[Vo]:Question: Thyratrons/Glow Discharge Tubes

2009-04-19 Thread Chris Zell
I was curious to know if any anomalies have been reported in regard to thyratrons or other regulator tubes.  There are a number of free energy claimants - Correa, Shoulders, Chernetski, Stamenko and others - who use discharges in vacuum tubes . However, many of us lack the extensive resources

Re: [Vo]:Rejecting Nobel class articles and resisting Nobel class discoveries

2009-05-08 Thread Chris Zell
The Nobel involved in the discovery that ulcers are cause by an infection is a direct example of this problem.  The researchers were rather angry about their treatment in a matter that was easy to replicate.  Everyone knew they must be wrong. --- On Fri, 5/8/09, Jed Rothwell

Re: [Vo]:another better battery.

2009-05-19 Thread Chris Zell
Thank you for this update.   I firmly believe that the world is facing a depression in 2 - 5 years unless someone comes up with a dramatic technological catalyst for growth.  A Really Good Battery would do that and more.  I also think that it is the answer to concerns about nukes in Iran and a

[Vo]:Tech Saviors: Can We Bear The Burden?

2009-05-28 Thread Chris Zell
I have never felt such an overwhelming perception that our world economy is fragile, lacking any depth of stamina and operating on the thinnest of a margin for error.   We have now purchased a brief 'timeout' with wild debts that the next generation will never be able to repay.  As it is, we

Re: [Vo]:The Kiplinger Letter, May 28, 2009: Energy Technology Comments.

2009-05-30 Thread Chris Zell
I would like to see some company formed to extract lithium from US oil field brines. We desperately need new battery technology and it would not be good if Bolivia is the only or dominant source such that prices remain high.

[Vo]:Is Cold Fusion a Secondary Phenomena?

2009-06-11 Thread Chris Zell
There are a wide number of inventions or independent observations related to 'free energy' that appear to be derived from a single phenomena:  charge clusters or other anomalous concentrations of charge.   The fundamental work appears to be from Ken Shoulders (patent 5018180).  His patent

Re: [Vo]:Is Cold Fusion a Secondary Phenomena?

2009-06-11 Thread Chris Zell
--- On Thu, 6/11/09, mix...@bigpond.com mix...@bigpond.com   I understand your point but I think somebody more knowledgeable than me needs to analyze Shoulders work as well as the others that are similar.  If these anomalous concentrations of charge are real, it changes everything - and it is

[Vo]:Two Wrongs, continued

2009-06-13 Thread Chris Zell
Here's the reality:  There's no way any new nukes will be built in the US, aside from expansion of existing ones.  NIMBYism makes it politically impossible.  Even Jim Cramer nixes the idea of investing in nuke building for this reason.  My God, look how much political trouble it is just to

Re: [Vo]:Two Wrongs, continued

2009-06-14 Thread Chris Zell
I'm well aware of blacklight power and I unreservedly salute Mills and others for their brave fight against prejudiced academic opponents.  It's the sort of technology that could save our civilization and change political dynamics for the better.   That said, there are still hurdles.  Can a

Re: [Vo]:On Topic

2009-06-15 Thread Chris Zell
OK, I'm interested in the anomalies you mentioned, particularly the conditioning of space. The whole no ether thing never made sense to me because the characteristic impedance of space is about 328 ohms and is a real factor in antenna design..   No Ether?  What's impeding the RF?    I think

Re: [Vo]:When two wrongs make a right -- oil and nuclear

2009-06-16 Thread Chris Zell
we will shortly conquer fusion   Next question is, what do you do with it, once conquered?  How do you make energy portable or put fusion in a car?

Re: [Vo]:When two wrongs make a right -- oil and nuclear

2009-06-16 Thread Chris Zell
Lemme get this straight, you wanna build fusion reactors to make gasoline?   OK,  so economic development isn't always linear.  Maybe if you reduce energy inputs to nearly zero cost,  the other costs of labor and equipment still give you cheap gasoline.   But first the minor hurdle of achieving

[Vo]:Enough Already

2009-06-16 Thread Chris Zell
So, now we're debating about debating about religion and politics?    Jeez Louise guys,  Our Founding Fathers taught us that politics exists because of the limits/failures of religion (Tom Paine) and both religion and politics exist largely because of the present limits of technology.   Free

Re: [Vo]:Smoke Ring?

2009-06-17 Thread Chris Zell
Dolphins?  ET's?   Goodbye and thanks for all the fish!  

Re: [Vo]:Fringe

2009-06-18 Thread Chris Zell
So,  individually, we stand almost no chance of contributing anything to cold fusion, nor has any particularly practical way been conceived to power a vehicle with it.(??!)   Many of us have to worry about having any savings, job or retirement at all, much less hundreds of thousands for a

[Vo]:Read Design News 6/09

2009-06-19 Thread Chris Zell
Design News (6/09) magazine cover shouts Slamming Amps  and shows how electric racers are beating muscle cars at the strip.   An electric 1978 Ford Pinto did a 12. 4 sec quarter mile. A street legal electric Datsun did 11.4 and an electric motorcycle (Killacycle) did it in 7.8 sec.   The beauty

[Vo]:Dateline: 2013

2009-06-21 Thread Chris Zell
There are many reasons why the dollar and the US economy collapsed in 2013.  Historians offer many opinions on the chain of events that led to the Federal government defaulting on its debt.  However, one factor is widely agreed upon:  The sudden emergence of Cold Fusion  - while hailed as

Re: [Vo]:Dateline: 2013

2009-06-23 Thread Chris Zell
I appreciate this techno-anarchist vision as offering a measure of hope.   I can remember Tom Paine's writings about the American Revolution saying 'let the trouble occur in my day so that my children will live in peace' .  Today, we place our grandkids in hopeless debt, by contrast.   Global

Re: [Vo]:Dateline: 2013

2009-06-23 Thread Chris Zell
Your comments suggest that we have our backs against the wall.  I feel impelled to agree and I am actually glad to see such comments.   Economics is called the dismal science for good reason. Science and academia do not exist in isolation. As more and more facts are revealed, it is apparent

Re: [Vo]:Repost of: Oil Glut?

2009-07-09 Thread Chris Zell
I sometimes wonder if, after the decline of organized religions influence,  the same human emotions remain - especially guilt.  So,  people adopt religious behavior in regard to the environment or carbon trading or whatever.   There are reasons for poverty in the world and corruption and bad

Re: [Vo]:Repost of: Oil Glut?

2009-07-09 Thread Chris Zell
Economics is called the dismal science for a good reason.    If we gave up meat or any other resource, the price of said commodity would indeed drop - temporarily.  Once the farmers understood that their market had disappeared, they would liquidate their herds.  After that, meat ( or whatever

Re: [Vo]:Repost of: Oil Glut?

2009-07-09 Thread Chris Zell
However, the fact is that as cars get older, Sha'ken becomes more and more expensive.  Eventually, if the car stops running well or reaches a certain age (even though it's still a good car), you may have to pay a fee just to get rid of it.  This is the reason why there are so few older cars in

Re: [Vo]:OT: The Abduction Paradigm

2009-07-31 Thread Chris Zell
As to hallucinations,  there have been a number of people since the '60's who function very well in responsible jobs despite having them.  You may not hear much about them since the problem can be an embarrassment.  They quickly understand to ignore walls moving as if breathing or rainbow

Re: [Vo]:OT: The Abduction Paradigm

2009-08-01 Thread Chris Zell
Allow me to point out that some of these incidents wherein people went apeshit with delusions  had a basis in fact.  In Europe and possibly in the Witch trials in early America, Huntington's disease was undiagnosed:   http://curehd.blogspot.com/2008/08/roots-of-our-stigma.html   As for other

Re: [Vo]:OT: The Abduction Paradigm

2009-08-01 Thread Chris Zell
There is an interesting book called The Science of Extraterrestrials by Eric Julien. It goes with the temporal bubble idea.   There's a notion I have about weird phenomena that I avoided discussing because it is so difficult to articulate.  It concerns reductionism.  By its very nature, science

Re: [Vo]:OT: The Abduction Paradigm

2009-08-01 Thread Chris Zell
As to titration and medicine, you don't understand what I mean.  A long time ago, Bill Beaty commented on this problem - and the recent report on DNA segments 'just knowing where to go'  illustrates the issue.   You have positive and negative charges, attraction and repulsion and this is

Re: [Vo]:OT The Abduction Paradigm

2009-08-02 Thread Chris Zell
Without commenting on individual abduction cases, the general descriptions of aliens fits what I would expect from an extremely advanced technological culture.  Such as:   Minimized Individuality ( or none!)  Take a good look at our technology and consider that we have progressed from spears to

Re: [Vo]: PhysOrg article on breaking Plank's law

2009-08-03 Thread Chris Zell
Thank you for posting this.  While it deals with the micro level of reality, it still illustrates the problem with reductionism and saying that something is impossible because it violates a physical law.

RE: RE: [Vo]:OT: The Abduction Rejectee Paradigm

2009-08-05 Thread Chris Zell
Apparently, there are claims of some potential abductees being rejected due to age or health.   http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086sid=aILLOMP8rU34refer=latin_america   I can't get a job interview and now, even ET's aren't hiring.  This interdimensional age discrimination is just

Re: [Vo]:Nissan electric car

2009-08-06 Thread Chris Zell
First, I think Congress should convert all of Hawaii over to electric vehicles.  Maybe Puerto Rico, too.  Who needs a 300 mile range?   Unfortunately,  this looks like a commuter car for rich folks like Ed Begley. Other than that, they gotta get the price down for California, especially in this

[Vo]:An Unnoticed Governance Experiment?

2009-08-13 Thread Chris Zell
Is China an experiment in governance that no one has noticed?  Specifically,  Rulership by Engineers!  It seems that the majority of Chinese leaders have degrees in various engineering disciplines rather than the sort of background found elsewhere in the world amidst political leadership ( as

Re: [Vo]:An Unnoticed Governance Experiment?

2009-08-13 Thread Chris Zell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9dpTTpjymE   I can't derive a better reply than yours.

Re: [Vo]:An Unnoticed Governance Experiment?

2009-08-13 Thread Chris Zell
  FDR's interventions failed too, for years thereafter as the Depression went on and on until WW2 or the trade that it triggered ended it.  And Obama reviving the economy?  Appear is the correct word as trillions are borrowed, printed and spent that will never be repaid.  Our grandchildren 

Re: [Vo]:Electric cars

2009-08-14 Thread Chris Zell
The new Chairman of GM was quoted ( Bloomberg) as saying I don't anything about making cars.  Given that and the 30 - 40K Volt, Yes, I would sell their stock short. There's also a blog on Seeking Alpha expressing skepticism over their all weather engineering relative to Toyota.   OTOH,  you

[Vo]:Re: Alternative Stock Pick

2009-08-25 Thread Chris Zell
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=WPRT   This is a Canadian company to watch.  They are making nat-gas fueled engines and kits. Not profitable at the moment but Nat Gas is abnormally cheap - and amazingly so when compared to oil.  A number of Congressmen are looking at the Pickens Plan again.  

[Vo]:Re: My Rare Earth Vision

2009-08-28 Thread Chris Zell
One day the Chinese cut off rare earth shipments and the prices go into the sky.  A couple of us guys come up with a cheap Cold Fusion method of creating these elements in amounts well beyond parts per million.   We sell bars of terbium, europium and whatever-ium and get filthy rich.   We show

[Vo]:EV and Hybrid Critique

2009-08-31 Thread Chris Zell
http://seekingalpha.com/article/159020-phevs-and-evs-plugging-into-a-lump-of-coal?source=email   Not a fan of hybrids, alas

RE: [Vo]:EV and Hybrid Critique

2009-08-31 Thread Chris Zell
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109sid=a.quj9vK5PhI   New GM chairman knows nothing about cars  but he promises to learn about them.   Very reassuring.   A guy on Seeking Alpha points out that the Coors ceramic battery could change the whole solar power picture and decentralize power

Re: [Vo]:Griggs still at it?

2009-09-02 Thread Chris Zell
It ain't the friction what does it.  It's the cavitation.

Re: [Vo]:Uh....Wait a minute Jack

2009-09-09 Thread Chris Zell
You mentioned a cure for cancer that worked in your case.  I think you should elaborate on this.  Much as I like abduction stories, I think cures for dread disease get the priority. Thanks

Re: [Vo]: Turn Some Coin/Neodymium

2009-09-10 Thread Chris Zell
There are projections of serious shortages of rare earth metals by 2017.  This may be an opportunity to turn some serious coin, dudes!   Avarf.pk may be the first (external to China) rare earth mine to achieve production anytime soon.

Re: [Vo]:Rare Earth Opportunity of a lifetime

2009-09-11 Thread Chris Zell
see: http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investing/JubaksJournal/a-rare-opportunity-in-mining-stocks.aspx   I like Jubak's columns. He sees what I see in this area.   Well, either that or figure out how to make these elements by cold fusion..

RE: [Vo]:Car Alternators Vs Old Style Generators

2009-09-25 Thread Chris Zell
The last car to use generators that I'm aware of was the VW Bug.  I suppose alternators were cheaper to build.

[Vo]:Why No Repulsion?

2009-09-25 Thread Chris Zell
I was wondering if anyone knew a thorough answer to the question: How can a charged thunderstorm exist? I've asked meterologists this question but no one has any answer.   How can a cloud carry any charge at all?  Why doesn't the charge cause the cloud to instantly dissipate?  If we can

RE: [Vo]:Why No Repulsion?

2009-09-26 Thread Chris Zell
I appreciate the answers but find that they generate more questions in the same direction.   As of 1998, cloud electrification was still generally termed a mystery.  It's difficult to see how small charges over large distances still cooperate to create a lightning bolt as a focused phenomena ,

[Vo]:Re: Cold Fusion, Feyerabend, War and Depression

2009-09-29 Thread Chris Zell
Selling Cold Fusion?  Public Relations?  And this is Science we're talking about? It's disgusting.  Guys like Feyerabend were more right than anyone likes to admit.  Peer review becomes sneer review and instead of the Defenders of the Dominant Paradigm dying off, we're stuck with obituaries in

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold Fusion, Feyerabend, War and Depression

2009-09-29 Thread Chris Zell
I am NOT being critical of your efforts or anyone else in trying to promote acceptance.  I am, however, nauseated by the fact that such is deemed necessary apparently because things have drifted into a sterile orthodoxy dominated by scientific hierarchs. Now, I'm not even sure we can depend

Re: [Vo]:Our Jobless Startrek Future

2009-10-08 Thread Chris Zell
Take a good look at the job market and notice the Replicator effect - plenty of minimum wage jobs and a few well paid critical jobs that have plenty of applicants but companies find difficult to fill.  And you think you can split up the hours for a couple people?   As human beings, we are

[Vo]:Re: Energy - The World Economy is Saved

2009-10-12 Thread Chris Zell
see: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/6299291/Energy-crisis-is-postponed-as-new-gas-rescues-the-world.html   Enough nat gas reserves for 60 years!  Convert the cars and defund terrorism and crash the trade deficit.  Goodbye to the peak oil threat.      Yeah, I'd

Re: [Vo]:Fleischmann??

2009-10-13 Thread Chris Zell
Personally, I wonder if the scientific community is nearly incapable of progress because it's dominated by undiagnosed Aspergers and related syndromes.  Instead of being fascinated by shiny objects, they obsess about assorted technicalities and tend to be puzzled by common social demands. Hint,

Re: [Vo]:Clem: FE device turns out real

2009-11-09 Thread Chris Zell
You could add the Schaefer device to this cavitation list.  It produced steam very efficiently by forcing cavitation within a spinning rotor.   Does anyone know the application number of the new turbine patent?  I think we should all make plenty of copies before the government slaps a secret

RE: [Vo]:Clem: FE device turns out real

2009-11-10 Thread Chris Zell
here we go:   http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2005/0039434.html   Save a copy.  Ya never know

RE: [Vo]:Clem Wear?

2009-11-13 Thread Chris Zell
The only thing I wonder about in regard to a cavitation powered device is: how long does it work?   If cavitation can eat away at ships propellors, how long would a cavitation motor last?  

[Vo]:NMR and Transmutation

2009-11-19 Thread Chris Zell
Did anyone ever test Brightsen's ideas about transmutation using NMR?    There have been similar claims, as http://www.rexresearch.com/meyernmr/meyer.htm   or the Colman/Seddon-Gillespie 'battery'.  I think Brightsen passed away before he could pursue his theories.

[Vo]:Climate Change EMail Controversy

2009-11-20 Thread Chris Zell
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100017393/climategate-the-final-nail-in-the-coffin-of-anthropogenic-global-warming/   Just hit the Drudgereport.  Obviously, many remarks may be taken out of context but it looks to be an embarassment for many Global warming scientists.   I would

[Vo]:Electrolysis Looks Very Weird

2009-11-27 Thread Chris Zell
Ordinary things often look weird to me.  Like how do zillions of raindrops create a consistent appearance of a rainbow when they are randomly falling thru the air... seems like you would get a mess of mostly white light  and not a neat march of apparently organized Roy G. Biv's.   Anyhow,

RE: [Vo]:Electrolysis Looks Very Weird

2009-11-28 Thread Chris Zell
I'm a bit confused by the activity at the anode.  If you remove an O (which becomes O2 pretty quick) aren't you left with free hydrogen in the deal? But you don't get both gases at one electrode.  Drift velocity compared to the speed of light is strange enough - now in these liquids we're

Re: [Vo]:Fwd: KEPPE MOTOR AT COP-15

2009-11-28 Thread Chris Zell
Why is it a big deal?  With a partial load, you can trim electric useage way down with a PWM controller.  It works very well with stuff like ventilation/cooling which is usually a variable load.

Re: [Vo]:OT (sort of): 2000-2009: the 21 Century decade of Extraordinary claims?

2009-11-28 Thread Chris Zell
Good God!  Thank you for pointing this out!  What is the deal with people these days and educated people at that?   What is the benefit of creating endless numbers of gadgets that don't work - and posting such fakes on YouTube?   I can't fathom either the efforts and expense of getting patents

Re: [Vo]:Ball bearing motor and Welsh Onion.

2009-12-04 Thread Chris Zell
How does this thing work?  Is it real?

[Vo]:Newest Climate Scandal Today

2009-12-04 Thread Chris Zell
see: http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,665182,00.html   Please provide your own ironic joke.

Re: [Vo]:zero point query

2009-12-14 Thread Chris Zell
Everytime the subject of zero point energy comes up, I wanna ask, where's the 'drain', the 'cold side',  the 'pressure release'?   At the bottom of the ocean,  you have tons of pressure per square inch but what good is that?  You need an area of reduced pressure to get a flow going.  Likewise,

Re: [Vo]:An Alternative History of the Wrights

2009-12-18 Thread Chris Zell
Frustrated by the refusal of the US Army to take their flying machine seriously, the Wright Brothers embarked on a different strategy.  Simply fly their craft over various cities and get the public to accept the reality of flight.. but things got much weirder.   People who witnessed them above

[Vo]:Correa Replication

2009-12-24 Thread Chris Zell
Maybe I've missed something but I've never read of a completely independent replication of Correa's tubes overunity.  This guy AbbeRue claims he has done OU with it:   http://www.overunity.com/index.php?topic=1310.45   The thread is really interesting stuff about spark gap triggered beta decay

[Vo]:You Physics Guys Need To Read This

2010-01-03 Thread Chris Zell
see: http://www.bibhasde.com/defense.html   A whole new physics.  Wow!  Could relate to free energy stuff   

Re: [Vo]:Traffic accident deaths in Japan hit 57-year low

2010-01-04 Thread Chris Zell
I think it is difficult to consider Japan's considerable achievements, beautiful countryside and hard working people without also considering its bleak future. Japan is dying.   http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/worldtonight/2009/09/is_japan_a_dying_nation.html   Japan is stuck in a long term 

Re: [Vo]:Traffic accident deaths in Japan hit 57-year low

2010-01-05 Thread Chris Zell
See:http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/article/297420/Japan%27s-Future-%22It%27s-Going-to-Be-Scary%22?tickers=ewj,^jpn,sne,tm,jpy=xsec=topStoriespos=8asset=ccode=   Japan's coming collapse is becoming quietly accepted by strategic investors.  After 20 years of little or no growth, despite

Re: [Vo]:OT: Depressing graphic

2010-01-22 Thread Chris Zell
You are absolutely correct.  I am appalled by CNBC using weasel words like Great Recession.  It's nonsense: With real unemployment nearing 18%, this is a depression.

Re: [Vo]:Michaelson Morely vs V^2/C^2

2010-01-28 Thread Chris Zell
Perhaps y'all could enlighten me.  I never understood the blanket rejection of 'ether' when radiation resistance is an engineering fact.   In the design of RF antennas, there is a radiation resistance of about 328 ohms.  Clearly, something out there is 'resisting' the emission of RF.  In

Re: [Vo]:new Infinite Energy combustion engine using inert gases

2010-01-28 Thread Chris Zell
If we want to go all ad hominem (on Papp,) we could throw in Feynman's sleazy advice on how to pick up sluts in bars, among other stuff. He was a great man but far from flawless.   Infinite Energy ran a story that claimed that Feynman's account about the Papp explosion was itself false, as per

[Vo]:We Need An Energy Miracle

2010-01-28 Thread Chris Zell
Please read this blog from Seeking Alpha: http://seekingalpha.com/article/185030-jobs-of-the-future?source=article_lb_articles   If you're not frightened and depressed, you should be.  We need an energy miracle to save us and the clock is ticking.  It will soon be obvious even to the

Re: [Vo]:We Need An Energy Miracle

2010-01-28 Thread Chris Zell
I'm aware of Mills work and have hope for his success.  I hope he can expand beyond utilities towards portability as lithium batteries may be too expensive for a long time.

RE: [Vo]:Defkalion European branch

2013-01-09 Thread Chris Zell
I vaguely recall an old article in the New Scientist that theorized that Great Big Nuclei ( such as the fabled element 115) could throw off radiated particles, yanking them out of the virtual realm.

RE: [Vo]:Does This System Beat Laws of Thermodynamics?

2013-01-18 Thread Chris Zell
I've wondered about such systems for sometime, those that convert one form of energy to another. Suppose someone had a vessel capable of being pressurized in which water was electrolyzed. While electrolysis isn't that efficient, nevertheless, are the pressurized gases therefrom a sort of

RE: [Vo]:Another article about the impact of automation on employment

2013-01-29 Thread Chris Zell
Business Insider recently reported that Krugman may be discreetly admitting that he has made a serious oversight with regard to the viability of Social Security. Automation is eliminating jobs at such a rate that the payroll tax funding source may be in peril.

RE: [Vo]:Like charges attract each other

2013-01-30 Thread Chris Zell
The work of Ken Shoulders (EV's or charge clusters) appears to me to be the most ignored critical discovery of the age. It promises free energy and outright transmutation - and if you read his background and lengthy patent, it appears credible. Also, a Russian scientist may have independently

RE: [Vo]:NHK: ocean levels may rise 9 m by 2100

2013-01-30 Thread Chris Zell
The danger involved, for one thing, is the waste of vital capital in pursuit of solutions that aren't real. If we get Cold Fusion or A Really Good Battery, well and good, problem solved. If not, wind, solar and nukes aren't going to replace oil. I am appalled at academics who propose

RE: [Vo]:NHK: ocean levels may rise 9 m by 2100

2013-01-31 Thread Chris Zell
Isn't the academic view just amazing? When confronted with malaise about Bangladesh treading water in decades to come, they go all 'chapter and verse' with specifics - yet, when asked about paying the bills, they drift off into magic and mysticism. Somehow it will get paid for. Thank you,

RE: [Vo]:NHK: ocean levels may rise 9 m by 2100

2013-01-31 Thread Chris Zell
Current headline at BusinessInsider : 80% of French Think Their Country Is Bankrupt. Clearly, these suffering people would benefit from more global warming solutions. Likewise the growing number of Spanish people now living on the street. Or the British people who are burning second hand

RE: [Vo]:NHK: ocean levels may rise 9 m by 2100

2013-01-31 Thread Chris Zell
metro.co.uk Jan 5, 2013, Pensioners burn books to stay warm. So, the investment in alternative energy would create more jobs? Like polishing mirrors? Or do your robots do that after the coal miners/ railroad workers/utility boiler feeders go on the dole? Dismissing Wall Street opinion on

RE: [Vo]:NHK: ocean levels may rise 9 m by 2100

2013-01-31 Thread Chris Zell
I have played the Market ( profitably). I never gamble or play poker. Even Malkiel in his Random Walk thesis considered that there could be exceptions (closed end funds, for example). Cold Fusion is an effect that needs to be a practical product and large companies might hate the idea,

RE: [Vo]:Margin Call tells it like it was

2013-01-31 Thread Chris Zell
Let's not forget outright fraud and theft while government regulators did nothing to touch the scofflaw 1%. There was a whole body of state and local legal tradition in regard to the transfer of mortgages that was ignored by the banksters. They ran document fraud factories in which people

[Vo]:OT: Electrets?

2013-02-01 Thread Chris Zell
Is it possible to build a free energy device using an electret to feed a sort of relaxation oscillator? The charge builds up and then gets discharged, over and over again. I was puzzling over this as I picked up a large electrolytic cap from off a shelf, where it had been sitting for several

[Vo]:Shale Cost vs Alternative

2013-02-04 Thread Chris Zell
Shale oil/gas projections have come under fire because such fracking projects frequently have a short life span relative to past 'easy oil'. This may mean that while such a resource is abundant - and seems to be growing as reserves appear from week to week - they may be expensive. So, we

[Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-04 Thread Chris Zell
http://www.businessinsider.com/americans-live-on-the-edge-of-financial-ruin-cfed-report-2013-2 The above provides the latest evidence that the US economy is hanging by threads. Much the same goes for Europe and Japan. About half of US households cannot weather any financial emergency nor

RE: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-04 Thread Chris Zell
Rich nations can afford. No, they can't. That's the point. Their populations are suffering and it's going to get much worse. Nor do developing nations operate in a vacuum as markets are now more tightly correlated than ever, contrary to many predictions. Virtuous cycle? That would be

RE: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-06 Thread Chris Zell
Blah, blah, blah..living from paycheck to paycheck. The discussion begins and ends there, simply by defining what the phrase means. With greater advances in automation soon, that phrase will often become 'welfare check to welfare check'. But fear not for the climate ! The Drudge Report

RE: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-06 Thread Chris Zell
Please stop referring to economic considerations of climate change as 'hijacking'.

RE: [Vo]:Science Set Free

2013-02-15 Thread Chris Zell
Dawkins is an example of 'atheist theology' (oxymoron). He seems to desire a neat, ordered, understandable world without any Creator behind it. He extends traditional moral concerns to general society, as if they still had a Divine authority behind them. Why is objective truth important?

RE: [Vo]:Science Set Free

2013-02-15 Thread Chris Zell
First, I used to be an ardent Creationist but realized that nature does not allow for such a notion. There's far too much that exists that's just horrible - and ( seemingly) Really Well Designed - such as Guinea worms, Crocodiles, Tyrannosaurus Rex and more. A personal Creator would have to be

RE: [Vo]:Science Set Free

2013-02-15 Thread Chris Zell
Ah, see just is in previous section. Einstein was obsessed with determinism. Didn't like that Heisenberg Principle. I used to feel the same way but realized that you just run out of causes for stuff. Things become emergent in our macro world because it's difficult to neatly explain all the

RE: [Vo]:Science Set Free

2013-02-15 Thread Chris Zell
Yes ! I'm also tempted by the thought in The Physics of Immortality in which God appears in the future and works backward thru time to fix things. This would make a person an atheist ( but only for now) until universal awareness (God) emerges. He quoted the revelation to Moses as ( ehyeh

RE: [Vo]:Science Set Free

2013-02-18 Thread Chris Zell
Is it ever possible to discuss Intelligent Design without being a crypto-creationist? Judging from the nearly violent reception given to Ben Stein's Expelled, I guess not. Blogs loaded up with long diatribes against Creationism by people who refused to even watch the movie. There was a

RE: [Vo]:Fwd: Quantum teleportation and more

2013-02-18 Thread Chris Zell
Too much like Keshe. Where's the details? From: fznidar...@aol.com [mailto:fznidar...@aol.com] Sent: Monday, February 18, 2013 9:44 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: [Vo]:Fwd: Quantum teleportation and more -Original Message- From: Lewan Mats

RE: [Vo]:Interesting graph of daily power generation in Germany, May 2012

2013-02-19 Thread Chris Zell
Germans are shutting down nukes and shunning nat gas while burning more dirty lignite. A green shift? really? http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-19/merkel-s-green-shift-forces-germany-to-burn-more-coal-energy.html

RE: [Vo]:Interesting graph of daily power generation in Germany, May 2012

2013-02-19 Thread Chris Zell
I do admire the Germans in regard to their programs to offer jobs with reduced hours but with most benefits retained. Futurewise, this is the way to go and is a big improvement over simple unemployment or welfare. Another country to admire ( to a degree) is Iran. 4 Bankers are scheduled for

RE: [Vo]:Tech Predictions

2013-02-25 Thread Chris Zell
Use a little imagination. They can can accuse LENR advocates as aiding terrorists. They can plant child porn on their computers. They can make an example of any one of them by murdering one of them and pretending it was a suicide - or just a random crime that never gets solved. And you think

RE: [Vo]:Tech Predictions

2013-02-25 Thread Chris Zell
You acknowledge the problem - and I think the good guys will win ultimately. However, all those papers downloaded so far mean nothing - until you can produce something simple, reliable and affordable for common useage. I consider the situation nothing less than astonishing that, after the

RE: [Vo]:Tech Predictions

2013-02-25 Thread Chris Zell
I apologize if it seems that I introduce material associated with conspiracies but I feel I have been driven to them, having no alternative. At present, the world looks so bizarre to me, I cannot satisfy my sense of logic otherwise - and if it isn't obvious already, the adventure of trying to

RE: [Vo]:Krivit takes a hard line on Rossi

2013-03-01 Thread Chris Zell
I have some friends in Canada who talk about their experience with health care there. It is not as bad as some right wing types would have it - but it still can be frightening. Seeing a specialist or getting an operation can be a far greater wait than what most would experience in the US.

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