Re: [Vo]:Red Hot Lies

2009-03-12 Thread thomas malloy
Jed Rothwell wrote: thomas malloy wrote: And if you believe that, you will also believe that Martin Fleischmann, Stanley Pons, Ed Storms, Mike McKubre and ~2,000 professional scientists are engaged in a massive deception to convince the world that cold fusion is real by publishing fake

Re: [Vo]:Red Hot Lies

2009-03-12 Thread Nick Palmer
The author of this book is almost certainly a professional liar or deluded or - giving him the most benefit-of-the-doubt possible - he is seriously misled and is not capable of making a valid rational assessment of data and evidence in the face of the glaringly obvious. He uses cherry picked

Re: [Vo]: Boswell windless turbine...

2009-03-12 Thread OrionWorks
From Mark Iverson: This sounds too good to be true... a wind generator that doesn't need any wind! http://pesn.com/2009/03/11/9501531_Boswell_windless_turbine/ -Mark Exerpt: Strange Phone Calls Jim said he has tried to contact media, motor and government officials from local to

Re: [Vo]:Red Hot Lies

2009-03-12 Thread Jed Rothwell
Robin van Spaandonk wrote: As soon as you include the biosphere in the calculations, then all the individual interactions that occur within the biosphere are also included, by default (and there are trillions of them). And you can't leave the biosphere out, because the annual swings in CO2

Re: [Vo]:Red Hot Lies

2009-03-12 Thread Jed Rothwell
thomas malloy wrote: The notion that thousands of climate experts are engaged in a massive fraud is preposterous beyond words. It is conceivable that they are wrong, but absolutely, positively out of the question that they are engaged in fraud or that The point of my posting these reports

RE: [Vo]: Boswell windless turbine...

2009-03-12 Thread Jones Beene
-Original Message- From: OrionWorks This sounds too good to be true... a wind generator that doesn't need any wind! [JB:] I am told by an associate in the Fresno area that you magic windmill guy is well-known there as a political hack and nut case with no credibility. In general, you

RE: [Vo]:Red Hot Lies

2009-03-12 Thread Lawrence de Bivort
Greetings, all, Yes. It is human nature when things are complicated and much unseen to conclude that the situation must be caused by a cabal or a conspiracy. Usually, though, these perplexing and often frustrating human-based situations are the result of inadvertent patterns of interaction and

Re: [Vo]: Boswell windless turbine...

2009-03-12 Thread OrionWorks
From Jones: ... ... Sterling Allan is too often an unquestioning advocate of every claim - and does not even try to vet most of his articles for the simple reason that he, like almost everyone in alternative energy is understaffed and underfunded - and mainly because there are always going

RE: [Vo]: Boswell windless turbine...

2009-03-12 Thread Jones Beene
-Original Message- From: OrionWorks [ I hope Mr. Allan never ever looses his quest to dream the impossible dream, to look under every rock ... [JB:] There are dedicated sites for wind energy. The first place any legitimate windpower inventor would go, would be there. The claim of 100

RE: [Vo]:Red Hot Lies

2009-03-12 Thread Jed Rothwell
Lawrence de Bivort wrote: Yes. It is human nature when things are complicated and much unseen to conclude that the situation must be caused by a cabal or a conspiracy. The situations with cold fusion and global warming denial do not seem complicated or unseen to me. I don't know much about

RE: [Vo]: Boswell windless turbine...

2009-03-12 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jones Beene wrote: In 2008, the U.S. wind industry activated over 8,300 MW of new capacity . . . Equivalent to roughly 3 average nuke plants after converting nameplate apples to oranges. I'll bet it was way cheaper than building 3 nukes. Faster, too. At the peak of nuke plant construction

Re: [Vo]: Boswell windless turbine...

2009-03-12 Thread OrionWorks
From Jones: [JB:] There are dedicated sites for wind energy. The first place any legitimate windpower inventor would go, would be there. The claim of 100 windmills in operation is a giveaway - a red flag the size of China that this guy is a fraud BTW in looking on a legitimate wind

RE: [Vo]: Boswell windless turbine...

2009-03-12 Thread Jones Beene
-Original Message- From: OrionWorks [ I keep hoping there is still serious RD working on the technology to harvest wind energy from 10,000 - 15,000 feet, where the jet stream blows faithfully 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, and at several times the ground speed. Yeah, yeah, I know... I

[Vo]:promoting CF

2009-03-12 Thread Edmund Storms
Jed, On several occasions you have opined that people in the CF field have done a poor job of PR. Please explain how this can be done better. Remember, this is science, not selling soap. Only certain methods are acceptable without making the claims look like a scam, which other

Fw: [Vo]:Red Hot Lies

2009-03-12 Thread Nick Palmer
Nick Palmer On the side of the Planet - and the people - because they're worth it - Original Message - From: thomas malloy temall...@usfamily.net To: Nick Palmer ni...@wynterwood.co.uk Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 4:47 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Red Hot Lies Nick Palmer wrote: The

Re: [Vo]:Red Hot Lies

2009-03-12 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
(By the way, this list now includes fpur or five Stephens of one spelling or another, and either two or three Stephen Lawrence's.) Jed Rothwell wrote: Lawrence de Bivort wrote: Yes. It is human nature when things are complicated and much unseen to conclude that the situation must be caused

Re: [Vo]: Boswell windless turbine...

2009-03-12 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Jones Beene wrote: ... plus if we can also use the a long antenna-tether as the ballast i.e. as the required drag mechanism against the absolute wind speed (in addition to the drag of the collection airfoils or propellers), then that long tether (half mile long??) which is a conductive

Re: [Vo]:Red Hot Lies

2009-03-12 Thread grok
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As the smoke cleared, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com mounted the barricade and roared out: Robin van Spaandonk wrote: As soon as you include the biosphere in the calculations, then all the individual interactions that occur within the

Re: [Vo]:How To Make Your Own Books From Wikipedia

2009-03-12 Thread Terry Blanton
http://www.lenr-canr.org/StudentsGuide.htm Terry On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:32 AM, OrionWorks svj.orionwo...@gmail.com wrote: See: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-make-your-own-books-from-wikipedia/ http://tinyurl.com/c9l3lg How'bout a primer on CF? steve -- Regards Steven Vincent

Re: [Vo]: Boswell windless turbine...

2009-03-12 Thread Terry Blanton
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: It is a shame they can't build those things in Georgia or the rest of the southeast. We have no wind. We have plenty of wind in GA from January to April, when the legislature is in session. :-) Terry

Re: [Vo]: Boswell windless turbine...

2009-03-12 Thread Terry Blanton
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com wrote: IIRC this was blamed on the motion of the Shuttle across the Earth's magnetic field. Was it? I thought it was due to the difference in potential of the earth gradient and the failure was due to insulation breakdown.

Re: [Vo]: Boswell windless turbine...

2009-03-12 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Terry Blanton wrote: On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com wrote: IIRC this was blamed on the motion of the Shuttle across the Earth's magnetic field. Was it? I thought it was due to the difference in potential of the earth gradient and the failure was due

RE: [Vo]: Boswell windless turbine...

2009-03-12 Thread Jones Beene
-Original Message- From: Stephen A. Lawrence ! Hey, that sounds like it has real potential (no pun intended)! Remember the tethered satellite fiasco? [JB:] Yes, that is what I had in mind Now, a free-flying kite (or, perhaps more practically, a balloon) would be moving

[Vo]:Stick(y) Alien Videos

2009-03-12 Thread Terry Blanton
I don't know what they are. They kinda look like the preying mantis types described by abductees: http://www.unknowncountry.com/news/?id=7439 Terry

Re: [Vo]:promoting CF

2009-03-12 Thread Jed Rothwell
Edmund Storms wrote: On several occasions you have opined that people in the CF field have done a poor job of PR. Please explain how this can be done better. Remember, this is science, not selling soap. THAT is your first mistake! This is not science. It is selling soap, and more to the

Re: [Vo]:How To Make Your Own Books From Wikipedia

2009-03-12 Thread OrionWorks
From Terry: http://www.lenr-canr.org/StudentsGuide.htm Terry See: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-make-your-own-books-from-wikipedia/ http://tinyurl.com/c9l3lg How'bout a primer on CF? Would it be worth it to translate the Student Guide into a Wiki version? Just wondering out

Re: [Vo]:Red Hot Lies

2009-03-12 Thread Jed Rothwell
Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: Most others just parrot what they read in Wikipedia. Cold fusion aside, this is actually not a completely stupid thing to do. As much as I dislike Wikipedia, I must agree. Wikipedia is a good source of information about conventional subjects. It is not such a

Re: [Vo]:Red Hot Lies

2009-03-12 Thread grok
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As the smoke cleared, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com mounted the barricade and roared out: This is not caused by an Oligarchy but rather by specific people such as the editor of the Scientific American, the science writer for Time magazine,

Re: [Vo]:Red Hot Lies

2009-03-12 Thread grok
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As the smoke cleared, Lawrence de Bivort ldebiv...@earthlink.net mounted the barricade and roared out: Greetings, all, Yes. It is human nature when things are complicated and much unseen to conclude that the situation must be caused by a cabal

Re: [Vo]:Red Hot Lies

2009-03-12 Thread mixent
In reply to Jed Rothwell's message of Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:29:19 -0400: Hi, [snip] An effect originating in complex phenomena may, in turn, cause a simple, predictable secondary effect. [snip] The secondary effect is only predictable in the sense that one can say A will cause B. It is not

Re: [Vo]:promoting CF

2009-03-12 Thread Edmund Storms
On Mar 12, 2009, at 1:44 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: Edmund Storms wrote: On several occasions you have opined that people in the CF field have done a poor job of PR. Please explain how this can be done better. Remember, this is science, not selling soap. THAT is your first mistake! This is

Re: [Vo]:Red Hot Lies

2009-03-12 Thread Jed Rothwell
Robin van Spaandonk wrote: An effect originating in complex phenomena may, in turn, cause a simple, predictable secondary effect. [snip] The secondary effect is only predictable in the sense that one can say A will cause B. It is not predictable in the sense that one can say A will happen at

Re: [Vo]:Red Hot Lies

2009-03-12 Thread Jed Rothwell
Just to summarize my previous message briefly -- Robin van Spaandonk wrote: The secondary effect is only predictable in the sense that one can say A will cause B. It is not predictable in the sense that one can say A will happen at such and such a time, and consequently B will happen also.

Re: [Vo]:promoting CF

2009-03-12 Thread Jed Rothwell
Edmund Storms wrote: The people who try to sell science like soap always fail. On the contrary, they are doing quite well. They have sold opposition to cold fusion with no more credence than the 1950s soap advertisement -- without a shred of actual scientific content -- and they have

Re: [Vo]:promoting CF

2009-03-12 Thread Edmund Storms
Snip Frankly, I am somewhat fed up from hearing from you -- and much more often from cold fusion researchers -- that nothing can be done and that we should not even try, and that I do not understand scientists or how science is done. Scientists are people, and I know a thing or two

[Vo]:I told you it was cold

2009-03-12 Thread thomas malloy
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Re: [Vo]:promoting CF

2009-03-12 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Jed Rothwell wrote: ... If I am wrong and the time cannot be shortened, then I expect there is no hope of success. In that case I have wasted most of my adult life. I refuse to believe that, and I /absolutely/ refuse to give up. Churchill has nothing on me; see:

[Vo]:alkalinize or die

2009-03-12 Thread thomas malloy
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Re: [Vo]:Stick(y) Alien Videos

2009-03-12 Thread grok
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As the smoke cleared, Harry Veeder hvee...@ncf.ca mounted the barricade and roared out: To me it looks like a anorexic version of Gumby, especially in the second video. Harry I think I first saw THOUSANDS of these things when Disney's Fantasia

Re: [Vo]: Boswell windless turbine...

2009-03-12 Thread zeropoint
Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: We have plenty of wind in GA from January to April, when the legislature is in session. :-) I'd be willing to have some tax $ go to mounting wind generators vertically like ceiling fans in all state and federal Congressional and Senate