Re: [Vo]:Exciting predictions from 1958

2007-05-28 Thread thomas malloy
Horace Heffner wrote: On May 26, 2007, at 2:22 PM, Jones Beene wrote: Out of Time Quote: No one wants to predict definitely how long it will take. It couldn't possibly be less than ten years, says Sir John Cockcroft. It might be as long as 50. Twenty plus is about the most reasonable

[VO]: Comparative parallels

2007-05-28 Thread R.C.Macaulay
Howdy Vorts, In the science news we read of an abundance of research into new fuels. I find it difficult to reconcile any progress in this area while civil progress is ceasing. A few examples include the US Postal service which just raised the bar to .41 peonies in order to meet their pension

[Vo]:Renewable energy from fatties

2007-05-28 Thread Nick Palmer
I couldn't resist reposting this presumably tongue in cheek reader comment from Technology review which was originally about a new enzymatic method of extracting hydrogen from starch... The USA contains the most fat people of any nation so it seems. You can see these fat blobs

Re: [Vo]:Exciting predictions from 1958

2007-05-28 Thread Horace Heffner
On May 27, 2007, at 10:29 AM, Horace Heffner wrote: Yep. Looks like there is still 5 years to go: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-04/dnl-rpb042507.php On May 27, 2007, at 10:51 PM, thomas malloy wrote: I thought is was 50 years My nephew, the power company executive

Re: [Vo]:Re: What's up with Denny Klein

2007-05-28 Thread Horace Heffner
On May 27, 2007, at 1:57 PM, Jones Beene wrote: Horace, do you know something about this technology which isn't apparent from the website? I know it made a FOX news report recently. Klein is getting an awful lot of press mileage out of Brown's gas. It's pretty obvious to me that the

Re: [Vo]:Giffen's Paradox/ was VIDEO LINK...

2007-05-28 Thread Harry Veeder
On 26/5/2007 6:16 PM, Robin van Spaandonk wrote: In reply to Harry Veeder's message of Fri, 25 May 2007 16:18:55 -0500: Hi, [snip] Giffen makes the mistake of measuring demand by the total amount spent on the product rather than the actual number of items traded. Well I don't he was

Re: [Vo]:Giffen's Paradox/ was VIDEO LINK...

2007-05-28 Thread Robin van Spaandonk
In reply to Harry Veeder's message of Mon, 28 May 2007 21:17:21 -0500: Hi, [snip] Marshall wrote in the 1895 edition of Principles of Economics: As Mr. Giffen has pointed out, a rise in the price of bread makes so large a drain on the resources of the poorer labouring families and raises so much