Is that new resonant clock mesh technology still planned to launch with this new series? I remember reading they were planning to break the 4GHz barrier?
The problem isn't the temperature alone, it's also that heavy atoms will pollute the plasma if they come loose at all.
The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory is working on a liquid-lithium walled reactor to try and handle several of these problems. Check out LTX (Lithium Tokamak Experiment).
I came here to say exactly this. I have a late 2008 Macbook Pro and Ubuntu works flawlessly out of the box. But it took at least 2 years to get to that point. It worked reasonably well on day 1, but needed the sort of hobbyist futzing that should be expected for someone running Linux on new hardware.
Where do you come from, and what do you hunt, that someone says "high caliber, better suited for hunting" and you think he's talking about a BB gun? Do you eat a lot of frog legs? Or are there miniature deer?
I wasn't 'blaming everything' to corporate power. Just pointing out why corporations wouldn't want (to support) decentralized energy generation.
If there's a demand in the market, then there's money to be made, and enterprising corporations or individuals will want a piece of the action.
How many decades don't we already hear "within 10 years fusion will be 'within reach', just add x billion (of whatever currency) to our research budget"?
The thing is, x billion hasn't been added. If you look at the funding that projects like ITER have received, and you look at the funding they asked for to maintain a certain timeline, they're actually on schedule-per-dollar, but the dollars haven't been coming at the required rate to maintain schedule-per-unit-time.
If you already have a problem using data of the recent investments in solar panel production facilities for arriving at a forecast of the coming increased availability of solar energy production facilities, then--through inductive reasoning--I conclude that 'you don't know anything' about production planning. Let alone will be able to give an estimate of how much energy will be produced through fusion within the next 20 years. Or 30, for that matter. Or 40, or whatever, depending the excuses the fusion lobby will come up with.
I don't know what you're going on about here, but good job steering around the quantitative aspects of my previous post.
So are squirrels. Blaming everything that happens on squirrels doesn't make much more sense than blaming everything that happens on corporations.
I'd suggest you do some post-academic upgrade course in logical reasoning, because you forgot to evaluate the importance of correct assumptions.
Learn the difference between inductive and deductive reasoning. I wasn't making any assumptions about you, I was simply applying inductive inference to your comment to come to the conclusion that you don't know anything about the relevant fields in scientific or engineering.
I suppose that's why Germany lately already hit the 10% energy contribution mark for solar and wind?
The obvious thing to point out here is that German has 80% our per-capita GDP (90% if you use the nominal figure, rather than the PPP figure), and an average population density which is an order of magnitude larger (and the US has a much steeper skew distribution, i.e., NYC vs Alaska).
The next obvious thing to point out is the problem with trying to extrapolate a trend from 2 datapoints (x years ago they had 0% solar, now they have 10 percent, in 10x they will therefore have 100%).
There, fixed that for you.
And I agree that an energy generation technology without fuel doesn't have much chance. But the same goes for fuel without existing generation technology.
But for solar/wind, one has both of them already available.
Smart investments require both long and short term planning.
Take off the tinfoil hat and learn some science & engineering. Solar and wind have huge infrastructure problems for load balancing and availability. Nothing touches fusion for energy density (especially advanced fuel cycles with the potential for direct conversion instead of having to use thermal neutrons to drive a steam engine) except for matter/antimatter. And of the two of those, one has readily available fuel.
In Mac land, that would imply you had some non-existent version of classic Mac OS in which development had proceeded beyond version 9. "Mac OS" is not the same as "Mac OS X"
Been waiting for this, I actually have something fun/abusive in mind for this year, that I'm looking forward to implementing, "polishing", and submitting.
"Supports religious belief"
We're not talking about religious leaders, we're talking about people who are religious believers in direct counterpoint to his claim about religion and logical faculties. I could rattle off more, but I was going for secular name recognition across a spectrum of intellectual disciplines.
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Is that new resonant clock mesh technology still planned to launch with this new series? I remember reading they were planning to break the 4GHz barrier?
Frakking clawgrippers, make it impossible to find a proper non-wireless palm-grip mouse these days.
I've been working at PPPL this summer, and that's the latest idea
The problem isn't the temperature alone, it's also that heavy atoms will pollute the plasma if they come loose at all. The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory is working on a liquid-lithium walled reactor to try and handle several of these problems. Check out LTX (Lithium Tokamak Experiment).
I came here to say exactly this. I have a late 2008 Macbook Pro and Ubuntu works flawlessly out of the box. But it took at least 2 years to get to that point. It worked reasonably well on day 1, but needed the sort of hobbyist futzing that should be expected for someone running Linux on new hardware.
Where do you come from, and what do you hunt, that someone says "high caliber, better suited for hunting" and you think he's talking about a BB gun? Do you eat a lot of frog legs? Or are there miniature deer?
I'm actually concerned that my metallic covering isn't properly grounded. Could you walk me through proper procedure?
On a "News for Nerds" site, I have to question why we're calling it a "Richter scale" instead of simply a "log-scale".
If there's a demand in the market, then there's money to be made, and enterprising corporations or individuals will want a piece of the action.
The thing is, x billion hasn't been added. If you look at the funding that projects like ITER have received, and you look at the funding they asked for to maintain a certain timeline, they're actually on schedule-per-dollar, but the dollars haven't been coming at the required rate to maintain schedule-per-unit-time.
I don't know what you're going on about here, but good job steering around the quantitative aspects of my previous post.
Self correcting 10x to 9x, since x+9x = 10x
So are squirrels. Blaming everything that happens on squirrels doesn't make much more sense than blaming everything that happens on corporations.
Learn the difference between inductive and deductive reasoning. I wasn't making any assumptions about you, I was simply applying inductive inference to your comment to come to the conclusion that you don't know anything about the relevant fields in scientific or engineering.
The obvious thing to point out here is that German has 80% our per-capita GDP (90% if you use the nominal figure, rather than the PPP figure), and an average population density which is an order of magnitude larger (and the US has a much steeper skew distribution, i.e., NYC vs Alaska). The next obvious thing to point out is the problem with trying to extrapolate a trend from 2 datapoints (x years ago they had 0% solar, now they have 10 percent, in 10x they will therefore have 100%).
Smart investments require both long and short term planning.
*wooosh*
Take off the tinfoil hat and learn some science & engineering. Solar and wind have huge infrastructure problems for load balancing and availability. Nothing touches fusion for energy density (especially advanced fuel cycles with the potential for direct conversion instead of having to use thermal neutrons to drive a steam engine) except for matter/antimatter. And of the two of those, one has readily available fuel.
Two Words: Energy Density. And two other words: "Fuel Availability"
In Mac land, that would imply you had some non-existent version of classic Mac OS in which development had proceeded beyond version 9. "Mac OS" is not the same as "Mac OS X"
Been waiting for this, I actually have something fun/abusive in mind for this year, that I'm looking forward to implementing, "polishing", and submitting.
Just to be clear, UEFI is not BIOS unless you use one which chooses to provide BIOS emulation.
Please don't confuse objectivists with actual libertarians. 1049 applies.
Thank you for posting that :D
"Supports religious belief" We're not talking about religious leaders, we're talking about people who are religious believers in direct counterpoint to his claim about religion and logical faculties. I could rattle off more, but I was going for secular name recognition across a spectrum of intellectual disciplines.
I wish I had modpoints for you.
(The implied subtext being "and tell me about it, so I can laugh while they rip you apart").
Tell that to Donald Knuth, Francis Collins, Freeman Dyson, etc.
Please explain. How do you demonetize someone? Does it involve stealing their bank account?
Yes, but will they be EVER in our favor?