Re: [Vo]: Re: Re: Lifters

2007-02-17 Thread Harry Veeder
uh sorry I mean suck and push the oil. instead of suck and push the oil force. Harry Harry Veeder wrote: I notice you said they can be MADE TO WORK by sucking and pushing Evidently they only work in the oil medium if another force exists to suck and push the oil force. Now if such

Re: [Vo]: Re: Re: Lifters

2007-02-17 Thread Michel Jullian
No extra force in oil, it works just the same as a lifter it's an EHD thruster, called ion drag pump when the medium is a dielectric liquid and the thruster is stationary: oil molecules are ionized, and ion current from a sharper electrode to a flatter electrode entrains neutrals. You can

RE: [Vo]: Russ George challenges Branson on ABC

2007-02-17 Thread David Thomson
Hi John, Building a nanomachine or a space elevator is hardly near the scale of changing the Earth’s climate. In case you are not aware, volcanism and seismicity have been increasing steadily in the past 6 years. There are many volcanoes that have not erupted for over 10,000 years, which are

Re: [Vo]: Russ George challenges Branson on ABC

2007-02-17 Thread Michel Jullian
I know Michel thought I was kidding her... ... Dave Even worse than I thought. Dave when the MIW come don't forget mentioning you talked with a female Vo :))) Michel

RE: [Vo]: Russ George challenges Branson on ABC

2007-02-17 Thread David Thomson
Hi Michel, I know Michel thought I was kidding her... ... Dave Even worse than I thought. Dave when the MIW come don't forget mentioning you talked with a female Vo :))) Michel What are you trying to say, that you are as crazy as I am? I doubt it! My life is so bizarre even I have

Re: [Vo]: Lifters

2007-02-17 Thread Kyle R. Mcallister
- Original Message - From: Harry Veeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2007 1:56 AM Subject: Re: [Vo]: Lifters I did it with a balance beam and a pointer, and saw nothing significant. Also did it set up as a torsion arm. How did you calibrate

Re: [Vo]: Russ George challenges Branson on ABC

2007-02-17 Thread Michel Jullian
Before you try dating me Dave, you should know that female Vo's exist only in your dreams :) http://www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/1/Michel Michel - Original Message - From: David Thomson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2007 1:54 PM Subject: RE:

RE: [Vo]: Lifters

2007-02-17 Thread David Thomson
Hi Kyle, Classical spacetime is not recognized as a medium, just some mathematics and tensors. And that means what? Do you really think the Universe is made out of dimensionless math equations? It will probably be eventually recognized that there is a physical something to the vacuum, but

Re: [Vo]: Re: Re: Lifters

2007-02-17 Thread Kyle R. Mcallister
- Original Message - From: Michel Jullian [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2007 7:08 AM Subject: Re: [Vo]: Re: Re: Lifters No extra force in oil, it works just the same as a lifter it's an EHD thruster, called ion drag pump when the medium is a

[Vo]: RC'd CO2 harvesting whale herds (was: The $25 Million Branson Climate Prize)

2007-02-17 Thread Michel Jullian
Steven Krivit wrote: Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain Mr. Branson. http://www.newenergytimes.com/SR/CashIn/CashonClimateChange.html So it seems iron fertilization does enhance algae growth after all, by creating more or less instantaneous blooms, and the (old) idea is not

Re: [Vo]: Lifters

2007-02-17 Thread Terry Blanton
On 2/16/07, David Thomson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Michel, Beware of the MIB Dave, unless the MIW get hold of you first? :) I have no clue what you are talking about. Men In White . . . coats, that is. BTW, 'Michel' is usually a man's name in french. Probably the first rap record:

[Vo]: Re: RC'd CO2 harvesting whale herds (was: The $25 Million Branson Climate Prize)

2007-02-17 Thread Michel Jullian
Oh and to remove the ethical fly from the whale oil ointment: _whale liposuction_ to harvest the bladders without killing the whales :)) I googled up the expression and found it had already been suggested e.g.: http://swcamborne.com/archives/business-success/liposuction-for-whales It remains

[Vo]: Re: Re: RC'd CO2 harvesting whale herds (was: The $25 Million Branson Climate Prize)

2007-02-17 Thread Michel Jullian
Oops I mistyped, I meant harvest the blubbers (fat layer under the whale skin, from which whale oil is extracted) not the bladders: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blubber Michel - Original Message - From: Michel Jullian [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Saturday, February

Re: [Vo]: FW: Einstein's Twin Paradox

2007-02-17 Thread Harry Veeder
Harry: The raison d'être of GR is to explain gravity. Stephen: That's right. But you don't need it to resolve the twins problem, which takes place in flat space. I am confused. In your first response to me you started off by saying the opposite: Harry: That works in SR, but the

Re: [Vo]: Lifters

2007-02-17 Thread Harry Veeder
Kyle R. Mcallister wrote: - Original Message - From: Harry Veeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2007 1:56 AM Subject: Re: [Vo]: Lifters I did it with a balance beam and a pointer, and saw nothing significant. Also did it set up as a

[Vo]: Bacterial Gene May Affect Climate

2007-02-17 Thread Harry Veeder
Bacterial Gene May Affect Climate And Weather Science Daily http://www.sciencedaily.com/ A University of Queensland microbiologist is part of an international team that has identified a bacterial gene that may affect climate and weather. Dr Phil Bond, from UQ's Advanced Wastewater Management

Re: [Vo]: Re: Re: Lifters

2007-02-17 Thread Harry Veeder
This is good. Your mechanical analogy is becoming more refined. Harry Michel Jullian wrote: No extra force in oil, it works just the same as a lifter it's an EHD thruster, called ion drag pump when the medium is a dielectric liquid and the thruster is stationary: oil molecules are ionized,

Re: [Vo]: FW: Einstein's Twin Paradox

2007-02-17 Thread John Berry
On 2/17/07, Stephen A. Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An accelerometer is a purely local instrument (which, of course, can't tell the difference between gravity and acceleration). Actually there is a way, or technically 2 ways at least. (besides the fact that experiments have shown that

Re: [Vo]: Re: RC'd CO2 harvesting whale herds (was: The $25 Million Branson Climate Prize)

2007-02-17 Thread Robin van Spaandonk
In reply to Michel Jullian's message of Sat, 17 Feb 2007 15:34:05 +0100: Hi, [snip] Oh and to remove the ethical fly from the whale oil ointment: _whale liposuction_ to harvest the bladders without killing the whales :)) I googled up the expression and found it had already been suggested e.g.:

Re: [Vo]: No Peak Oil

2007-02-17 Thread Terry Blanton
And, from Russia, with love: http://www.vialls.com/wecontrolamerica/peakoil.html

Re: [Vo]: FW: Einstein's Twin Paradox

2007-02-17 Thread Michel Jullian
- Original Message - From: John Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2007 9:18 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]: FW: Einstein's Twin Paradox ...Talking about centrifugal force, you do know that by running around a bucket of water you incurve the water as

Re: [Vo]: Lifters

2007-02-17 Thread Kyle R. Mcallister
- Original Message - From: Harry Veeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2007 1:30 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]: Lifters So the lifter was oriented so it would move horizontally rather than vertically ? In some tests, it was set to move horizontally, in

Re: [Vo]: Re: Re: Lifters

2007-02-17 Thread Kyle R. Mcallister
- Original Message - From: Harry Veeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2007 12:50 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]: Re: Re: Lifters Then why did you say made to work by sucking and pumping the oil? What I mean by that is, the lifter worked, as in

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2007-02-17 Thread Frederick Sparber
Lehmann also claims Bio-Char or Agri-Char in the soil also sequesters atmospheric CO2. Over the years I have noticed that flood irrigation of farmland produces higher crop yields than non-aerated well water, implying that soil CO2 made available to the plant root system aids plant growth.

Re: [Vo]: Re: The $25 Million Branson Climate Prize

2007-02-17 Thread Frederick Sparber
Lehmann (Cornell University) also claims Bio-Char or Agri-Char in the soil also sequesters atmospheric CO2. Over the years I have noticed that flood irrigation of farmland produces higher crop yields than non-aerated well water, implying that soil CO2 made available to the plant root system

Re: [Vo]: Re: Re: Lifters

2007-02-17 Thread Harry Veeder
Kyle R. Mcallister wrote: - Original Message - From: Harry Veeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2007 12:50 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]: Re: Re: Lifters Then why did you say made to work by sucking and pumping the oil? What I mean by that

Re: [Vo]: RC'd CO2 harvesting whale herds (was: The $25 Million Branson Climate Prize)

2007-02-17 Thread Michel Jullian
Hi Robin, thanks for biting :) You're right but the whales would probably make more fat since we would feed them, and we wouldn't have to draw all of it. And we would keep them in warm to temperate waters anyway, where solar exposure is high, for fast plankton growth rate. In any case if

Re: [Vo]: Russ George challenges Branson on ABC

2007-02-17 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Michel Jullian wrote: Mmm, growing the algae without harvesting them _could_ be sufficient (pending calculations), but only for a one off operation: present excess CO2 sequestered into the living algae biomass increase, period. Could win the prize though. What surprises me most with this

Re: [Vo]: Russ George challenges Branson on ABC

2007-02-17 Thread Michel Jullian
- Original Message - From: Stephen A. Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2007 12:55 AM Subject: Re: [Vo]: Russ George challenges Branson on ABC ... Haven't been following this thread closely ... but a number of years ago someone tried the

Re: [Vo]: Russ George challenges Branson on ABC

2007-02-17 Thread Frederick Sparber
Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: Sounds awful and cruel I realize (reminds me of that whale briefly brought into existence together with the petunia pot in The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, was that in the film Fred?), but... if our own survival is at stake, well... your thoughts

[Vo]: Re: RC'd CO2 harvesting whale herds (was: The $25 Million Branson Climate Prize)

2007-02-17 Thread Nick Palmer
More on marine algae etc. Of course, one does not need to pyrolyse the (oil expressed) algae into charcoal. Maybe fertilising the growth of coccolithophores would be even quicker for Branson. Chalk is formed in shallow waters by the gradual accumulation of the calcite mineral remains of

Re: [Vo]: Russ George challenges Branson on ABC

2007-02-17 Thread Michel Jullian
We are all in-seine aren't we, this is Vortex after all :) In any case I think we all agree on the function to be implemented: Local iron fertilization of the ocean surface On the fly harvesting of the algae bloom Conversion to oil and possibly charcoal The rest is mere implementation

[Vo]: Re: Re: RC'd CO2 harvesting whale herds (was: The $25 Million Branson Climate Prize)

2007-02-17 Thread Michel Jullian
Note this might be a better way to save the whales than leaving them alone :) And there may be painless ways to harvest the blubber. Michel - Original Message - From: Nick Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Vortex-L vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2007 1:51 AM Subject: [Vo]:

[Vo]: Re: Re: RC'd CO2 harvesting whale herds (was: The $25 Million Branson Climate Prize)

2007-02-17 Thread Nick Palmer
A few days ago I wrote does anyone know if algal strains exist that can fix their own nitrogen from the atmosphere -or would they need nitrogenous fertiliser added?? without Googling it. Well they do. http://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/b-online/e34/34b.htm or more simply

RE: [Vo]: Re: RC'd CO2 harvesting whale herds (was: The $25 Million Branson Climate Prize)

2007-02-17 Thread Frederick Sparber
You Can Have It Both Ways, Nick. The algae husk contains sugars-starch-cellulose (carbohydrates CxHyOz)n the same as land plants which at about 200 to 350 C exothermally decompose to strong Carbon-Carbon Bonds giving off Carbon Monoxide, H2O, and some H2 along with CO2, ask any fireman that

Re: [Vo]: Russ George challenges Branson on ABC

2007-02-17 Thread Michel Jullian
I forgot to mention, the process should be repeated on the move in open sea rather than e.g. in a bay, so that each iteration occurs at a place where dissolved CO2 and nutrients have not been recently depleted by the previous runs (it takes time for those resources to be restored) Michel

Re: [Vo]: Hysteria over Window Motor

2007-02-17 Thread Terry Blanton
On 2/17/07, Jones Beene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Time will tell. But unlike the Steorn shenanigans and carefully inflicted drama, this time we will likely have a pretty good answer by next week. It looks like a Bendini variant. Reading the thread, the experimenter admits that the motor stops

Re: [Vo]: The Prophet of Garbage - Popular Science

2007-02-17 Thread Terry Blanton
On 2/17/07, RC Macaulay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy Vorts, A link one of my Aggie undergrads sent me. http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/873aae7bf86c0110vgnvcm104eecbccdrcrd.html The plasma convertor is managed by DAVID LYNCH! I will never forget the first movie of his that I saw:

Re: [Vo]: RC'd CO2 harvesting whale herds (was: The $25 Million Branson Climate Prize)

2007-02-17 Thread John Berry
On 2/18/07, Michel Jullian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How does this whale oil scheme sound now ? Somehow, even crazier. And no, not crazy like a fox.

Re: [Vo]: Re: Re: RC'd CO2 harvesting whale herds (was: The $25 Million Branson Climate Prize)

2007-02-17 Thread Harry Veeder
Michel Jullian wrote: Note this might be a better way to save the whales than leaving them alone :) And there may be painless ways to harvest the blubber. Michel By liposuction?? Harry

Re: [Vo]: Hysteria over Window Motor

2007-02-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Terry Blanton wrote: On 2/17/07, Jones Beene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Time will tell. But unlike the Steorn shenanigans and carefully inflicted drama, this time we will likely have a pretty good answer by next week. It looks like a Bendini variant. Reading the thread, the experimenter

Re: [Vo]: Hysteria over Window Motor

2007-02-17 Thread Terry Blanton
On 2/17/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is clearly the Smoking Gun ***UNLESS*** Mike is being deceitful. Only time will tell which is the case. I hope you are right. Here is the post to which I referred: Here are some help tips from Mike( User HMM) Yes 6 magnets on

Re: [Vo]: FW: Einstein's Twin Paradox

2007-02-17 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Harry Veeder wrote: Harry: The raison d'être of GR is to explain gravity. Stephen: That's right. But you don't need it to resolve the twins problem, which takes place in flat space. I am confused. In your first response to me you started off by saying the opposite: Harry: That

Re: [Vo]: Re: The $25 Million Branson Climate Prize

2007-02-17 Thread Frederick Sparber
http://www.css.cornell.edu/faculty/lehmann/biochar/Biochar_projects.htm Currently (January 2007) we conduct experiments to evaluate the effects of bio-char on nutrient adsorption, nutrient leaching, water percolation, soil water availability and carbon cycling as well as the stability and