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Comment This would look really cool (Score 4, Interesting) 118

If you've ever played with a normal monochrome laser in a dark room, you'll have seen how laser illumination makes things look speckly. Illuminating with this "white" laser will make superimposed speckly in three colours, with the locations of the speckles not coinciding, so it would be iridescent speckly.

Comment Re:Resistance to Power (Score 1) 90

Ohm's law: V=IR => I = V/R
Power dissipated in a resister: P=VI
Substituting for I from Ohm's law: P=V^2/R
So for a fixed voltage, you dissipate more energy with a low resistance. This would be what you're remembering from electronics. For example if you attempt to short high tension power lines with a dry kite string, the effect will be unimpressive. On the other hand if you short them with a solid copper bar, expect to be rained with molten copper.

However it is not the case that you're going to take a circuit and replace a Si device with a GaN device and leave everything else (including the voltage) unchanged. You design your circuit to provide voltages appropriate to the components it contains. If you need a certain current to make a device work, and can adjust the voltage to provide that current, then instead you get P=I^2R, and lowering R lowers the power dissipation.

Comment Re:Well, let's see. . . (Score 1) 5

Isn't that the point? After decades of listening to fools, Americans are (in aggregate) dumber than ever, despite spending more (per person) on education than pretty much everyone. Frivolity, hedonism, and permanent childhood are the new wisdom, morality, and maturity. Go, us!

Comment Re:Well if... (Score 1) 8

I'm suggesting the GOP elite, indeed, is pretty much the caricature painted by the Left.

This country needs a Conservative party, as a kind of hospice, where that philosophy can go while it lives out its dying days here.

Well, that's kind of morose.

Comment Well, let's see. . . (Score 1) 5

Being a decent parent,
Serving in the military and making the ultimate sacrifice,
Forgiving other people when they are having a day,
. . .we've just got to pry your eyes and get you past the hero worship, is all.

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