Re: [Vo]:Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project

ChemE Stewart wrote: You guys are ignoring all of the mechanical and structural challenges of > pointing 350,000, 30 foot mirrors at the ground using worm gears and > stepper motors that have just lost power due to a storm and/or lightning > strike. No motor power, no

Re: [Vo]:Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project

Actually, banks of mirrors are all controlled though one load center at Ivanpah. load centers are distributed throughout the field. One well directed lightning strike at a load center will kill power to many mirrors. Think of the increased negative economics of doubling the power redundancy to

RE: [Vo]:Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project

Speaking of a cross between Fuku and towering inferno, with a few thousand light sabers thrown-in … think about using all those mirrors as a renewable propellant … That’s right, propellant. You don’t really think that electricity was the only goal here, do you? Maybe there was something

Re: [Vo]:Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project

Pay me $2 Bil and I will build you something that produces photons and takes up much less than 4000 acres You give these guys way too much credit On Monday, May 30, 2016, Jones Beene wrote: > Speaking of a cross between Fuku and towering inferno, with a few thousand >

Re: [Vo]:Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project

Right, for sure, but seriously, anybody who watched Space Angel as a kid knows you can't just let a solar mirror point anyplace it wants -- you're just asking to have your headquarters burned to a crisp while the bad guys escape. As I said to start with, you don't really need to point them

[Vo]:LENR, SIGNAL AND NOISE

http://egooutpeters.blogspot.ro/2016/05/may-30-2016-lenr-signal-and-noise.html Quite good info today. Will MAUS be able to surprise us positively? Peter -- Dr. Peter Gluck Cluj, Romania http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com

Re: [Vo]:The most mysterious star in the universe

One would think that the astronomers have cataloged enough stars during the original research project to know how the variable ones behave. Of course it is entirely possible that what they are seeing is a rare form of variable star like you are suggesting. I wonder what would happen if a

Re: [Vo]:The most mysterious star in the universe

In reply to H LV's message of Mon, 30 May 2016 15:11:52 -0400: Hi, [snip] 1) I wonder if they have considered the possibility that the output of the star itself is simply variable? >The most mysterious star in the universe > >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gypAjPp6eps > >Published on Apr 29,

Re: [Vo]:Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project

On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 11:57 AM, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: If the thing had a 'defocussed' mode one could even imagine spotting a few > temperature sensors around the towers to automatically shut it down in the > case of poor aim. > Seems within the realm of possibility. If

Re: [Vo]:Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project

In reply to Stephen A. Lawrence's message of Mon, 30 May 2016 12:57:15 -0400: Hi, [snip] >Right, for sure, but seriously, anybody who watched Space Angel as a kid >knows you can't just let a solar mirror point anyplace it wants -- >you're just asking to have your headquarters burned to a crisp

Re: [Vo]:Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project

On 05/30/2016 06:11 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: In reply to Stephen A. Lawrence's message of Mon, 30 May 2016 12:57:15 -0400: Hi, [snip] Right, for sure, but seriously, anybody who watched Space Angel as a kid knows you can't just let a solar mirror point anyplace it wants -- you're just

[Vo]:Europe announces that all scientific papers should be free by 2020: Rich Murray 2016.05.30

Europe announces that all scientific papers should be free by 2020: Rich Murray 2016.05.30 http://www.sciencealert.com/europe-announces-that-all-scientific-articles-should-be-freely-accessible-by-2020 Europe announces that all scientific papers should be free by 2020 YES !! JOLENE CREIGHTON,

Re: [Vo]:Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project

In reply to ChemE Stewart's message of Mon, 30 May 2016 00:02:57 -0400: Hi, [snip] Lightning on bright sunny days is very rare. ;) >You guys are ignoring all of the mechanical and structural challenges of >pointing 350,000, 30 foot mirrors at the ground using worm gears and >stepper motors that

[Vo]:The most mysterious star in the universe

The most mysterious star in the universe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gypAjPp6eps Published on Apr 29, 2016 Something massive, with roughly 1,000 times the area of Earth, is blocking the light coming from a distant star known as KIC 8462852, and nobody is quite sure what it is. As astronomer