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Didn't Tessela have steampunk level ideas his coild could charge flying machines somehow? We have static driven motors already. They lack umpf though. On Sat, Dec 24, 2022 at 10:08 AM Gillian Densmore wrote: > Don't give him ideas. He's gone more off the deep end than usual. > > On Sat, Dec 24,

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Don't give him ideas. He's gone more off the deep end than usual. On Sat, Dec 24, 2022 at 11:01 AM Steve Smith wrote: > > On 12/23/22 7:47 PM, Prof David West wrote: > > Instead of a cable - maybe Tesla’s unrealized broadcast technology? I > don’t remember the details but he was going to send

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On 12/23/22 7:47 PM, Prof David West wrote: Instead of a cable - maybe Tesla’s unrealized broadcast technology? I don’t remember the details but he was going to send power from Long Island, via the ionosphere, to light the world expo in Paris. How could that ever go wrong? What kinds of

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d. It would reduce >>> the need to depend on batteries for wind and solar. Of course, you raise >>> #3, so it would be a target for sabotage like with Nordstream. It would be >>> nice to think there are things just to valuable to destroy, but probably >>>

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it would be a target for sabotage like with Nordstream. It >>>>> would be nice to think there are things just to valuable to destroy, but >>>>> probably there are no such things. >>>>> >>>>> *From:* Friam on behalf of Sarbajit Roy >>

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*Sent:* Friday, December 16, 2022 12:01 AM *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] technical notes on fusion announcement What you are missing includes 1) Disposal of long term hazardou

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Yikes! So we must develop an artificial magnetosphere for Mars so that we can do it on Earth too? Sent from my iPhone On Dec 16, 2022, at 3:03 PM, Gary Schiltz wrote:  We humans tend to think of such long-term thinking as silly, frivolous mind exercises for the elite educated. I would

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We humans tend to think of such long-term thinking as silly, frivolous mind exercises for the elite educated. I would applaud such thinking. But western civilization has trouble with seven generations, let alone seven million generations. On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 3:21 PM David Eric Smith wrote:

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ourse, you raise #3, so it >> would be a target for sabotage like with Nordstream. It would be nice to >> think there are things just to valuable to destroy, but probably there are >> no such things. >> From: Friam mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com>> >> on behalf of

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locking geothermal energy for the world population through millimeter wave drilling technology. www.quaise.energy From: Friam on behalf of Steve Smith Sent: Friday, December 16, 2022 11:38 AM To: friam@redfish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM] technical notes on fusion an

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M To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] technical notes on fusion announcement This fusion video should be the standard for how to present every single technological innovation, every so-called "renewable energy" device that is too little, too late, and m

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n behalf of Sarbajit Roy < > sroy...@gmail.com> > *Sent:* Friday, December 16, 2022 12:01 AM > *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < > friam@redfish.com> > *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] technical notes on fusion announcement > > What you are missing in

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notes on fusion announcement What you are missing includes 1) Disposal of long term hazardous nuclear waste. 2) Problems in maintaining / decommissioning ol older nuclear fission plants 3) Examples like we are seeing Ukraine's nuclear plants caught up in a war. On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 2:59 AM

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What you are missing includes 1) Disposal of long term hazardous nuclear waste. 2) Problems in maintaining / decommissioning ol older nuclear fission plants 3) Examples like we are seeing Ukraine's nuclear plants caught up in a war. On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 2:59 AM Gillian Densmore wrote: > Ok

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I am a longtime proponent of fission for energy. For a few months in the late 60s I worked for Westinghouse Advanced Reactors Division. Specifically I did accident analysis for sodium cooled fast breeder reactors. We concluded that a sodium fire was the worst case accident. For pressurized water

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Gotcha! I don't know man. You can swim in the same water used to cool rods because water close to the rods blocks neutrons. My concern about the DOE putting so many eggs in the fusion basket and ignoring the day to day year to year. Breeder reactors as a proven reliable start aren't without

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I am a long-time environmentalist (I think I joined the Wilderness Society in the early 60’s) and I opposed fission power plants because of safety issues and because of the long-lived waste products. My feeling is that even if you make the probability of a screw-up very low, given 10,000

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Ok so this is cool and all. Sigh I'll ask *that* question. We want less carbons because the planet is on f'n fire . As far as I know humans (in the very least) accelerated climate change. Ie we made this mess clean it up. ok fair so far I'm following.

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How ICF might evolve into a power plant: https://firstlightfusion.com/technology/power-plant Sent from my iPhone On Dec 14, 2022, at 7:16 AM, glen wrote: Excellent! Thanks. I think I'll have to push this topic for another day. I've got a few more links from other fora I'll plop here just

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Excellent! Thanks. I think I'll have to push this topic for another day. I've got a few more links from other fora I'll plop here just in case I only land back here if/when I pop it off the stack later: https://lasers.llnl.gov/news/magnetized-targets-boost-nif-implosion-performance

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@redfish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM] technical notes on fusion announcement Responsive to the issue of public funding of science (and advanced technology): We all know I'm a bit of a Luddite by most measures. By coincidence I was listening (with one ear) to Bill Nye (da Science Guy) give his popular hip

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Responsive to the issue of public funding of science (and advanced technology): We all know I'm a bit of a Luddite by most measures.   By coincidence I was listening (with one ear) to Bill Nye (da Science Guy) give his popular hip-hip-hooray for the latest DOE announcement as I read your

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I think DT refers simply to the remaining fraction of Deuterium/Tritium remaining after the reaction event (-4%) without specific accounting for remaining D vs T. My understanding is that D-T  fusion occurs at a lower temperature than D-D but that once fusion commences (starting with D-T),

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Sabine Hossenfelder holds forth on fusion and measures of break-even. Over a year old, but still http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2021/10/how-close-is-nuclear-fusion-power.html On Tue, Dec 13, 2022 at 4:37 PM glen wrote: > That's why I asked. I guess I'll assume DT means both deuterium

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That's why I asked. I guess I'll assume DT means both deuterium and tritium, not just deuterium. If you were going to track fuel use, you'd track the rarer part more closely, right? On 12/13/22 09:22, Frank Wimberly wrote: DT = deuterium? --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe,

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I thought director Budil made a good case for the unique value of public funding of science and advanced technology. Rockets are understood, Musk and others can build them. Decades of investment to do something like this is, it is just different. And they were not timid about mentioning

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Great synopsis... thanks. I'm fascinated at how long we've been "on the cusp" of "lighting up" a micro-star in the laboratory. My first awareness was in the early 70s when a Radio Engineer I worked with had just come from the early MFE Livermore efforts to my tiny hometown AM RAdio

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DT = deuterium? --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Tue, Dec 13, 2022, 10:21 AM glen wrote: > Awesome. Thanks. I'm still trying to catch up with the QC Wormhole > kerfuffle. Who knew Quanta was so click baity? > > What is "DT"? > > On

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Awesome. Thanks. I'm still trying to catch up with the QC Wormhole kerfuffle. Who knew Quanta was so click baity? What is "DT"? On 12/13/22 09:02, Marcus Daniels wrote: In case no one wanted to get up at 7:00am to watch DOE administrators talk: 1. Controlling the laser in space and time was

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In case no one wanted to get up at 7:00am to watch DOE administrators talk: 1. Controlling the laser in space and time was important for maintaining symmetry. Timing precision of 25e-12 secs and laser spatial precision of 5e-12 meter were needed. This was thought to be the main explanation