+5 interesting? The man displays an interesting lack of knowledge but that's about it....
The reason that power companies use wires rather than transmitting the power through the air is efficiency. God knows how much power you'd need to pump out of your transmitter before you could power your laptop off a dinky antenna but it'd be a shitload.
A PhD indicates that you are a competant researcher in your chosen field. By falsifying data he demonstrates that he doesn't follow the scientific method. Hence he no longer deserves his PhD and the university was right to remove it.
Even if they were 100% efficient they'd still not be good enough to supply all of our energy needs without covering huge areas of the planet in solar panels. Plus you need to run them for ~15 years before you get the energy back needed to make them.
By the way, a couple of my old materials lecturers would be pretty surprised to hear that there's no research into solar energy seeing as that's pretty much all they do. Get a clue before posting next time!
It's fuelled on deuterium-tritium mix. You get the tritium cost free as a byproduct of extracting the energy from reaction neutrons (uses a lithium blanket). Deuteriums nice and easy to extract (deutrium oxides "heavy water" which you get left from a bunch of industrial processes). Controlling them's no big deal- same as handling hydrogen gas. Tritiums a beta emitter so you have to be a little bit careful but still nothing tricky. There are various other proposed fuels He3 and stuff- don't really know alot about those.
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Where did you see this photo? I'm sick of "cell phones fry your brain" scare stories when there's no damn evidence.
So now the audio player I can't afford seamlessly integrates with the car I can't afford? No news here, move along
+5 interesting? The man displays an interesting lack of knowledge but that's about it.... The reason that power companies use wires rather than transmitting the power through the air is efficiency. God knows how much power you'd need to pump out of your transmitter before you could power your laptop off a dinky antenna but it'd be a shitload.
A PhD indicates that you are a competant researcher in your chosen field. By falsifying data he demonstrates that he doesn't follow the scientific method. Hence he no longer deserves his PhD and the university was right to remove it.
Dude, you'd be better off on erowid as opposed to posting this in the middle of a discussion about a bluetooth hijacking mobile virus.
You got my vote. Put me down for one of those fusion power hummers too
I swear they're stealing ideas from their college electronics lab notes- what's nex? Phone mounted potato clock all the way
I'm actually serious- as easy as BASIC to learn and you can actually do powerful stuff once you know your way around.
He got off light if the story from earlier is anything to go by!
Even if they were 100% efficient they'd still not be good enough to supply all of our energy needs without covering huge areas of the planet in solar panels. Plus you need to run them for ~15 years before you get the energy back needed to make them. By the way, a couple of my old materials lecturers would be pretty surprised to hear that there's no research into solar energy seeing as that's pretty much all they do. Get a clue before posting next time!
In a word- no. Jesus people do some reading before starting the scaremongering.
Er, this IS a tokamak.
It's fuelled on deuterium-tritium mix. You get the tritium cost free as a byproduct of extracting the energy from reaction neutrons (uses a lithium blanket). Deuteriums nice and easy to extract (deutrium oxides "heavy water" which you get left from a bunch of industrial processes). Controlling them's no big deal- same as handling hydrogen gas. Tritiums a beta emitter so you have to be a little bit careful but still nothing tricky. There are various other proposed fuels He3 and stuff- don't really know alot about those.
Kind of anyway...
Soon it's going to be a choice between nuclear and sitting in the dark.