That's not in between, that's the second option. At least in my mind anyhow.
Imagine everyone being fed from the same source of information. General knowledge will soon become GENERAL knowledge. Then nobody will have anything interesting to talk about.
Perhaps if it issued random information so that not all people got quite the same experiance, we'd still have something to talk about.
While you could dive in at the deep end and purchase a drone, they’re more expensive than a house. Some are more expensive than a full road of houses! (my new currency is houses, does anyone have change for one?)
Back to the point. Sounds like you have a cool hobby. Freely climbing in a range of local mountains and valleys! Awesome!
If this project is to be a hobby rather than just a tool, then perhaps starting small and working up would be a good way to progress.
For filming in caves I’ve purchased a small helicopter with a camera. It was not expensive and can’t deal with wind at all. Fine for caves though. Image quality is at the fun end of the spectrum rather than good
Rather like a drone, I’m not flying it while viewing the footage. I have to download it after. It has completely changed my direction from wanting a drone to wanting immediate feedback of the footage. Perhaps later, if I get really enthusiastic (kids are on the way so this won’t happen) drone like modes would be good. There’s no way to control anything once it’s gone round a couple of corners in a cave as the rock eats radio waves you see.
In conclusion I present 2 directions for you. Firstly a hobby, progressing and building up to whatever it is that you really want, testing the water along the way. Or secondly, to become an evil mastermind, live inside one of your local mountains with lots of minions to do you bidding and use a giant parabolic space mirror to see around your local area.
However much I don't want terrorism and througherly wish it could be discorraged and prevented, I really don't want to go to jail for reading anything. Perhaps sites with such information should have a poll, just like slashdot. It could ask - "are you going to use this information for good or evil?" All those who click evil go to jail.
In order of importance and relevance to building a powerplant.
Materials - it is a huge goal to have materials that don't become too radioactive in use and that don't need to be replaced too often.
Cost - Big, complicated machines are expensive, presently too expensive to make money
Science - holding the plasma still is not easy. It has a tendancy to try and scamper off towards a wall and needs to be kept in place activly by varying the applied magnetic field.
In a nut shell, we could build one today that would produce more power than it consumed, but it'd be reall expensive, not last as long as we wish and not be as clean as we want.
I think it'll take another $20B before something commercial is viable. Slightly more than is spent on porn annually in the US.
I see you have not met a fusion reactor. The diverter does indeed have plasma hit it. That's the point of a diverter. Once it's hit the diverter, it generally stops being plasma and turns to very, very hot angry gas that is pumped away, ideally leaving the walls of the reactor to only have to deal with neutrons and radiation.
The more worrying thing about loosing the magnetic field is that it'll upset the chaps looking after the powersupplies who'll probably spend all night fixing something.
I indeed doubleplus trust that we are not spied upon. We have learned to love Govpol. We love Govpol. We have always loved Govpol. There was nothing before Govpol as Govpol has always been and will always be.
Ehh, with all the weird stuff I look up, wonder who they think I am. If they have an algorithm that can work it out. I ask for feedback (they'll be reading this of course) as I'd like to know myself!
Here here. Agreed, though NIF is twice as inefficient as you suspect.
The only possibly useful non death and doom thing to come out of inertial fusion is the study of ultra dense, ultra hot matter somewhat like the centre of stars. Good for astrophysicists...
There are several thermal fusion projects that endeavor to produce energy and take good if not slow and expensive steps to get there. Then there are several that try to trigger fusion for other reasons. Who here favors the first?
Haha! Hope it doesn't go pop as my office is next to JET... Though it t does, a JET fusion pulse output is about the same as 50 sticks of dynamite, so wouldn't even break it's vacuum vessel.
Really now, they've fired ~2MJ pulse. But what does that mean?
2MJ of laser light was present in their test chamber. This was fueled by 400MJ of electrical energy stored in capacitors. So we can now see that they have accomplished making a 0.5% efficient laser. This is nothing to write home about.
Lets consider the actual fusion power output. The most they've had is about 1kJ of fusion energy output. This is not a lot.
The balance between energy in and energy out is very poor. Getting 1kJ from 400MJ is about the best they can hope for. An overall efficiency of 0.00025%. Who here thinks that's good?
JET, which is the smaller brother of ITER has achieved a 90% energy balance. Still not breaking even, but still 3600 times closer.
ITER is designed to output 10 times more energy than is input. So it'll spank NIF. QED.
That doesn't stop it being expensive though...
If the Russians go to the moon, there' bound to be vodka. If we can get the Jamacans, Columbians and Spearmint Rhino staff to send a crew each, it'll be a party moon!
Well put. I was thinking much the same thing. To put it another way, if you stop off X times on the way to a star, then you'll use X + 1 times the fuel for a single trip, assuming you achive the same velocity. This puts X + 1 times the wear on the engines and means taking a fuel generating plant along for the ride. Further, because of the short hops, more time will be spent stopped or changing direction (the planets will probably not be in a straight line between us and a star). Basically, it'd take longer and be a lot of faff.
Fortunatly I've lived to early to sufer this fate. But I'm sure I'd end up stuck on the rock feeling grumpy about my boss with no escape. Though I expect life out there would start as 10 year stints then back to earth, all arranged by a company. Pay would be great and naturally no tax. Then the company would go bust and the air shipments would stop, causing governments to step in to save the problem at huge expense. You then find your pay was stock linked and die grim faced on the way back as the lowest rank emplyee finally cracks and goes postal.
Slashdot Mirror
By the same logic I can call myself a toddler.
That's not in between, that's the second option. At least in my mind anyhow.
Imagine everyone being fed from the same source of information. General knowledge will soon become GENERAL knowledge. Then nobody will have anything interesting to talk about.
Perhaps if it issued random information so that not all people got quite the same experiance, we'd still have something to talk about.
Sooo... Would this cause your brain to overload with all the additional information - or for it to step aside and cease to function?
While you could dive in at the deep end and purchase a drone, they’re more expensive than a house. Some are more expensive than a full road of houses! (my new currency is houses, does anyone have change for one?)
Back to the point. Sounds like you have a cool hobby. Freely climbing in a range of local mountains and valleys! Awesome!
If this project is to be a hobby rather than just a tool, then perhaps starting small and working up would be a good way to progress.
For filming in caves I’ve purchased a small helicopter with a camera. It was not expensive and can’t deal with wind at all. Fine for caves though. Image quality is at the fun end of the spectrum rather than good
Rather like a drone, I’m not flying it while viewing the footage. I have to download it after. It has completely changed my direction from wanting a drone to wanting immediate feedback of the footage. Perhaps later, if I get really enthusiastic (kids are on the way so this won’t happen) drone like modes would be good. There’s no way to control anything once it’s gone round a couple of corners in a cave as the rock eats radio waves you see.
In conclusion I present 2 directions for you. Firstly a hobby, progressing and building up to whatever it is that you really want, testing the water along the way. Or secondly, to become an evil mastermind, live inside one of your local mountains with lots of minions to do you bidding and use a giant parabolic space mirror to see around your local area.
Whether the dog attacks or just wags it's tail, let the laser do the hard work.
Here here. I like this thinking:O)
I hear terrorists are working on fusion, hangover free beer and hoverboards too...
I whould have to say - proportionatly less so every time.
However much I don't want terrorism and througherly wish it could be discorraged and prevented, I really don't want to go to jail for reading anything. Perhaps sites with such information should have a poll, just like slashdot. It could ask - "are you going to use this information for good or evil?" All those who click evil go to jail.
In order of importance and relevance to building a powerplant.
Materials - it is a huge goal to have materials that don't become too radioactive in use and that don't need to be replaced too often.
Cost - Big, complicated machines are expensive, presently too expensive to make money
Science - holding the plasma still is not easy. It has a tendancy to try and scamper off towards a wall and needs to be kept in place activly by varying the applied magnetic field.
In a nut shell, we could build one today that would produce more power than it consumed, but it'd be reall expensive, not last as long as we wish and not be as clean as we want.
I think it'll take another $20B before something commercial is viable. Slightly more than is spent on porn annually in the US.
I see you have not met a fusion reactor. The diverter does indeed have plasma hit it. That's the point of a diverter. Once it's hit the diverter, it generally stops being plasma and turns to very, very hot angry gas that is pumped away, ideally leaving the walls of the reactor to only have to deal with neutrons and radiation.
The more worrying thing about loosing the magnetic field is that it'll upset the chaps looking after the powersupplies who'll probably spend all night fixing something.
Who's for tradmarking "If". Try and code without that ****** *******.
Oh no, they got those words too:O(
Who's going to tell them that glue also works?
I hope it's not the same reason I didn't.
I prefer "the big giant head" when referring to those above me. Third rock from the sun has a lot to answer for...
I indeed doubleplus trust that we are not spied upon. We have learned to love Govpol. We love Govpol. We have always loved Govpol. There was nothing before Govpol as Govpol has always been and will always be.
Ehh, with all the weird stuff I look up, wonder who they think I am. If they have an algorithm that can work it out. I ask for feedback (they'll be reading this of course) as I'd like to know myself!
Any latency gain from a shorter cable will be dwarfed by the random caffeine deficiency induced latencies of the traders.
Surely swapping in a stronger brand of coffee would be vastly cheaper!
Here here. Agreed, though NIF is twice as inefficient as you suspect.
The only possibly useful non death and doom thing to come out of inertial fusion is the study of ultra dense, ultra hot matter somewhat like the centre of stars. Good for astrophysicists...
There are several thermal fusion projects that endeavor to produce energy and take good if not slow and expensive steps to get there. Then there are several that try to trigger fusion for other reasons. Who here favors the first?
Well, less whole system testing of nukes is a good thing. Ideally the world will never see one of them again.
Haha! Hope it doesn't go pop as my office is next to JET... Though it t does, a JET fusion pulse output is about the same as 50 sticks of dynamite, so wouldn't even break it's vacuum vessel.
Really now, they've fired ~2MJ pulse. But what does that mean? 2MJ of laser light was present in their test chamber. This was fueled by 400MJ of electrical energy stored in capacitors. So we can now see that they have accomplished making a 0.5% efficient laser. This is nothing to write home about. Lets consider the actual fusion power output. The most they've had is about 1kJ of fusion energy output. This is not a lot. The balance between energy in and energy out is very poor. Getting 1kJ from 400MJ is about the best they can hope for. An overall efficiency of 0.00025%. Who here thinks that's good? JET, which is the smaller brother of ITER has achieved a 90% energy balance. Still not breaking even, but still 3600 times closer. ITER is designed to output 10 times more energy than is input. So it'll spank NIF. QED. That doesn't stop it being expensive though...
If the Russians go to the moon, there' bound to be vodka. If we can get the Jamacans, Columbians and Spearmint Rhino staff to send a crew each, it'll be a party moon!
So that's where I put it. Thanks NASA:O)
Well put. I was thinking much the same thing. To put it another way, if you stop off X times on the way to a star, then you'll use X + 1 times the fuel for a single trip, assuming you achive the same velocity. This puts X + 1 times the wear on the engines and means taking a fuel generating plant along for the ride. Further, because of the short hops, more time will be spent stopped or changing direction (the planets will probably not be in a straight line between us and a star). Basically, it'd take longer and be a lot of faff.
Fortunatly I've lived to early to sufer this fate. But I'm sure I'd end up stuck on the rock feeling grumpy about my boss with no escape. Though I expect life out there would start as 10 year stints then back to earth, all arranged by a company. Pay would be great and naturally no tax. Then the company would go bust and the air shipments would stop, causing governments to step in to save the problem at huge expense. You then find your pay was stock linked and die grim faced on the way back as the lowest rank emplyee finally cracks and goes postal.