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The Navy does a lot of this. They funded a program to make biofuels from algae. But don't forget that the stated purpose of funded research is often a lie[0] and this is not necess…

Few though, and only the largest ones and they have incredibly complicated and long (and dangerous - imagine having to deal with refueling a cyrogenic liquid after every leg) fueli…

Its so bad that only the largest space rockets use liquid H2. All the others use kerosene or the like. Either way, the Soviets tried gaseous fuels in the 80s - See Tu-155. They ran…

The idea is that the sovereign can do nothing illegal because by definition it is the fount of legislation. Lawful, therefore, is whatever suits the sovereign. In the UK this is ne…

I'm not in this field (university friends are), but reactors require triple redundancy for their power supply, including the grid. A better question is, should we have nuclear powe…

"If he's doing grid protection he's probably in distribution engineering and they would be pretty involved with a black start drill from as in they or the line crews with their boo…

"In the event that there's a phase mismatch, I assume that gets physically transmitted back to the generating device?" In case of phase mismatch, you have a short circuit and the w…

"The user is probably a transmission level grid operator. " Close. My dad's a power engineer, specifically grid protection.

Lol. I'm a computational material scientist, so take everything w/ a grain of salt. My dad's a power (line protection) engineer, everything I know is from talking to him.

I don't understand why BsAs temperature would drop just because the e got knocked off, or why it ceases to be an analog function after the cut :S

It's winter in Argentina now, so they don't have AC loads. TVs are small by comparison (Although it's fascinating to see how load changes during large games: you can spot commercia…

It isn't really though. A cascading failure can knock out an entire grid. The Northeast blackout is an example. A line goes out. while (there some lines are still live): The curren…

Kinda of. The courts are generated, and therefore subject to, the executive. It's easy to see how an executive could stack a court (a la Roosevelt). Or simply denying the courts th…

Constitutionally, they aren't. But congress passed laws waiving S.I. in some cases. Of course, laws can be repealed.

If it's a state university then, yes, they could claim Sovereign immunity.

It's sovereign immunity. Any state agency can do whatever it wants and claim immunity unless the Feds get involved. The Feds can do whatever they want full stop. The only constrain…