Excess Heat

This anecdote must remain unverified because the only person with first-hand knowledge about it is me, as far as I know.  I have described it to a few friends, and posted it on Mills discussion groups. Dr. Gene Mallove was rightly proud of being an engineering graduate from MIT, and having been a professor there after obtaining his doctorate from Harvard.  It was a real honor to work with him, one that was easy to forget because he was easy going, although tended toward understandable manic behavior when he thought he was onto a hot story (which was often).  After almost two dozen issues of Infinite Energy Magazine were published, with a mountain of evidence about something with such paradigm shaking possibilities, he decided that issue #24 would be a blockbuster.  He obviously had his peers at MIT in mind when he assembled it.  I remember in detail how he sent via first class mail, a copy of that issue to every person at MIT for whom he had contact ...

 My comment on this video. https://youtu.be/TYhksHOiPio?si=kdCIBqEuoVTGECgo I have driven various vehicles on many US airfields.  At night, it is tough.  My training was to always coordinate with AT and then visually look for traffic when crossing runways because controllers make mistakes. Transponders on ground vehicles is a fine idea, but many times, the vehicles are privately owned.  Better to have a system that requires no competence from vehicle.  I chased a contractor's truck across an airfield after instructing him to wait for me while I chained a gate.  He ignored me.   I recall when ASDE (Airport Surface Detection Equipment) was first installed.  It failed often because it must distinguish between aircraft skin and ground (not sky).  Water in liquid or solid form reflects RF, thence targets fail to have contrast (bad S/N).  A much better system was proposed in an article in an IEEE journal: "RADAR on a chip" which has since...