I agree with Thomas and Alan. Whatever else Sandia is into (and they
are a national laboratory so they have done a lot of defense work) the
investigations of alternative energy have been worth while. The solar
power device based on a sterling engine is proving to be more efficient
than
Dear Keith,
Along that same line, I have the immpression from the posts I have read
that biodiesel is not real stable and would not store and ship that
well. Isn't it best used when it is freash?
Rick
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How about the best neighbourhood? Or the best village?
It's the
Dear Keith,
Was that Africom or Afrikacorp?
Rick
*/Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED]/* wrote:
Not to mention the oil. Nor, I suppose, the jatropha plantations. :-(
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http://www.washingtontimes.com/world/20070430-124131-8532r.htm
- World - The Washington Times, America's
Dear John,
Your cat powered car violates an even more basic law than
thermodynamics. This is the law that states that a cat will never do
anything even remotely useful to humans unless it wants to and that
such occasions are both never predicable and very rare.
Rick
John Beale wrote:
Dear Mike,
Speaking of Nigeria, do you or anyone on the list know why it is such a
death trap for petroleum engineers from Shell? Hardly a week goes by
that I don't get an e-mail from some lawyer asking me to participate in
a perfectly legal scam to get some dead Shell engineers money out of
Dear Mike,
It just goes to show you. You never know who your friends really are.
Rick
Mike Weaver wrote:
He's offering you guys Paris Hilton videos free? He's been charging me
for them. I feel like such a fool.
Dear Ray,
I think the problem is that the learned responders to your question
failed to start at the beginning. The weight of the carbon dioxide is
the sum of the weight of the fuel plus the weight of the oxygen from
the air that combines with the fuel. The weight of the oxygen is not
figured
Dear Andres,
I am just guessing on the basis of having lived here a long time (the
US) and watched how the government works in South America. I see two
possibilities not necessarily mutually exclusive. The build up maybe
just so much saber rattling, an attempt o scare Chavez into backing
This is truly an excellent way to generate cheap hydrogen on command.
It eliminates the storage difficulty that hydrogen gas presents. The
only problem is generating cheap pure sodium...
Rick
bmolloy wrote:
Hi All,
This thread intrigued, so much so that I posted it around among
Dear Doug,
No.
Rick
des wrote:
I recall that chemistry experiment, (also works with potassium), both
metals were kept under oil to prevent oxidation. They're very unstable
metals, and not found on earth in their pure forms. Hence the question
becomes: How much energy does it take
Dear Ken,
That was phosphorus.
Rick
Ken Chua wrote:
Hi all,
Sodium in air will burn instantly and explosively.
Wasn't this the reason Thomas Edison got fired and
lost part of his hearing because he let dry a piece of
sodium metal in the box car he was experimenting in.
It also is related to a vote by slightly more than half of us - or at
least slightly more than half of those whose votes were recorded. I
remember in the wake of the election people saying "Why can't you let
it go and come together behind the president? What are you so afraid
will happen?"
Me too. I thought this only happened at the UN. Say, what do you
suppose the chances are that Bush will ask Paul Volker to lead an
independnet investigation of Halliburton? :-)
Rick
Mike Weaver wrote:
I'm shocked, shocked, to find out that steering has occured in
Washington DC.
Welcome
Dear Hakan,
I hold no brief for the second Gulf war and am totally disgusted with
George Bush and was so before it became cool to be disgusted with George
Bush. However, this assertion about the US led blockade has always
seemed to me grossly unfair. Large numbers of children (and adults
Dear Miguel
We are already swaying to cuban music which is really fine. As for
spanish, that will be spoken because of the Bush administration's
refusal to do anything of substance about illegal immigration from
Mexico. They could end it in a matter weeks if they wanted to but they
don't. If
With China sitting on the Security council and being one of Iran''s
biggest customers I wonder how far sanctions will get?
Rick
C. J. Thornton wrote:
The UN will impose economic sanctions on Iran, if Iran
doesn't stop playing with nuclear energy. One of
these sanctions would be to stop
Because of the sheer number of people involved and the secrecy at the
time and after it is hard to put into perspective the thinking that went
into the decision to use the atomic bomb. There appeared to be no
question that the Truman government was convinced that an invasion would
be
Bill Press put his finger on it. We can't afford to lose Turd Blossom.
Dick Chaney can't run the country alone.
Rick
MH wrote:
The big question is: Now that we know, without a doubt, it was Karl Rove
who spilled the beans, why does he still have a job at the White House?
President Bush
Dear Hakan,
I may be naive as I am fairly new to the list but it looks to me like
the question grew out of a ISIS press release about nuclear power. As I
am more interested in biofuels myself I'd hate to get into a long thing
that would detract from that but I am curious as to the answer to
Ambassador to Feringe: Are you offering me a bribe?
Feringe to Ambassador Oh no your excellency. This is just a gift for
coming to talk to us. The bribe is much bigger.
From Star Trek - The Next Generation.
Right on Keith. There would not be corruption if multinational
corporations
Dear Jason,
On the face of it your suggestion seems like it should work but in
practice it has not. The reason N Korea is starving its people and
almost killing itself to get nuclear weapons is precisely because the
Bush administration had developed a policy along the lines you suggest.
Thanks, I didn't know about this.
Rick
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To see the full list of quotes, go to slate.com, type bushism in the search box,
and read them all. They go back several years.
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Dear Chris,
This is classic Bush. It is up there with his other
This is classic Bush. It is up there with his other observations such
Is our children learning? from a speech on education, More and more
of our imports come from oversees., I hope the ambitious realize that
they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure., We
ought
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