Re: [Vo]: Oil shale research in Israel

2006-11-26 Thread Nick Palmer
Kyle, I've got no problem with fuel from oil shale as long as extraction and use 1) does not cause undue damage to the natural species ecologies of the areas 2) does not damage areas of great natural beauty 3 does not delay the introduction of non carbon based energy sources 4) does not delay

Re: [Vo]: Oil shale research in Israel

2006-11-26 Thread Frederick Sparber
Well put, Nick. My late wife of nearly 53 years and I watched as hundreds of thousands of acres of arable land in the Rio Grande valley in addition to our modest 4 1/4 acres (that I farmed evenings and weekends while working at making better atomic bombs and getting into space) paved over or used

RE: [Vo]: 1.568 x 10 -25 Farads

2006-11-26 Thread FZNIDARSIC
Thank you Keith, I made a mistake in calling the classical radius of the proton and the maximum radius of the proton by the same number. One is actually twice the other. My work required the radius of the proton 1.4 fermi meters. Do you have any ideas of why this is? Frank Znidarsic

Re: [Vo]: Interesting News About Steorn

2006-11-26 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Esa Ruoho wrote: they can't say why its overunity - who would believe them?, thats why they went public and are picking out a row of skeptical scientists to prove once and for all if its overunity or not. besides, you'd do so much better to just consult

Re: [Vo]: Re: Interesting News About Steorn

2006-11-26 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Rhong Dhong wrote: Here's what I've been able to glean from their site. It is self-powered. There is no input. No it's not. It has a COP100% which means it produces more power than it consumes, but to have a meaningful COP it _MUST_ consume power! Without input COP=infinity. Second,

Re: [Vo]: Oil shale research in Israel

2006-11-26 Thread Standing Bear
On Sunday 26 November 2006 08:14, Nick Palmer wrote: Kyle, I've got no problem with fuel from oil shale as long as extraction and use 1) does not cause undue damage to the natural species ecologies of the areas 2) does not damage areas of great natural beauty 3 does not delay the

[Vo]: x-rays from TC capacitors?!!!

2006-11-26 Thread William Beaty
I stumbled across an odd idea. If a home-built stacked-plate capacitor is operated with high-volt pulses, then the thin air-film trapped between the foils and the dielectric sheets will glow violet. (I verified this idea using a quickie test device made from a thin glass bowl, foil on the