Jeffrey Sachs, Accenture, Columbia University

2004-08-01 Thread Les Schaffer
http://www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu/news/2004/story07-22-04.html Earth Institute News Jobs Offshored for Cost Savings and Quality Seventy percent of companies that outsource report increases in quality of work, Columbia survey finds NEW YORK -- Forty-five companies known for sending work

Re: A distaff view of SupersizeMe

2004-07-15 Thread Les Schaffer
in depth in this way? les schaffer

Re: LNG security....FERCed (again)

2004-03-22 Thread Les Schaffer
to a form of deterrence: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/19/national/19NUKE.html it's important to expose the Patriot Act for what it is not: it is not a blueprint for making anyone you or I know safe from physical attack. les schaffer

Re: LNG security....FERCed (again)

2004-03-22 Thread Les Schaffer
Eugene Coyle wrote: The general literature mentioned by Les Schaffer, while helpful, was countered by the well-funded proponents. if you have transcripts of their arguments, i would be interested in taking a look at how they countered. les schaffer

Re: Hydrogen is not a fuel!

2003-10-14 Thread Les Schaffer
, or 500 800-megawatt coal-fired units, 200 Hoover Dams (two gigawatts each), or 100 French-type nuclear clusters (four reactors, about one gigawatt each). http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v424/n6945/full/424129a_fs.html les schaffer

Anti-global warming flimflam

2003-09-05 Thread Les Schaffer
the current trend in Bush administration pampering with objective science, our initial guess of fraud is not so bad as a working hypothesis. les schaffer

Aug 18th WSJ on the blackout

2003-08-19 Thread Les Schaffer
are specific to electric power or are more general? les schaffer

Re Harvey Wasserman: Blackout

2003-08-19 Thread Les Schaffer
in NYC orders of magnitude too low). les schaffer Notes: [1] In seconds, parallel lines were overloaded as well and shut themselves down, and then generating stations disconnected themselves. Ultimately, dozens of lines and about 100 power plants, with a staggering

Innovation (was Of Coase)

2003-07-19 Thread Les Schaffer
desire for personal fullfillment as time to market, reduction of engineering/development costs, etc. all drive lots of white-collar working people to the edge. les schaffer

Re: DU

2003-07-16 Thread Les Schaffer
://www.eoslifework.co.uk/pdfs/DU2102A3a.pdf http://www.eoslifework.co.uk/pdfs/DU2102A3b.pdf valuable in concert with reference in 2.) les schaffer

DU

2003-07-15 Thread Les Schaffer
deposition from DU dust local to the affected areas in the lungs with effects of background radiation in the same localized area. i have seen no such estimate yet. les schaffer

Re: Complexity

2003-06-23 Thread Les Schaffer
Sabri wrote: That must be the Marsden effect. He has a tendency to put people to sleep. i've seen him give talks, and he's a fine, dynamic speaker. But this literary trend he is a part of is a dead end. I have one of his books with Hughes from 1976, A short course in fluid mechanics and it

Re: Complexity

2003-06-19 Thread Les Schaffer
implementation in a problem which begs for reduction of dimension. 3.) fractional dimension fad: there was a time when everyone published a fractional dimension for their time series. what was that supposed to prove??? les schaffer

Re: Complexity

2003-06-18 Thread Les Schaffer
??? to my mind his theorem highlights BOTH the strengths and weaknesses of axiomatic systems, as he utiliized ingenious techniques to derive said theroems. les schaffer p.s. google: KAM theorem finite measure Melnikov method | integral | function

the profit rate recession

2002-01-28 Thread Les Schaffer
the distribution of this value amongst different industries? thanks les schaffer

oil predictions

2001-07-12 Thread Les Schaffer
, but i would guess its way way way cheaper to keep water clean (no pollutants in) and clean water (filter, seperate pollutants from water) than it is to make water from the air. (and obviously stealing from the air is not such a hot idea either.) les schaffer

Re: oil predictions

2001-07-10 Thread Les Schaffer
evaporation happen quick enough. thats potentially a LOT of BTU's ... depends on much water per time needs evaporative recycling. looks like another nice source on water: http://www.sciam.com/2001/0201issue/0201postel.html les schaffer

Environmental Physics 101

2001-06-29 Thread Les Schaffer
MindAphid said: from a physicist friend... .. Lawrence B. Crowell is this the same one as: http://www.altenergy.org/4/ine-99/crowell/crowell.html the same who wrote the thingy on quantum gravity and energy? les schaffer

[PEN-L:897] follow-up: UK customs laptop search

1998-08-14 Thread Les Schaffer
To follow-up on valis' reporting of a laptop search at UK airport: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_15/150465.stm which has a fuller reporting of the incident -- Les Schaffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___| --- Engineering RD --- Theoretical Applied Mechanics

[PEN-L:779] Re: adieu boddhi?

1998-08-12 Thread Les Schaffer
of bevans nickname: 'boddhisattva' DOES NOT MEAN 'enlightened one'. in the buddhist world-view a boddhisattva delays his/her (final) enlightenment and works in such a way that all other 'beings' are enlightened first. and don't ask me what THAT means.... les schaffer

[PEN-L:617] Re: NWO/Intellectual property

1998-08-07 Thread Les Schaffer
are, micro-processor and micro-controller technology (smart devices), networking hardware including high-speed data links and such. does the slice get much bigger or is it still drops in buckets? -- Les Schaffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___| --- Engineering RD --- Theoretical Applied

[PEN-L:497] Communications for a Sustainable Future

1998-08-04 Thread Les Schaffer
mply used in an impersonal way, in other words, not directed __AT__ another list member. so your equating "communicate with respect" and absence of profanity don't seem too clear. -- Les Schaffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___| --- Engineering RD --- Theoretical Applied Mechanics | Des

The Navy may be watching YOU

1998-05-06 Thread Les Schaffer
details/info on this? -- Les Schaffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___| --- Engineering RD Theoretical Applied Mechanics | Designspring, Inc. Westport, CT USA Center for Radiophysics Space Research | http://www.designspring.com (soon) Cornell Univ. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL

Pathfinder Boards - American Cultural Arrogance

1998-04-27 Thread Les Schaffer
Hey Fikret: Could you be convinced to send URL's but NOT whole web pages in your posts to pen-l? much appreciated if you dont. thanks -- Les Schaffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Center for Radiophysics and Space Research Cornell