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From: John Doe on 12 Jun 2010 21:09 Archimedes' Lever <OneBigLever InfiniteSeries.Org> wrote: > John Larkin <jjlarkin highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote: >> Archimedes' Lever <OneBigLever InfiniteSeries.Org> wrote: >>> A knowledgeable man would be able to weigh these principals >>> and discuss them, without much mention of math to any great >>> degree at all. >> >> Hilarious. Engineering is all about the math. > Engineering conceptualization, however, is not. > > Just ask A. Garrett Lisi. > > http://science.howstuffworks.com/theory-of-everything.htm/printable > > What he ended up with is as mathematical as it can possibly get, > yet how he conceived of it was not. Could be... But how does that relate to you? -- > > You lose... again. > > Path: news.astraweb.com!border5.newsrouter.astraweb.com!npeer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post02.iad.highwinds-media.com!newsfe15.iad.POSTED!7564ea0f!not-for-mail > From: Archimedes' Lever <OneBigLever InfiniteSeries.Org> > Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design > Subject: Re: harnessing lightning, or not > Organization: Archimedes'Palimpsest > Reply-To: My Assistant: Zhang Heng > Message-ID: <chn7169rt9affegihjlcf37m0fvq81iv8k 4ax.com> > References: <hv04sm02oh2 drn.newsguy.com> <it8716p5q9nhpkem0jcrd0avulmkv1h07v 4ax.com> <hv09cp01o4 drn.newsguy.com> <bja7169l297lq8cot5tot1keqo92am8b44 4ax.com> <llf7169li747p4g04oej6hnvg5m4m7g3a0 4ax.com> <m8h716hs7ppif8s1h3kgmk4gsou9cqudhs 4ax.com> <dhi7165eelcamupdvnjrla3jpfmp3j118s 4ax.com> <g3j716dvfh6c23q8olhhcj13dusdnqog7e 4ax.com> <cpk716hvqgse94okvm2iaq8itafurr1qs1 4ax.com> > X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 4.2/32.1118 > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Lines: 25 > NNTP-Posting-Host: 72.197.137.141 > X-Complaints-To: newsmaster cox.net > X-Trace: newsfe15.iad 1276370822 72.197.137.141 (Sat, 12 Jun 2010 19:27:02 UTC) > NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 19:27:02 UTC > Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 12:26:42 -0700 >
From: BlindBaby on 12 Jun 2010 21:10 On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 19:42:07 -0500, Bert Hickman <bert-hickman(a)comcast.net> wrote: >Thyratrons That is what the big boys use on the multi-Megavolt DC interties. Stack of 'em in a 30' x 12' x 12' box suspended 90' in the air in a VERY big room. They are like 7 inches in diameter and an inch thick (the actual Thyratron medium).
From: John Doe on 12 Jun 2010 21:13 John Larkin <jjlarkin highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote: > Winfield Hill <Winfield_member newsguy.com> wrote: .... >> I dunno, it'd need to be a tall 1MV / 100kA = 10-ohm resistor >> with water cooling, or something. But if rated at a puny 1MV, >> it wouldn't warm up much water, with only 1MJ of energy. Sigh. > > Yup. Lightning is all show. But seriously... Lightning never strikes the same place twice, because the same place isn't there the next time... -- > Here we get pretty dramatic fog shows, some compensation. > > John > > > > Path: news.astraweb.com!border1.newsrouter.astraweb.com!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.supernews.com!news.supernews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail > NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 12:14:36 -0500 > From: John Larkin <jjlarkin highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> > Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design > Subject: Re: harnessing lightning, or not > Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 10:16:37 -0700 > Message-ID: <smf716dnt4o3qmmaq24deo0a3n1197nj9k 4ax.com> > References: <hv04sm02oh2 drn.newsguy.com> <it8716p5q9nhpkem0jcrd0avulmkv1h07v 4ax.com> <hv09cp01o4 drn.newsguy.com> > X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.91/32.564 > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Lines: 59 > X-Trace: sv3-H4sTaNwb39QQPqu8p5x7A5KyIvAFqWM9FQkpWDhyQ7yPgTk7jj+eJPr1qMaMqSaOdTMl/uZIWnYZBrS!s6FxLLJVsc+PjDlbHID+04SnPTM+aOYNoj75Pgv6LFA0WnTVP+l9RVBeNjqlPfHfTiAnooR0W70H!jzuo3Q== > X-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/abuse.html > X-DMCA-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/dmca.html > X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers > X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly > X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 >
From: Grant on 12 Jun 2010 21:22 On 12 Jun 2010 07:16:54 -0700, Winfield Hill <Winfield_member(a)newsguy.com> wrote: >My Maxwell capacitors hard at work energy from harnessing lightning, see my post >with photo, at the CR4 forum. > >http://cr4.globalspec.com/thread/55751/Lightning-Arrestor#comment579837 Does lightning have a return strike? So perhaps the bolt would ring and want to suck much of the energy captured back out again. Grant. -- http://bugs.id.au/
From: Archimedes' Lever on 12 Jun 2010 21:23
On 13 Jun 2010 01:09:34 GMT, John Doe <jdoe(a)usenetlove.invalid> wrote: >Archimedes' Lever <OneBigLever InfiniteSeries.Org> wrote: > >> John Larkin <jjlarkin highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote: >>> Archimedes' Lever <OneBigLever InfiniteSeries.Org> wrote: > >>>> A knowledgeable man would be able to weigh these principals >>>> and discuss them, without much mention of math to any great >>>> degree at all. >>> >>> Hilarious. Engineering is all about the math. > >> Engineering conceptualization, however, is not. >> >> Just ask A. Garrett Lisi. >> >> http://science.howstuffworks.com/theory-of-everything.htm/printable >> >> What he ended up with is as mathematical as it can possibly get, >> yet how he conceived of it was not. > >Could be... But how does that relate to you? Stay out of conversations in which it is blatantly obvious that you are too retarded to grasp the depth of. |