New paper Beamed Energy and the Economics of Space Based Solar Power
This is very late draft full of graphs taken off the physics spread sheet models if anyone wants a copy to review. It lays out in detail how to get SBSP down to 2 cents per kWh or less and how to get the project started to self sustaining stage a modest number of tens of billions. If you have anything to say about it, let me know soon. It will be presented sometime after Nov 1 at the Beamed Energy conference. Keith ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
Re: DeLong on health insurance reform and other stuff
On Mon, 9/28/09, kananda...@aol.com kananda...@aol.com wrote: Debbi wrote... We're Number 37! Maru and yes, I too am still alive in the real world... :) We XXs have just been sitting back proving we can have quiet moments and listen snort be scared when we start getting chatty again I'm going to try to get a computer going at home, since I need to have email for my new position at the stable (Riding Academy Director)...if only it paid more than a pittance! But hey, it will be a good learning experience, no? Debbi Who Is Forrest? Maru ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
RE: Cloud Computing Smears (Was: Google Wave)
Julia wrote: (Jo Anne -- a RAID is a Redundant Array of Independent Disks, where the data is stored on multiple disks and checked for accuracy on some regular basis. If one drive goes down, either the data should be duplicated somewhere, or there should be enough information stored on another disk or disks to reconstruct what was lost. Off-site backup is still recommended for things like fire, floods and tornadoes, and don't anyone laugh about the tornadoes, m'kay?) Thanks, Julia. I figured it was something like that and not a can of bug spray. Amities, Jo Anne evens...@hevanet.com ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
Re: DeLong on health insurance reform and other stuff
On Tue, 9/29/09, Jo Anne evens...@hevanet.com wrote: Yea!!! More xx'ers. And feeling every x in the morning...urf, when did my joints decide to become musical?! I don't even _like_ Rice Krispies anymore. Debbi wrote... and yes, I too am still alive in the real world... :) And Dee responded We XXs have just been sitting back proving we can have quiet moments and listen snort be scared when we start getting chatty again So where were you two when the heat was on with the health care debate? You two are the heavyweights, I'm just the lightweight (figuratively) on this subject. Please keep adding your Voices. grimace It's such a disaster, and the money from the big companies so pervasive - nd apparently persuasive - that only with great effort will real reform and not mere window-dressing occur. I'm not overly hopeful, given recent events (or lack thereof). Debbi Biting The Bullet Maru ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
Re: Google Wave
From: Matt Grimaldi matzeb...@yahoo.com FUD usually appears as an acronym for the usual resistance to change: Fear Uncertainty Doubt Oh, dear. I'm hosed. I neither twitter nor text nor have a phone that I use for anything other than talking... Debbi I Am NOT A Fuddy-Duddy!!! Maru ...am I? ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
Re: Cloud Computing Smears (Was: Google Wave)
From: John Williams jwilliams4...@gmail.com massive snip Never underestimate the power of human error. As this debacle demonstrates. Which particular debacle would that be? We gotcher health care, Afghanistan, Eyerak, and balloon boys... Take yer pik! Debbi Whaddya Expect From A Family On Wife-Swap Twice? Maru ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
Re: Google Wave
From: Matt Grimaldi matzeb...@yahoo.com FUD usually appears as an acronym for the usual resistance to change: Fear Uncertainty Doubt From: Deborah Harrell harrellmed...@yahoo.com ]Oh, dear. I'm hosed. I neither twitter nor text nor have a phone that I use for anything other than talking... ] ]Debbi ]I Am NOT A Fuddy-Duddy!!! Maru ] ]...am I? No, you just haven't found the killer app that would make you *need* to get one yet. Being a late adopter doesn't become FUD until you're trying to convince everyone that it (whatever it is...) is just a fad, will be dangerous, won't work properly, will cost too much, and so on... -- Matt ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
Re: Cloud Computing Smears (Was: Google Wave)
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Deborah Harrell harrellmed...@yahoo.com wrote: From: John Williams jwilliams4...@gmail.com massive snip Never underestimate the power of human error. As this debacle demonstrates. Which particular debacle would that be? I was referring to the Sidekick debacle: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wireless/Microsoft-Claims-Sidekick-Data-Will-Be-Restored-This-Week-491196/ ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
Is the Large Hadron Collider under attack from the future? It's operators think so...
New York Times: The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate http://su.pr/3287Ll [When the LHC is powered on after a year of repairs after an accident shut it down] it will be time to test one of the most bizarre and revolutionary theories in science. I’m not talking about extra dimensions of space-time, dark matter or even black holes that eat the Earth. No, I’m talking about the notion that the troubled collider is being sabotaged by its own future. A pair of otherwise distinguished physicists have suggested that the hypothesized Higgs boson, which physicists hope to produce with the collider, might be so abhorrent to nature that its creation would ripple backward through time and stop the collider before it could make one, like a time traveler who goes back in time to kill his grandfather. Apparently, the (mere prospect that the) LHC will succeed in creating the Higgs boson will ripple backward through time to prevent its own creation? NOTE: The article makes brief mention of God. If you are fanatically opposed to all references to deity, it's probably not the article for you. This is not an invitation to restart THAT old argument. Dave ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
