I read zerohedge too, and it's full of Musk-hate and fake news, or just spun so hard it'll fly apart.
Yeah, Musk has gotten some subsidies. More than Boeing and the rest of the MIC who get their own ExIm bank to loan countries with bad credit the money to buy MIC stuff? Which has gone on longer than Elon's been alive?
Perhaps the haters can explain how the ULA drops out of bidding whenever SpaceX shows up, even though they got more subsidies for longer - and they say that they can't meet the bid price.
Or how NASA crows about the huge savings they're now getting.
Oh, we're talking about cars. So, GM got no bailout or subsidy to make my Volt?
Haters gonna hate, but damn, check some facts, people.
Yeah, inject low info partisanship into everything...prove you're a fool.
Wikipedia mentions who appointed Ajit Pai...Barack Obama, in 2012.
What america wanted was to get rid of the then-current batch of rich corporatist assholes. Like the ones who sold our uranium to the Russians and other things too numerous to list here.
Maybe if we get loud enough calling this guy Ajit the traitor to all that is good, someone will get around to saying "you're fired".
Think about it - if you're a pretty unpopular executive and someone under you is considered a total ass by a huge majority, and what they're pushing doesn't particularly butter your bread...why not fire them and get a huge boost in popularity overnight?
Remember when we all worried that Wheeler, being an ex cable co lobbyist (just like the current jerk) was going to screw us, but he turned into a hero instead? We probably can't hope for that in this case, but we can hope someone else takes action on it. Of course, this really belongs in Congress, but we know they are ALL owned,,it's not a partisan thing at all...
I've heard about Agit pai's plans to wipe out net neutrality - tons.
I've heard nothing whatever about Trump supporting that, except of course, just being the big boss. Is there some news I missed or was this fake news supplied by an editor somewhere? One could hope Trump will notice how hugely unpopular this move is, and realize that it otherwise doesn't butter his bread, and have a word with Ajit...or maybe two "You're fired".
Sowing discord seems to be real popular just now. Disgusting that people help the divide and conquer movement, being too dumb to realize they're part of the target of it.
Not a full analysis. You pick what the % is, you don't check for randomness at all. Even within the "white" zips - wanna bet there's a skew towards the higher incomes, analyzed fairly? They'd be dumb not to - duty to stockholders and all that. Working that hard to spin something usually means fanboi or something to hide shill.
They didn't steal enough to stay out of jail, yup. Go big - Corzine for example - or go to jail.
Only relatively small potatoes get busted. You gotta get billions at least to buy continued freedom.
Not that what I think matters...Reality will let us know when we get this right, it'll be obvious.
I think that magnetic confinement of thermal plasma isn't the way at all, personally. Random thermal motion is not the best way to create collisions that are forceful enough to overcome the Coulomb repulsion long enough for tunneling into fusion to occur. There's a long list of issues with magnetic confinement, whichever topology is used for that. H fields still only turn charged particles with a normal (90 degree) force, and thinking that we can macroscopically twist and turn the field so as to effectively confuse charged particles is kinda wishful thinking (in my opinion, of course - I realize I'm in danger of committing a Rutherford and saying they're talking moonshine).
It's a simplistic attempt to duplicate the sun by using magnets instead of gravity. The thing is, the sun is a pretty lousy reactor (lucky for us because it and we are still here and so on). Many from "the bad astronomer" to wikipedia and various fusion info sources show the sun as very wimpy per CC. http://www.echochamber.me/view... .
An approach that brings together the reactants in a coherent way - think bullets colliding - looks a heck of a lot more energy-efficient in terms of the effective "activation energy" and a few people I know are working that with if not "threshold of gain" success, darn good compared to when no one was trying that angle.
Non-thermal looks very promising at least to me, and almost no money or effort has gone into it - what has, has paid off handsomely in good reaction rates, and at least low energy in per successful reaction for the ones that are "aimed right" - which is only now possible as more precise things are now being made. Remember it isn't the temperature of a bullet that defines its ability or total energy. Doesn't matter if it's cold, just that it's moving fast on a desired vector.
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The trouble is, the people who hand out the money aren't scientists, and the scientists getting the money are politicians themselves these days - it's an art to get a grant, and some people are good at it, maybe not caring if they're really on to something good or not. Tenure, the nice corner office with the hot secretary, power, all corrupt even scientists and sometimes without them realizing it.
Which is why I made my dough another way (engineering, VoIP, digital audio) and am using it to follow my own nose re fusion. Seems like it's the only way that can work.
So, I'll put it on whip...
They'd be boycotted starting now, for threatening someone trying to help them improve their product.
If we know the whole story, that is. Sometimes when you just hear one side...
Most people become broke "inventing stuff" because it's stupid, been invented already, or they ask stupid bucks for something no one will pay that for. I did OK as an inventor, and yes, made enough bucks to be able to play with some pretty cool toys now - and no strings attached if I don't attach them. It's probably just luck, someone had to get lucky in the.boom, after all.
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I'd love to be Tony Stark, but I lack the hottie and the scriptwriter to have those fast witty comebacks and be able to do anything. I'm just me - a semi-retired engineer/physicist messing around in a pretty nice lab I built with my winnings from engineering real hard and according the customers, pretty good.
Having studied this problem for a few decades, I think I may have a handle on what's going on with it...and who is actually doing good things (and it ain't necessarily the guys who get the publicity or the big bucks).
Makes no sense. Fission ~ 200 mega-electron-volts/per, fusion ~ 16 mega-electron-volts per.
Maybe per gram?
See my handle. Guess what I do all day?
While some here talk about "many approaches have been tested" it's really not true - the huge majority - way over 90% - of the money is tokomak, the others can go pound sand, which means only the dedicated and independently wealthy can work with them.
As mentioned elsewhere, no matter the approach, this isn't what is holding fusion back. Nor is it necessarily more capex - till we have it making gain, we don't know which approach works and therefore don't have a clue about costs. Making assumptions often makes you wrong.
I saw this paper in the puff-sheet science news. It's the usual "I found something the sources of funding might be bullshitted about so give me more money" that we see all day every day in just about every field. Most of us know to ignore that junk.
Or you could go back to just owning what you paid for, you know, like the older not so bad days...But human nature and "theft" of "IP" and greed mean we can't have nice things anymore. Well, I write my own nice software, but...
I agree C++ is worse than my usual fave (perl). But only in the hands of idiots. Both have "too many features" - so don't use them stupidly. With discipline you can write good code in almost any language but Java...
I really didn't need everyone to say they don't read. Here and elsewhere, the misuse of what is the milk tongue for most of us makes it obvious. We're into some kind of 'bonics here - it's plain most are phonetically spelling, and know little grammar. It's silly to be proud of ignorance. Implied in most comments is that you want to share how clever or smart you are. Not knowing your own language, and being proud of it isn't a great way to convince me, or other readers that you are either one.
To the people who whine about pedantry - this isn't even close to that - this is reminding adults or near adults that many of us had better command of the English language when we were 6 years old.
Snarkily saying "well if you understood me it's good enough" doesn't cut it either. If I had to do extra work just to understand you, yeah, that makes an impression alright - one that says you expect me to do all the work, that you're a lazy asshole. Fine, you can talk/type, but I don't have to listen/read. It's obvious you don't have much to teach me anyway. Loose is not what you are, you lose. When doing something also, it's not to. Go out and try to have an effect,
Learn your damn language - books are a great way - or shut up. Stop wasting our time. When this old you get, realize you will that time is the one thing you can't pay back, or get back.
No, they paid Hillary's pals to kill Seth Rich so they could take the credit for hacking the DNC. Couldn't have it known that a disgusted insider leaked.
In the same sentence? From the guy who perjured himself in congress? Hackback is a bad idea for those who might get the wrong target, sure. But the crowd that gets our guys, as well as guilty and innocent around the world killed and maimed for obscure ends in the pursuit of the petrodollar...shouldn't be doing that either.
Just fix your bugs and holes and let it all bounce off. You need to do that anyway.
Fixing the ozone hole (freon) by replacing freon with hydrofluorcarbons was a big mistake, they are far more potent greenhouse gases. Don't pat humans on the back yet, we're not that smart. Ref: https://phys.org/news/2017-11-...
Citation provided.
The last update my LG got was DRM that made it stop working with my Raspberry Pi and other computer inputs. Can't roll it back. Not quite as bad as Sony, but hey.
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I read zerohedge too, and it's full of Musk-hate and fake news, or just spun so hard it'll fly apart. Yeah, Musk has gotten some subsidies. More than Boeing and the rest of the MIC who get their own ExIm bank to loan countries with bad credit the money to buy MIC stuff? Which has gone on longer than Elon's been alive?
Perhaps the haters can explain how the ULA drops out of bidding whenever SpaceX shows up, even though they got more subsidies for longer - and they say that they can't meet the bid price. Or how NASA crows about the huge savings they're now getting.
Oh, we're talking about cars. So, GM got no bailout or subsidy to make my Volt?
Haters gonna hate, but damn, check some facts, people.
Yeah, inject low info partisanship into everything...prove you're a fool. Wikipedia mentions who appointed Ajit Pai...Barack Obama, in 2012. What america wanted was to get rid of the then-current batch of rich corporatist assholes. Like the ones who sold our uranium to the Russians and other things too numerous to list here.
Wish I had mod points some days.
Maybe if we get loud enough calling this guy Ajit the traitor to all that is good, someone will get around to saying "you're fired". ,it's not a partisan thing at all...
Think about it - if you're a pretty unpopular executive and someone under you is considered a total ass by a huge majority, and what they're pushing doesn't particularly butter your bread...why not fire them and get a huge boost in popularity overnight?
Remember when we all worried that Wheeler, being an ex cable co lobbyist (just like the current jerk) was going to screw us, but he turned into a hero instead? We probably can't hope for that in this case, but we can hope someone else takes action on it. Of course, this really belongs in Congress, but we know they are ALL owned,
If you have one. In my small off-grid house I don't have room, spare kwh, water, and so on for that kind of utterly wasteful appliance.
I've heard about Agit pai's plans to wipe out net neutrality - tons.
I've heard nothing whatever about Trump supporting that, except of course, just being the big boss. Is there some news I missed or was this fake news supplied by an editor somewhere? One could hope Trump will notice how hugely unpopular this move is, and realize that it otherwise doesn't butter his bread, and have a word with Ajit...or maybe two "You're fired".
Sowing discord seems to be real popular just now. Disgusting that people help the divide and conquer movement, being too dumb to realize they're part of the target of it.
Not a full analysis. You pick what the % is, you don't check for randomness at all. Even within the "white" zips - wanna bet there's a skew towards the higher incomes, analyzed fairly? They'd be dumb not to - duty to stockholders and all that. Working that hard to spin something usually means fanboi or something to hide shill.
They know how to bullshit for grant money, that's what they know. Doesn't matter the scheme is impractical and has been superseded long since.
They didn't steal enough to stay out of jail, yup. Go big - Corzine for example - or go to jail.
Only relatively small potatoes get busted. You gotta get billions at least to buy continued freedom.
Not that what I think matters...Reality will let us know when we get this right, it'll be obvious.
I think that magnetic confinement of thermal plasma isn't the way at all, personally. Random thermal motion is not the best way to create collisions that are forceful enough to overcome the Coulomb repulsion long enough for tunneling into fusion to occur. There's a long list of issues with magnetic confinement, whichever topology is used for that. H fields still only turn charged particles with a normal (90 degree) force, and thinking that we can macroscopically twist and turn the field so as to effectively confuse charged particles is kinda wishful thinking (in my opinion, of course - I realize I'm in danger of committing a Rutherford and saying they're talking moonshine).
It's a simplistic attempt to duplicate the sun by using magnets instead of gravity. The thing is, the sun is a pretty lousy reactor (lucky for us because it and we are still here and so on). Many from "the bad astronomer" to wikipedia and various fusion info sources show the sun as very wimpy per CC. http://www.echochamber.me/view...
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An approach that brings together the reactants in a coherent way - think bullets colliding - looks a heck of a lot more energy-efficient in terms of the effective "activation energy" and a few people I know are working that with if not "threshold of gain" success, darn good compared to when no one was trying that angle. Non-thermal looks very promising at least to me, and almost no money or effort has gone into it - what has, has paid off handsomely in good reaction rates, and at least low energy in per successful reaction for the ones that are "aimed right" - which is only now possible as more precise things are now being made. Remember it isn't the temperature of a bullet that defines its ability or total energy. Doesn't matter if it's cold, just that it's moving fast on a desired vector.
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The trouble is, the people who hand out the money aren't scientists, and the scientists getting the money are politicians themselves these days - it's an art to get a grant, and some people are good at it, maybe not caring if they're really on to something good or not. Tenure, the nice corner office with the hot secretary, power, all corrupt even scientists and sometimes without them realizing it. Which is why I made my dough another way (engineering, VoIP, digital audio) and am using it to follow my own nose re fusion. Seems like it's the only way that can work. So, I'll put it on whip...
They'd be boycotted starting now, for threatening someone trying to help them improve their product. If we know the whole story, that is. Sometimes when you just hear one side...
Most people become broke "inventing stuff" because it's stupid, been invented already, or they ask stupid bucks for something no one will pay that for. I did OK as an inventor, and yes, made enough bucks to be able to play with some pretty cool toys now - and no strings attached if I don't attach them. It's probably just luck, someone had to get lucky in the .boom, after all.
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I'd love to be Tony Stark, but I lack the hottie and the scriptwriter to have those fast witty comebacks and be able to do anything. I'm just me - a semi-retired engineer/physicist messing around in a pretty nice lab I built with my winnings from engineering real hard and according the customers, pretty good.
Having studied this problem for a few decades, I think I may have a handle on what's going on with it...and who is actually doing good things (and it ain't necessarily the guys who get the publicity or the big bucks).
Makes no sense. Fission ~ 200 mega-electron-volts/per, fusion ~ 16 mega-electron-volts per.
Maybe per gram?
See my handle. Guess what I do all day?
While some here talk about "many approaches have been tested" it's really not true - the huge majority - way over 90% - of the money is tokomak, the others can go pound sand, which means only the dedicated and independently wealthy can work with them. As mentioned elsewhere, no matter the approach, this isn't what is holding fusion back. Nor is it necessarily more capex - till we have it making gain, we don't know which approach works and therefore don't have a clue about costs. Making assumptions often makes you wrong.
I saw this paper in the puff-sheet science news. It's the usual "I found something the sources of funding might be bullshitted about so give me more money" that we see all day every day in just about every field. Most of us know to ignore that junk.
My 2012 Volt runs linux too. Around the time I bought it, GM was publishing the code for a version of bash they'd done the tighten it up on.
Sorry, out of mod points...not that they help that much when we're swarmed by immature idiots and AC trolls.
Or you could go back to just owning what you paid for, you know, like the older not so bad days...But human nature and "theft" of "IP" and greed mean we can't have nice things anymore. Well, I write my own nice software, but...
At least we'll get to choose a better language. It'll die of it's own weight if LP attempts shove it upon us all.
I agree C++ is worse than my usual fave (perl). But only in the hands of idiots. Both have "too many features" - so don't use them stupidly. With discipline you can write good code in almost any language but Java...
I really didn't need everyone to say they don't read. Here and elsewhere, the misuse of what is the milk tongue for most of us makes it obvious. We're into some kind of 'bonics here - it's plain most are phonetically spelling, and know little grammar. It's silly to be proud of ignorance. Implied in most comments is that you want to share how clever or smart you are. Not knowing your own language, and being proud of it isn't a great way to convince me, or other readers that you are either one.
To the people who whine about pedantry - this isn't even close to that - this is reminding adults or near adults that many of us had better command of the English language when we were 6 years old.
Snarkily saying "well if you understood me it's good enough" doesn't cut it either. If I had to do extra work just to understand you, yeah, that makes an impression alright - one that says you expect me to do all the work, that you're a lazy asshole. Fine, you can talk/type, but I don't have to listen/read. It's obvious you don't have much to teach me anyway. Loose is not what you are, you lose. When doing something also, it's not to. Go out and try to have an effect, Learn your damn language - books are a great way - or shut up. Stop wasting our time. When this old you get, realize you will that time is the one thing you can't pay back, or get back.
No, they paid Hillary's pals to kill Seth Rich so they could take the credit for hacking the DNC. Couldn't have it known that a disgusted insider leaked.
Yep, this was all utter BS and hype. Wonder if the authors were that stupid or just looking for some $?
In the same sentence? From the guy who perjured himself in congress? Hackback is a bad idea for those who might get the wrong target, sure. But the crowd that gets our guys, as well as guilty and innocent around the world killed and maimed for obscure ends in the pursuit of the petrodollar...shouldn't be doing that either. Just fix your bugs and holes and let it all bounce off. You need to do that anyway.
Fixing the ozone hole (freon) by replacing freon with hydrofluorcarbons was a big mistake, they are far more potent greenhouse gases. Don't pat humans on the back yet, we're not that smart. Ref: https://phys.org/news/2017-11-... Citation provided.
The last update my LG got was DRM that made it stop working with my Raspberry Pi and other computer inputs. Can't roll it back. Not quite as bad as Sony, but hey.