[Vo]:Oil Leak

2010-06-06 Thread Hoyt A. Stearns Jr.
Facetiously, I was wondering how a naive engineer might evaluate the Gulf oil catastrophe: Back of the envelope calculations: Gulf volume is 6.43 x 10^17 gallons Oil spill volume is 70 x 10^6 gallons so far This comes out to 1 drop of oil per 1,000 gallons of water (much more that I thought it

Re: [Vo]:Electrostatic cooling: calculation made however not successful

2010-06-06 Thread David Jonsson
On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: By not successful do you mean that the calculations do not explain reality very well? Should you then consider both inelastic and elastic collisions? Thanks for yours and Abd's replies. I got the impression that the

Re: [Vo]:Another Sign the End is Nigh

2010-06-06 Thread Mauro Lacy
On 06/05/2010 10:52 PM, Terry Blanton wrote: On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Mauro Lacy ma...@lacy.com.ar wrote: Wading through the references, I've found the following paper: A theory of mass and gravity in 4-dimensional optics (http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0109027) Which lays in

[Vo]:More on BP safety violations

2010-06-06 Thread Jed Rothwell
See: Renegade Refiner: OSHA Says BP Has “Systemic Safety Problem” 97% of Worst Industry Violations Found at BP Refineries By Jim Morris and M.B. Pell | May 16, 2010 http://www.publicintegrity.org/articles/entry/2085/ - Jed