FiatLuxDave

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by FiatLuxDave 3y ago
No, not at all. It's more like a wind turbine that runs in a constant wind generated by the evaporation/recondensation process. More water is evaporated than condensed so that the entropy balance is always positive. It sucks in
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by FiatLuxDave 3y ago
Thanks! Sorry, I don't know of any good hurricane visualizations, but I'm sure there must be some online. The air in the eye is sinking colder air, which is clear because sinking colder air does not create any clouds or precipita
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by FiatLuxDave 3y ago
I'm still working on the latest prototype for my hurricane engine. I finally made the fixture to hold the compressor, ducting, and turbine together. It's kind of a kludge but I ran the compressor up to full power and nothing blew
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by FiatLuxDave 3y ago
For those who keep asking, "why Florida", it is because of the armadillos. I will note that the one case in the article without classic risk factors "works in landscaping, and spends long periods of time outdoors". Arm
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by FiatLuxDave 3y ago
I'm taking a year to build an engine that runs on the same process that powers hurricanes. Hurricanes are a heat engine that runs between the heat of the earth's surface and the cold of outer space, using water phase changes to dr
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by FiatLuxDave 3y ago
Historically this caused a lot of confusion, so you aren't the only one. You may find E. Jaynes' classic paper on the Gibbs mixing paradox helpful, especially from page 7 onwards: https://www.mdpi.org/lin/ent
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by FiatLuxDave 3y ago
Were you around in 1994? I was amazed that Shoemaker-Levy 9 happened in my lifetime. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Shoemaker%E2%80%93Levy_9
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by FiatLuxDave 3y ago
Todd Rundgren feels left out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia_(band)
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by FiatLuxDave 3y ago
If you like Satch and Vai, you might want to check out Angel Vivaldi if you haven't already.
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by FiatLuxDave 4y ago
An interesting application of perturbation theory which I used to work with was a software application called 3DVH, which was used in radiation treatments (for cancer for example). Its inputs were the planned geometrical distribution of th
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by FiatLuxDave 4y ago
There is actually a wikipedia article about the technique in the article, which mentions the locations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_revetment Note that all the projects mentioned are along the US Pacific coas
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by FiatLuxDave 4y ago
The atmosphere is 5 times heavier than all water combined Not sure where you got that. As far as I can see from most online sources, the Earth's atmosphere weighs about 5 x 10^18 kg, but the oceans weigh about 1.3 x 10^21 kg. It ma
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by FiatLuxDave 4y ago
Spent almost a decade working on fusion. While I think that fusion has great long-term potential, I don't currently see any quick wins that I personally can contribute towards. But I do believe that energy issues are among the most i
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by FiatLuxDave 4y ago
That is true, but it is not the problem. Waste heat hasn't kept coal from being economically competitive. Things like specific power density and simplicity are much more important factors in the cost of most power generation methods.
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by FiatLuxDave 4y ago
Never is a very long time. And the big thing I don't see this article discuss is how cost curves change over time. I remember reading articles in the 1990s using the same logic to say how electric cars were never going to happen beca
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by FiatLuxDave 4y ago
One thing I see far too rarely in choosing metrics is ensuring that every metric has one or more countervailing metrics to balance the choices made. In other words, if you are optimizing for a metric, you also need to measure what is being
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by FiatLuxDave 4y ago
Hi Brittany, You probably aren't getting any orders because your payment process won't complete. I tried it with the choker. I was hoping to give you your first order to prime your sales pump :) It is also not apparent whether
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by FiatLuxDave 4y ago
Surely you mean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Electric_Company
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by FiatLuxDave 4y ago
Everyone learns differently, so you are going to get a lot of different types of suggestions. I learned physics through a mix of the standard academic route and some autodidactic explorations, so I'm not particularly married to the id
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by FiatLuxDave 4y ago
Sure. The earth is spinning faster than the the moon is going around the earth (earth rotates in one day, the moon goes around in about a month). When the tides transfer energy and momentum to the moon from the earth's spin, it slows
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by FiatLuxDave 4y ago
I used to work extensively with the NIST radioisotope SRMs. I particularly remember working with SRM 4965a ( https://shop.nist.gov/ccrz__ProductDetails?sku=4965a&cclcl=e... ). My wife was very worried when I told her tha
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by FiatLuxDave 4y ago
It's not about memorizing the periodic table, it is memorizing the mapping from names to structures. So, for example, the name of a compound might be 2,3-Diphenylbenzoyl 2,4,6-trimethylbenzoate. Here is what the compound's struc
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by FiatLuxDave 4y ago
Match is known for buying out their competition. So does anyone know if there is a startup accelerator specializing in making dating apps for selling to Match? Something like: "Here's a list of features that users love, and here&
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by FiatLuxDave 4y ago
Here's a plan: Tax it. Tax the everliving hell out of it. The problem isn't the existence of advertising, it is that there is so much of the crap advertising. Taxing ads would raise the price of advertising, which would lower t
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by FiatLuxDave 4y ago
Obligatory link: https://nickbostrom.com/fable/dragon
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by FiatLuxDave 4y ago
One of the reasons you may be having a problem with radon sensors is that most radon sensors will report results with a resolution in tenths of pCi/L (in the US) while the statistical variance in the range below 4.0 pCi/L (where m
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by FiatLuxDave 4y ago
Trains are always good for comedy relief, or so I learned from Silver Streak. The problem with plasma containment is generally not holding pressure. The real problem is that plasmas which are hot enough to fuse have a really, really high t
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by FiatLuxDave 4y ago
I've heard this for years. Does anyone have any actual goddamn statistics of how many people die in the shower from lightning every year? So, if around 18 people per year die from lightning in the US every year, and most of those peop
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by FiatLuxDave 4y ago
Sure, hit me
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by FiatLuxDave 4y ago
You don't need a wakefield accelerator to get protons up to the energy needed for p-B11 reactions, since the peak reaction cross section is only around 600,000 eV (as opposed to the 5,000,000,000 eV in the article). You can already do

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