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Where is my Flying Car?
Personal blog · wimflyc.blogspot.comscienceeconomicshardware
Where is my Flying Car? is a personal blog at wimflyc.blogspot.com about science, economics and hardware. Since 2016, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “The Henry Adams Curve: a closer look (2021)”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for posts on the Henry Adams energy curve, building a flying car, PowerPaste fuel, and the Foo Fighters drone-sighting phenomenon.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Ruminations about the way the future was -- and might be.
Most-linked posts?
- The Henry Adams Curve: a closer look (2021)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-11-07
What Hacker News says?
I tried to track this down, found some blogs by the originator, but it only gets more confusing: https://wimflyc.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-henry-adams-curve-c... Henry Adams points out that over 60 years you got 3-4x more power from a ton of coal. That combined with the extra coal dug up, he claims, doubled usable energy every ten years. But then the modern graph simply shows the coal energy, with (as far as I can te…
Comment linking /2021/01/the-henry-adams-curve-closer-look.html
on “Can solar costs keep shrinking?”Submitted Energy Mess in Texas as a story · 41 points
HN discussionIt sounds like these are only visible as lights. Not sure we have any real evidence that there's machinery, there. https://wimflyc.blogspot.com/2021/03/foo-fighters.html seems like a similar phenomenon; maybe there weren't any drones in the first place.
Comment linking /2021/03/foo-fighters.html
on “Multiple US Navy destroyers swarmed by mysterious 'drones' off California coast”Submitted How to Build a Flying Car as a story · 19 points
HN discussionhttps://wimflyc.blogspot.com/2021/02/powerpaste-fuel-of-futu... sounds interesting.
Comment linking /2021/02/powerpaste-fuel-of-future.html
on “How green is blue hydrogen?”Submitted The coming AI phase change as a story · 5 points
HN discussionHe turned it into a series: https://wimflyc.blogspot.com/2021/01/how-to-build-flying-car... https://wimflyc.blogspot.com/2021/01/how-to-build-flying-car... https://wimflyc.blogspot.com/2021/01/how-to-build-flying-car...
Comment linking /2021/01/how-to-build-flying-car-iv-optimal.html?m=1
on “How to Build a Flying Car”Submitted Where is my Flying Car?: The autogyro as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Henry Adams Curve: a closer look (2021) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Henry Adams Curve: a closer look as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
