There are hardly ever scientific announcements over the weekend as I ignore any which don't come from the source as the media is typically useless in that regard.
The Rock City yet flounders in the absence of a solution for the heat dissipation problem and it probably is Nobel Prize work to figure it out since almost nothing tries to use waste heat effectively anywhere else.
(Ed: that's what makes it so interesting!)
Yep, damn sure does.
I may be imposing too much of a burden on myself since it's readily apparent I'm not Nobel Prize material and Larry Niven didn't do this with "Ringworld." He came up with an ingenious model for a 'planet' which stretched like a ring around a sun and the idea was so unusual that it's captivated many scientists over the years.
There are even some Web pages with collections of all the contributions from some actual high-talent scientists with proposals of science which could make it work. That's a marvelous thing to see but waiting for anything of that nature doesn't work either. There's too much of maybe a Tom Clancy obsession to present the model without at least some of the mechanics of the solution and I did get a bang out of "The Hunt for Red October" for that reason, largely because I could see it and didn't have to read interminable pages to find the rationale behind the existence of the super submarine with the super secret motors.
A brief review of potential vs kinetic energy as potential energy is when a rock is sitting on top of a cliff and kinetic energy is when it's falling. The heated water has immense kinetic energy so we need to disperse it, particularly after we devoted so much energy (i.e. the nuke) to producing it. We saw all the more reason the other day to avoid heating the water because that produces a large crop of highly randy crustaceans. (Ithaka: Climate Change Will Make You More Sexy, Even Republicans (maybe))
Here's another throwaway solution as maybe we will build pipelines to the Poles but that won't work either as heat will be lost to the atmosphere from the pipe and we don't want to heat the Poles anyway. Conceivably that much water affects the ocean currents even more than they're changing now and then we really jack the world's weather.
Gong on that one.
Lose the idea of shooting it into space as the volume is vastly higher than would ever be realistic for doing that and zapping it into some other dimension is too Marvel Comics for this game.
In general, the Earth doesn't really cool anything and the only cop, albeit a weak one, is to use a ground-level reservoir to allow the water to cool there before conceivably drawing it back into the city. I seriously don't have close to enough mathematics to compute whether most of that heat would be lost to the air or the rock containing the reservoir and a bluff just isn't good enough.
The stall yet remains but I do take some masochistic pleasure in it (larfs).
The Rock City yet flounders in the absence of a solution for the heat dissipation problem and it probably is Nobel Prize work to figure it out since almost nothing tries to use waste heat effectively anywhere else.
(Ed: that's what makes it so interesting!)
Yep, damn sure does.
I may be imposing too much of a burden on myself since it's readily apparent I'm not Nobel Prize material and Larry Niven didn't do this with "Ringworld." He came up with an ingenious model for a 'planet' which stretched like a ring around a sun and the idea was so unusual that it's captivated many scientists over the years.
There are even some Web pages with collections of all the contributions from some actual high-talent scientists with proposals of science which could make it work. That's a marvelous thing to see but waiting for anything of that nature doesn't work either. There's too much of maybe a Tom Clancy obsession to present the model without at least some of the mechanics of the solution and I did get a bang out of "The Hunt for Red October" for that reason, largely because I could see it and didn't have to read interminable pages to find the rationale behind the existence of the super submarine with the super secret motors.
A brief review of potential vs kinetic energy as potential energy is when a rock is sitting on top of a cliff and kinetic energy is when it's falling. The heated water has immense kinetic energy so we need to disperse it, particularly after we devoted so much energy (i.e. the nuke) to producing it. We saw all the more reason the other day to avoid heating the water because that produces a large crop of highly randy crustaceans. (Ithaka: Climate Change Will Make You More Sexy, Even Republicans (maybe))
Here's another throwaway solution as maybe we will build pipelines to the Poles but that won't work either as heat will be lost to the atmosphere from the pipe and we don't want to heat the Poles anyway. Conceivably that much water affects the ocean currents even more than they're changing now and then we really jack the world's weather.
Gong on that one.
Lose the idea of shooting it into space as the volume is vastly higher than would ever be realistic for doing that and zapping it into some other dimension is too Marvel Comics for this game.
In general, the Earth doesn't really cool anything and the only cop, albeit a weak one, is to use a ground-level reservoir to allow the water to cool there before conceivably drawing it back into the city. I seriously don't have close to enough mathematics to compute whether most of that heat would be lost to the air or the rock containing the reservoir and a bluff just isn't good enough.
The stall yet remains but I do take some masochistic pleasure in it (larfs).
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