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Got back into RPI just in time to NOT go to 'Nam and learned how to study... Made Dean's List my last semester, just as I'd made High School Honor Roll my last semester there, too! (Basically bright but lazy, given the opportunity).
And I'm not ashamed of any of it.. it's just who I was, who I am and what I did.
Actually, I'll confess I learned how to do homework the first semester of my senior year when my main squeeze and I agreed to not hop into bed until we'd both finished all of our homework or studies... Great motivator! Worked for me!
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Bad Science leads to Bad Science Fiction, though Barbara Eden WAS really cute!
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Where should the collectors be located? Obviously in all places more prone to lightning! Your front or back yard or mine? Tops of mountains? Tops of buildings, church spires?
And, 'pray tell...' if that energy is siphoned off into super capacitors or mega-batteries, what might just happen as a result?
Ecological changes unforeseen because we don't know what would happen if all that energy were directed to our TVs and air conditioners instead of dissipating into the earth or blasting some tree apart?
Be careful what you seek... :))))))))
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energy of lightning, to use it as we need it!!! -- j
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Hell, some scientists are starting to think that a 'warp drive' may actually be feasible, but to debate the details of the scripts or diagrams in Star Trek (any Generation) is mental masturbation. It may be fact some day, but at the time of the writing, it was fiction! Ditto, Galt's Motor!
I don't like wasted energy... mental or hydrocarbon! :)
Regarding heat pollution, all the energy we could want is trifling compared to the sun.
In my freshman year at RPI, I got a TRF (tuned radio frequency) AM receiver which was like a glorified crystal radio, jacked it into my amplifier and had wonderful quality music at my beck and call.
Everything else is a refinement. :)
Things like 'leaders' that pass from ground to cloud establishing the path for cloud-to-ground lightning, and so on (I think I got that part right...)
Just like electrical energy storage for solar and wind, we ain't nowhere near anything that could take the amount of energy in any lightning strike and store it for future use. Maybe in a few decades...
and, from the patent and articles, " [0013] The ideal energy source for mankind will not add heat to the planet's ecosystem, will not produce by-product green house gases; will not deplete our food and water resources; will not produce toxic wastes; however, it will be portable, self-replenishing and constantly available in real time anywhere on Earth and in useful quantities. " .... Bullshit. Taking piles of energy from any new source and converting it to electrical power WILL eventually dissipate ALL that additional 'power' as heat into the biosphere.
It's got nowhere else to go. ALL electrical power is eventually dissipated as heat, as are mechanical losses to friction, etc. Thermodynamics still rules. Neither Tesla nor the imaginative power source can avoid that.
Heat will still be added to the biosphere. It just won't produce combustion byproducts.
And as for 'clean nuclear,' nobody mentions ALL of the energy that goes into fabricating ALL of the components of the reactors and their fuel. It's not a clean, free lunch.
As for Galt's motor, can any of you get that it was a fiction story? Tell me that, since the era of Tesla and other inventors, NOBODY has come close to duplicating the mysterious power supply?
And just about every report y'all have linked smells suspiciously of Pogue Carburetor Conspiracies, which are cute and indefensible since you can't prove they're NOT true... but where's the beef?
You have not converted this skeptic at all.
More data, please! More tangible proof.
Thanks!
I bet, yet it wasn't strong enough to push much
current. . I just wish that we could send a couple of
weather balloons up when it's stormy, hook 'em up
to some Li-ion batteries, and run our lives until
it's stormy again. . dreaming. -- j
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I once worked with an alloy called astralloy-v, a
high strength low alloy weldable steel. . it reminded
me of Rearden. -- j
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do you know what a "hexacopter" is? -- j
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was to build a good crystal radio. . it was fun, cheap
and a total success. . kits, instructions, mounted
crystals and diodes are all out there. . ebay!!! -- j
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here, and so little time!!! -- j
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Dr. Moray arranged his antenna. . 5 kW is nothing
to sneeze at, and I am wondering how he did it.
Thank You Again!!! -- j
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desperately need something which can store it more
conveniently than a reservoir on a hill. . if we could
push electrons up to a higher energy state without
having them drop back down and emit a photon,
or if we could charge a capacitor without having
it self-discharge ... what a challenge for the young-
at-heart Galts of this world !!! -- j
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