[Vo]: Seeing Tesla with new eyes

2006-09-28 Thread William Beaty
I uploaded some crude screenshots taken from the film The Secret of Nikola Tesla. I'm very curious as to the original source of these images. Who was the artist? On what were they based? From what I understand of Tesla technology, they seem very accurate (also quite revealing.)

[Vo]: New Tesla statue at Niagra

2006-09-28 Thread William Beaty
Tesla statue unveiled 7/2006 Niagra Falls (Canadian side) http://www.teslasociety.com/victoria.htm http://www.teslasociety.com/victoria3.htm (( ( ( ( ((O)) ) ) ) ))) William J. Beatyhttp://staff.washington.edu/wbeaty/ [EMAIL

Re: [Vo]: Jed's Edict

2006-09-28 Thread Taylor J. Smith
Jed wrote: If this truly is a war, and we really want to win it ... Hi All, Apparently we don't want to win it. What would American victories do to the price of oil? On the surface, the incompetent conduct of this war is inexplicable; but the owners of oil wells are going laughing to the

[Vo]: Missing Subject Lines

2006-09-28 Thread OrionWorks
Mr. Beaty, Is there anything I can do to make Vortex's list server stop randomly stripping the subject thread of some of my posts? It is becoming extremely annoying not knowing which of my posts are going to come through intact. My last post concerning political issues on energy development

Re: [Vo]: Jed's Edict

2006-09-28 Thread thomas malloy
Taylor J. Smith wrote: Jed wrote: If this truly is a war, and we really want to win it ... Hi All, Apparently we don't want to win it. What would American victories do to the price of oil? On the surface, the incompetent conduct of this war is inexplicable; but the owners of oil wells are

[Vo]:

2006-09-28 Thread Jones Beene
This partly science - partly current-events commentary ... A particular terrorist explosive, the name of which need not be mentioned for present purposes, is quietly in the science news lately for a number of security-related reasons. But for alternative energy RD, the more specific

[Vo]: The Great U.S. Energy Vacation animated cartoon

2006-09-28 Thread Jed Rothwell
See: http://www.sfgate.com/comics/fiore/ Here is another great one: Petrotheism, the Quest for Fuel: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2005/09/14/fiorepetro.DTL - Jed

Re: [Vo]: SUVs

2006-09-28 Thread John Berry
Those small cars were something like 11 times more likely to kill you, plus they are ugly.On 9/29/06, Kyle R. Mcallister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:- Original Message -From: John Steck [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: vortex-l@eskimo.comSent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 11:17 PMSubject: RE: [Vo]:

Re: [Vo]: SUVs

2006-09-28 Thread Philip Winestone
I have a SUV (Explorer) and I love it, simply because it's the only thing that keeps me sane driving in the long Canadian winter. Tried all kinds of cars; the Explorer wins. But NOBODY can answer the question I ask constantly (in fact I've been greeted with consistently stony silence, even

Re: [Vo]: SUVs

2006-09-28 Thread Kyle R. Mcallister
- Original Message - From: Philip Winestone [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 7:03 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]: SUVs But NOBODY can answer the question I ask constantly (in fact I've been greeted with consistently stony silence, even from journalists

Re: [Vo]: SUVs

2006-09-28 Thread Philip Winestone
Very interesting Kyle. The most comprehensive assessment I've ever read, of the diesel situation (or lack of it). Only one thing: from what I've heard and read, the days of slow, polluting diesels are apparently over (as you saw with BMW). And apparently it's not the visible pollution that