Re: [Vo]:Bob Boyce Interview
In reply to thomas malloy's message of Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:04:17 -0500 (CDT): Hi, [snip] Interesting but long winded http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1779100537035350538ei=u8O2SaXUIoGyqAKm2vTyCwq=bob+boyce I see he also uses a composite signal superimposed on DC. IOW analogous to a superwave. Given that the optimal frequency varies with temperature and electrolyte composition (both of which affect the speed of sound in water), I suspect it has to do with a sonic resonance in the cells. He may be combining the superwave mechanism with Roger Stringham's sonofusion. The latter boosts the H(D) density in the surface layer, while the former enhances the fusion reactions which are responsible for the extra energy output. If this is a reasonable description of what is going on, then it would probably benefit from operating at a much higher frequency, e.g. about 10 to 20 times higher, which Bob would not know, because it would be way beyond his current capabilities. That means he is currently operating on a subharmonic. The fact that he prepares the plates beforehand by running current through them and changing the electrolyte several times may also be an indication that the metal is absorbing Hydrogen. Ed, do you have a rough idea of the time it would take for H to diffuse out of a steel plate about 1 - 2 mm thick (milli seconds, or minutes?) Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/Project.html
[Vo]:Nagel ICCF-13 paper uploaded
See: Nagel, D.J. Powers, Materials and Radiations from Low Energy Nuclear Reactions on Surfaces. in The 13th International Conference on Condensed Matter Nuclear Science. 2007. Sochi, Russia. http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/NagelDJpowersmate.pdf - Jed
Re: [Vo]:Energetics Technology website
From: Stephen A. Lawrence replying to Mike Carrell: The 'ghost' of Stanley Meyer' haunts our efforts. By many accounts, he found a highly energy-efficient method of electrolyzing water to generate hydrogen for his go-cart, with the hydrolyzer running off the the generator. There is NO good reason (no as in zero, nada, nil, zilch) to suggest that Stan Meyer was ever able to demonstrate overunity in electrolysis - nor anything even close to it. Many today, who have seen the gloriously dishonest mythological video of Stan walking with angels and other assorted BS - naively believe that he did demonstrate OU and was then murdered because of it - mainly from anecdotes like the dune buggy and the vast amount of false lore which has followed. Both of these myths are false. ... and the best explanation for that demo (in fact the ONLY good explanation) is that he was basically powering an old VW bug engine in a light weight dune buggy and for very short excursions - with crankcase oil and a small amount of electrolyzed gases (produced from his alternative BG setup). He was NEVER able to run that demonstration vehicle for more than 20 minutes. A few on Vortex actually witnessed this demo, and can verify that the dune buggy invariably could go not further than about 10 miles - which is consistent with burning 2 or 3 quarts of crankcase oil. It should be noted that this particular engine is notorious for this problem of sloppy ring sealing- which is due to the extreme wear of horizontal pistons on the aluminum alloy cylinders (the VW 4 cyl opposed engine of the original Porsche design) which is widely called the boxer-oil-burner. After 100,000 miles you would need at least a quart of new oil with every fillup. The H2O and O2 - and mixed gases created by Meyer's version (and possible improvement) of the Browns Gas generator - facilitated the burning of crankcase oil. But that is all that it ever did accomplish, as far as anyone knows today: facilitate the burning of crankcase oil. Sadly - there is no more to this story than that, since there was no data collected and no real scientific testing ever done. Having said that - the big auto makers still screwed-up and have consistently overlooked the fact that a small amount of hydrogen added to an IC engine can save a decent amount of gasoline (improve mileage) because of the extremely high flame speed of hydrogen. This seems to operate in the range of 10-20 percent improvement, which should be worth hundreds of millions in savings- had it been perfected with the required engineering. So - in that regard- Meyer's add-on should have been developed further, but he was so sloppy in his data collection, and so ignorant of advanced electronics, that we are still not sure if his design was even an improvement over the normal BG (Rhodes gas) cell. Jones
[Vo]:Inflation Ho!
Just in from the Wall Street Journal: The Federal Reserve said Wednesday it will buy up to $300 billion in longer-term Treasurys When the Fed buys treasuries they do it with new money, high powered money, magic dollars. Whatever you care to call it, it means that they create the money out of thin air. In fact, as far as I know, this is the only way the U.S. government currently has for creating new money; everything else is just transfer payments. Obama's mega plan, and Bush's not-quite-so mega plan before it, involved nothing more than transferring a couple trillion dollars from taxpayers and bondholders to banks and related businesses. No new money was created. But this is different. In plain English, they're *printing* a third of a trillion dollars. Printing money is the last and largest canon available to the government in combating the recession. Apply the current high-powered money multiplier to that, which is something between 10 and 20, and you get an effective injection of between 3 and 6 *trillion* dollars. So, they have clearly decided to barrel ahead with inflating their way out of the crisis. I'd have to guess that, for Bernanke to agree to this, the current numbers they're looking at, which haven't been published yet, must be *awful*.
Re: [Vo]:Inflation Ho!
Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: Printing money is the last and largest canon Er, cannon. My spell checker thought it was just fine...
Re: [Vo]:Inflation Ho!
No auckshully you got it right the first time g This is really no more than an over(indulgence) so to speak (in the punage tongue): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indulgence ...and thus is about as canonical as it comes from big-gov... As you may know from DVC (really Holy Blood, Holy Grail) the selling of indulgences has over-extended many a good conspiracy theory Jones BTW - The prior experience with this particular remedy - which arguably makes it non-inflationary is the New Deal. Time will tell if BO can pull it off in that exact way, since we are not in the same circumstances (yet) ... but that is where good policy comes in. Instead of inflation, I would look for taxes on commodities to keep demand in check. This could be a several $$ per gallon tax on OPEC oil combined with tax support for bioethanol. Keeping those $$ at home, in the pocket of the American farmer, can make ALL the difference in avoiding the dreaded inflationary spiral. The teaching there (New Deal) is that huge additions to the money supply are OK so long as demand is not pushed too far. There is a counterpoint, and a phase shift just like in music - between the supply of money and demand for goods that can be delayed by many years with the proper policy. And come to think of it that counterpointing is another pun on canon. In music, a canon- like the famous one by Pachelbel - is a contrapuntal composition that employs a melody with one or more imitations of the melody played after a given duration (e.g. quarter rest) ... ERGO ... one might opine that if BO can compose like a Master, as it were ... then his merry Fugue-sters can delay that demand-push-inflation for several years by separating cause and effect - for the proper amount of time necessary to increase supply ... Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: Printing money is the last and largest canon Er, cannon. My spell checker thought it was just fine...
Re: [Vo]:Inflation Ho!
Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: Obama's mega plan, and Bush's not-quite-so mega plan before it, involved nothing more than transferring a couple trillion dollars from taxpayers and bondholders to banks and related businesses. Transferring is the wrong word. It involved lending the money, at interest. In the case of AIG the government has taken ownership of 80% of the company. (In my opinion it should have taken large chunks of the other banks.) In previous bailouts of this nature in the US and Japan all the money was returned, at a profit to the governments. As much as I dislike this bailout thing, we should not confuse it with a give-away to wealthy people. However in one way it is worse than it looks. The former governor of New York, Eliot Spitzer pointed that out, here: The Real AIG Scandal -- It's not the bonuses. It's that AIG's counterparties are getting paid back in full. http://www.slate.com/id/2213942/ My guess is that everyone knows AIG is done for, so these people are channeling extra TARP funds to Goldman, Bank of America and others through AIG. AIG will go belly up and these others will say: it wasn't our debt! The TARP money they receive directly they are obligated to pay back, as I said. I pity the fellow the Feds put in charge of AIG in September. He could not have known what he was getting into. He seems honorable but he still doesn't get it: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/17/AR2009031703019.html - Jed
Re: [Vo]:Inflation Ho!
Jed Rothwell wrote: Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: Obama's mega plan, and Bush's not-quite-so mega plan before it, involved nothing more than transferring a couple trillion dollars from taxpayers and bondholders to banks and related businesses. Transferring is the wrong word. It involved lending the money, at interest. In the case of AIG the government has taken ownership of 80% of the company. (In my opinion it should have taken large chunks of the other banks.) I'm not so sure about taking large chunks of the banks. I cannot pretend to understand this bailout. However, one thing seems clear: When it looked like Citibank and BOA were going to be nationalized, the stock market went into a full power dive. The stock market is in many ways a giant opinion poll of business people the world over. So, that seems to indicate that business folks in general are scared to death of bank nationalization. That makes me think maybe that wouldn't be such a good path to go down. We need business, and we need a reasonably healthy stock market, which means we need to have the confidence of investors in the economy, just as we need reasonably healthy banks. Something that causes panic in the investor community may be something to be wary of. Nuking the banks has a lot of emotional appeal. But banks are like undertakers -- you may not like them but they're hard to do without. In previous bailouts of this nature in the US and Japan all the money was returned, at a profit to the governments. As much as I dislike this bailout thing, we should not confuse it with a give-away to wealthy people. However in one way it is worse than it looks. The former governor of New York, Eliot Spitzer pointed that out, here: The Real AIG Scandal -- It's not the bonuses. It's that AIG's counterparties are getting paid back in full. http://www.slate.com/id/2213942/ My guess is that everyone knows AIG is done for, so these people are channeling extra TARP funds to Goldman, Bank of America and others through AIG. AIG will go belly up and these others will say: it wasn't our debt! The TARP money they receive directly they are obligated to pay back, as I said. I pity the fellow the Feds put in charge of AIG in September. He could not have known what he was getting into. He seems honorable but he still doesn't get it: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/17/AR2009031703019.html - Jed
Re: [Vo]:Inflation Ho!
Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: I cannot pretend to understand this bailout. However, one thing seems clear: When it looked like Citibank and BOA were going to be nationalized, the stock market went into a full power dive. I think we should ignore the stock market and do what is best for the taxpayers. If we nationalize the banks and Wall Street has conniptions I trust it will recover after a while. (By the way, I mean temporary nationalization. After the crisis fades the Feds should sell the stock.) To put it another way, the people on Wall Street were the ones who got us into this mess in the first place so I do not trust their judgement. They do not know what is good for the country or even for themselves. If they understood their own best interests they would never have dynamited the capitalistic system. They set up these astounding house-of-cards financial arrangements. They appear to be the least-qualified people on earth to be running the system. I know practically nothing about high finance, but -- seriously -- I expect I could do a better job. - Jed
[Vo]:*St.Patrick's Day TIME-FORMULA MACHINE: Our GREEN-ONE-'E'nergy Universe:Right on 'Space-TIME.'
* * * St. Patrick's Day TIME-TRAVEL-MACHINE FORMULA-RATIOs for our
GREEN-1'E'nergy BUBBLE UNIVERSE go again as follows:
* * * SO THEY TELL US THE BUBBLE UNIVERSE is 'IRISH' and ACTUALLY
GREEN constant TEMPERATURED TEXTURE THROUGHOUT! ! !
? ? ? WHO'D HAVE THUNK IT ? ? ?-ME!~;-)Jack Harbach
GRAVITY TIME are a simple PHENOMENOLOGICAL product of SPEED DENSITY
pertaining to the
CONSTANT TEXTURAL UNIVERSAL PROPORTORTION born since the moment
OF THE BIG BANG SINGULARITY which 'BORNED' our GREEN BUBBLE UNIVERSE from
PARENT
DARK-ENERGY INFINITE AEXOCOSMIC DARK-SPACE. . . aka AEXO-DarkSpace.
AND THIS RISES as a NORMAL PROCESS of the BASE AMBIENT DARKENERGY
constant of EC^3ubed FRACTALLATING HYPERDYNAMIC (wild) current dynamics
of said DARKSPACE-AEXOCOSMOS.
WE ARE ONE CHAMPAGNE BUBBLE Universe among INFINITE MYRIADS of like BUBBLE
UNIVERSE's
SUCH AS OURSELF being CONTINUALLY BORN at the heart of DARKSPACE super-eddie
MAELSTROMS that open LOW-DENSITY SINGULARITIES at their EYE-Centre-Points which
form the BIG-BANG
BUBBLES of said UNIVERSES.
THE SIMPLE FORMULA RATIO 'constant' that controls ALL RELATIVE 'TIME' GRAVITY
which in-turn determines
their mass/energy flow/ relative 'time' dynamics is that the ORIGINAL BUBBLE
that forms the ONE-'E'energy MEMBRANE SHEET of INTERSTELLAR SPACE IS ratioed
THUSLY:
* * * * * * The Base-Ambient-Universe ONE-ENERGY@'1-E' energy MEMBRANE
formulates as--1'E'= C^3ubed SPEED X E/C^3ubed DENSITY. And by this
formula-ratio which at C^3ubed SUPER-SPEED FORMS the ENTIRE EMPTY BUBBLE within
a SINGLE INSTANT.
AND WITHIN THE NEXT INSTANT: then our NEW-EMPTY BUBBLE UNIVERSE is then
recipient to a centre-bubble injection via the 'AEXO-DarkSpace birth
SINGULARITY of the PRIMAL Sub-AEXO-base ambient MINUS-C^3ubed super plasma
WHICH creates a SUPER-SPAGHETTIFIED EC^2(atomic mass speed-density{Hydrogen})
Helicoid Wave-string UNIVERSE CENTRAL NEBULA which is the STAR-BIRTH ROOKERIE
of GALAXIES. The EC^2quared Helicoid Wave-string segments to PROTON DENSITY
SEGMENTS that immediately hyper collapse and form ALL PROTONS as
BALANCED-GRAY-JET micro-singularities replete with AXIAL FLOW ELECTRO-VALENT
SHELLS making EACH PROTON a Gray-Jet Singularity System PERENNIALLY FED
by/linked to PARALLEL AEXO-DarkSpace as the UBIQUITOUS DYNAMO
Back-Of-The-Tapestry ENGINE of ALL COSMIC PHENOMENA.
INITIALLY THE AEXO-DarkSpace Parent BIG-BANG SINGULARITY COLLAPSES when it's
DARKSPACE MAELSTROM by SINGULARITY DRAG super COLLAPSES before said ATOMIC
HYDROGEN DENSITY BIRTH-NEBULA comes from that original INJECTED
SUPER-DARKSPACE-PLASMA which instantly SPAGHETTIFIES into MASSIVE wavefront
expanding clouds of EC^2quared HELICOID WAVE STRING which segments to
HYPER-SNAP DOWN to form HYDROGEN PROTONS AS GRAYJET MICROSINGULARITY
ELECTRO-VALENT SYSTEMS; with are HYDROGEN ATOMS.
AND THE FURTHER PROCESS WE HAVE PRETTY WELL NAILED as the GALAXIES ACCELERATE
to the outer AEXO-DarkSpace BUBBLE BORDER that the GREEN-'E'energy Space-Time
'MEMBRANE-Sheet' flows perennially into @ C^3ubed SPEED x E/C^3ubed DENSITY.
This is ONE-'E'nergy Space-Time @ HYPERSPEED which is more easily just
designated HYPER-TIME.
HENSE the GREEN-MEMBRANE BUBBLE expaned @ the SPEED of LIGHT CUBED or simply
EC^3ubed.(on this key-board~;-)
THIS SIMPLY MEANS that THE ORIGINAL 1'E'=C^3ubed SPEED X E/C^3ubed DENSITY
interstellar membrane MOVES @ HYPER-TIME @ C^3ubed.
AND EC^2quared HYDROGEN-ATOMIC MASS ultimately creates the BIO-PLANETARY
SPEED-DENSITY MASS that we know as OUR VERSION of slower NORMAL-TIME but a
HIGHER-MASS-DENSITY.
OR---TIME-FLOW-RATE is the relative INVERSE PROPORTION of MASS SPEED-DENSITY
to MEMBRANE-InterStellar SPACE-TIME flow SPEED-DENSITY.
EVEN MORE EASILY STATED: MASS SPEED-DENSITY = GRAVITY that as SPEED THUSLY
DENSITY INCREASES as MASS ACCELERATES(and thus densifies increasing 'gravity')
-GRAVITY INCREASE WITH MASS DENSITY inversely MAX-SPEED HYPER-TIME of the
Interstellar-Space-Time GREEN-'E' MEMBRANE.
AND AGAIN: THE HIGHEST TIME FLOW RATE is the GREEN-'E'-Membrane @ C^3ubed
SPEED x E/C^3ubed Density.
ACCELERATING GALACTIC-MASS moves to merge ultimately with the HYPER-FLUIDIC
SPEED-DENSITY of AEXO-DarkSpace @ C^3ubed which is VIRTUAL-NO-TIME.
THUSLY AS WE TAP AEXO-DarkSpace and use ELECTRO-PLASMIC-BREACH GRAYJET REACTOR
FIELDS to SURROUND such reactor POWERED CRAFT; then MOVING WITHIN the HYPER
SPEED-DENSE DarkSpace PARALLEL SPACE FIELD makes us IMMUNE TO THE RELATIVE
MOVEMENT OF 'TIME' also INERTIA-IMMUNE as we've created our own mini-poidal
psuedo-bubble universe TO BE PROPELLED @ 'VIRTUAL NO-TIME' virtually infinite
speeds.
AS THIS IS A HYPER-GRAVITY point lead FOCUSED FIELD we move within a VIRTUAL
WORM-HOLE/WORM TUBE which is OPENING JUST AHEAD of the craft CLOSING JUST
BEHIND same.
FROM THE VANTAGE OF AEXO-DarkSpace DISPLACEMENT 'time' is a symptomatic
incidental with the
Re: [Vo]:Inflation Ho!
Exactly right. Just think, if they taught how this works in say, high school, the American people would no longer be hoodwinked by this scam. Everyone seems to be upset by Bernie Madoff, but the whole financial sector is a Ponzi scheme with the average person the last guy to get the chain letter. It's still not too late to buy gold or silver. I'm going to enjoy paying off my mortgage with 10 cent dollars. How about the rest of you guys? It's probably going to be even worse in Europe, because the euro has no reserve requirement. It might be a race to see who can inflate their currency the fastest in a race to the bottom. M. --- On Wed, 3/18/09, Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com wrote: Just in from the Wall Street Journal: The Federal Reserve said Wednesday it will buy up to $300 billion in longer-term Treasurys When the Fed buys treasuries they do it with new money, high powered money, magic dollars. Whatever you care to call it, it means that they create the money out of thin air. In fact, as far as I know, this is the only way the U.S. government currently has for creating new money; everything else is just transfer payments. Obama's mega plan, and Bush's not-quite-so mega plan before it, involved nothing more than transferring a couple trillion dollars from taxpayers and bondholders to banks and related businesses. No new money was created. But this is different. In plain English, they're *printing* a third of a trillion dollars. Printing money is the last and largest canon available to the government in combating the recession. Apply the current high-powered money multiplier to that, which is something between 10 and 20, and you get an effective injection of between 3 and 6 *trillion* dollars. So, they have clearly decided to barrel ahead with inflating their way out of the crisis. I'd have to guess that, for Bernanke to agree to this, the current numbers they're looking at, which haven't been published yet, must be *awful*.
[Vo]:Tesla coil music
If you're going to waste energy, you might as well have fun. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJqoRaphiEk Nick Palmer On the side of the Planet - and the people - because they're worth it
Re: [Vo]:Inflation Ho!
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Re: [Vo]:Tesla coil music
Nick sez: If you're going to waste energy, you might as well have fun. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJqoRaphiEk Nick Palmer Oh my God! I don't believe it! Thank you Mr. Palmer! Made my Vader Day. -- Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
Re: [Vo]:Tesla coil music
--- Nick Palmer ni...@wynterwood.co.uk wrote: If you're going to waste energy, you might as well have fun. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJqoRaphiEk Nick Palmer On the side of the Planet - and the people - because they're worth it Argh...resending to the list. Apologies in advance if you get this twice Nick, I neglected to note that only your personal address was placed in the To field. This one is great: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOZEpP_zzaw Popcorn! --Kyle
[Vo]:OT: Professor makes his mark, but it costs him his job
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090206.wprof06/BNS tory/National/home Professor makes his mark, but it costs him his job ERIN ANDERSSEN From Friday's Globe and Mail February 6, 2009 at 2:00 AM EDT OTTAWA — On the first day of his fourth-year physics class, University of Ottawa professor Denis Rancourt announced to his students that he had already decided their marks: Everybody was getting an A+. It was not his job, as he explained later, to rank their skills for future employers, or train them to be “information transfer machines,” regurgitating facts on demand. Released from the pressure to ace the test, they would become “scientists, not automatons,” he reasoned. But by abandoning traditional marks, Prof. Rancourt apparently sealed his own failing grade: In December, the senior physicist was suspended from teaching, locked out of his laboratory and told that the university administration was recommending his dismissal and banning him from campus. Firing a tenured professor is rare in itself, but two weeks ago the university took an even more extreme step: When Prof. Rancourt went on campus to host a regular meeting of his documentary film society, he was led away in handcuffs by police and charged with trespassing. With his suspension raising questions of academic freedom, the Canadian Association of University Teachers has started an independent inquiry into the matter. “Universities are to be places that not only tolerate, but welcome, vigorous debate,” said executive director James Turk. “There would have to be some very serious misdeeds by Dr. Rancourt to justify this action.” A university spokesperson refused to comment specifically on the trespassing incident or give reasons for the disciplinary action, saying that the decision was “very serious” and “not made lightly.” Prof. Rancourt's suspension is the most serious step in a long series of grievances and conflicts with the university dating back to 2005, when, after researching new teaching methods, he first experimented with eliminating letter grades. He also altered course curriculum with student input – although not the approval of the university – an approach he calls “academic squatting.” A well-published and politically outspoken scientist who revels in hashing out theories on napkins at conferences, Prof. Rancourt's unconventional teaching style has generated both an ardent following among a core group of students, and the rancour of many of his fellow faculty members, one-third of whom signed a petition of complaint against him in the fall of 2007. In the letter, which he provided, the complaints stem largely from a series of critical e-mails he distributed about their “paternalistic” teaching methods – a criticism he still expresses, with little restraint, today. But he also has some high-profile support from an award-winning psychology professor at the university, Claude Lamontagne, who wrote in an e-mail that faculty members need to fight for the freedom to teach how and when they want, lest their independence be “pressed out of our souls like juice from an orange.” Building on his science and society lectures, the self- described “anarchist” developed a popular course on activism at Ottawa U, which was cancelled by the university the following year, and started an alternative film society focused on social justice. He made headlines after 10-year-old twins registered for his course with their mother – and he supported the filing of a human-rights complaint claiming ageism when the university said they couldn't stay. His research can be equally alternative: He has called global warming, for instance, a myth. He has also been an outspoken critic of “Israeli military aggression” and is not shy about expressing those views with students. And while the university may be keeping quiet, Prof. Rancourt has freely disseminated his side of the story: correspondence with university officials and a video of his arrest has been posted on the Internet. “I have nothing to hide,” he says. Sean Kelly, a master's student who had Prof. Rancourt as his thesis supervisor until his suspension, said some students complained in class when the professor allowed debates to wander off-topic – or refused to set deadlines for homework. Some people, Mr. Kelly admitted, took advantage of the free A, but many others put more energy into the class. Comparing Prof. Rancourt to other professors who practically give students the questions that will be on exams in advance, the 27-year-old said, “He really pushes you to think more for yourself.” For now, Prof. Rancourt, 51, is meeting his graduate students in cafés, continuing to advise them unofficially on their thesis projects. He is still receiving his salary while awaiting a final decision from the university. The independent board of inquiry appointed by the Canadian Association of University Teachers may take
