Jesse H

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At this point you may as well use stones or bricks or even metal blocks for the thermal mass. The salts are not cheap and the others are. The only reason to use a salt is to take advantage of...
Commented on Trapped in the wrong trouser-leg of time
The problem is all of the issues we describe are addressable, but each requires design compromises, devices, maintenance etc to address, and each of these add cost. I'm working through many of these for the first time, but as an...
Commented on Trapped in the wrong trouser-leg of time
We will not be seeing molten slat systems for home use. Ever. I am working through the engineering for a lab scale molten salt system. It is serious industrial kit, and would be about as attractive as having a home...

Common Misconceptions About Publishing—a series of essays about the industry I work in.
How I Got Here In The End —my non-writing autobiography, or what I did before becoming a full-time writer.
Unwirer—an experiment in weblog mediated collaborative fiction.
Shaping the Future—a talk I gave on the social implications of Moore's Law.
Japan: first impressions — or, what I did on my holidays
Inside the MIT Media Lab—what it’s like to spend a day wandering around the Media Lab.
The High Frontier, Redux — space colonization: feasible or futile?
“Nothing like this will be built again”—inside a nuclear reactor complex.
Old blog—2003-2006 (RIP)