March 14, 200620 yr So it looks like the boys and girls at Sandia Labs have come up with something new: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/...60308212104.htm Aside from the fascinating science, since this thing output many times over the energy on input, one has to wonder if they have stumbled onto a new energy generation source. The picture is particularly cool. Looks like a wire-brain. Thought you scientists (Balta for one) might find it interesting.
March 14, 200620 yr Holy moley, that is seriously cool. But you were off by three orders of magnitude – they recorded temps of @2 BILLION degK, not a measly 2 million.
March 15, 200620 yr i was hoping this was going to be a thread about Jay's "hot stuff" potato chips, the best chips in the world.
March 15, 200620 yr Hey I gave a presentation on that article in my Theory of Knowledge class. This is old news This stuff baffles my mind, how the hell can we do things like this?
March 15, 200620 yr Sandia's Z machine normally works like this: 20 million amps of electricity pass through a small core of vertical tungsten wires finer than human hairs. The core is about the size of a spool of thread. The wires dissolve instantly into a cloud of charged particles called a plasma. Too bad I cannot get customer to understand that forcing mega amperage through wirewound resistors can blow them up. They blowed them up real good here lol.
March 15, 200620 yr Author QUOTE(Queen Prawn @ Mar 15, 2006 -> 12:11 PM) Too bad I cannot get customer to understand that forcing mega amperage through wirewound resistors can blow them up. They blowed them up real good here lol. That does present an interesting thought - could this sort of generator be weaponized?
March 15, 200620 yr QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 15, 2006 -> 12:25 PM) That does present an interesting thought - could this sort of generator be weaponized? Leave it to mankind. Someone will figure out how to do it. Of course, you are to blame for the original idea
March 15, 200620 yr QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ Mar 14, 2006 -> 11:35 PM) That's hot stuff alright. Not sure how this fits in... but I aint complaining! lol
March 15, 200620 yr QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 14, 2006 -> 01:08 PM) Aside from the fascinating science, since this thing output many times over the energy on input, one has to wonder if they have stumbled onto a new energy generation source. If they could control it and harness the energy (as people have been trying with "cold fusion"), it would be truly revolutionary. Wow...
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