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mircea_popescu: in other shocking developments, /me learned yesterday that some people actually believe serving a l'anglaise (ie, in their bastardized notion, pre-plated items) is an acceptable manner for waitstaff!
☟︎ mircea_popescu recalls used to laugh with friends at "racing experts" with the tell-tale flame out the tailpipe.
mircea_popescu: i thought you were specifically not supposed to do that
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know, computers work great for printing 2d, not so much for simulating 3d, also!
mircea_popescu: when one metalworking gets it within 3 A and the other metalworking gets it to the 3 micrometers, you know there's room for some "nobody could have predicted" qualitative jumps.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform aha! and it doesn't seem, from casual survey of the field, that they actually put to work ~everything available. the silicone people are cutting metal masks to the three atom widths ffs.
mircea_popescu: i mean... asciilifeform i guess I was asleep at the time.
mircea_popescu: that's the other thing - gas turbine works great with electric gen.
mircea_popescu: and evidently the metalworking tech to make the 100 gram turbine is here. wasn't here say 1980.
mircea_popescu: ie, they asymptotically tend towards... o2 reductor / h2 donor.
mircea_popescu: (typical carnot cycle does not miniaturize well. turbine however... might.)
mircea_popescu: or could work miniaturized. imagine, alf, 125 gram half horsepower engine.
mircea_popescu: gotta to something with aqll the wolfram they're not using for proper lightbulbs anymore.
mircea_popescu: they can make a touch screen, they can make a chamber for o3 reduction.
mircea_popescu: but it seems, very from-the-satellite view, that it should work somehow. at least to my eye
mircea_popescu: the other item i'm vaguely surprised they're not deplyoing is the actual oxygen purifier engine. srsly, put atmospheric air into your chamber ? because you hate yourself or why.
mircea_popescu: "oh we've never read it stated like that before!!" "mkay, i'm sure such happenstance does something"
mircea_popescu: yah but tell it to her daughters you get a reaction quite like yours re turbo hybrids above
mircea_popescu: contrary to what "the people" of "our democracy" have in mind, nobody made cars "so that" little miss humpernickle can take her groceries home easierlier.
mircea_popescu: you got a turbine, which'll burn ~anything but does not spool, you've got a gasoline engine, which will this but not that, there's electric which is most efficient but uses the most volatile of fuels, make something of this!
mircea_popescu: it's not hard to observe, as a theoretical physicist at least, that ~all engines to date are stumbling at a general problem with naive assumptions.
mircea_popescu: anyway. to be perfectly fair and generally speaking sane : the actual technological need driving the modern hybrid craze has ~nothing to do with the declared reasoning (envirobs) and everything to do with the desperate attempts of engineers who noticed they have a pile of ~useful items to arrange them in an optimal configuration.
mircea_popescu: when fishing through the (rather consistent) history of engines, one's always to be careful. lotta curly items in there.
mircea_popescu: was certainly displayed in public, to great excitement.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform iirc a half dozen or somesuch. but taken to faires and so on
mircea_popescu: somehow the "conspiracy to supress" ~never mentions this. always impresses me re the culture and literacy of the little john smiths us soil keeps popping like mushrooms everywhere
mircea_popescu: item dun really need so much power i don't think, but certainly used in the higher power tractors iirc.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the ideal functioning of, eg, semi, is that engine turns at 4800 for 8 hours straight.
mircea_popescu: anyway, to revisit upstack : putting "quantum computing" in the same pile of failed technologies as stem cell research is beyond idiotic. holy hell, every woman that ever was pregnant got the embryonic boost, measurable and measured, wtf.
mircea_popescu: yes, but in a proper arrangement (electric, gasoline, gas) hybrid, the gas turbine needn't cover all power curves.
mircea_popescu: "very confused salesman" test. i gotta remember this one.
mircea_popescu: if i take my cues from dudes working in auto dealers, i might even end up with no bitcoin and a dozen credit cards.
mircea_popescu: and yes, the turbo was originally a ship-and-train tech, in the 20s or w/e.
mircea_popescu: ie, there's some power sent to the wheels through engine 1 by engine 2.
mircea_popescu: point being that in the modern diesel, a turbine is attached to the carnot engine, much in the manner in which in a modern hybrid, a carnot engine is attached to the electric motor.
mircea_popescu: whether you attach the items to the drive train via electric exchange ; or whether you attach them via the historical arrangement known as turbocharger, in point of fact you've put some items to work for your transmission.
mircea_popescu: mmkay. it's really the air under the fore wing that's the plane's engine.
mircea_popescu: in this sense jet engine does not power the jet because... gases moving about do.
mircea_popescu: you ever saw the fucking item ? how is it not a turbine ?
mircea_popescu: no, we are having the thread where "turbine is not nao turbine because it's different"
mircea_popescu: but on what grounds do you disqualify it from "turbine", other than "it successfuly masquerades as something else, fooling me"
mircea_popescu: the statement was "some kind of turbine under the hood, even if masquerading as a more traditional something or other".
mircea_popescu: so far i have an onesie and you have your world famous brand of alf's gut flora.
mircea_popescu: and i will note that your policy of strongly held opinions in poorly known fields is not working so well. not re turbines, not re stem cells etc.
mircea_popescu: ro train engines were that way for a long time too, owing to the peculiar terrain.
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http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-14#1655475 << he has a point though, every redesign cycle the momentum-based store (like they use in eg F1 cars) comes back to the drawing board. turns out having a small heavy well spinning real fast is not really much worse than trying to store energy in batteries.
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