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pyro
Big Wall climber
Calabasas
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zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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In the winter, it keeps hot things hot and in the summer, it keeps cold things cold.
How do it know?
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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Cell Phones = Communicators from Star Trek
Tablets = Triquarters from Star Trek
Totem Cams = Wall Climbers wet dream
But I will say that Remote Desktop technology, whereby you can get on another machine from the machine you are on with full visual representation of the desktop, is pretty outstanding.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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The inertia of eighteen thousand tons of steel idling on
the ocean’s surface was a massive force unto itself, but it
was no match for the magnetohydrodynamic engines.
The cryopumps spun up and went infrasonic as they pumped
liquid nitrogen around the magnets that stripped free
electrons from the water forced through the drive tubes.
A creaming, explosion of froth erupted at the Oregon’s
fantail, and within ten seconds of Max’s command the big
former freighter was moving....
With the ship under way,
the passive sensors were deaf to everything except
the noises the Oregon herself produced, the shriek of her
engines and the building hiss of water against her hull.
--Clive Cussler, Mirage
The book is LOADED with lore and speculation about N. Tesla & his work.
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Testla's invention has been commercialized as disk pumps. The efficiencies are relatively low (50% or less),but it works well for high viscosity fluids or ones with lots of entrained gas. A small niche product.
http://turbolab.tamu.edu/proc/pumpproc/P17/P1769-79.pdf
A variation is the vortex impeller wastewater pump, applied where you need a relatively small pump that can still pass turds, dead cats and rubber duckies without clogging and you aren't too concerned with efficiency.
Teslas' claimed efficiencies only come at impractically high rpms.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Triquarter?
Tricorder?
Jose can you see?
'Scuse me while I kiss this guy?
Our Father who art in Heaven, Harold be his name.
They ha'e slain the Earl of Murray And Lady Mondegreen
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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My mom, 91,after a matinee of The theory of Everything. "Let's ditch the Honda and take this Tesla!"
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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Triskellian!
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pyro
Big Wall climber
Calabasas
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zzzzz
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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UCSD High Performance Wireless Research & Education Network
http://hpwren.ucsd.edu/cameras/
Courtesy of The Flames
HPWREN Lyons Peak
HPWREN Lyons Peak Take 2
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Ricky D
Trad climber
Sierra Westside
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Triquarter?
Tricorder?
Jose can you see?
'Scuse me while I kiss this guy?
Our Father who art in Heaven, Harold be his name.
They ha'e slain the Earl of Murray And Lady Mondegreen
Okay - who fed Ed the brownie?
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pyro
Big Wall climber
Calabasas
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Jan 13, 2015 - 09:39am PT
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wireless light bulb!
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