
- Views: 21208
Pay as you go...
For all the discussion of taxation, welfare and tyranny and all that, I am a little surprised that so few have brought up the subject of "the Fair Tax". It seems, to someone like me who is interested in having as little interferrence from government in my daily life throughout the year, the 'pay as ...