Re: [Vo]:Neutrons from Piezonuclear Reactions

2011-07-24 Thread Michael Foster
--- On Fri, 7/22/11, Harry Veeder hlvee...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Harry Veeder hlvee...@yahoo.com Subject: [Vo]:Neutrons from Piezonuclear Reactions To: vortex-l@eskimo.com vortex-l@eskimo.com Date: Friday, July 22, 2011, 12:45 PM paper from Annales de la Fondation Louis de Broglie,

Re: [Vo]:new data global warming is not a problem

2011-07-29 Thread Michael Foster
Well yes. Utterly obvious to those of us who haven't adopted fear of climate change as a religion substitute. This won't change the jumping up and down and screaming of the true believers a whit. Don't confuse them with the facts and please don't deprive them of their new inquisition. And the

Re: Inexpensive convincing Cold Fusion generated helium (was Re: [Vo]:Krivit comments...)

2010-04-06 Thread Michael Foster
Yea, verily and my thoughts exactly. M. --- On Tue, 4/6/10, Michel Jullian michelj...@gmail.com wrote: From: Michel Jullian michelj...@gmail.com Subject: Inexpensive convincing Cold Fusion generated helium (was Re: [Vo]:Krivit comments...) To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Date: Tuesday, April

Re: [Vo]:The Secret of Cold Fusion

2010-05-16 Thread Michael Foster
I dunno, doesn't seem much different from your average verbiage in the typical paper published in a scientific journal. M. --- On Sun, 5/16/10, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: From: Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net Subject: [Vo]:The Secret of Cold Fusion To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Date:

Re: [Vo]:Franklin's electrical experiments [copy 2]

2010-06-21 Thread Michael Foster
I have read and re-read Franklin's Experiments and Observation on Electricity for the absolutely astonishing brilliance of its  analysis of electrical phenomena.  In it he floats the idea of the  electrical fluid or PARTICLES (emphasis mine), meaning that he  anticipated the idea of the

Re: [Vo]:Ferromagnetic form of carbon

2012-02-22 Thread Michael Foster
This work is based on the assumption that there is no iron deposited in the carbon soot. Years ago I did a number of experiments that convinced me that carbon can be transmuted into iron in an electric arc. I am certainly not the first person to observe this, but I did extensive testing on the

RE: [Vo]:It\'s \only\ chemistry

2012-04-11 Thread Michael Foster
I wouldn't be too sure about that not working for net gain, Jones.  What Mr. Jaro has proposed is essentially the Langmuir atomic hydogen torch. Many are convinced that the Langmuir torch is over-unity. However, I think it's obvious that cavity containment is the way to go.M. --- On Wed,

Re: [Vo]:FYI: Theorem unifies superfluids and other weird materials...

2012-06-12 Thread Michael Foster
One presumes they mean hypothesis or perhaps theory. The term theorem does not apply this idea. An attempt at such pedantic erroneous usage usually qualifies the proponent as a fool. --- On Mon, 6/11/12, MarkI-ZeroPoint zeropo...@charter.net wrote: From: MarkI-ZeroPoint zeropo...@charter.net

Re: [Vo]:Walking heads?

2012-06-21 Thread Michael Foster
--- On Thu, 6/21/12, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: From: Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net Subject: [Vo]:Walking heads? To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Date: Thursday, June 21, 2012, 12:55 PM Amazing ... this is how natives moved rather large statuary on Easter Island

RE: WSCI: Just how ab initio is ab initio quantum chemistry?

2004-07-22 Thread Michael Foster
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Re: Running Diesels on Corn Meal Mush?

2004-07-31 Thread Michael Foster
on this principle, using some sort of cellulose flour made from garbage and agricultural waste. Not likely, I guess. M. === Fred wrote: Michael Foster asked if running Diesel engines on sugar-water or (gelatinized) corn starch had been tried? I don't know

Ethanol Subsidy

2004-09-25 Thread Michael Foster
In California we have ethanol mixed with our gasoline in amounts which vary with the seasons, supposedly to control smog. The average ethanol content in California gasoline is 5.7%. That's a lot of ethanol for fuel already. See: http://www.energy.ca.gov/ethanol/ But let's quit fooling

Re: Ancient Alchemy

2005-01-15 Thread Michael Foster
That's pretty interesting Frederick. However, ammonia was made hundreds, if not thousands of years before 1782. It used to be called spirits of hartshorn and has been know in Celtic and Gothic Europe since prehistory. As its name indicates it was made from deer antlers. Actually,it can be

Re: Dream-inspired fringe-science invention

2005-01-20 Thread Michael Foster
I dunno, Bill. This guy's grizzly-proof suit and something called fire paste seem to work. The weird suit in the background of the photo reminded me that I'd seen this guy's stuff on the Discovery Channel, so I googled his name and came up with:

RE: A question for the electrochemists

2005-01-27 Thread Michael Foster
Hi Robin, I assume you mean potassium carbonate in an aqueous solution. If that is the case, you won't get any potassium metal at all. You need a molten non-aqueous potassium compound in order to do this, such as potassium chloride. M. --- On Thu 01/27, Robin van Spaandonk < [EMAIL

Re: A question for the electrochemists

2005-01-29 Thread Michael Foster
I hate to suggest this in an era of hyperhysteria about toxic substances, but a mercury cathode would likely do the trick here. You just have a shallow layer of Hg at the bottom of your cell and make sure the wire that passes through the electrolyte to the the Hg is insulated. If you are

Re: A question for the electrochemists

2005-01-30 Thread Michael Foster
But Robin, that's exactly the point. Unless you reduce the potassium ions to metal, at least temporarily, you will achieve no concentration of potassium ions at the cathode any higher than that of the whole of the electrolyte. Otherwise, as far as I can see, no manipulation of voltage,

Re: Cosmo-Icono-clash

2005-01-30 Thread Michael Foster
Harry Veeder wrote: I am not committed to big bang cosmology, but are there any non-big bang theories which predict the observed 2.7K cosmic background radiation? Harry Actually, the prediction of the the big bang theory was a 25K background, but what's a 20-odd K discrepancy between

Re: A last resort attack on global warming

2005-02-05 Thread Michael Foster
This is an example of how a bunch of really quite intelligent people, i.e., the people on this list, can launch off into something with potentially disastrous results. What if the people on this list had actual political power? What if they could implement this project on a global scale, all

Re: Role of God in government

2005-02-06 Thread Michael Foster
Kinda wandered off the subject here, haven't we? M. ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web!

Re: Room-Temperature Superconductor Invented 25 Years Ago

2005-02-07 Thread Michael Foster
This whole thing sounds fishy. First of all, the patent was assigned to the U.S. government and never belonged to this fellow. Second, the patent expired long ago and is in the public domain. Also, the patent mentions *near* superconductivity. So why would he be demanding big bucks and be

Re: Room-Temperature Superconductor Invented 25 Years Ago

2005-02-07 Thread Michael Foster
At 5:35 PM 2/7/5, Jones Beene wrote: This is naive. Trade secrets are routinely withheld. I have never seen a patent successfully challenged for withholding a trade secret, although it is definitely in the wording of the patent law. I suspect most patents withhold many secrets. It is just way

RE: More on liquid air engines

2005-02-12 Thread Michael Foster
I like it. In fact, I like almost anything better than that policy wonk's paradise, the hydrogen economy. M. = --- On Sat 02/12, Jones Beene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Jones Beene [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

RE: off topic economics

2005-02-12 Thread Michael Foster
I find it particularly disturbing whenever I read something like this: Our own Fed chairman, guardian of the nation's money...custodian of its economy...night watchman of its wealth... How could he do such a thing? And yet he has done it. He turned a financial bubble into an economic

Re: Best Use for Wind energy?

2005-02-15 Thread Michael Foster
I think one of the best arguments in favor of the cryo-fuel idea is that it's evolutionary. All of the processes are known and only need to be scaled up and made more efficient. Storage and transport would automatically be more efficient on a larger scale. Although oil companies wouldn't be

Re: Shipping LN2 or liquified air

2005-02-16 Thread Michael Foster
--- On Wed 02/16, Jones Beene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Had gasoline prices been this high a decade ago, we would probably already have liquid-air hybrids on the road today, but not with the cryo-air produced aboard the vehicle itself- that is very wasteful. A Dewar tank is sufficient

Re: Explosive Antimony, What The Heck is Going On?

2005-02-24 Thread Michael Foster
--- On Thu 02/24, Frederick Sparber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Clouds of antimony trichloride are given off at the same time. Hence the term Explosive Antimony is given to a solid solution( 4 to 12 percent )of the trihalide in alpha-antimony. The heat of combustion of H2 + 1/2 O2 is 54,000

Re: [Off Topic]: Anthropologist falsified data

2005-02-25 Thread Michael Foster
This is hardly surprising since the whole field of anthropology has mostly been a major fraud. The shining saints of anthropology, Boaz and Mead, have had their entire works exposed as fraudulent. Margaret Mead really established the tone of anthropological study with her major work, Coming of

Re: [Off Topic]: Anthropologist falsified data

2005-02-25 Thread Michael Foster
Jed Wrote: Nonsense. Some of my best friends are anthropologists. So are mine. They're the ones who told me about the Maya. I've read Coming of Age in Samoa and it describes behavior that the Samoans themselves were very upset about. This was not a language problem or a cultural disconnect,

Re: A cause celebre?

2005-02-27 Thread Michael Foster
Jed wrote: Because he said he will probably retire. He is giving up. He has been trying for years to get funding. He even thought of going to China. I shot back an answer saying Wait! I will do my best to help. The other readers here should pitch in, and tell Mel Miles you stand with him.

RE: Energy - The Big Picture

2005-03-05 Thread Michael Foster
--- On Sat 03/05, Horace Heffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It appears the job of converting to renewable energy can be accomplished starting now, especially where long trades are not required. The capital cost will ultimately be on the order of 90,000 trillion dollars, but invested over

Re: Limitless hydrogen?

2005-03-06 Thread Michael Foster
--- On Sun 03/06, Jones Beene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Imagine how the average German citizen would react if they were to learn that - in the tens of billions of euros which they send to Russia for the purchase of natural gas (being a rather anti-nuclear country), that some of that gas

Re: More immediate threat: $2.10/gal gasoline

2005-03-09 Thread Michael Foster
--- On Wed 03/09, leaking pen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: wow. youve got good gas prices. im in az. its 2.00 right now, expected to peak at 3.00 im sure the people in europe already paying about 5.00 a gallon hearts' bleed for us... Now let's review. The evil Big Oil Petrocracy has

RE: New to me

2005-03-17 Thread Michael Foster
--- On Thu 03/17, Jones Beene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FOUR years ago, a particle accelerator in France detected six particles called tetraneutrons : four neutrons that are bound together in a way that defies the laws of physics, and should not exist. Francisco Miguel Marquès and

RE: Quote from Thomas Henry Huxley

2005-03-23 Thread Michael Foster
--- On Wed 03/23, Jed Rothwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: T. H. Huxley quote: I have said that the man of science is the sworn interpreter of nature inthe high court of reason. But of what avail is his honest speech, if ignorance is the assessor of the judge, and prejudice the foreman

Re: New battery technology

2005-03-29 Thread Michael Foster
Wouldn't such a quickly chargeable battery be able to store much more energy from regenerative braking than is currently possible? M. ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web!

The Invisible Man

2005-04-10 Thread Michael Foster
Ok, Vorts... Since this list has disintegrated into an over the back fence discussion group concerning theology and things that go bump in the night, here's one you might find interesting. I often become the Invisible Man. No, really. When Bill posted that bit about the disappearing coffee

Re: Software Help For Joey's Reading Problem?

2005-04-17 Thread Michael Foster
--- On Sun 04/17, Terry Blanton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For that matter, Microsoft Narrator is already loaded on many operating systems. See: Start = Programs = Accessories = Accessibility = Narrator Yes, but it doesn't highlight the individual words which would seem to be a

RE: Spontaneous ignition

2005-04-20 Thread Michael Foster
--- On Wed 04/20, Keith Nagel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thought this might be of interest to the group, OAK RIDGE, Tenn., April 19, 2005 — Zhiyu Hu believes it is possible to match nature's highly efficient method to convert chemicals into thermal energy at room temperature, and he

RE: Spontaneous ignition

2005-04-20 Thread Michael Foster
I wrote: And in terms of any advantages over plain old combustion, Jed, this could lead to a low-temp fuel cell. Also, for uses where high temperatures are not required the lack of a flame would substantially reduce or eliminate NOx. Oops, I meant Jones. Sorry. M.

RE: Times: Tabletop Fusion

2005-04-28 Thread Michael Foster
are not missing anything. K. -Original Message- From: Michael Foster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 3:02 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: RE: Times: Tabletop Fusion Am I missing something? What is the advantage of using the pyroelectric crystal as a high

RE: vacuum cleaner static vortex

2005-04-30 Thread Michael Foster
What brand is the vac? I gotta try this. BTW, charged powder van de Graaff generators have been built, but they were kind of a mess and didn't work too well. M. --- On Sat 04/30, leaking pen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hey all, i thought id share something interesting ive notice. ive

RE: ICCF-11 papers are depressing

2005-05-02 Thread Michael Foster
I wouldn't be so depressed if I were you. There are plenty of us out there doing CF research with very encouraging results who are just not publishing anything until the patent situation changes. I wish everyone would give up on the electrolysis work. I think it's just an interesting dead end.

[Vo]: Re: E-Field Mass Cancellation

2006-11-13 Thread Michael Foster
But isn't this effect more closely related to Brown-Biefeld; or am I missing something? M. ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web!

RE: [Vo]: Magnetic effect on water

2006-11-15 Thread Michael Foster
Somewhere on Bill's endlessly large website is an experiment showing that exposure to a magnetic field increases the viscosity of water. This is such an easy thing to test that I tried it. It really works. At first I thought that this is mysterious and inexplicable. Then it occurred to me that

[Vo]: Re: Going Van de Graaff

2006-12-11 Thread Michael Foster
Hello Fred, Unless I'm missing something, the setup you describe is a self-charging assymetrical capacitor, an electric dipole. The end of the dipole closest to the earth will be more strongly attracted to it, resulting in an apparent weight gain. The long separation between the Van de Graaff

RE: [Vo]: Coconut shell composition?

2006-12-11 Thread Michael Foster
Jed wrote: (Coconut) shells are: Lignin 36% Cellulose 53% That's 89%. What else? Likely some higher molecular weight insoluble polyphenols and maybe some traces of amino acids. The soluble polyphenols are in the oil, I believe. Charcoal from various plants probably has different

Re: [Vo]: Re: Going Van de Graaff

2006-12-17 Thread Michael Foster
Fred wrote: It seems that there is a substantial difference between the Earth's net negative charge (~ 500,000 C) and it's surface charge (`26,000 C). It seems to me that even though the earth's total negative charge at the surface might sound impressively large, the local field strength

RE: [Vo]:Hall of Mirrors Universe

2006-12-19 Thread Michael Foster
What I find most fascinating about the Hall of Mirrors Universe idea is not its mathematical or physical validity. I don't find myself qualified to comment on this. What's most interesting to me is that all the references to this concept, of which there are many on the internet, call a soccer

Re: [Vo]: Re: What Energy Crisis?

2007-01-02 Thread Michael Foster
Harry Veeder wrote: I've heard it said that a rise in the demand for energy is a prerequisite for a rise in incomes. Yes, but the rise in incomes will happen in India, China, and the oil-rich middle east. Of course, maybe we'll wise up in the U.S. and Europe and really pursue seriously

Re: [Vo]: Optics question

2007-01-08 Thread Michael Foster
Mike Carrell wrote: There is a misunderstanding of the nature of DLP technology. The active element is an array of tiny mirrors created by silicon machining techniques, one for each pixel. Each mirror can be tilted by a small angle under control from a TV signal. That tilt determines

Re: [Vo]: NYC Stinks

2007-01-19 Thread Michael Foster
If it smelled like methyl mercaptan, it probably was methyl mercaptan. It's added to natural gas to make it stink, as a safety measure. Consequently, most people associate the odor with a gas leak. The smell of swamp gas from permafrost, while disagreeable, does not resemble methyl mercaptan,

[Vo]: Fred's Van de Graaff Antics

2007-02-02 Thread Michael Foster
I'm trying to figure out how a couple of guys who are clearly better educated, and probably a lot smarter than I, can have gone so far wrong. Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: Frederick Sparber wrote: Posted earlier: This Field Line Applet is cheaper than buying more VDGs.

RE: [Vo]: Fred's Van de Graaff Antics

2007-02-02 Thread Michael Foster
I wrote: There is a fundamental problem with this idea. While the earth has a net negative charge of say, one megajoule, the tiny fraction of a joule per square meter just won't supply the repulsive force you need unless your Van de Graaff spacecraft is very large and already elevated.

Re: [Vo]: Fred's Van de Graaff Antics

2007-02-04 Thread Michael Foster
Stephen A Lawrence wrote: You've said two different things here: the strength of the field will drop, and the voltage drops. The dielectric will _certainly_ affect the voltage, just as interposing a charged parallel plate capacitor would affect the voltage (which would reduce it by the

[Vo]:RE: [Vo]: 41% efficient solar cells

2007-04-11 Thread Michael Foster
Jed wrote: In December 2006, Boeing-Spectrolab announced a 40.7% efficient cell that costs $3,000 per kW of capacity. That's remarkable. I did not know these things were so advanced. See: http://www.energy.gov/news/4503.htm Yes, but these are not just the flat panel type photovoltaics we

[Vo]:Induction Heating of Earth

2007-04-22 Thread Michael Foster
Here is a concise description of the amount of solar radiation received by the earth from the sun. These are figures most vorts are probably familiar with. http://home.iprimus.com.au/nielsens/solrad.html A short quote from this site: The energy intercepted by the Earth over a period of one

RE: [Vo]:Excitonic electrets?

2007-06-02 Thread Michael Foster
Jones wrote: I have often wondered about using the massive cooling towers of nuclear power plants to move large amounts of electric charge a few hundred feet apart, which requires work - (which is essentially 'free' due to the buoyancy of waste heat in the water vapor). By collecting

RE: [Vo]:wassup wid D2 ?

2007-06-06 Thread Michael Foster
Jones wrote: ... and is D2 such a hot potato, so to speak, that it has changed hands more times than a Christmas Fruitcake ? I gotta hand it to you, Jones. Those are most aggressively mixed metaphors I've seen in years; and both food, too! M.

[Vo]:Tesla Revisted

2007-06-07 Thread Michael Foster
Check this out. Scientists have discovered wireless transmission of power in the home. Don't suppose they'll give poor ol' Tesla any credit. http://tinyurl.com/3e4c6b M. ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on

RE: [Vo]:Tesla Revisted

2007-06-07 Thread Michael Foster
Oh, here's another one, where they actually mention Tesla but claim he only attempted it. I guess they don't know he used to light up his whole lab this way. This sort of thing never ceases to amaze me. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070607/ap_on_hi_te/wireless_power M.

Re: [Vo]:Britannica electrolysis concise article corrected

2007-06-08 Thread Michael Foster
From the Britannica article: Electrolysis of molten sodium chloride yields metallic sodium and chlorine gas; that of a strong solution of sodium chloride in water (brine) yields hydrogen gas, chlorine gas, and sodium hydroxide (in solution); and that of water (with a low concentration of

Re: [Vo]:Tesla Revisted

2007-06-09 Thread Michael Foster
Michel wrote: Indeed a primary with an open secondary behaves like a pure inductor, so it's a purely reactive load, so current in it can be made to oscillate non dissipatively (assuming resistance of the coil is negligible). In terms of transformer it makes perfect sense. But in terms

RE: [Vo]:Tesla Revisted

2007-06-09 Thread Michael Foster
Jeff Fink wrote: So, why can’t people living within a few hundred feet of high voltage transmission lines tap useful “free” power with a 60 Hz receiver circuit? They can and have. You don't see it anymore, but I used to read of the occasional farmer caught at this sort of thing, usually

RE: [Vo]:Infamous SHOE FOOT X-RAY Machine

2007-06-11 Thread Michael Foster
William Beaty wrote: Antique Simplex Shoe Fitting X-Ray Machine 1930's-40's http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=220118855684 Collectors pay big bucks for these! But you'll have to drive to Kansas to pick it up. Likely the three or four thousand dollar price is less than new,

Re: [Vo]:A sound way to turn heat into electricity

2007-06-15 Thread Michael Foster
Harry Veeder wrote: A sound way to turn heat into electricity http://forum.physorg.com/index.php?showtopic=15401 University of Utah physicist Orest Symko holds a match to a small heat engine that produces a high-pitched tone by converting heat into sound. Symko's research team is

Re: [Vo]:Happy trails, guys

2007-06-20 Thread Michael Foster
Kyle, everyone else on the list has already expressed better than I, our sympathies for your situation. I can only add one more ray of hope toward your eventual spiritual recovery. Good luck to you. Michael

Re: [Vo]:US Lost

2007-06-23 Thread Michael Foster
It seems that no one wants to focus on why all these problems are happening, other than laziness and a temporary overabundance of everything. U.S. manufacturing has been punished from every sector of our nation and culture. Rampant technophobia has infected both common discourse and education.

Re: [Vo]:Griggs Device Observations

2007-06-28 Thread Michael Foster
Jones wrote: Unless you tried a number of liquids to arrive at that conclusion (Kerr constant) it would seem not to be justified by just comparing nitrobenzene, which is very reactive -- with water, which is not very reactive. The more likely explanation IMHO would involve sonochemistry

Re: [Vo]:50,000kW/h 57000eur costing water vortex power plant..

2007-07-01 Thread Michael Foster
Terry Blanton wrote: Horace Heffner wrote: That structure with turbine is easily adapted to driving an underwater pump for water lifts for irrigation. Yes. I am working on a public demonstration of a high efficiency motor whose torque/load relationship must remain constant. I have

Re: [Vo]:Griggs Device Observations

2007-07-01 Thread Michael Foster
Jed wrote: Michael Foster wrote: The heat was detected from the outside of the aluminum tubing, so I'm not sure that the specific heat of the liquid itself is a factor here. OTOH, I'm a pretty fair inventor, but a rotten scientist. The heat was measured in terms of hotter than hell

Re: [VO]:Steorn SPDC caution!

2007-07-02 Thread Michael Foster
Nick Palmer wrote: P.S. When I referenced Alice through the Looking Glass originally I stated that it was the Red Queen who claimed that words mean etc. I was wrong, it was Humpty Dumpty. I would have welcomed correction... That's OK, Nick. I just misspelled leisurely and no one corrected

RE: [Vo]:Why isn't this creating a stir?

2007-07-06 Thread Michael Foster
I really like the straightforward descriptions by the builder of the Bedini and the magnet motor. He said point-blank that his Bedini was 53% efficient. If you listen carefully, the interviewer asks him if the magnet motor will keep running by itself and he says uh-uh. I suspect the magnet

Re: [Vo]:The Twilight Experience

2007-07-13 Thread Michael Foster
Well it might be that O/U researchers occasionally occupy a parallel universe, but some might just have a very loose acquaintance with the concept of truth. You guys have no idea how deep into the Twilight an individual can penetrate, even if he doesn't want to or has no idea what is causing

Re: [Vo]:The Twilight Experience

2007-07-13 Thread Michael Foster
I wrote: Virtually all of these things are somehow conventionably explainable. But still, it makes you sort of ponder. Conventionably? I guess my brain became temporarily involved in a parallel universe where conventionally has turned into whatever that word must mean. M.

[Vo]:Ethanol as a fuel

2007-07-15 Thread Michael Foster
A while back I posed the question if burning corn, or any other food crop is immoral. Check this out: http://tinyurl.com/24gqmk Here we see immediate results of corn crops being diverted to make ethanol fuel and its effect on the ice cream business. Now obviously, no one is going to starve to

Re: [Vo]:Ethanol as a fuel

2007-07-16 Thread Michael Foster
Interesting article, Michel. But this is the part that attracted my attention. There is plenty of intellectual firepower in the U.S., said Prashant V. Kamat, an expert in the chemistry of solar cells at the University of Notre Dame, who has some Energy Department financing. But there is

Re: [Vo]:The Ho Motor

2007-07-25 Thread Michael Foster
--- Jones Beene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lost amidst the Steorn recriminations: http://www.panaceauniversity.org/Magnetic_Motor.pdf From China, with love - or more self-delusion? Awkshully, this one makes some sense. Time will tell. It is tough for a dedicated punster not to have

[Vo]:Faster than light

2007-08-16 Thread Michael Foster
Check this out: http://tinyurl.com/25h7cb Here we have an experiment that has been done by several groups, but they usually claim some esoteric excuse as to why it's not really violating Einstein's theory. This group has finally just come out and said that it's FTL. Maybe they'll be

Re: [Vo]:Faster than light

2007-08-16 Thread Michael Foster
--- Michael Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check this out: http://tinyurl.com/25h7cb Here we have an experiment that has been done by several groups, but they usually claim some esoteric excuse as to why it's not really violating Einstein's theory. This group has finally just come

Re: [Vo]:Triboelectric metals

2007-09-11 Thread Michael Foster
--- Horace Heffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is surprising that lead is a powerful electron donor, as powerful as cat fur: http://www.school-for-champions.com/science/static_materials.htm Also noted as a weak donor is aluminum. This seems somewhat consistent with the electron

Re: [Vo]:50 mcg Missing

2007-09-19 Thread Michael Foster
--- Terry Blanton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Theft in Paris? http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070912/ap_on_re_eu/shrinking_kilogram;_ylt=A0WTcUqtguhGTH8AhRms0NUE http://snipurl.com/1qtfk By JAMEY KEATEN, Associated Press Writer Wed Sep 12, 1:00 PM ET PARIS - A kilogram just isn't what it

Re: [Vo]:Nanosolar San Jose factory construction

2007-10-30 Thread Michael Foster
It's hard to see how any of the CIGS photovoltaic systems can succeed. Their cost projections were based on the price of indium when they first formed their companies. The demand for indium, in the form of indium tin oxide (ITO), used as the transparent conductor in flat panel displays, grows

Re: [Vo]:If Al Gore Only Had A Guitar....

2007-12-07 Thread Michael Foster
--- Frederick Sparber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC8nDdPM_Qk*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC8nDdPM_Qk County Roads doesn't quite cover Al's itinerary these days. The right John Denver song for him would be I'm Leaving on Gulfstream. It would be one of those

Re: [Vo]:Nanosolar has started production

2007-12-16 Thread Michael Foster
I hope they succeed at what they are doing. I am concerned that I cannot find how much indium and gallium they use either per square meter or per watt. The price of both of these elements is rising geometrically. Since they are byproducts of other metal refining, there is no way to increase

Re: [Vo]:Nanosolar has started production

2007-12-17 Thread Michael Foster
--- Terry Blanton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Our good friend Greg Watson of SMOT fame has beat you to the punch: http://www.greenandgoldenergy.com.au/ Word is that he is making $$A. Terry Hardly. Watson is using conventional compression molded acrylic fresnel lenses. The high tensile

Re: [Vo]:Water Arc Ball Lightning?

2007-12-18 Thread Michael Foster
Hi Fred, Did I miss out on a previous discussion of this? Aren't all muons negative and why would a metastable one exist in an oxygen atom? Presumably the muon would be in place of an electron, but why would that allow forcing a proton into the oxygen's electron cloud, except for the muon's

Re: [VO]: OT: Voodoo economics

2007-12-21 Thread Michael Foster
Yes, Richard, it's appropriate that you should call this voodoo economics, because that's what it is. That's as opposed to the time that George H.W. Bush called the Laffer curve by that name. Arthur Laffer was completely correct and there are thousands of years of history going back to Hamarabi

[Vo]:Nanosolar and Rare Elements

2008-01-06 Thread Michael Foster
Here's an interesting article concerning rare elements and the world economy. http://www.science.org.au/nova/newscientist/027ns_005.htm An excerpt: = Armin Reller, a materials chemist at the University of Augsburg in Germany, and his colleagues are among the

Re: [Vo]:Creationism (was Re:OT: periodic table)

2008-02-04 Thread Michael Foster
I really hate to jump in on such a subject that is so far off topic, but this is something that has bugged me for years. I really don't understand what the argument is about. I'm not religious, nor am I much of an atheist (requires too much faith in the unknown). As God works in mysterious

Re: [Vo]:Wind-Switching.: Making butanol for a dollar a gallon

2008-02-12 Thread Michael Foster
While it might be true that we need new engines for most of the new fuels, butanol can be used in gasoline engines with little or no modification, making Jones' idea doubly useful. --- R.C.Macaulay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (snip) In this admosphere and culture, don't expect results. Expect

[Vo]:OT: 9/11 encore une fois

2008-03-02 Thread Michael Foster
I read where Marion Cotillard is a believer in the 9/11 conspiracy theory. It's important that those with the crediblity to do so express their insights publicly. The sheer mental force brought by such a well-known French intellect is probably more convincing close up. I suspect even a common

Re: [Vo]:OT: 9/11 encore une fois

2008-03-03 Thread Michael Foster
--- R C Macaulay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since Cotillard is an intellectual perhaps he can explain in simple language why he believes in a 9/11 conspiracy. Where are they hiding the passengers? While on the subject.. who the heck is they. How does one gain sufficent credibility

Re: [VO]: Call for new Ozone process

2008-03-20 Thread Michael Foster
Hello Richard, I have no idea what's out there commercially, but here's how I would do it. There are high power, medium pressure argon-mercury UV lamps available commercially with quartz tube walls. One of these could be placed next to a quartz tube through which the water is pumped. A sparge

[Vo]:Close the Patent Office

2008-03-31 Thread Michael Foster
It is said that the head of the U.S. Patent Office wanted it closed in 1845, because everything significant had already been invented. I'm not sure if that's really true, but I have another reason for wanting it closed. Here is a good example.

Re: [Vo]:Heretical biology

2008-03-31 Thread Michael Foster
Yep, it's required reading at my house now. --- William Beaty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's a biology book I'm going to buy: Cells, Gels, and the Engines of Life by G. Pollack, a researcher here at UW Bioengineering. Someone at work was talking about this book having heretical

Re: [Vo]:Heretical biology

2008-04-01 Thread Michael Foster
--- William Beaty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder if the structure is easy to detect. For example, if you shine a red laser through ultra-pure water, you can see the beam, since it's scattered by nano-crystallites which are part of water's short-range structure. Polarizing the water

Re: [Vo]:Close the Patent Office

2008-04-01 Thread Michael Foster
the impression that a patent gives the imprimatur of credibility, which is why, I suppose this expensive joke is allow to continue. M. --- Jed Rothwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Foster wrote: It is said that the head of the U.S. Patent Office wanted it closed in 1845, because everything

Re: [Vo]:Re: Algae: 'The ultimate in renewable energy'

2008-04-02 Thread Michael Foster
--- On Wed, 4/2/08, Jones Beene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not sure efficiency is the main concern. If the comparative cost of the oil produced is close but acceptable, and the dollars stay at home instead of going into the hands of our enemies: Saudi Arabia in particular, then we are

Re: [VO]: OT: Numbers and cucumbers

2008-04-02 Thread Michael Foster
That's a very informative analysis, Richard. Thanks. --- On Wed, 4/2/08, R C Macaulay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: R C Macaulay [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [VO]: OT: Numbers and cucumbers To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Date: Wednesday, April 2, 2008, 7:54 PM Howdy Vorts, Ever get the feeling

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