Starship catch simulations

There are more perspectives here than you can shake a stick at. Given that I watched the launch at a place either near or at what is being simulated, then a jip at that location would be interesting to compare to an actual launch.

Beats the hell out of this stupid political crap, does it not? But the stupid political crap is threatening the good stuff.

A video about Thorium

7/5/26

Another perspective? Probably not... Yours truly has come to suspect that just about anything critical of a technology that will improve conditions for almost all people, is probably an info op. Is this an info op? There's no proof of that here, just a long series of such "reasons" to not push forward with research about new ideas. Examples in the energy field, besides this one include COLD FUSION, ANEUTRONIC FUSION and the like.

Mind you, it is not a conviction that these new ideas will work. It is the insistence upon maintaining the status quo that I suspect. The status quo means nothing new can be allowed. Know what I mean, Vern?

3/19/19:

And it isn't made by the Thorium guys.  Perhaps a different perspective will yield a different answer to the question posed.

His answer was something on the order of "maybe".

Some of what he said seems questionable to me, but maybe I am a little biased in favor of Thorium.

Finally, you don't need Thorium in order to run a molten-salt reactor.  The molten-salt reactor technology would work with uranium.  Thorium is an added bonus.  If you disagree with using thorium, you can still use uranium and it will work fine.  As a matter of fact, there are some folks out there who would like to do that very thing.

One of the more aggressive outfits who is pursuing this strategy is Thorcon.  ( Perhaps I got that wrong.  Look at their name. THORcon? )  Thorcon wants to start making reactors within the five years of so.  Maybe even sooner.

Be on the lookout then, for Thorcon.

Foam making machine

7/4/26:

There's plenty of ideas for the place out West. The thing mainly on my mind is to get some of my strength back. Without that, I cannot do much of anything out there.

If that works out, then its imperative to secure a water source. There's a plan for that. In the beginning, there will have to be some imports, so to speak. There's a way to get water, but it will require some huffing and a puffing.

A permanent structure can be made. That's where this comes into play. Yep. A lot of big plans, and very little action. Never seems to be enough time, nor money, nor anything else that might be helpful.

Here's the original post on the Boots and Oil blog, reposted below:

Oct 21, 2021:

Comment:

The guy's name is Don, and his channel is Prana Tech. He says he'd rather make what he needs as opposed to buying it. With me, it is the other way around. It is a pronounced tendency I suspect.

The video is about how to make the machine that makes aircrete. Before you can build anything with aircrete, you need a machine that can make the foam. This is taking DIY to a new level.

I've watched a few of his videos. It may be getting a bit too much to do all these new things all at once. I'll take it slowly.

Here's the video...

Kirk Sorensen of FLIBE Energy has a new post

Just noticed that this AM.

The dude is amazing. Unfortunately, the best of what's available is not necessarily the one who wins. The man is doing great things, but is not getting the traction that he should get.

The reason? The world is not a just and decent place. Yep, and the starry eyed idealists and naive school-girlish types will continue to believe the fairy tales that are being told every day that keep them in the dark.

He is doing the obvious things. The obvious thing is the thing hiding in plain sight. Meanwhile, Western Europe commits suicide, and America is not far behind. When will we ever learn? We don't have an energy crisis. We never did. It has been forced upon us by those who want us all in chains.

No, I haven't lost my mind. The world has lost its way. Or to put it better, the world has always lost its way. It's a wonder we are all still alive.

This looks like a cool YouTube Channel

7/3/26:

It's in the database.

6/29/26: The original post follows:

It is called Sourcery.  How the devil did I miss this one??? 

A quick tour of the page shows a professionally constructed site. It looks like she interviews a number of the top people in the Aerospace field. If I don't know it, I am gobsmacked. Which shouldn't be too hard.

I'm impressed.

Update a little bit later:

Here's Molly O'Shea interviewing Tom Mueller. O'Shea created this YouTube channel, and Mueller built the Merlin engine on the Falcon 9.

Lies, damn lies, and statistics

7/3/26:

For those who believe that Milton Friedman's monetary causation of inflation is correct, the idea that oil pricing can cause inflation is itself (most likely ) a lie.

Virtue does not rule the world--vice does. Anybody who lies about things like this is not of virtue, but of vice. Yep. Nobody's pure. Nobody's entirely clean. If you complain about high pump prices, it is not because you care about inflation. In my case, I was driving a lot in 2011 until I retired from trucking in 2016. I had a VESTED interest in lower gasoline prices. My motives were not pure. But when are they? Ever????

5/20/11:

Inflation will rise abnormally because of seasonal variations.  You can think of it what you want.  When you see high prices at the pump and they say "no inflation", I think somebody is lying.

DPF Fusion Propulsion

7/2/2026:

  DPF-based propulsion seemed promising then, and even more promising now that SpaceX has all but solved the re-useable rocket puzzle. Launch costs and mass capabilities would make this concept more feasible than ever.

  Deep space exploration would no longer be science fiction.

  The opening of the solar system would definitely be in play. It sounds corny, but the sky would be the limit.

  I checked the NextBigFuture link. It's still good. Very detailed study. This isn't pie-in-the-sky, especially now.

9/14/2011: The original post follows:

Dense Plasma Focus (DPF) Fusion Systems for Space Propulsion


This was a Next Big Future post last year. I don't think I've seen it before. This idea seem intuitive to me from observing the diagrams and illustrations of how the DPF works. It seems like a natural for space propulsion. The post here seems rather more involved than I anticipated for the device.

Surprising to me that work proceeds on this as of the time this post was written. If it continues to this day, it is hard to imagine why anyone would want to build chemical rockets. This would make chemical rockets obsolete. ( Unless I am missing something important)

I brought up that last bit of info because NASA announces its new SLS that won't fly any earlier than 2017. By 2017, the tech could very well be obsolete. Not only with respect to this possible breakthrough, but consider what others (SpaceX and Xcor) are doing as well.

Pouring concrete

6/29/26:

Yours truly has a life-long habit of biting off more than I can chew. A project like this back in 2019 would've have been too much for me. A project like this now would be insane.

This idea was far too late in coming. Way too old for this stuff.

Shoot, the dude talks all about how you need to know what you're doing for a project like this. Indeed, I did something like this once with my brother who builds houses. Or he DID build houses. He is sorta retired now.

So I KNOW what he's talking about here. No, I need to stick to something more realistic for me. This ain't it.

9/11/19: The original post is below:

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This is more or less the fine points of a big pour.

Seven Skinny E-Cats Eating Seven Fat Cats

6/29/26:

The Biblical reference got my attention. Ah! Here's another of the blasts from the past. From the blog EGO OUT. It seems that the gentleman may have died(?) during that time to this. How unfortunate. It comes to us all, eventually. I do not wish to be morbid here, but I have my own situation.

Anyway, his wife(?) is continuing the blog. Time does not permit me to spend much time on things these days. It is another unfortunate fact of life. Today will be yet another busy day. Hopefully good news will come of it. Hard to say at this point.

Long ago I noticed a pattern of behavior in this world, which ignores developments that have some promise to them. There are many examples of this. I attributed this pattern to something I called the Tiberius Syndrome. This is relation to what Peter Diamandis once related about the Roman Emperor Tiberius. It seems that someone brought the discovery of the new metal (aluminum) to Tiberius' attention. Tiberius was so impressed that he had the man killed. Why? Tiberius' interests were threatened by this new metal. As it has been said, history repeats. First as tragedy, then as farce.

Things may never change, but there's always the hope that it can.

Sunday, October 16, 2011: The original post follows:



EGO OUT: (comments regarding the Oct.6 Fat Cat experiment) Quoting from Ni-H LENR Genesis 40:21 (a chapter of the Transition Metal LENR Great B...

Comment:  Not a good review of the e-cat demo of Oct 6th.  Quote:

It has happened again- not the ugly facts were slaying beautiful hypotheses but bad experiments have ruined good ideas. 

He may have a point, there.  Anything good could get lost in a maze if improperly executed.  People will get hung up on the process, not the product.

FYI: Activated charcoal can be made at home

I know I saw a video that describes how to do this. How was it filed? Can I find it again? Is it in this blog, or at the main blog? So far, I've come up empty on the search for this. But there's no time to keep looking, so here's a note of it that I can reference later.

If the video can be found, it can go into my video database.

Couldn't find the that one, but this one will do just as well: