Re:[Vo]:Electrostic Tornadoes and Hurricanes?

2021-09-11 Thread Michael Foster
I think we have a chicken and egg problem here. I'm not sure if it was Alfred Baez or I who have it backwards, if it is backwards. I can no longer find any reference to Baez's comments on this subject on the internet. Hey.. William Beaty, if you're asleep at your keyboard, wake up and help us

[Vo]: Electrostatic Tornadoes and Hurricanes?

2021-09-09 Thread Michael Foster
Decades ago, Alfred Baez (physicist and father of Joan) proposed that hurricanes and/or tornadoes might be electrostatically driven. The idea being that the charge imbalance between the periphery and the center might drive the vortex. Yes folks, I'm posting something about vortices here on

[Vo]:Scientific Papers

2021-06-15 Thread Michael Foster
I read a lot of scientific papers covering a broad variety of subjects. It's how I amuse myself, even though I am not a scientist. Some people play golf, I read scientific papers. I'm sure many of you on this list have noticed that papers on research payed for with your tax dollars are not

Re: [Vo]:Hydrino validation?

2021-06-15 Thread Michael Foster
. On Friday, June 11, 2021, 10:30:56 PM GMT+1, Jones Beene wrote: Most interesting, Michael.  It would be even more so (to Mills' investors :-)  ... if there had been some of the Mills' UV lines as predicted - 27.2 eV , 13.6 eV and so on. Did you see any UV lines at all? Michael Foster wrote

Re: [Vo]:quantum effects coming out of a cavitating cleaner

2021-06-11 Thread Michael Foster
I'd like to try this myself, but I can find no other reference to the phenomenon other than yours. By cavitating cleaner do you mean an ordinary ultrasonic cleaner, or is it something different? How much power is needed? What size and thickness of foil are used, etc.? If the surface of the

Re: [Vo]:Hydrino validation?

2021-06-11 Thread Michael Foster
I tried this and it looks really kewl indeed. The potassium chloride I used was pure enough that if you do a simple flame test, you don't get any of that yellow-orange sodium color. I watched the sparking with a 1500 lpm diffraction grating and the double D lines of sodium are way too bright

Re: Dave Beaty Re: [Vo]:ufo report to be coming out in a month

2021-05-22 Thread Michael Foster
I can't blame anyone for staying away from the UFO "community". Real information is really difficult to weed out of the profusion of BS that pervades. There is so much fakery and pseudo-religion associated with what are probably real phenomena, that it is wise not to become involved. But

Re: [Vo]:nuclear salt water reactor for propulsion in space

2021-05-05 Thread Michael Foster
Well Robin, that certainly bursts my thorium bubble. Should have thought of that myself. It's still not a crazy idea. And as you point out, plutonium could be even better. The main problem with the whole concept is that it would really have to be built in space. Testing this out in the

Re: [Vo]:nuclear salt water reactor for propulsion in space

2021-05-04 Thread Michael Foster
What's crazy about it? It appears to be more promising than anything else for interstellar travel, unless we discover the reactionless drive that many have proposed. But there is no reactionless drive yet. So why not try this? Furthermore, I think there might be a major improvement possible

Re: [Vo]:Coincidence ?

2021-04-22 Thread Michael Foster
This photopolymer is also highly active at the green mercury line 546.1 nm, which was the original purpose for this particular formulation. Of course, it's rather unlikely that this phenomenon is related to the subject at hand. On Monday, April 19, 2021, 07:24:47 PM GMT, Robin wrote:

Re: [Vo]:Coincidence ?

2021-04-19 Thread Michael Foster
Not sure as to the nature of your question. If you mean the peak of the 532 nm light source, it's extremely narrow. It comes from a frequency doubled YLF laser with an etalon giving a greater than 15 meter coherence length. If you mean the peak efficiency of the photopolymer, it's fairly broad

Re: [Vo]:Coincidence ?

2021-04-18 Thread Michael Foster
Ok, here's another coincidence. For years I have been using a photopolymer whose quantum yield is far over unity. This is a formulation I discovered by a lot of experimenting. I use this in my work, so it remains and will remain a trade secret. And the preferred wavelength iswait for

Re: [Vo]:Carbon transmutation video?

2021-04-13 Thread Michael Foster
I have no idea why this subject continues to be controversial in the slightest. There are any number of carbon arc configurations that produce elemental transmutation of carbon to iron. I have done this repeatedly myself. The last time, years ago, I used spectroscope grade carbon rods to make

Re: [Vo]:How the Holmlid mechanism works

2021-02-26 Thread Michael Foster
Jones, your comment made me laugh out loudGlad someone still has a sense of humor in these times. On Thursday, February 25, 2021, 04:45:27 PM GMT+1, JonesBeene wrote: Could it really be that simple?

Re: [Vo]:a better incandescent light bulb

2021-02-17 Thread Michael Foster
Here is yet another example of how broken science has become. The fundamental theoretical concept of this research has merit. The possibility of a practical manufacturing process is remote and the researchers know it. It's an interesting little project to amuse the scientists and get (you

Re: [Vo]:Physics Today does not allow references to peer-reviewed cold fusion literature

2021-02-17 Thread Michael Foster
Jed, from my point of view, I needed a personal "trigger warning" before reading this. My head may explode. My contention that science is broken is yet reinforced by what you say here. The lack of applied science is really a symptom of the wholesale de-industrialization of the U.S. and other

Re: [Vo]:Sodium Ion Batteries

2021-02-10 Thread Michael Foster
I didn't want to take such a deep dive into this subject, but it seems possible that sodium ion batteries could have an even higher energy density per mass and per volume than the present lithium ion batteries. Research into the intercalation of hard carbon with Prussian Blue analogs (various

[Vo]:Sodium Ion Batteries

2021-02-09 Thread Michael Foster
This subject may be common knowledge to many on this list, but I was unaware of it. I was wondering if the lithium in the batteries we all use could be replaced with sodium so I just did a web search (I, like many, no longer google) and found there has been considerable research going on in

[VO]:Sobering Energy Stats

2021-02-01 Thread Michael Foster
As an early cold fusion enthusiast and experimenter, I was hoping CF would be the answer to inexpensive clean personal distributed energy production. So far, nothing much has come of it, although it seems obvious to me that the effect is real and much more needs to be done with it. Can major

Re: [Vo]:New drug for COVID

2021-01-26 Thread Michael Foster
I promised myself I wouldn't post any more off topic messages here. But really there is no other topic these days. So. Remdesivir, promoted by that evil demon Fauci, is a Big Pharma dream drug. It's very expensive and it doesn't really work. I'm sure that this new drug Aplidin is 30 times

Re: [Vo]:Data processing errors in the COVID-19 vaccination program

2021-01-19 Thread Michael Foster
This is serious stuff. In your opinion, Jed, is this something like an artifact of the unimaginably complex operating systems and networks we now have? Or maybe it's the way those in charge of data processing relate to these systems through the software available. As you pointed out, you could

Re: [Vo]:Good news about the pandemic at last

2020-11-21 Thread Michael Foster
ay, November 21, 2020, 04:17:52 PM GMT+1, Jed Rothwell wrote: Michael Foster wrote: Yes, you are correct about the 6% figure. They merely stated that 6% of cases that listed covid19 as the sole cause of death failed to list the co-morbidities. Correct. COVID-19 itself does not kill patie

Re: [Vo]:Good news about the pandemic at last

2020-11-20 Thread Michael Foster
GMT+1, Jed Rothwell wrote: Michael Foster wrote:   The CDC itself has said only about 6% of reported mortality could reliably be attributed to the virus. No, it did not say that. You have misunderstood. Please stop spreading such misinformation.  When you take that into account, the c

Re: [Vo]:Good news about the pandemic at last

2020-11-19 Thread Michael Foster
Interesting info, Jed. Thanks. I hope these vaccines are effective, not because they need to be, but because it will calm down the unnecessary panic over this relatively low risk virus. There are no reliable statistics about the virus. False positives and negatives abound. The CDC itself has

Re: [Vo]:acoustic prism

2020-11-03 Thread Michael Foster
Clever and interesting... But this device is not an acoustic analog of an optical prism. It's much closer to an acoustic diffraction device. On Sunday, November 1, 2020, 06:13:08 PM UTC, H LV wrote: Engineers Debut the Acoustic Prism The device splits sounds without digital help

Re: [Vo]:Out of 1920

2020-09-16 Thread Michael Foster
I guess I'm the oldest of the old guys on this list. I inherited some high impedance headphones from my father who used them when he built crystal sets in the 20s. Naturally, I used them for my own crystal sets. These babies had 30,000 ohms impedance. 3000 ohms impedance would have been

Re: [Vo]:Nasty Microsoft

2020-09-14 Thread Michael Foster
Sorry you got conned by Microsoft, Frank. Their totalitarian approach to computer software is reprehensible. If you don't switch to a Linux OS, you should at least download Libre Office, it's free and will pretty much do anything you would want in terms of a word processor, spread sheet and the

Re: [Vo]:Unexplained Magnetic Phenomenon EXPLAINED

2020-09-08 Thread Michael Foster
This phenomenon is truly remarkable. I tried reading the paper and now my head hurts. From what I gather, numerous "scientists" are circling the wagons to debunk this work. Has anyone replicated? It seems like a replication attempt wouldn't be too difficult or prohibitively expensive.

Re: [Vo]:[EE] Wireless power transmission

2020-08-05 Thread Michael Foster
I see what you mean. I was unaware of their focused beam method. OTOH, Tesla did invent radio as we know it , but no one seems to know that.. I'm not a slavish Tesla fan, but the history is reasonably clear. This system wouldn't solve the power distribution problem either, since the lack of

Re: [Vo]:[EE] Wireless power transmission

2020-08-05 Thread Michael Foster
I read this article. Don't you find it more than a little annoying that Mr. Tesla is nowhere mentioned? This is important. No doubt everyone other than auto mechanics and people who like the hear the vroom-vroom would like to switch to electric cars. The problem is there doesn't seem to be

Re: [Vo]:ThomasGas - is it just another alternative energy scam ?

2020-07-30 Thread Michael Foster
I think the most interesting thing about limelight is how almost all the emitted radiation seems to be in the visible spectrum. Carbon arc, for example, has lots of UV and IR for the same amount of energy input. Don't know the explanation for that. Those thorium gas mantles seem to have the

Re: [Vo]:ThomasGas - is it just another alternative energy scam ?

2020-07-30 Thread Michael Foster
I can just see the oxygen and hydrogen lines running throughout my house, with the solar panels powering the electrolysis cell outside. There would be little pieces of marble clamped onto ceramic stand-offs with tiny torches aimed at them. "Did you change the marble chips this week, Honey?

Re: [Vo]:ThomasGas - is it just another alternative energy scam ?

2020-07-30 Thread Michael Foster
Sorry Bob, I shouldn't have referred to my little ad hoc experiment as an "investigation". It was more like, "What if I look at a lime light with a hand held spectroscope to see what's there?" What I saw was what you'd expect to see: Dim calcium and hydrogen lines along with the ever-present

Re: [Vo]:ThomasGas - is it just another alternative energy scam ?

2020-07-28 Thread Michael Foster
On Saturday, July 25, 2020, 03:18:17 PM UTC, Jones Beene wrote: >Wiki has its entry under "Oxyhydrogen" but the explosive mixture has also been >called HHO, "knallgas," town gas, "common manifold electrolysis" and more. Maybe Thomas Gas is the breakthrough which will open the subject up

Re: [Vo]:ThomasGas - is it just another alternative energy scam ?

2020-07-28 Thread Michael Foster
On Saturday, July 25, 2020, 03:18:17 PM UTC, Jones Beene wrote: >Wiki has its entry under "Oxyhydrogen" but the explosive mixture has also been >called HHO, "knallgas," town gas, "common manifold electrolysis" and more. Maybe Thomas Gas is the breakthrough which will open the

Re: [Vo]:ThomasGas - is it just another alternative energy scam ?

2020-07-28 Thread Michael Foster
On Saturday, July 25, 2020, 03:18:17 PM UTC, Jones Beene wrote: >Wiki has its entry under "Oxyhydrogen" but the explosive mixture has also been >called HHO, "knallgas," town gas, "common manifold electrolysis" and more. Maybe Thomas Gas is the breakthrough which will open the subject up

Re: [Vo]:"Burning"hydrogen with argon ?

2020-06-17 Thread Michael Foster
I believe we are engaged in a nostalgic postmortem. No? CF/LENR has been systematically beaten to death by members of the scientific establishment afraid of losing their grants, especially the ITER nuts with the huge budgets.

Re: [Vo]:"Burning"hydrogen with argon ?

2020-06-16 Thread Michael Foster
A couple of observations. If you are worried about the mechanical resonance of this reaction, don't use an engine with a crankshaft. Instead, just have a spring loaded piston with an adjustable tension to match the resonance of the reaction. Energy could then be extracted by electromagnetic

Re: [Vo]:Strange but true

2020-04-27 Thread Michael Foster
My oh my! Look at these ingredients. active ingredient (in each tablet): famotidine 20 mg (acid reducer) inactive ingredients: carnauba wax, hydroxypropyl cellulose, hypromellose, magnesium stearate, microcrystalline cellulose, pregelatinized starch, talc, titanium dioxide. With the carnauba

Re: [Vo]:Everyone household should have one! Detect CV early!

2020-04-23 Thread Michael Foster
Very funny, Jones. Ghee, in the Punjab, they sure know the cure ease…

Re: [Vo]:Everyone household should have one! Detect CV early!

2020-04-23 Thread Michael Foster
That NY Times article is really informative. Thanks for the link. It points out what few people realize, which is when you are gasping for breath, it's not from lack of oxygen, it's the build up of carbon dioxide. That's just the way our bodies work to regulate oxygen levels. Worked OK for

Re: [Vo]:Solution to the Pandemic! And the next one...

2020-04-22 Thread Michael Foster
o pull our heads out. On Wednesday, April 22, 2020, 12:13:51 AM UTC, Terry Blanton wrote: On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 3:32 PM Michael Foster wrote: Yes, 254 nm is an excellent virus killer. However, unlike 222 nm, long term exposure to 254 nm can cause damage to the eyes and skin. As Jonathan Berr

Re: [Vo]:Solution to the Pandemic! And the next one...

2020-04-22 Thread Michael Foster
test On Wednesday, April 22, 2020, 12:13:51 AM UTC, Terry Blanton wrote: On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 3:32 PM Michael Foster wrote: Yes, 254 nm is an excellent virus killer. However, unlike 222 nm, long term exposure to 254 nm can cause damage to the eyes and skin. As Jonathan Berry

Re: [Vo]:Solution to the Pandemic! And the next one...

2020-04-21 Thread Michael Foster
Soap stings my eyes and makes me choke when I inhale it :-) On Tuesday, April 21, 2020, 07:50:34 PM UTC, ChemE Stewart wrote: How about just wash with soap :) On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 3:32 PM Michael Foster wrote: Yes, 254 nm is an excellent virus killer. However, unlike 222 nm

Re: [Vo]:Solution to the Pandemic! And the next one...

2020-04-21 Thread Michael Foster
what seem to be at the most optimistic to be a roughly 1% fatality rate. I have found two US manufacturers of 222nm bulbs, not sure though that either have enough output. Good to know it's krypton chloride, wasn't aware. On Tue, 21 Apr 2020 at 04:35, Michael Foster wrote: This is a really good idea. Fortunatel

Re: [Vo]:Solution to the Pandemic! And the next one...

2020-04-20 Thread Michael Foster
This is a really good idea. Fortunately, the U.S. can supply its own krypton. 222 nm lamps are krypton chloride excimer bulbs. Maybe we can wise up and make the lamps in the United States. I doubt that any are made here now. I know this sounds ridiculous at the moment, but what if a baseball

Re: [Vo]:Ivermectin

2020-04-10 Thread Michael Foster
I find it interesting that chloroquine/ hydroxychloriquine and Ivermectin are both used to kill tiny critters that cause human disease. I can't find any information on Ivermectin being a zinc ionophore. This factor seems to be largely ignored in the politicized controversy over possible

[Vo]:Bizarre Idea for Covid-19 Treatment

2020-03-26 Thread Michael Foster
In this 2005 publication by the CDC, titled "Chloroquine is a potent inhibitor  of SARS coronavirus infection and spread" https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/3620,  they talk about the function of chlorquine as an ionophore for zinc and how it  more or less wipes out SARS, a corona virus.  Curiously, 

Re: [Vo]:Masks

2020-03-26 Thread Michael Foster
Well this is Shakespearean, Tempest in a Teapot, Much Ado About Nothing, but not dead wrong. What they didn't tell you about using human hair as crosshairs in optical instruments is that not only is it too coarse, it suffers from sag in high humidity environments. No doubt the gubmint during

Re: [Vo]:China will emerge from the coronavirus crisis stronger than the U.S.

2020-03-25 Thread Michael Foster
I hate to be the one to tell you this, Jones, but China has been stronger than the U.S. for some time. The massive manufacturing infrastructure created in China is far greater than the U.S. has ever achieved. Factors such as average income, GDP, etc. are just financial indicators. Publications

Re: [Vo]:Masks

2020-03-25 Thread Michael Foster
I think that's great that these women are volunteering to make these masks. Washable is better. We have really become too much the disposable culture. Not too sure about women volunteering to grow their hair long to make crosshairs for gunsights during WWII, though. I've never heard of that.

Re: [Vo]:Chloroquine trials in New York

2020-03-24 Thread Michael Foster
, March 24, 2020, 03:47:24 PM UTC, Jed Rothwell wrote: Michael Foster wrote:  I'm happy to see that rare cooperation between Trump and Cuomo will see a large scale "trial" of chloroquine and Zithromax, already known to work as a treatment for covid19. I hope this will exp

[Vo]:Chloroquine trials in New York

2020-03-23 Thread Michael Foster
I'm happy to see that rare cooperation between Trump and Cuomo will see a large scale "trial" of chloroquine and Zithromax, already known to work as a treatment for covid19. I hope this will expose FDA/CDC as owned by the pharmaceutical business, as exemplified by the behavior of Fauci and

Re: [Vo]:Hydroxychloroquine Approved by FDA

2020-03-20 Thread Michael Foster
Another voice of sanity. https://www.thecollegefix.com/stanford-epidemiologist-warns-that-coronavirus-crackdown-is-based-on-bad-data/?utm_source=whatfinger

Re: [Vo]:Hydroxychloroquine Approved by FDA

2020-03-20 Thread Michael Foster
OK https://www.dailywire.com/news/french-peer-reviewed-study-our-treatment-cured-100-of-coronavirus-patients Similar results in Australia also China if you can believe anything they say. https://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/23/opinion/23thomas.html. Numerous other references as well.

Re: [Vo]:Hydroxychloroquine Approved by FDA

2020-03-20 Thread Michael Foster
Italy is not really a model for what happens with covid19. First of all it has an average age nearly 10 years older than the U.S. It is also swarming with Chinese nationals since it signed up for Belt and Road. There are also 300,000 illegal alien Chinese working in the leather industry in

RE: [Vo]:The history of the universe will soon be revealed

2013-03-19 Thread Michael Foster
Yes, and there's one other inconvenient problem for the Big Bang. You might recall a few years ago when infrared telescopes were revealing previously invisible galaxies in the range of 8 to 11 billion light years away. The galaxies didn't look anywhere near as young as they ought. This is one

Re: [Vo]:OT: Invention of the Daguerreotype

2013-02-11 Thread Michael Foster
As with any significant and potentially profitable new technology, there is a storm of treachery, theft, false claims and injustice surrounding it. The Daguerreotype is a prime example. Francois Arago, president of the French Academy of Science, convinced Hyppolyte Bayard to delay publishing

Re: [Vo]:Papers about carbon arc experiments

2012-11-16 Thread Michael Foster
Years ago, I did similar carbon arc experiments because I thought this would be the best way to demonstrate the possibility of nuclear transmutation by other than conventional means. I used spectroscopic grade carbon rods as well. Far more iron was created than could be accounted for by

Re: [Vo]:Re: ProdEngAssemble.avi

2012-08-14 Thread Michael Foster
I really want to believe these guys are for real in their revival of the Papp engine. If it works, it's certainly more compelling than getting heat from LENR. One thing bothers me in watching the video of the engine assembly. The piston rings are rubber O-rings. There's no way in hell that

Re: [Vo]:Walking heads?

2012-06-21 Thread Michael Foster
--- On Thu, 6/21/12, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: From: Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net Subject: [Vo]:Walking heads? To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Date: Thursday, June 21, 2012, 12:55 PM Amazing ... this is how natives moved rather large statuary on Easter Island

Re: [Vo]:FYI: Theorem unifies superfluids and other weird materials...

2012-06-12 Thread Michael Foster
One presumes they mean hypothesis or perhaps theory. The term theorem does not apply this idea. An attempt at such pedantic erroneous usage usually qualifies the proponent as a fool. --- On Mon, 6/11/12, MarkI-ZeroPoint zeropo...@charter.net wrote: From: MarkI-ZeroPoint zeropo...@charter.net

RE: [Vo]:It\'s \only\ chemistry

2012-04-11 Thread Michael Foster
I wouldn't be too sure about that not working for net gain, Jones.  What Mr. Jaro has proposed is essentially the Langmuir atomic hydogen torch. Many are convinced that the Langmuir torch is over-unity. However, I think it's obvious that cavity containment is the way to go.M. --- On Wed,

Re: [Vo]:Ferromagnetic form of carbon

2012-02-22 Thread Michael Foster
This work is based on the assumption that there is no iron deposited in the carbon soot. Years ago I did a number of experiments that convinced me that carbon can be transmuted into iron in an electric arc. I am certainly not the first person to observe this, but I did extensive testing on the

Re: [Vo]:new data global warming is not a problem

2011-07-29 Thread Michael Foster
Well yes. Utterly obvious to those of us who haven't adopted fear of climate change as a religion substitute. This won't change the jumping up and down and screaming of the true believers a whit. Don't confuse them with the facts and please don't deprive them of their new inquisition. And the

Re: [Vo]:Neutrons from Piezonuclear Reactions

2011-07-24 Thread Michael Foster
--- On Fri, 7/22/11, Harry Veeder hlvee...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Harry Veeder hlvee...@yahoo.com Subject: [Vo]:Neutrons from Piezonuclear Reactions To: vortex-l@eskimo.com vortex-l@eskimo.com Date: Friday, July 22, 2011, 12:45 PM paper from Annales de la Fondation Louis de Broglie,

Re: [Vo]:Magnetostriction and Cavitation

2011-04-22 Thread Michael Foster
A couple of things: The curie temperature of nickel is 354 C. I think the nickel powder in the Rossi reactor would have to be above that to generate 10kW. So no magneto-anything. I'll bet I'm the only one on this list to have built a Griggs device and it works just fine at a low flow-though.

Re: [Vo]:Only a matter of time

2011-04-19 Thread Michael Foster
Well yes, Rossi has intellectual property problems unless he discloses his secret additives in his patent application. That will separate his patent from prior art. He will still owe something to previous patents regardless, as they incorporate many of the claims Rossi has made in his

Re: [Vo]:Rossi's Patent Problem (and safety/security issues)

2011-04-13 Thread Michael Foster
--- On Wed, 4/13/11, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Rossi wrote: 2- a patent like this can request up to 6 years of processing I do not know what that means. Rossi told me he hopes to have the patent by the time of the 1 MW reactor. I took that to mean the application will

[Vo]:Rossi's Patent Problem

2011-04-12 Thread Michael Foster
I've been following this discussion for a while and now I think Mr. Rossi needs to be aware that his intellectual property claims may be in danger. I can understand that he would like to have it both ways. He would like to have a patent and he would like to keep the essential ingredients a

Re: [Vo]:Rossi's Patent Problem

2011-04-12 Thread Michael Foster
That's just my point. Since he has publicly announced that the best mode is not included in his patent application, his patent is invalid as soon as it is issued. I'm quite aware that inventors play around with the best mode requirement, but they don't tell the world before their patent is

Re: [Vo]:Rossi's Patent Problem

2011-04-12 Thread Michael Foster
The letter that Ms. Kemmler refers to in response to the European patent examiner is interesting reading indeed. It seems to me that Mr. Rossi's intellectual property position is really quite a muddle. I sincerely hope this can be resolved in his favor. Like most on this list, I am hoping Rossi

Re: [Vo]:[OT] Financial Warfare

2011-03-02 Thread Michael Foster
--- On Tue, 3/1/11, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: From: Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com Subject: [Vo]:[OT] Financial Warfare To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Date: Tuesday, March 1, 2011, 11:31 AM Remember the discussions over 2 years ago about large stock puts and a conspiracy to

Re: [Vo]:[OT] Financial Warfare

2011-03-02 Thread Michael Foster
--- On Wed, 3/2/11, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: From: Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:[OT] Financial Warfare To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Date: Wednesday, March 2, 2011, 11:12 AM Michael Foster wrote: You don't have to be a genius to figure out who

Re: [Vo]:Rossi's Nickel

2011-02-27 Thread Michael Foster
--- On Sun, 2/27/11, Dennis den...@netmdc.com wrote: From: Dennis den...@netmdc.com Subject: [Vo]:Rossi's Nickel To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Date: Sunday, February 27, 2011, 12:22 PM I notice in Rossi's patents, he specifies the Nickel was from : [0094] Powder nickel: Gerli Metalli--Milan

Re: [Vo]:COMPLETELY OFF TOPIC News topix photo of maiko (geisha-in-training)

2011-02-24 Thread Michael Foster
--- On Thu, 2/24/11, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: From: Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com Subject: [Vo]:COMPLETELY OFF TOPIC News topix photo of maiko (geisha-in-training) To: vortex-l@eskimo.com vortex-l@eskimo.com Date: Thursday, February 24, 2011, 7:20 AM See:

Re: [Vo]:Franklin's electrical experiments [copy 2]

2010-06-21 Thread Michael Foster
I have read and re-read Franklin's Experiments and Observation on Electricity for the absolutely astonishing brilliance of its  analysis of electrical phenomena.  In it he floats the idea of the  electrical fluid or PARTICLES (emphasis mine), meaning that he  anticipated the idea of the

Re: [Vo]:The Secret of Cold Fusion

2010-05-16 Thread Michael Foster
I dunno, doesn't seem much different from your average verbiage in the typical paper published in a scientific journal. M. --- On Sun, 5/16/10, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: From: Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net Subject: [Vo]:The Secret of Cold Fusion To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Date:

Re: Inexpensive convincing Cold Fusion generated helium (was Re: [Vo]:Krivit comments...)

2010-04-06 Thread Michael Foster
Yea, verily and my thoughts exactly. M. --- On Tue, 4/6/10, Michel Jullian michelj...@gmail.com wrote: From: Michel Jullian michelj...@gmail.com Subject: Inexpensive convincing Cold Fusion generated helium (was Re: [Vo]:Krivit comments...) To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Date: Tuesday, April

Re: [Vo]:DIA-08-0911-003 text

2009-11-18 Thread Michael Foster
I don't suppose it would do any good to send a copy of this to our friend Mr. Parks. Might be fun though. M.

Re: [Vo]:[OT] Swine flu

2009-11-05 Thread Michael Foster
Yep, we all have it at my house. It's amazing the variation of effect on different people. My wife and son are really sick, but nothing approaching the necessity of hospitalization. I, conversely, had a barely detectable sore throat for a couple of days. You have to wonder if some people

Re: [Vo]:Obama visiting MIT to discuss energy

2009-10-21 Thread Michael Foster
Oh Wow! I guess they'll give a Nobel Prize for physics and chemistry now. M. --- On Wed, 10/21/09, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: From: Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com Subject: [Vo]:Obama visiting MIT to discuss energy To: vortex-L@eskimo.com Date: Wednesday, October 21, 2009,

Re: [Vo]:BB motor -- explanation (maybe not!)

2009-09-01 Thread Michael Foster
I haven't been following this thread very closely, so if my input is repetitive, shoot me. Stephen's idea seems like a good test of whether this phenomenon is thermally or magnetically driven. Has anyone tried this with non-magnetic bearings? In any case, I looked it up and you can buy single

RE: [Vo]:motor mix heavy water cement and polymer heavy water mix

2009-07-13 Thread Michael Foster
Fumed silica, an inexpensive commercial product, is supposed to have particles of between 4 and 50 nanometers. It's very strange stuff, forming a gel with common liquids, including water. Whether the material would be useful for this type of experiment, I have no idea. I've often wondered if

[Vo]:Tesla's Birthday on Google

2009-07-10 Thread Michael Foster
In case you haven't noticed it already, check out the Happy Birthday Nikola Tesla Google logo today. Nice artwork. Nice thought.

Re: [Vo]:Expectation bias, delusion

2009-07-05 Thread Michael Foster
The caliper listed at Harbor Freight is a very good deal indeed. But neither it nor a micrometer are usually used to measure film thickness on account of the problems you encountered. There is a device called a thickness gauge used for the purpose of measuring plastic films or thin gauge metal

Re: [Vo]:Expectation bias, delusion

2009-07-03 Thread Michael Foster
--- On Fri, 7/3/09, William Beaty bi...@eskimo.com wrote: Ludwik Kowalski used up all his 6u mylar for Oriani demo cells. We have a big spool of Kapton here at work, but no obvious way to measure its thickness. I stacked up sixteen layers, squeezed it with two different micrometers to

Re: [Vo]:Black Silicon

2009-06-29 Thread Michael Foster
The general idea of creating a structurally black surface on silicon or other photovoltaic is a sound one, both from the point of view of making the photovoltaic more efficient and for the secondary effect of using the unconverted light to make heat for storage. What I find annoying in this

Re: [Vo]:Low friction eels in Florida

2009-06-27 Thread Michael Foster
I think you might have confused eels the fish with EELS, a tribology term. EELS is an acronnym for electron energy loss spectrometry. Tribology is the study of frictional interaction between surfaces. Maybe friction is just lower in Florida this year what with the reduced sunspot count and all

Re: [Vo]:Bob Park now calls it unimportant science.

2009-03-28 Thread Michael Foster
One can only hope. More than likely, however, by the time Mr. Park's reputation is damaged by being the Grand Inquisitor for the American Physical Society, he'll be dead and no one will remember him. M. From: Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:Bob Park now calls it

Re: [Vo]:Inflation Ho!

2009-03-18 Thread Michael Foster
Exactly right. Just think, if they taught how this works in say, high school, the American people would no longer be hoodwinked by this scam. Everyone seems to be upset by Bernie Madoff, but the whole financial sector is a Ponzi scheme with the average person the last guy to get the chain

Re: [Vo]:Proposal for Discovery Channel, History, etc.

2009-02-06 Thread Michael Foster
William Beaty wrote: How microscopes REALLY work (Leeuonhouk's great secret, wrong texts) I'm not sure what you mean by that. I hate to put myself forward as perhaps a leading expert on this subject, but from what I have read, I have probably the most practical experience with what

Re:[VO]:Chicken Little The Sky is Falling

2009-01-31 Thread Michael Foster
I dunno, Richard. I think we might need free whiskey, too. It's, you know, an emergency. M.

Re: [Vo]:[OT]Inflation

2008-12-22 Thread Michael Foster
Reviving this crusty old thread: Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: I have as yet not come across any information indicating that commercial banks can lend out more than about 90% of their net asset value -- reserve requirements currently being around 10% -- and you are claiming they can actually

Re: [Vo]:[OT]Inflation

2008-12-22 Thread Michael Foster
Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: Your earlier claim, quoted below, was that an individual bank could lend out 10 times the amount of that bank's total deposits. The above quote from Wiki does not support that claim. OK then, banks acting in concert lend out 10 times as much money as is deposited

Re: [Vo]:[OT]Inflation

2008-12-01 Thread Michael Foster
Robin wrote: Can someone explain to me how raising interest rates is supposed to reduce inflation? (I presume that the logic goes like this:- higher interest rates mean borrowing is more expensive, hence less will be borrowed, which in turn means lower investment and less economic

Re: [Vo]:[OT] Federal Reserve Notes

2008-11-28 Thread Michael Foster
As some of us who've been around for a while have noticed, the bills in common circulation have changed their names a couple of times. Not so long ago, they were silver certificates, redeemable for the metal. Then, they became Treasury notes and after that Federal Reserve notes. Most of this

Re: [Vo]:[OT] Federal Reserve Notes

2008-11-28 Thread Michael Foster
Robin wrote: What I'm really trying to get at is the exact flow of wealth between the Federal Reserve banks and the government of the USA. Do the books balance, or is this a net one way flow? The Federal Reserve operates independent of the U.S. government. Our government raises money

Re: [Vo]:Butanol not a good idea?

2008-10-30 Thread Michael Foster
Horace Heffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One downside to butanol is it is both toxic and water soluble, a very bad combination. This is the problem with another gasoline additive, MTBE. Gasoline spills not having MTBE are much easier to clean up, and less likely to actually get to well

RE: [Vo]:Tata Motors - full of compressed air!

2008-10-28 Thread Michael Foster
I take it none of you guys has been in Indian traffic or seen the typical vehicle mix. A compressed air car would be perfect for India. Even on the highways the speed limit is 60 kph, roughly 40 mph. It's never that high in the cities. Imagine the type of traffic you get when no one pays any

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