Recent content by litup

The blog said it only reached full operational status on Jan. 1 so by 12 December, it wasn't fully ready for prime time.

What about the economics of non-electrical power storage like deep underground caverns pumped with air and converted with turbines or some such? Of course that would not be a solution for home owners but utilities could do it. The question is the cost compared to Tesla batteries?

Isn't the inverse of wavelength just the frequency? Why not just call it the frequency then instead of 1/wavelength? Maybe it's just the expression of the time it takes to make one wavelength? the time of a single packet of electromagnetic energy?

Well it is not high enough for Mensa. Still pretty high, probably 96th percentile or so. On a good day you could qualify. They cut off anything under 98 percentile. Top 2 percent.

You can see a small cap on the motor, one or both ends, if it indeed takes oil. Some motors are permanently lubed and so sealed and it is difficult to get oil inside. Look at the motor if you can get to it and see if there is a little cap that swings up to allow oiling. If not, you might try...

Nah, you could use a mere 75 meters also...Seriously, I have thought about the problem for hams using mobile antennae, where you have say a 6 foot whip and special matching networks to get say a 20 meter signal to go through a 2 meter long antenna. I thought about the idea of using a small...

Also, the detector may not absorb all the wave energy so some will reflect, some small amount. However, since the detector would be in a place that would have no blockages (otherwise it won't detect some angles and such, you need a free field to get full res). So what would happen is maybe some...

The thing bothering me is with a 'rope' 144Km long, the orbital velocity will be a variable all the way up. So how does the rope maintain straightness from bottom to top, outside of small pertubutions?

When you say 'amplify' I hope you don't mean it puts out more energy than it inputs. In old timey American music one instrument was the gallon whisky jug which produced a low tone when blown across the open end. That just allows a buildup of sonar energy but in a smaller wavelength band. It...

Except for the end game cost where you have massive amounts of useless fission byproducts that have to be sequestered for thousands of years. Take that into consideration in your calculus.

Well it ain't stopping here, so don't worry about an alien attack:)

I actually like broccoli, cooked and smothered in butter:) I wonder if cooking screws up the NMN bit. I don't mind raw either if I can soak it in sauce.

It isn't needed at all unless you are planning to use that circuit in junction with more circuitry. There are cases where you DON"T want ground, where you want isolation from ground. Remember transistor radios or cell phones, there is no ground to the outside world, internal circuitry are all...

We use argon as a sputtering background gas and 'ignite' it with a combination of RF, a filament glowing like an incadescent light bulb but with about 400 volts of bias applied to the filament. Between the three, we get 'ignition'. In the presence of just RF, there is an alternate method: in...

When you say 'conductivity' are you referring to electrical conductivity or heat conductivity? Because if you are talking electrical, sand is basically impure glass and would have a very low electrical conductivity and not much better heat conductivity. Clay, by definition would have a much...