Tectonic versus planetary expansion

2004-10-08 Thread RC Macaulay
Wylie asks if I have an interesting viewpoint on the subject.  No, just the ongoing dialogue mentioned with a since passed geologist friend.   Your interest leads me to believe that you have some views. Please feel free to express them here.    Perhaps the first recorded discussion on the mat

Re: Hydrogen energy x 100

2004-10-08 Thread Jones Beene
Interesting point from M.C. : > With all this talk about ethanol and hydrogen, let me take note of the water > bath calorimetry experiments of Mills which showed a heat release from > hydrogen 100 times greater than by combustion of the same amount of > hydrogen. The only obvious drawback to the

[OT] Long term Scott Ritter-John Kerry link

2004-10-08 Thread Horace Heffner
A Google query of "Scott Ritter" "John Kerry" produces quite a surprising (to me anyway) history of Ritter's criticism of John Kerry (in addition to Ritter's more well known criticism of the Bush administration) over issues of weapons of mass destruction, and long before Kerry was a presidential ca

Re: Jacques Benveniste dies

2004-10-08 Thread Steven Krivit
Hell is thawing At 05:53 PM 10/8/2004 -0400, you wrote: I am sorry to see this news: http://www.nature.com/news/2004/041004/full/041004-19.html Here is something amazing though; Nature actually deigns to mention CF is semi-partly-conceivably positive manner. The rest of the article is bunk, inclu

Jacques Benveniste dies

2004-10-08 Thread Jed Rothwell
I am sorry to see this news: http://www.nature.com/news/2004/041004/full/041004-19.html Here is something amazing though; Nature actually deigns to mention CF is semi-partly-conceivably positive manner. The rest of the article is bunk, including Nature's version of its own role in this travesty.

Re: X Prize sponsors plan other prizes

2004-10-08 Thread Terry Blanton
Johnson, Steven wrote: CNN.COM has come out with an article about the sponsors of the X prize. Did you catch the news on Bigelow's $50M prize for a vehicle to service his "hotel"? http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0409/27bigelow/ UFO enthusiasts might remember Robert for his NIDS: http://www.nidsci

Re: WHAT'S NEW Friday, October 08, 2004

2004-10-08 Thread Terry Blanton
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X Prize sponsors plan other prizes

2004-10-08 Thread Johnson, Steven
CNN.COM has come out with an article about the sponsors of the X prize. They are planning new prizes to help spur additional innovation in space exploration in the private sector. Good idea. It's worked in the past. http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/10/08/ansari.xprize.ap/index.html We need spo

Re: Episode 2: Joy of discussion

2004-10-08 Thread Kitzmiller
Blank- Original Message - From: RC Macaulay Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 6:57 AM Subject: Episode 2: Joy of discussion Answer for Wyley..I came from the old days when dinasaurs... Sorry for the apparent misunderstanding. I thought you might have an interesting viewpoint on the argument o

Re: 100 New British Nukes

2004-10-08 Thread Terry Blanton
Jones Beene wrote: I think one of the reasons you threw this pile of disinfo out to foul the air was to show the incompetence of "Energy Consultants" in the UK... am I right? I wouldn't tend to single out the UK. :-) Ackshully, I stumbled across it while looking at organic methods of hydrogen pro

Hydrogen energy x 100

2004-10-08 Thread Mike Carrell
With all this talk about ethanol and hydrogen, let me take note of the water bath calorimetry experiments of Mills which showed a heat release from hydrogen 100 times greater than by combustion of the same amount of hydrogen. Reports on the experiments can be found at www.blacklightpower.com. The

FW: WHAT'S NEW Friday, October 08, 2004

2004-10-08 Thread Akira Kawasaki
> [Original Message] > From: What's New <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Akira Kawasaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 10/8/2004 8:58:33 AM Subject: WHAT'S NEW Friday, October 08, 2004 WHAT'S NEW Robert L. Park Friday, 8 Oct 04 Montreal, CA 1. OUTER LIMITS: PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL P

Re: 100 New British Nukes

2004-10-08 Thread Jed Rothwell
Terry Blanton wrote: > > they forgot that hydrogen transport is roughly three times more > > efficient than conventional oil, so they need only 18 MTOE > > > Is this based on mass alone? Does it include extra transport loses (eg > hydrogen loses in metal pipelines)? Hydrogen pipeline losses are mo

I'm back

2004-10-08 Thread Adam Cox
OK, some of you guys may remember me from 5-6 years ago.  I've been lurking the past couple months just reading the posts online, but decided it was time to stick my oar in.   Jed, I'm currently an architectural CAD drafter at a building company and would be happy to help you out.  Curious to say t

Re: 100 New British Nukes

2004-10-08 Thread Jones Beene
Terry, > This article: > > http://www.fuelcellsworks.com/Supppage1256.html > > claims it would take 100 new nuclear plants to create enough hydrogen by > cracking water. I think one of the reasons you threw this pile of disinfo out to foul the air was to show the incompetence of "Energy Consulta

Re: 100 New British Nukes

2004-10-08 Thread Terry Blanton
Jed Rothwell wrote: they forgot that hydrogen transport is roughly three times more efficient than conventional oil, so they need only 18 MTOE Is this based on mass alone? Does it include extra transport loses (eg hydrogen loses in metal pipelines)? Terry (watching my 50th birthday mylar ballo

RE: 100 New British Nukes

2004-10-08 Thread Johnson, Steven
>From: Jed Rothwell >Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 11:48 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: 100 New British Nukes > > >Also, I forgot to mention, the author's plan to use nuclear >power generators to make electricity, to perform electrolysis, >to produce hydrogen, is preposterous. Methods usi

Re: 100 New British Nukes

2004-10-08 Thread Jed Rothwell
Also, I forgot to mention, the author's plan to use nuclear power generators to make electricity, to perform electrolysis, to produce hydrogen, is preposterous. Methods using nuclear heat directly to split hydrogen (pyrolysis) would be far more efficient. In other words, you only need 15 or 20

Re: 100 New British Nukes

2004-10-08 Thread Jed Rothwell
Terry Blanton writes: > I seem to recall that someone calculated that the entire island would > have to be planted in corn to fuel British automobiles with ethanol. I do not know about the U.K., but the U.S. would require about twice as much land as we possess to grow enough biomass to replace all

100 New British Nukes

2004-10-08 Thread Terry Blanton
I seem to recall that someone calculated that the entire island would have to be planted in corn to fuel British automobiles with ethanol. This article: http://www.fuelcellsworks.com/Supppage1256.html claims it would take 100 new nuclear plants to create enough hydrogen by cracking water.

Episode 2: Joy of discussion

2004-10-08 Thread RC Macaulay
Answer for Wyley..I came from the old days when dinasaurs were made into crude petroleum beneath the earth.. everyone accepted the fact back then.. well.. err.. that is until I saw the Grand Canyon and read the plaque provided by the US Park Service that stated it took umpeen million years f

Re: Joy of discussion

2004-10-08 Thread Frederick Sparber
In response to Richard Macaulay's earlier contention that the earth was expanding:   "My view.. that the continents could not have drifted " apart" since the east and west sideof land masses " fit". The discussion reached a point of maturity with each "cutting the othersome slack" whereas he cou