What is "magical thinking"? And other philosphical confusions.
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JAYNZE... LIGHTNING RODS? SERIOUSLY?
Lighting strike move gigawatts of energy, but ONLY for a few seconds, at most. If that were to be sustained for longer, it would vaporize the lightning rod.
You can't equate gigawatts of energy that lasts for a second versus gigawatts of energy flowing for 24 hours .
If you were to beam that from space, you would create a continuous plasma column of air, just like lightning but lasting 24/7/365.
In addition, HOW can you beam energy from one planet to another. Planets rotate. They also revolve. How can you keep the source and target aligned??
Dood, THAT is magical thinking. A little physics and real world experience goes a long way to screen out false hopes and fruitless pursuits. Stop magical thinking about technology.
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Quote:Given that lightning generates so much electricity, why don’t we harness it as a renewable energy source? Our science question of the month.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
JAYNZE... LIGHTNING RODS? SERIOUSLY?
Lighting strike move gigawatts of energy, but ONLY for a few seconds, at most. If that were to be sustained for longer, it would vaporize the lightning rod.
You can't equate gigawatts of energy that lasts for a second versus gigawatts of energy flowing for 24 hours .
If you were to beam that from space, you would create a continuous plasma column of air, just like lightning but lasting 24/7/365.
In addition, HOW can you beam energy from one planet to another. Planets rotate. They also revolve. How can you keep the source and target aligned??
Dood, THAT is magical thinking. A little physics and real world experience goes a long way to screen out false hopes and fruitless pursuits. Stop magical thinking about technology.
By Tess Light, Space and Remote Sensing group, Los Alamos National Laboratory | October 1, 2017
https://www.lanl.gov/museum/news/newsletter/2017/2017-10/test.php
. . . if we could design a battery that would not be vaporized by the strike, all the lightning in the world would still power only a small fraction of households. It’s true that each stroke produces up to perhaps five or ten gigajoules of energy, and a household in the U.S. needs only about five gigajoules per month—and that’s just one strike! But actually, only a fraction of that energy is in the form of electrical current—much of the energy goes to heating the air. And the process of storing the energy in a battery and then retrieving it is pretty inefficient. So, now you need a few strikes per household per month, and in the end, even if we could find a way to capture, store, and use the energy, it would power only about 0.1 percent of the world’s homes.
How much energy in a lightning strike
https://www.google.com/search?q=how+much+energy+in+a+lightning+strike
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Steve Bannon: Non-Christian nationalists 'all have to be purged' in Trump's second term
Right-wing podcast host Steve Bannon called for a purging of people who are not Christian nationalists if Donald Trump wins a second term as president.
On his Monday War Room broadcast, Bannon celebrated author Tim Alberta's warnings about Christian nationalism on MSNBC.
"When you begin to think of America as almost this covenant nation, that God has ordained us, God has blessed us, and you are fighting for God by fighting for America, that is Christian nationalism, and that is what has infected much of the church today," Alberta told the hosts of Morning Joe.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/steve-bannon-non-christian-nati
onalists-all-have-to-be-purged-in-trump-s-second-term/ar-AA1kZkoL?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=ccb3ac7e131e4940aa01728b9ccc8ff4&ei=76
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At least give the Muslims the boot. All of them.
Here, there and everywhere they don't belong. Pretty much any place that doesn't leave sand up your ass crack if you stand outside more than 5 minutes.
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Political correctness is just tyranny, with a smiley face.
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not magic but science advances we have yet to fully understand becoming a reality?
85% of Neuralink implant wires are already detached, says patient
https://www.popsci.com/health/neuralink-wire-detachment/
1X’s Eve humanoid robot masters task chaining, nears autonomous work
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/1x-robotics-voice-task-s
equencing
What's Scarier Than Unchecked AI? A 'Swarm' of 3,400 Corporate AI Lobbyists
https://www.commondreams.org/news/ai-lobbying
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There were times when people said it was impossible for mankind to fly or to break the speed of sound
in Asia Transport investments, Maglev and Hyperloop ideas
China’s Hyperloop, Set To Reach 1,000 Kilometers Per Hour, Passes New Test With Flying Colors
https://www.iflscience.com/chinas-hyperloop-set-to-reach-100-kilometer
s-per-hour-passes-new-test-with-flying-colors-75540
UN deploys unique 3D printer to build homes from dirt, waste in Colombia - Crane WASP, a large 3D printer, builds using natural resources like dirt and agricultural waste, eliminating the need for concrete.
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/3d-printer-build-homes-f
rom-dirt-in-columbia
Japan’s manganese-boosted EV battery hits game-changing 820 Wh/Kg, no decay
https://interestingengineering.com/energy/manganese-lithium-ion-batter
y-energy-density
Inside China’s race to lead the world in nuclear fusion - The country has ambitious plans for fusion power plants to provide clean, limitless energy. Can they be realized?
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02759-x#Echobox=1724854962
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China could now be spending $1.5 billion each year on fusion — almost double what the US government allocated this year for this research, says Jean Paul Allain, associate director of the US Department of Energy’s Office of Fusion Energy Sciences in Washington DC. “Even more important than the total value is the speed at which they’re doing it,” says Allain.
“China has built itself up from being a non-player 25 years ago to having world-class capabilities,” says Dennis Whyte, a nuclear scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge.
Although no one yet knows whether fusion power plants are possible, Chinese scientists have ambitious timelines. In the 2030s, before ITER will have begun its main experiments, the country aims to build the China Fusion Engineering Test Reactor (CFETR), with the goal of producing up to 1 gigawatt of fusion power. If China’s plans work out, a prototype fusion power plant could follow in the next few decades, according to a 2022 road map
China’s AI video rush is a wake-up call for the world
https://www.twincities.com/2024/08/16/catherine-thorbecke-chinas-ai-vi
deo-rush-is-a-wake-up-call-for-the-world/
so what wacky ideas are out there?
Free Electric strikes could possibly be captured the Venezuela Catatumbo lightning, free Anti Matter created by cosmic rays striking the upper atmosphere, free Solar or Geothermal and Tidal power for many nations, AI helps do the almost impossible real time calculation tasks, Thorium everywhere on Earth for possible Thorium-based nuclear power, now if only we could figure out how to use this stuff
We will probably continue killing each other, the scientific philosophical Kardashev scale a method of measuring a civilization's level of technological advancement a Type I civilization is a civilization is capable of consuming all of the incoming energy from its neighboring star
For now Antimatter seems impossible
Antimatter 89,875,517,874 ˜ 90 PJ/kg , 24,965,421,631,578 ˜ 25 TW·h/kg
it would seem Antimatter for now is only for scifi stories
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density
closer to reality
A New Way to Achieve Nuclear Fusion: Helion
and maybe AI helps with the math and monitoring
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
In addition, HOW can you beam energy from one planet to another. Planets rotate. They also revolve. How can you keep the source and target aligned??
Dood, THAT is magical thinking. A little physics and real world experience goes a long way to screen out false hopes and fruitless pursuits. Stop magical thinking about technology.
Planets Rotate don't worry they have a science for that even backyard amateur astronomer took pics of a moving Space Station or Space Shuttle, its very user friendly and you don't need a Master Doctor Degree paper in Orbital Mechanics the amate
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Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
In addition, HOW can you beam energy from one planet to another. Planets rotate. They also revolve. How can you keep the source and target aligned??
Dood, THAT is magical thinking. A little physics and real world experience goes a long way to screen out false hopes and fruitless pursuits. Stop magical thinking about technology.
JAYNZE: Planets Rotate don't worry they have a science for that even backyard amateur astronomer took pics of a moving Space Station or Space Shuttle, its very user friendly and you don't need a Master Doctor Degree paper in Orbital Mechanics the amateur can do it and I'm sure there's an app on your phone now. Hubble does it all the time when it looks for an Asteroid or takes a pic of Mars or Hubble’s Observation of Neptune, satellites do it when they send info back to a point on Earth
and keeping the sources and target aligned, they did this since the early 1960s after Sputnik the USA had Telstar 1 now a defunct satellite but it allowed the first live broadcast of television images between the United States and Europe.
quote: Nasa has streamed an ultra high-definition video of a cat back to Earth from the depths of space.
The 15-second clip of Taters the cat was sent via laser - and fittingly shows it chasing a laser beam.
Dood, think about it. Seriously. It's one thing to transmit a video to earth. The energies are so small, if you miss your target ... hey, no harm, no foul.
But if you're beaming significant amounts... USEFUL amounts ... of enery to earth, maybe something in the gigawatt or terawatt range... the beam would vaporize anything it touched that wasn't specifically constructed to be able to absorb and withstand that amount of energy. Not to mention the beam itself passing thru the atmo would probably create a column of plasma from the outer atmo to the earth's surface. Imagine the climate disruption from THAT!
I don't generally push back on your finds. Some of them are really good. Better batteries, more efficient transportation, even fusion generating useful amounts of energy are all within technical possibility, and some are quite likely.
But there are a few things flat out impossible like water powered cars (NOTE: Toyota is working on HYDRGEN powered cars) and beaming energy to earth.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time."
Or, any verification or thought.
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Swedistani electric prices
the real magic thinking, going back to windmills and trading carbon credits for Coal Plants?
Sweden closed nuclear reactors directly feeding their cities, to be like Germany.
France destroyed one of their best nuclear plants, to be like Germany.
Belgium is turning off a lot their reactors next year, to be like Germany.
Germany has found a new way to destroy Europe.
https://x.com/energybants/status/1867092554170192133
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
But if you're beaming significant amounts... USEFUL amounts ... of enery to earth, maybe something in the gigawatt or terawatt range... the beam would vaporize anything it touched that wasn't specifically constructed to be able to absorb and withstand that amount of energy. Not to mention the beam itself passing thru the atmo would probably create a column of plasma from the outer atmo to the earth's surface. Imagine the climate disruption from THAT!
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Dood, think about it. Seriously. It's one thing to transmit a video to earth. The energies are so small, if you miss your target ... hey, no harm, no foul.
the Sun a natural self regulating 100 billion 1-megaton nuclear bombs per second.
if you don't want to beam a fraction of that free energy, a natural atomic bomb in the sky. Collect it and send the energy to Earth...then maybe a Moon colony or Mars colony or Titan colony or Europa Jupiter colony.
anyways here was that Cat video
19 million miles through space using a laser
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EXPLAINED: Swedish government nuclear funding plan draws wide criticism
https://www.thelocal.se/20241205/explained-why-the-swedish-government-
plans-for-a-quick-nuclear-roll-out-are-running-into-trouble
Akademik Lomonosov a Russian mix of Nuke Power Plant and Ship, Rosatom describes as the world's first floating nuclear power plant and the world's northernmost nuclear power installation?the 'floating combined heat and power (CHP) low-power nuclear power plant'
http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NN-Russia_relocates_construction_of_
floating_power_plant-1108084.html
So is the USA in Iraq in another forever war?
Watch as rampaging Syrian Islamist rebels tear down Assad statue in ‘Saddam moment’ & burn Russian flag ‘for Allah’
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/32053977/video-syria-rebels-topple-assad
-statue-aleppo-saddam-sussein/
Nice work, neocons: Another Mideast country goes over to a terrorist group
https://www.nj.com/opinion/2024/12/nice-work-neocons-another-mideast-c
ountry-goes-over-to-a-terrorist-group-mulshine.html
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Fantasy Maga Thinking and Exports, the mathematics of it all incorrect so now Tariffs on China go from 145% to 30%. Just shows the new Chinese reality of it all has come to Trump.
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