Jones wrote. If you live in a country with little coal, hydro, oil or
gas, 35 cents is about average.
But we don't. (not to mention LENR) So why build the Brightsource plant
here?
From: a.ashfield
Jones wrote. If you live in a country with little coal, hydro, oil or
gas, 35 cents is about average.
But we don't. (not to mention LENR) So why build the Brightsource plant
here?
Sorry to inform you that a few places in the USA do indeed pay this rate or
higher
a.ashfield a.ashfi...@verizon.net wrote:
Jones wrote. If you live in a country with little coal, hydro, oil or
gas, 35 cents is about average.
But we don't. (not to mention LENR) So why build the Brightsource plant
here?
You are missing the point. We have to build these things here and
From: Jed Rothwell
Is it worth the risk? Google apparently thought it was for a
while, then they changed their minds. Maybe they will change their minds
back again.
Apparently, they did change their minds back again. PRESS RELEASE:
Ivanpah Solar Electric
From Japanese exchange MtGox, now closed. No guarantees, no
insurance. Someones are out half a billion bucks. One of the largest
thefts in history (excluding congressional thefts).
No, they had already commited their money a couple of years ago for
Ivanpah. They decided to not invest anymore in solar thermal.
I can slap in a 50 MW peaking solar PV field in a couple months for 1/2 the
price and a year and 1/2 faster than a solar thermal plant. Obsolete
technology. Period
Hello John Berry,
Yes, I am forced to write date as you say. Logic? No way. Then you ought to
start with seconds when you give the time. Correct is of course /MM/DD
just like the time HH/MM/SS.
Another thing to pick up from Europe is the usage of 24 hour clock and to
use the week number for
Jed wrote.You are missing the point. We have to build these things here
and now if we want to reduce the cost and play a future role in this
technology. We cannot let China and other countries do all of RD now
and then later expect to be in this business. We cannot expect the first
units to
a.ashfield a.ashfi...@verizon.net wrote:
That is false logic. You might as well claim Tokamaks are the answer, and
we should do the research here, no matter what the cost, or be left
behind. The problem is of course that if the system is fundamentally
uneconomic no amount of research is
Flat mirrors, water boilers and steam turbine manufacturing have
already evolved, like the wheel
On Tuesday, February 25, 2014, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote:
a.ashfield
a.ashfi...@verizon.netjavascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','a.ashfi...@verizon.net');
wrote:
That is false logic.
From: ChemE Stewart
I can slap in a 50 MW peaking solar PV field in a couple months for 1/2 the
price and a year and 1/2 faster than a solar thermal plant. Obsolete
technology. Period
That is very short sighted. It ignores the inevitable progress and the vast
possibilities for synergy in
ChemE Stewart cheme...@gmail.com wrote:
Flat mirrors, water boilers and steam turbine manufacturing have
already evolved, like the wheel
Combustion technology (fire) is by far the oldest and best developed
technology, but it has made tremendous strides in the last 50 years, and
there is no
That is not brightsource high pressure 1500 psig, Home Depot mirrors, water
boiler and steam turbine technology so no, I am not short sited.
You listed a hybrid PV technology to cool cells and re-use low grade heat.
Big difference.
On Tuesday, February 25, 2014, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net
To be clear, the source of this news was a document that apparently was
forged.
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/feb/25/bitcoin-exchange-mtgox-offline-amid-rumours-of-theft
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote:
From Japanese exchange MtGox, now
Even greenie weenies don't like it, in addition to avian roast
http://www.greenbiz.com/blog/2014/02/19/largest-solar-thermal-plant-completed-ivanpah
On Tuesday, February 25, 2014, ChemE Stewart cheme...@gmail.com wrote:
That is not brightsource high pressure 1500 psig, Home Depot mirrors,
ChemE Stewart cheme...@gmail.com wrote:
That is not brightsource high pressure 1500 psig, Home Depot mirrors . . .
Would you please stop saying Home Depot mirrors. This is technically
inaccurate and disrespectful. You know darn well these are high-tech,
carefully engineered mirrors, nothing
ChemE Stewart cheme...@gmail.com wrote:
Even greenie weenies don't like it, in addition to avian roast
And stop using derogatory names like greenie weenie. That is
inappropriate to this forum.
- Jed
It might make a good bird feeder
On Tuesday, February 25, 2014, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote:
ChemE Stewart
cheme...@gmail.comjavascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','cheme...@gmail.com');
wrote:
That is not brightsource high pressure 1500 psig, Home Depot mirrors . . .
Would you
My tax money helped pay for it, I can call it what I want. I have designed
a solar thermal plant. How any have you designed Jed?
On Tuesday, February 25, 2014, ChemE Stewart cheme...@gmail.com wrote:
It might make a good bird feeder
On Tuesday, February 25, 2014, Jed Rothwell
What are you talking about?
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 2:37 PM, James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote:
To be clear, the source of this news was a document that apparently was
forged.
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/feb/25/bitcoin-exchange-mtgox-offline-amid-rumours-of-theft
On Tue,
ChemE Stewart cheme...@gmail.com wrote:
My tax money helped pay for it, I can call it what I want. I have designed
a solar thermal plant.
Since you designed one, you damn well should see these are not Home Depot
consumer-grade mirrors, and you should have more respect for your
colleagues who
On 02/25/2014 02:59 PM, Terry Blanton wrote:
What are you talking about?
Bitcoins are an international crypto-currency which exist solely in a
decentralized fashion on the internet. They allow people to send and
receive bitcoins, as money, from anywhere in the world, with almost
immediate
Just one word: FUD. I don't think it is true that many BTC are missing.
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Craig cchayniepub...@gmail.com wrote:
On 02/25/2014 02:59 PM, Terry Blanton wrote:
What are you talking about?
Bitcoins are an international crypto-currency which exist solely in a
Craig cchayniepub...@gmail.com wrote:
On 02/25/2014 02:59 PM, Terry Blanton wrote:
What are you talking about?
Bitcoins are an international crypto-currency which exist solely in a
decentralized fashion on the internet. They allow people to send and
receive bitcoins, as money, from
744,408 missing coins. I understand how it works. I was asking James
why he said something about a forged document? I read nothing about
any forged documents. There are rumors of money laundering.
This comes on the heels of JP Morgan announcing their intent to launch
a virtual (read
Recently posted by the Chinese bitcoin exchange btc-e.com :
BTC-e Statement regarding MtGox possible insolvency
25.02.14 17:31 from admin
Dear BTC-e.com participants,
We are concerned by MtGox shutdown and would like to assure you that:
1. MtGox losses do not affect account balances or the
Today's ruckus started with the anonymous posting of this document:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/209050732/MtGox-Situation-Crisis-Strategy-Draft
The veracity of the document has not been established and there are reasons
to believe it is not authentic.
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 1:59 PM, Terry
The technology of hundreds of thousands of flat mirrors pointed across
hundreds of acres at a water boiler hundreds of feet in the air cycling at
thousands of lbs pressure is obsolete. The MIT PhDs need to go work in a
power plant and not just do an energy balance. It is capital intensive,
On 02/25/2014 03:47 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote:
So I've heard. Ummm . . . What was that again are you talking about? I
still don't get it.
I have heard it is evil but I wouldn't know. See:
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/28/bitcoin-is-evil/
- Jed
Well, it's a political issue to call
My take on the document is that it makes no sense for the following simple
reason:
If you take a look at the page that says Financial Assets and
Liabilities, they list their Bitcoin assets as 2,000 and the Bitcoin
liabilities as 744,408 all of which they count as theft that took place
over a 5
In reply to Kevin O'Malley's message of Mon, 24 Feb 2014 23:18:05 -0800:
Hi,
[snip]
All:
I found an interesting Cold FusionTheory Wiki
http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Cold_fusion/Theory
It's a start, at least.
Over the years I have provided many examples of how Hydrinos could result in
fission
James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote:
My take on the document is that it makes no sense for the following simple
reason:
If you take a look at the page that says Financial Assets and
Liabilities, they list their Bitcoin assets as 2,000 and the Bitcoin
liabilities as 744,408 all of which
What is sensible about not noticing that you were being robbed of a
significant portion of your assets for years on end?
The Wall Street debacles were nothing like this. Those were market
bubbles. While there may be a market bubble popped by this the thing
popping it is this theft.
Perhaps
BTC-e is not chines but Bulgarian.
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote:
Recently posted by the Chinese bitcoin exchange btc-e.com :
BTC-e Statement regarding MtGox possible insolvency
25.02.14 17:31 from admin
Dear BTC-e.com participants,
We are
Bitcoin will be 1 Million dollars by 2019.
And it is not evil. It is a revolutionary technology. Look it up.
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 6:19 PM, Giovanni Santostasi
gsantost...@gmail.comwrote:
BTC-e is not chines but Bulgarian.
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com
Giovanni Santostasi gsantost...@gmail.com wrote:
Bitcoin will be 1 Million dollars by 2019.
Until a 16-year-old Russian Hacker gets into the bank, the way one got into
the Target credit files. A week after that, the Bitcoin will be worth
$14.38.
- Jed
There are two layers to the Bitcoin infrastructure:
The wire-transfer/public ledgers.
The exchanges.
The wire-transfer/public ledger software is compact and highly vetted.
The exchanges are just websites.
The exchanges are not necessary.
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 6:46 PM, Jed Rothwell
On 02/25/2014 07:46 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote:
Giovanni Santostasi gsantost...@gmail.com
mailto:gsantost...@gmail.com wrote:
Bitcoin will be 1 Million dollars by 2019.
Until a 16-year-old Russian Hacker gets into the bank, the way one got
into the Target credit files. A week after that,
Craig cchayniepub...@gmail.com wrote:
There is no bank. There are over 100,000 nodes maintaining a shared public
ledger as to who owns what. Every time a transaction is made, it goes into
the public ledger.
Whatever there is or is not, someone walked off with 700,000 units of it,
if this
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 8:58 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote:
Whatever there is or is not, someone walked off with 700,000 units of it, if
this report is accurate. That's worth $70 million, or maybe it is worth $7
million, or maybe it is worth nothing.
Go to btc-e.com. Currently
According to the current blockchain
https://blockchain.info/charts/total-bitcoins
there are 12,400,000 units in circulation representing a lot of money.
Google mining bitcoins.
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 9:04 PM, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 8:58 PM, Jed
You can mine your own bitcoins using an application specific integrated circuits
http://www.amazon.com/ASICMiner-Block-Erupter-USB-Sapphire/dp/B00CUJT7TO/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8qid=1393380571sr=8-2keywords=bitcoin+asics
You should really study this Jed. It's sorta free money. Next we
will talk
Litecoin is an improvement over bitcoin. Every holder of a litecoin
wallet maps the blockchain.
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 9:11 PM, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote:
You can mine your own bitcoins using an application specific integrated
circuits
That's $6.9B in mined bitcoins.
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 9:09 PM, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote:
According to the current blockchain
https://blockchain.info/charts/total-bitcoins
there are 12,400,000 units in circulation representing a lot of money.
Google mining bitcoins.
On
I've studied bitcoin and litecoin for several months now. Both have
wiki articles which take a while to understand what's going on. You
create the coins by solving encryption puzzles. As more coins are
mined, the puzzles get more complex. Bitcoin has been around for a
while and are very
On 02/25/2014 08:58 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote:
As Krugman says, To be successful, money must be both a medium of
exchange and a reasonably stable store of value. BitCoins fail #2
because the value fluctuates and also, apparently, because they are
not secure against theft.
- Jed
The only thing
Impressive!
It's supposed to be analogous to mining gold. The minimum value is
determined by the value of the effort
to extract it ( man-hours or power equivalents, etc. ). That's why they
call it mining.
That sets the lower limit on its value and prevents much inflation --
brilliant.
What I
Craig cchayniepub...@gmail.com wrote:
The only thing that bugs me about your statement is that you think
bitcoins are not secure against theft. They are, in fact, as secure as you
make them. It's not a Bitcoin flaw.
Oh yes it is. The problem is built into the BitCoin origin in
Well, I can tell you that the Bilderbergers DO NOT LIKE BITCOIN. LOL!
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 9:44 PM, Hoyt A. Stearns Jr.
hoyt-stea...@cox.net wrote:
Impressive!
Virtual Currencies (VC) allow anonymous transactions. Look up Silk
Road. People were buying drugs of all sorts. Today people have
bought houses with bitcoin.
Banking hates it. China banned bitcoin
Hoyt A. Stearns Jr. hoyt-stea...@cox.net wrote:
It's supposed to be analogous to mining gold. The minimum value is
determined by the value of the effort
to extract it ( man-hours or power equivalents, etc. ). That's why they
call it mining.
That sets the lower limit on its value and
The recent Mt. Gox development is fascinating to watch.
Some important details:
- There's no hard evidence at any point that anyone has lost their
bitcoins. Bitcoin transactions are permanently recorded in a distributed
ledger, whose distributed character makes it quite difficult to
It's an exchange. It could be embezzlement.
Might the mechanical telephone will make a comeback?
Probably not since all communication seems to be going wireless these days.
But who knows...
Pulsion Telephone Company certificate and ad from 1889
http://scripophily.net/imputesecoma.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_can_telephone
For a
Do you know about the Earth's natural Schumann Resonance? There is a theory
that life evolved so as to become adapted to it and our EM broadcasts are
interfering with this adaptation.
Harry
On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 11:48 PM, ChemE Stewart cheme...@gmail.com wrote:
I didn't say cell phones were
It is not possible. Bitcoin network itself is not hackable as credit cards
are. The vulnerabilities are in centralized places like exchanges that do
not take precautions to protect customers accounts (as cold wallets). A
network is very resistant to attacks like this. Look what is happening to
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