This could be used on a number of products. RVs, Boats, Home Generators, and of course, hybrids. One very smart move on this would be to create a semi-truck with several of these, along with a small number of batteries. Quite the fuel savings.
Personally, I wished that they had NOT announced this and continued work on it. Now China, and probably other nations, will simply grab the work regardless of IP. Hopefully, they will keep it in the states.
what he is doing is allowing science fiction to become real. I say GREAT! Seriously, Gates and his buddies saying that they want to spread their wealth could do far far more humanity if they would focus on building large things that are typically done by gov. For example:
1) go in with several other billionares and develop multiple electric car companies, in which the frame, drive train, etc. are all the same, but the body is different. Once multiple car companies are established, THEN give each a copy of the core IP and they go about and compete.
2) How about building a high-speed monorail train? Maglev is overkill. It is not rolling resistance, but air resistance that is the issue. However, the linear motor is useful. So, do monorail with seraphim motors.
3) How about spending some money on SpaceX, DreamChaser, etc? Or Bigelow Aerospace and ILC Dover?
It is people like Branson, Elon Musk, and Paul Allen that are making REAL differences to the future. Musk gets credit for starting up CHEAP solar installation, Cheap spaceX, and of course, getting the electric car industry going.
Allen gets the credit for getting cable industry into the net, and getting private space going by funding Scaled Composites X-Prize winner.
Allen contrasts against Gates in that Gates pushed Boeing/L-Mart into building EELVs in expensive fashion promising them that he was going to use them for his satellites. Well, we all know the status of that.
You OK with China's rulers controlling your nation? That is where you are headed. And keep in mind that they will make Europe's onetime rule of the world look positively decent.
Actually, Gates is re-thinking about the F-22. He is VERY likely to restart the F-22 line. In addition, I would not be surprised to see blackswift be restored.
Yes, instead you should want China to be the only nation on this planet with the ability to wipe out the west, and will have little issue with DOING so. Funny thing is, that right after WWI, we had so many pacifist that wanted the USA to stay out of wars by disarming. And we did.
Odd. I could have sworn that one vote/one issue of stock is the norm for an INC. which WOULD make it a democracy as well. And once an election occurs to vote in the board, then they run it, kind of like when a Union votes in their board.
Likewise, a monopolistic service company (say United Space Alliance) bids on their work every year or so. They always try to get as much money as possible to their employees and their managers, as well as many perks.
The union, which has a monopolistic service provider, bids on their work every year or so. They always try to get as much money as possible to their employees and their managers (the management within the union) as well as many perks.
Of course, Tesla now has 1000's of users with loads of data to back it up that the car never ran our of juice on only 55 miles. In fact, you can bet on it that the car does not run out of juice in less than 100 miles. If it did, then owners who can afford 100K+ cars, would also sue Tesla.
Let me see if I understand this correctly.
The show gave a situation that did not just put the car in bad light, it absolutely had the car being about 1/4 of what is claimed. Since that time, you have 1000's of owners of this. Owners that can afford $100,000+ car. Owners that expect the car to be as good as promised. Owners that have ZERO ISSUE with suing if the car is not close to what Tesla says. And yet, not a ONE has sued. In fact, as I read reviews online, I read that nearly everyone is REAL happy with the car. None are saying that it only gets 55 miles on a charge. Heck, none are saying that it only get 100 miles on a charge.
And then you have the data from the car itself. Now, if that data is backed up by 1000's of users, I think that it is fair to say your intuition is probably similar to Custer deciding to take on the Indians or W's declaration of 'mission accomplished'.
And the volt is nothing more than a parallel plug-in hybrid. The reason is that they had to create and modify their transmission for this. Sad, really. It will mean that moving from a hybrid to an electric is a whole new car. Personally, I do not believe in hybrids for car, but if you are going to do these, do them in series, not parallel.
Few of those ppl screw over their partners. Had it been a different guy, then MS would be dead by now. The fact is, that in the early days, an unhappy partner will normally kill all of the contacts for you.
What is needed is for them to have one core company and then set up multiple subsidiaries that compete against each other. Interestingly, MS has moved to this model VERY QUIETLY. There are a number of small search engines that are owned by MS that compete against each other to try and beat Google. MS is waiting for a real competitor to emerge before folding back the ideas into MS proper.
Newt did not kill this. Clinton and dems did. Clinton did it because it was going to be about 40 billion to build, and CLinton wanted a balanced budget. Personally, I was fine with it being killed. Engineering reports SAID that it should not be located in Texas, but in Illnois. Bush, wright, etc pushed this through even though they KNEW that final costs for texas was around 40 billion. Had they done Fermi Labs, it really would have costs little AND have been done on schedule.
They chose Texas which has some of the HARDEST GROUND IN THE USA. Few build basements there. The reason is that it is just not worth the costs of doing this. Instead, SSC SHOULD have gone to Illinois, where they would have been done in less time than was devoted to Texas. The question is, why did Texas win? Well, for the same reason that Texas was given LOADS of money from the USA under both Bushes.
It will likely be a virus. We have really only scratch the surface on virus, literally. At this time, nearly all of the ones that we have found at those that were QUICKLY symptomatic. Those that are quietly transferring genes amongst all eukaryotes or all prokarotes, are not even being looked for.
First off, the solar array will OK for Earth to the moon and More than Ok for any missions from earth to Venus or Mercury. It will sux for earth outwards.
Second, think about nuke power plants. What is the BIGGEST THING THAT YOU SEE? Thermal cooling of the working fluid (which is mostly water). We dump the heat into the stream, the oceans, OR if the plant is small enough, we simply dump the heat off as steam into the air. To transfer heat requires MASS. Basically, you have to transfer heat to SOMETHING else. Well, here on earth we have water, earth, etc. Using avo's number, we have 6x10^23 atoms in a mol. And a mol of water is only 18 grams (pretty tiny amount of water); which is 18 ml. That is about 3 TEASPOONS OF WATER, to get 6x10^23 atoms. And in space, there is 1 ATOM per sq METER (larger than a sq yard). What that shows is that there is ZERO mass up there. Look on the ISS. Over on the russian side, you will see 2 LARGE BLACK PANELS. Those are used to dump waste heat from the ISS. They have to radiate it out. And that is just from the sun as well as the crew. Basically, radiation is the ONLY way to cool something. You will need a very long truss (read heavy) loaded with panels all around it to dump that heat.
The only system that is capable of running to mars at high speed is going to be a NERVA one, not a VASIMR.
Some time ago, it was suggested that we should be using smart phones for troop comm links. I could see Motorola doing the smart thing and creating a SECURED OS, a SECURED chip set, and perhaps making heavy use of android for app development. This would likely be produced in America, or possibly just the western nations. This would allow them to compete quicky against Apple who would have say that not only do they not have a secured OS, but all of their system is made by China. IOW, Apple will not have ANY ability to have a secured phone.
With this approach, Motorola can use this as an inroad to bringing back production to the west, rather than being at the mercy of a CHI-COM.
Yes, and yet, slim chance of that. The fact remains that you have to DUMP heat for that thermal cycle. Since you do not have a large heat sink, then you must radiate it. That adds weight. LOTS AND LOTS OF WEIGHT. Just the reactor ALONE weighs 1200 KG and will only deliver 100 KW of energy. You need 200 KW of energy to run ONE engine. One of the earlier articles said that they would need 6 engines of this side i.e. 1.2 MW. So, assume 200 kw for crew (which is still light) and you have 1.4 MW. Well using this approach, even if you ignore the radiators, will require 10,000 KG JUST FOR THE REACTOR. That is not the generators, the plumping, and esp not the radiator or the boom to push this away. Point is, that until get DIRECT ENERGY from nukes (i.e. beta particles or electrons), we will not see VASIMR being used to push humans. Instead, it will be NERVA to the rescue.
Seriously, this strikes me as an ideal app for a starter project. Build an app that is designed to record a pix, the time, and the location of pix and send it to a server. That server can then make decent approximations of what night lights are. THink in terms of wunderground and their personal weather stations.
The fact is, that while nuke itself is lightweight, the current means of generating high amounts of power/energy from it, is not. All of the large systems are thermal and require the ability to dump waste heat. In space, you have no easy way to dump, so it is radiated outwards. That requires a LONG HEAVY BOOM. With that weight, VASIMR is just not possible. Instead, it will be NERVA that will win the day. Interestingly, with a NERVA engine, you can still add a small generator to it and use that to power the ship.
However, if we can get a fusion engine going, then at some point, we will have a means of lightweight electricity generation via beta emissions (essentially an electron). We are a LONG ways away from that.
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When I read your posting, the only thought that comes to mind is 'To Serve Man'.
This could be used on a number of products. RVs, Boats, Home Generators, and of course, hybrids. One very smart move on this would be to create a semi-truck with several of these, along with a small number of batteries. Quite the fuel savings.
Personally, I wished that they had NOT announced this and continued work on it. Now China, and probably other nations, will simply grab the work regardless of IP. Hopefully, they will keep it in the states.
China and Russia are constantly attacking the west.
It is time for us to install this as well.
I agree esp. about ol/ul.
It is people like Branson, Elon Musk, and Paul Allen that are making REAL differences to the future.
Musk gets credit for starting up CHEAP solar installation, Cheap spaceX, and of course, getting the electric car industry going.
Allen gets the credit for getting cable industry into the net, and getting private space going by funding Scaled Composites X-Prize winner.
Allen contrasts against Gates in that Gates pushed Boeing/L-Mart into building EELVs in expensive fashion promising them that he was going to use them for his satellites. Well, we all know the status of that.
If you do not mind my asking, what nationality are you?
You OK with China's rulers controlling your nation? That is where you are headed. And keep in mind that they will make Europe's onetime rule of the world look positively decent.
Actually, Gates is re-thinking about the F-22. He is VERY likely to restart the F-22 line. In addition, I would not be surprised to see blackswift be restored.
Yes, instead you should want China to be the only nation on this planet with the ability to wipe out the west, and will have little issue with DOING so. Funny thing is, that right after WWI, we had so many pacifist that wanted the USA to stay out of wars by disarming. And we did.
Odd. I could have sworn that one vote/one issue of stock is the norm for an INC. which WOULD make it a democracy as well. And once an election occurs to vote in the board, then they run it, kind of like when a Union votes in their board.
Likewise, a monopolistic service company (say United Space Alliance) bids on their work every year or so. They always try to get as much money as possible to their employees and their managers, as well as many perks.
The union, which has a monopolistic service provider, bids on their work every year or so. They always try to get as much money as possible to their employees and their managers (the management within the union) as well as many perks.
Of course, Tesla now has 1000's of users with loads of data to back it up that the car never ran our of juice on only 55 miles. In fact, you can bet on it that the car does not run out of juice in less than 100 miles. If it did, then owners who can afford 100K+ cars, would also sue Tesla.
Let me see if I understand this correctly. The show gave a situation that did not just put the car in bad light, it absolutely had the car being about 1/4 of what is claimed. Since that time, you have 1000's of owners of this. Owners that can afford $100,000+ car. Owners that expect the car to be as good as promised. Owners that have ZERO ISSUE with suing if the car is not close to what Tesla says. And yet, not a ONE has sued. In fact, as I read reviews online, I read that nearly everyone is REAL happy with the car. None are saying that it only gets 55 miles on a charge. Heck, none are saying that it only get 100 miles on a charge.
And then you have the data from the car itself. Now, if that data is backed up by 1000's of users, I think that it is fair to say your intuition is probably similar to Custer deciding to take on the Indians or W's declaration of 'mission accomplished'.
And the volt is nothing more than a parallel plug-in hybrid. The reason is that they had to create and modify their transmission for this. Sad, really. It will mean that moving from a hybrid to an electric is a whole new car. Personally, I do not believe in hybrids for car, but if you are going to do these, do them in series, not parallel.
And of course, Xerox lifted the mouse from San Diego State.
Few of those ppl screw over their partners. Had it been a different guy, then MS would be dead by now. The fact is, that in the early days, an unhappy partner will normally kill all of the contacts for you.
What is needed is for them to have one core company and then set up multiple subsidiaries that compete against each other. Interestingly, MS has moved to this model VERY QUIETLY. There are a number of small search engines that are owned by MS that compete against each other to try and beat Google. MS is waiting for a real competitor to emerge before folding back the ideas into MS proper.
Newt did not kill this. Clinton and dems did. Clinton did it because it was going to be about 40 billion to build, and CLinton wanted a balanced budget. Personally, I was fine with it being killed. Engineering reports SAID that it should not be located in Texas, but in Illnois. Bush, wright, etc pushed this through even though they KNEW that final costs for texas was around 40 billion. Had they done Fermi Labs, it really would have costs little AND have been done on schedule.
They chose Texas which has some of the HARDEST GROUND IN THE USA. Few build basements there. The reason is that it is just not worth the costs of doing this. Instead, SSC SHOULD have gone to Illinois, where they would have been done in less time than was devoted to Texas. The question is, why did Texas win? Well, for the same reason that Texas was given LOADS of money from the USA under both Bushes.
It will likely be a virus. We have really only scratch the surface on virus, literally. At this time, nearly all of the ones that we have found at those that were QUICKLY symptomatic. Those that are quietly transferring genes amongst all eukaryotes or all prokarotes, are not even being looked for.
First off, the solar array will OK for Earth to the moon and More than Ok for any missions from earth to Venus or Mercury. It will sux for earth outwards.
Second, think about nuke power plants. What is the BIGGEST THING THAT YOU SEE? Thermal cooling of the working fluid (which is mostly water). We dump the heat into the stream, the oceans, OR if the plant is small enough, we simply dump the heat off as steam into the air. To transfer heat requires MASS. Basically, you have to transfer heat to SOMETHING else. Well, here on earth we have water, earth, etc. Using avo's number, we have 6x10^23 atoms in a mol. And a mol of water is only 18 grams (pretty tiny amount of water); which is 18 ml. That is about 3 TEASPOONS OF WATER, to get 6x10^23 atoms. And in space, there is 1 ATOM per sq METER (larger than a sq yard).
What that shows is that there is ZERO mass up there. Look on the ISS. Over on the russian side, you will see 2 LARGE BLACK PANELS. Those are used to dump waste heat from the ISS. They have to radiate it out. And that is just from the sun as well as the crew. Basically, radiation is the ONLY way to cool something. You will need a very long truss (read heavy) loaded with panels all around it to dump that heat.
The only system that is capable of running to mars at high speed is going to be a NERVA one, not a VASIMR.
Some time ago, it was suggested that we should be using smart phones for troop comm links. I could see Motorola doing the smart thing and creating a SECURED OS, a SECURED chip set, and perhaps making heavy use of android for app development. This would likely be produced in America, or possibly just the western nations. This would allow them to compete quicky against Apple who would have say that not only do they not have a secured OS, but all of their system is made by China. IOW, Apple will not have ANY ability to have a secured phone.
With this approach, Motorola can use this as an inroad to bringing back production to the west, rather than being at the mercy of a CHI-COM.
Yes, and yet, slim chance of that. The fact remains that you have to DUMP heat for that thermal cycle. Since you do not have a large heat sink, then you must radiate it. That adds weight. LOTS AND LOTS OF WEIGHT. Just the reactor ALONE weighs 1200 KG and will only deliver 100 KW of energy. You need 200 KW of energy to run ONE engine. One of the earlier articles said that they would need 6 engines of this side i.e. 1.2 MW. So, assume 200 kw for crew (which is still light) and you have 1.4 MW. Well using this approach, even if you ignore the radiators, will require 10,000 KG JUST FOR THE REACTOR. That is not the generators, the plumping, and esp not the radiator or the boom to push this away. Point is, that until get DIRECT ENERGY from nukes (i.e. beta particles or electrons), we will not see VASIMR being used to push humans. Instead, it will be NERVA to the rescue.
Seriously, this strikes me as an ideal app for a starter project. Build an app that is designed to record a pix, the time, and the location of pix and send it to a server. That server can then make decent approximations of what night lights are. THink in terms of wunderground and their personal weather stations.
The fact is, that while nuke itself is lightweight, the current means of generating high amounts of power/energy from it, is not. All of the large systems are thermal and require the ability to dump waste heat. In space, you have no easy way to dump, so it is radiated outwards. That requires a LONG HEAVY BOOM. With that weight, VASIMR is just not possible. Instead, it will be NERVA that will win the day. Interestingly, with a NERVA engine, you can still add a small generator to it and use that to power the ship.
However, if we can get a fusion engine going, then at some point, we will have a means of lightweight electricity generation via beta emissions (essentially an electron). We are a LONG ways away from that.