You're looking at it the wrong way. Those who chose a medieval future chose it for themselves, not for everyone. What's more, they are volunteering their many future helpless spawn to be economic prisoners of the minority who chose a reality-based reality.
So ladies and gentlemen, stop trying to create useful technology. Write home-astrology software. Start an Ayn Rand website. Hell, start a religion.
The ignoramuses are going to pay for being willfully stupid, right? Why shouldn't they pay you? Have you ever stopped to consider that L. Ron might be a role model and not the enemy? The guy got people to pay to worship atomic bombs and something called Xenu. Not bad if you ask me.
The problem can be with the T. The hot compressed gas cools to ambient over time, dissipating energy (seen as a loss of pressure). I suppose, though, the energy is used before much heat has a chance to leak away. Barring that the limit on efficiency is the mechanical losses in the motor you drive with the gas.
You don't need particularly high pressures to make it theoretically efficient. You may be thinking of heat engines based on Otto (piston) or Brayton (turbine) cycles where efficiency is related to the pressure and temperatures at combustion, the higher the better.
The radius block repair involves (extrapolating from the article) 156 strips of aluminum about 1" wide, 10" long and mmm
The NASA fellow mentioned that the problem was fracture toughness, a property not usually checked in quality tests. You can have bad material with high tensile strength and low toughness.
Always enjoy your ideas circle.
The distinction I see is between free market capitalism and other kinds of capitalism. Obviously (I think?), business is not a natural proponent of competition, it is a natural proponent of profits. And, once established, the most direct way for a business to boost profit is to kill all forms of competition.
Giving business all the tools it needs to shut out competition has been the thrust of the American right since Regan. Deregulation and privileged access to power have given the advantage to the established players. If the right really was interested in the free market, they would be focused on things that can help new companies drive existing companies out of business, not preserve them.
Not to mention their obsession with essentially unproductive and socialist defense spending and strange cultural issues.
If the right really stood for what they say, they would be in favor of incorporation for almost everyone. Face it, most of us do our own retirement funds and insurance nowadays, we are all essentially working for ourselves. It should be official. Why exactly, can Joe Hustler write off his Beamer for driving to work while I can't write off my Toyota? I've never heard a convincing answer to that one.
for YouCut's critical assessment of people who get money and tax breaks to promote an invisible socialist voodoo king who lives in the sky with a plan to imprison billions of people in pits of fire for all of eternity because he loves them.
If your very survival depends on receiving a living wage from a corporation that can simply choose to go away if it is asked to pay for the infrastructure it also uses, then you are not living a "dream" generously provided by altruistic corporations, but in slavery to organizations who can let you starve if they wanted to.
For many years I have not worked directly for a large company, although my industry is dominated by them. I've been working either as a contractor or for small 3rd-tier companies for 15 years. This all started after my engineering R&D job was exported to Ireland in the '80s.
No hard feelings though, things have worked out. The other day I was talking to an old friend of mine who is a vp at mega-corp where I contract now and he good-naturedly called me a bandit. Zing good one, but from my pov I'm just being enterprising. In fact, why does mega-corp get special treatment from various levels of government while tiny outfits like me get treated like pirates (I think that was another word he used) and evil "foreign workers"?
Point is, more and more people are are taking more and more responsibility into their own hands, at what point do those people get credit for being enterprises in their own right, and get compensated for the risk they take on? After all, isn't that what free enterprise is all about? Or is that only for entities that take in more then 8 figures?
Real Programmers don't eat quiche. They eat Twinkies and Szechwan food.
