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Here's one such promising project: https://lppfusion.com/technology/fusion-energy-generator/ "Dense Plasma Focus device with aneutronic hydrogen-boron (pB11) fuel"

Unfortunately, we live in a world where public opinion (skewed by fossil fuel companies or otherwise) is a huge driving force. We can lament what the world would be like if only pe…

I don't work as a physicist (but I got my degree in Engineering Physics @ CU-Boulder, 2009) and I went to see Interstellar in IMAX on opening night. I really enjoyed it overall, an…

Looking at the provided fusion flowchart: https://www1.grc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/Steinetz-Fusion... It appears to be the same mechanism as neutronic high-energy fusion. An en…

Napkin math on power density and compactness: Theoretical LENR device would be comparable to an RTG [1] because at high heat the device would melt itself. It's more about a trickle…

I got my undergrad in Engineering Physics from CU-Boulder and talked with many professors about fusion research (plus keeping up with developments since then). Putting aside all th…

“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.” - Hitchens's razor . The burden of proof is always on the person making an assertion or propositio…

My family visited here in 1998/99 when my dad (USA Air Force) was stationed at "Peace Vector 3" in Ismailia, Egypt. The Siwa Oasis was a fascinating place - people still lived in t…

The Big Bounce! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bounce To me it's more satisfying than the idea of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_death_of_the_universe

From the comments: > ITER was designed before the newest generations of superconductors were available. ITER is now succumbing to the escalation of commitment that sunk-costs engen…

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Lightning Strike Energy == 1,000,000,000 Joules 1 Joule heats 1g water 0.24 C 1 L water == 100g 1 cu.meter water = 1000L Room Temp == 23 C Thus: (77/0.24) = 320.8 Joules raises 1g …

> In the game, players were fashioned as “planeswalkers,” who cast spells and travel between planes of existence. The spells themselves were the cards, ... I played 1999-2004 and n…

25 years later and I can still hear the theme music in my mind whenever it comes up in conversation. As a kid, the intro just got you so pumped up.

I graduated from CU-Boulder in 2009 and have lived in the Denver-metro area ever since. I could very easily see Amazon drawn to the Boulder-Longmont-Lafayette triangle if not in De…

> these systems were held back by a limitation that was considered to be fundamental This is the key distinction: -proven- fundamental is very different from -considered- fundament…

I probably should have clarified that my analogy was coming from a perspective of super-deterministic[1] compatibilism[2]. In the absence of knowing the truth, I feel that solution…

Caveat: I only have a B.Science degree in Engineering Physics (Colorado, USA) and hobbyist-type research in PhD-level physics. I've always found it easier to explain quantum entang…

It has that fun Hackathon / side-project feel, that someone probably noticed and said "Hey, if you polish it up, we can host it for public use, because why not?".

The spleen was the one working overtime, since it would normally be filtering a fraction of his blood that was problematic, but instead 100% of his blood 'needed' to be filtered.