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    Comment #48318679

    The estimate is roughly E = rho*R^5/t^2 with rho the density of air: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor%E2%80%93von_Neumann%E2%...

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    Comment #48318546

    Counting frames on YouTube, I get about 0.3s for the blast front to reach the top of the 600ft towers. That gives an estimate of around 600 tons TNT so definitely nowhere near all …

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    Comment #46213374

    I also don't think it's necessarily true? A jet engine (which many many power turbines can run off of) can obviously run without cooling water on a hot day just fine.

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    Oh come on, what is this crap? Absolutely no thermal efficiency numbers or anything else you could use to validate any claims. Especially if you are claiming that an aero-derived t…

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    Comment #45085615

    Latest numbers are about 1e6 qubits with 1e-4 error rate: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.15917 . Gates (in the sense the OP means) is harder to quantify in the error corrected context …

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    Best one I know of as a direct replacement is AWS PALACE: https://awslabs.github.io/palace/stable/ Of course, you have to interact with the solver through JSON files and provide yo…