Funny
An Atheists Prayer
Dear Lord please let these bailouts fail soon. My fellow humans are selling out their liberty for comfort promised by politicians delivered through use of a money bazooka. This provides results as cold and empty as a witches tit but yet they persist as Read more…
Economics
Economist and Economic Modeller Steve Keen showing instability inherent in high debt economies
Steve Keen talks about instability inherent in high debt economies. He does this while modeling economies on a computer and demonstrating the oscillations. Video Notes I have seen this kind of stability analysis applied before. It is valid for circuits and system functions – I would posit it is valid Read more…
Economics
Video: Andrew Marrs History of Modern Britain 1945 to 2007
This is more an economic and political history of Britain than anything else. The economic and political epochs of Britain are covered with nothing else talked about. Even cultural events mentioned have strong bearing on economics with an example being a massive party that was the prototype rave. Raves of Read more…
Economics
Seeds of a rapid boom bust depression are being sown
The next boom / bust cycle is already in the cards. Our wizards of smart politicians in Washington D.C. have insured that with a tanker load of fiat issued scrit paper money. So what is my prediction? It goes like this Next year … 2009 will be a very slow Read more…
Future
Rigel Kentaurus – Someday we will send a probe
When I was very young I was interested in the moon landing programs. I quickly homed in on the problem of propulsion in space. I also quickly became discouraged. I felt as though physics may never give us the present of the possibility of interstellar travel. This was the late Read more…
Future
Small Nuclear Power Plants
Small nuclear reactors in the 70 MW thermal or 25 MW electrical power range. Unlike conventional designs, the proposed reactor is self-regulating through the inherent properties of uranium hydride, which serves as a combination fuel and moderator. The temperature-driven mobility of the hydrogen contained in the hydride controls the nuclear Read more…
Future
Focus Fusion Google TechTalk Take Away Points
Research Links Additional notes Feb 2019: Google Video is long dead. You can see Lerner / Focus Fusion videos here. Youtube: LPPFusion Original notes from 2008 below. You can watch the focus fusion Google TechTalk here – ( the link died but I leave the text for old times sake. Read more…
Engineering
D Wave Founders blog
I am currently researching if D Wave has a public interface where one can submit jobs to one of their quantum computers. I have not found if they have yet but I have found one of the founders blog here: http://dwave.wordpress.com/ Seems to be throwing one machine open to the Read more…