icarus wrote:Maybe they are going to bring back clippper class vessels? Green power for the Navy.
Seems a number of tankers and cargo ships may already have done. See http://www.skysails.info/ . Pretty sure the navy won't follow suit. They are trying for stealth and nothing gives you away like a great big sail!
A sail has no metal in it, I don't see why a sail would reflect any radar waves.
I believe that the alternative energy research is for figuring out how to run turboshaft engines on biodiesel or bioethanol. And of course figuring out how to turn human manure into methanol fuel... then just keep those sailors fed with plenty of beans and you are all set.
KitemanSA wrote: Pretty sure the navy won't follow suit. They are trying for stealth and nothing gives you away like a great big sail!
A sail has no metal in it, I don't see why a sail would reflect any radar waves.
I believe that the alternative energy research is for figuring out how to run turboshaft engines on biodiesel or bioethanol. And of course figuring out how to turn human manure into methanol fuel... then just keep those sailors fed with plenty of beans and you are all set.
Not radar, visual! Visual processors are cheap now-a-days!
ladajo wrote:That was one maybe two of the hires. Theorectical to Modeling. I'll have to find it again.
I did not find the actual adverts again yet, but this is what was posted on Recovery:
"1 Computational Physicist and 2 consultant positions whose primary responsibility is the development of software to analyze the density & temperature data from the WB-8 experiment. Duties also include plasma simulation & development of tools for those simulations. "
and you know what consultants do: farm their work out to companies which in turn farm that work out to contractors who get maybe $30/hr. so by "2 consultants" they really mean "10 independent contractors who actually do all the work but don't get any credit (or money) for it".
