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Stinger 01-08-2010 12:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Donger
Could This Lump Power the Planet?

I doubt it..... Draft Day here is hectic and usually one or two outages occur.

Lumpy 01-08-2010 12:30 PM

<----------- Couldn't power the planet. :(

Baby Lee 01-08-2010 12:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Lumpy (Post 6423548)
<----------- Couldn't power the planet. :(

Don't underestimate your power.
Step one, issue the cadre of goatee'd assloads on this site with dynamos to connect to their fap hand.
Step two Lumpy pics.

tyton75 01-08-2010 12:39 PM

To the fly cars making a mess of everything... if we had true flying cars.. we could no longer be chained to population centers.. we could really spread out so not sure if it would be that much of an issue..

except for maybe in the NorthEast, but fug them.. who cares

kaplin42 01-08-2010 01:04 PM

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Originally Posted by tyton75 (Post 6423599)
To the fly cars making a mess of everything... if we had true flying cars.. we could no longer be chained to population centers.. we could really spread out so not sure if it would be that much of an issue..

except for maybe in the NorthEast, but fug them.. who cares

There is some truth to this. And think of the definate advantage of flying cars when the zombie war breaks out.

I guess there are pluses and minuses to it.

T-post Tom 01-08-2010 05:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Baby Lee (Post 6423572)
Don't underestimate your power.
Step one, issue the cadre of goatee'd assloads on this site with dynamos to connect to their fap hand.
Step two Lumpy pics.

http://www.threadbombing.com/data/media/46/Hand_Job.gif

OR

http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p.../Cat_toast.jpg

bowener 01-08-2010 05:46 PM

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But other scientists warn me that this is all just a high-tech fantasy. They say Moses is full of a certain kind of non-nuclear fuel, and that I should not believe anything he and his colleagues tell me. "They're snake-oil salesmen," says Thomas Cochran, senior scientist with the Natural Resources Defense Council, which has tracked the NIF project from its inception in 1997. Cochran says the NIF laser is still not powerful enough. Even if it were, he says, "these machines are just going to be too big, and too costly, and they'll never be competitive." Other critics, like Stephen Bodner, a Ph.D. physicist who was director of laser-fusion research at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., until his retirement in 1999, say Moses's team has downplayed such technical problems as its inability to focus NIF's laser on a tiny target.
I think this man is a little upset or jealous, whatever it is he is not thinking clearly. I fail to see where the machines upfront cost will ever be too expensive for (basically) an endless supply of cheap energy. It will make more energy than it uses to create the reaction, and depending on what the $ amount charged for electricity is, any investor should be able to make their money back hand over fist as this becomes the modern standard for energy.

AustinChief 01-08-2010 06:02 PM

Smart money is on the polywell fusion devices beating it to market.

They should know if the concept will work in the next year or two at latest... from there it would be 10 years (or less) until we could see power plants.

Plus these "wiffle balls" could be produced in tiny sizes (relatively)... a viable working model could be as small as 10-20 feet in diameter.

Baby Lee 01-08-2010 06:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Cannibal (Post 6423333)
This is another pesky government program. No good can come from it. All funding should be pulled immediately and the facility should be permanently closed.

Surely you are aware that there are strong calls to end this from the left and the right.

From a fiscally conservative side, the NIF has been shadily funded by Enronning the fee structure throughout Lawrence Livermore so that more conventional research in the facility pulls outrageous fees so NIF can reduce it's fees to slide in under it's allocated funding. Watchdogs have pinning the overspending at 2 billion over authorized on this project alone.

From the anti-war left side, NIF has been sold to Congress as a weapons, not energy [not until recently], development program. ie, they want fusion so that they can create nuclear weapons out of anything, not just weapon's grade plutonium as with fission. And there are tons of resolutions condemning them for violating non-proliferation treaties.

bevischief 01-08-2010 07:01 PM

Didn't we see this in Spider man 2...

Dave Lane 01-08-2010 07:26 PM

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Originally Posted by tyton75 (Post 6423405)
that was the dumbest name for a fake substance ever! lol

I actually have 3-4 lbs of it. Its good stuff. But not good for deep encasing after being exposed to a reducing flame.

Baby Lee 01-08-2010 07:31 PM

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Originally Posted by tyton75 (Post 6423405)
that was the dumbest name for a fake substance ever! lol

Lest you think Cameron penned it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unobtainium

mikey23545 01-08-2010 07:31 PM

I was sure from the title this post would be about Mecca...

Cannibal 01-08-2010 08:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Baby Lee (Post 6425096)
Surely you are aware that there are strong calls to end this from the left and the right.

From a fiscally conservative side, the NIF has been shadily funded by Enronning the fee structure throughout Lawrence Livermore so that more conventional research in the facility pulls outrageous fees so NIF can reduce it's fees to slide in under it's allocated funding. Watchdogs have pinning the overspending at 2 billion over authorized on this project alone.

From the anti-war left side, NIF has been sold to Congress as a weapons, not energy [not until recently], development program. ie, they want fusion so that they can create nuclear weapons out of anything, not just weapon's grade plutonium as with fission. And there are tons of resolutions condemning them for violating non-proliferation treaties.

I'm not arguing any of that BS. I'm stating that Right Wingers (the populace) hate government programs. This is one of them. I would think the Right Wingers would want this ended. Unless of course, they are hypocrites.

Baby Lee 01-09-2010 07:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Cannibal (Post 6425331)
I'm not arguing any of that BS. I'm stating that Right Wingers (the populace) hate government programs. This is one of them. I would think the Right Wingers would want this ended. Unless of course, they are hypocrites.

OIC, you're a simpleton. I'm so sorry.


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