Re: [Vo]:Batteries for energy storage on the grid

2011-08-31 Thread jwinter
On 8/31/2011 10:08 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: I don't think it takes long to charge up a flux capacitor I think they only take milliseconds to charge up. In fact if I remember rightly an ideal source of power was found to be a large lightning strike! The only problem is knowing just when

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

2010-09-21 Thread jwinter
On 9/22/2010 1:26 AM, Jed Rothwell 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. Yes what an interesting puzzle! But knowing that it can be done

[Vo]:Steorn Bombshell - Orbo was all a sign error!

2011-11-12 Thread jwinter
On 11/12/2011 11:50 AM, Harry Veeder wrote: I think Steorn stumbled upon a real anomally but they erred in assuming that measurement alone was sufficient to demonstrate the reality of energy creation. Since there seems to still be some belief around here that Steorn stumbled upon a real

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Bombshell - Orbo was all a sign error!

2011-11-12 Thread jwinter
On 11/13/2011 1:39 AM, Harry Veeder wrote: Even if it is a loss, why is one direction better at turning motion into heat? Conventional theory predicts the same loss. This is a good question because I have heard the same claim - that of an energy discrepancy which is different if you rotate it

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Bombshell - Orbo was all a sign error!

2011-11-13 Thread jwinter
On 11/13/2011 2:57 PM, Harry Veeder wrote: I have a print-out of Steorn's report dated Oct. 31, 2008. At the moment I can't locate the pdf file, but I downloaded it from their website two or three years ago, and the name Mr. Rice does not appear in this report. The title is _Asymmetry and

Re: [Vo]:New E-Cat customers to reveal their identity

2011-11-13 Thread jwinter
On 11/13/2011 4:19 PM, Mary Yugo wrote: ... With just a moment of thought, I can remember some of the most prominent recent scams promoted by Allan on his site. One of these is, of course, Steorn. ... Allan (or at least Hank) is still promoting Steorn. Checkout this fairly recent and very

Re: [Vo]:Rossi feeding skeptics with much more skepticism.

2011-11-17 Thread jwinter
On 11/17/2011 8:51 PM, Daniel Rocha wrote: This is the English version: http://www.gammamanager.com/index.html 2011/11/17 Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.com mailto:danieldi...@gmail.com His representative in Switzerland is very, to put mildly, suspicious: Indeed - this company is in

Re: [Vo]:Imagine a teakettle

2011-02-10 Thread jwinter
Hi Jed, What you wrote is true when there is liquid water and steam together in a container - the combination cannot be heated to a temperature higher than 100 deg C without raising the pressure. However once all the liquid has turned to gas there is no longer any limit to what temperature

Re: [Vo]:Detecting absolute motion

2011-04-23 Thread jwinter
On 4/24/2011 6:13 AM, Mauro Lacy wrote: On 04/23/2011 06:57 PM, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: Perhaps you have overlooked a key point. How do you propose to synchronize clocks which are spatially separated? That's not a trivial question. Indeed, as Stephen rightly points out, that is the very

Re: [Vo]: Why are the electric and magnetic fields perpendicular?

2011-05-29 Thread jwinter
On 5/25/2011 1:12 AM, Mark Iverson wrote: Just wanted to throw out a question to the Vort Collective... In an EM wave, why are the electric and magnetic fields perpendicular to each other? The answer to the question is really quite simple and it comes from our definition of what these fields

Re: [Vo]:[OT] The Bible and the Copernican Revolution

2013-01-01 Thread jwinter
On 1/01/2013 2:47 PM, Jojo Jaro wrote: ... I have still to encounter a statement in the Bible that science has found to be categorically false. I challenge you or anyone to prove me wrong on this. But do it one at a time so that I can respond properly to it. Do not cut and paste a blog from

Re: [Vo]:[OT] The Bible and the Copernican Revolution

2013-01-01 Thread jwinter
On 2/01/2013 4:59 AM, Jojo Jaro wrote: First, you came up with the opinion of a man and proceeded to demolish it. If this is not a clear example of a Strawman argument, I don't know what is. I won't even bother to rebute this argument as it is clearly fallacious. I said provide a statement

Re: [Vo]:[OT] The Bible and the Copernican Revolution

2013-01-02 Thread jwinter
On 2/01/2013 4:44 PM, Jojo Jaro wrote: My friend, you can not debate with someone by putting- the words in his mouth and proceed to demolish it. That a strawman argument. I never believed in geocentrism We were not supposed to be discussing what you *believed*. We were supposed to be

Re: [Vo]:[OT] The Bible and the Copernican Revolution

2013-01-02 Thread jwinter
On Jan 2, 2013, at 11:53 AM, Jojo Jaro wrote: I am aware of the excesses of the catholic papa, but what did John Calvin do? Please educate me. He had the scientist Michael Servetus (who contributed enormously to medicine and was the first European to describe pulmonary circulation) put to

Re: [Vo]:Local Calculated Velocity of Space Ship

2013-11-14 Thread jwinter
On 15/11/2013 12:44 AM, David Roberson wrote: ...Since we knew the original distance to the star was 10 light years, it suggests that we should reach it within 1 year our time at our calculated velocity. Is this what should actually occur? Yes this is correct and this is the essence of the

Re: [Vo]:Local Calculated Velocity of Space Ship

2013-11-15 Thread jwinter
On 16/11/2013 6:04 AM, David Roberson wrote: jwinter says: /*That is correct. However for us to measure how fast our signal leaves our ship, we need 2 clocks - Say one at the back of the ship where the signal is launched from and one at the front of our ship to time how long it takes

Re: [Vo]:Local Calculated Velocity of Space Ship

2013-11-15 Thread jwinter
On 16/11/2013 12:25 PM, leaking pen wrote: /*However if we consider ourselves using our initial clock synchronisation, then we know our true accumulated speed because we can see that the light pulse is only just travelling a bit faster than us (it takes the pulse a very long time to travel

Re: [Vo]:Local Calculated Velocity of Space Ship

2013-11-15 Thread jwinter
On 16/11/2013 12:25 PM, leaking pen wrote: /*However if we consider ourselves using our initial clock synchronisation, then we know our true accumulated speed because we can see that the light pulse is only just travelling a bit faster than us (it takes the pulse a very long time to travel

Re: [Vo]:[OT] ten core beliefs that most scientists take for granted

2014-01-07 Thread jwinter
On 8/01/2014 1:03 PM, Rich Murray wrote: ... The Scientific Creed and the Credibility Crunch for Materialism by *Rupert Sheldrake*, Ph.D; biologist and author of Science Set Free http://www.deepakchopra.com/book/view/927 ... Worth taking a look at the Sheldrake interview relating to the

Re: [Vo]:[OT] ten core beliefs that most scientists take for granted

2014-01-08 Thread jwinter
On 8/01/2014 5:26 PM, Nigel Dyer wrote: My suspicion is that many of Sheldrakes 'non-materialist' ideas, such as the idea that memories are not just physical traces in the brain will turn out to be true, but will also turn out to be materialist and grounded in the science that we already

Re: [Vo]:a new guest editorial by AXIL

2014-08-15 Thread jwinter
On 16/08/2014 12:11 AM, Jojo Iznart wrote: ...It is the inherent unreliability and irreproducibility of the methods themselves that is causing a lot of controversy. I don't know why you think radio-nucleotide dating is unreliable (unless you only listen to the YECs!). Take a look at figure 1

Re: [Vo]:a new guest editorial by AXIL

2014-08-16 Thread jwinter
I'll try one more time although there is little hope for one as radicalised as you. Take a lesson from the high priests who would not believe Jesus' message even when he rose from the dead but would rather bribe the guards to stop others believing the truth. Don't try to destroy evidence like

Re: [Vo]:Accuracy of Carbon Dating

2014-08-25 Thread jwinter
On 25/08/2014 8:33 PM, Jojo Iznart wrote: ...A few threads ago, a fellow here challenged me to provide evidence for the inaccuracy claims I made about radioneucleotide dating. It took me some time to find it but here are some: I didn't ask for just any old list of radiocarbon dating anomalies.

[Vo]:Punctuated equilibrium

2014-08-26 Thread jwinter
On 27/08/2014 12:43 AM, Nigel Dyer wrote: This summer I read On the Origin of the Species from cover to cover for the first time. I had not realised what a truely remarkable book it is. It covers the dogs/wolves question in great detail. I bought a copy but still haven't got around to

Re: [Vo]:Punctuated equilibrium

2014-08-26 Thread jwinter
Hi Nigel, Thanks for your erudite and interesting answers. However I don't think you really answered the question I was interested in because you are so saturated with the current paradigm. I sense from your answer that you are happy with the idea that given an *actually* simple (in

Re: [Vo]:Punctuated equilibrium

2014-08-26 Thread jwinter
On 27/08/2014 9:09 AM, Jojo Iznart wrote: In my previous existence here, Nigel and I engaged is quite a long discussion about evolution. We did it offline. At that time, I asked Nigel to provide evidence of what he considers to be clear proof of evolution. I don't believe he has satisfied that

Re: [Vo]:Punctuated equilibrium

2014-08-27 Thread jwinter
Hi Nigel, Thanks again for your reply but it seems like you were answering someone else's query. I did not remotely suggest recent creation and did not think that I promoted alien impregnation. The alien impregnation that I spoke of was of the sexual variety and is a well known case that

Re: [Vo]:Punctuated equilibrium

2014-08-27 Thread jwinter
Hi Nigel, Thanks again for your answer, but again I cannot find the data point I am after in all the interesting information you have provided! So I will try again. Purely as an illustration or analogy, consider the growth of the human body. It starts at conception having many embryonic

Re: [Vo]:Punctuated equilibrium

2014-08-27 Thread jwinter
On 28/08/2014 1:11 AM, Jojo Iznart wrote: John, my friend, you have a fundamental problem in your analysis. Your unyielding adherence to Darwinian dogma You are mistaken. I have no adherence to Darwinian dogma whatsoever. If Darwinian dogma (whatever that is) happens to coincide with my

Re: [Vo]:Punctuated equilibrium

2014-08-27 Thread jwinter
On 28/08/2014 1:17 AM, Jojo Iznart wrote: If evolution is driven by a random process via random mutations, then evolution _can not be reversible_, since it is _unlikely_ that a random mutation would occur that cancels out a previous random mutation. The odds are astronomical for that to

Re: [Vo]:Punctuated equilibrium

2014-08-27 Thread jwinter
On 28/08/2014 7:59 AM, Jojo Iznart wrote: You seem to be implying that you know that the Coelacanth is 350 million years old from radiometric dating techniques. Please do tell, what sort of radiometric dating tells you that it is 350 million years old? I don't know how these particular

Re: [Vo]:Punctuated equilibrium

2014-08-27 Thread jwinter
On 28/08/2014 7:42 AM, Jojo Iznart wrote: As pointed out, the odds for a mutation occuring that would result in a feature that is useful enough is astronomical. If the necessary information is present from the beginning, then it only needs to be triggered and it will express itself. This is my

Re: [Vo]:Punctuated equilibrium

2014-08-28 Thread jwinter
On 28/08/2014 6:22 PM, Jojo Iznart wrote: On 28/08/2014 11:14 AM, jwinter wrote: If the necessary information is present from the beginning, then it only needs to be triggered and it will express itself. This is my suspicion of how the process might work. This process my friend, is called

Re: [Vo]:Punctuated equilibrium

2014-08-28 Thread jwinter
On 28/08/2014 6:25 PM, Jojo Iznart wrote: You would have a point, and I would be with you if there are indeed only one or two anomalies. But, the fact of the matter is, there are hundreds of anomalies that Darwinian Theory can not explain. Even staunch Darwinian Evolutionists are beginning to

Re: [Vo]:Punctuated equilibrium

2014-08-28 Thread jwinter
, jwinter wrote: If the necessary information is present from the beginning, then it only needs to be triggered and it will express itself. This is my suspicion of how the process might work. This process my friend, is called micro-evolution or variation or adaptation. The genetic

Re: [Vo]:Why doesn't Rossi makes a self feeding Hot Cat and ends the controversy.

2014-10-17 Thread jwinter
I don't know why Rossi doesn't do this. I think he must hardly have any ingenuity - or the scientists/engineers that are in a position to advise him! (Or you could think of more insulting terms). To convert the output heat to electricity, and then convert it back to input heat would have to

Re: [Vo]:Why doesn't Rossi makes a self feeding Hot Cat and ends the controversy.

2014-10-17 Thread jwinter
On 18/10/2014 10:30 AM, John Berry wrote: Did you read/understand Paul's analysis? I didn't need to! Did you read/understand mine!? This is impractical and maybe impossible unless he can improve efficiency. Carnot conversion just isn't great enough to turn the heat into usable electricity.

Re: [Vo]:Why doesn't Rossi makes a self feeding Hot Cat and ends the controversy.

2014-10-17 Thread jwinter
On 18/10/2014 10:51 AM, James Bowery wrote: Active cooling would work as well as active heating so you don't need to worry about carnot efficiency. Start it up and then keep it just hot enough by pumping a liquid, under controlled rates, with an appropriately high boiling point and decent