Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-22 Thread Jed Rothwell
MarkI-ZeroPoint zeropo...@charter.net wrote: FYI, I was just using Franklin and the Royal Society as an example… not literally. You can use it literally. He was a member of the Society. They awarded him the Copley Medal in 1753, and made him a Fellow in 1756, when he was still living in

Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-22 Thread Alain Sepeda
In corporate engineering you notice that relative regression. Data can be exchanged in seconds, designs can be simulated in days, however the regulation has became so complex, the workflow so long, involving so many fearful executives, so higher executives, that things get slow, until all is

Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-22 Thread Jed Rothwell
Alain Sepeda alain.sep...@gmail.com wrote: In corporate engineering you notice that relative regression. Data can be exchanged in seconds, designs can be simulated in days, however the regulation has became so complex, the workflow so long, involving so many fearful executives, so higher

Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-22 Thread Guenter Wildgruber
. In the proper context, the complex can be quite simple, even trivial. Guenter Von: Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com An: vortex-l@eskimo.com Gesendet: 20:07 Sonntag, 22.Juli 2012 Betreff: Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots Alain

Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-22 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.comwrote: In those days the Society proceedings resembled this forum rather than a modern journal. They were a catch-all discussion group for anything of interest to Natural Philosophy (science). Nice observation. I love the

RE: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-22 Thread Ron Clark
regulations and politics a limiting factor. Ron From: Jed Rothwell [mailto:jedrothw...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2012 11:07 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots Alain Sepeda alain.sep...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-22 Thread Axil Axil
Jed said: Regarding Franklin and the speed of communication, I wonder if the Proceedings of the Royal Society for 1750s are on line? Axil replies: The difference between then and now is that the words streaming forth from the “Proceedings of the Royal Society” would now be available to

Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-22 Thread Jed Rothwell
Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: The difference between then and now is that the words streaming forth from the “Proceedings of the Royal Society” would now be available to thousands of the interested as each one rolled out of Franken’s articulate mouth. That is exactly what happened in

Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-21 Thread Jed Rothwell
MarkI-ZeroPoint zeropo...@charter.net wrote: I couldn’t disagree more… seriously, hundreds or thousands of years? *** * ** ** Once the scientific community (both academic and corporate) realizes that a whole new field of science is being born, they will dive in to understand it and

Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-21 Thread Chemical Engineer
I agree with Mark, People will not have to learn LENR, they will just replace/upgrade their existing HVAC equipment with a device that happens to produce electricity also and reduces their bill - no brainer. Information access is much easier today with the internet and will aid in the

Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-21 Thread Jed Rothwell
Chemical Engineer cheme...@gmail.com wrote: I agree with Mark, People will not have to learn LENR, they will just replace/upgrade their existing HVAC equipment with a device that happens to produce electricity also and reduces their bill - no brainer. That would be the energy application

Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-21 Thread Harry Veeder
Da Vinci knew that man would someday have flying machines. I wonder how long he thought it would take. ;-) Harry On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Chemical Engineer cheme...@gmail.com wrote: I agree with Mark, People will not have to learn LENR,

Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-21 Thread Alain Sepeda
I agree, but it is the minimum. However ther is no limit to stupidity, and some zone might forbid it... (For example, France, Germany, Europe). Not as a conspiracy, but for quasi-religious reason, like it is done in EU. add that the lobbying of old monopolies (think about Russian supporting

RE: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-21 Thread MarkI-ZeroPoint
a processor for $200. -Mark From: Jed Rothwell [mailto:jedrothw...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2012 9:21 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots MarkI-ZeroPoint zeropo...@charter.net wrote: I couldn't disagree more

RE: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-21 Thread MarkI-ZeroPoint
Workers in China Face Competition from Robots Da Vinci knew that man would someday have flying machines. I wonder how long he thought it would take. ;-) Harry On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Chemical Engineer cheme...@gmail.com wrote: I agree with Mark

Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-21 Thread Axil Axil
...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2012 10:36 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots Da Vinci knew that man would someday have flying machines. I wonder how long he thought it would take. ;-) Harry On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 1:25 PM

Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-21 Thread Jed Rothwell
MarkI-ZeroPoint zeropo...@charter.net wrote: - **Until the advent of the telegraph and radio, the spread of knowledge was EXTREMELY SLOW. Communications across the Atlantic took months, so two scientists debating their ideas on theories, or two engineers discussing the design of a

Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-21 Thread Axil Axil
In only a few more years, a LENR developer will be able to run quantum mechanical nuclear system simulations on his quantum computer app using his iPhone 10. All while he attends a meeting in persons at least virtually as a hologram. In a short time, we have come a long way from the heady days of

Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-21 Thread Guenter Wildgruber
creation, and even sell it to some Australian licensee. Will be interesting how this plays out. Guenter Von: Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com An: vortex-l@eskimo.com Gesendet: 3:55 Samstag, 21.Juli 2012 Betreff: Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face

RE: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-21 Thread MarkI-ZeroPoint
[mailto:jedrothw...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2012 11:35 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots MarkI-ZeroPoint zeropo...@charter.net wrote: - Until the advent of the telegraph and radio, the spread of knowledge

Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-21 Thread Jed Rothwell
MarkI-ZeroPoint zeropo...@charter.net wrote: Now we have another process to go thru in order to publish: **- **he takes a week or two to write it up and sends it to the editor in England (6 weeks) **- **the editor then sends copies to peers who have the expertise

RE: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-21 Thread MarkI-ZeroPoint
...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2012 2:55 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots MarkI-ZeroPoint zeropo...@charter.net wrote: Now we have another process to go thru in order to publish: - he takes a week or two

Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-20 Thread Bruno Santos
Hi! What most people seem to not consider while assessing LENR's impact on world's economy is energy's major role in our financial system. With very, very few exceptions (most notably, Japan and South Korea) large energy companies are the backbones of our stock markets. Everywhere, oil, gas,

Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-20 Thread Alain Sepeda
some interesting analysis. however about taxes, the analysis is short sighted. if you save 10% of cost for all the economy, the tax on fuel will be no problems. tax on sales, work, incomes, can replace that. tax on fuel are ther not to get money, but to pay the externalities of foreign resources.

Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-20 Thread David L Babcock
On 7/19/2012 9:48 PM, Terry Blanton wrote: On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 9:42 PM, David L Babcock ol...@rochester.rr.com wrote: Lacking -at this moment- your book, I plunge ahead anyway... It's a quick, free download: http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/RothwellJcoldfusiona.pdf T Thank you !! I was

Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-20 Thread Guenter Wildgruber
Von: Bruno Santos besantos1...@gmail.com An: vortex-l@eskimo.com Gesendet: 10:31 Freitag, 20.Juli 2012 Betreff: Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots Hi!Cheers! World revolution is coming. 

Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-20 Thread Alain Sepeda
I've rethough about my simple rough analysis of Energy being 10% of all cost in economy. in fact situation is much worse, I see it at Home (I try a micro economic reasoning). not only I pay more than 1 thousands euro a year to warm house and water, but to avoid paying 3 thousands, I, and the

Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-20 Thread Jed Rothwell
Alain Sepeda alain.sep...@gmail.com wrote: I've rethough about my simple rough analysis of Energy being 10% of all cost in economy. I have talked about the potential economic effects with many experts. I conclude that it is darn near impossible to estimate the impact or likely course of

RE: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-20 Thread MarkI-ZeroPoint
Jed wrote: 2. At the level of energy, the economy and technology are so complex no expert can sort out the inputs and outputs, or the effect of change. You might estimate the impact of an improved washing machine. You might even predict the impact of an effective vaccine for AIDS. But when you

Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-20 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 5:51 PM, MarkI-ZeroPoint zeropo...@charter.netwrote: When you consider all the political and economic power-centers in the world, and the alliances or lack thereof, and the dire financial circumstances all over the planet, trying to make any predictions with that level

Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-20 Thread Axil Axil
Jed: you fully grasped the total implications of LENR. Even simple things such as spoons, which have not changed much in appearance for around 200 years, have changed profoundly in ways we cannot see, in the manufacturing phase. They will soon change again, with the introduction of 3-D replicator

Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-20 Thread Jed Rothwell
Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: In the not so distant future, water will enters a robotic custom product production plant as feedstock via a pipe and a purpose build custom product will roll off the production line of the local plant as a finalized manufactured article without ever

Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-20 Thread Terry Blanton
Well, with carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, you can make pretty much all the organics you need . . . with free energy. T

RE: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-20 Thread MarkI-ZeroPoint
for the masses. -Mark From: Jed Rothwell [mailto:jedrothw...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 20, 2012 7:32 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: In the not so distant future, water will enters

Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-19 Thread Alain Sepeda
Your message remind me that serie of article. It is more focussed on EU, and for now, sadly, they apocalyptic prediction have been more or less confirmed (with some delay... politicians seems good in delaying) I let you read that

Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-19 Thread Jed Rothwell
Alain Sepeda alain.sep...@gmail.com wrote: Your message remind me that serie of article. It is more focussed on EU, and for now, sadly, they apocalyptic prediction have been more or less confirmed . . . That is silly. The U.S. has been through much worse crises than it presently faces, in

Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-19 Thread Alain Sepeda
possible, but current problems seems not to be economic, but of structural political stability (bipartisan system)... anyway problems create the organ. With Eurozone situation seemed locked between facts and rigidity; anyway with crisis getting more and more real and ridiculous, everybody starts

Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-19 Thread Jed Rothwell
Alain Sepeda alain.sep...@gmail.com wrote: possible, but current problems seems not to be economic, but of structural political stability (bipartisan system)... True. But these problems are nothing compared to what they were from 1860 to 1865, when we killed 650,000 people in the Civil War.

RE: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-19 Thread MarkI-ZeroPoint
with the citizens while they 'play politics' to gain a majority. -Mark From: Jed Rothwell [mailto:jedrothw...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2012 6:52 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots Alain Sepeda alain.sep...@gmail.com

Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-19 Thread David L Babcock
On 7/18/2012 11:08 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote: ... I suggest you read my book, chapters 14 and 15 especially. I show why cold fusion will probably reduce electric power costs by two-thirds quickly, and why eventually it will reduce all energy costs -- including equipment costs -- by orders of

Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-19 Thread Terry Blanton
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 9:42 PM, David L Babcock ol...@rochester.rr.com wrote: Lacking -at this moment- your book, I plunge ahead anyway... It's a quick, free download: http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/RothwellJcoldfusiona.pdf T

Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-18 Thread mixent
In reply to Axil Axil's message of Wed, 18 Jul 2012 00:05:18 -0400: Hi, [snip] Did you ever think about all the people who make a living in the energy business? All of today’s energy workers: the coal miners, oil workers, gas station attendants, gas drillers, pipeline workers, sycophant

Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-18 Thread Alain Sepeda
LENR will not kill jobs by itself, and robots will be even more needed for more expensive energy sources like wind turbines... that is not specific to LENR. The more expensive it is, the more the automation is needed. as any productivity increase it will challenge the social organization, whether

Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-18 Thread Daniel Rocha
LENR will make jobs mostly uneeded. That's simple. You can have a closed structure to make crops and get you food for free. If you want any luxury, just some freelance will make the required money.

Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-18 Thread Jed Rothwell
Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: LENR will kill jobs by the millions. The LENR production factory will be completely automated. Only robots will populate these places. True. The sales of products will be done on Amazon.com. I doubt that. I think most cold fusion devices will be built

Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-18 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Ah! It's soapbox time! Let me step on top of mine! I suspect that if the prospects of robotics and LENR, or one of the LENR cousins, pans out in the near future the concept of what money represents to individuals, companies, and government circles will also have to evolve with the times. Perhaps

Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-18 Thread Axil Axil
These plutocrats will strongly resist their fall from power; maintaining their position is their agenda. And how can economics functions without money? I will all be interesting to watch. Cheers: Axil On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 10:16 AM, OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson svj.orionwo...@gmail.com

Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-18 Thread Alain Sepeda
just to guive data I've made some quick computation http://www.lenrforum.eu/viewtopic.php?f=3t=27p=1139#p1139 since energy is $5-7Tn and GDP is $70Tn, the potential saving on energy is around 10%, that you can interpret as productivity increase. The replacement of world energy source is estimated

Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-18 Thread Jed Rothwell
Alain Sepeda alain.sep...@gmail.com wrote: It will be important shock, but not so huge. at most 10% of course you can expect that the technology will become even cheaper, but even if LENR get to zero, the turbines, cooling and alike will stay as expensive (and I have under estimated their

Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-18 Thread Jed Rothwell
I do not think this message went through . . . Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com mailto:janap...@gmail.com wrote: LENR will kill jobs by the millions. The LENR production factory will be completely automated. Only robots will populate these places. True. The sales of products will be

Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-18 Thread Chemical Engineer
LENR will create lots of new products and create industries where there are none today. Money is just a vehicle for goods and services to change hands and as long as capitalism remains that won't change. Just cooling off the oceans and removing CO2 from the atmosphere will be one new industry...

RE: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-18 Thread MarkI-ZeroPoint
] On Behalf Of Alain Sepeda Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 8:02 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots just to guive data I've made some quick computation http://www.lenrforum.eu/viewtopic.php?f=3 http://www.lenrforum.eu/viewtopic.php?f=3t=27p

Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-18 Thread Harry Veeder
will adapt; financial markets will adapt… -Mark From: alain.coetm...@gmail.com [mailto:alain.coetm...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Alain Sepeda Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 8:02 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots just

Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-18 Thread Harry Veeder
Sepeda Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 8:02 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots just to guive data I've made some quick computation http://www.lenrforum.eu/viewtopic.php?f=3t=27p=1139#p1139 since energy is $5-7Tn and GDP is $70Tn

Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-18 Thread Harry Veeder
Workers in China Face Competition from Robots just to guive data I've made some quick computation http://www.lenrforum.eu/viewtopic.php?f=3t=27p=1139#p1139 since energy is $5-7Tn and GDP is $70Tn, the potential saving on energy is around 10%, that you can interpret as productivity increase

Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-18 Thread Harry Veeder
Workers in China Face Competition from Robots just to guive data I've made some quick computation http://www.lenrforum.eu/viewtopic.php?f=3t=27p=1139#p1139 since energy is $5-7Tn and GDP is $70Tn, the potential saving on energy is around 10%, that you can interpret as productivity increase

Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-18 Thread Randy Wuller
Subject: Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots Long term deflation? Harry On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 12:23 PM, MarkI-ZeroPoint zeropo...@charter.net wrote: Alain wrote: “since energy is $5-7Tn and GDP is $70Tn, the potential saving on energy is around 10%” “maybe I miss

Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-18 Thread Alain Sepeda
I hope so, and I feel that today energy cost is felt as a master parameter. It is just that it seems that it is only 10% of the produced good value... It is just a confilt between what my eyes see, and what the consensus seems to be... In that domain my intuition is not good enough to have a

Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-18 Thread Chemical Engineer
Much of our quality of life in the developed world has been enchanced tremendously due to fossil fuel usage: Fossil fuels, such as coal, natural gas, and oil, were not used as a source of energy until the latter half of the 19th century. Prior to that, wind and water power were used for

Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-18 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
In any event, the current notion of austerity is nonsense and is tied to a tired and outdated concept that money is real or has some intrinsic real value which it doesn't. Austerity = Stupidity and I think every so often we as a society have to go through stretches of it before we remember

Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-18 Thread Jed Rothwell
Randy Wuller rwul...@freeark.com wrote: In any event, the current notion of austerity is nonsense and is tied to a tired and outdated concept that money is real or has some intrinsic real value which it doesn't. Austerity = Stupidity . . . I know little about economics, but I agree. It

[Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-17 Thread Axil Axil
Robots and LENR could take down China… It doesn’t really matter where those robots are deployed; robots cost the same to install and run because they cost the same no matter where the factory is located especially when the power that drives them is almost free. Cheap labor is no longer a

Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-17 Thread Axil Axil
LENR will kill jobs by the millions. The LENR production factory will be completely automated. Only robots will populate these places. The sales of products will be done on Amazon.com. The distribution of product will be highly if not completely automated. If there is a thousand people employed in