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In reference to Richard’s post regarding a separate building for woodworking, I wanted to mention that it is possible to have a woodworking shop and a machine shop coexist with a good dust collection system. My shop is a two car garage space with machine shop on one side and woodworking on the other...

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The solution to the testing problem is to use pooled testing in the form of monitoring virus RNA levels in sewage. This is being done increasingly across the country and internationally, but it needs to be a nationally coordinated effort. A group at the University of Utah recently demonstrated predi...

Am I hearing this correctly? Some are arguing that a for profit company is throwing away money by reusing a booster rocket just so the young people can claim they did better than the old people? Is there no wonder we are regarded as crotchety old farts?

Death numbers are problematic also. It is generally accepted that COVID-19 associated deaths are being undercounted. Total deaths are way up over normally expected numbers, with the increase being much greater than the total deaths attributed to COVID. It is going to get even more difficult as case ...

Is that a fire truck in the photo?

One other suggestion if you live anywhere near water, be mindful of the floor elevation. A little fill dirt can save much hassle later. When I built my lab building, we hadn’t seen a hurricane in twenty years. I put the foundation slab at grade level, and now I find myself sandbagging every year. An...

If you decide to condition your space, I highly recommend the Mitsubishi ductless heat pumps. They are super efficient (SEER up to 26 available). You can buy them online precharged with freon for easy installation. Be careful not to oversize the unit; they are so efficient that they don't stay on lo...

Springer is running a sale on selected textbooks which includes Edward Morse's 2018 text Nuclear Fusion. You can buy a paperback copy for $14.99 where the hardback normally sells for $110.00. https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319981703?mkt-key=42010A0557EB1EDA9CFB4CEAC74BA8E9&sap-outbound-id=147D...

My two pennings worth: It doesn't look like the classic hyperbolic electrode Penning trap is a viable approach to a fusion reactor. The required potentials are too high to avoid breakdown between the closely spaced electrodes. This is another example of something that looks very promising in a compu...