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where you will find a whole lot of
(full of real maths) answers to just about every denialist peice of propaganda
out there
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fashion.
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could
find space for it and still grow enough food... but we don't have that time.
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one too.
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fusion field. Obviously, Catania
does not realise this but, like so many in the past, shoots from the hip to
fill up the forum with dubious logic, false assertions and acres of attacking
prose. These types go away in the end.
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that
fills up then is emptied out when required for power. Building dams is
expensive.
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for such a transformation are already in place. This is achieved without
nuclear or carbon capture.
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ABD wrote:
Do the statements contradict each other? No. McKubre says that he
provided a correction. An EPRI representative says that no correction
exists. These two statements are not in contradiction.
Eh? Have we fallen through the looking glass again?
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/matrix that supports it, I don't think we can expect energy too
cheap to meter too soon.
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I seem to recall it said that each fold took about 23 minutes...
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flimsy
stuff widgets designed to fall apart.
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of state competition) nevertheless end up being better for keeping
the local economy going and keeping wealth and where it is generated - which
protects jobs. Globalisation was a really stupid ideologically driven move.
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accelerate from a position of zero relative wind then one could start it off
in no wind conditions and it would accelerate - perpetual motion just isn't
that easy!
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The LED will not be convincing. How about just training an IR camera on it
and putting the image on the web? A slow stream of air
passing the cell would warm up and clearly show on the image.
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to provide hot water at an
overall efficiency of 85%. Can use natural gas or the similar product from
anaerobic digesters.
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I think the bit about his brother being a secret service agent and saving a
bus load of kids raised the biggest red flag to me.
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- he did
not sacrifice himself. I still think that this Mark guy using this story
in the way he did still raises red flags. It all reeks of
fantasy/hallucination/Walter Mitty.
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Lao Tzu: Give a Man a Fish, Feed Him For a Day. Teach a Man to Fish...
... and you'll feed him for a while until he invents and uses industralised
factory ships to Hoover up all the fish and drive them to the brink of
extinction.
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Chris Tinsley once described me as one of the Cold Fusion Advocates. Yet
again, wearily, I open up one eye and prepare to look over the parapet
tomorrow. Here's hoping for minimum disappointment
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For the people
.
cheers,
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Are there any big media interested yet?
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but are
insignificant if you are looking to verify a kickass kilowatt.
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down the road to the chemist, but that's
just peanuts to space.
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that Chris
Tinsley replicated?
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that it was only one
substance. Subsequent information from the Cicinatti group about other
matters gave me the very strong hunch that their sauce was zirconium
related. I saw a tile that Chris had burned a 1cm hole through.
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it when the reaction lights up.
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Mouthy Mary - filtered to junk email folder
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reasons why true environmentalists would be
concerned if everyone got access to vast amounts of energy because of what they
might do with it. Simplistic views that energy=good, more energy=better, most
energy=best are a bit one dimensional in outlook.
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from climate change and
peak oil.
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- the biggest anti-science disinformation and propaganda site on the internet
- as some sort of authority!
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figure out a way round patents, particularly with these stakes
involved - I do not think Mark will ever be a trillionaire from this, but
multi millions or low billions may be achievable.
Nick Palmer
The "Baron's" article on biodiesel shows just how
misleading things can get if one relies on businessmen, civil servants and
community big wigs to assess the value of any project, such as that sketched out
for soy-diesel andbio-ethanol. No knowledgeable environmentalist would
support such
that - that is
their prerogative. It just looks like you are being an impossibly difficult jerk
(again)
Nick Palmer
More years ago than I care to remember, I thought that clothes could be
dried more efficiently using a vacuum pump to evaporate the water.I don't
know for certain if it would use less energy - I suspect it would
Nick Palmer
Back in the days of the CompuServe forums, where some of us met, this
evolution versus creationism argument came up. Whilst I think microevolution
is obvious (legs getting longer, camouflage getting more effective etc) I am
not so sure about the giant leaps. Back then the eye was brought up as
This tells how clusters of atoms can behave like
super atoms of another element. It seemed like it might be relevant to
explainingLENR-CANR to me...
http://www.physorg.com/news2672.html
test - please ignore
I came upon this website which seems to be capable
of answering any obscure question about those areas you're not sure
about...
http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/
OK revtec, at least I read your posts!
you wrote "The thermal condition of this planet is
set by the output of the sun. Compared to a one or two percent fluctuation
in solar radiation, anything humans can do down here is totally
irrelevant"
The thermal condition of the planet is set by the
That's what happens if you get a Canadian pretending to be Scottish...
Thought I'd redress the balance
Terry Blanton wrote What's in it for Amazon?
A fee?
From the small print...
Does it cost me anything to use the Amazon Honor System?
No. There are no fees for making a payment to a participating Web site. To
cover our administrative and processing costs, Web sites collecting money
with the
This looks like a good way of "transporting"
renewable energy (in this case from hot sunny countries).
Nick
http://www.dbresearch.com/PROD/DBR_INTERNET_EN-PROD/PROD00079095.pdf
R C Macaulay wrote:-
On to the harvesting of ocean tides and
currents.. thats a bridge too far. The maintenance alone kills the idea even
before the costs of construction per kilowatt hour generated is added
up.
Richard
Try looking
athttp://www.bluenergy.com/index.html
Here's the programme details. If you want the
programme transcript it is available on
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/experiment_prog_summary.shtml
In March 2002, the scientific world was rocked by some astonishing
news: a
Robin van Spaandonk wrote:-
Note that the people at
http://www.dolphinaci.com/technology/technology.html are already
getting 90+ mpg in some tests, and outperforming the Prius in all
tests, and all they have done is somewhat modify a conventional
engine
Be careful about believing these results
The 95-97% success rate for condoms relates to the
percentage of women (3-5%), using only condoms, who will become pregnant
if they use them for one year.
A restrained British WOW!! This flying windmill
concept looks really exciting. I'd heard speculation about kites in the jet
stream before but there were always problems with the weight of the tether/power
line. I particularly like that it can fly up to altitude under controland
back down
Terry Blanton wrote about the Altamont wind pass getting partially shut
down. This is because of the numbers of migrating birds and raptors (hawks
and eagles) that get killed. Anti wind farm types often quote the numbers of
birds that get killed by wind farms as a reason to object to new
Jones - the advantage of the Kitegen concept is that it does not need to be
offshore to get reliable winds.The airspace issue is not a problem both in
terms of the amount of space the ground installation and kite arrays would
need - also consider the sheer visibility of the device (which I
uffer from. If you were outside in a lightning storm fixing the
pool pump would you neglect to turn the power off because you could get
struck by lightning and safe working practice was not necessary?
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a diffuse ovoid shadow. Looking at the angle
the airship is to the sun, this shape would be expected and it would be
diffuse because of the diffraction at that distance from the source. Or not!
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without realising who the real enemies are. It is you who are the sincere
wacko and the useful fool.
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I am responding to Standing Bear off list.
nutrients in poorer soils (black soil or
Terra Preta in South America http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11522955/ ). Carbon
sequestration plus energy plus agricultural benefits.This energy would be
carbon NEGATIVE... Charcoal is pretty stable in the ground...
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numbers?
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http://www.css.cornell.edu/faculty/lehmann/terra_preta/TerraPretahome.htm
http://www.innovations-report.de/html/berichte/geowissenschaften/bericht-55516.html
http://www.cosis.net/abstracts/EGU05/05947/EGU05-J-05947.pdf
, carbohydrate or oil... The
resulting charcoal sand or dust could be ploughed into marginal land
reducing nitrogenous fertiliser input etc. I don't know what effect it would
have on already fertile land...
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-win situation. Anybody see any flies in the ointment?
Does anyone know if algal strains exist that can fix their own nitrogen from
the atmosphere -or would they need nitrogenous fertiliser added??
Nick Palmer
Algal blooms happen naturally in rivers and at sea
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algal_bloom often near estuarine areas which
discharge agricultural nitrogenous leachate and nitrate and phosphate rich
substances from such products as detergents and clothes washing powder.
Biochemical oxygen
Other minds are on this. Look at the first comment (from mbmurphy) below this
article on Branson's prize.
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/duncan/17524/
Robin from Oz wrote:-
I wouldn't get too hung up on this prize. It looks more like Branson
buying
cheap advertising.
Right, of course. A true solution would still be good value at $1 billion
dollars or maybe even $1 trillion
to Climate
impacts
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on tropical reforestation while allowing a few temperate ones
to keep the customers happy.
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listen. Sheer cold logic says that you cannot prove this so
please stop muddying the waters. Your position, like that dangerous lunatic
Singer, is rather like that of the punk versus Dirty Harry who felt
lucky and fatally got on the wrong side of a Magnum...
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?
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A few days ago I wrote does anyone know if algal strains exist that can
fix their own nitrogen from
the atmosphere -or would they need nitrogenous fertiliser added?? without
Googling it. Well they do.
http://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/b-online/e34/34b.htm or more simply
match,
and most likely exceed, the energy extractable from the red photons - no
free lunch...
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and the free fall time needs to recalculated...
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there is no current though the resistor, there is no
electrical noise at all. Still no free lunch.
Nick Palmer
In response to Paul and Michel and Steven I will only repeat what I wrote.
Obviously you did not understand what I said. Read it again without your
knee-jerk prejudices. Besides, in order do work by extracting energy from
ambient heat with no heat sink, Paul's diodes would need to rectify a
Steven - I wasn't trying to insult you or Michel, however I was definitely
trying to insult Paul after his appallingly arrogant intelligent thinking
beings crack. Where is the late, great Chris Tinsley when you need him? He
could, and did, squash adolescent grandstanding like this in a couple
Paul, you seem to think that just because you have used a computer modelling
program (LT Spice) that it's predictions are necessarily reality. If the
initial assumptions and parameters that were modelled and programmed in are
in error it won't be of much use to help us in the area we are
From John Berry's we can do what ever we want if we just get the old rocks
out of our head message:-
Why people think their preconcieved notions of what is and isn't possible
trumps the evidence I'll never know Quite so. Tell Paul...
Paul Lowrance has come up with a theory that if he
Paul wrote:-
Nick, Answer this. If it is possible to capture energy from ambient
temperature then wouldn't you want to know how?
Obviously, but we already know how you propose to do it because you already
told us over and over. Nanometre scale arrays of LEDs and noisy
diode/resistors.
Steven A Lawrence wrote:-
Actually we're supposed to exercise a bit of restraint on this list and
not shoot too many holes in theories even if they look like easy
targets. At least, that's my understanding of the Vortex rules -- it's
supposed to be a safe place to air ideas which are not fully
) pedal in a car and then claiming that halving the foot
pressure has doubled the efficiency of the motor...
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Harry Veeder wrote:-
It is more like the difference between burning gasoline as a liquid vs
gasoline as a vapour. While you need to exert some effort to vaporise the
gasoline, the COP is still much bigger
No Harry, the error you made is exactly the one I pointed out using an
accelerator
Harry Veeder wrote:-
Perhaps the critical temperature of a given NAE is more like temperature
range. When the NAE is below a certain temperature it is too cold for cold
fusion, and when it is above a certain temperature it is too hot for cold
fusion
If you've been around since the beginning
Steven Vincent Johnson wrote:-
Some may ask what-in-the-tarnation is all this pop-psychobabble doing here
cluttering up the vortex discussion list
Well, they probably will but I found the central idea valuable so I'm saving
it to my wise words (miscellaneous) folder.
Jones Beene wrote:-
the Hawks in DC and the UK decide to take-out the Iranian oil fields as
punishment.
That is looking more and more probable as an outcome in that region. If
we don't do it, the Brits or the Israelis are fully capable alone
Hey, us Brits COULD do it, but it is unthinkable that
Oh? Have you had the pleasure of watching V, the Vendetta?
Never heard of it before but Wikipedia brought me up to date.
Seriously, it was only the Iraqi potential use of WMD in 45 minutes that
got our Government on side. When that proved to be a lie, everything else
since has just been
Jed, I just test downloaded a paper by Ed Storms and another by Schwinger
both usng save target as and directly opening them in IE ver 7.0.5730. No
problem - no messages like yours.
problems
with the methodolgy chosen and the error estimations but still the overall
graph shape remains the same.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hockey_stick_controversy
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of sequestered carbon into the atmosphere, over hundreds of years,
obviously can drive temperature... and is... and will...
Nick Palmer
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From: Nick Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 11:20 AM
Subject: Re: [Vo]:to John Berry regarding GW
John Steck wrote:-
And cows pump out more methane globally than we do CO2 (my tribute to
Fred)... methane is a way more
an
excess building up, however, like all of the natural stabilising climate
control mechanisms, they have been stressed and pushed to and beyond the
limits
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That story about the difficulties the maser inventors faced is a really
great argument.
Jones Beene wrote:-
Thank you Sierra Club, et. al. ! for your very effective anti-nuclear
efforts and high-level arm-twisting over the past few decades. They worked!
You - with the help of a handful of Hollywood Bimbos like Jane Fondle,
have epitomized the 'law of unintended conseqences' and
who
knows what may happen... a possible pool of molten slag that used to be
their research vehicle? It would be ironic if they rediscover CF as an
annoying side effect that hinders their project!
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
). Crawl away back under your rock Paul, re-read
John Winterflood's comprehensive demolition of your idea, and stop bothering
us.
Emotionally, but correctly, yours
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like you, seems to be based upon the irrational belief that
people cannot affect the planets systems for good or ill. This belief is too
stupid (and irresponsible) for words.
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) a financial or political interest in being
anti-environmental?
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has been challenged - I imagine they believe it makes them look
all philosophical and rational and objective - really, the outside world tends
to judge language like this as that of someone wriggling out of a spot...
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greenhouse effect. Is this
the very last time you will ask a rhetorical question like this again Thomas?
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Paul Lowrance wrote (about Horace):
I was brief because of our last encounter, in which you assumed error in
my
sentence. Fact is my sentence did not contain enough information to make
such a
determination, and therefore you should have asked.
There WAS error in the sentence because it was
Does this mean he's gone? LOL! (not really, just couldn't resist it...).
Imagine that there is a plasma, and it is cooled and compressed
repeatedly. Eventually, we will not be able to compress the plasma any
further, because the Exclusion Principle states that two particles cannot be
in the exact same place at the exact same time. When in this state, since
there is
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