Re: [Vo]:Organic farming under threat...

2009-03-09 Thread leaking pen
http://articles.latimes.com/2004/sep/06/health/he-organic6?s=on=ord=www.consumerfreedom.comsessid=48b8477102f0851fe27cee152b2fcdd1f9c1f6d0pg=4pgtp=articleeagi=page_type=articleexci=2004_09_06_health_he-organic6

Re: [Vo]:Organic farming under threat...

2009-03-09 Thread Nick Palmer
You lot must realise that I usually put forward a strong environmentalist line on this forum. But I have to say I agree with the anti-organic methods posts in this thread but... but... but... firstly, organic farming will only use fungicides when necessary, whereas conventional agriculture has

Re: [Vo]:Asteroid 2009 DD45

2009-03-09 Thread Horace Heffner
On Mar 8, 2009, at 5:35 PM, Kyle Mcallister wrote: Given that I've now made a couple nice power supplies, maybe I should do some tests of the Morton effect. I don't have a sphere terminal. Maybe a stainless steel soup pot will work? :) --Kyle A couple hemispherical metal salad bowls might

Re: [Vo]:Energy News of the Weird: Denmark tilting at windmills

2009-03-09 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Jed Rothwell wrote: Horace Heffner wrote: The problem most likely is perhaps the utility has too large a base load supply, coal or nuclear, which is unresponsive to load changes. I did not read the article either... Unfortunately there was nothing more to the article than

Re: [Vo]:Asteroid 2009 DD45

2009-03-09 Thread Horace Heffner
On Mar 8, 2009, at 4:22 PM, Kyle Mcallister wrote: If during this financial mess we can monitor volcanoes (which we can do NOTHING about), we can watch the skies a little better. Volcano monitoring here in Alaska is pretty important. Volcanic eruptions affect air traffic routing and

Re: [Vo]:Asteroid 2009 DD45

2009-03-09 Thread Jed Rothwell
Kyle Mcallister wrote: If during this financial mess we can monitor volcanoes (which we can do NOTHING about) . . . As I wrote repeatedly, we can LOTS about volcanoes. We can't stop them, of course, but we can prevent them from killing people or damaging equipment unnecessarily. We can

Re: [Vo]:Lots of people reading Claytor today

2009-03-09 Thread Jed Rothwell
The final count of people looking for tritium output to find the Claytor paper is ~1014. Most appear to be from the U.S. and Canada. Someone may have circulated the URL directly, instead of the search term, because another ~200 were downloaded, which is higher than normal for this paper. -

Re: [Vo]:Lots of people reading Claytor today

2009-03-09 Thread mixent
In reply to grok's message of Sun, 8 Mar 2009 14:46:00 -0700: Hi, [snip] Implications, eh? Like the implications of how why this stuff is getting from wherever it comes from -- and down everybody's pie-hole, like fatted geese being force-fed with a funnel..? [snip] It's more subtle than that. A

Re: [Vo]:Asteroid 2009 DD45

2009-03-09 Thread Kyle Mcallister
--- Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: As I wrote repeatedly, we can LOTS about volcanoes. We can't stop them, of course, but we can prevent them from killing people or damaging equipment unnecessarily. We can mitigate the danger and financial loss. Horace Heffner also

Re: [Vo]:Asteroid 2009 DD45

2009-03-09 Thread Kyle Mcallister
--- Horace Heffner hheff...@mtaonline.net wrote: A couple hemispherical metal salad bowls might work and are not too pricey at Wal-Mart. Good idea. I will get a couple of them, split some vinyl tubing down the side, and wrap the lip to prevent corona. Noticed Bill Beatty did some

Re: [Vo]:Asteroid 2009 DD45

2009-03-09 Thread mixent
In reply to Kyle Mcallister's message of Sun, 8 Mar 2009 17:22:23 -0700 (PDT): Hi, [snip] This is not the scale of skywatch program we need. If people can scream about CO2 emissions, they damn sure ought to get a bit scared when a rock is discovered only 1.5 million miles away, heading basically

Re: [Vo]:Energy News of the Weird: Denmark tilting at windmills

2009-03-09 Thread mixent
In reply to Stephen A. Lawrence's message of Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:24:00 -0400: Hi, [snip] http://www.energinet.dk/da/menu/Nyheder/Nyhedsartikler/negative+elpriser.htm Unfortunately it's in Danish, which I can't read, even a little (and knowing a bit of German doesn't seem to help). Google's

Re: [Vo]:Energy News of the Weird: Denmark tilting at windmills

2009-03-09 Thread mixent
In reply to Stephen A. Lawrence's message of Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:24:00 -0400: Hi, [snip] http://www.energinet.dk/da/menu/Nyheder/Nyhedsartikler/negative+elpriser.htm Unfortunately it's in Danish, which I can't read, even a little (and knowing a bit of German doesn't seem to help). Google's

Re: [Vo]:Energy News of the Weird: Denmark tilting at windmills

2009-03-09 Thread mixent
In reply to Jeff Fink's message of Sun, 8 Mar 2009 21:27:57 -0400: Hi Jeff, Thanks for clearing this up. Large base load nuclear and coal fired plants are not unresponsive. They can reduce load from 100% to 50% in a matter of minutes. The water volume is not an issue. Utilities are about

Re: [Vo]:Lots of people reading Claytor today

2009-03-09 Thread grok
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As the smoke cleared, mix...@bigpond.com mix...@bigpond.com mounted the barricade and roared out: Implications, eh? Like the implications of how why this stuff is getting from wherever it comes from -- and down everybody's pie-hole, like fatted

Re: [Vo]:Asteroid 2009 DD45

2009-03-09 Thread grok
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As the smoke cleared, Kyle Mcallister kyle_mcallis...@yahoo.com mounted the barricade and roared out: Same with volcanoes as it is with asteroids: we can save lives if we know ahead of time. If the thing blows (or enters atmosphere) without

[Vo]:Science series podcasts from CBC

2009-03-09 Thread grok
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I haven't listened to the CBC for years and years (or most other bourgeois news outfits for that matter -- unlike most of youse, obviously), but this stuff has some very interesting discussion on the nature of Science and the scientific method and

Re: [Vo]:Asteroid 2009 DD45

2009-03-09 Thread Jed Rothwell
Robin van Spaandonk wrote: Evacuate a city, which is approximately the amount of damage a 1 MT blast would do. One week ahead of time, could they determine with enough accuracy where the object will strike? Or would they have to say: 'evacuate everyplace from X west to Y'? I do not know

[Vo]:Morton experiment

2009-03-09 Thread Kyle Mcallister
Hi, Okay, as per Horace's suggestion, made a crude spherical (er...kind of spherical) terminal out of two mixing bowls. Didn't go to WalMart, as that place frightens me, so I got them from Kmart. Duct taped them together at the seams, so as to make a crude corona seal. It works very well,

Re: [Vo]:Asteroid 2009 DD45

2009-03-09 Thread mixent
In reply to Jed Rothwell's message of Mon, 9 Mar 2009 20:47:53 -0400: Hi, [snip] Robin van Spaandonk wrote: Evacuate a city, which is approximately the amount of damage a 1 MT blast would do. One week ahead of time, could they determine with enough accuracy where the object will strike? Or

Re: [Vo]:Morton experiment

2009-03-09 Thread mixent
In reply to Kyle Mcallister's message of Mon, 9 Mar 2009 19:58:55 -0700 (PDT): Hi Kyle, [snip] In case anyone's wondering, I can do the same thing with +HV, I have an identical multiplier supply. But the suggestion from John Schnurer to Bill B. back in the day was that only a negative charged