Re: Ambient Gravimagnetic Field and the Earth Field
On Feb 1, 2006, at 10:20 AM, Harry Veeder wrote: Could Gravimagnetism be involved in the precession of the perihelion of planet mercury? http://phyun5.ucr.edu/~wudka/Physics7/Notes_www/node98.html Harry Gravimagnetism has much to do with the precession of non-circular obits. Gravimagnetism embodies the relativistic effects due to retardation. It does not account for red shift due to gravitational or acceleration time dilation. Jefimenko noted that the entire rate of precession of Mercury's perihelion could be accounted for by merely reducing the speed of gravity to less than c. Since the time he wrote his book, however, the speed of gravity has been measured at c. (See: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2639043.stm) This implies Einstein's explanation of the remaining bit of precession is still necessary. The reason gravimagnetism plays a strong role in orbit precession is that it is a 1/r^3 effect. The attraction and thus acceleration close up to the sun is greater than further out. The angular motion of mercury is increased a little bit when up close to the sun, and thus the precession of the orbit results. Horace Heffner
RE: Are Big Oil Conspiracies Really Off Base?
It's the time traveling Nazis with the beam weapons... haven't you been following along? ;^) -j -Original Message-From: RC Macaulay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 7:38 PMTo: vortex-l@eskimo.comSubject: Re: Are Big Oil Conspiracies Really Off Base? My only question is why does it always point to Texas ? Richard
Bush and ethanol in Slate.com
See: http://www.slate.com/id/2135236/nav/tap2/ And especially this, from last year, describing Pimentel and Patzek's conclusions: http://www.slate.com/id/2122961/ - Jed
RE: Bush and ethanol in Slate.com
Much of the criticism about ethanol is simple pessimism, and ignores the likelihood that the technology will improve as it develops. www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1556439.htm -Original Message- From: Jed Rothwell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 12:09 PM To: vortex-L@eskimo.com Subject: Bush and ethanol in Slate.com See: http://www.slate.com/id/2135236/nav/tap2/ And especially this, from last year, describing Pimentel and Patzek's conclusions: http://www.slate.com/id/2122961/ - Jed
RE: Are Big Oil Conspiracies Really Off-Base?
Title: Message From: John Coviello [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 6:19 PMTo: vortex-l@eskimo.comSubject: Re: Are Big Oil Conspiracies Really Off-Base? The way I see it, our dependence on oil is the product of one of the most far flung social engineering projects ever undertaken. From dismantling trolley lines in the early 20th Century to ensuring auto efficiency standards do not put too much pressure on the demand side of oil, to providing $10Billions of federal monies each year to protect oil supplies overseasmilitarily,the federal government has engineered our dependence on oil and has put alternative energy technologies and transportation modes at a marketplace disadvantage. If there was enough need for new refining facilities, they would get built. We are now building LNG facilities, we have continued to build power plants all over the place. New refiniers aren't being built because the industry either doesn't want them to put more supplies on the market and depress pricesor more likely they don't see a return on investment for a product that will price itself out of the market within a decade or two. see: www.reason.org/commentaries/moore_20050901.shtml It may take 15 or 20 years to build a refinery, if you can get past the political pressure from environmentalists. Power plantscan be difficult and nuclear power plants are simply impossible to site. Barrons ran an article about this, quoting industry leaders complaining that they simply can't site refineries in the US- it's nearly impossible. If you've been following the news, the Democrats suggested building refineries at shut down military bases BUT the idea was shot down almost instantaneously by environmentalists. The politiciansjust gave up. Is this board so full of satisfied opinions that no one even bothers to do a Google search on the facts? If these discussions typify the depth of thinking in alternative energy, we're in bigger trouble than I thought.
Re: Bush and ethanol in Slate.com
Another hydrocarbon economy. Harry Jed Rothwell wrote: See: http://www.slate.com/id/2135236/nav/tap2/ And especially this, from last year, describing Pimentel and Patzek's conclusions: http://www.slate.com/id/2122961/ - Jed
RE: Bush and ethanol in Slate.com
Zell, Chris wrote: Much of the criticism about ethanol is simple pessimism, and ignores the likelihood that the technology will improve as it develops. A terrific amount of money has been invested in the technology and it has not improved much. Industry spokesmen claim a 30% net gain which is abysmal. If that is the best they can do, the industry should be shut down immediately. Perhaps there will be some fundamental breakthrough to reduce the overhead energy costs, but even so, the total energy content of all of the food crops in the US is nowhere near enough. The money we spend on ethanol would be far better spent on conservation, hybrid automobiles and so on. - Jed
RE: Bush and ethanol in Slate.com
-Original Message- From: Jed Rothwell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 12:51 PM To: vortex-L@eskimo.com Subject: RE: Bush and ethanol in Slate.com Zell, Chris wrote: Much of the criticism about ethanol is simple pessimism, and ignores the likelihood that the technology will improve as it develops. A terrific amount of money has been invested in the technology and it has not improved much. Industry spokesmen claim a 30% net gain which is abysmal. If that is the best they can do, the industry should be shut down immediately. And , of course, the same statement applies to cold fusion, new batteries, and every other alternative technology you can name. Since progress is not instantaneous, we should all freeze in the dark. Who said 30% is the best they can EVER do? A 30% gain - whether on an energy source or your favorite investment - is not abysmal. It's an excellent start, especially in a field where bias is becoming obvious - is this ethanol hate? Is the pessimism here obvious? How much imagination does it take to foresee the ENORMOUS amounts of waste heat this country generates being used to aid distillation? Hasn't Amory Lovins and others complained about this waste? Do utilities commonly waste heat? Would 5 - 10 - 30% of our imported oil money be better spent in US rural areas - than on unstable Third World countries and terrorists? Has the Almighty told us that cellulose derived alcohol can't work? Could ethanol get around much of the NIMBYism surrounding refinery construction by siteing distilleries in Midwest states? Suppose we use it to power the tractors that gather the feedstock? Does that help? Ethanol looks to be the quickest and possibly easiest way to get away from imported oil for cars.
Biofuels could replace 30% of fuel needs
www.physorg.com/news10434.html The idea that this could be accomplished in only 5 to 10 years is wonderful. There may be a lot more hope out there than we think.
RE: Bush and ethanol in Slate.com
Zell, Chris wrote: A terrific amount of money has been invested in the technology and it has not improved much. Industry spokesmen claim a 30% net gain which is abysmal. If that is the best they can do, the industry should be shut down immediately. And , of course, the same statement applies to cold fusion, new batteries, and every other alternative technology you can name. That is incorrect. The best input/output ratio recorded for cold fusion was inifinite: no input, continuous output, with gas loaded cells. That is much better than 100 units out for every 70 input. Also, the amount of money spent on CF development has been a tiny fraction of the amount spent on ethanol, and the APS and the DoE do not routinely attack ethanol researchers, so the comparison is unfair. Since progress is not instantaneous, we should all freeze in the dark. Who said 30% is the best they can EVER do? Actually, opponents say -70% of the best they can ever do. 30% of the best they have been able to do after decades of RD and billions of dollars. Woolsey and others think it can be improved, but some experts disagree. (Woolsey is not an expert.) A 30% gain - whether on an energy source or your favorite investment - is not abysmal. For energy, this is abysmal. For an investment it would be great. The two are not comparable. It's an excellent start . . . 30% is not an excellent start for a real world energy system. It is a stone wall dead-end. If we had to depend upon such energy systems we would starve to death. . . . especially in a field where bias is becoming obvious - is this ethanol hate? Is the pessimism here obvious? It is not pessimism. It is fact-based realism. Could ethanol get around much of the NIMBYism surrounding refinery construction NIMBYism is not stopping refinery construction. This is a myth. Oil companies do not want any more refineries because they know there is no more oil. Production will only decrease from now on. It would be a waste of money to build any more oil refineries. Suppose we use it to power the tractors that gather the feedstock? Does that help? Suppose we just burn money and furniture, while we are at it? As long as we burning food, why not? Ethanol looks to be the quickest and possibly easiest way to get away from imported oil for cars. Ethanol can only increase US consumption of imported oil by hundreds of millions of barrels per year -- all wasted. It would make more sense for us to simply wire transfer a few extra billions of dollars directly to the Saudis and Al Qaeda, and not bother to go through the charade of making ethanol. - Jed
RE: Bush and ethanol in Slate.com
We can burn ethanol in cars right now. There are no cold fusion cars. We are still waiting for a commercially available unit, so, you're quite right, ethanol and cold fusion aren't comparable. Since we are in the realm of mythology, you can believe whatever you wish about oil companies - but their LEADERS explicitly state that NIMBYism is behind the fact that the US hasn't built a refinery since 1976. Again, this objection has been widely published ( in Reason magazine and Barrons) and came up in recent Democratic proposals in Congress for refinery construction on former military bases. Would my citing these sources make any difference? Or is the matter now a religious dogma? Studies from academics that are garbage in, garbage out do little to enlighten anyone about energy. As I pointed out, there's an enormous amount of heat going to waste that could benefit alcohol distillation - from utilities all the way to geothermal to solar - and that strongly affects the outcome of any efficiency projected, academic studies be damned. In addition, the feedstock could involve material that's largely going to waste, right now - a far cry from corn based production. At the very least, we need to see a cold fusion unit that can cheaply heat a house. Electric generation can wait.
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Groups advocating NIMBYism explicitly to fight against refining and production www.eco-action.org/dod/no7/66-75.html#2 Note the quote advocating universal nimbyism and doing everything to increase industry costs.
RE: Bush and ethanol in Slate.com
Zell, Chris wrote: Since we are in the realm of mythology, you can believe whatever you wish about oil companies - but their LEADERS explicitly state that NIMBYism is behind the fact that the US hasn't built a refinery since 1976. Oil company leaders are remarkable people, but they are not celebrated for their fastidious honesty. Their estimates of reserves have been called into question. Their hypotheses about global warming are not widely shared by atmospheric scientists. When they were called upon to testify before the Senate a few months ago, the chairman of the committee insisted that they not be sworn in. That turned out to be a a wise precaution, because they would have been committing perjury otherwise. Again, this objection has been widely published (in Reason magazine and Barrons) I think Deffeyes has more credibility. Studies from academics that are garbage in, garbage out do little to enlighten anyone about energy. In my opinion, the studies by Pimentel and Patzek are not garbage. They seem well documented and carefully researched. In any case, as I said, even if they are wrong and we accept the industry spokesmen's numbers instead, it is still a losing proposition with present-day technology. As I pointed out, there's an enormous amount of heat going to waste that could benefit alcohol distillation - from utilities all the way to geothermal to solar - and that strongly affects the outcome of any efficiency projected, academic studies be damned. The academic studies take this into account of course. The problem with utilizing waste heat is that you cannot transport it. The raw materials for ethanol are very bulky and heavy and they are processed far from population and industry centers, where the waste heat is needed. You need waste heat for industry in places like New York City or Rome Georgia (where they manufacture carpets). I suppose you could bring the corn and all the way from Iowa to Georgia and then manufacture ethanol in a cogeneration plant where you use the waste heat for industrial heating. But I think any energy savings you accomplished by this method would be lost transporting the corn. It is possible someone will make a breakthrough based on something like bioengineering which greatly reduces the energy needed to make ethanol. If that happens, obviously the numbers will change. However, such research should not be supported with hundreds of millions of dollars from the taxpayers. A small contribution from the government might be in order, but not hundreds of millions. Agribusiness in the US has plenty of money, and they can afford to pay for this research. Between 1995 and 2004, federal corn subsidies averaged $4.6 billion per year. That's enough to pay for plenty of research. In addition, the feedstock could involve material that's largely going to waste, right now - a far cry from corn based production. Define going to waste. Biomass does not go to waste when you leave it in the ground. It is essential to the health of the land. If you keep extracting a year after year and burning it after a few hundred years the US will look like Iraq does today -- the whole country will go to waste! Present-day corn production is rapidly destroying the topsoil and the water table. It is not sustainable. Add to that the burden of producing switchgrass and other biomass and you have the makings of the largest ecological catastrophe in human history. It is beyond me why any environmentalist thinks this is a good idea. Extracting more biomass out of North American land is lunacy. We should be putting it back, letting forests regrow and leaving more fields fallow. At the very least, we need to see a cold fusion unit that can cheaply heat a house. Electric generation can wait. If cold fusion can be made to work at all, it will not be cheap, it will be many orders of magnitude cheaper than any other energy source. - Jed
Let's kill all the remaining whales, too
Zell, Chris wrote: Note the quote advocating universal nimbyism and doing everything to increase industry costs. Explain how it would reduce industry costs to build unnecessary refineries when the total volume of oil can only decrease rapidly in the coming decades. Chris, you need a reality check. Even some of the top oil industry executives now admit that oil supplies have peaked. If you are living on Easter Island and you have one tree left standing, why would you bother to build a new sawmill? How will that reduce the cost of lumber? Your suggestion is similar to the notion that we should combat Third World starvation by building a thousand more large fishing boats -- factory scale ships. The problem is, fish populations have crashed in every ocean and there are no more fish to catch, and if we build more fishing boats we will simply hasten the day when the remaining stocks of edible fish are driven to extinction. That gives me an idea. While we are building more refineries, let us also hunt down the remaining blue whales and right whales, and use the oil from them too. - Jed
Re: Ambient Gravimagnetic Field and the Earth Field
Horace Heffner wrote: On Feb 1, 2006, at 10:20 AM, Harry Veeder wrote: Could Gravimagnetism be involved in the precession of the perihelion of planet mercury? http://phyun5.ucr.edu/~wudka/Physics7/Notes_www/node98.html Harry Gravimagnetism has much to do with the precession of non-circular obits. Gravimagnetism embodies the relativistic effects due to retardation. It does not account for red shift due to gravitational or acceleration time dilation. Jefimenko noted that the entire rate of precession of Mercury's perihelion could be accounted for by merely reducing the speed of gravity to less than c. Since the time he wrote his book, however, the speed of gravity has been measured at c. (See: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2639043.stm) This implies Einstein's explanation of the remaining bit of precession is still necessary. The reason gravimagnetism plays a strong role in orbit precession is that it is a 1/r^3 effect. The attraction and thus acceleration close up to the sun is greater than further out. The angular motion of mercury is increased a little bit when up close to the sun, and thus the precession of the orbit results. Horace Heffner Presumably then gravimagnetism is not required to explain _any_ of the orbital precession since it can all be explained by classical and relativistic physics. Harry
Re: Electron Flywheels and Turbines
Tesla used two high energy electron counter acting flywheels or alternatorsto power his flying saucers. The counter force to the excessive high electrical energy literally propels the ship through space. "Tesla worked out the problem of how to counteract the tendency of the ship to rotate due to the torque of the alternator or turbine, by using two turbines or alternators, turned on parallel axis in the same direction or counter rotated, as stated in his patent 1655114, Apparatus for Arial Transportation... a single alternator and turbine turning on separate parallel axis linked by a gear box would accomplish the same thing. Quoted From Pg 64, The Lost Journals of Nikola Tesla Harrp-- Chemtrails and the Secret of Alternative 4 Tim Swartz Global Communicatoins conspiracyjournal.com" "Every action is accompanied by an equivalent reaction and the effects of the latter are directly opposite to those of the former. Supposing that the bodies act upon the surrounding space causing curvature of the same, it appears to my simple mind that the curved spaces must react on the bodies and producing the opposite effects, straighten out the curves. Since action and reaction are coexistent it follows that the curvature of space is entirely impossible-however even if it existed it would not explain the motions of the bodies as observed. Only the existence of a field of force can account for them and its assumption dispenses with space curvature. Quoted From Pg 75 to 76, The Lost Journals of Nikola Tesla Harrp-- Chemtrails and the Secret of Alternative 4 Tim Swartz Global Communicatoins conspiracyjournal.com" If one reads the description of Tesla's various space ship designs, given in The Lost Journals of Nikola Tesla Harrp-- Chemtrails and the Secret of Alternative 4 Tim Swartz Global Communicatoins conspiracyjournal.com, it becomes extremely simple to understand how they work.
Message from D. Pimentel
I wrote to Prof. P.: It must be terribly frustrating for you to hear Bush talk about ethanol in the State of the Union speech. You have my sympathy! He responded: Thanks for your note. It is frustrating and all this is undermining our nation. Darn right. - Jed
Re: Wind power stats for 2005
Jed, Interesting, but doesn't an average nuke plant put out about 1,000 MW? The ones in my part of the country put out 1,000 MW. John C. - Original Message - From: Jed Rothwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vortex-L@eskimo.com Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 2:29 PM Subject: Wind power stats for 2005 See: http://www.awea.org/news/US_Wind_Industry_Ends_Most_Productive_Year_012406.html New installations: 2,500 MW (nameplate) Note by Jed: This is roughly as much actual capacity as one average US nuclear power plant Cumulative existing installed wind power: 9,149 MW (nameplate) (About 3.5 nukes) QUOTE: AWEA estimates that an installed capacity of 9,149 MW of wind power will save over half a billion cubic feet of natural gas per day (Bcf/day) in 2006, alleviating a portion of the supply pressure that is now facing the natural gas industry and is driving prices upward. The U.S. currently burns about 13 Bcf/day for electricity generation, which means during 2006, wind power will be reducing natural gas use for power generation by approximately 5%. That is significant. - Jed
Re: Biofuels could replace 30% of fuel needs
It comes down to this. We've got the tools to solve our energy problems, now we just need the resolve to do the same, which will mainly be driven by the price of oil. - Original Message - From: Zell, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 2:50 PM Subject: Biofuels could replace 30% of fuel needs www.physorg.com/news10434.html The idea that this could be accomplished in only 5 to 10 years is wonderful. There may be a lot more hope out there than we think.
Using Waste Heat
There are a number of companies working on ways to use waste heat from both power generation and industrial processes to generate power. Some of these schemes propose to increase gas and coal generating efficiencies above 50%, from current efficiencies around 35%. These technologies run waste heat through a secondary generation loop using lower boiling point liquids to drive trubines to generate electricity. Ramping up this technology and using it with new ethanol plants would reduce our need for new power plants of all kinds.
Re: Ambient Gravimagnetic Field and the Earth Field
On Feb 2, 2006, at 11:33 AM, Harry Veeder wrote: Horace Heffner wrote: On Feb 1, 2006, at 10:20 AM, Harry Veeder wrote: Could Gravimagnetism be involved in the precession of the perihelion of planet mercury? http://phyun5.ucr.edu/~wudka/Physics7/Notes_www/node98.html [snip] Presumably then gravimagnetism is not required to explain _any_ of the orbital precession since it can all be explained by classical and relativistic physics. Harry This is true. Gravimagnetism is consistent with the above with regard to the retardation effects, and adds no changes to the retardation results calculated by conventional means. It adds nothing to the final results. Its primary value in this case is the fact it circumvents the incomprehensible math behind things like the Thirring- Lense effect and brings some important gravitational concepts down to a high school math level. It makes some intuitive sense of the Thirring-Lense effect at a mundane level. The Thirring-Lense effect is becoming more important to astronomy. For example, see: http://www.physics.uiuc.edu/Research/CTA/news/sidebands/. Simple mental models are vitally important to sorting out the nature of various gravitational effects, and to approaching a quantum theory of gravity. They are also of important to basic engineering of gravity effects, and to distinguishing real from retardation relativistic effects. The gravimagnetic model, with corrections for real effects, both in the EM and gK realms, may lead to alternate explanations for observed effects. If I had the concepts roughly right and did the calculations correctly in http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/GraviCalcs.pdf then the ambient gravimagnetic field overwhelms the Earth's local gravimagnetic field. The ambient gravimagnetic field has little effect on orbital precession however, only on average orbital height. The GRACE mission: http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lookingatearth/earth_drag.html did actually see the effects of the Earth's gravimagnetic field on orbital precession, because it is an *incremental* effect due to incremental changes in distance from the Earth. The Gravity Probe B satellite, however, is measuring the effect of the *absolute* gravimagnetic field by looking at precession of a small silicon ball, so gravimagnetism predicts a 50-100 fold difference in results. If I did things right (still much in doubt!) then NASA is in for some surprising results! We should hear in early 2007. If that actually happens then the value of the concept will be permanently cast in cement. There is a far more significant value to the concept, however, at least when it is developed and applied under the isomorphism proposed in: http://mtaonline.net/~hheffner/GR-and-QM.pdf. This isomorphism, in addition to immediately bringing to bear every EM equation on gravitational problems, points to underlying symmetries and opens up a large number of difficult questions and implications, some of which are discussed in the referenced document. It demonstrates the power of the imaginary number i in gravitational computations. Then again, this could all be bunk! 8^) Horace Heffner
Re: Message for Thomas Clark Regarding Hitler
In a message dated 1/28/2006 5:49:50 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For example:The "beam weapons targeting [you]",Being "contacted by many powerful persons in emails and by phone like the Generals of all Time (such as Chronos Hitler)",...and many other expressed thoughts... These are the internal dragons I am speaking of. These are the dragons generated from within you I will take your advice, very seriously, about being more careful when around dragons. There are real dragons out there living in caves, and some of them are nice and some not so nice. Perhaps I have been to friendly to some very real dragons who may not be so nice. The dragons are not from within but from without. The very realdragons offered a very real peace pipe to me, which I took seriously and thanked them. The peace pipe was offered to me in a very real store in the Lansing Mall, called theThe Mountain which I associated with Venus. I did not buythe peace pipe but Iunderstood its message andaccepted it. If I bought the peace pipe I could have sent it to you. I have been communicating with real beings by means of a higher dimensional 4th dimensional language which many E.T.'s use. Some of the signs and symbols are my own, and some are not. That's the problem with such 4th dimensional telepathic gravitonic languages-its often hard to tell which symbols are theirs and which are yours. Odin treated his dragons very well, and they also treated him very will in return. Why shouldn't I do as Odin did. There are allot of different life forms in outer space, and if I cannot get along with an ordinary dragon, it would not make me look very good, since I would have to get along with many other far stranger and perhaps far more dangerous life forms, if I ever want to travel to another planet. I felt it was wrong and ungodlyto keep dragons or any other life form locked in caves on Earth, and so I truly believe that some hope should be given to dragons or any other life form locked in caves on Earth to allow them to leave Earth for a more friendlier home planet. I myself am not a reptilian dragon, but a mammal as far as I can tell related to the cat, bird, horse, and bear clans, but I feel that I should be sympathetic with other life forms as should all. I did see a Japanese anime moviewhich showed dragons as being mammals with furlooking like cats. There may be some dragons which are reptiles and some which are mammals.That Japanese anime movie showed such dragons living on an Island near Japan, where they are kept hidden from the rest of the world. You are one of the few who seems to want to limit my story to some chemical imbalance. A Theology Doctorate from Scotlandsent me an email associating himselfwith Jesus Christ, who asked for copyrights to my story which has pictures of myself posted as evidence, so that he could place it in a play based on a real storymuch like movies that Walt Disney makes based on real stories. Iactually saw a doctor withburns on my body andgenitals (balls)claiming that energy beam weapons caused the burns while I was living in a tent on Mount Ashland in Ashland Oregon,miles away from anyone,and they were identified as burns that I could not have created myself, and these are not chemical imbalances. Just like China has got Bush by the balls, so has someone got me by the balls using energy beams. I have a great deal more evidence than this but I wont go into it. I may have been misinformed by the contents of the emails thatI received but I have copies of them and they are real emails. The Hitler idea started since I made a comment on an email list that posted an email about when Hitlermay have beensymbolically castrated by a secret society - the Skull and Bones Nutcracker initiation,and to make Hitler look good for going through some secret society ordeal, Icompared him symbolically to aGod likeChronos being castrated symbolically, which was contained in a quote whichmentioned that Zeus had to work with Poseidon to keep his empire. Then another person sent an email which said - I can see you on that planet now, which I assumed was associated with a reincarnation of Hitlerassociating himself with Poseidon or Chronos making the commentbut it may not have been. In this case, one would have to assume that another person who sent the email, was forced to send the email due to subliminal messages sent to his mind which were associated with me, in which case one could the argue that maybe a reincarnation of Hitler did not approve of that statement. But the email is real, andif the email was coerced by subliminal messages itwas generated not be me, but by an artificial intelligentcomputer system pretending to be me, and attempting to predict my thoughts before I think them and then forcing others including myself at times, to realize the computer's prediction of my thoughts in email posts by sending subliminal messages to them, which looks likes its me but it is not me, at least not all of
Re: Using Waste Heat
Here is an Internet resource pagethat I created that creafocuses on Advanced Power Generation schemes, mainly using waste heat to run a secondary power generation loop, thus increasing electricaloutput and efficiency. http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Advanced_Power_Generation - Original Message - From: John Coviello To: Vortex Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 6:32 PM Subject: Using Waste Heat There are a number of companies working on ways to use waste heat from both power generation and industrial processes to generate power. Some of these schemes propose to increase gas and coal generating efficiencies above 50%, from current efficiencies around 35%. These technologies run waste heat through a secondary generation loop using lower boiling point liquids to drive trubines to generate electricity. Ramping up this technology and using it with new ethanol plants would reduce our need for new power plants of all kinds.
An Energy Business Idea
One of the problems with developing and selling wind and solar energy is the variability of these sources. Typically, alternative energy companies are small and horizontally organized. Many solar and wind companies have failed, in part due to the inability to market power that is not dependably deliverable, and in part due to variability in government support. The variability in delivery problem may in part be solved by use of improved energy storage and transportation means. See: http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/HotCold.pdf http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/BigPicture.pdf However, much of the reliable delivery problem can be immediately solved simply through effective business strategy and business synergies. The solution is a vertical integration approach. By diversifying energy sources, the reliability of delivery is increased, and great technical synergy is possible. By owning energy transmission systems, the delivery strategy can be optimized with reduced exposure to external manipulative schemes. Wind companies should, during build-up of capacity, also acquire or build conventional generating capacity for the purpose of smoothing energy deliveries. Small methane fueled jet engine powered electric plants might be a viable way to build this capacity. Energy delivery reliability can also be improved by buying or building alternative power sources, like solar, or biofuel generating plants. Merger with existing power generating utilities may make sense, and should be facilitated and expedited by regulatory commissions when application is made. Wind farms can readily be used to store energy in the form of liquified air. This capacity, combined with heat storage plus waste heat from a nearby peak load generating facility, can dramatically increase the efficiency of that facility, as well as the energy storage capability of the overall plant. There are many synergies that can exploit existing technology through vertical integration. A large new source of reliable power, deliverable in the form electricity, can readily be absorbed. Home heating can easily and cheaply be upgraded and augmented by electric heaters and utility managed network based control systems that optimize use of the generating, transmission and distribution systems. Electric vehicle technology is close to being deliverable in a big way. The remaining problem, variability in government support, can only be attacked by reaching the critical mass required to support adequate lobbying. A solid business plan and big financing may be the key to quickly cracking the energy nut. Alternatively, a mutually formed business consortium or even merger of alternative energy producers and manufacturers might be achieved to take advantage of the dramatic and obvious economies of scale and synergies available. The profit potential dwarfs most alternatives. Horace Heffner
Re: An Energy Business Idea
Hi Horace, Makes sense, won't work Why? Because our nation has a fuel use addiction. It has taken 60 full years for society to become addicted. Fuel use excesses over this length of time become so ingrained that culture is actually modified. This habit began forming at the end of WW2. Prior to WW2, only cities had electric power, few owned autos. We went to bed at dark. No amount of reasoning can change the culture of excessive use of energy. City lights remain on all night. Auto traffic does not cease all night. Attempting to reconcile this fact with my childhood experience where we had no electricity or auto is impossible. However , there is a solution to most addictions. Remove the addictive substance.The cold turkey method cannot be permitted, so the addiction will continue until it becomes prohibitively expensive due to shortages of supply or no more money is available to purchase. It appears society has chosen a combination of the two solutions. I deliberately left out the obvious solution, self discipline and imagineering for pending crisis because no society has ever been capable of acting in their own best interest. That leaves the individual to look out for himself which is exactly what is taking place. The solution becomes like the joke about the different ways a switchman can prevent a railroad collision. When all remedies are exhausted, call your sister to come see the wreck. Richard - Original Message - From: Horace Heffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 6:41 PM Subject: An Energy Business Idea One of the problems with developing and selling wind and solar energy is the variability of these sources. Typically, alternative energy companies are small and horizontally organized. Many solar and wind companies have failed, in part due to the inability to market power that is not dependably deliverable, and in part due to variability in government support. The variability in delivery problem may in part be solved by use of improved energy storage and transportation means. See: http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/HotCold.pdf http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/BigPicture.pdf However, much of the reliable delivery problem can be immediately solved simply through effective business strategy and business synergies. The solution is a vertical integration approach. By diversifying energy sources, the reliability of delivery is increased, and great technical synergy is possible. By owning energy transmission systems, the delivery strategy can be optimized with reduced exposure to external manipulative schemes. Wind companies should, during build-up of capacity, also acquire or build conventional generating capacity for the purpose of smoothing energy deliveries. Small methane fueled jet engine powered electric plants might be a viable way to build this capacity. Energy delivery reliability can also be improved by buying or building alternative power sources, like solar, or biofuel generating plants. Merger with existing power generating utilities may make sense, and should be facilitated and expedited by regulatory commissions when application is made. Wind farms can readily be used to store energy in the form of liquified air. This capacity, combined with heat storage plus waste heat from a nearby peak load generating facility, can dramatically increase the efficiency of that facility, as well as the energy storage capability of the overall plant. There are many synergies that can exploit existing technology through vertical integration. A large new source of reliable power, deliverable in the form electricity, can readily be absorbed. Home heating can easily and cheaply be upgraded and augmented by electric heaters and utility managed network based control systems that optimize use of the generating, transmission and distribution systems. Electric vehicle technology is close to being deliverable in a big way. The remaining problem, variability in government support, can only be attacked by reaching the critical mass required to support adequate lobbying. A solid business plan and big financing may be the key to quickly cracking the energy nut. Alternatively, a mutually formed business consortium or even merger of alternative energy producers and manufacturers might be achieved to take advantage of the dramatic and obvious economies of scale and synergies available. The profit potential dwarfs most alternatives. Horace Heffner
Energy
Hi Vorts, Another site if you missed it before. Some statistics shown are vald http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/ Richard