Capacitors tied to a nuclear battery. There are several different designs that would work - thermocouple/thermophotovoltaic, thermionic, alpha/betavoltaic, a handful of others - but a constant-produc… (View Post)
Depends very heavily on a few factors. So, to build a comparison, we need to figure out the amounts of light we're talking about. So what does that mean in real terms? In other words, make sure you b… (View Post)
Don't feel too cheated, @0x6A7232, because that guy certainly is cheating. Free-divers, particularly those going for depth records, really game the system hard to achieve their marks. First off, thei… (View Post)
Personally, I'm in favor of field-type repelling devices. Nothing to animate, so no framerate hit, reasonable from a science standpoint (adverse reaction to stimuli), and solves a gameplay problem. :) (View Post)
Well, then I guess I need to throw this out there: that was a dumb change. If that's what they're going with - and only they know why on Earth or any other planet they'd pull such a boneheaded move -… (View Post)