Re: Solar and Lunar Gravimagnetic Fields

2006-02-04 Thread Horace Heffner
On Feb 3, 2006, at 9:07 PM, Jones Beene wrote: - Original Message - From: Horace Heffner We may have a dark partner in our part of the galaxy. I would be willing to bet that the partner will probably be our progenitor system - the one that spawned the solar system. We have

Re: Solar and Lunar Gravimagnetic Fields

2006-02-04 Thread Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/SolarLunarGK.pdf has been updated with the following. Gravimagnetic Moment and Angular Velocity Given angular velocity w and a mass charge: m = mass * i we have gravimagnetic current: i_g = m * w and, rotating at effective radius r_eff, we have

Re: Solar and Lunar Gravimagnetic Fields

2006-02-04 Thread Jones Beene
Horace If the object were 150 light years away it would have to have [(1.551 x 10^-11 i Hz)/(9.526x10^-23 i Hz)]/(150 ly/1.496x10^8 km)^3 = 1.39x10^32 times the gravimagnetic dipole moment of the sun. This would be a black hole for sure. In fact, at a mere 1 ly distance it would have to

Celluosic Ethanol, Berkley Metamodel

2006-02-04 Thread hohlrauml6d
http://rael.berkeley.edu/EBAMM/FarrellEthanolScience012706.pdf http://tinyurl.com/9r9n3 Ethanol Can Contribute to Energy and Environmental Goals To study the potential effects of increased biofuel use, we evaluated six representative analyses of fuel ethanol. Studies that reported negative

Wind Projects

2006-02-04 Thread hohlrauml6d
Map of wind projects: http://www.awea.org/projects/index.html TOTAL INSTALLED U.S. WIND ENERGY CAPACITY: 9,149 MW as of Dec 31, 2005 ___ Try the New Netscape Mail Today! Virtually Spam-Free | More Storage | Import Your Contact List

New Nukes

2006-02-04 Thread hohlrauml6d
Southern Company: http://newsinfo.southernco.com/article.asp?mnuType=submnuItem=niid=1964 http://tinyurl.com/75rxx Duke Power: http://www.dukepower.com/news/releases/2005/oct/2005102601.asp http://tinyurl.com/aur7t The reactor design:

More on the Firefly Battery

2006-02-04 Thread hohlrauml6d
http://www.electrifyingtimes.com/firefly_energy.html They have developed a battery using lead acid chemistry that significantly increases the power density while improving cycle life. Lead acid battery chemistry is theoretically capable of delivering 216.8 Whr/Kg while current technology

Re: Celluosic Ethanol, Berkeley Metamodel

2006-02-04 Thread Jones Beene
Thanks for finding an authoritative, and most of all - currently valid - document on this subject of ethanol, Terry. Ethanol is indeed a necessary and important (but not perfect) resource for the interim time period between peak-oil and the coming age of so-called free-energy... Even if one

Re: Celluosic Ethanol, Berkeley Metamodel

2006-02-04 Thread hohlrauml6d
-Original Message- From: Jones Beene Thanks for finding an authoritative, and most of all - currently valid - document on this subject of ethanol, Terry. Thanks for correcting my spelling of the institution. I always screw that up. (Jones correcting spelling?!? :-) -Rocky

Re: Celluosic Ethanol, Berkeley Metamodel

2006-02-04 Thread Jones Beene
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks for correcting my spelling of the institution. I always screw that up. (Jones correcting spelling?!? :-) -Rocky Rococo I know, I know... but the exception proves the case - no? and having spent what seems like the

Re: Message for Thomas Clark

2006-02-04 Thread hohlrauml6d
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have not slept at all in my life as far as I can tell, and I seem to enter a virtual reality world generated by computer systems on Earth when I become entranced into a state that looks like sleep but it is not, so that I may dream while

Re: Ambient Gravimagnetic Field and the Earth Field

2006-02-04 Thread Harry Veeder
Horace Heffner wrote: 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?

Re: Solar and Lunar Gravimagnetic Fields

2006-02-04 Thread Horace Heffner
On Feb 4, 2006, at 6:20 AM, Jones Beene wrote: Horace If the object were 150 light years away it would have to have [(1.551 x 10^-11 i Hz)/(9.526x10^-23 i Hz)]/(150 ly/1.496x10^8 km) ^3 = 1.39x10^32 times the gravimagnetic dipole moment of the sun. This would be a black hole for

Re: Wind Projects

2006-02-04 Thread John Coviello
I just ran the numbers. Installed wind power in the U.S. increased by 36% last year. That's the biggest increase ever as far as I can tell. 2,420 MW in 2005 up to 9,145 MW. It just goes to show that wind is now competitive. To put things in perspective, Europe has about 41,000 MW of

Re: Message for Thomas Clark

2006-02-04 Thread OrionWorks
Thomas, I've said my piece. If you are content with the dramas unfolding before your eyes, who am I to pass judgment on the destinies you are preparing yourself for. Enjoy your trip. There is always planet Earth that you can come back to should you feel so inclined. Just try not to lose your

Re: Ambient Gravimagnetic Field and the Earth Field

2006-02-04 Thread Horace Heffner
On Feb 4, 2006, at 11:32 AM, Harry Veeder wrote: In EM theory a body with some charge and with motion which is initially uniform and in a straight line will be deflected by the appearance of a magnetic field. Yes, assuming of course you do not mean the charge's own field. This

Re: 0T: Income Tax

2006-02-04 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Harry Veeder wrote: Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: Remember the Laffer curve debates, years back? At 0% income tax the government's net tax revenue is zero. At 100% income tax nobody works for taxable dollars and again the government's tax take is zero. So, the _maximum_ tax take is achieved

Re: Solar and Lunar Gravimagnetic Fields

2006-02-04 Thread Robin van Spaandonk
In reply to Horace Heffner's message of Fri, 3 Feb 2006 18:11:57 -0900: Hi Horace, [snip] galactic core is involved. The axis of precession is aligned with the poles of the ecliptic, thus the ambient gravimagnetic field must be also, on average. We may have a dark partner in our part of the

Re: Wind Projects

2006-02-04 Thread Horace Heffner
On Feb 4, 2006, at 6:35 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Map of wind projects: http://www.awea.org/projects/index.html TOTAL INSTALLED U.S. WIND ENERGY CAPACITY: 9,149 MW as of Dec 31, 2005 I see Alaska is shown with only 1 installed wind project. I assume they don't count windmills below

Re: Solar and Lunar Gravimagnetic Fields

2006-02-04 Thread Horace Heffner
On Feb 4, 2006, at 1:12 PM, Robin van Spaandonk wrote: In reply to Horace Heffner's message of Fri, 3 Feb 2006 18:11:57 -0900: Hi Horace, [snip] galactic core is involved. The axis of precession is aligned with the poles of the ecliptic, thus the ambient gravimagnetic field must be also, on

Re: 0T: Income Tax

2006-02-04 Thread Harry Veeder
Title: Re: 0T: Income Tax OrionWorks wrote: From Harry Veeder Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: Remember the Laffer curve debates, years back? At 0% income tax the government's net tax revenue is zero. At 100% income tax nobody works for taxable dollars and again the government's tax take is zero.

RE:

2006-02-04 Thread Zell, Chris
if we want to live like third-world peasants. We are headed in that direction. More sad hysteria horrendous and totally uncontrolled pollution caused by ethanol production You are not even aware it exists. Amazing - and now you're a mind reader Jobs in rural areas that also reduce

Shell Oil says NO Peak

2006-02-04 Thread Zell, Chris
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Re: More on the Firefly Battery

2006-02-04 Thread Horace Heffner
On Feb 4, 2006, at 7:06 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.electrifyingtimes.com/firefly_energy.html They have developed a battery using lead acid chemistry that significantly increases the power density while improving cycle life. Lead acid battery chemistry is theoretically capable

Re: Shell Oil says NO Peak

2006-02-04 Thread John Coviello
We hear peak oil and anti-peak oil stories all of the time. However, there's really only one true indicator regarding the scarcity of oil, price. Sure, short term supply distruptions have caused the price of oil to spike from time to time, but those spikes were always followed by quick

Re: Wind Projects

2006-02-04 Thread John Coviello
I think it's pretty obvious that the U.S. could provide all of its electricity from renewable sources like wind and solar. It's really just a matter of economics and will. The scales are tipping in favor of renewables nowadays with grid-power going up in price fairly rapidly and renewables

Re: Shell Oil says NO Peak

2006-02-04 Thread John Coviello
It does look like Shell's replacement capacity has peaked... There was also some disappointment over Shell's weak performance upstream where it only managed to replace 60% to 70% of the oil it pumped with new additions to reserves. This is well below the 100% rate needed to stop an oil

Re: 0T: Income Tax

2006-02-04 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Harry Veeder wrote: A market economy with private property rights and flexible prices can be rationally defended on the grounds that it is the best way to produce _real_ wealth. However, if I remember correctly, even the great market economist F. Hayek conceded that the workings of a market

Re: Do we have peak uranium, too?

2006-02-04 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Steven Krivit wrote: My sources...atomic energy researchers in France and Canada say we have 80 years of uranium left. I don't know where the peak is. That agrees with what I believe I've read elsewhere. HOWEVER... ... That's just U235, and unless I miss my guess, it's without

Time is...

2006-02-04 Thread Jones Beene
http://www.stanford.edu/~afmayer/ ...time is not a single dimension of spacetime but rather a local geometric distinction in spacetime. While this may seem esoteric, it is actually quite simple, according to the author of a new book due out soon ... rght! Imagine that 'the arrow of