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Physicists 'record' magnetic breakthrough
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Posted on 02/07/2012 10:44:06 PM PST by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker
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posted on
02/07/2012 11:02:57 PM PST
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I see my hands
(The old sod ne'er shall be forgot.)
To: LibWhacker
As there is no need for a magnetic field, there is also less energy consumption.Another reporter handicapped by being beyond his depth. No hint whatsoever as to what magic is involved in creating no-energy heat.
It's been a long time since I seriously studied physics, but it seems to me that generating heat is more energy intensive than generating magnetic fields. I hope there are followup details, somewhere.
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02/07/2012 11:04:52 PM PST
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Publius6961
(My world was lovely, until it was taken over by parasites.)
To: Publius6961
...but it seems to me that generating heat is more energy intensive than generating magnetic fields... Yeah, and I would think a lot slower. How do you rapidly switch a heater's output level?
To: Upstate NY Guy
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posted on
02/07/2012 11:24:25 PM PST
by
Errant
To: LibWhacker
The international team of scientists are going to have to get in the long line of breakthrough announcements to see if their name ever comes up for practical application. I can’t recall one that has, really, since the transistor.
Meanwhile, “Moore’s Law” chugs along as the silicon gnomes forge ahead on the exponential scales of speed and capacity, unheralded.
... who are these guys ?
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posted on
02/07/2012 11:38:53 PM PST
by
dr_lew
To: LibWhacker
My inverted pole magnet can be made upright by a female ultrashort heat pulse.
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posted on
02/08/2012 1:03:07 AM PST
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bunkerhill7
(polecat.)
To: ATLDiver; doodad; trifona; Lazamataz
This is cool. Well, actually I guess it’s a little hot . . .
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posted on
02/08/2012 1:38:20 AM PST
by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: LibWhacker
That does it. I’m selling the Betamax.
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posted on
02/08/2012 2:30:38 AM PST
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golux
To: bunkerhill7
To: Publius6961
Creating magnetic fields uses significantly more power. A magnetic field is generated by passing current through a coil. A relatively small 3 Tesla field using a resistive coils requires a large amount of power. The largest magnet in the world at the National High Magetic Field Laboratory has its own power plant and consumes about 25 percent of the power in Tallahasssee, when fully powered.
So no....using a small heat pulse to reverse a field is magnitudes less power. By the way, Nature and Science are probably the top scientific journals in the world. It wouldn’t be there if it wasnt significant.
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02/08/2012 4:24:58 AM PST
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vmivol00
(I won't be reconstructed.)
To: vmivol00
Well, so much for "copyright" ~ if you can move terrabytes per second that'd give you every movie and TV show produced in a year in well under 10 minutes.
I doubt the copyright police will be able to catch this stuff.
If people want to sell stuff on recorded media they will need to come up with some new way to do it.
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02/08/2012 5:13:25 AM PST
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muawiyah
To: I see my hands
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02/08/2012 6:16:42 AM PST
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rpkgolf
To: Errant
To: LibWhacker
"This revolutionary method allows the recording of Terabytes (thousands of Gigabytes) of information per second, hundreds of times faster than present hard drive technology. As there is no need for a magnetic field, there is also less energy consumption." If verifiable and can be implemented industry-wide, this should just about sound the death knell for solid state drives.
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02/08/2012 9:45:19 AM PST
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Bloody Sam Roberts
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02/08/2012 10:53:51 AM PST
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ShadowAce
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02/08/2012 10:54:39 AM PST
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ShadowAce
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To: ShadowAce
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02/08/2012 12:38:39 PM PST
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02/08/2012 8:21:45 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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