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"infinite" - applications expand to consume the energy available.

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James Blish anticipated this sudden official interest in reactionless thrust in his novel, "Welcome to Mars".
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1407404.Welcome_to_Mars

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It all boils down to what you mean by "free". Petroleum is "free" energy, just waiting to be harvested from the rocks. But there are catches, and probably a limited supply.
Tesla towers harvested low frequency oscillations of Earth's magnetic field. Not something you want to drain. "Space elevators" harvest Earth's rotational momentum for cheap (per launch) entry into space. But slowing rotation is not to be taken lightly.
Any source of "free" energy follows the same mathematical principle. Something is rearranged in the universe, increasing total entropy.

Not widely peer reviewed, but people built devices using Davis Mechanics: F = ma + Da' where D is the Davis constant and a' is change in acceleration. This also describes high a' events like heavy metal munitions striking a hardened target like a tank.

@PNS I watched that live as a kid.

@PNS No different than Americans fleeing from Blue City hell holes to a Red city - only to bring the same stupidity that destroyed their former home. Ditto entire states.

"Don't California my Texas"

@PNS I'm with the chick on this one. At least she has a plan with a possibility of working. She's right about the psyche drugs.

The better plan, though, is to turn her life over to Jesus Christ.

@truthbait Jordan wont accept them.

@PNS It was called "home economics" - and was phased out just as I entered high school. Other content, "Sum of the wattage of connected appliances should not exceed the rated wattage of the outlet/circuit."
Also: "Do not mix bleach and ammonia."

@PNS This is similar to what Elon Musk proposed between LAX and SFO - reducing the commute to 20min.

Elon's design was quite fail safe. Instead of maglev, the tubes had a rarefied atmosphere, the cars rode on a cushion of air. Loss of (partial) vacuum would brake the cars by simple physics. Emergency exits at regular intervals, etc, etc

@Richard @PNS It should fix the problem of people believing their lying eyes instead of the news.

@PNS Back when whites were a privileged minority in the majority black South - this is how the "Gone with the Wind" types behaved. In "Black Rednecks and White Liberals" Thomas Sowell suggests that black slaves learned it from their masters.

@PNS Article should put "her" in scare quotes.

@poastoak Banned glyphosate poisoned grains and other nasties from US.

@truthbait Egypt doesn't want them either. How would you compensate Egypt for allowing them in?