I am writing a reference book on gravitational engineering and wanted to see some of these older electronics devices.
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My Comment: I am writing a reference book on gravitational engineering and wanted to see some of these older electronics devices. If people try making substitutions on a 2.3 gigawatt field generator, just because they are cheap in the future, things could get rather spectacular. People mostly seem to survive. I guess it will be OK. EM does not care much if his rockets blow up now and then. Part of the fun of playing with things is when they blow up. Most of it won’t fit in a paper book now, but the online version can do the job.
I think I will add a chapter or section on replacing some of these old parts with their superconducting equivalents. You do not have to use cryogenics to cool things, they simply do not generate infrared radiation or vibrations that appear as “heat”, because you design it that way. Generations learned transistors and they are just tiny bits of new materials. Yeah I guess most people will survive. Or not. Most of you maybe did not study the decades of slow development and the many experiments when induction motors and radio communications were inventing themselves. We have been in “gravitational engineering” for close to 50 years now and much has roots that go back more than 100 years before.
It won’t matter to our kids. If they have a 50 pound (23 kg) atomic fuel cell in their EV instead of a 1700 pound (780 kg) albatross, they end up paying the same for something only a few people can repair, and almost no one learn well enough to improve or change. With next generation power transmitters replacing SpaceX “Booster” stage with fields and power transmitters, all kinds of things will be tried, fail spectacularly or mysteriously, and the engineers and problem solvers will get called in to sort things out. I hope a basic reference will save generations of learners time not reinventing the basics. Maybe their AIs can warn them in time. But expect some early martyrs to innovation.
Richard Collins, The Internet Foundation
