Re: [Vo]:Color Temperature

2014-10-19 Thread Nick
Only a Thermal Camera is calibrated to show accurate readings when imaging glowing hot objects, a normal consumer camera will automatically make ISO adjustments to bring the scene into a visible range. Depending on how you have the camera aimed and pointed, you can make a dull red glow appear

Re: [Vo]:Re: Color Temperature

2014-10-21 Thread Nick
I think the images from the report seen in Figures 12a, 12b, Image 12b is very underexposed , I adjusted the exposure levels on 12b and made a side by side image to compare, it seems that the color temperature might be quite a bit whiter, perhaps even white hot. when seen as it would have

Re: [Vo]:Machined Part in NASA Mars photo found

2014-11-02 Thread Nick
That looks a lot like the impression left from a Philips screw head that has been pressed into the soil, since the image is from the Microscopic Imager it would be helpful to know the scale of the impression, if the artifact is in the 2 to 8 mm range, I would guess that part of the

Re: [Vo]:dreams

2014-11-10 Thread Nick
Most of the time, hearing about someone elses dream is rather boring, I think this is because the most compelling aspect of a dream is usually missing from the tale, that elusive element is the emotional component, fear, feeling lost, the impact of seeing a dead loved one, these feelings are

Re: [Vo]:Lithium aluminum thin film and the Kretschmann geometry

2015-01-01 Thread Nick
Does this have anything to do with this topic? http://www.e-catworld.com/2013/09/23/st-microelectronics-files-lenr-patent/ ST Microelectronics patent, (US20130243143), From the Patent; These technologies may include, in particular, deposition techniques and photolithographic techniques

Re: [Vo]:The melting miracle

2015-01-01 Thread Nick
I’m way out of my zone of expertise here, as a speaker builder/designer, I am familiar with resonant frequencies of boxes, cavities, or spaces. Has the possibility that Rossi is optimizing the reactor design so the reactor cavity resonates at specific frequencies? Has this been considered?

Re: [Vo]:Rossi's tiny 100W quarks

2016-03-01 Thread Nick
Back in 2013 on his Blog, Rossi said a Cold Cat might be possible ; http://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/?p=771=5#comment-520563 Nixter, NICK

Re: [Vo]:81 MW container ship Diesel engine,..Cargo ship travel

2016-05-05 Thread Nick
You can actually travel on freighters like cruise ships, not for everyone though, looks like fun to me. https://www.freightercruises.com/SWN_678_1605.php Cargo ship travel - things you should know |   | |   | |   |   |   |   |   | | Cargo ship travel - things you should knowCargo ship travel

[Vo]:Rossi-Gullstrom paper published on July 18 on Arxiv.org

2017-07-20 Thread Nick
E-Cat QX Picture Posted in New Rossi-Gullstrom Paper (COP of 2000 reported with Calorimetry) | E-Cat World | | | | || | | | | | E-Cat QX Picture Posted in New Rossi-Gullstrom Paper (COP of 2000 reported ... | | | |  https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.05249.pdf

Re: [Vo]:Info about the fuel,...Fractal pattern looks like high voltage spark traces

2017-09-15 Thread Nick
Any chance those patterns are spark traces? Can sparking occur at those tiny dimensions?  This High Voltage Furniture Technique Burns Lightning Designs into Wood | | | | || | | | | | This High Voltage Furniture Technique Burns Lightning Designs into Wood Lightning

[Vo]:Martin Fleischmann Memorial Project, their latest video is an eye opener.

2020-02-25 Thread Nick
- EVO Flow in ... | | |  If the link cannot be used or seen enter this:   w89gzx2EaeQ  into the YouTube Search field Nixter is Nick

Re: [Vo]:did E-80 go the way of 3D television

2021-05-13 Thread Nick
The reasoning behind rejecting biofuels is that they enable the continuation of internal combustion engines and all of the pollution from crankcase oil being burned, expensive repairs and maintenance such as oil changes etc.  Ethanol made from corn mainly uses the starch component which is

[Vo]:Rods are usually insects

2021-03-30 Thread Nick
I made this video to address the rods phenomenon, it is bugs filmed with a slow frame rate. Mystery of the RODS!  | | | | || | | | || Mystery of the RODS! By Nixter_is_Nick | | | | Reminds me of "rods"

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

2011-07-30 Thread Nick Palmer
/ Nick Palmer On the side of the Planet - and the people - because they're worth it Blogspot - Sustainability and stuff according to Nick Palmer http://nickpalmer.blogspot.com

Re: [Vo]:A New Reason to Go Green

2011-08-19 Thread Nick Palmer
where you will find a whole lot of (full of real maths) answers to just about every denialist peice of propaganda out there Nick Palmer On the side of the Planet - and the people - because they're worth it Blogspot - Sustainability and stuff according to Nick Palmer http

Re: [Vo]:A New Reason to Go Green

2011-08-19 Thread Nick Palmer
fashion. Nick Palmer On the side of the Planet - and the people - because they're worth it Blogspot - Sustainability and stuff according to Nick Palmer http://nickpalmer.blogspot.com

Re: [Vo]:A New Reason to Go Green

2011-08-20 Thread Nick Palmer
Jouni. Your comments are still wishful thinking and misinterpretation of what I wrote. you wrote: Nick, you are thinking too much of yourself, but actually your understanding is thinner than you might think. For example, IPCC does not differentiate old growth forests from modified forests

Re: [Vo]:Corrections to heat after death calculations

2011-08-30 Thread Nick Palmer
one too. Nick Palmer On the side of the Planet - and the people - because they're worth it Blogspot - Sustainability and stuff according to Nick Palmer http://nickpalmer.blogspot.com

Re: [Vo]:Corrections to heat after death calculations

2011-09-01 Thread Nick Palmer
fusion field. Obviously, Catania does not realise this but, like so many in the past, shoots from the hip to fill up the forum with dubious logic, false assertions and acres of attacking prose. These types go away in the end. Nick Palmer On the side of the Planet - and the people - because

Re: [Vo]:Sea Power News

2010-02-23 Thread Nick Palmer
that fills up then is emptied out when required for power. Building dams is expensive. Nick Palmer On the side of the Planet - and the people - because they're worth it Blogspot - Sustainability and stuff according to Nick Palmer http://nickpalmer.blogspot.com

Re: [Vo]:Fusion confusion

2010-03-23 Thread Nick Palmer
or theories that are not classical vanilla fusion, which won't set off the alarm bells and defence mechanisms of the mainstream, perhaps Steve is indeed using semantics but it is the semantics inside the heads of the mainstream that is the barrier to acceptance of the phenomena as real... Nick

Re: [Vo]: scepticism was Request for fusion definition

2010-03-24 Thread Nick Palmer
://drboli.wordpress.com/2009/12/15/the-duck/ Nick Palmer On the side of the Planet - and the people - because they're worth it Blogspot - Sustainability and stuff according to Nick Palmer http://nickpalmer.blogspot.com

[Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Wired: America's Wind Energy Potential Triples in New Estimate

2010-03-30 Thread Nick Palmer
for such a transformation are already in place. This is achieved without nuclear or carbon capture. Nick Palmer On the side of the Planet - and the people - because they're worth it Blogspot - Sustainability and stuff according to Nick Palmer http://nickpalmer.blogspot.com

Re: [Vo]:Krivit's new claim, transcript of ACS Krivit Pop Quiz

2010-04-01 Thread Nick Palmer
ABD wrote: Do the statements contradict each other? No. McKubre says that he provided a correction. An EPRI representative says that no correction exists. These two statements are not in contradiction. Eh? Have we fallen through the looking glass again? Nick Palmer On the side

Re: [Vo]:glabal warming conference

2010-04-01 Thread Nick Palmer
/matrix that supports it, I don't think we can expect energy too cheap to meter too soon. Nick Palmer On the side of the Planet - and the people - because they're worth it Blogspot - Sustainability and stuff according to Nick Palmer http://nickpalmer.blogspot.com

Re: [Vo]:Towel folding robot

2010-04-10 Thread Nick Palmer
I seem to recall it said that each fold took about 23 minutes... Nick Palmer On the side of the Planet - and the people - because they're worth it Blogspot - Sustainability and stuff according to Nick Palmer http://nickpalmer.blogspot.com

Re: [Vo]:Doh ! (slaps forehead) !

2010-08-31 Thread Nick Palmer
flimsy stuff widgets designed to fall apart. Nick Palmer On the side of the Planet - and the people - because they're worth it Blogspot - Sustainability and stuff according to Nick Palmer http://nickpalmer.blogspot.com

Re: [Vo]:Jobs Obama trying to create and pictures from PA that say it all

2010-09-07 Thread Nick Palmer
of state competition) nevertheless end up being better for keeping the local economy going and keeping wealth and where it is generated - which protects jobs. Globalisation was a really stupid ideologically driven move. Nick Palmer On the side of the Planet - and the people - because they're worth

Re: [Vo]:Downwind Faster than the Wind (DWFTTW)

2010-09-22 Thread Nick Palmer
accelerate from a position of zero relative wind then one could start it off in no wind conditions and it would accelerate - perpetual motion just isn't that easy! Nick Palmer On the side of the Planet - and the people - because they're worth it Blogspot - Sustainability and stuff according

Re: EXTERNAL: [Vo]:My critique of an experiment posed by Dennis Cravens

2010-10-06 Thread Nick Palmer
The LED will not be convincing. How about just training an IR camera on it and putting the image on the web? A slow stream of air passing the cell would warm up and clearly show on the image. Nick Palmer On the side of the Planet - and the people - because they're worth it Blogspot

Re: [Vo]:Bloom Box Enters Production Phase

2010-10-18 Thread Nick Palmer
to provide hot water at an overall efficiency of 85%. Can use natural gas or the similar product from anaerobic digesters. Nick Palmer On the side of the Planet - and the people - because they're worth it Blogspot - Sustainability and stuff according to Nick Palmer http

Re: [Vo]:NanoSpire

2010-10-29 Thread Nick Palmer
I think the bit about his brother being a secret service agent and saving a bus load of kids raised the biggest red flag to me. Nick Palmer On the side of the Planet - and the people - because they're worth it Blogspot - Sustainability and stuff according to Nick Palmer http

Re: [Vo]:NanoSpire

2010-10-31 Thread Nick Palmer
- he did not sacrifice himself. I still think that this Mark guy using this story in the way he did still raises red flags. It all reeks of fantasy/hallucination/Walter Mitty. Nick Palmer On the side of the Planet - and the people - because they're worth it Blogspot - Sustainability and stuff

Re: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC Progress in One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project

2010-11-05 Thread Nick Palmer
Lao Tzu: Give a Man a Fish, Feed Him For a Day. Teach a Man to Fish... ... and you'll feed him for a while until he invents and uses industralised factory ships to Hoover up all the fish and drive them to the brink of extinction. Nick Palmer On the side of the Planet - and the people

Re: [Vo]:Focardi to hold press conference, demonstrate 16 kW heater at Bologna U.

2011-01-14 Thread Nick Palmer
Chris Tinsley once described me as one of the Cold Fusion Advocates. Yet again, wearily, I open up one eye and prepare to look over the parapet tomorrow. Here's hoping for minimum disappointment Nick Palmer blogspot: Sustainability and stuff according to Nick Palmer For the people

Re: [Vo]:Focardi to hold press conference, demonstrate 16 kW heater at Bologna U.

2011-01-14 Thread Nick Palmer
. cheers, Nick Palmer On the side of the Planet - and the people - because they're worth it Blogspot - Sustainability and stuff according to Nick Palmer http://nickpalmer.blogspot.com

[Vo]:Focardi Rossi Piantelli

2011-01-15 Thread Nick Palmer
Are there any big media interested yet? Nick Palmer On the side of the Planet - and the people - because they're worth it Blogspot - Sustainability and stuff according to Nick Palmer http://nickpalmer.blogspot.com

Re: [Vo]:Input power must be far lower than ~10 kW

2011-01-16 Thread Nick Palmer
but are insignificant if you are looking to verify a kickass kilowatt. Nick Palmer On the side of the Planet - and the people - because they're worth it Blogspot - Sustainability and stuff according to Nick Palmer http://nickpalmer.blogspot.com

Re: [Vo]:Monday Update to Release Information on Self Sustain Mode

2011-01-22 Thread Nick Palmer
down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space. Nick Palmer On the side of the Planet - and the people - because they're worth it Blogspot - Sustainability and stuff according to Nick Palmer http://nickpalmer.blogspot.com

Re: [Vo]:Replicating Rossi at home

2011-02-01 Thread Nick Palmer
that Chris Tinsley replicated? Nick Palmer On the side of the Planet - and the people - because they're worth it Blogspot - Sustainability and stuff according to Nick Palmer http://nickpalmer.blogspot.com

Re: [Vo]:Replicating Rossi at home

2011-02-01 Thread Nick Palmer
that it was only one substance. Subsequent information from the Cicinatti group about other matters gave me the very strong hunch that their sauce was zirconium related. I saw a tile that Chris had burned a 1cm hole through. Nick Palmer On the side of the Planet - and the people - because they're worth

Re: [Vo]:Replicating Rossi at home

2011-02-02 Thread Nick Palmer
it when the reaction lights up. Nick Palmer On the side of the Planet - and the people - because they're worth it Blogspot - Sustainability and stuff according to Nick Palmer http://nickpalmer.blogspot.com

Re: [Vo]:Rossi feeding skeptics with much more skepticism.

2011-11-18 Thread Nick Palmer
Mouthy Mary - filtered to junk email folder Nick Palmer On the side of the Planet - and the people - because they're worth it Blogspot - Sustainability and stuff according to Nick Palmer http://nickpalmer.blogspot.com

Re: [Vo]:Cold Fusion Economic Effects

2011-12-13 Thread Nick Palmer
reasons why true environmentalists would be concerned if everyone got access to vast amounts of energy because of what they might do with it. Simplistic views that energy=good, more energy=better, most energy=best are a bit one dimensional in outlook. Nick Palmer On the side of the Planet

Re: [Vo]:Jed and others 2012 predictions please

2012-01-02 Thread Nick Palmer
from climate change and peak oil. Nick Palmer On the side of the Planet - and the people - because they're worth it Blogspot - Sustainability and stuff according to Nick Palmer http://nickpalmer.blogspot.com

Re: [Vo]:Jed and others 2012 predictions please

2012-01-02 Thread Nick Palmer
- the biggest anti-science disinformation and propaganda site on the internet - as some sort of authority! Nick Palmer On the side of the Planet - and the people - because they're worth it Blogspot - Sustainability and stuff according to Nick Palmer http://nickpalmer.blogspot.com

Re: Secrecy for a short time

2004-07-07 Thread Nick Palmer
figure out a way round patents, particularly with these stakes involved - I do not think Mark will ever be a trillionaire from this, but multi millions or low billions may be achievable. Nick Palmer

sam faile update and boundary electrolysis

2004-07-30 Thread Nick Reiter
. I wonder what a little D2O would do...? Anyone ever play with this effect, that seems to relate to a charged sheath around a small diameter cathode wire in heavily laden hydrogen containing electrolytes? I need to fire up the Geiger counter at this point, I suppose. All the best, Nick Reiter

Re: Running Diesels on Corn Meal Mush?

2004-08-01 Thread Nick Palmer
The "Baron's" article on biodiesel shows just how misleading things can get if one relies on businessmen, civil servants and community big wigs to assess the value of any project, such as that sketched out for soy-diesel andbio-ethanol. No knowledgeable environmentalist would support such

RE: sam faile update and boundary electrolysis

2004-08-03 Thread Nick Reiter
Thanks Keith, for looking at this again. I will have to pull out another supply - one that can take me up into the voltage range you speak of. But I know just the puppy - its lurking in my junk boxes right now. You ask if there is anything else I would like you to try for now - just one other

Re: New light on LENR-CANR site

2004-08-22 Thread Nick Palmer
that - that is their prerogative. It just looks like you are being an impossibly difficult jerk (again) Nick Palmer

new mini-paper with Sam Faile, etc

2004-08-26 Thread Nick Reiter
Gentlemen, First off, for anyone interested in the claims of D. Hudson, et al regarding strange forms of gold and platinum group metals, there is a new mini-paper that my son posted on Sam Faile's website: http://www.geocities.com/spfaile/pgmormus.html It concerns the results of some five or

RE: new mini-paper with Sam Faile, etc

2004-08-26 Thread Nick Reiter
Hi Keith, The power supply I had used and still use for the baseline is/was a variable 0 to 40 VDC 3 amp supply. Not sure of the brand right off the bat - I can get that for you when I am back at my office tomorrow - and the reason I insert the past tense in the previous sentence is that a while

backlog

2004-09-24 Thread Nick Reiter
Holy smokies, just this morning I am now suddenly getting a load of Vor-mail postings from up to almost 2 weeks ago, such as this one from Jones. Somebody must have finished their scrutiny of topics. oy. nr --- Jones Beene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frederick Sparber writes, then

got paranoid?

2004-09-28 Thread Nick Reiter
Ah, old Sabbath, Anyway, Gentlemen, Just wanted to check with BillB or anyone else in the know as to what did happen over the past couple of weeks with vortex, overall. Have other discussion groups in new energy or new science topic fields experienced this sort of high weirdness lately? nr

neutron pickin time

2004-10-02 Thread Nick Reiter
Gentlemen, I'd like to toss out a couple of generic CF questions to any experimentalists out there. My little cathode glow discharge / sheath plasma reactor is set up and empirically optimized for cathode material (nickel foil sword) and electrolyte (K2CO3). Been calling it the Wisp-1. I made

Re: neutron pickin time

2004-10-03 Thread Nick Reiter
it rolled away from the Geiger counter it was already cooled off! Will keep all advised... Best, NR --- Horace Heffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 4:28 AM 10/2/4, Nick Reiter wrote: 2. Any last thoughts on a better homebrew neutron detection scheme? Someone hinted to me recently that old

Re: Time as a constant ???

2004-10-07 Thread Nick Reiter
Gentlemen, Back in 2000, I attended a little informal meeting at University of Arizona in Tucson at the Astronomy Department on alternative models of gravity. One of the people I met at that time was the department contrarian astronomer, Dr. Bill Tifft. Tifft's speciality was the observation of

anti-neutrons

2004-10-20 Thread Nick Reiter
Side road sojourn here, kids. I myself shouldn't even be concerning myself with it, what with my dear little heavy water Wisp reactor runs going. (yes, reporting on that will come soon) OK, the diversion for the day is about matter, antimatter, and time. Translations mine, I've gathered that

coils within coils and bamboo round about

2004-11-11 Thread Nick Reiter
A week or two back I happened to pick up on a segment of discussion on Vortex that included the idea of long thin coils wound in helices wound in further orders of helicity. (sheesh is that a word?) It's taken me this long to yell back, but I did want to mention that after about 5 years of

Re: magnetic vector potential

2004-12-20 Thread Nick Reiter
Gentlemen, I think it ws back in about 2000 or so that I came across the website of the ATG group that had developed the little nested toroid experiment. Don't recall the name of the fellow I corresponded with briefly, but I spent maybe 3 weeks trying to replicate their set-up and claims. It

RE: magnetic vector potential

2004-12-20 Thread Nick Reiter
they make such a ferrite? Fast yet furious; with low hysteresis, yet the permeability of moo metal? Moo. nr --- Keith Nagel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Nick. I'm still of the opinion that leakage flux is the causative agent here, at least for the conductive material being moved by the coils. I

Re: Efficient clothes drier uses De-humidifier?

2004-12-21 Thread Nick Palmer
More years ago than I care to remember, I thought that clothes could be dried more efficiently using a vacuum pump to evaporate the water.I don't know for certain if it would use less energy - I suspect it would Nick Palmer

Re: Intelligent Design

2005-01-05 Thread Nick Palmer
Back in the days of the CompuServe forums, where some of us met, this evolution versus creationism argument came up. Whilst I think microevolution is obvious (legs getting longer, camouflage getting more effective etc) I am not so sure about the giant leaps. Back then the eye was brought up as

RE: Cathode plasma experiments report posted

2005-01-09 Thread Nick Reiter
Hello, all, Thanks to Jones and Keith for the supportive tech suggestions. First to address Jones' question re: the non-absorbing D2O. I was able to save a small amount - maybe 1 ml tops in a nalgene bottle with a good sealing lid. I checked it about a week ago, and it still SEEMS to have the

chew toys and eotvos

2005-01-11 Thread Nick Reiter
OK, the politics of antic semantics or semantic antics are getting threadbare. Time for a chew toy. One of the voices in the wilderness of gravity and antigravity research that I have never seen kicked around here on Vortex is the eternally running campaign by Uncle Al Schwartz having to do with

Clusters

2005-01-16 Thread Nick Palmer
This tells how clusters of atoms can behave like super atoms of another element. It seemed like it might be relevant to explainingLENR-CANR to me... http://www.physorg.com/news2672.html

Re: Accident Report from Mizuno

2005-01-26 Thread Nick Palmer
test - please ignore

Re: Glass funnel was not in use in the cell that exploded

2005-01-27 Thread Nick Reiter
What a set of events for me to consider, seeing as I am poised to start the second round of testing with the little Wisp reactor. (Got some more D2O, and will be minding my viscosity this time). A little earlier this afternoon, I was pondering Dr. Mizuno's explosion, and I scoured the building

Physics website

2005-01-29 Thread Nick Palmer
I came upon this website which seems to be capable of answering any obscure question about those areas you're not sure about... http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/

Re: SOLVING REALLY BIG PROBLEMS

2005-02-10 Thread Nick Palmer
because peoplecanget struck by lightning... Nick

Re: Cluster Chemistry

2005-02-10 Thread Nick Palmer
That's what happens if you get a Canadian pretending to be Scottish... Thought I'd redress the balance

Re: OOPS, WRONG ADDR Thanks V Bill B Donations?

2005-02-12 Thread Nick Palmer
Terry Blanton wrote What's in it for Amazon? A fee? From the small print... Does it cost me anything to use the Amazon Honor System? No. There are no fees for making a payment to a participating Web site. To cover our administrative and processing costs, Web sites collecting money with the

Silicon as an energy storage medium

2005-02-16 Thread Nick Palmer
This looks like a good way of "transporting" renewable energy (in this case from hot sunny countries). Nick http://www.dbresearch.com/PROD/DBR_INTERNET_EN-PROD/PROD00079095.pdf

Re: Speculation on ZPE

2005-02-16 Thread Nick Palmer
R C Macaulay wrote:- On to the harvesting of ocean tides and currents.. thats a bridge too far. The maintenance alone kills the idea even before the costs of construction per kilowatt hour generated is added up. Richard Try looking athttp://www.bluenergy.com/index.html

Re: Horizon

2005-02-17 Thread Nick Palmer
Here's the programme details. If you want the programme transcript it is available on http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/experiment_prog_summary.shtml In March 2002, the scientific world was rocked by some astonishing news: a

Wisp update

2005-03-03 Thread Nick Reiter
that could be diamond ground into a cathode point. And thats where we are. Best regards, Nick Reiter __ Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/

Re: Wisp update

2005-03-03 Thread Nick Reiter
PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Nick, Perhaps you might find small solid carbide end mills or carbide drill bits useful as electrodes. They need to have high mechanical strength and appear to have a very dense fine crystal structure compared to abrasive cutters. The drill bits are available in very

Re: Detroit Pushing Diesel Hybrids

2005-03-24 Thread Nick Palmer
Robin van Spaandonk wrote:- Note that the people at http://www.dolphinaci.com/technology/technology.html are already getting 90+ mpg in some tests, and outperforming the Prius in all tests, and all they have done is somewhat modify a conventional engine Be careful about believing these results

Re: vortex mystery virus alert

2005-04-01 Thread Nick Reiter
Mr. Lew, and everyone else: I just now went to the first URL listed below in your posting - apparently on your own website. I immediately got a couple of pop-ups followed by several Trojan virus alerts / blocked hits. Please be careful. NR --- FHLew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings to all

Re: OT: Question regarding condoms

2005-04-06 Thread Nick Palmer
The 95-97% success rate for condoms relates to the percentage of women (3-5%), using only condoms, who will become pregnant if they use them for one year.

Re: Windmills in the sky after all!

2005-04-07 Thread Nick Palmer
A restrained British WOW!! This flying windmill concept looks really exciting. I'd heard speculation about kites in the jet stream before but there were always problems with the weight of the tether/power line. I particularly like that it can fly up to altitude under controland back down

[Vo]: Re: And the Winding Downside

2006-10-13 Thread Nick Palmer
Terry Blanton wrote about the Altamont wind pass getting partially shut down. This is because of the numbers of migrating birds and raptors (hawks and eagles) that get killed. Anti wind farm types often quote the numbers of birds that get killed by wind farms as a reason to object to new

[Vo]: Re: Re: And the Winding Downside

2006-10-13 Thread Nick Palmer
Jones - the advantage of the Kitegen concept is that it does not need to be offshore to get reliable winds.The airspace issue is not a problem both in terms of the amount of space the ground installation and kite arrays would need - also consider the sheer visibility of the device (which I

[Vo]: RE: [anti-Vo]: global warming

2006-10-16 Thread Nick Palmer
uffer from. If you were outside in a lightning storm fixing the pool pump would you neglect to turn the power off because you could get struck by lightning and safe working practice was not necessary? Nick Palmer

Re: [Vo]: [OT] Google Maps Easter Eggs

2006-11-25 Thread Nick Palmer
a diffuse ovoid shadow. Looking at the angle the airship is to the sun, this shape would be expected and it would be diffuse because of the diffraction at that distance from the source. Or not! Nick Palmer

Re: [Vo]: Oil shale research in Israel

2006-11-26 Thread Nick Palmer
without realising who the real enemies are. It is you who are the sincere wacko and the useful fool. Nick Palmer

Re: [Vo]: Oil shale research in Israel

2006-11-27 Thread Nick Palmer
I am responding to Standing Bear off list.

Re: [Vo]: Re: The $25 Million Branson Climate Prize

2007-02-14 Thread Nick Palmer
nutrients in poorer soils (black soil or Terra Preta in South America http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11522955/ ). Carbon sequestration plus energy plus agricultural benefits.This energy would be carbon NEGATIVE... Charcoal is pretty stable in the ground... Nick Palmer

Re: [Vo]: Re: The $25 Million Branson Climate Prize

2007-02-14 Thread Nick Palmer
numbers? Nick Palmer http://www.css.cornell.edu/faculty/lehmann/terra_preta/TerraPretahome.htm http://www.innovations-report.de/html/berichte/geowissenschaften/bericht-55516.html http://www.cosis.net/abstracts/EGU05/05947/EGU05-J-05947.pdf

Re: [Vo]: Re: The $25 Million Branson Climate Prize

2007-02-15 Thread Nick Palmer
, carbohydrate or oil... The resulting charcoal sand or dust could be ploughed into marginal land reducing nitrogenous fertiliser input etc. I don't know what effect it would have on already fertile land... Nick Palmer

Re: [Vo]: Re: The $25 Million Branson Climate Prize

2007-02-15 Thread Nick Palmer
-win situation. Anybody see any flies in the ointment? Does anyone know if algal strains exist that can fix their own nitrogen from the atmosphere -or would they need nitrogenous fertiliser added?? Nick Palmer

Re: [Vo]: Re: The $25 Million Branson Climate Prize

2007-02-15 Thread Nick Palmer
Algal blooms happen naturally in rivers and at sea http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algal_bloom often near estuarine areas which discharge agricultural nitrogenous leachate and nitrate and phosphate rich substances from such products as detergents and clothes washing powder. Biochemical oxygen

Re: [Vo]: Re: The $25 Million Branson Climate Prize

2007-02-15 Thread Nick Palmer
Other minds are on this. Look at the first comment (from mbmurphy) below this article on Branson's prize. http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/duncan/17524/

Re: [Vo]: Re: The $25 Million Branson Climate Prize

2007-02-15 Thread Nick Palmer
Robin from Oz wrote:- I wouldn't get too hung up on this prize. It looks more like Branson buying cheap advertising. Right, of course. A true solution would still be good value at $1 billion dollars or maybe even $1 trillion

Re: [Vo]: Re: The $25 Million Branson Climate Prize

2007-02-16 Thread Nick Palmer
to Climate impacts Nick Palmer

Re: [Vo]: Re: The $25 Million Branson Climate Prize

2007-02-16 Thread Nick Palmer
on tropical reforestation while allowing a few temperate ones to keep the customers happy. Nick Palmer

Re: [Vo]: Russ George challenges Branson on ABC

2007-02-16 Thread Nick Palmer
listen. Sheer cold logic says that you cannot prove this so please stop muddying the waters. Your position, like that dangerous lunatic Singer, is rather like that of the punk versus Dirty Harry who felt lucky and fatally got on the wrong side of a Magnum... Nick Palmer

[Vo]: Re: RC'd CO2 harvesting whale herds (was: The $25 Million Branson Climate Prize)

2007-02-17 Thread Nick Palmer
? Nick Palmer

[Vo]: Re: Re: RC'd CO2 harvesting whale herds (was: The $25 Million Branson Climate Prize)

2007-02-17 Thread Nick Palmer
A few days ago I wrote does anyone know if algal strains exist that can fix their own nitrogen from the atmosphere -or would they need nitrogenous fertiliser added?? without Googling it. Well they do. http://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/b-online/e34/34b.htm or more simply

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