Re: [Vo]: Optics question

2007-01-10 Thread Harry Veeder
Other display technologies in development or soon to be marketed include SED (surface conduction electron emission) and nanotube TV... http://news.com.com/Carbon+TVs+to+edge+out+liquid+crystal,+plasma/2100-1041_ 3-5512225.html and OLED (organic light emitting diodes)...

Re: [Vo]: Cold fusion powered rockets

2007-01-10 Thread Wesley Bruce
Jed Rothwell wrote: See: http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19920005899_1992005899.pdf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_thermal_rocket It is interesting to think about how one might apply high temperature CF for a rocket engine. I am rewriting my book, based on the

Re: [Vo]: Wind turbine accident

2007-01-10 Thread Wesley Bruce
Jed Rothwell wrote: A 60 m wind turbine in Aomori Japan fell over mysteriously. There was no strong wind at the time. See (in Japanese with photo): http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/national/news/20070110i501.htm?from=main5 wind turbine accidents are more common than you might think. I doubt that

Re: [Vo]:

2007-01-10 Thread Wesley Bruce
Robin van Spaandonk wrote: In reply to Hoyt A. Stearns Jr.'s message of Tue, 26 Dec 2006 19:33:32 -0700: Hi, [snip] Some half-baked ideas from memory on previous lists (somewhat jocularly): Buying cheap land under high tension power lines. Selling energy stocks ( and the many subsidiary

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2007-01-10 Thread Mike Carrell
There is a fundamental difference between global warming produced by fossil fuels and that by anticipated cold fusion or BlackLight Power. The greenhouse gases from burning persist in the atmosphere decades after the burning event and their effect is cumulative. Waste heat from nuclear, CF and

[Vo]: Fire from Water on Google video

2007-01-10 Thread Jed Rothwell
Steve Krivit's New Energy Institute, in cooperation with the New Energy Foundation (two separate entities) has released an edited version of the video Cold Fusion: Fire from Water. See: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6426393169641611451q=COLD+FUSIONhl=en The original is 70 minutes

Re: [Vo]: Optics question

2007-01-10 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mike Carrell wrote: One-paragraph articles about laser illuminators don't give all the relevant data. On the other hand, there is more detail in the rest of the article. - Jed Mike Carrell -- As Hoyte Stearns pointed out, upcoming DLP projection

Re: [Vo]: FRE

2007-01-10 Thread Jed Rothwell
Paul wrote: That's true. It does not generate nasty waste, but still the energy persists . . . No, it does not persist. Where there are no heat absorbing bodies on the ground, heat radiates from the earth in about a half-hour. That is why deserts quickly grow cold at night. On the other

[Vo]: Bio.... BUTANOL?

2007-01-10 Thread leaking pen
Very interesting article. http://www.forbes.com/business/2006/06/20/ethanol-fuel-biobutanol-cz_kad_0620ethanol.html SAN FRANCISCO - DuPont and BP, riding the global wave of enthusiasm for bio-based fuels, announced today that the two companies have developed a new biofuel called biobutanol that

Re: [Vo]: FRE

2007-01-10 Thread Harry Veeder
Paul wrote: Earth and nature are highly sensitive to small average increases in temperature. It would be bad enough to increase the planets temperature by a small percentage, but what you are talking about is not a small increase. Energy is costly at present. Can you imagine if energy

[Vo]: trailer for a video on 2012

2007-01-10 Thread temalloy
http://www.2012theodyssey.com/Trailer.html

Re: [Vo]: FRE

2007-01-10 Thread Robin van Spaandonk
In reply to Harry Veeder's message of Wed, 10 Jan 2007 15:56:07 -0500: Hi, [snip] costly at present. Can you imagine if energy were free whereby billions of people, millions of vehicles, homes, businesses, etc. etc. are ***adding*** energy?!?! It will kill this planet! Some of the free