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Brainstorming: Fusion power via counterweight
Cheif Operations Director replied to HebaruSan's topic in Science & Spaceflight
Look at the heat budget of earth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth's_internal_heat_budget It 47 +- 2 terawatts that is (one terawatt is 1 trillion watts) If we harnessed even 1% of that or 470,000,000,000 watts (470 billion gigawatts if I did my math right) we would have a ton of extra power Some the RMBK-1000 reactor produced 1 gigawatt and 4 of the,provided 10% of Ukraine's power if I remember correctly(do not quote me on that) -
Brainstorming: Fusion power via counterweight
Cheif Operations Director replied to HebaruSan's topic in Science & Spaceflight
Earthquakes? Or just use Geothermal energy and not bother with the solar and wind. If your digging a 900 km shaft economically solar and wind is a side show all that heat would be enough to boil tonnes of water. According to heb's graph you would not even need to go beyond the lithosphere to heat up water. If you went a littile bit deeper to where it is 1000 *C (the asthenosphere according to the graph. To ensure a quick boil you can dig a side cavern where you heat up the water and take the steam to power turbines. Then take the water and put it down a slide with a water turbine spinning the system even faster as it is falling via gravity back into the heating area. Global Warming solved and hundreds if not thousands of megawatts of energy. The question is the cost of digging such a hole and cavern also it would need to be autonomous because humans could not be down their and if a earthquake/rock collapse happened those workers would be unreachable. It could be controlled from the surface. As a note that graph assuming im looking at it right seems off. If you measure it each section is about the same length and the asthenosphere seems to begin at 100 meters. But Wikipedia says otherwise. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asthenosphere Also this seems rather preposterous given other attempts at drilling such holes. I doubt it would be economically worth it unless hundreds of thousands of megawatts could be generated from one plant. Since it is so far beneath the surface is would be safe from some smaller asteroids and EMPs I think so it has some Planetary Defense value because if their is ever another disastrous solar flare then our actual power source is safe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_Superdeep_Borehole -
Python Questions
Cheif Operations Director replied to Cheif Operations Director's topic in Science & Spaceflight
Why could I not just say in pseudo code. Then I can clone this flight data and manipulate it right? global x x = 1 x = y Does this mean that x equals 0, y = ), total_mass = 0? Sorry for taking so long too reply. An another note do you have any knowledge on getting "ports" to activate according to the code so I an interface this with my rocket? I saw some python robotics stuff on yotube so their has to be some libraries for it right? I did not find any in the actual libraries list however. -
Seems like a scaled down non-reusable falcon 9
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What is the weirdest thing you saw someone do?
Cheif Operations Director replied to VictoryNeverFail's topic in The Lounge
Um.. What? -
What phone do you own? (if you do)
Cheif Operations Director replied to LandBoatBuick's topic in The Lounge
That is just great -
Parachute
Cheif Operations Director replied to gPiasa's topic in KSP1 Gameplay Questions and Tutorials
*Right but yea, hover the mouse over that area and you can add new stages -
Python Questions
Cheif Operations Director replied to Cheif Operations Director's topic in Science & Spaceflight
Do you have a different solution in mind? -
Python Questions
Cheif Operations Director replied to Cheif Operations Director's topic in Science & Spaceflight
Thanks that was the most ridiculous debug yet -
Python Questions
Cheif Operations Director replied to Cheif Operations Director's topic in Science & Spaceflight
This is the problem im having. If you run this program It will only temporarily change the value of x. I need to convince the program that the new value (200) is now the new value across the board global x x=0 def function1(x): print(x) x=x+200 print(x) function1(x) print("-----------------------") print(x) -
Python Questions
Cheif Operations Director replied to Cheif Operations Director's topic in Science & Spaceflight
I ditched that system in some regard because I did not get what has happening. However That is really not what I did. This would be more accurate. def rolleyes(x) while x<100 print("reading a newspaper") #Code that counts up too 100 if x>100 y=False while y=True rolleyes(1) -
Python Questions
Cheif Operations Director replied to Cheif Operations Director's topic in Science & Spaceflight
I have tried to debug this for a few hours now and I am at a loss. I have simplified it down to the point where it will run in real life (I think) but not simulated. I need one thing to happen. Basically in the flight computer while loop it changes the value of the simulated altitude from 1 to 128 ( as it is supposed to) however when I tell the same while loop to return altitude it returns 1 and not 128. It should have changed to 128 as the that now the value of the variable. Im sure im making a dumb mistake somewhere on the math. I think this will work in real life however because the sensor will be directly imputing the altitude into the sensors for the computer to do its work. The problem here is with the simulator. I need the simulator to test if the rest of the code will work the way I want it too. -
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I NEED IDEAS
Cheif Operations Director replied to Stormpilot's topic in KSP1 Challenges & Mission ideas
Base to eeloo That is pretty hard if you do not use maneuver nodes. With however it is just annoying -
Ask the Mods questions about the Forums!
Cheif Operations Director replied to Dman979's topic in Kerbal Network
Same I find it funny how this just became a tech support thread the eye button next to the grid button -
Python Questions
Cheif Operations Director replied to Cheif Operations Director's topic in Science & Spaceflight
If I set up a while loop and make it dependent on a variable it will always check to make sure that this variable is "true". Can I make the determination of truth based on another while loop? I'm asking this because I'm trying to make my code now determined based off of altitude and not time. The altitude is determined by some code in the flightcomputer function that multiplies 1 x 2 each time it cycles through. The flight computer is a while loop that is activate by the statement flight_computer_call =True If it is false it stops working (as it should). I know that someone brought up that a while loop runs until the code is no longer fulfilled. Is this causing the problem? It should still be referencing back to the code that sent the call for the function though to determine if the requirements are still met. As a note when I add the return altitude line to my flight computer function I can no longer change the value of altitude. If anyone has an ideas but needs the full code you can find it in the hidden box thing. while 0<=altitude<=100: INFLIGHTVAR=True INFLIGHTVARII=False flight_computer_call=True if altitude>=100 or altitude<=0: flight_computer_call=False flightcomputer(0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1) print("---------------------------------------------1") -
inflatable orbital refueling
Cheif Operations Director replied to farmerben's topic in Science & Spaceflight
I wonder if on certain bodies if you could mainulate an orbit so you are never exposed to heat. then you can be cooled constantly