Re: [Vo]: Toyota moves to corner plug-in hybrid market
- Original Message - From: Terry Blanton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Vo]: Toyota moves to corner plug-in hybrid market Pity they lost the war. Terry Arguably, they won, as in The Mouse that Roared; they had the blessing to be conquered by the US and MacArthur, who helped them to their feet an established democratic insititutions. An old industrial infrastructure was destroyed, giving a chance to build anew with the latest and greatest. They listenend to Edwards Deming [when US manufactureres ignored him] and set a new standard of manufacturing excellence which other countries have yet to match. The prospered under the protection of the US military umbrells without the cost of a very espensive defense establishment. In the 80's it looked as if Japan would rival the US in the #1 spot, but internal weaknesses corrupted that thrust and they fell into stagnation. Toyota made a ground-up investment in hybrid technology and got it right; others are playing catch-up. Mike Carrell Jed has much better insight into Japan than I do. Comments, Jed? Mike Carrell On 7/19/06, Jed Rothwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: See: http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0720/p02s01-ussc.html - Jed This Email has been scanned for all viruses by Medford Leas I.T. Department.
[Vo]: Another article about plug in hybrids
See: http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/SavingandDebt/SaveonaCar/The100mpgCarIsComing.aspx QUOTE: Even though the addition of bigger trucks and sport-utilities has brought its corporate average fuel economy down from 26 mpg in 1987 to 24 mpg today, according to EPA figures released this week, Toyota is the undisputed leader in hybrid technology. Press said Toyota has sold more U.S. hybrids so far this year than Cadillac, Buick or Mercedes-Benz has sold cars. - Jed
[Vo]: OT: Aerosols and Climate Change
Tiny Airborne Particles are a Major Cause of Climate Change - July 18, 2006 http://www.physorg.com/news72463917.html A scientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science and his colleagues caused a storm in the atmospheric community when they suggested a few years back that tiny airborne particles, known as aerosols, may be one of the main culprits causing climate change having, on a local scale, an even greater impact than the greenhouse gases effect. Attempts to understand how these particles influence clouds have generated many uncertainties. A new paper by Dr. Ilan Koren of the Weizmann Institute Environmental Studies and Energy Research Department and Dr. Yoram Kauffman of the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, USA,* published in Science Express online, weaves together two opposing effects of atmospheric aerosols to provide a comprehensive picture of how they may be affecting our climate. Cloud formation is dependent upon the presence of small amounts of aerosols such as sea salt and desert dust. These tiny particles serve as the seeds around which water vapor in the air condenses, forming tiny water droplets that rise as they release heat. As the small droplets rise, they collide and merge with larger droplets. When the droplets reach a critical size, gravity takes over, causing them to fall from the cloud in the form of rain. One of the controversies surrounding the extent of aerosol impact on climate change is the duality of their influence. On the one hand, Koren and his colleagues previously found evidence to suggest that the extra seeds planted in the atmosphere by the emission of man-made aerosols (pollution, forest fires, and fuel combustion) lead to more, but smaller-sized, water droplets. The formation of larger water droplets by the collision process is less efficient and, therefore, rainfall is suppressed. The smaller droplets are lifted higher up into the atmosphere, creating larger and taller clouds that will persist longer. Not only does this alter the whole water cycle, but the increased cloud cover reflects more of the sun's radiation back into space, creating a local cooling effect on Earth. But to complicate matters, Koren, in another study, showed that certain types of aerosols those containing black carbon can also decrease cloud cover, ultimately leading to a warming effect. This occurs as black carbon absorbs part of the sun's radiation, warming the surrounding atmosphere and reducing the difference in temperature between the Earth¹s surface and the upper atmosphere. This combination prevents atmospheric instability the condition needed to form clouds and rain. A stable atmosphere means fewer clouds; fewer clouds mean less reflection of sunlight; less reflection of sunlight and absorption of radiation lead to warming. Policy makers have argued that, in the bottom line, the warming effect of the greenhouse gases and the (mainly cooling) aerosol effect may balance each other out so that the net global climate change will be small. Koren argues that it is the local climate change that is problematic: Clouds may persist without releasing their rain over regions where they would normally precipitate, such as rainforests, and move to precipitate over regions where rain is not needed, such as oceans. Or the effect could lead to the warming up of cold and the cooling down of hot regions. These additional effects to the already problematic warming by greenhouse gases could have disastrous repercussions in the long run. Also controversial is the question of how such tiny localized particles affect weather systems thousands of kilometers away from their sources. There is no doubt that aerosols do play a role, but the skeptics believe it is negligible compared to meteorological key players such as temperature, pressure, the amount of water vapor in the air, and wind strength. What Koren needed was a way to separate meteorological from aerosol influences something which was lacking in his previous studies. Together with Kauffman, he used a network of ground sensors (AERONET) to measure the effect of aerosol concentration on cloud cover. Radiation absorption is less affected by meteorology, so if the skeptics are right and meteorology is the main influence, then the correlation between aerosol absorption and cloud cover should have been seen in only a few circumstances. But this was not the case. They observed the duality effect on clouds: As total aerosols increase, cloud cover increases; and as radiation absorption by aerosols increases, cloud cover decreases for all locations, for all seasons. Backed up with a mathematical analysis, it becomes harder to deny that it is, in fact, aerosols that have the major influence. We hope that this study has finally provided closure, says Koren. Hopefully policy makers will start to tackle the issue of climate change from a different perspective, taking into
[Vo]: Tesla Unveiled
Tesla Motors has unveiled their first production unit. I found this from the FAQ amusing: http://www.teslamotors.com/learn_more/faqs.php How much service does the Tesla Roadster require? Far, far less than gasoline-powered cars. Most cars require service every 3,000 to 5,000 miles. The Tesla Roadster has no motor oil or oil filters to change, no smog equipment to check, no air filters to replace, no power steering fluids to refill. We feel confident that the only service your Tesla Roadster will require for the first 100,000 miles is tire and brake inspection. But we'll be happier to see you once a year or every 25,000 miles or so, just to check in. :-) Terry
[Vo]: OT: More than Ten Years After
Memories fade, conspiracy theories bloom ... but prophets of Biblical proportions are still around us these days, apparently, So... while you are waiting for more firewater to cook-up, using a new-and-improved method (Teflon wax over Teflon surface), you take a few moments to read some entertaining ... err... fiction? Fiction or no, even before TWA there was OKC... and yes, maybe a few rogue agents were lingering holdovers (or offspring) from the Grassy-Knoll days (nepotism is rampantly improper in the Agency, you know). In 1991, roughly four years before the OKC bombing - the Governor of that fair state: Frank Keating is a former FBI hot-shot-turned-Pol. His brother, Martin, writes this prescient manuscript, now a published book - named: The Final Jihad. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0964704811/002-7344694-4764068?v=glancen=283155 In this largely unheralded book, Keating lays out a fictional story of terrorists who decide to bomb a federal building. Guess what the name of the one of the key terrorists is? Ans: Tom McVey. Wow ... usually you try to hide similarities a little better. At least they try to change the names (to protect the perps?) on Law and Order. Now remember, this was 4 years before the deed. Coincidental? Ha! maybe coincidental if it were not for about a dozen other details, apparently known in advance by someone... remember it's written in 1991, and our modern day prophet also predicts the TWA downing, the World Trade Center bombing, and more. Did he somehow get hold of a master-plan of dirty tricks left unattended by his FeeBeeBro? ... or was this just a mysterious premonition that Jr. Keating had (from the unHoly Ghost) ? Who knows, but this book sure does sound like there was some kind of a blue print for several so-called terrorist acts already in the works in 1991, if not before... Perhaps it was just a meme... or... maybe that is what prophets are good at: latching onto memes - or else ... enjoying holidays with former agents-provocateur, who --- as are many Okies, will enjoy a nip or two before the Turkey arrives --- and might inadvertently spill out a few top-national-secrets after Jack-on-the-rocks. Is Martin Keating a modern day prophet? a lucky-guesser? is blood thicker than water? or what is going-on here ...? Signed, Harry Tuttle aide-de-camp of Gen. Benton Partin
Re: [Vo]: Tesla Unveiled
Quoting the Tesla Motors FAQ: The Tesla Roadster has no motor oil or oil filters to change, no smog equipment to check, no air filters to replace, no power steering fluids to refill. It does not have power steering? What about lubrication for the bearings? Doesn't that have to be changed at less than 100,000 miles? See also an interesting article and nice pix: http://www.wired.com/news/wiredmag/0,71414-0.html?tw=wn_index_2 http://blog.wired.com/teslacar/ - Jed
RE: [Vo]: OT: More than Ten Years After
You might not agree with the answer! I attended a seminar held by Russell Targ - who helped start the CIA's psychic viewing program in the '80's. He pointed out that somebody wrote a book about an unsinkable ocean liner called the Titan , years before the Titanic sank. Many of the fictional descriptions of the ship also corresponded to the real Titanic and of course, the Titan sank, too. His point? Imaginative people sometimes remote view the future without realizing it.
Re: [Vo]: Toyota moves to corner plug-in hybrid market
John Steck wrote: My bullets are dollars, and from that perspective the war goes well on that front. -john Regarding saving and spending, which is an offensive strategy and which is a defensive strategy? Harry
[VO]: Re:OT: Aerosols and Climate Change
Harry Veeder wrote.. Tiny Airborne Particles are a Major Cause of Climate Change-July 18, 2006http://www.physorg.com/news72463917.html Howdy Harry, Lets see if I have this straight in my mind. Bush administration and their mouthpieces including Rush are adamant that climate change is natural as chewing tobaccer and spitting it on thecantina floor It simply can't be the cause of the mess. I live under the plume of the stack at Fayette Power plant. Unit numbero uno is " grandfathered" and is allowed to blow smoke literally abd figuratively.One of the 20 worse polluters in the US according to EPA. It is jointly owned bythe state of Texas and city of Austin.. but not to worry.. they are gonna abandon it "soon' .. err.. I mean.. well.. err.. after they build units 4and 5 and figure out how to burn " Mexican" coal in lieu of Wyoming. Course Mex coal has a few more pollutants like increased mercury and some uranium in it but what theheck..its cheap. The local stacks (3) have alteredthe weather pattern immediately downstream of the plumes.Houstonship channel industries have altered the weather patternsnortheast of thecity plum into counties up toLouisana.and Arkansas but thedocumentation sorta slid off the desk and landed in the paper shredder by "shear" accident. Richard
Re: [Vo]: OT: More than Ten Years After
And, didn't HG Wells foresee the nuclear weapon long before Trinity? Terry On 7/20/06, Zell, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You might not agree with the answer! I attended a seminar held by Russell Targ - who helped start the CIA's psychic viewing program in the '80's. He pointed out that somebody wrote a book about an unsinkable ocean liner called the Titan , years before the Titanic sank. Many of the fictional descriptions of the ship also corresponded to the real Titanic and of course, the Titan sank, too. His point? Imaginative people sometimes remote view the future without realizing it.
[Vo]: [Vo];Re:OT: More than Ten Years After
Chris Zell wrote.. You might not agree with the answer!! Howdy Vorts, Truth alwys being stranger than fiction and more certainly harder to believe.. Joseph Kingsbury -Smith, the only American reporter witnessing the execution of the 10 Nazi officials convicted at the Nurenburg trials wrote.. At the top of the scaffold, Streicher yelled " Purim Fest 1946". Streicher was the "ramrod " of Hitler's "final solution" for Europen Jewry. He was referring to a Jewish people's day of commeration for the death of their biblical persecutor, Hamon. There were 10 Nazis hanged that day, Goering having escaped the noose by suicide. The book odf Esther describes Hamon as an "Agagite", an offspring of King Agag. Agag was an offspring of King Amelak who fought Joshua. Hamon had TEN sons.. all hanged. Hamonadvocated the death of all Jews in Babylon. Question?? Why would Streicher utter this cry " Purim Fest 1946". Richard
Re: [Vo]: OT: More than Ten Years After
Wells also foresees men going to the moon in 2030. Harry Terry Blanton wrote: And, didn't HG Wells foresee the nuclear weapon long before Trinity? Terry On 7/20/06, Zell, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You might not agree with the answer! I attended a seminar held by Russell Targ - who helped start the CIA's psychic viewing program in the '80's. He pointed out that somebody wrote a book about an unsinkable ocean liner called the Titan , years before the Titanic sank. Many of the fictional descriptions of the ship also corresponded to the real Titanic and of course, the Titan sank, too. His point? Imaginative people sometimes remote view the future without realizing it.
Re: [Vo]: OT: More than Ten Years After
Unfortunately, he did not foresee Mandarin. T On 7/20/06, Harry Veeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wells also foresees men going to the moon in 2030. Harry Terry Blanton wrote: And, didn't HG Wells foresee the nuclear weapon long before Trinity? Terry On 7/20/06, Zell, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You might not agree with the answer! I attended a seminar held by Russell Targ - who helped start the CIA's psychic viewing program in the '80's. He pointed out that somebody wrote a book about an unsinkable ocean liner called the Titan , years before the Titanic sank. Many of the fictional descriptions of the ship also corresponded to the real Titanic and of course, the Titan sank, too. His point? Imaginative people sometimes remote view the future without realizing it.
[Vo]: 1.45 V ... 1.24 V ... do I hear .17V
Sold ! American [gavel slams] OK it is coming from what some would call a third-rate University, and it is coming from a grad student, but Eric here thinks he is onto something... http://cerc.eng.usf.edu/std_individual/Eric%20Weaver_student.html This process lowers the theoretical voltage needed for hydrogen production from 1.24 volts for water dissociation to 0.17 volts. OK, rght. Here is Prof. Kowalski's newer entry on something similar... 303) Well known reactions or something else? http://blake.montclair.edu/~kowalskil/cf/303energy.html Is it time for Fred to lecture the assembled experts on: Voltage-Threshold vs. Voltage-Gradient; and assorted other intermediary subjects which make water electrolysis anything but known (Gibbs free energy, Helmholtz layers and so on)?
RE: [Vo]: Toyota moves to corner plug-in hybrid market
Depends whether you like to read Vince Lombardi or Suze Orman... 8^) -Original Message- From: Harry Veeder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 4:04 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]: Toyota moves to corner plug-in hybrid market John Steck wrote: My bullets are dollars, and from that perspective the war goes well on that front. -john Regarding saving and spending, which is an offensive strategy and which is a defensive strategy? Harry
