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Comment: Re:Beat Graphene to Market? (Score 1) 67

Maybe, maybe not. Tech exists for photolith, doping and etching and growing oxide, and generally doing you-name-it to silicon that has no counterpart for graphene whatever. It's a pretty big deal, actually. No one's made a graphene integrated circuit AT ALL. Silicon, on the other hand...

Comment: two words - rack slides (Score 1) 402

by DCFusor (#39852775) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Building A Server Rack Into a New Home?
Commonly used for decades, you get some quality rack slides that let you pull things out far enough to get to the back sides of them. Remember, the standard 19" rack has been around a long time, and this situation also - consider a Navy boat or an AWACs plane with stuff mounted to the walls - same problem, and they need quick access. I never knew what those things cost new, because for a long time they were almost give-away surplus. Probably an almost lost tech now, but they really made some quality stuff back then, self-lubed surfaces, some would let you rotate the gear after sliding it out, all kinds of good stuff. They did make things protrude from the front about 1/4", because the rack slide mounts to the rack, then the gear mounts to that - so you have one extra metal/screw thickness involved.

Comment: Re:Farnsworth Device? Have one here. (Score 1, Troll) 244

by DCFusor (#39645941) Attached to: MIT Fusion Researchers Answer Your Questions
I do farnsworth fusors here, on my own money - no external funding/begging required. They're a nice research source of neutrons. Their "dynamic equilibrium" turns out to be the place they are the least efficient, however. I might be the first person to have discovered that and some fairly large increases in Q due to perturbing that.
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Peer reviewed journals? That's for academics trying to keep others out of the club. Grow a pair boys, and do as I do - just make it all open source - we keep no secrets, and yes, many of us dupe one another's results, we're doing science truer to the original ideals than the so called "pros" more often than not.
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One thing I don't like about tokomaks - energy disperses into too many degrees of freedom and while it radiates well from all of them (losses), it only makes fusion when there are near collisions. I'm working with an idea here that also takes into account various conservation laws tokomak (all thermal approaches) ignore - like spin conservation, to see if I can mess around with the relative probabilities of the 3 possible DD reactions - and it's looking promising.
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Focus fusion is interesting, but there are some engineering problems Lerner brushes off I can't go along with as easily. Bussard's thing - well, where's even a small scale one we can compare with Farnsworth/Hirsch/Meeks? All talk, no results - even amateur - so far. NIF is as they say, a way to test nukes without breaking some treaties about testing nukes, they add an energy spin to it for PR purposes primarily.
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See my sig for links to my work, and some of our group. It's not always at the top of the discussion boards, but there's plenty there, and some movies on DCFusor's youtube channel.
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Best of luck MIT - while I don't think tokomaks are the way - too many degrees of freedom - I hope for success for us all!

Comment: Re:Who Bought Them? (Score 1) 443

Check your facts. The Volt process began while Bush was prez and well before the bailout. It was shepherded by Bob Lutz, a conservative who doesn't believe in AGW. It was not forced on GM. Every single "fact" you state is dead wrong - try google or any actual source other than Faux News or R lame-barf. I'm a conservative myself. I think obummer is a total tool and loser.

Comment: Re:Zinc reusable, better than solar? (Score 1) 406

by DCFusor (#39579455) Attached to: Self-Sustaining Solar Reactor Creates Clean Hydrogen
If they don't compare it to PV solar, I guess like "call for price" you already know the answer.
My question too. I've been off-grid on PV solar since 1980 or so, even charge my Volt with it. 3k degrees won't be reached easily or often with the tech I know, even with trackers and concentrators. So not only "how much energy does it make vs the same sq feet of PV panels" is in question, but how much per average day per sq foot when it's partly cloudy and so forth. Gheesh and then, electricity is hard enough to store - but hydrogen? Natures way of storing hydrogen is, unfortunately, as a hydrocarbon. I guess that's why my car is electric.

Comment: Re:Volt is a game changer. (Score 1) 443

You have to make the millions first, then you can give them to yourself and live off the interest (well, successful trading, the government has made interest illegal). That's exactly what I did - and since I spent some principal on the car and solar, yeah, I get less interest, and the money is still piling up.

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