NASA to Discuss Demonstration of New Space Exploration Power System: Media are invited to attend a news conference at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland at 9:15 a.m. EDT Wednesday, May 2, to discuss a recent experiment to demonstrate a new nuclear reactor power system designed for space.
comment:
No details about the system were provided in the article, so a little digging was required. It looks to be something called "Krusty" It may be a concept like the SAFE systems that I have written about before. I saw some videos listed as well, so here's is a video describing the system:
Al Fin: "Cowboy Commentary", aka "Eat your veggies" The Flag banner is posted in order to defy those who would make patriotic symbols illegal or disreputable.
Saturday, April 21, 2018
Friday, April 20, 2018
American politics now in full Kayfabe mode?
Somebody commented in a CTH post that something here ( with respect to the OIG investigations) seems like Kayfabe. ( I'm not clear what the commenter is referring to, so this is my interpretation)
Rather familiar thing to observe, by the way.
It does appear to be scripted with a predetermined outcome. How do you know when it gets real?
It gets real when people go to jail, or die. You cannot fake real stuff, and going to jail is real. Dying is real. Can't fake that kind of thing.
If nobody really gets hurt by all this, then it has got to be Kayfabe. But the symbolism is what would be real. The symbolism of no justice would demonstrate that the rule of law is only a handful of meaningless words. The rule of law cannot be faked. There have to be consequences for breaking the law.
The Hillary email investigation during 2016 looks like Kayfabe. She didn't get hurt, she didn't go to jail. She just lost the election. However, the subsequent investigation of Trump could be Kayfabe. Also, the OIG investigation of the investigations could be Kayfabe. Ultimately, the final outcome of this could see a Kayfabe result. But it is hard at this point to know what the Kayfabe actually is. That is what could make this a perfect Kayfabe script. You would never know if the whole thing was just a big show.
If Trump is forced out, but never goes to jail, that could be Kayfabe.
Firing Mueller would not be Kayfabe. That is because these leftists would not accept that outcome, and there would be hell to pay. That is why you have to do it. You cannot Kayfabe that.
So, McCabe can now be put on trial. Or the US Attorney can refuse to try him based upon the criminal referral. If he is tried, it will be in DC, where a conviction is unlikely. Unless the US Attorney is willing to take that risk, and try him to the best of his ability, the whole thing could be reduced to a Kayfabe. He would have to at least get a hung jury. An acquittal would be too much like a Kayfabe.
This could end up like an OJ Simpson trial, which may well have been a Kayfabe.
Just saying.
Rather familiar thing to observe, by the way.
It does appear to be scripted with a predetermined outcome. How do you know when it gets real?
It gets real when people go to jail, or die. You cannot fake real stuff, and going to jail is real. Dying is real. Can't fake that kind of thing.
If nobody really gets hurt by all this, then it has got to be Kayfabe. But the symbolism is what would be real. The symbolism of no justice would demonstrate that the rule of law is only a handful of meaningless words. The rule of law cannot be faked. There have to be consequences for breaking the law.
The Hillary email investigation during 2016 looks like Kayfabe. She didn't get hurt, she didn't go to jail. She just lost the election. However, the subsequent investigation of Trump could be Kayfabe. Also, the OIG investigation of the investigations could be Kayfabe. Ultimately, the final outcome of this could see a Kayfabe result. But it is hard at this point to know what the Kayfabe actually is. That is what could make this a perfect Kayfabe script. You would never know if the whole thing was just a big show.
If Trump is forced out, but never goes to jail, that could be Kayfabe.
Firing Mueller would not be Kayfabe. That is because these leftists would not accept that outcome, and there would be hell to pay. That is why you have to do it. You cannot Kayfabe that.
So, McCabe can now be put on trial. Or the US Attorney can refuse to try him based upon the criminal referral. If he is tried, it will be in DC, where a conviction is unlikely. Unless the US Attorney is willing to take that risk, and try him to the best of his ability, the whole thing could be reduced to a Kayfabe. He would have to at least get a hung jury. An acquittal would be too much like a Kayfabe.
This could end up like an OJ Simpson trial, which may well have been a Kayfabe.
Just saying.
Thursday, April 19, 2018
BFR rocket to be built in La-la land
Update,
4.19.18:
Did SpaceX do an IPO? Or is this privately held, still? Did I miss something?
Anyway, they want to raise half a billion for their BFR rocket development.
Originally posted, 4.18.18:
space dot com
Maybe Musk starts building his fancy new rocket about the same time the high speed train gets built in Collyfornia. At the rate they are going, they will finish the train when Charlie Brown finally gets to kick that football.
4.19.18:
Did SpaceX do an IPO? Or is this privately held, still? Did I miss something?
Anyway, they want to raise half a billion for their BFR rocket development.
Originally posted, 4.18.18:
space dot com
Maybe Musk starts building his fancy new rocket about the same time the high speed train gets built in Collyfornia. At the rate they are going, they will finish the train when Charlie Brown finally gets to kick that football.
Obligatory, 4.19.18
Blogging has been light today. No special reason. Mainly just that nothing appeals to me to be worth the effort to write something up about it.
So, this will be something of a general type post without a whole lot of anything in it.
One thing I meant to write about was the off-the-grid project. Actually, I have been doing little about that recently. It isn't because I have everything figured out.
One thing that I have been thinking about on that subject is the climate-control aspect. The main goal all along is to use as few resources as possible. The a/c I have uses too much electricity. Even the freezer uses more than I would like. ( The freezer could be used for the making of about 50 lbs of ice each night for cooling down the joint so I can sleep comfortably. ) Actually, the a/c could be used for short periods. The way I have things set up, it may only need to run for short periods, anyway.
The key thing I figured out is to keep the sun off your living space. The sun heats things up, so if you can keep it in the shade, it would help a lot. Trouble is, out west, there aren't many trees. In fact, there's nothing out there that will give you any decent shade at all.
This means a roof with an overhang. How much of an overhang? Looks like three feet could be enough, but to be sure, maybe a bit more than that. That would be on the south side. The north side could get by with three feet. Maybe the south side could use a screened in porch set up.
Other things that could help a bit would be a good swamp cooler, and a misting system. Those things I already have, but I don't know how well they will work out there. Early indications are that there is a lot of room for improvement. Better equipment may be necessary.
The downside of using those would be the water requirements. I was planning to recycle my water anyway, so this may be possible within such a system. Such thoughts have not been tried yet, but I have thought about them before.
The dehumidifier can recover that lost water, but at a high cost for electricity.
There may be other options, like the idea to use an air well.
Another idea I had would be to use a Stirling cooler. What is that? It is a Stirling engine run in reverse. Instead of producing energy, it uses energy, and produces coldness. This coldness can be used for condensing water vapor, thus allowing water to be recovered. In order to make the idea work, set up a wind turbine outside, and connect the Stirling engine to it, with the cold side of the Stirling engine on the inside of the building. The water vapor from the swamp cooler will be re-condensed and could be recycled, you see.
Besides all this, I have been thinking about what I would build out there. I have been around and around in circles on this thinking. Lately, I thought I would do my quonset idea again, but cover it up with a flat roof. The space between the roof and the quonset roof would be used for insulation. The entire structure would be less than seven feet tall on the outside. I could make it eight feet in order to make all the pieces ready to nail together without doing a lot of cutting with a saw.
The quonsets could be made in modular eight foot pieces that would connect together for a size of eight, sixteen, or a twenty four foot building, depending on how big I wanted it.
Actually, this post ended up with more stuff in it than I thought.
So, this will be something of a general type post without a whole lot of anything in it.
One thing I meant to write about was the off-the-grid project. Actually, I have been doing little about that recently. It isn't because I have everything figured out.
One thing that I have been thinking about on that subject is the climate-control aspect. The main goal all along is to use as few resources as possible. The a/c I have uses too much electricity. Even the freezer uses more than I would like. ( The freezer could be used for the making of about 50 lbs of ice each night for cooling down the joint so I can sleep comfortably. ) Actually, the a/c could be used for short periods. The way I have things set up, it may only need to run for short periods, anyway.
The key thing I figured out is to keep the sun off your living space. The sun heats things up, so if you can keep it in the shade, it would help a lot. Trouble is, out west, there aren't many trees. In fact, there's nothing out there that will give you any decent shade at all.
This means a roof with an overhang. How much of an overhang? Looks like three feet could be enough, but to be sure, maybe a bit more than that. That would be on the south side. The north side could get by with three feet. Maybe the south side could use a screened in porch set up.
Other things that could help a bit would be a good swamp cooler, and a misting system. Those things I already have, but I don't know how well they will work out there. Early indications are that there is a lot of room for improvement. Better equipment may be necessary.
The downside of using those would be the water requirements. I was planning to recycle my water anyway, so this may be possible within such a system. Such thoughts have not been tried yet, but I have thought about them before.
The dehumidifier can recover that lost water, but at a high cost for electricity.
There may be other options, like the idea to use an air well.
Another idea I had would be to use a Stirling cooler. What is that? It is a Stirling engine run in reverse. Instead of producing energy, it uses energy, and produces coldness. This coldness can be used for condensing water vapor, thus allowing water to be recovered. In order to make the idea work, set up a wind turbine outside, and connect the Stirling engine to it, with the cold side of the Stirling engine on the inside of the building. The water vapor from the swamp cooler will be re-condensed and could be recycled, you see.
Besides all this, I have been thinking about what I would build out there. I have been around and around in circles on this thinking. Lately, I thought I would do my quonset idea again, but cover it up with a flat roof. The space between the roof and the quonset roof would be used for insulation. The entire structure would be less than seven feet tall on the outside. I could make it eight feet in order to make all the pieces ready to nail together without doing a lot of cutting with a saw.
The quonsets could be made in modular eight foot pieces that would connect together for a size of eight, sixteen, or a twenty four foot building, depending on how big I wanted it.
Actually, this post ended up with more stuff in it than I thought.
Blue wave?
There is only one way that the Democrats can win, and that is if the Republicans let them.
Quite a statement, there. But from the way things are going, it looks like the GOP is taking a dive. It is quite puzzling to observe such a thing. Why should this party exist, when it acts as if its existence is just too inconvenient to defend? Why would a party run away from what it runs on, and what it got them elected in the first place?
The idea that a GOP led Congress could impeach one of its own for simply defending himself against a nonexistent crime, is just incomprehensible. Try to imagine the Democrats impeaching Obama or Clinton. The Democrats put up a good fight just to keep the GOP from running Clinton out of office. To impeach one of your own makes sense only when you are planning to take a dive.
Yet this GOP isn't like that GOP that impeached Clinton. This so-called political party has changed. The current GOP might as well be Democrats. Their rhetoric may sound like they are opposed to Democrats, but they sure don't ACT like it. Even Joe Biden once noted that the GOP doesn't act like a party.
If there is a blue wave, it can only be because there is no alternative. The GOP is too busy emulating the Democrats in order to actually win elections against Democrats.
Quite a statement, there. But from the way things are going, it looks like the GOP is taking a dive. It is quite puzzling to observe such a thing. Why should this party exist, when it acts as if its existence is just too inconvenient to defend? Why would a party run away from what it runs on, and what it got them elected in the first place?
The idea that a GOP led Congress could impeach one of its own for simply defending himself against a nonexistent crime, is just incomprehensible. Try to imagine the Democrats impeaching Obama or Clinton. The Democrats put up a good fight just to keep the GOP from running Clinton out of office. To impeach one of your own makes sense only when you are planning to take a dive.
Yet this GOP isn't like that GOP that impeached Clinton. This so-called political party has changed. The current GOP might as well be Democrats. Their rhetoric may sound like they are opposed to Democrats, but they sure don't ACT like it. Even Joe Biden once noted that the GOP doesn't act like a party.
If there is a blue wave, it can only be because there is no alternative. The GOP is too busy emulating the Democrats in order to actually win elections against Democrats.
Wednesday, April 18, 2018
Warka Water
Interesting video about a device that may make water shortages a thing of the past.
Update:
This looks like an air well. It seems that I have looked at these before, but I cannot find the post on this blog. Maybe I didn't make a post, or the post is buried somewhere in the blog.
Whatever. The concept is not explained in this video.
Update:
This looks like an air well. It seems that I have looked at these before, but I cannot find the post on this blog. Maybe I didn't make a post, or the post is buried somewhere in the blog.
Whatever. The concept is not explained in this video.
Tuesday, April 17, 2018
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)