All these reactions produce radiation that would have killed everyone around the plant. So unless you arm wave to claim that radiation is not magically produced in this device, your back to square one. Just like with other cold fusion claims.
Also the eCat claims to fuse a proton with Nickel to produce copper. A quick check of the relevant tables gives us a "proton chain" where eventually a stable copper isotope is produced. However there are few unstable copper intermediates in between. These all decay via beta- and hence will yield a pair of 500keV gammas. A quick calculation for the claimed 1MW plant is tens of kW of gammas... without shielding....
In God we trust. The rest of you show me the data.
It is possible and was almost built with a prototype rector constructed on the ground. But then we got ICBMs and ICBM subs and bombers with infinite range became moot.
You know this is not really a new situation. The cost of reproducing books feel dramatically with the invention of the printing press and created copyright concerns back then. Its easier to copy a master piece than create one. etc. We are not really seeing a new thing with copies being much cheaper than the original. Hell even your cell phone cost way more to design than to manufacture... In other words, there are many things where the marginal cost of production is almost insignificant to the final cost of the product. Claiming that it cost nothing to copy is not a good argument that it should cost nothing.
Of course i also agree with copyright... I even feel 20 years is too long. 10-15 feels about right.
For my wedding i refused to use a photographer that didn't give me the copyrights for the photos. It is a work for hire!
My high school did have all that. Even after i could ask at the departments to use theirs at the local uni. If there is a will there's a way. Don't forget that pc sampling scopes in the 100MHz range are pretty cheap now days. Sure a 500MHz scope is expensive but that is not needed for quite a lot of things.
They interact mostly only via gravity, even with each other. They are so diffuse or dilute that yes they interact with earth via gravity but not in a currently detectable way, but we have detected it around clusters, in particular the bullet cluster.
Dark matter does not interact electromagnetically. In other words is *can't* glow, it *can't* absorb light or microwaves or anything. We can see dark stuff, it blocks the CMB and other things. The fact that it does not interact except via gravity also means that is its very diffuse.
Consider a non interacting particle falling from 1 light year out towards the sun. It falls right thought and out the other side and comes to a stand still 1 light year away. It will do this forever since its does not interact with anything that can slow it down. Now consider a say consider about 9x the mass of the sun of these particles, they will always occupy a massive volume and hence be very very diffuse... but in the large scale (galactic) are a large effect with their combined gravity. The are Dark in the sense that they *only* interact via gravity.
You know this is falling on deaf ears don't you. The group think on/. is that dark matter is silly and they have a much better alternative... On no wait... they don't even propose an alternative.
In other news everyone knows that you should only listen to real climatologists.
You don't have to. You can read the source. You can even write it again from specs. I did that for a limited set of features just for shits and giggles. Its not so hard esp with the numeric libs out there. Sure it was probably weak against side channel attacks... but meh...
Similar thing happened to me. I got a friend to ask him if he would bet on it. He took the bait, and offered a prize that i never claimed. There was 2 things you had to do, email anonymously! Seriously he didn't think you could do that. I emailed him as himself just for extra laughs. I will leave the second part out, but was a little harder, and perhaps not 100% legal. Either way it was almost as dumb and shows he had no idea what he was talking about.
I have never came across anyone that takes up the zero a file can be recovered bet. At the very least is was expensive. With modern drives i am very skeptical it can be done at all. With a flash drive I have even bigger doubts.
Fires are worse actually. Consider a flames temperature with 50-50 oxygen nitrogen for example. Now even with the same partial pressure the 100% oxygen atmosphere gives a much hotter burning temperature because you don't waste energy heating the nitrogen.
Slightly OT, but Aluminum is used because its a better conductor per unit weight than copper, and the cheaper price. Conductivity Al is pretty soft, but then the cores are high tensile steel and are the load bearing elements of over head wires. Due to the skin effect and steels poor conductivity, almost no current travels in the cores.
You are aware that one of the comic book authors also had a lot to do with the script at least in 3. Also from a reading the comics myself, they where anything but consistent. For example in some Saber is little more than a grunting animal, while in others he was quite human in behavior, much like in the movies.
Many scifi writers do try to break this pattern. But simple fact is that we relate to, well us. So the protagonist is still typically very humanoid even if alien.
Well they still aren't cheap and need quite a lot of technology such as quite high power drive electronics. Magnetic bearings are not simple either and typically have an active component to damp down vibrations and finally the composite rotors are not simple pieces of engineering either, since they need to spin close to structural limits, not distort too much and distort perfectly evenly, but dismantle in off design conditions in a way that is "safe" (ie in small fragments).
One way to make them cheaper is to make them bigger and use cheaper simpler rotors that don't spin as fast. But then they start to get up to "septic tank" size for 1 week of power for a single home pretty quickly.
I did think that something even bigger but cheap, could be installed with every wind turbine, since they already cost $3M a piece it should not add much over all (perhaps double the cost only?). This would mean that power connections can be rated closer to the average power rather than peak.
Except you will need the reserve capacity since not every day is a mid summers sunny day. That is one of the costs of non demand power generation that is typically just ignored by proponents. And no "just use water pump storage" does not solve the problem, they are expensive and huge and can't be built where you need them. In fact you can't even build enough of them, and that is the currently cheapest option.
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All these reactions produce radiation that would have killed everyone around the plant. So unless you arm wave to claim that radiation is not magically produced in this device, your back to square one. Just like with other cold fusion claims.
Also the eCat claims to fuse a proton with Nickel to produce copper. A quick check of the relevant tables gives us a "proton chain" where eventually a stable copper isotope is produced. However there are few unstable copper intermediates in between. These all decay via beta- and hence will yield a pair of 500keV gammas. A quick calculation for the claimed 1MW plant is tens of kW of gammas... without shielding....
In God we trust. The rest of you show me the data.
He has even already gone to jail before for similar fraud *in Italy!*. Now that is an achievement.
It is possible and was almost built with a prototype rector constructed on the ground. But then we got ICBMs and ICBM subs and bombers with infinite range became moot.
It requires magic. So once you run out of magic your boned.
You know this is not really a new situation. The cost of reproducing books feel dramatically with the invention of the printing press and created copyright concerns back then. Its easier to copy a master piece than create one. etc. We are not really seeing a new thing with copies being much cheaper than the original. Hell even your cell phone cost way more to design than to manufacture... In other words, there are many things where the marginal cost of production is almost insignificant to the final cost of the product. Claiming that it cost nothing to copy is not a good argument that it should cost nothing.
Of course i also agree with copyright... I even feel 20 years is too long. 10-15 feels about right.
For my wedding i refused to use a photographer that didn't give me the copyrights for the photos. It is a work for hire!
It would be a shame if your battery was flat... and your forgot the cord.
My high school did have all that. Even after i could ask at the departments to use theirs at the local uni. If there is a will there's a way. Don't forget that pc sampling scopes in the 100MHz range are pretty cheap now days. Sure a 500MHz scope is expensive but that is not needed for quite a lot of things.
They interact mostly only via gravity, even with each other. They are so diffuse or dilute that yes they interact with earth via gravity but not in a currently detectable way, but we have detected it around clusters, in particular the bullet cluster.
You forgot about the extra rain and snow and floods and nice wine in the UK.......
Dark matter does not interact electromagnetically. In other words is *can't* glow, it *can't* absorb light or microwaves or anything. We can see dark stuff, it blocks the CMB and other things. The fact that it does not interact except via gravity also means that is its very diffuse.
Consider a non interacting particle falling from 1 light year out towards the sun. It falls right thought and out the other side and comes to a stand still 1 light year away. It will do this forever since its does not interact with anything that can slow it down. Now consider a say consider about 9x the mass of the sun of these particles, they will always occupy a massive volume and hence be very very diffuse... but in the large scale (galactic) are a large effect with their combined gravity. The are Dark in the sense that they *only* interact via gravity.
You know this is falling on deaf ears don't you. The group think on /. is that dark matter is silly and they have a much better alternative... On no wait... they don't even propose an alternative.
In other news everyone knows that you should only listen to real climatologists.
Hay what a great idea... lets tattoo it on the person as a QR code at birth! All problems solved *one and for all*.
You don't have to. You can read the source. You can even write it again from specs. I did that for a limited set of features just for shits and giggles. Its not so hard esp with the numeric libs out there. Sure it was probably weak against side channel attacks... but meh...
Similar thing happened to me. I got a friend to ask him if he would bet on it. He took the bait, and offered a prize that i never claimed. There was 2 things you had to do, email anonymously! Seriously he didn't think you could do that. I emailed him as himself just for extra laughs. I will leave the second part out, but was a little harder, and perhaps not 100% legal. Either way it was almost as dumb and shows he had no idea what he was talking about.
I have never came across anyone that takes up the zero a file can be recovered bet. At the very least is was expensive. With modern drives i am very skeptical it can be done at all. With a flash drive I have even bigger doubts.
You forgot Uranus.
I am pretty sure the real report was edited down to "Mostly harmless".
The thing is we *don't know what the dose is*. They won't tell us. Why I wonder?
Fires are worse actually. Consider a flames temperature with 50-50 oxygen nitrogen for example. Now even with the same partial pressure the 100% oxygen atmosphere gives a much hotter burning temperature because you don't waste energy heating the nitrogen.
You get that 1W when the sun is shining at midday in midsummer. The rest of the year you get less. In fact in some locations you *always* get less.
Slightly OT, but Aluminum is used because its a better conductor per unit weight than copper, and the cheaper price. Conductivity Al is pretty soft, but then the cores are high tensile steel and are the load bearing elements of over head wires. Due to the skin effect and steels poor conductivity, almost no current travels in the cores.
You are aware that one of the comic book authors also had a lot to do with the script at least in 3. Also from a reading the comics myself, they where anything but consistent. For example in some Saber is little more than a grunting animal, while in others he was quite human in behavior, much like in the movies.
Many scifi writers do try to break this pattern. But simple fact is that we relate to, well us. So the protagonist is still typically very humanoid even if alien.
Well they still aren't cheap and need quite a lot of technology such as quite high power drive electronics. Magnetic bearings are not simple either and typically have an active component to damp down vibrations and finally the composite rotors are not simple pieces of engineering either, since they need to spin close to structural limits, not distort too much and distort perfectly evenly, but dismantle in off design conditions in a way that is "safe" (ie in small fragments).
One way to make them cheaper is to make them bigger and use cheaper simpler rotors that don't spin as fast. But then they start to get up to "septic tank" size for 1 week of power for a single home pretty quickly.
I did think that something even bigger but cheap, could be installed with every wind turbine, since they already cost $3M a piece it should not add much over all (perhaps double the cost only?). This would mean that power connections can be rated closer to the average power rather than peak.
However these are currently insanely expensive.
meaning less of a need for reserve capacity.
Except you will need the reserve capacity since not every day is a mid summers sunny day. That is one of the costs of non demand power generation that is typically just ignored by proponents. And no "just use water pump storage" does not solve the problem, they are expensive and huge and can't be built where you need them. In fact you can't even build enough of them, and that is the currently cheapest option.