The Judge did nothing of the sort, the chimps were the ones named in the case by the animal rights activists, the Judge had to direct any motion at the chimps for the owners of the chimps to respond - and thats what he did here. He asked the owners to respond, via the Habeus Corpus motion - he had no other recourse.

The activists are claiming something that didn't happen.

Yep. A physicist trying to explain a balanced line to other physicists, without knowing the word for it.

Haldane would be spinning in his grave.

If the end of the coil that is hanging is grounded (earthed), it becomes an autotransformer. As it's shown, it's a variable inductor and the disconnected end is irrelevant and has no meaningful physical effect at the frequency a spark transmitter could have reached.

This comment seems to get closer to what they actually mean in their scientific paper. But the article about it is garble and the paper might suffer from second-language issues, and a lack of familiarity with the terms used in RF engineering.

Sorry, I was being sarcastic. I happen have built more than one counterpoise.

The point they're missing is grounding of the "asymmetric" half of the antenna, and that's to keep a static charge from building in the antenna that'll zap through your electronics (or you) for safety reasons.

Sometimes. But you're missing what a Counterpoise does.

Oh they seem to be doing just to stick it to the US, that describes most political asylum anyways.

Charge inefficiencies, ac/dc, and dc/ac conversions.

EV batteries only make "sense" if it's a sunk cost since people already have them and can make some money in the exchange for the wear. I cant find numbers for Aquion's tech but your going to end up loosing energy in charging them, self discharge, going back to AC and probably doing DC/AC at/near the panels and back to DC to charge them. It's a few % here a few % there it quickly adds up. We have 253m cars and 318m people in the US your average ev has a 30kWh batter that's 30 hours powering my house. I'm also nearly doubling my household electricity use.

Adding a big storage battery to every solar install is a pretty big chunk of cash especially if you want several days of capacity at that point your pretty close to getting a bit more battery and go completely off grid.

Damn, I wish I would have patented that and all its quantum magic...

I noticed that my vertical transmitting antenna often works better if I connect a horizontal wire about the same length as the antenna to ground at its base! The wire isn't connected to the transmitting side of the circuit at all! And how well it works varies depending on the length! Obviously there is some deus ex machina at work here...

Clearly you missed the bit where they invoked quantum mechanics, surely that explains away all the inaccuracies, like the fact you can already buy chip scale dielectric antennas

The thing that I really hate about Innovation Stories is that the reporter invariably doesn't understand what's going on, and invariably is easily convinced that The Obviiously Very Technical People have some very valuable invention.

Marconi's connection to the center tap of a coil with one end not connected worked by broken symmetry? Really? It wasn't just a method of tuning a coil to the correct reactance for a particular frequency?

Its amusing how all four of the points you raise are false:

1. The initial prosecutor threw the case out, but a second senior prosecutor took up the case on request from the victims.

2. Assange was not told he was free to leave Sweden, infact his lawyer was specifically told they wanted to talk to him again and he should contact the police before leaving Sweden.

3. No Swedish or Interpol law was contravened by the issuance of Assanges warrant - infact, this is exactly the sort of use they are for.

4. All UK courts where this case has been argued has actually both affirmed the legality of the arrest warrant, and affirmed the right of the Swedish to issue it. No UK court has ruled it illegal, and most certainly no UK court has said what you claim they have said.

How about you get your facts in order before claiming bullshit, k?

He is, the "embassies are sovereign soil" thing is a myth, not fact. Add to that fact that the Ecuadorian Embassy is a rented flat in a shared building and I'm sure the owner will dispute the fact that its Ecuadorian soil...

You do realize that batteries whose sole use as a grid buffer is extremely inefficient. Using an EV battery something thats already smart and connected to the grid often could be a good fit.

There are a lot of issues, the NEC is pretty much killing the usefulness of solar in emergencies due to concerns of linemen and firemen primarily.

The tax incentives are just federal pork for "certified" solar installers (they paid a bribe to the manufacturer/importer).

The smartgrid is trending to be the NSA's dream, let's put a network that goes into everybodys home that they have no control over. Sure I want my hot water heater (if it was electric) to shift around it's consumption but I don't want a black box from the power company to do it. At this point it's looking at best like cablecard. We need to isure that open hardware and code can run this. We need an application specific gateway tier thats also open. We need protection from sin pricing, I should not pay a different rate for my hot tub or ac vs my refrigerator. We need protection of all this data being used against us, it's than just power consumption data. Today it's big draws were looking to make smarter once it's standardized it moves lower in the food chain. These devices have uuid's of some sort, maybe it's great that you can find out where a stolen tv gets plugged in but it's awful if your freespace wireless charging now reports everytime your cell phone is in range.

He is a political refugee, he has sought and been granted political asylum by Ecuador. So at least one sovereign nation has called BS on the political witch hunt.

Assange fled UK jurisdiction to avoid being legally extradited by a recognised court of the land - so yes, he is a fugitive. So your example is complete rubbish because its not equivalent to the Assange situation at all - if the chief justice of Scotland appeared in front of a court in Iran and the court ruled against him, and then he fled Iran, then yes he would be a fugitive.