date:20050812

RE: Herbal medicine

2005-08-12 Thread temalloy

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

and Jed Rothwell responded;

While I hate to agree with Park about anything, recent 
reports that 
echinacea is ineffective seem to be based on careful 
research.

and John Rudiger responded

# The problem with identifying the key active ingredient 
for the purpose
of synthetic production is that you don't know what role all 
the other

The key word here is synthetic. The drug companies have 
to create a new molocule so that they can patent it. The 
synergestic effect of the other molocules probably 
contributes too. Then there is the energy aspect. the plant 
derived chemicals have an aura from the living system 
which produced them, IMHO this contributes to the effect 
too. 

chemicals in the original medicinal herb play. In many 
Homeopathic remedies

Don't confuse the chemical effects of the phytochemicals in 
the herbal material with the energy effects of the 
homeopathic remedy. 

even non-active chemicals in the herbal medicine play an 
important
(catalytic) role in support of the active ingredient.

It is a shame that the majority of people alive today in the 
western world
have forgotten how to use herbal/homeopathic type 
remedies which now days

The establishment has done it's best to miseducate the 
public on this as they do in everything else. 

come under the title of old wives tales, alternative 
medicine or crackpot
medicine!

If an enemy force had done to America what the education 
establishment has done, we would consider it an act of 
war!

500 MW Solar Installation Coming to California

2005-08-12 Thread John Coviello

This is an incredible story. Using concentrated solar and
the old Stirling Engine, a major Southern California utility just signed on to
the biggest solar project in American history, a utility scale installation in
the desert of California that will produce 500 MW and potentially 850 MW for
around 6 cents perkWH. This will prove we can switch to alternative
energy.

Steampunk Solar Power August 11, 2005A new agreement was just
signed by Southern California Edison to guarantee 20 years' purchase of
electricity from a new 4,500 acre solar farm to be built near Victorville,
California. The farm will initially be designed to put out 500 megawatts, but
can be expanded to 850 megawatts. This will represent the largest solar
power facility in the world, and will put out more electricity than all other US
solar projects combined. Funny thing, though -- it won't use a single
photovoltaic cell.Instead, these solar power generators will use a
nearly 200 year old bit of technology: the Stirling Engine.Pretty
much every time we post something about solar concentrators or home cogeneration
or somesuch, we get a series of comments about the neglected beauty of Stirling
Engines. Admittedly, Stirling Engines -- first invented in 1816 by Scottish
clergyman Robert Stirling -- are quite elegant. Here's the Wikipedia entry on
how they work:The Stirling engine works by the repeated heating and
cooling of a sealed amount of working gas, usually air or other gases such as
hydrogen or helium. The gas follows the behaviour described by the gas laws
which describe how a gas' pressure, temperature and volume are related. When the
gas is heated, because it is in a sealed chamber, the pressure rises and this
then acts on the power piston to produce a power stroke. When the gas is cooled
the pressure drops and this means that less work needs to be done by the piston
to recompress the gas on the return stroke, giving a net gain in power available
on the shaft. The working gas flows cyclically between the hot and cold heat
exchangers. The working gas is sealed within the piston cylinders, so there
is no exhaust gas, (other than that incidental to heat production if combustion
is used as the heat source). No valves are required, unlike other types of
piston engines. [...] The ideal Stirling engine cycle has the same theoretical
efficiency as a Carnot heat engine for the same input and output temperatures.
The thermodynamic efficiency is higher than steam engines (or even some modern
internal combustion and Diesel engines).Stirling Energy Systems has
been working on solar power generation units for 20 years, but this is the first
serious implementation of the design. The SES website has a particularly useful
visualization of how the systems work (screen capture to the left), and it's one
of those systems that seems almost too good to be true. If it's so simple, so
straightforward, why hasn't it been done before? Parsing through the Stirling
Energy Systems website, it seems the answer is cost; until recently, putting
together reliable, functional systems able to produce utility-scale amounts of
power remained simply too expensive. If all goes well, the 20,000 dish
system should be fully online by 2010. However, because of the modular nature of
the units, the farm will start generating power as soon as the first unit is
plugged into the grid. The cost of the project wasn't mentioned in the stories,
but I saw a so-far unconfirmed report that power from this system is expected
to run ~$.06/kWh, making it competitive with most other sources.http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/003285.html#more

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