I bought a 16gb Ipod touch for AUS$550 before Christmas, because my old Ipod got wet and i heard it had a web browser that could read pdf. I have alot of scientific Pdfs i wish i could read and on the go and in bed. Rather quickly i learned that it was an excellent PDF reader. Shear magic, flickable and zoomable with the fingers, provided that you were near Wifi. It had an annoying habbit of not storing PDF for very long when you were offline. The only hope was to host all my pdfs on a server, but then again i would need wifi to access anything.
This always bugged me as such as i knew how much potential apple annoyingly locked away in this little gizmo.
I am no longer vexed. Thanks to the hard work of all those i phone hackers out there, i can now do everything i wanted and more.
It now only takes a few minutes and a few clicks to unlock an ipod touch or i phone with ZIPHONE
Once your ipod touch is hacked just install one small application called "bright eyes"
I can be surfing the net on my desk top and download a pdf. Then, simply using WinSCP i can wirelessly SSH the file to ipod (wow it is fast)
Bright eyes is a simple file browser for the ipod touch. simply go to the folder you SSHed to. Double tap on a pdf/doc/img (whatever safari supports) and it will open it in the safari browser.
Its everything i ever wanted. Perfectly readable, doesn't get fatiguing to read as it is so light and i can hold it up while lying down in bed. Battery last all day, easily handles large graphical PDF and no DRM ! and by double clicking on the home button, It brings up a mini music player so i can switch tracks on the fly without interrupting reading. Headphones ? No thanks i like my mini FM transmitter clipped on the bottom streaming music to my clock radio.
Thanks apple for such a perfect piece of hardware, and thank you hackers for unlocking its full potential.
"First of all, the B11 + p reaction is no more free of nuclear waste than a D+T reaction (Deuterium+Tritium conventional fusion)."
How is 3 positively charged alpha particles considered nuclear waste ? They have charge unlike neutrons, so you can deaccelerate them with a positive electric field and generate direct power and no nasties
"Anyone who has taken an introductory Nuclear Physics course should be able to explain why B11 + p -> 3H4 is probably not a fusion reaction that is viable for energy production."
if you look at its fusion cross section p+B11 has a peak @ around 125kev. This is what the polywell is aiming for. Yes the gain is not as much as say D-T but thats a price im willing to pay for no neutrons. When it comes to a reactor design utility companies would consider viable in $ per kw you dont want neutrons. How is a reactor going to be economically viable if you have to replace the core every couple of months ?
"His lack of a PhD certainly does not mean he's stupid or untrustworthy, but I still can't take his research seriously. The best way to obtain research funding is by participating in a PhD program and then picking up a research position at any university. Everyone knows that, so why doesn't he?"
I don't have a PhD. I wish i could find a university in this hemisphere that is interested in aneutronic non maxwellian inertial electrostatic confinement with virtual cathodes but im afraid it does'nt exist.
Big science and academia have let us all down in this field over the past ten years. So much so with the narrowmindedness of ITER i would even postulate a conspiracy of some sort. Brave individuals at companies like focus fusion, tri alpha inc and EMC2 are going to start a revolution. With a Phd or not.
Ever since i saw the polywell http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polywell/ 6 months ago, i have spent every waking moment researching these new approaches to fusion.
Plasmas found in fusion typically display a maxwellian particle distribution. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell-Boltzmann_distribution/ This basically states that there are different numbers of particles containing a different amount of energy.
The fact there are so many particles moving at different energies gives rise to a phenomena called Bremstrahlung radiation (german for braking)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremsstrahlung_radiation/ this is when particles collide with electrons giving up energy. Bremstrahlung and synchrotron radiation are two main energy loss mechanisms in fusion power schemes. Focus fusion is maxwellian and suffers from the above.
Sadly the inventor of the polywell Dr. Robert W Bussard passed away on the 06/10/07. He was dearly mourned by the fusion community. In many of his papers and in his final interview http://www.americanantigravity.com/graphics/interviews/Robert-Bussard-Interview.wma/ he stated that only non maxwellian fusion regimes can hope to achieve above break even power.
Tri alpha energy recieved 40million in venture capitol for its idea. Focus fusion are rallying for support, and the polywell has finally recieved some limited investment from the navy to repeat WB 6's results of 10^9 neutrons per second. The polywell is non maxwellian fusion regime that is basically a 150kev particle accelerator utilizing a virtual cathode. It is in my opinion the only machine that will achieve beyond break even power, yet despite this it has suffered from an crippling lack of investment and interest. As we speak now WB 7 is being constucted and should have results by May next year. If all goes well in the next few months expect big things.
We are about to witness another Manhattan Project !
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I bought a 16gb Ipod touch for AUS$550 before Christmas, because my old Ipod got wet and i heard it had a web browser that could read pdf. I have alot of scientific Pdfs i wish i could read and on the go and in bed. Rather quickly i learned that it was an excellent PDF reader. Shear magic, flickable and zoomable with the fingers, provided that you were near Wifi. It had an annoying habbit of not storing PDF for very long when you were offline. The only hope was to host all my pdfs on a server, but then again i would need wifi to access anything. This always bugged me as such as i knew how much potential apple annoyingly locked away in this little gizmo. I am no longer vexed. Thanks to the hard work of all those i phone hackers out there, i can now do everything i wanted and more. It now only takes a few minutes and a few clicks to unlock an ipod touch or i phone with ZIPHONE Once your ipod touch is hacked just install one small application called "bright eyes" I can be surfing the net on my desk top and download a pdf. Then, simply using WinSCP i can wirelessly SSH the file to ipod (wow it is fast) Bright eyes is a simple file browser for the ipod touch. simply go to the folder you SSHed to. Double tap on a pdf/doc/img (whatever safari supports) and it will open it in the safari browser. Its everything i ever wanted. Perfectly readable, doesn't get fatiguing to read as it is so light and i can hold it up while lying down in bed. Battery last all day, easily handles large graphical PDF and no DRM ! and by double clicking on the home button, It brings up a mini music player so i can switch tracks on the fly without interrupting reading. Headphones ? No thanks i like my mini FM transmitter clipped on the bottom streaming music to my clock radio. Thanks apple for such a perfect piece of hardware, and thank you hackers for unlocking its full potential.
Wikipedia is a beautiful thing. I feel like it is being raped. With ad based for profit corporate charm
"First of all, the B11 + p reaction is no more free of nuclear waste than a D+T reaction (Deuterium+Tritium conventional fusion)." How is 3 positively charged alpha particles considered nuclear waste ? They have charge unlike neutrons, so you can deaccelerate them with a positive electric field and generate direct power and no nasties "Anyone who has taken an introductory Nuclear Physics course should be able to explain why B11 + p -> 3H4 is probably not a fusion reaction that is viable for energy production." if you look at its fusion cross section p+B11 has a peak @ around 125kev. This is what the polywell is aiming for. Yes the gain is not as much as say D-T but thats a price im willing to pay for no neutrons. When it comes to a reactor design utility companies would consider viable in $ per kw you dont want neutrons. How is a reactor going to be economically viable if you have to replace the core every couple of months ? "His lack of a PhD certainly does not mean he's stupid or untrustworthy, but I still can't take his research seriously. The best way to obtain research funding is by participating in a PhD program and then picking up a research position at any university. Everyone knows that, so why doesn't he?" I don't have a PhD. I wish i could find a university in this hemisphere that is interested in aneutronic non maxwellian inertial electrostatic confinement with virtual cathodes but im afraid it does'nt exist. Big science and academia have let us all down in this field over the past ten years. So much so with the narrowmindedness of ITER i would even postulate a conspiracy of some sort. Brave individuals at companies like focus fusion, tri alpha inc and EMC2 are going to start a revolution. With a Phd or not.
all my links have (foolishly) / at the end. Please remove them so they can be viewed. thanks.
Ever since i saw the polywell http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polywell/ 6 months ago, i have spent every waking moment researching these new approaches to fusion. Plasmas found in fusion typically display a maxwellian particle distribution. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell-Boltzmann_distribution/ This basically states that there are different numbers of particles containing a different amount of energy. The fact there are so many particles moving at different energies gives rise to a phenomena called Bremstrahlung radiation (german for braking)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremsstrahlung_radiation/ this is when particles collide with electrons giving up energy. Bremstrahlung and synchrotron radiation are two main energy loss mechanisms in fusion power schemes. Focus fusion is maxwellian and suffers from the above. Sadly the inventor of the polywell Dr. Robert W Bussard passed away on the 06/10/07. He was dearly mourned by the fusion community. In many of his papers and in his final interview http://www.americanantigravity.com/graphics/interviews/Robert-Bussard-Interview.wma/ he stated that only non maxwellian fusion regimes can hope to achieve above break even power. Tri alpha energy recieved 40million in venture capitol for its idea. Focus fusion are rallying for support, and the polywell has finally recieved some limited investment from the navy to repeat WB 6's results of 10^9 neutrons per second. The polywell is non maxwellian fusion regime that is basically a 150kev particle accelerator utilizing a virtual cathode. It is in my opinion the only machine that will achieve beyond break even power, yet despite this it has suffered from an crippling lack of investment and interest. As we speak now WB 7 is being constucted and should have results by May next year. If all goes well in the next few months expect big things. We are about to witness another Manhattan Project !