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Plus I think the keyboard (a yamaha psr E403 I think) featured in the pictures is not usb powered.
Other than that I'm impressed by the 8 charges you can make with the dewalt drill. Great to build something far from power outlets.
How are you the first "USB Power Delivery battery"? What's a Mophie?
I wonder if this will sprout a power supply accessory, i.e. a device that speaks to a USB PD source and lets you locally set the output voltage to whatever you need. That way you could use the PD source to charge "legacy" products that don't support PD.
The should include a camera in the device as well - just to record reactions when people take it out of their bag at airport security checks. The only way I can see they could have made it look more threatening would be to write "Atomic Bomb" in large letters down the side and have a large LED display counting down to zero in 15 seconds or so. Edit: The perfect add-on for your reactor: http://www.instructables.com/id…
Wow. This seems like a direct competitor of Gbatteries (YC W14). Link to discussion on Gbatteries: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7459435
Except this team does not seem have problems with math 101. It's 'just' promises a well-designed, cleverly thought out product. I like it, to be honest.
Mind clarifying?
From FAQ: >> Can I bring a Reactor on a plane? > Yes. Per FAA rules every traveler can carry-on up to two Reactor sized batteries. Well, if supposedly[0] a charged laptop battery can be shorted to unleash energy equivalent of a small hand grenade, how strong a bomb made of two Reactors would be?... [0] - so I read at random places in the Internet.
Who wants to walk around with a radioactive material in your pocket, irradiating your genitals?
Scary idea.
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thats probably intended. A mash of thorium and strontium maybe.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium-based_nuclear_power
I don't get the fanciness. Thorium reactors are a dead-end, as European research found out. They had stopped all work years ago. There were major accidents with this type of reactors and one even happened at the same time as the Chernobyl disaster: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernkraftwerk_THTR-300#St.C3.B6... For some reasons some countries don't want to learn from history. Edit: English language links: http://en.w…
"Despite its designation as a thorium reactor , it was essentially a normal on uranium fission ( 235 U) based reactor"
Additionally, a lot of the recent hype on thorium reactors is that they are actually molten salt reactors (see the oak ridge national lab experiments - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten-Salt_Reactor_Experiment). By using a liquid fluoride salt, you can run a thorium reactor at ambient pressure and high temperatures, leading to safer operation and better utilization of thorium in feed stock. I think one of the main concerns for this implementation is material durability and corrosion resistance. If we can figure this stuff out, this reactor model looks promising. See Kirk Sorensen's company Flibe energy and the wiki for the LFTR - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LFTR.
How is this even legal, if it contains actual trontium? Who wants to walk around with a radioactive material in your pocket, irradiating your genitals? Scary idea.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't get the fanciness. Thorium reactors are a dead-end, as European research found out. They had stopped all work years ago. There were major accidents with this type of reactors and one even happened at the same time as the Chernobyl disaster: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernkraftwerk_THTR-300#St.C3.B6... For some reasons some countries don't want to learn from history. Edit: English language links: http://en.w…
I always find it amusing when links provided by "nay sayers" present contrary evidence or no evidence at all. From the link: The nuclear power plant THTR-300 ( thorium high-temperature reactor) was a helium-cooled high-temperature reactor of the type pebble bed reactor in North Rhine-Westphalia Hamm with an electrical output of 300 megawatts . Despite its designation as a thorium reactor , it was essentially a normal…
On topic: It didn't look impressive. :)