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The energy density in hydrocarbons may be relatively high, but the vast majority of it goes to waste. Break even fusion will be the holy grail of power generation.

I recognise the dangers of submitting too much information to online data aggregators, but I think too many people discount the possibility that a skilled investigator could find nearly everything that facebook could (and potentially more) given adequate funds and time.  My guess is unless...

He won the peace prize.  Yassar Arafat won one of those.  It might as well be made of toilet paper for the amount of bloodshed he tried to stop.  The day somebody wins a Nobel Prize in physics for public awareness is the day the scientific community turns its back on the Nobel.

FWIW lately I have been buying incandescent bulbs that emit more natural (read: mimics the spectral output of the sun) vs traditional NaII bulbs.  They make for great reading light, but god damn are they ever a) pricey and b) prone to early failure.  I'm sick of having them last only a few...

Unlike CFL, LED's were never designed to be used as an omnidirectional light source.  It's only been until recently that there's been a big push to make a LED lightbulb that not only has good dispersion characteristics, but also a nice soft white colouring.  That was actually much harder to...

well I could see why they want to go to flux instead of power; LED, CFL, OLED, hell even laser is getting a shot at lighting now.  It makes no sense to use power when you have so many competing forms of light with differing energy input requirements.  Best to measure them by flux instead of...

Recouperating from the Ebola virus, or something that felt equally crappy.

the response from the ACSO's?

Plants Vs. Zombies.  A simple castle defence game, but pretty damn fun.  No, really damn fun. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHAbHz8iYHc

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corona_discharge In particular, check out the Problems Caused by Coronal Discharge section. 

Widely separated population centres create a myriad of resistive losses in DC power transmission, and there are physical limits to the voltages that you can transmit at before all sorts of corona effects rear their ugly heads.  Everything becomes a trade off. Snap, crackle, pop.

Canada is a power transmission nightmare.  Our situation is far more difficult than Europe or the US.

Gentlemen, if you're going to call him out for not practicing what he preaches, maybe you should also consider what he is preaching is rather benevolent compared to 'the final solution'.  Comparing the expulsion of a pilot vs the genocide of millions and calling it the same thing is frankly...

I think we should also keep in mind that not everyone goes to university (nor should they have to), so our system isn't entirely tailored for post secondary education.  Granted, first year uni can be a bit of a trial by fire, but by 4 years you can become a pretty powerful researcher.  That will...

The only problem there is power transmission becomes an issue.

that thing reminds me of a zeppelin.

Good to hear there is still consideration for ACSO on the FWSAR vehicle of tomorrow.  I can only hope that stays true.  I think I would have a hard time picking between FWSAR, MP and MH if the choice was ever presented to me (I know, I know, a guy can dream though).

I hope they can build their full scale polywell for 2 million.

"Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than about peace, more about killing than we know about living." Gen. Omar Bradley.

Send 'em both to jail.  Seems like they deserve it.