2 kW is less current then a standard single phase socket puts out. It is ably carried by 1mm or smaller conductors. There was a 3-phase power supply involved in this experiment, connected to something which is functionally a bar heater.

The values for total power out that they computer are only in the 2200 W range - still practically doable by our aformentioned single phase power socket.

So yes, tiny is the correct word.

So you know, maybe it was producing 20 kW of power, maybe it was somehow only radiating 200 W on a 2kW input. Who knows? 2 orders of magnitude, you do get that that's a range of 10 to 1000 right?

No but the inventor who supplied a "power box" which was sitting in front of the 3-phase power to the device, and was on site for the setup and allowed to tamper with the device at various times very well could have.

People who haven't dealt with complex (literally) power systems always chronically underestimate how many ways you can get power into a system which will not be obviously represented as volts and amps via measurement devices.

Then build a 10kW one. Plenty of generators on that scale which can be had for a reasonable amount of capital.

He's claimed to have built 1MW sized devices. Why hasn't he hooked them up to the grid? Where are they? What are they doing all this time?

1.5 MWh over what, 32 days? Which is 46.9 kWh per day. Which means a continuous power supply of ~1.95 kW. Which is less then a standard 220VAC socket in an ordinary household can deliver, and less then an electric bar heater.

Don't pass them out? Just keep building more for yourself, and once you're the owner of a sizeable, amazingly cheap power plant, then hire some lawyers if you're so concerned?

Steam engines needed infrastructure, but he also still actually sold them.

It's a device which compounds and bootstraps itself if it's so simple. Just sell the power - it's passive income, apparently, once you do, and keep building more. I mean, it does generate electricity right? Because grid feed in is pretty easy to get setup with, and small towns go into the power generation business all the time. So what's holding him up?

Someone becoming symptomatic with Ebola isn't going to be feeling physically well enough after 1 day to do anything.

They're not going to look well enough to get near anybody. This isn't a disease where you have a cough and runny nose for a long time. This is a disease where after a couple of hours you're bleeding internally and will barely be able to move. The time frame of the Texas patient was he went to the hospital, got sent home and then started vomiting blood before he got in the door.

Which is bad, but again: no one's going to touch it and it can all be removed by spraying everything with bleach.

Which aid workers? You mean all the nurses in Africa who don't even have basic medical supplies like latex gloves?

People aren't catching it in spite of precautions, they're catching it due to tragic but predictable mistakes which happen when working in close contact with a deadly disease. But they're not then going to go on and spread it to others from that contact.

Are you seriously suggesting that determining if someone may have had Ebola while on a plane is useless because it would be better to do it before they got on the plane? Seriously?

Bingo. Anti-AGW people go "ah hah! It's not warming see! Nothing to worry about!"

Which should actually be about as comforting as discovering that your septic tank has gone from full to empty without any actually needing to pump it out.

So what's the problem then?

To be fair Bitcoin people are there own special brand of crazy. There's a whole bunch of "bitcoin to kill X" schemes out there. One can only hope that law enforcement crushes them for conspiracy to murder (would be an interesting prosecution to say the least).

The silent majority can man up and do the development work. Or fork Gnome and maintain the changes. But that might involve learning to play nice with others to coordinate such an effort, rather then flaming one developer who by definition can't actually be responsible for distro-uptake of it.