Re: [Vo]:Question regarding basic solid mechanics and one directional applied stress

2008-05-04 Thread R C Macaulay
Howdy David, A brain teaser question. The answer is yes if you accept that expansion and contraction actually occurs depending on the materials of the cylinder. Mention of the cylinder being solid presents another teaser. Certain solids react to being stressed. Predictive science of materials

Re: [Vo]:Stationary Fresnel Array (Hybrid)

2008-05-04 Thread R C Macaulay
Howdy Jones, I was surprised that no one picked up on my comment regarding sealed beam headlamps. The technology, the manufacturing process and the materials are available except for the element for use as a solar collector. Richard

Re: [Vo]:Fresnel focused solar

2008-05-03 Thread R C Macaulay
Howdy Jones, Looks like Sun-glitch has figured out a way to use seal beam headlamps for solar concentrators.. probably be lotsa old cars with empty tanks missing headlights it these guys can get off the ground. Vancouver has become the rival of Las Vegas for creating a whole new industry of

Re: [Vo]:Running-on .... trioxide ?

2008-05-02 Thread R C Macaulay
Subject: Re: [Vo]:Running-on trioxide ? On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 10:23 PM, R C Macaulay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I kept my old physics freshman textbook in my library at the Dime Box saloon to remind me times have changed. That wouldn't happen to be Haliday and Resnick (sp)? Terry

Re: [Vo]:Running-on .... trioxide ?

2008-05-01 Thread R C Macaulay
Howdy Jones, One must be prepared both physically and mentally to engage a Jones moment. Thanks for the trioxide links. Interesting I received an e-mail directing me to a link on a mystery series of explosions. http://wjz.com:80/local/baltimore.county.mystery.2.710503.html I must consider

Re: [Vo]:How many volcanoes would it take...

2008-04-27 Thread R C Macaulay
Howdy Jeff, Same here in Texas. Before 1870 range prairie grass fires could sweep across whole counties that acted to prevent forests from gaining a foot hold. Interesting arguments for and against greenhouse effect. Al Gore and Rush Limburger cheese et al should both be proud of their

Fw: [Vo]:The principle of the conservation of energy is farce, corrected

2008-04-22 Thread R C Macaulay
It's kinda funny that scientists spend so much time in theory and musing when they have the book to go by. Frank makes reference to vibration frequency. That sounds like sound.. The bible state that God said... let there be light. This is sound, vibration or whatever you choose to call it. It

Re: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC A friend without health insurance

2008-04-22 Thread R C Macaulay
Howdy Vorts, A Medivac chopper cost 15k to transport a patient 100 miles. Look around at the medical industry and notice the never ending construction of medical facilities on a huge scale. These new hospital facilities represent a new industry of unprecedented scope and costs. There is no

Re: [Vo]:The (possible) oil peak rolls on

2008-04-21 Thread R C Macaulay
Andreas wrote, If I buy oil in SEK or Euro the oil prices has almost stood still... So are oil prices really climbing or is the dollar falling? Howdy Andreas, You peeked ! One must understand that in order to enjoy watching the Wizard of Oz, one must accept the rules of the game... do not

Re: [Vo]:the decline of cold fusion

2008-04-21 Thread R C Macaulay
All science research is cumulative and stimulates the imagination. There are ongoing studies and adjacent research. I choose to believe that Dr.Ron Stiffler has the energy and drive to open a few doors with his experiments. May even find something he wasn't looking for.. this often happens to

Re: [Vo]:Re: Eye of the Gyre

2008-04-18 Thread R C Macaulay
Howdy Michel, I wouldn't want to be suspended way out there on a guywire when a catagory 5 hurricane comes visiting. Richard Michel wrote, Even better, let's close the loop! Instead of far away (e.g. Azores) seeding, we could use a second sea line (underwater pipeline) to reject seeds,

Re: [Vo]:The (possible) oil peak rolls on

2008-04-18 Thread R C Macaulay
The difficulty in understanding the stock market has it root in not recognizing exactly what it is. The stock market is a legal form of gambling. It IS the great game ! Of the gambling casino parlours in the great game.. commodities are the roulette tables. The players at this table operate

Re: [Vo]:Cavitation Weapon

2008-04-17 Thread R C Macaulay
Howdy David, We have water test tank observations of vortexes shedding off the main vortex and traveling distances. These compact spirals are similar to the vid pics of the claw produced shot that travels in a spiral projectile toward the shrimp. Notice the shape of the claw is parabolic and

Re: [Vo]:On loss or gain of energy in presure volume work in solids with varying temperature

2008-04-17 Thread R C Macaulay
Sure David, Using the example of a piece of copper rod at ambient temperature, Rapidly bend the rod and it gets hot at the bend. The more rapid the bend, the hotter it gets. No inconsistency unless you wish to rewrite thermo.. which some brainiac should do soon before we tumble. Richard David

Re: [Vo]:CNN video of Vertigro algae factory

2008-04-15 Thread R C Macaulay
Howdy Jones, The ole Pelton bucket did have a few surprises to offer using the jet features Richard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelton_wheel

Re: [Vo]:Sargassum for ethanol experimented in Taiwan

2008-04-14 Thread R C Macaulay
Howdy Jones, The nation is absolutely overloaded with technology but getting the bits and pieces fitted together takes teamwork which is an absentee to the equation. The wine, vinegar and beer brewers alone have some adanced tech tricks they could add.. plus the petro refiners have a whole

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

2008-04-11 Thread R C Macaulay
Howdy Jones, Just returned from a reunion meet for ex members of the state water planning group where I listened to some interesting arguments for algae to bio-fuel production from sewage plants. Never can happen because it would involve a municipal public function and an atmosphere generated

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

2008-04-11 Thread R C Macaulay
Howdy Jones, We have an ideal site for an bio plant as you described. Alcoa-Rockdale , just northeast of Austin Texas. 60,000 acres, old lignite strip mine and electricpower gen plant. Alcoa wants to decommission it. By the looks of Alcoa performance on Wall St. Its surprising one of their

Re: [Vo]:Recent Papers Update

2008-04-10 Thread R C Macaulay
Thanks Steven, I appreciate the method used to format the updates. It makes it easy to transmit to persons of interest. Richard Recent Papers Update http://newenergytimes.com/Reports/SelectedPapers.htm Meeting Report Srinivasan, M., Energy concepts for the 21st century, Current

Re: [Vo]:Energy Conversation announcement

2008-04-10 Thread R C Macaulay
Howdy Jed, Todd Hathaway is listed which may mean an affiliation with the Maryland group that has organized to delve into funding energy research as discussed in past posts on vortex. Richard - Original Message - From: Jed Rothwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent:

Re: [Vo]:Fracture drilling and the N word

2008-04-10 Thread R C Macaulay
Howdy Jones, My ! ,What big eyes you got grandma.. as little red said to the big badwolf. Last week a 3.5 earthquake occurred, located 1,5 miles deep near Falls City Texas, just south of San Antonio. The news reported it likely resulted from oil and gas production in the area... hmmm. The

Re: [Vo]:Fracture drilling and the N word

2008-04-10 Thread R C Macaulay
and what they did best.. They bought a pig with the baggage carried by acquiring the rights to be sued by the asbestos lawyers. Probably why they turned rogue.. it happens. Richard --- R C Macaulay wrote: Halliburton ... wound up in Dubai as a strange hybrid oil and gas/ defense contractor

Re: [Vo]:Fracture drilling and the N word

2008-04-09 Thread R C Macaulay
Quien sabe? Jones At the end of the day the solution to the supply of energy will be based on cost. Allow the price of fuel to rise to prohibitive use and viola! , amount consumed falls. We will see gas and diesel retail prices rise ( above and beyond the shrinking dollar) as a

Re: [Vo]:Where's the beef? was: Stupid Academic stunt

2008-04-08 Thread R C Macaulay
Thomas wrote, However, presently, since there are no apparent working prototypes What is beyond dispute is that BLP has spent a lot of money.. Howdy Thomas, Well.. err.. let's observe it was BLP that spent a lot of AEI et al's money. Back in the late '50's I invested in a deal like

Re: [Vo]:re: dumb academic stunt

2008-04-08 Thread R C Macaulay
Frank Z wrote, I asked him about the former CEO of Westinghouse being at BlackLight. Perhops I will find out something. Howdy Frank, Westinghouse had talent and people knee deep back until the early '70's .. so,, they dumped the brains for tricks and tried to corner the market for enriched

[VO]: Blowing smoke in the wind

2008-04-08 Thread R C Macaulay
Howdy Vorts, The Houston Chronicle article today kinda disputes claims regarding the idea of using windmills. The power produced ain't worth the power to produce without heavy subsidies. Also reports that a norther blew in one day and the wind farm output dropped so low that it upset the grid

Re: [Vo]:Where's the beef? was: Stupid Academic stunt

2008-04-05 Thread R C Macaulay
Howdy Vorts, What am I missing in regards to BLP ? Our tiny company budgets $ 350,000. per year in research. No matter how great the idea, if we don't see something happen in two years.. bye bye idea based on the simple premise that a blind hog can root up an acorn every once in awhile..

[VO]: Re: Ben Ladin Trades

2008-04-04 Thread R C Macaulay
Howdy Vorts. As a 12 year old kid, I went to the carnival and got suckered by the guy with the 3 walnut shells and the pea. 2 bits a guess what shell the pea was under.. 2 bucks later I stopped playing cuz I figured out the pea was being palmed in the crook of the guy's little finger. So..

Re: [Vo]:O3 via GaN UV LEDs

2008-04-03 Thread R C Macaulay
Thanks for the tip Charles, we are interested. The idea of an array of LEDs meets one ot the design themes for encompassing a vortex without disturbing the physics behind it. We have been testing some spiral shapes in the form of thin gauge spiral wire springs that hold the possibility of

[VO]: OT: Numbers and cucumbers

2008-04-02 Thread R C Macaulay
Howdy Vorts, Ever get the feeling the govmnet may be stretching the truth about subprime mortgage actual losses. Do the math of actual true losses to the banking and lending industry on foreclosures. Using Detroit as an example,, figures reported show 10,000 homes were in the loop last quarter

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

2008-04-01 Thread R C Macaulay
Howdy Jones, Notice buried deep in the CNN article is a remark by Kertz.. regarding their search for new forms of algae Intriguing details like that keep Kertz and other scientists searching for more and different algae. While dusty west Texas may not be the best hunting grounds, he said he is

Re: [Vo]:The Kanzius - Chlorine connection

2008-03-30 Thread R C Macaulay
Howdy Jones, In my files under chlorine and salt water anomalies, I keep your posts on this subject. For some years we have puzzled over some of the (return for repair) chlorine gas vacuum induction feeder mixers installed at Los Angeles and certain other US locations always adjacent to

[VO]: Next Energy News

2008-03-28 Thread R C Macaulay
Howdy Vorts, Another link.. http://www.nextenergynews.com/ Richard

[VO]: O6 ? How to detect

2008-03-26 Thread R C Macaulay
Howdy Vorts, Another ozone question .. if O6 is present , is there a double check to make certain it's O6 ? Richard

Re: [Vo]:Land and food

2008-03-24 Thread R C Macaulay
Howdy Jed, Few around Houston can imagine the area was once prime farm land first cultivated by German immigrants with truck farms delivering fresh vegetables daily. By 1900, rice farming was underway with Japanese immigrants. By the end of WW2 Rice was a super crop exported across the world.

Re: [Vo]:Windturm-Generator - Windtower-Generator

2008-03-23 Thread R C Macaulay
Howdy Thomas, I have followed Everts website for some time. His emphasis is in the differential pressure that is assumed formed by manipulating shapes. His ideas are well conceived but he also admits they are theoritical. As he continues to refine his thoughts on many versions of this

Re: [Vo]:Re: Call for new Ozone process

2008-03-21 Thread R C Macaulay
Howdy Richard, what makes you think the classical glass tube dielectric barrier discharge ozone production process (which you are using IIRC) can be improved upon, and what's troubling about it? Michel Several things Michel. The demand is increasing, ozone gas is expensive, ozone doesn't

Re: [Vo]:Re: Call for new Ozone process

2008-03-21 Thread R C Macaulay
For pure kill power, ozone has the right stuff, no residual and good reduction properties. Bleach must be destructed after doing it's job.The task is getting ozone in the right place immediately on generation. Like Chlorine gas.. the first 3 seconds holds the kill power. We are looking at

[VO]: Call for new Ozone process

2008-03-20 Thread R C Macaulay
Howdy Vorts, As some are aware, one of our companies build water treating and wastewater disinfection chem feed inductors. We have depended on our industry to produce the remainder of the systems including the chemicals for this purpose. We are not chemists or physicists. We need systems that

Re: [VO]: Call for new Ozone process

2008-03-20 Thread R C Macaulay
Thanks Esa, Obviously Tesla never built one like the patent drawing or he would have wound up with clean breath and a nitric acid bath. Richard Esa posted. DC PULSES. Nikola Tesla. Apparatus for Production of Ozone http://rpmgt.org/588177.html Howdy Vorts, As some are aware, one

Re: [Vo]:[OT]American Power

2008-03-20 Thread R C Macaulay
Howdy Robin, For every million dollars worth of goods produced by a manufacturing company, the firm must have 3 millions in cash to operate. The firm must either own it or borrow it. The US has a market based economy that exceeds 14 trillion dollars per year. That spells 42 trillion in

Re: [Vo]:Why Nam?? was]:Goofy photo of Clarke

2008-03-19 Thread R C Macaulay
Howdy Jones, The Viet people are a strange and resourceful lot. We have a Viet by birth engineer with one of our companys. These people defeated the US, the world's superpower, with one hand tied behind their back so it is no surprise they are looking at the LENR website. Strange that many of

Re: [Vo]:Nanosolar efficiency 9-10%, installed cost $3/W

2008-03-17 Thread R C Macaulay
Jones wrote, The best solution for using solar is probably algae (aquaculture). Billions of years of evolution has taught those little buggers a thing or two about converting sunlight into storable energy efficiently. Sure is Jones. Consider a municipal wastewater treatment plant is a liquid

Re: [Vo]:[VO] : Old Energy New Money

2008-03-16 Thread R C Macaulay
of leadership of government. This situation will produce an anger that will result in difficult times beyond anything we have seen in our 80 years. Richard On 15/3/2008 10:37 PM, R C Macaulay wrote: Harvard and Wharton business school teach.. get positioned, grab and run. They are taught no one owns GM

Re: [Vo]:Re: Old Energy New Money

2008-03-16 Thread R C Macaulay
When the democrats take over this fall, they will surely set thing right. Jeff Howdy Jeff, Thanks for your encouraging words. I couldn't seem to figure out why... the US has few actual home repo's on the books.. the actual losses to date are way under what is claimed to be the

[VO]: Not Infallible

2008-03-16 Thread R C Macaulay
Hey Vorts, Just tell the bartender at the Dime Box saloon that we ain't got the money to pay the bar tab... cuz we ain't infallible! London. David Rubenstein, co-founder of the Carlyle Group, pledged Thursday to make amends to investors in a fund that is facing collapse and has ties to his

Re: [Vo]:[VO] : Old Energy New Money

2008-03-15 Thread R C Macaulay
Lets see if I have this straight in my mind.. Bear Stearns is an investment bank.. not a bank, so they cannot borrow money from the Fed. JP Morgan-Chase is a bank.. so JP borrowed 15 bil and change from the NY Fed and loaned it to Bare nekid because it's too big to fail. Translation.. when

Re: [Vo]:[VO] : Old Energy New Money

2008-03-15 Thread R C Macaulay
Harry Veeder's constitution excerpted... United States Constitution (from wiki) Section 8 The Congress shall have power When the Fed started bailing out private enterprise i.e. public corporations, it's getting beyond scary. Harvard and Wharton business school teach.. get positioned, grab

[Vo]:[VO] : Old Energy New Money

2008-03-14 Thread R C Macaulay
Howdy Vorts, Energy has displaced the US dollar as coin of the realm. This simple observation permits an examination of not only the US dollar as being a reserve currency, it also allows us another view into the fundamentals of gold. When gold reached $ 1,000.00 per oz/troy.. it demonstrated

Re: [Vo]:Time is running out

2008-03-10 Thread R C Macaulay
Howdy Jones, FDR took us off the gold standard back in the 30'. LBJ displaced the silver coin in the 70's and Nixon removed pegging the US dollar to gold at 35 bucks, troy. Take away the underpinnings of a nation's currency and expect somebody's gonna figure out a way to sell ice to

Re: [Vo]:Re: Tooo obvious for Detroit?

2008-03-08 Thread R C Macaulay
Howdy Vorts, People and their love affairs with their autos. Any fleet operator can show records that prove the Chevrolet autos and small trucks are the best all around. We have a chev fleet, we try other brands for experience but it's Chevrolet. Ever see a fleet of Lexus or Mercedes? Or

Re: [Vo]:Re: Tooo obvious for Detroit?

2008-03-08 Thread R C Macaulay
Yep, Philip, We have unit 3 4 nuke plant starting construction soon at Bay City Texas.. part of the South Texas project. They are having their share of the problems using a Jap design .. plus the environmental problems to overcome. The problem with Nukes are... They can operate some 40-50

Re: [Vo]:The Kiplinger Letter: 03/07/08 comments on energy

2008-03-08 Thread R C Macaulay
Howdy Steven, The 2005 estimate USA crude consumption was some 20 million barrels per day and change, in other words, nobody actually knows for sure.. you can estimate the consumption is now some 21-22 mbd and counting. again nobody knows the actual tally ,nor do they know refining amounts

Re: [Vo]:The Kiplinger Letter: 03/07/08 comments on energy

2008-03-07 Thread R C Macaulay
Howdy Steven, Kiplinger needs to do his math. Search out how much petroleum is consumed in the US daily and divide by 100 billion. Always remember what the politicians give as the answer to what is the business of government. The business of government is business Richard Steven wrote, A

Re: [Vo]:Tooo obvious for Detroit?

2008-03-06 Thread R C Macaulay
in his rear. This world needs a whole new stable of advanced radical engine designs for work engines just like we need energy efficent autos. Richard I corresponded with an inventor who had a patent on an engine design that sounded similar to this. R C Macaulay wrote: Interesting thinking Jones

Re: [Vo]:Tooo obvious for Detroit?

2008-03-04 Thread R C Macaulay
Interesting thinking Jones. A proposed valveless, pistonless engine/motor concept is being studied whereas the engine is ring shaped and drives a cluster of embedded cavity discs positioned with the ring. The design approach is to build a planetary transmission with an engine inside . The

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

2008-03-03 Thread R C Macaulay
Howdy Michael, 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 to have their insights believed

Re: [Vo]:Nordberg's fusion reactor patent

2008-03-02 Thread R C Macaulay
Howdy Thomas, Doesn't matter whether it works or not cuz it's just a patent. The patent industry is in business to publish patents. Anyone that wishes to have a patent to put in a frame and hang on their wall may do so. Like printed money, it's only of value if someone else accepts it.

[Vo]:]VO]:: OT: The Ides of March

2008-03-01 Thread R C Macaulay
Howdy Vorts, This writer is a respected financial analyist. Reading between the lines of his article, I sense he is saying that by the middle of March the financial world will know if the banking and financial structures can be salvaged . I wonder if Ceasar saw it coming ?

Re: [Vo]:Nelson Ying back in the news

2008-02-29 Thread R C Macaulay
Howdy Vorts, Give the students a high mark for trying to live their dream. We have been reviewing our company's performance and financial position for preparing new business strategies for the next seven years. .Our conclusion is we do not have sufficent information on which to base a

Re: [Vo]:New supercomputer is a rack of PlayStations

2008-02-29 Thread R C Macaulay
Howdy Jones, Lets also remind ourselves of what happened to Egypt and the mercenaries of Pharaoh. One day the hired help decided they could take over from the decadent royalty. A recent report has 150,000 employees under contract with K-BR and others like Blackwater supposedly handling chores

Re: [Vo]:New supercomputer is a rack of PlayStations

2008-02-28 Thread R C Macaulay
Interesting analog observation Jones, I had never connected this thought when observing the laws of human nature, ( alive and well in the Dime Box saloon).Public education provides and equally valid example of the law governing cultures which allow that when mixing cultures, the most base

Re: [Vo]:Nuke causes massive power outage

2008-02-27 Thread R C Macaulay
Howdy Jed, One of the 20 worse polluting USA coal fired electric power plants, The FPP plant ,Fayette county Texas has a problem. Seems their effort in finally getting the scrubber installed ( a little oversight when constructing it some 40 years ago...) hmmm. the concrete foundation for

[VO]: Free Will Power

2008-02-25 Thread R C Macaulay
Howdy Vorts, This link was passed on to me for comment. I am unfamilar with the people that produce this website. They claim to invest in new energy research. There is no address given and no board of directors listed although they claim 501C3 listing. Perhaps Steve Krivit , editor of New

Re: [Vo]:Detroit's #1 problem: the Peter Principle

2008-02-23 Thread R C Macaulay
Howdy Jones, Back in the '80's, Roger was CEO of GM and drove the last vestige of sanity at GM into the ground like a tent stake. While we were sleeping an entire piece of what we knew of as America was destroyed... by economic terrorists, our real enemies. When the Dime Box saloon starts

Re: [Vo]:Stiffler: [All the news that's fit to pr...]

2008-02-22 Thread R C Macaulay
- Original Message - From: OrionWorks [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 8:31 AM Subject: [Vo]:Stiffler: [All the news that's fit to pr...] Jones, Would you by perchance have any new information worth reporting or pondering over out

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