[ExI] powersats

BillK pharos at gmail.com
Fri Mar 28 18:51:32 UTC 2008


On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 6:10 PM, Keith Henson wrote:
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>  This level of knowledge was common by or even before high school some
>  50 years ago, at least among the proto nerds I hung out with.  I
>  strongly suggest that all those who want to contribute here on
>  technical matters of this kind need to come up to that level by taking
>  chemistry or reading up on chemistry and thermodynamics.  Otherwise
>  the noise to signal ratio gets out of hand.
>


Hey Keith!  You're spoiling the fun by bringing the real world into
the discussion.

Can't we just assume magic unobtainium, sorry, nanotech, will solve
all such silly little objections?

Here at London Heathrow airport they have just opened the new Terminal 5.
Six years and 8,500 million USD and the teething problems have caused chaos.

But apart from the chaos, it takes *that* much time and money for what
is basically a big shed so that people and their suitcases can walk on
to an aircraft.  That's the real world of construction today.

How about a difficult project?


BillK



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