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To: Kevmo

I need an LENR Stove to heat my house this Winter.


3 posted on 01/31/2014 5:48:11 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2

It will be a while. In 1976 I needed a computer to do my homework on. I couldn’t afford one until 1982 when I bought a used Apple//e with 128K memory and 144kbyte drives for $3500. Now we can get Gigs of memory & speed for $400 in a laptop.

It takes a while for the affordability/homeUse curve to come our way.

And this is related to Power, not How Many Bits a CPU can process. We all knew that there would be tremendous increases in transistors/mm on wafers because there was vast room for improvement, but the process technology had to improve.

When you’re pushing bits on silicon, their mass for a trillion of them is still less than an amoeba. But when this Power technology is in full production and you divide the smallest unit by a trillion, the mass being pushed will be maybe 7 or 8 magnitudes higher than bits on silicon.

Here’s another way to look at it. If you were to increase the mass of these bits being pushed by electricity by 20 orders of magnitude, it might weigh as much as a tennis ball. Let’s say you had a material to build a car that weighed as much as a tennis ball but had the same strength as Carbon Fiber. You’d have a lot of room for improvement, wouldn’t you? It might take a few decades, but you’d be flying in outer space by that time. You can see why pushing bits across silicon is easier than pushing mass or generating energy.

Admittedly, this is just a handwaving analogy because I don’t have the time to check how many orders of magnitude makes sense in each scenario. But the overall point is easy to see. One technology was easier to push and make progress on.


11 posted on 01/31/2014 6:02:23 PM PST by Kevmo ("A person's a person, no matter how small" ~Horton Hears a Who)
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