Speaking of failed banks, offical cover-ups, and the mother of all banking
crises ...
For those who delve occasionally into escapist mystery fiction - based loosely
on historical fact (in the 'Law and Order' tradition, perhaps)
... a clever new thriller is out - fictionalizing the continuin
It might be interesting to imagine how wind power might harnessed
without rotating blades of any kind.
eg. If wind can have a chilling effect, could this effect
be harnessed to generate a significant amount of electrical power?
Harry
- Original Message -
From: Horace Heffner
Date: Tuesda
The following have terrific summaries of our present position, and
some amazing background on Markopolos, who: "for nine years, tried to
explain to the Securities and Exchange Commission that Bernard L.
Madoff couldn’t be anything other than a fraud."
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/04/opini
On Jan 6, 2009, at 1:18 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote:
I wonder if increasing the mass of the blades would help by adding/
increasing
the flywheel effect? It would certainly even out the very short
wind gusts, and
that would decrease the criticality of response time of other
systems. Of cour
OrionWorks wrote:
> It's on the BLP web site and it's hitting Google News, so I would
> imagine it will be popping up everywhere soon.
>
> http://www.blacklightpower.com/Press%20Releases/BlackLightProcessFarmersPressReleaseFINAL010609.html
>
>
> http://tinyurl.com/6vxgl6
>
> At first glance
http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/features/who-owns-ideas/index.html
When you download music or text from the web, you may be innocently breaking the law. Jim Lebans, a producer with CBC Radio’s Quirks and Quarks, looks at the tangled world of intellectual property and how the digital age is challenging ide
R C Macaulay wrote:
Howdy Vorts,
This scenario would take 7 years to massage the money like stuffing
sausage. Where would you put the laundered money?
Dah! Into a hole in the ground, along with the other trillions of dollars.
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Howdy Nick and Jed,
After some 30 years our local ole smokey LCRA Fayette county coal fired
power plant is installing scrubbers and CO2 controls. I am painfully aware
of the coal problems. Haven't heard about the "greening earth society"..are
they listed as another non profit ( meaning gimme da
In reply to OrionWorks's message of Tue, 6 Jan 2009 19:34:44 -0600:
Hi,
[snip]
>It's on the BLP web site and it's hitting Google News, so I would
>imagine it will be popping up everywhere soon.
>
>http://www.blacklightpower.com/Press%20Releases/BlackLightProcessFarmersPressReleaseFINAL010609.html
It's on the BLP web site and it's hitting Google News, so I would
imagine it will be popping up everywhere soon.
http://www.blacklightpower.com/Press%20Releases/BlackLightProcessFarmersPressReleaseFINAL010609.html
http://tinyurl.com/6vxgl6
At first glance the 2nd company seems just as obscure as
Nick Palmer wrote:
<>
Ahh! That figures. I know about them. . . .
Edit - no it wasn't - it was the "Competitive Enterprise Institute"
Same kind of people.
Here is a helpful website: SourceWatch "Your
guide to the names behind the news. In the "Front Groups" section, see:
http://www.sourc
<>
Ahh! That figures. I know about them. I've got a feeling it might have been
them that came up with that infomercial about CO2 that concluded "CO2 - they
call it pollution - we call it life".
Edit - no it wasn't - it was the "Competitive Enterprise Institute"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
In reply to Horace Heffner's message of Tue, 6 Jan 2009 00:01:04 -0900:
Hi,
[snip]
>Yes, I would think a reversible pitch blade would be stoppable in
>high winds, but I guess it is not that simple. I know there have been
>problems stopping wind mills whereby the brakes burned out.
>Sometime
In reply to Jones Beene's message of Tue, 6 Jan 2009 09:07:13 -0800 (PST):
Hi,
[snip]
>First published specs for the new EEStor battery
>(not the 'array' but the individual batcap component)
>
>http://www.gm-volt.com/h/eesu_specs.jpg
>
>Expected 'official' release of prototypes - end of Jan first
Jones Beene wrote:
Expected 'official' release of prototypes - end of Jan first of Fed
The Feds get it first? Sounds like a conspiracy to me!
- Jed
First published specs for the new EEStor battery
(not the 'array' but the individual batcap component)
http://www.gm-volt.com/h/eesu_specs.jpg
Expected 'official' release of prototypes - end of Jan first of Fed
Nick Palmer wrote:
This 1/3 figure sounds like gross black propaganda . . .
It is from the "Greening Earth Society" -- the U.S. coal lobby that
favors global warming. (I kid you not.) You might call that "black"
as in coal but they prefer to call themselves green.
R C Macaulay apparently b
R C Macaulay wrote:
Howdy Vorts,
Interesting views comijng forward on this subject such as...
This is a problem, in fact, with all kinds of debt-based (interest
yields) currencies. The illusion of endless growth reveals itself as
what really is.
Your generation lived beyond it's means, as d
Harry Veeder wrote:
> *- Original Message -* *From*: Terry Blanton
> *Date*: Sunday, January 4, 2009 6:30 pm
> *Subject*: Re: [Vo]:Predictions for 2009
>
> > You might be our first poster from Argentina. Welcome! Are you
> > having a good summer?
> >
> > Your post prompted me to look to se
R C sez:
> Jed, Please don't .
> I am not Don Quitote and I don't fight windmills for a living. The wind
> power industry has Siemens deep pockets to do their talking for them. The
> guys in the field that operate and maintain these huge monsters are stuck
> with trying to keep the wheels turning
Dime Box Richard wrote:
<>
This looks wrong. I am sure they are far more reliable than that. Without
looking at "official" figures, I can tell you that from Jersey's North coast
I frequently see the wind farm on the French coast (about 18 miles away)
and I can't ever remember seeing one "dow
On Jan 5, 2009, at 4:38 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote:
In reply to Horace Heffner's message of Mon, 5 Jan 2009 15:09:03
-0900:
Hi,
[snip]
Alaska often has sustained high winds, hurricane force, at high
elevations. Windmills built along mountain ridges could produce vast
amounts of energy. O
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