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By RIP, I really just mean that until recently I was certain that at some point everyone would wake up and we would throw the kitchen sink at anything that could get us away from fossil fuels, includi ...

Is misanthropic doomerism necissary in every thread? This has nothing to do with the LHC and physics.

The Big Bang Theory

Best Case: The Large Hadron Colliders' ALICE experiment successfully creates quark-gluon plasma, a substance theorized to have existed just milliseconds after the Big Bang. By g ...

I think relying on an array of orbiting solar panels for a large percentage of energy use is much worse than relying on oil. At least with oil there are many sources over the world and any temporarily ...

Fusion gives you plenty of neutrons for plutonium production.

Only if you use fuels that produce neutrons. Aneutronic fusion reactions such as the PB-11 dont. DD & DT do.
And any fusion reac ...

Its not just losses to the grid, its bremsstrahlung losses.

2 things:

1) The Polywell design has no grids. OK ?
Grids are found in IEC devices not Polywells. At least criticize the right de ...

*digging up an old thread*

Do you know how many windmills we'd need to supply 20% of our electricity production?
USA total: 4.062 trillion kWh (2005)
5M windmill produces 17 GWh/yr
4,062,000 GWh ...

JustaGirl,

Given the huge potential I suspect someone will be working on the problem indefinately. But it's a big problem compared to other resource plays. You may already know it but there's actua ...

From what I understand, turbocompounding only increases power and fuel effeciency by 5%. i don't claim to be an expert on automotive technology but that is what i'm told. Turbocompounding in used in s ...

It does, but thats not the point of this engine. The point of this is to increase the temperature differential to get better carnot efficiency... I dont think the gains will be all that high however, ...

I don't know how many times I have drugged out this little gem. It was true 50 years ago and it is just as real today.

When oil was $3 per barrel, many people said that if oil ever reached $8 per ...

You might as well suggest that Alaska is being sucked dry by New York.

Thats not how NAFTA works. NAFTA requries that there aren't import/export quotas that create artificial surplus within Canada.

This doesn't make geopolitical sense. The old Soviet Union would never evacuate a city of 50,000 people for a mere 5,000 deaths. That's not the way the regime operated. CBS News recently reported on a ...

Wow, the battle of anecdotes. I'm sure one of them will be conclusive.

Wake me up when we've had a five year trend of global population stagnation or decline.

I imagine that will be difficult ho ...