I mention not working directly with the Russian schools on this Storyboard, but why the disclaimer? Who would even think that I would be, and why? Because I talk about Siberia (in Russia) and the hydroelectric dam we imagine building, and hooking up, to the global grid.
When I say Martian Math includes dharmas about hydropower, complete with dynamos and AC / DC current flows, am I saying we'll be featuring Maxwell's Equations? Why not, right? But initially I'm just focused on Energy as a quantity, and as something that drains away, even as it's replenished. I picture a "tank of joules" (like a tank of calories) and picture all the work one might get out of it, were said joules to be provided in the form of fuel.
So what about small nuke plants, of the kind OSU is reputed to have been working on. That's not an entirely different topic, especially when one considers the fusion reaction driving the condensation cycle, whereby evaporating lakes and oceans lead to rains, refilling rivers at their origins (higher up). The gravity of water flowing downhill, its inertia, is what's behind a hydrodam, and therefore nuke energy, the holy grail kind (i.e. fusion).
I'd be happy to sit in as a student auditor on some of these. We're not waiting for Kirby to get his PhD in electrostatics & electrodynamics (E&E). Phasing in his Martian vs Earthling "war of the worlds" memes isn't that difficult, given all the accomplished trailblazing. The Russians could do it sooner, is what I was suggesting in my concluding remarks. Given the open source, not secret, nature of these projects, the usual community dynamics are in play.
Boosting bus numbers around Quadrays is a priority in any case. If you're not familiar with "bus numbers" as a term, it has to do with how many people would need to get hit by a bus before torch-passing a specific knowledge and/or practice became untenable. A computer project with "low bus numbers" is in danger of fizzling, but why succumb to this fate if the content has intrinsic interest. Sometimes you just need the right recruiter, advertiser, promoter, to boost the bus number. To that end, I've been actively filing posts to Synergeo, an online public archive, detailing how the system all works.
