[Vo]:Interesting graph of daily power generation in Germany, May 2012

2013-02-19 Thread Jed Rothwell
See: http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2013/02/the-future-of-electricity-markets See Fig. 1. . . . Germany has seen a surge of renewable energy development since the early 2000s. The consequences of this surge in zero marginal cost power have been clear: electricity prices

[Vo]:Meteor crater

2013-02-19 Thread Hoyt A. Stearns Jr.
What's burning in this crater -- nickel-iron powder? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cT8vZ-7vxQfeature=youtu.be Hoyt Stearns Scottsdale, Arizona US

Re: [Vo]:Meteor crater

2013-02-19 Thread Alexander Hollins
thats not an impact crater. Looks like a sink hole, looks like the road itself is in part burning, I'd say gas main leak or natural gas coming up, sinkhole collapses, and gas pocket went boom, lit the gas on fire long enough to get the chunks of asphalt lit. On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 8:03 AM,

[Vo]:Its even more si-fi than Jed could have imagined

2013-02-19 Thread fznidarsic
What's with this! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cT8vZ-7vxQfeature=youtu.be

Re: [Vo]:Meteor crater

2013-02-19 Thread ChemE Stewart
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derweze I think it is an abandoned mine that has been burning for 35 years... On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 10:09 AM, Alexander Hollins alexander.holl...@gmail.com wrote: thats not an impact crater. Looks like a sink hole, looks like the road itself is in part

[Vo]:Will this help in LENR ?

2013-02-19 Thread Jones Beene
We are on the verge of seeing a big leap in affordable processing power from inexpensive computers. Essentially, what was a $10 million Cray of a decade ago is now available for the teenage gamer ... just as the $10 million IBM 360 evolved into the PC, but this time it is qualitatively different.

Re: [Vo]:Its even more si-fi than Jed could have imagined

2013-02-19 Thread fznidarsic
Never mind, I have seen the answer. -Original Message- From: fznidarsic fznidar...@aol.com To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Tue, Feb 19, 2013 10:51 am Subject: [Vo]:Its even more si-fi than Jed could have imagined What's with this!

[Vo]:Phys.org: The nuclear reactor in your basement

2013-02-19 Thread pagnucco
The nuclear reactor in your basement http://phys.org/news/2013-02-nuclear-reactor-basement.html

Re: [Vo]:big jump in sales now number 5

2013-02-19 Thread mixent
In reply to fznidar...@aol.com's message of Thu, 14 Feb 2013 09:21:36 -0500 (EST): Hi Frank, [snip] The protons have to be part of the tuned circuit. The tuned circuit will not extend beyond the proton conductor. I have some ideas on how to do this. If you make the Nickel wire into a coil,

Re: [Vo]:Interesting graph of daily power generation in Germany, May 2012

2013-02-19 Thread Jed Rothwell
In this graph, notice how the use of PV solar reduces peak demand, smoothing off baseline generation, whereas wind lowers the baseline for 24 hours a day. PV solar is worth more because electric power sells at a premium during peak demand. - Jed

Re: [Vo]:explaining CF

2013-02-19 Thread Kevin O'Malley
The mechanism must logically explain how He4, tritium, and transmutation are produced without energetic radiation being detected. ***A couple of years back I thought EN Tsyganov was onto something. http://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/files/Cold%20nuclear%20fusion.pdf 4. THE PROBLEM OF

RE: [Vo]:Interesting graph of daily power generation in Germany, May 2012

2013-02-19 Thread Chris Zell
Germans are shutting down nukes and shunning nat gas while burning more dirty lignite. A green shift? really? http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-19/merkel-s-green-shift-forces-germany-to-burn-more-coal-energy.html

Re: [Vo]:Russian meteor causes blast; hundreds injured

2013-02-19 Thread James Bowery
The odds of this coincidence are literally far less than one in a million. The naive calculation is based on two like celestial events that independently occur once in a hundred years occurring on the same day: 1/(365*100)^2 = 1/133225 Note: that is one in a billion. Discount by a factor

Re: [Vo]:Russian meteor causes blast; hundreds injured

2013-02-19 Thread leaking pen
flip a coin 99 times, if it comes up heads 99 times, what is the probability that it will come up heads the 100th time? And not sure where Fox got their 10 tons, but the volume, 15 meters across, is pretty much been the estimate since the beginning. perhaps someone mis estimated what 15 cubic

Re: [Vo]:Interesting graph of daily power generation in Germany, May 2012

2013-02-19 Thread Jed Rothwell
Chris Zell chrisz...@wetmtv.com wrote: ** Germans are shutting down nukes and shunning nat gas while burning more dirty lignite. A green shift? really? Yeah. That is a shame. You can understand why people are afraid of nukes, after Fukushima. There were more revelations on NHK yesterday

Re: [Vo]:Russian meteor causes blast; hundreds injured

2013-02-19 Thread James Bowery
You provide no arithmetic and your argument is consistent with my arithmetic. On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 1:48 PM, leaking pen itsat...@gmail.com wrote: flip a coin 99 times, if it comes up heads 99 times, what is the probability that it will come up heads the 100th time? And not sure where Fox

RE: [Vo]:Interesting graph of daily power generation in Germany, May 2012

2013-02-19 Thread Arnaud Kodeck
German decided to shutdown nuclear power plant well before Fukushima disaster. Siemens has sold its nuclear department to the French. Fukushima just convinced finally without doubt about nuclear fission energy. With all those PV cells all around Germany and Benelux houses just make sunny

Re: [Vo]:Russian meteor causes blast; hundreds injured

2013-02-19 Thread James Bowery
Think about this like an actuary, folks: When setting insurance premiums, one must have a model. If your model says that an event should occur only less than once in a million years and the event occurred a few days ago, you might think your model needs revision. The question then becomes how

Re: [Vo]:Russian meteor causes blast; hundreds injured

2013-02-19 Thread Alexander Hollins
Are you familiar with clustering? just because a rare event happens twice close together, doesn't change the rarity based on previous data. You just happened to hit the probability twice. On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 1:14 PM, James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: Think about this like an actuary,

Re: [Vo]:Russian meteor causes blast; hundreds injured

2013-02-19 Thread James Bowery
Of course we're all familiar with the clustering phenomenon that occurs when thousand immortal monkeys banging away on typewriters, at some point during their lifespan type type out the complete works of Shakespeare in the precise order that Shakespeare wrote them. So now try to follow along

Re: [Vo]:Russian meteor causes blast; hundreds injured

2013-02-19 Thread James Bowery
PS: Why do I bother? On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 2:28 PM, James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: Of course we're all familiar with the clustering phenomenon that occurs when thousand immortal monkeys banging away on typewriters, at some point during their lifespan type type out the complete

Re: [Vo]:Russian meteor causes blast; hundreds injured

2013-02-19 Thread Edmund Storms
Rather that debate the probability of the two events being coupled through random chance, why not assume the two events did not occur at the same time by random change and explore the reason why they occurred at the same time? Why not explore the probability that an asteroid has rocks

Re: [Vo]:Interesting graph of daily power generation in Germany, May 2012

2013-02-19 Thread Jed Rothwell
Arnaud Kodeck arnaud.kod...@lakoco.be wrote: ** ** ** German decided to shutdown nuclear power plant well before Fukushima** ** disaster. True. I think Fukushima confirmed the wisdom of that decision. The Germans are phasing it out slowly whereas the Japanese turned off all their

Re: [Vo]:Russian meteor causes blast; hundreds injured

2013-02-19 Thread John Berry
It is interesting to note that the complete works of Shakespeare must also occur in Pi somewhere. (irrational, non ending and non repetitive) But because you would have to convert the numbers to letters, you would need to group them and since you would get many numbers over 26 it would take a very

Re: [Vo]:Russian meteor causes blast; hundreds injured

2013-02-19 Thread ChemE Stewart
Of course I also agree that our model is wrong: 1)They found no massive hunk of iron in that 30' hole in the lake because there was no ball of iron as a nucleus to begin with. That is a sinkhole 2) Our estimate of the mass of those objects based upon ordinary matter is vastly too low because

Re: [Vo]:Russian meteor causes blast; hundreds injured

2013-02-19 Thread James Bowery
Estimating the probability has to do with the investment decision tree. Such exploration requires resources and the resources allocated to the search have to take into account the expected value in terms of risk adjusted utility of obtaining a targeted statistical

RE: [Vo]:Interesting graph of daily power generation in Germany, May 2012

2013-02-19 Thread Chris Zell
I do admire the Germans in regard to their programs to offer jobs with reduced hours but with most benefits retained. Futurewise, this is the way to go and is a big improvement over simple unemployment or welfare. Another country to admire ( to a degree) is Iran. 4 Bankers are scheduled for

[Vo]:Re: explaining LENR - II

2013-02-19 Thread Edmund Storms
On Feb 19, 2013, at 2:08 PM, Edmund Storms wrote: A search for an explanation of LENR can take one of three basic paths. People can nit-pick about the mechanism, they can suggest any idea that comes to mind regardless of justification, or they can look for the overall patterns that must

Re: [Vo]:Russian meteor causes blast; hundreds injured

2013-02-19 Thread Edmund Storms
I agree with what you said, Jim. However, all decisions in life are based on what appears to be the most likely outcome using logic based on what appears to be the best facts. Judgement and common sense are used most often to decide what to believe. But more important, the consequence of

RE: [Vo]:Interesting graph of daily power generation in Germany, May 2012

2013-02-19 Thread Arnaud Kodeck
German still have some nuclear power plants. Nuclear power plant can not be started and shut down at will. Nuclear power plants continuously deliver roughly the same amount of energy. The countries around Germany have also a lot of power plants especially in France and in Belgium. Those power

Re: [Vo]:Re: explaining LENR - II

2013-02-19 Thread Alain Sepeda
Dear Mr Storms, Does Kozima laws inspire you something? (I've naively commented http://www.lenr-forum.com/showthread.php?244-Theory-Kozima-3-Laws-in-the-CF-Phenomenonhighlight=kozima) kozima article http://www.geocities.jp/hjrfq930/Papers/paperr/paperr31.pdf(extended version

Re: [Vo]:Re: explaining LENR - II

2013-02-19 Thread Edmund Storms
These Laws do not make sense. I have no idea what they mean. A law must be clearly stated and consistent with what is known. It must also clearly limit what is possible. The laws stated by Kozima are so general they have no special application. This kind of sloppy thinking and

Re: [Vo]:Re: explaining LENR - II

2013-02-19 Thread Edmund Storms
Let me add a few more comments. Kozima believes that all materials contain extra neurons that are outside of the nucleus and are stabilized against their normal radioactive decay (16 min 1/2 life) by something in the lattice. He believes that these trapped neutrons are released

[Vo]:green electricity

2013-02-19 Thread Harry Veeder
Can you get greener than this? ;-) Stanford Report, April 13, 2010 Stanford researchers find electrical current stemming from plants Stanford engineers have generated electrical current by tapping into the electron activity in individual algae cells.

[Vo]:Re: CMNS: explaining LENR - II

2013-02-19 Thread Edmund Storms
I will ignore the nit-picking and focus on the important points Abd raised. First of all, he and I have a fundamental difference of opinion that can not be resolved by facts or discussion because it stems from a basic difference in attitude. So, I will not address this difference.

[Vo]:Engineer's Comment That May be of Interest

2013-02-19 Thread Mark Goldes
As an Energy Engineer who works in this field, I can say the practical development implementation of this technology is not the biggest hurdle to overcome, we already use a form of it on board satellites we send to the outermost regions of the solar system where using solar cells to recharge

[Vo]:Deadly insect drones of the future

2013-02-19 Thread Jed Rothwell
Something else I predicted in my book. See: http://theweek.com/article/index/240285/watch-the-deadly-insect-sized-drones-of-the-future The people at General Dynamics should think twice about developing these things. Sooner or later everyone will have one, and every public figure from the

Re: [Vo]:Russian meteor causes blast; hundreds injured

2013-02-19 Thread de Bivort Lawrence
Think of the more interesting, shorter writings that monkey would come up with. Would be quite instructional, I imagine. Cheers, Lawry Sent from my iPhone On Feb 19, 2013, at 1:49 PM, John Berry berry.joh...@gmail.com wrote: It is interesting to note that the complete works of Shakespeare

Re: [Vo]:Deadly insect drones of the future

2013-02-19 Thread Mark Gibbs
Too late: http://www.indiegogo.com/robotdragonfly/x/1658702 ... basic version to be priced at $250 without camera and a camera-less silent version at $280 (perfect for stealth toxic chemical delivery). Surveillance version with two cameras (one HD) with an on-board computer that may be powerful

Re: [Vo]:Re: CMNS: explaining LENR - II

2013-02-19 Thread Axil Axil
*As for my theory, I have created a logical structure based on what needs to be explained using as few assumptions as possible. The theory identifies what needs to be created in the material (gaps of a critical size) and what must take place in this location to be consistent with observation (a

Re: [Vo]:Deadly insect drones of the future

2013-02-19 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mark Gibbs mgi...@gibbs.com wrote: Too late: http://www.indiegogo.com/robotdragonfly/x/1658702 ... basic version to be priced at $250 Yeah, I suppose it is inevitable. But the General Dynamics version with push the state of the art forward rapidly, with capabilities far beyond the ones we

Re: [Vo]:Deadly insect drones of the future

2013-02-19 Thread de Bivort Lawrence
By governmental definition, terrorists are those who operate without governmental sanction. I would worry more about those who operate with governmental authority. Sent from my iPhone On Feb 19, 2013, at 7:35 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Gibbs mgi...@gibbs.com wrote:

Re: [Vo]:Deadly insect drones of the future

2013-02-19 Thread James Bowery
The real threat to national security is, and has for generations been, policies that empower guys who think efficiency trumps resilience. On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 8:35 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Gibbs mgi...@gibbs.com wrote: Too late:

Re: [Vo]:Deadly insect drones of the future

2013-02-19 Thread de Bivort Lawrence
Well said. And guys who don't understand that if they oppress people they will fight back. Sent from my iPad On Feb 19, 2013, at 8:07 PM, James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: The real threat to national security is, and has for generations been, policies that empower guys who think