DaniFong

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by DaniFong 17y ago
To your first idea, people have thought of this but unfortunately using ordinary plasma potentials isn't effective enough to drive a current, we have no proven concepts allowing for inductive generation, extraction using photovoltaics is a
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by DaniFong 17y ago
It may be possible but it's very difficult: we can't afford to loose many of the neutrons or we won't be able to create enough tritium. Engineered geothermal is at an extremely early stage, so I wouldn't count it out based on a few early fa
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by DaniFong 17y ago
Nanoscale silicon dioxide (like sand) if inhaled can and does cause diseases such as silicosis and bronchitis. There's also an alleged cancer risk. Biomechanically it might be dangerous in the same way that asthbestos is.
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by DaniFong 17y ago
Controlled intervention over the long term, though?
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by DaniFong 17y ago
I had the experience of finding the right person and being able to make that judgment call in just a month. It just felt right. He was really exceptional. On the other hand, I guessed wrong twice. YMMV.
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by DaniFong 17y ago
Almost every interesting and serious study regarding lifestyles is ethically and practically unable to be instantiated as a controlled experiment over the long term. Like many things, from studies of the economy, to social structures, to th
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by DaniFong 17y ago
Hi Retric, I do agree that the problem of controlling Q > 1 plasma becomes easier as you increase the volume. However, I don't think that's the biggest problem. As you yourself point out, you're limited in how much heat the wall can tak
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by DaniFong 17y ago
I would like to argue that prototypes have been what's called for. We don't even have a clear idea of what a commercial fusion reactor would look like. The cooling and tritium production issues, the structural materials, and the lifetimes r
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by DaniFong 17y ago
You have achieve breakeven more broadly -- over the entire pulse, or over the electricity you pull from the grid, or perhaps most properly, including all of the material and labor costs as compared to just taking heat from the fusion reacto
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by DaniFong 17y ago
Fusion's been occurring in other reactor designs since the 50's -- just not specifically in this particular reactor. High School kids have achieved fusion in their basement with Farnsworth Fusor type designs. It's not especially hard. Break
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by DaniFong 17y ago
Impressive. It might be very interesting to chat. I'd appreciate if you dropped me an email to dfong <a.t> lightsailenergy.com :-)
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by DaniFong 17y ago
It seems to work for women, too, for what it's worth.
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by DaniFong 17y ago
That's hilarious! :-)
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by DaniFong 17y ago
If by must you mean often tend to, and by relationships you mean ratios, then I agree; it's a very useful model in the absence of other information. Wonderful, in fact. Still, sociologically, working scientists tend to believe in these mode
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by DaniFong 17y ago
Benford's law is not universal in the same sense that the Pareto and Gaussian distributions are not universal: blatantly, while at the same time people believe and treat them to be universal -- often several different universal distribution
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by DaniFong 17y ago
The full responsibility for the fate of your company, and all of the people depending on it, though it depends to a great extent on investors, partners, customers, the markets, technical and social and financial risks that you can only vagu
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by DaniFong 17y ago
In general, science hasn't been as reproducible as one would like it to be, there's so much tacit knowledge that's necessary for experiments, many unknown variables, so many demonstrations are so complicated that hardly anyone even goes thr
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by DaniFong 17y ago
Buses work admirably, even in the USA. They're more economical, faster to deploy, and actually have a smaller carbon footprint. But bus systems tend to be underfunded, and there's a stigma for those who ride them -- essentially, many believ
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by DaniFong 17y ago
TeXmacs keeps crashing for me! At least LaTeX and Word are stable.
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by DaniFong 17y ago
There is an enormous body of knowledge out there that I simply don't have time to spoon-feed to someone playing the ignorant student. Find someone else to stonewall.
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by DaniFong 17y ago
Actually, the notion of scientific consensus arose many times in physics: the Copernican world view versus the Ptolemaic, gravity, quantum jumps, the statistical interpretation of entropy, the existence of electromagnetic waves, the notion
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by DaniFong 17y ago
You know, the world runs on oil, reserves of which are estimated by various parties with wild inconsistencies. And yet, people publish oil reserve figures over and over again, all around the world, and policy makers base the plans of their
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by DaniFong 17y ago
Arctic ice seems to be trending downward, and fluctuation more rapidly. http://images.dailytech.com/nimage/9972_large_daily.gsia.jpg But that's rather immaterial since it's land based ice, as in greenland and antarctica, that will influen
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by DaniFong 17y ago
If I understood Lubos correctly, the observational data says that increased temperature is correlated with increased outgoing radiation. This is not at all inconsistent with the greenhouse effect: for example if you had an actual greenhouse
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by DaniFong 17y ago
I recognize this. There are different answers for different people, too. The people of the Maldives want the temperature rise regulated below 1.5 C. Certain environmentalists want atmospheric CO2 at pre-industrial levels. Perhaps Alaskans h
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by DaniFong 17y ago
> when realistically for 90% of the western population will likely not experience a drastic change to their environment for the next 100 years. Where are you getting this? Americans have already seen a massive change to their environmen
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by DaniFong 17y ago
Climate science has falsifiable experiments, predictions it's made and is checking. It also has a historical record. The trouble is that the truly alarming claims are equally disastrous to check. It's frankly astonishing that we, as a speci
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by DaniFong 17y ago
The idea of skepticism is all well and good, but think about this: which psychological force is more powerful, intellectual honesty or human laziness? How much work have you personally done to try to understand our climate? While you are be
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by DaniFong 17y ago
The survey in the O.P. seems to indicate that most of those surveyed where quite aware of the possibility that they were participating in a harmful and coercive relationship. They thought it was more likely than not. And yet any of them wil
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by DaniFong 17y ago
It is possibly less obvious to see how becoming a victim of prostitution at the age of 13 reduces one's skills and prospects at 20, but I assure you if you watch that documentary you'll have a better sense of it. Such girls are unlikely to

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