Re: ...water into wine...

2005-04-09 Thread Grimer
The following section continues the analysis started in previous posts. === With reference to the volume change versus temperature relation shown in the third Figure on the page at. http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/water/strange.html#tv ..I now realise

Re: Conventional nuclear fission plants are not cost effective

2005-04-09 Thread Horace Heffner
At 8:42 AM 4/9/5, Robin van Spaandonk wrote: At several times the energy density of lead-acid batteries, and a fraction of one percent of the cost, a possibly very cheap form of temporary energy storage, especially on a large scale, is molten salt. At the temperature difference between molten

Re: Coaxial Capacitor Thrustor

2005-04-09 Thread Horace Heffner
At 4:54 PM 4/8/5, William Beaty wrote: On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, John Berry wrote: Your analysis makes it tempting to try and build it, except that in air there really is a displacement current due to polarizing the air. A force would certainly be generated no doubt, but so would a stream of moving

Re: New battery technology

2005-04-09 Thread Jed Rothwell
Standing Bear wrote: and half truths. The detractors of nuclear power in this case deliberately caused financial and legal problems for the industry . . . The legal problems were caused by the Three Mile Island accident. It was the most expensive industrial accident in history by far. It

Re: OT: Question regarding condoms

2005-04-09 Thread Jed Rothwell
Horace Heffner writes: No, I made my point. You are attemtping to change the discussion to avoid the point. Condums are not safe. They break. They have defect rates. It is reckless to call them safe. All technology is risky. Cars have defects and they break too, and people drive cars

RE: OT: Question regarding condoms

2005-04-09 Thread Keith Nagel
Horace writes: Maybe there is a natural protection ( against AIDS )in the Japanese gene pool? Actually, I think it is more due to the insularity of the Japanese culture, along with sexual mores. Jed seems to describe Japan as some hotbed of lust, but looking at the grossly declining birth rate I

Re: Survey questions from Dr. Peter Gluck

2005-04-09 Thread William Beaty
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Mike Carrell wrote: - WHAT IS COLD FUSION (LENR, CANR, CMNS)? There may be more than one fundamental energy-producing phenomenon involved, so any questions about the one true nature of CF will devolve into Swiftian lilliputan battles. - HOW DOES IT WORK? IT? What if

Re: Survey questions from Dr. Peter Gluck

2005-04-09 Thread Horace Heffner
- WHAT IS COLD FUSION (LENR, CANR, CMNS)? Cold fusion is a set of quantum effects which occur in a lattice loaded with diffusing elements. The effects occur due to long exposure times and high mass density. These effects include nuclear reactions without characteristic energetic signatures or

Re: OT: Question regarding condoms

2005-04-09 Thread Jed Rothwell
Horace Heffner writes: If 98 percent of the population is protected from a fatal disease then at most 2 percent will die. When a person has been effectively innoculated he is protected *no matter how many exposures* he experiences. Ah, I see your point. Actually, you are partly wrong. Many

RE: OT: Question regarding condoms

2005-04-09 Thread Keith Nagel
Horace writes: Wow, this is interesting. Thank you! This means there is a prospective cure for aids, at least for some individuals. The cure consists of marrow replacement using a doner having blood with small pores. Youch! That's a pretty serious procedure just to vaccinate a person. And

Re: Conventional nuclear fission plants are not cost effective

2005-04-09 Thread Robin van Spaandonk
In reply to Horace Heffner's message of Sat, 9 Apr 2005 06:36:37 -0800: Hi, [snip] Storage of *both* the heat and cold generated by air liquifaction might be a sensible way to go. Liquid air is easy to store at high efficiency, and heat from compression can be stored in thermal wells or by using

Re: Windmills in the sky after all!

2005-04-09 Thread Robin van Spaandonk
In reply to Nick Palmer's message of Thu, 7 Apr 2005 20:14:11 +0100: Hi, [snip] A restrained British WOW!! This flying windmill concept looks really exciting. I'd heard speculation about kites in the jet stream before but there were always problems with the weight of the tether/power line. I

Re: Windmills in the sky after all!

2005-04-09 Thread Robin van Spaandonk
In reply to Jed Rothwell's message of Thu, 07 Apr 2005 09:37:58 -0400: Hi, A couple of months ago, Baronvolsung suggested we might have wind turbines high in the sky, up in the jet stream. I pooh-poohed the idea, but it turns out I wasn't thinking hard enough. It could not be done with

RE: Experimental Challenge!!!!!

2005-04-09 Thread orionworks
From: William Beaty ... Hey, take a look at the thingy I built for a local art gallery: http://amasci.com/art/pondmach/pond3.html Nice Thingy William! I was kinda hoping for Thomas Malloy to post an answer, but being the biggest zealot it's painfully clear his hand is the

Re: water into wine

2005-04-09 Thread RC Macaulay
Frank, I have been studying the posts on this thread with ever increasing interest. Finally, a simple like me DID grasp your simplified math and " shazzam" I saw another side. Richard Blank Bkgrd.gif

RE: OT: Question regarding condoms

2005-04-09 Thread Horace Heffner
At 5:31 PM 4/9/5, Keith Nagel wrote: Horace writes: The cure consists of marrow replacement using a doner having blood with small pores. Youch! That's a pretty serious procedure just to vaccinate a person. And that's what you'd get, once the infection occurs it won't help to transplant the