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ESTC Post-conference Debrief
Aaron Murakami’s Energy Science Technology Conference finished up yesterday, so I thought I’d do a play-by-play on my experience of it this year, while it was still fresh. https://energyscienceconference.com/2022-conference-schedule/ Because I was speaking this year, the whole event felt more like work, but more satisfying because I was confident people would be able to make…
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(Video) Happy Birthday, Nikola Tesla (7/10
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Tesla Coil Dielectric Influence Experiment (5/3/22)
Did a quick mockup test with a Tesla Extra coil to see how increased surface and bulk capacitance affects the result. Surprisingly, despite the coil being a huge dielectric resonator, covering the entire thing in LDPE tape had no measurable impact on the resonant frequency, nor the Q (resonance) factor. Still incredibly sensitive to just…
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A Relativistic Thought Experiment on Energy
One day, we find ourselves standing on a very interesting planet. This planet is far, far from Earth, and orbits VERY close to a black hole. As such, their perception of time and energy is very different from the rest of the universe. Being close to such a large mass, time on that planet actually…