Re: [Vo]:Thermoelectric paint

2016-11-22 Thread Jed Rothwell
Brian Ahern wrote: > BEWARE allthermoelectric claims. Nothing over 5% has ever been sustained > even though there are claims of over 17%. > If it is cheap enough per watt, 5% would be fine. Most proposed applications are to capture heat that is going to waste anyway, such

Re: [Vo]:Thermoelectric paint

2016-11-22 Thread Brian Ahern
BEWARE allthermoelectric claims. Nothing over 5% has ever been sustained even though there are claims of over 17%. That which makes them work makes them susceptible to thermal degradation. From: Brian Ahern From: H LV Sent: Tuesday,

Re: [Vo]:More on automation and Martin Ford

2016-11-22 Thread H LV
>From The Belleville Intelligencer 'Ontario is on the precipice of a three-year pilot to test out the concept of a guaranteed basic income and residents have been invited to share their views on the proposal online, as well as during several public consultations ... 'It’s a consultation Ruth

[Vo]:Thermoelectric paint

2016-11-22 Thread H LV
(Phys.org)—Paint these days is becoming much more than it used to be. Already researchers have developed photovoltaic paint, which can be used to make "paint-on solar cells" that capture the sun's energy and turn it into electricity. Now in a new study, researchers have created thermoelectric

[Vo]:More on automation and Martin Ford

2016-11-22 Thread Jed Rothwell
See: http://money.cnn.com/2016/11/17/technology/trump-tech-populism-automation/

Re: [Vo]:More on automation and Martin Ford

2016-11-22 Thread Jed Rothwell
Quoting the article: "Yet figuring out how such a system [Universal Basic Income] could be afforded -- and not turn a country into a nation of slackers -- is unclear." As usual the author misses the point. If robots do all the work why should anyone care whether people turn into slackers? This

[Vo]:LENR needs collaborative problem solving

2016-11-22 Thread Peter Gluck
http://egooutpeters.blogspot.ro/2016/11/nov-22-2016-lenr-toward-collaborative.html yours, peter -- Dr. Peter Gluck Cluj, Romania http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com