Re: [Vo]:GM VP reveals his true feelings

2008-02-27 Thread Jed Rothwell
OrionWorks wrote: Stating that Lutz Co. really haven't the slightest interest in the environmental cause is an expressed opinion as well, even if a lot of the facts given to back up that opinion are, to say the least, damning. . . . I wouldn't say they haven't the slightest interest. I think

Re: [Vo]:Nuke causes massive power outage

2008-02-27 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mike Carrell wrote: Jed, you got this wrong. The power outage was caused by a fault at a substation, which disturbed the network and pieces of it disconnected to prevent damage to eqluipment. . . . The nuclear plant *did not cause the shutdown*. Yup. Later reports confirm that. Here's one:

[Vo]:Nelson Ying back in the news

2008-02-27 Thread Jed Rothwell
This is weird: http://www.wesh.com/education/15418063/detail.html The event is named after Dr. Nelson Ying, whose sponsorship provides for a high percentage of the event's budget. Ying is a nuclear physicist and entrepreneur who was a leading researcher on the cold fusion project. A

[Vo]:A palladium, heavy water, radio frequency experiment was conducted

2008-02-27 Thread FZNIDARSIC
I believe that the coherence length is equal to the downshifted Compton wavelength. Do you have a formula for this, and how does it differ from the definition of the De Broglie wavelength? BTW, did you notice the Fermi velocity? Regards, Robin van Spaandonk The Fermi velocities are

Re: [Vo]:GM VP reveals his true feelings

2008-02-27 Thread OrionWorks
Jed sez: ... This reminds me a little of a recent hysterical column by Kinsley: http://www.slate.com/id/2185134/ Funny! Ms. Iseman certainly has the appearance of sweet eye candy. Under the circumstances I think Mongo (from Blazing Saddles) had the right attitude. KISS, even if there might

Re: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC Amazingly stable public opinion poll

2008-02-27 Thread Jed Rothwell
After 8 days of stasis, the Gallup poll numbers have finally changed, with a significant difference between the candidates: http://www.gallup.com/poll/104611/Gallup-Daily-Tracking-Election-2008.aspx From the point of view of polling and demographics, I would say this is the most complex and

Re: [Vo]:Nuke causes massive power outage

2008-02-27 Thread R C Macaulay
Howdy Jed, One of the 20 worse polluting USA coal fired electric power plants, The FPP plant ,Fayette county Texas has a problem. Seems their effort in finally getting the scrubber installed ( a little oversight when constructing it some 40 years ago...) hmmm. the concrete foundation for

Re: [Vo]:Nuke causes massive power outage

2008-02-27 Thread leaking pen
if this were true, if there would be a shortage due to time taken to make a safer cleaner plant, well, then we need a shortage! On 2/27/08, R C Macaulay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy Jed, One of the 20 worse polluting USA coal fired electric power plants, The FPP plant ,Fayette county Texas

Re: [Vo]:Nuke causes massive power outage

2008-02-27 Thread Jed Rothwell
R C Macaulay wrote: Not to be outdone.. as no Texas power producer can .. the Houston ship channel industries old Reliant power plant, one of 4 fallen into bankruptcy because of rising fuel costs and too broke to install pollution equipment, was resurrected from the dead and sold for 450m

Re: [Vo]:GM VP reveals his true feelings

2008-02-27 Thread Terry Blanton
Two problems: 1) Dealer automobile service centers are also independent profit centers. Electric cars need brake shoes and tires. . . that's about it. 2) The entire highway structure is maintained (financed) on state and federal gasoline taxes. No gas . . . no taxes. Recently, Georgia

Re: [Vo]:GM VP reveals his true feelings

2008-02-27 Thread Robin van Spaandonk
In reply to Terry Blanton's message of Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:53:36 -0500: Hi, [snip] Two problems: 1) Dealer automobile service centers are also independent profit centers. Electric cars need brake shoes ...in fact less of these too, because of regenerative braking. and tires. . . that's

Re: [Vo]:A palladium, heavy water, radio frequency experiment was conducted

2008-02-27 Thread Robin van Spaandonk
In reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s message of Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:39:41 EST: Hi Frank, [snip] BTW, did you notice the Fermi velocity? [snip] The Fermi velocities are quite high. I was struck by how close the Fermi velocity is to your MHz-m, and wondered if there might be a connection? [snip] I