About 24 hours after the flash of light (and gamma rays) from Supernova 1987A about 150,000 light-years
from earth in the Magellanic Cloud were observed, ~ 1.0 eV rest mass neutrinos from it were picked up by
the Japanese Super-Kamiokande neutrino detector.
The enormous electron - proton (Eo
Recent Chandra x-ray photos of 1987A.
One of those in our Galaxy and we're history.
http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2005/sn87a/
"Recent Chandra observations have revealed new details about the fiery ring surrounding the stellar explosion that produced Supernova 1987A. The data give insight
Very interesting Fred, a pity we can't evaluate those velocities precisely,
it would tell us exactly when it is not advisable to fly a plane :)
Michel
- Original Message -
From: Frederick Sparber [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com
Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 12:56
Even at our 5,000 ft altitude we get more cosmic rays and EUV than
low-landers, Michel.
This Does Antimatter Fall Up or Down? article is of interest too.
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/ParticleAndNuclear/antimatterFall.html
In theory, antimatter dropped over the surface of the Earth
At 10:16 pm 15/03/2006 -0900, Horace wrote:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/03/060315174950.htm
This ring means that three objects are entangled.
If you pick up any one of them, the other two will follow.
However, if you cut one of them off, the other two will
fall apart, Chin
Howdy Frank,
Which is also an excellent theoretical description of the principle of the
Ranque-Hilsch vortex tube.
Richard
- Original Message -
From: Grimer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: vortex-l@eskimo.com
Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 7:21 AM
Subject: Re: Efimov state - key to
At 07:47 am 16/03/2006 -0600, you wrote:
Howdy Frank,
Which is also an excellent theoretical
description of the principle of the
Ranque-Hilsch vortex tube.
Richard
I see what you mean. You got there before
I did. But with all your very tangible
experience of such phenomena - that is
Here is a simple comparison of electric vehicle versus gasoline
vehicle cost per mile.
Gasoline vehicle
Gasoline cost: $2.36 (EIA average for U.S. as of 3/13/06)
Average vehicle mpg: 22 mpg (DoE 2002 data)
Cost per mile: 10.7 cents
Prius gasoline mode: 45 mpg (Actual Atlanta in-town
This ring means that three objects are entangled. If you pick up
any one of them, the other two
will follow. However, if you cut one of them off, the other two
will fall apart, Chin said.
There is something magic about this number of three.
Ha! In a number of past posts I have tried to wax
Jed wrote:
Electricity: 8 cents kWh
You're only paying 8 cents per KWH. I'm paying something like 13.4 cents per
KWH.
Craig Haynie (Houston)
JR: Prius gasoline mode: 45 mpg (Actual Atlanta in-town
performance Jed's car) Cost per mile: 5.2 cents
For you younger Vo's - and esp those on a eco-trip or severe
budget - who want to get that cost down to under a penny per mile
AND look better, feel better, and all those win-win things?
-Original Message-
From: Craig Haynie
You're only paying 8 cents per KWH. I'm paying something like 13.4
cents per KWH.
I pay the co-op, Jackson EMC, 9.4 cents plus sales tax in the Atlanta
suburbs. Keith pays Con Ed 20 cents in Brooklyn. If those ultracaps
that Zell told
I'll see your 13.4 cents, and raise you to 22 cents ( this
includes the delivery costs, BTW ).
Also, for Phil Winestone, I can appreciate your comments
about counting the PV's that can fit on the head of a pin
but given the insane cost I am now paying for electricity,
you might plug through those
Craig Haynie wrote:
You're only paying 8 cents per KWH. I'm paying something like 13.4
cents per KWH.
Here is a map showing residential electric power costs in different states:
http://www.eia.doe.gov/neic/brochure/electricity/electricity.html
The national average in 2003 was just over 8
Jones Beene wrote:
For you younger Vo's - and esp those on a eco-trip or severe budget
- who want to get that cost down to under a penny per mile AND look
better, feel better, and all those win-win things?
Yes, it lives. It is the *Human Electric* Hybrid Drive.
Yes. For Americans, this
All for one, one for all: Atoms behave like Three Musketeers
URL: http://www.physorg.com/news11817.html
My last post was preceded by a much more comprehensive one by Jones.
Sorry...
Mark
On Mar 16, 2006, at 7:55 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote:
Plug-in Prius while running as purely electric vehicle, cost per
mile: ~2.6 cents *
We may get away with that for a while, but sooner or later the states
have to find a way to pay for the road maintenance currently paid for
by gas
Horace Heffner wrote:
We may get away with that for a while, but sooner or later the
states have to find a way to pay for the road maintenance currently
paid for by gas taxes. Meanwhile, the lack of road taxes on
electricity is a great and automatic incentive.
I had not thought of that.
Jed you made an excellent point here, as amazing as it may seem no
additional generator capacity would be needed (if your maths are right which
they seem to be).
Michel
- Original Message -
From: Jed Rothwell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: vortex-L@eskimo.com
Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006
This lack of additional generating capacity need is partly why a Really
Good Battery would have such a dramatic effect on society. You create
electric cars
that run much cheaper per mile without much need for additional fossil
fuel generator use. Indeed, I think that such a device would
Michel Jullian wrote:
Jed you made an excellent point here, as amazing as it may seem no
additional generator capacity would be needed (if your maths are
right which they seem to be).
Actually, several authors have pointed this out and they have done
more sophisticated analyses. I just ran
There may be no wind power in Georgia, but your electricity network may be
interconnected with other networks far away where there is wind power,
that's the nicety of these networks (makes up for their ugliness).
Now would potential US wind power be enough to recharge all US automobiles
at
Zell, Chris wrote:
This lack of additional generating capacity need is partly why a
Really Good Battery would have such a dramatic effect on
society. You create electric cars that run much cheaper per mile
without much need for additional fossil fuel generator use. Indeed,
I think that
Indeed those 310Wh/Kg EEStor ceramic ultracaps we discussed the other day,
or similar, would just make the difference between an all-gasoline and an
all-electric car society.
Present best Lithium Polymers with their 185Wh/Kg are just not enough, they
would allow 2h autonomy only IIRC, and
Michel Jullian wrote:
There may be no wind power in Georgia, but your electricity network
may be interconnected with other networks far away where there is
wind power, that's the nicety of these networks (makes up for their ugliness).
States with significant wind resources are thousands of
I forgot about charger efficiency, but this spreadsheet basically
confirms my estimate. Plug in the numbers for today's cost of fuel
and the average distance driven (11,766 miles). See:
http://www.ccds.charlotte.nc.us/~jarrett/EV/cost.php
- Jed
I wrote:
Now think of a 25 kW cold fusion generator. After 50 years of
intense development, you can imagine one the size of today's 25 kW
portable generators that costs $1,000, or maybe even $500.
In a walk. An ICE costs ~40/kW of capacity, or $750 for 25 kW. After
hundreds of millions of
Jed, thanks for the link to the spreadsheet.
We do exchange electricity between european countries over here, but not
across 2000 miles that's for sure.
I couldn't agree more about CF, I am all for it, that's why I get so
frustrated that CF issues aren't addressed a bit faster and with more
In reply to Jed Rothwell's message of Thu, 16 Mar 2006 19:01:36
-0500:
Hi,
[snip]
I forgot about charger efficiency, but this spreadsheet basically
confirms my estimate. Plug in the numbers for today's cost of fuel
and the average distance driven (11,766 miles). See:
A 100 GeV charged particle (electron OR proton) has a radius of
curvature in the galactic field (1 microgauss avgerage) of about 3
billion km (3 light-hours). No way they're crossing galactic distances
anytime soon- probably billions, rather than millions, of years...
Neutrinos, sure-
On Mar 16, 2006, at 6:18 PM, Bob Fickle wrote:
A 100 GeV charged particle (electron OR proton) has a radius of
curvature in the galactic field (1 microgauss avgerage) of about 3
billion km (3 light-hours). No way they're crossing galactic
distances anytime soon- probably billions,
You miss the point. They're not coming here- they're spiralling in
circles about the size of the solar system, 150,000 light-years from
here. They will eventually drift throughout the galaxy, but on a
timescale thousands of times larger than a direct path would take.
Horace Heffner wrote:
On Mar 16, 2006, at 2:45 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote:
It is a shame you cannot transmit electricity 2000 miles because if
you could, we could establish a massive solar thermal plant in a
100 square mile area of the Southwest desert, and generate all the
electricity we now consume. Or we could
Revised for errors.
The tops of solar towers, also known as solar chimneys, should be
ringed with vertical layers of inverted airfoils. In windy
conditions, nearly always present at high altitudes in many
locations, these inverted airfoils about the periphery, with trailing
edges to the
In a message dated 3/10/2006 8:33:52 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Then fnord what's the point of reading?Terry
When I speed read, I do pick up the general idea and remember the basic facts and figures. I then save all of the emails you post on DVD's, and print most of
At 09:10 am 16/03/2006 -0800, Jones wrote:
This ring means that three objects are entangled. If you pick up
any one of them, the other two
will follow. However, if you cut one of them off, the other two
will fall apart, Chin said.
There is something magic about this number of three.
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