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From: Bernd Felsche on 16 Dec 2009 18:27 Bret Cahill <BretCahill(a)aol.com> wrote: >> >> >>electronics is >> >> >> accessible and fun. >> >> >> >We need a motor - generator that is efficient over a broad rpm range >> >> >and doesn't require rare earth elements. >> >> >> Why? Where would you get the batteries to run it? >> >> >http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/23877/?a=f >> >> Cool. They do a press release a week after they get a grant, about the >> thing they hope they can invent. >Were it not for massive government funding combustion gas turbines >would never have been developed, certainly not in a timely fashion. Oh really? There was a lot of private enterprise developing gas turbines and a great deal of competition within the industry. The physical limits of early implementations were understood and were known to be resolvable by using more esoteric materials. >Eventually they'll develop a cost effective battery or they'll prove >that it's impossible. We already know the dead ends, The fundamental, physical limits. >The funding speeds things up. Nope. it just speeds up people who don't know any better, and thhose seeking to profit from ignorance, making some dough. -- /"\ Bernd Felsche - Innovative Reckoning, Perth, Western Australia \ / ASCII ribbon campaign | The most dangerous ignorance is the X against HTML mail | ignorance of the educated class. / \ and postings | -- Thomas Sowell
From: Bret Cahill on 27 Dec 2009 00:43
> >> >> >>electronics is > >> >> >> accessible and fun. > > >> >> >We need a motor - generator that is efficient over a broad rpm range > >> >> >and doesn't require rare earth elements. > > >> >> Why? Where would you get the batteries to run it? > > >> >http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/23877/?a=f > > >> Cool. They do a press release a week after they get a grant, about the > >> thing they hope they can invent. > >Were it not for massive government funding combustion gas turbines > >would never have been developed, certainly not in a timely fashion. > > Oh really? There was a lot of private enterprise developing gas > turbines and a great deal of competition within the industry. Just no commercial success stories until _after_ the massive gummint funding. > The > physical limits of early implementations were understood and were > known to be resolvable by using more esoteric materials. Which only happened _after_ massive gummint spending. > >Eventually they'll develop a cost effective battery or they'll prove > >that it's impossible. > > We already know the dead ends, The fundamental, physical limits. > > >The funding speeds things up. > > Nope. Yup. Bret Cahill |