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by baking 2y ago
Should have been called "pop-tarts."
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by baking 2y ago
Sorry, I was responding to the part about IR.
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by baking 2y ago
I think the issue is the low absorption rate. Eli Yablonovitch proposed a box of PV cells facing inward containing a heat source where the IR light would bounce around until converted to electricity or absorbed as heat. This could be used
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by baking 2y ago
The headline is confusing. General Motors is “indefinitely suspending” work on Origin, but will focus their efforts on the next generation of the battery-run Chevrolet Bolt. Operations have resumed in Houston and Phoenix, and started in D
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by baking 2y ago
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Massachvsetts_Instit...
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by baking 2y ago
1. A square 9 miles one a side is not 9 square miles, it is 81 square miles. 2. I was talking about land values in the Northeast US. Not many large ranches there.
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by baking 2y ago
Why make it complicated? One coin flip, X = Heads and Y = Tails. P(X = Y) = 0.
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by baking 2y ago
ST40 does not use HTS magnets. The magnets are made from copper and LN2 cooled. The company is demoing HTS magnets but has not used them in a working tokamak.
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by baking 2y ago
Wouldn't it be great if all you had to do to power your 1GW data center would be to build PV solar farms with 5GW peak capacity on the other side of the globe. BTW, the land for those solar farms would occupy a square 9 miles on a side
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by baking 2y ago
That's for their sodium test facility, which they have just started construction on. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40658852 They applied for their NRC permit on March 28, 2024. https://www.nrc.gov&#x2
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by baking 2y ago
"It is concluded that dedicated nuclear storage has a small but possibly useful role in providing intermediate and peak-load electric power." The increase in PV and wind power means storage plays a much larger role today than coul
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by baking 2y ago
Broke ground on the sodium test facility. Still waiting on the NRC permit to start construction of the reactor.
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by baking 2y ago
https://archive.ph/QQxPE
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by baking 2y ago
https://archive.ph/QQxPE
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by baking 2y ago
There is a stand-off between the end of the waveguide and the bottom of the hole which prevents damage to the waveguide. It also causes the beam to spread out so the hole is made wider than the waveguide.
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by baking 2y ago
The $20M is for the field test which starts in July in California. https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/21/special-mud-helps-xgs-ener...
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by baking 2y ago
There has been a lot of talk in the financial press in the last week about not hiring recent grads from schools that don't respond to anti-semitism. Since these are considered (without a whole lot of evidence) to be the same schools w
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by baking 2y ago
I was taught that he climbed inside a large brick oven, which is what he literally says. Alone with his thoughts inside a quiet oven. I mean, it is the middle of winter and if other soldiers also wanted to stay warm, don't you think
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by baking 2y ago
The thermodynamics of this seems backward. Traditional solar-thermal systems use a concentrator solar array to heat molten salt to high temperatures. This system has a self-contained container-size unit heated by lenses the size of the to
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by baking 2y ago
I thought the Angry Astronaut had a decent take on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0X3PkSBqei4
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by baking 2y ago
The only thing I can figure is that this beam-target fusion except that the proton beam is their primary thruster so that any protons that don't fuse are not wasted. Still not sure how they get a 50% increase from fusion with boron bu
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by baking 3y ago
Not if you don't tell anyone about it. I think the bigger worry would be if it was declared abandoned property due to inactivity, but if you are making occasional withdrawals that might be OK.
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by baking 3y ago
Graph goes from zero to 24 to 26. No thanks.
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by baking 3y ago
"I would heavily discourage any start-up that was thinking about starting as a non-profit and adding a for-profit arm later. I would discourage them from doing that. I don't think we'll set a precedent here." https:&#
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by baking 3y ago
This brings back some memories, but my eyesight is worse than it was 50 years ago, so no.
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by baking 3y ago
How did that work out for them?
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by baking 3y ago
Having employees leave for Microsoft is the least of the board's worries.
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by baking 3y ago
It is hard to think of a case of a public charity that owns a controlling interest in a for-profit subsidiary and that is all they do. The Morman church owns a lot of businesses, but it is still the Morman Church. Note that in the US, priv
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by baking 3y ago
During a quench, almost all of the current is carried by the copper cap. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10316632
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by baking 3y ago
There is a layer of steel on the bottom that provides the structure for the tape and a layer of silver on top of the REBCO ceramic layer for electrical connection, but the whole tape is coated in copper which is the secondary conductor. Wh

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