Re: Correa

2005-03-05 Thread Mike Carrell
Chris wrote: Now we're getting somewhere! No, we are not. You are repeating the same mistake that Jeff made, changing what the Correas did before you ever see the effect. The PAGD discharge is a wideband event. Transformers are ***not*** simple devices in a wideband

Re: Correa

2005-03-05 Thread Mike Carrell
Jeff wrote, my comments in blue. Mike Carrell I don't know anything about electrochemistry in batteries, but I question the ability of a string cells to absorb a fast high energy pulse without impedance, and that this impedence would cause a voltage spike. Maybe the spike has a

RE: Correa

2005-03-05 Thread John Steck
For those of us that read email in plain text to avoid embedded viruses please refrain from formatted replies... it is impossible to follow. Also, formattinggets stripped out in the archived messagesso the historical context of your thread is lost too. Just a suggestion. -john

attachments

2005-03-05 Thread revtec
Can I get a scanned diagram to go thru Vortex-l as an attachment. As I recall photos won't go. Jeff

Transistors, replication, and PAGD

2005-03-05 Thread Mike Carrell
Jed favors us with excellent snippets of the history of technology to illustrate contemporary situations. In that spirit, some comments. Transistors have their roots in very early radio detectors, the 'cats whisker' and a lump of lead oxide, or galena ore. The 'cats whisker' was a

Re: attachments

2005-03-05 Thread Grimer
At 12:05 pm 05-03-05 -0500, you wrote: Can I get a scanned diagram to go thru Vortex-l as an attachment. As I recall photos won't go. A way of getting round the problem that Vortex is a text only group is to either [1] have your own web-site and provide a URL for the relevant page, or [2]

Re: attachments

2005-03-05 Thread leaking pen
also, feel free to email me the file off list, ill make a space on my webserver if youd like for vortex email items, and give the url here. On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 19:06:45 +, Grimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 12:05 pm 05-03-05 -0500, you wrote: Can I get a scanned diagram to go thru

Energy - The Big Picture

2005-03-05 Thread Horace Heffner
Table 1 - Current energy plant capital cost in $/W Gas turbine 0.5 Wind 2.0 Solar tower 2.5 Nuclear 6.0 One MBtu is equivalent to 33.43 watts expended for a year. Multiplying the above values by 33.43 we can thus obtain energy plant cost in $ per MBtu/yr assuming a plant life of

RE: Energy - The Big Picture

2005-03-05 Thread Michael Foster
--- On Sat 03/05, Horace Heffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It appears the job of converting to renewable energy can be accomplished starting now, especially where long trades are not required. The capital cost will ultimately be on the order of 90,000 trillion dollars, but invested over

Re: Transistors, replication, and PAGD

2005-03-05 Thread Mike Carrell
Ed Storms wrote with his usual insight: Mike Carrell wrote: It may not be true that the specific construction described in the Correa patents is of the essence, or that disclosure overcomes barriers to commercial uitlization, but nobody can say that their work is mysterious or

Re: Energy - The Big Picture

2005-03-05 Thread Robin van Spaandonk
In reply to Horace Heffner's message of Sat, 05 Mar 2005 18:23:50 -0900: Hi, [snip] Table 1 - Current energy plant capital cost in $/W Gas turbine 0.5 Wind 2.0 Solar tower 2.5 Nuclear 6.0 One MBtu is equivalent to 33.43 watts expended for a year. Multiplying the above values by

Energy - The Big Picture DRAFT #2

2005-03-05 Thread Horace Heffner
The following is an attempt to put into perspective the problem of obtaining the world's energy needs by carbon free renewable means. Table 1 - Current energy plant capital cost in $/W Gas turbine 0.5 Wind 2.0 Solar tower 2.5 Nuclear 6.0 One MBtu is equivalent to 33.43 watts

RE: Energy - The Big Picture

2005-03-05 Thread Horace Heffner
At 10:39 PM 3/5/5, Michael Foster wrote: I assume you mean American trillion, i.e., 10^12. In any case, long term conversion of energy sources needs to be analyzed this way. This is very enlightening. Thanks for the correction. I shouldn't post when I'm so short of time. Regards, Horace

Energy - The Big Picture DRAFT #2

2005-03-05 Thread Horace Heffner
I wrote: However, emerging capitalists should have their noises in the air. The smell of money is there. I wrote: However, emerging capitalists should have their noses in the air. The smell of money is there. Regards, Horace Heffner

Re Energy - The Big Picture DRAFT #2

2005-03-05 Thread Horace Heffner
I wrote: However, emerging capitalists should have their noises in the air. The smell of money is there. I meant to write: However, emerging capitalists should have their noses in the air. The smell of money is there. However, a little noise probably couldn't hurt if that's all it is.

RE: Correa

2005-03-05 Thread John Steck
Not really sure why the reply to does that. The message is technically being sent from the mail server, not from me per se. The reply to address should update accordingly... there is nothing I can do from my end. It's a mail server thing. My lazy work around to that problem (and it only really