Recent content by MIC

howdy, I have never worked with superconductive circuitry, nor do I know of it's use much past MRI machines with large coils and in its research for transmission lines. What if you were to make a superconducting capacitor, and place it in parallel with a superconducting coil to make a...

I would like to see something like this, but you will have to develop a great way to manipulate the sphere. A sphere has many degrees of motion, you don't want it rolling in the wrong direction on mistake. I would like to see how you plan to make the various magnetic fields. The single rotor...

I tried what you said, but I used 4 fresnel lens, 2 in each hand to shorten the focal length. The light was very seperated(like a rainbow) before it reached the ground. I did have to hold it at about twice the focal length to get a bit of collimating. Then I stacked 2 and then 3 of my...

I am having problems continuing with this experiment. I feel like I would have to experiment by making a custom collimating lens, and then somehow make copies of it. Optics, such as telescopes, are so very exact. Also, with the fresnel lens there is no one diameter, because it is made up of...

No, actually I am hoping to find the right lens, and continue experimenting. I don't understand why I need a lens so much larger than the diameter of the light at the focus. if I place the lens near the focus, I can easily capture all of the light within this lens with is just 3.5 cm in diameter.

then why do you have to explicitly read from or write to external memory using the registers, while information on the registers can directly be manipulated with the ALU

When you give certain commands to the processor the bits currently on the register will undergo logical operations, or be moved to a bus/device.

I would like to start off with just one fresnel, one collimating lens, and one mirror. my Fresnel lens is 18 cm * 26 cm, with a focal length about 27.5 cm. I still need to find the right specs for a collimating lens. With the structure I built to get th focal length measurement, I burned a...

What I would like to do is concentrate the light in many location (lots of surface area), and then reflect the concentrated light from many (1$, light wieight, fresnel) lens's to one spot. The reason I have to columnate the light is once the light moves through a lens, past the focus, it...

I would like to know if anybody has thoughts on this idea, vs using parabolic dishes and a distributed oil heat transfer system for solar thermal applications. I can find cheap fresnel lens', and I would like to use them to concentrate the light, then columnate it so that many concentrated...

I have a question because of something I remembered while I was looking at some large copper windings for a generator. I heard one of my teachers say that electricity moved along the surface of a copper wire. I am wondering how pitting a copper wire, making it sponge like, or carving...

I haven't been on in a while, I am new here and it is good to see one of my posts receiving a bunch of attention. It seems that it would be cheaper to have many small, faster spinning blades turning one big generator. It would help for mass production tasks, reduce the amount of copper for...

There is a lot of talk about big projects to gather energy from wind. I have two ideas I don't see used that I was wondering about. 1. Using large stretches of canvas to redirect wind from a large cross sectional area to a smaller outlet, like some kind of wind nozzle. It would also form...

was there information before time? because with no energy, there is no information

I thought the condensed electrons formed at or near the conduction band, leaving a hole in the valence band. I will work on a better mental image of what is happening here. There is a lot going on that I do not understood, like interaction between light waves, bosons and phonons, exactly how...