Re: [Vo]:Downwind Faster than the Wind (DWFTTW)

2010-09-21 Thread John Fields
On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 13:26:47 -0400, you wrote: I do not see how this can work! They are going with the wind, so if they start to travel at the same speed as the wind, the propeller should stop turning. Maybe I am missing something. - Jed --- Notice from the pitch of the propeller and its

Re: [Vo]:Downwind Faster than the Wind (DWFTTW)

2010-09-22 Thread John Fields
On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 16:01:42 +0100, you wrote: This must be a scam. As Jed said, at the point where the craft is going downwind at the speed of the wind, the relative wind across the propeller would be zero so it could not accelerate from this point on. If it did, the force from the prop would

Re: [Vo]:Downwind Faster than the Wind (DWFTTW)

2010-09-22 Thread John Fields
On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 13:12:27 -0400, you wrote: Sailboats vary enormously in terms of their favored point of sailing. I would guess that most sailboats do best with the wind on their beam (90 deg.) My boat is best on that point, and I can also sail into the wind to about 28 degrees without

Re: Tectonic versus planetary expansion

2004-10-09 Thread John Fields
. Perhaps the first recorded discussion on the matter is in Job chapter 38. Talk about questions. Richard -- John Fields

Re: Tectonic versus planetary expansion

2004-10-09 Thread John Fields
On Sat, 09 Oct 2004 12:35:41 -0500, you wrote: Oops... Hit the wrong button; sorry! -- John Fields

Re: Off Current Subject: Big Bang Simulator

2004-12-07 Thread John Fields
accelerated to the point where it went superluminal and got added to the ZPE pool. In either case, it would seem to be missing. -- John Fields

Re: Off Current Subject: Big Bang Simulator

2004-12-08 Thread John Fields
On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 01:00:48 -0900, you wrote: At 5:41 PM 12/7/4, John Fields wrote: [snip] The real beauty of your idea (is it original?) --- As far as I know, it is. The lightbulb going off was due to something of Fred Sparber's or Frank Znidarsik's (sp?) that I read a few years ago on vortex

Re: NK Could Test TD-2 Anytime

2004-12-19 Thread John Fields
is to their missiles. :-) Bluff and counter bluff. I don't, however, enjoy a game of poker where I'm one of the stakes. --- You're not. ;) -- John Fields

Re: NK Could Test TD-2 Anytime

2004-12-20 Thread John Fields
. --- And will watch as it's made effective? -- John Fields

Re: NK Could Test TD-2 Anytime

2004-12-20 Thread John Fields
On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 08:42:02 -0700, you wrote: John Fields wrote: On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 08:48:27 -0500, you wrote: Dr. Storms wrote: I think you all are missing the point of the missile defense system. It is to defend us from China in 10 years, not NK now. Possibly, however

Re: Room-Temperature Superconductor Invented 25 Years Ago

2005-02-08 Thread John Fields
not to, (genuine national defense, for example) should put what they find squarely in the public domain. -- John Fields

Re: Greg's msg from 1997: continuous closed-loop SMOT

2005-05-01 Thread John Fields
in verifying the Prometheus Effect and another IE writeup is out of the question? Now it's just engineering effort, time and money, Greg --- Perhaps you could apply to Joseph Newman or Jack Carey for help. -- John Fields

Re: 1997 - 2005 the missing SMOT years

2005-05-02 Thread John Fields
reported back their results, I will reveal photos and a video of the toy SRRS device I'm building. --- Have you seen this?: http://www.reidarfinsrud.no/sider/mobile/foto.html -- John Fields

Re: [Vo]:IPKat - weblog: The continuing incredible adventures of Dr. Randell Mills

2008-04-24 Thread John Fields
On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:07:54 -0500, you wrote: From Mike Carrell: A standard tactic of patent examiners is deny and cite objections and force the applicant to overcome the objections. Objections of this type have been seen before. The process of overcoming them is iterative, lengthy,

Re: [Vo]:Mysterious New 'Dark Flow' Discovered in Space

2008-09-26 Thread John Fields
On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:02:06 -0800, you wrote: On Sep 25, 2008, at 7:05 AM, Harry Veeder wrote: Mysterious New 'Dark Flow' Discovered in Space By Clara Moskowitz Staff Writer posted: 23 September 2008 12:46 pm ET As if the mysteries of dark matter and dark

Re: [Vo]:The Perepetia Generator

2008-10-14 Thread John Fields
On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:15:01 -0500, you wrote: On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:02:15 -0400, you wrote: Mark Iverson wrote: I haven't seen any mention of Thane Heins' Perepetia Generator yet, which really surprises me... Too much watchin' the ladies at the Dime Box Saloon and not payin attention to

Re: [Vo]:Has Atlantis Been Found . . .

2009-02-20 Thread John Fields
Sub-continent? ;) On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 18:31:13 -0500, you wrote: A lost sub? Harry - Original Message - From: mix...@bigpond.com Date: Friday, February 20, 2009 4:04 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:Has Atlantis Been Found . . . In reply to Terry Blanton's message of Fri, 20 Feb 2009

Re: [Vo]:China vs US

2009-05-21 Thread John Fields
On Tue, 19 May 2009 17:42:48 -0700, you wrote: NOTHING is more ugly and violent than a capitalist which hasn't been fed bloodmeal and raw, dripping hamburger in the past few minutes. --- Nonsense. A true capitalist tries to perpetuate his model of reality by trying to retain and to further

Re: Let's kill all the remaining whales, too

2006-02-03 Thread John Fields
to road signs. ;) Oh, but wait... there'll be no need to with all the oil gone. -- John Fields

Re: Let's kill all the remaining whales, too

2006-02-03 Thread John Fields
On Fri, 03 Feb 2006 10:25:48 -0500, you wrote: -Original Message- From: John Fields There are truly _no_ more fish to catch? If that's true, then there will never be another bite and all the tilapia will be farm raised. Tilapia is a fresh water fish from Israel: http

Re: Let's kill all the remaining whales, too

2006-02-03 Thread John Fields
On Fri, 03 Feb 2006 14:42:25 -0500, you wrote: -Original Message- From: John Fields Then there's still hope??? Certainly for us pollyannas! But neither a pollyanna nor a pessimistic cassandra be. We are an adaptable species. We made it through Y2K. g The fact that we

Re: Emergence

2006-05-19 Thread John Fields
to be left run-down. Personally, I think cities should actively develop mixed income neighborhoods. There is no reason why poor and rich can't live in the same neighbourhoods. --- Sure there is. The rich wouldn't do it. -- John Fields

Re: 1997 - 2005 the missing SMOT years

2005-05-03 Thread John Fields
On Tue, 3 May 2005 16:43:39 +1000 (EST), you wrote: --- Public [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you seen this?: http://www.reidarfinsrud.no/sider/mobile/foto.html Hi Craig, Not to be a wet blanket but that big spring in the central column could be a worry? --- In what respect? -- John Fields

Re: The SMOT game over, Greg Watson gone

2005-05-08 Thread John Fields
was an admission of failure and the lack of payment of interest only means that he got to use your money, for as long as he had it, for free. -- John Fields Professional Circuit Designer

Re: The SMOT game over, Greg Watson gone

2005-05-09 Thread John Fields
On Mon, 9 May 2005 19:10:51 +0100, you wrote: John Fields wrote:- So what? The refund was an admission of failure and the lack of payment of interest only means that he got to use your money, for as long as he had it, for free. Errr, John - did you miss the bit where I said he offered me A$50

Re: Mile-high Solar Towers: political ramifications

2005-05-24 Thread John Fields
? -- John Fields Professional Circuit Designer

Re: Mile-high Solar Towers: political ramifications

2005-05-29 Thread John Fields
which, if the array were to be located above a desert, might help to precipitate moisture out of the air and make the land arable. -- John Fields Professional Circuit Designer

Re: Definition of practical

2005-09-15 Thread John Fields
100 watts in temperate conditions, in order to stay alive, a 10 watt hot suit wouldn't help much, in my view, considering the losses required in order to get, and keep, the hot suit working when it got cold outside. -- John Fields Professional Circuit Designer

Re: [Vo]:Ban religion/politics permanently?

2009-06-15 Thread John Fields
On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:58:42 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: I see that Vortex has acquired the religion/politics illness that affects most forums. Or call it poor health, where natural defenses begin to fail, and opportunistic infections start appearing. --- Indeed. --- We could ban politics

Re: [Vo]:The coming of Wireless Power, A report on CNN

2009-09-14 Thread John Fields
Yes, that's the main issue with the harebrained scheme. How it's done now is that the AC mains are rectified and smoothed, and then that DC is switched on and off at a high frequency into the primary of a transformer. That generates a well-contained magnetic field which builds up and collapses

Re: [Vo]:The coming of Wireless Power, A report on CNN

2009-09-14 Thread John Fields
On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:11:48 -0400, you wrote: As John Fields says, this is a harebrained scheme. My guess is that if the power is high enough to useful work, they will eventually discover it can harm your health. I suppose there are some narrow applications that would benefit from

Re: [Vo]:The coming of Wireless Power, A report on CNN

2009-09-15 Thread John Fields
OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson orionwo...@charter.net: From: John Fields On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:11:48 -0400, you wrote: As John Fields says, this is a harebrained scheme. My guess is that if the power is high enough to useful work, they will eventually discover it can harm your health. I

Re: [Vo]:The coming of Wireless Power, A report on CNN

2009-09-15 Thread John Fields
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:22:06 -0400, you wrote: On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 1:33 PM, John Fields jfie...@austininstruments.com wrote: On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:30:56 -0400, you wrote: These people claim they can improve over direct connection charging: http://www.wipower.com/ --- I have trouble

Re: [Vo]:The coming of Wireless Power, A report on CNN

2009-09-15 Thread John Fields
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:45:43 -0400, you wrote: John Fields wrote: As far as electric vehicles goes, I think the idea of a non-plug-in charger is pure insanity. I think so too, but an intriguing idea would be electric vehicles without pantographs, on roads equipped with wireless chargers under

Re: [Vo]:The coming of Wireless Power, A report on CNN

2009-09-16 Thread John Fields
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:25:27 +0200, you wrote: Indeed cell phone batteries will still be needed, but with sufficiently ubiquitous witricity they will live much longer because they will be more or less permanently on charge, even when in your pocket: --- For that to happen, the cell phone would

Re: [Vo]:The coming of Wireless Power, A report on CNN

2009-09-19 Thread John Fields
On Sat, 19 Sep 2009 14:18:54 +0200, you wrote: John, sorry for the late answer. Unwanted induction heating on rings necklaces etc: they say it doesn't happen because you need very fine tuning to receive (see the TED video I linked to, the guy walks happily through the power beam, same thing for

Re: [Vo]:The coming of Wireless Power, A report on CNN

2009-09-19 Thread John Fields
On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:52:11 +1000, you wrote: In reply to John Fields's message of Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:30:45 -0500: Hi, [snip] Same problem with the electric airport cars; the distance between the transmitters and receivers and the inverse square law, which our dear Mother Nature invokes in

Re: [Vo]:The coming of Wireless Power, A report on CNN

2009-09-19 Thread John Fields
On Sat, 19 Sep 2009 18:20:44 +0200, you wrote: 2009/9/19 John Fields jfie...@austininstruments.com: I don't know the intensity of the fields shown in the videos, but my concern would be that in a field of sufficient intensity to charge a cell phone battery would also be capable of heating

Re: [Vo]:The coming of Wireless Power, A report on CNN

2009-09-20 Thread John Fields
On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 07:56:11 +1000, you wrote: In reply to John Fields's message of Sat, 19 Sep 2009 10:08:09 -0500: Hi, [snip] On Sat, 19 Sep 2009 14:18:54 +0200, you wrote: John, sorry for the late answer. Unwanted induction heating on rings necklaces etc: they say it doesn't happen because

Re: [Vo]:The coming of Wireless Power, A report on CNN

2009-09-20 Thread John Fields
Further, let's say that the receiver's coil comprises 100 turns of copper wire.^^ --- Oops...transmitter's

Re: [Vo]:The coming of Wireless Power, A report on CNN

2009-09-20 Thread John Fields
On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 12:02:13 +0200, you wrote: John, OK so you want actual numbers regarding battery savings. Let's study the case of the latest version (3G-S, July 2009) of the popular iPhone smartphone: http://www.apple.com/batteries/iphone.html : A properly maintained iPhone battery is

Re: [Vo]:The coming of Wireless Power, A report on CNN

2009-09-20 Thread John Fields
On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 15:54:05 -0500, you wrote: Since the wireless system is 50% efficient it'll eat 1.8kWh while delivering 1.8kWh, while the wired system, being 90% efficient, will eat only 0.2kWh. At USD 0.1 per kWh, that's $1.80 for the wireless system, while only $0.2 for the wired system.

Re: [Vo]:China aims to settle nationwide trade in yuan by 2011

2011-03-04 Thread John Fields
This could eventually make oil, and many other things, unaffordable to the USA. We can't keep printing our way out of the crisis. We need LENR energy now. --- Unfortunately, LENR doesn't seem to available yet, so, in my opinion, we should bite the bullet and buy American made, and try to