Re: [Vo]:*******SPEED IS POWER. NEW ENERGY MACHINE VIDEO!!!

2007-10-29 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Harry Veeder wrote: On 28/10/2007 9:15 PM, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: Harry Veeder wrote: On 28/10/2007 11:41 AM, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: Speed is not power. Power is speed times force. Torque is not power. Power is rotational velocity times torque. A simple lever can produce more

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-29 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Jones Beene wrote: I am really surprised that all of the RF-expertise here on Vo seems to be fixated on capacitive coupling when the initial photo on that page shows a battery driven isolated circuit with its own signal, where capacitive coupling is impossible. The circuit under discussion

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-29 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Jones Beene wrote: Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: The circuit under discussion was the one with a single ground wire attached and no input. It is based on the circuit shown in video #7. It is described farther down on that page. The one with a battery is yet something else again

Re: [Vo]:Part 8 Cold electricity

2007-10-29 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Jones Beene wrote: Part 8 is now up on YouTube to answer the objection that the aluminum pan itself was somehow involved. There is still one wire to the signal generator - no ground, no fakery. If we're back to a SIGNAL wire running to the SIGNAL GENERATOR, then I guess we can say for sure

Re: [Vo]:Part 8 Cold electricity

2007-10-29 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Jones: Thank you for a very clear recap of the situation, and for the clear statements with regard to the signal generator. The confusion over whether the signal generator was turned on or turned off was maddening. With your statements here, at last we have a stake in the ground. (Whether

Re: [Vo]:Part 8 Cold electricity

2007-10-29 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
WHOA Horace -- Slow down! It doesn't say quite what you think! Let's take it word by word. Horace Heffner wrote: On Oct 29, 2007, at 2:15 PM, DDMasters wrote: Maybe you should read his web pages, he does say no generator is used in his #7 free standing unit. It is in plain English.

Re: [Vo]:Celestial Mechanics: Differentiation versus Calculus

2007-10-30 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
OrionWorks wrote: Is there a Vort deity-on-call that can point me to specific Calculus formulas that one would use to plot PRECISELY the predicted (x,y) positions on a 2D graph based on the time slice given? Does such devils in the guise of Calculus exist? I don't know a closed form

Re: [Vo]:Replications of Stiffler circuit

2007-10-31 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Jones Beene wrote: You guys must be asleep at the wheel ;-) Did no one even make an effort to view the preview teaser image which DrS posted to Hartmann's site? ... or do you require spoon-feeding? http://www.overunity.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=3457.0;attach=13950;image

Re: [Vo]:Replications of Stiffler circuit

2007-10-31 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Jones Beene wrote: Stephen *Nothing* has been announced. I invite you to use your imagination. He has no intention, nor obligation, to spell out details for you or anyone else until there is absolute certainty; and at that time he almost certainly will make the announcement elsewhere, due

Re: [Vo]:*******SPEED IS POWER. NEW ENERGY MACHINE VIDEO!!!

2007-10-31 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Harry Veeder wrote: On 29/10/2007 11:06 AM, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: Momentum, close relative of kinetic energy, can't be bottled and so can't be sold. The kind of energy that is sold is all potential, not kinetic, because motion can't be packaged. Kinetic energy is not a relative

Re: [Vo]:Message from the Inventor, was: Cold reception to cold electricity

2007-11-01 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Jones Beene wrote: To: Vortex Members On 11/1/2007 From: Dr. Ronald R. Stiffler [ ... ] I am so against a Litigious Society, yet often it has a side that is the only way to receive redress in cases such as this. The same people that advise me on the legality of my work are most

Re: [Vo]:Message from the Inventor, was: Cold reception to cold electricity

2007-11-01 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Jones Beene wrote: Stephen, I don't know where you come from, but in Texas (so I have been told) if you call someone a con man you better hope that you are a better shot than he is... You didn't answer the question, Jones. Your response amounts to saying insulting someone will make them

Re: [Vo]:Message from the Inventor, was: Cold reception to cold electricity

2007-11-01 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
to anyone here. You, however, have continued to be heavily involved in this group and have chosen to act as Ron's spokesman. I think YOU owe us a clear, unambiguous answer to the above question, framed in a complete sentence, without weasel words. Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: Jones Beene wrote

Re: [Vo]:Message from the Inventor, was: Cold reception to cold electricity

2007-11-01 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Esa Ruoho wrote: its funny, i read that mail of his and saw nothing at all about suing anyone on vortex-list. I pick nits for a living; sometimes the habit carries over to other places. i think we live in different worlds. try and switch yours around to a more rosy one, see how things go.

Re: [Vo]:Message from the Inventor: Sorry, Jones.

2007-11-01 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Jones Beene wrote: No! you are squirming to dodge the question of- did someone intentionally insult the guy needlessly. Well, maybe we did. Picking nits is best done with a nit comb, which is a smooth comb with rounded points on the tines. Sometimes the temptation to use a knife, a

Re: [Vo]:Cold reception to cold electricity

2007-11-02 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Terry, if you're doing a repro of any of Ron's circuits, I have a suggested power measurement. This is a pretty obvious suggestion, I think, and you're probably already 'way past this level, but none the less if you should check this, I'd be interested in hearing the results. (You may

Re: [Vo]:Stiffler Replication

2007-11-03 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Craig Haynie wrote: I am not a scientist and don't have any of this equipment, but this gentleman seems to have replicated the Stiffler effect with ONLY a function generator, LEDs, and a ground. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eN-WGgUkOvY He discusses it here, starting on message 367

Re: [Vo]:Diode Array

2007-11-06 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Jones Beene wrote: --- Charlie, At the risk of offending more readers here with excessive speculation, let me mention that the Stiffler circuit mentioned in recent threads, could be very similar to your and Paul's concept- but in a number of inadvertent ways. That is, similar to what you are

Re: [Vo]:Induced Neutrino Oscillation

2007-11-07 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Jones Beene wrote: Frederick Sparber has written about the curious phenomenon of enhanced radioactivity (beta decay mostly): The Barker patent (US 5,076,971 ) and other's claim that an enhanced change in the decay rate of radioisopes in minerals occurs when they are kept inside a chamber

Re: [Vo]:Induced Neutrino Oscillation

2007-11-07 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
energy unless it can trigger a nuclear decay. Jones Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: Jones Beene wrote: Frederick Sparber has written about the curious phenomenon of enhanced radioactivity (beta decay mostly): The Barker patent (US 5,076,971 ) and other's claim that an enhanced change in the decay

Re: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC Georgia governor's rain dance fails

2007-11-13 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
OrionWorks wrote: Jed sez: Georgia is suffering from the worst drought in recorded history. Gov. Sonny Perdue of Georgia along with various religious and political leaders prayed for rain this afternoon at the state capital. A small number of atheists and people who oppose mixing church and

Re: [Vo]:Re: diode array in photodiode array

2007-11-14 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
.) Michel - Original Message - From: Stephen A. Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 3:01 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Re: diode array in photodiode array Michel Jullian wrote: Hi Charlie, It certainly will if you cool it, otherwise it should

Re: [Vo]:Infinite Energy responds to Krivit regarding Macy

2007-11-14 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Jed Rothwell wrote: See: http://www.infinite-energy.com/resources/nefresponse.html The first half of this seems to be an attack on Steve Krivit's methods, and by the time I was halfway down the page I was tired of reading how outraged they were. I just skimmed the rest of it. Do they

Re: [Vo]:*******SPEED IS SOLUTION FOR ALL WATER ENERGY PROBLEMS

2007-11-14 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
This is another post in which the input power is mentioned, but no estimate of the output power is given. The magician waves his hand and says, Look how fast that thing over there is spinning! and you're not supposed to notice that he never says anything meaningful about engine output. For

Re: [Vo]:RE:diode array in photodiode array

2007-11-14 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Thanks for the clarification. I see that you were considering using Schottky diodes (SMS7621's) -- seems like a good idea for this; if it works at all, it'll surely be with diodes with a low forward drop. Do you know what the forward drop for the photocells in the array is? My immediate

[Vo]:Re: Let's address your comments

2007-11-14 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
You want to address my comments? Great! Tell me -- and Vortex -- the output power of the engine. That's what I'm asking. In fact, that's really ALL I'm asking. If it's OU -- if it's doing that which is not possible, in your words -- what's the shaft horsepower with 20 watts of input

[Vo]:Re: Let's address your comments

2007-11-14 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
You've responded again, once again off-list, and once again you have not stated: -- what torque your engine applies to the shaft at 100 RPM -- what the output power is -- how much water is being pumped, up how much rise Please state the output power, clearly, as shaft horsepower. Stop

[Vo]:Re: Let's address your comments

2007-11-14 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
haven't stated it. What is the output power? (Why do you put question in quotes?) [OOPS -- here comes the playground tactic! It's time to play I-dare-you!] I challenge you (Stephen A. Lawrence) Don't be silly. The question is what the output power is. You certainly know it, so state

[Vo]:Re: Let's address your comments

2007-11-14 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
. Once again: *Let's cut to the chase. I challenge you (Stephen A. Lawrence) to come to Mobile and I will match my $10,000 to your $10,000 to see if you can bring a CONVENTIONAL MOTOR to my facility and turn a 1,265-lb rotary at 100 rpms and power that 375-lb positive displacement pump and pump

Re: [Vo]:Re: Let's address your comments

2007-11-15 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Horace Heffner wrote: On Nov 14, 2007, at 7:22 PM, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: JNP replies again! And once again they do not provide power numbers. In fact they no longer even mention the question of output power in their response, and snipped all mention of it from my message

Re: [Vo]:Let's address your comments (from Harry Veeder)

2007-11-15 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
OrionWorks wrote: Harry is having some problems posting to Vortex. Hope this helps. On 11/15/07, Harry Veeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At the moment I can't seem to post to vortex...could you forward this to vortex for me? thanks, Harry Since the water pump needs 10 HP to _operate_, and the

Re: [Vo]:Let's address your comments (from Harry Veeder)

2007-11-15 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Jed Rothwell wrote: Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: The pump is specified by its manufacturer to require drive from a 10 HP engine in order to achieve its rated performance. Actually, if the manufacture's specifications call for a 10 hp engine, that means anything bigger will wreck the pump

Re: [Vo]:Let's address your comments (from Harry Veeder)

2007-11-15 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: Jed Rothwell wrote: Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: The pump is specified by its manufacturer to require drive from a 10 HP engine in order to achieve its rated performance. Actually, if the manufacture's specifications call for a 10 hp engine, that means anything

Re: [Vo]:Macy responds to Krivit

2007-11-16 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Jed Rothwell wrote: Marianne Macy wrote a response to Steve Krivit, here: http://www.infinite-energy.com/resources/macyresponse.html I have to say I found Macy's response both lucid and convincing; she covered the salient points in Steve Krivit's article, and covered them very well. I

Re: [Vo]:The Suppression Name-Game

2007-11-20 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Jed Rothwell wrote: If they did draw up a blueprint it was for convenience only, to save a few months of work by corporate finance and legal wonks. All businessmen always collude, when they can get away with it. They do that is naturally, the way birds fly and fish swim. You can clip the

Re: [Vo]:Cold Electricity

2007-11-21 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Jones Beene wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Saw this on another list: Remember cold electricity? Just hours ago, all the videos for Dr. Ronald Stiffler's Cold Electricity demonstrations were removed from YouTube. His web site is now taken down as well Not the MIB this time ;-) Apparently

[Vo]:OU water heater commercially available in France

2007-11-21 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
For your entertainment on this holiday weekend, here's a water heater, which you can buy today, which is about a factor of five over unity. And it is not a heat pump -- that's true 5x OU, _not_ just garden-variety COP=5. Well, that's what they claim, anyway. They're selling the things for

Re: [VO]: Economic models

2007-11-21 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Nick Palmer wrote: http://www.neweconomics.org/gen/ This organisation actually works on new economic models that include the environmental and social costs of economies onto the bottom line of the balance sheet. That is all one has to do to solve so many seemingly intractable problems. A

Re: [VO]: Economic models

2007-11-21 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Nick Palmer wrote: Horace said I think we ought to see this email. OK, here is the email in its entirety at the bottom with just a few asterisks to protect the niceties. It's not that shocking. Remember who set the tone first with their green crowd and bigmouth cracks. FWIW I agree

Re: [VO]: Concert and Harmony

2007-11-21 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
R.C.Macaulay wrote: Cont'd thread from Thomas... Granted that Russia has a siege mentality ever since Napoleon went ice fishing in the Volga, can this simple reason explain the causes and effect ? The country is ruled by a criminal gang. Shades of the children of Esau and Jacob with a

Re: [Vo]:Cold Electricity

2007-11-21 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
J. Klum wrote: www.stifflerscientific.com and www.drstiffler.com were taken down by accident when the wrong switch was thrown shutting down the lab for the holiday. The DNS automatically defaults to the host. The site is back up but DNS replications may take up to 72 hours worldwide. The

Re: [Vo]:OU water heater commercially available in France

2007-11-27 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
thomas malloy wrote: Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: For your entertainment on this holiday weekend, here's a water heater, which you can buy today, which is about a The approach was developed for use as a heating plant on Russian submarines back in the days of the USSR. (Why not just use

Re: [Vo]:U.S. food banks?

2007-11-30 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Jed Rothwell wrote: R.C.Macaulay wrote: These is an end of any line. Presently the unfunded mandates accrued by the US gov't for social and health programs tops 50 trillion dollars and change... I think the severity of this problem is exaggerated somewhat, at least with regard to Social

Re: [Vo]:[VO}: Hydrogen as fuel

2007-12-07 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
R.C.Macaulay wrote: Howdy Vorts, With the acceleration of research worldwide, is this telling us that hydrogen is being given serious consideration as a replacement fuel for gasoline and diesel? Claims are rampant that the gas can be generated by electric power at a fraction of the input

Re: [Vo]:[VO}: Hydrogen as fuel

2007-12-09 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Horace Heffner wrote: On Dec 8, 2007, at 7:36 PM, R.C.Macaulay wrote: Horace wrote.. Batteries and plug in hybrids, especially diesel hybrids that also run on biodiesel, seem to be the likely winners for the future I actually have a typo in the above. It should say Batteries and plug in

[Vo]:Biofuels

2007-12-10 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Some worthwhile quotes from the Economist regarding the current food situation: Since the spring, wheat prices have doubled and almost every crop under the sun—maize, milk, oilseeds, you name it—is at or near a peak in nominal terms. /The Economist/'s food-price index is higher today than at

Re: [Vo]: OT: Poetic N Justice

2007-12-13 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Jones Beene wrote: Jeff Fink wrote: I read somewhere a long time ago that the offspring of interracial unions are, in general, bigger healthier and smarter than pure breds. Does any one know the source of that, or if it has been proven. It's called Heterosis or more simply hybrid vigor

Re: [Vo]:OT: Culture and the evolving human

2007-12-14 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Jeff Fink wrote: Is it culture that allowed western Europe/America to develop such incredible technology while all previous insipient techno societies such as China and Egypt failed to mature technically? I think this is a misleading question. The sum total of human knowledge has

Re: [Vo]:OT: Are humans evolving faster?

2007-12-14 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Crummy night -- we just had a layoff at work (I made the cut but some very good people didn't). So the tone of this may be a little downbeat. PHILIP WINESTONE wrote: LOL I empathize... in all respects. Does that make us a self-evolving species? I dunno. Humans evolving -- hah. Let's

Re: [Vo]:OT: The Mindless crap shoot of evolution

2007-12-19 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
OrionWorks wrote: A recent comment from the esteemed Mr. Malloy got me to thinking... Thomas sez: I'm reading John Sanford's Genetic Entropy and The Mystery of the Genome. Dr. Sanford makes the case that most mutations are deleterious, if not fatal, to the individual. I actually

Re: [Vo]:Re: OT: The Mindless crap shoot of evolution

2007-12-19 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Michel Jullian wrote: Sensible contribution Stephen, but you must admit it's not reassuring to think of oneself as the result of a number of dice throws. If you go down that slope, the next thing you lose is your own free will isn't it? We are getting 'way off topic. One problem with

Re: [Vo]:Re: WAY_OT: The Mindless crap shoot of evolution

2007-12-19 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Michel Jullian wrote: But could our mind possibly be open to the idea that like paramecia we are machines, only with more computing power? We couldn't possibly cope with this thought could we? We would have to resort to a ghost in the machine, or even a deus in the machina... Nonsense;

Re: [Vo]:OT: The Mindless crap shoot of evolution

2007-12-20 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
thomas malloy wrote: OrionWorks wrote: Thomas sez: The Cruncher's point being that there aren't enough seconds, throwing the dice once per second, over the past 15,000,000,000 years to have tried all the potential combinations. And that's just for the first genome. Stanford's point is

Re: [Vo]:Re: (A = B) A = B

2008-01-07 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
is a slightly more formal version of the proof. On Dec 19, 2007, at 8:57 AM, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote (in the WAY_OT: The Mindless crap shoot of evolution thread): Something I encountered with surprise when I first studied logic is that the primary rule of inference: (A = B) A = B

Re: [Vo]:Parksie gets it wrong yet again

2008-02-22 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Jed Rothwell wrote: [Reporting from home with the wrong return address . . .] thomas malloy wrote: Last night on the BBC news they reported the then breaking news that the American missile had hit the spy satellite. I couldn't help but smile, Parksie was wrong yet again. Long term

[Vo]:Burning our food for fuel

2008-04-10 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Quite some time back someone on this list -- Jed, maybe, or maybe it was actually several people -- opined that alternative biofuels which require arable land to grow could plausibly be viewed as, at least, fundamentally stupid, or at worst as a crime against humanity. Recently I've noticed

Re: [Vo]:Riots, instability spread as food prices skyrocket

2008-04-14 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Jed Rothwell wrote: Some environmental groups reject the focus on ethanol in examining food prices. This is sophistry at its finest: The contrived food vs. fuel debate has reared its ugly head once again, the Renewable Fuels Association says on its Web site, adding that numerous

Re: [Vo]:Re: OT: Numbers and cucumbers

2008-04-15 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Robin van Spaandonk wrote: In reply to Jones Beene's message of Thu, 3 Apr 2008 07:05:44 -0700 (PDT): Hi, Whenever the people start to make actual headway, the currency is devalued to the point that they are put back in their place. ;^) Most of the support being provided by the Fed. is

Re: [Vo]:does anyone else see irony in this?

2008-04-15 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Terry Blanton wrote: Not irony; but, information. I had no idea that White Star was intended to be a PHEV. I always thought it would be a BEV like the Roadster. The thing I find confusing about it is how anyone can claim that using a gasoline-powered motor/generator and electric drive

Re: [Vo]:corn price and ethanol

2008-04-18 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Nick Palmer wrote: I think it was Steven who wrote about the sophistry of the argument about why food prices were rising (due to the diversion of corn production into making ethanol biofuel). In today's technology review http://www.technologyreview.com/Energy/20641/ they are looking at the

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

2008-04-18 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
The government office concerned with such things has predicted that oil prices will average about $101/bbl this coming year, if I recall correctly. Commodities traders don't seem to agree. As I write this, May crude oil contracts are going for $116.82/bbl. That's up $4 in the last four

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

2008-04-18 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
it injects cash into the economy at the same time that it drains consumer goods from the economy. It's very difficult to have a recession *and* a war at the same time. Bush has managed it, but even he probably can't keep it up. (Whoops -- check that Caveat again, folks.) Ed Stephen

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

2008-04-19 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Edmund Storms wrote: While I agree with much of what you say, Richard, I don't think stock trading needs to be gambling. It is too easy to evaluate reality and choose stocks that always make money, at least for awhile. Its rather like counting cards in 21, which moves the odds away from

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

2008-04-19 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
R C Macaulay wrote: A share of stock.. any stock is only worth what you can sell it for. It used to have some relationship with a company's net worth and/or assets and keyed to the dividend paid each year. NO MORE.. few dividends are paid out anymore FYI: Median dividend yield for all

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

2008-04-21 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, This is the first time I post on this message board, so please be gentle =) I just wanted to provide an outside view on the rising oil prices. To me it seems like the value of $ has been dropping and if you look at the increased price of oil and compare it

Re: [Vo]:Went to see Hillery - dropped her a note.

2008-04-21 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Terry Blanton wrote: On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 8:59 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: She is going to cut taxes. provide universal heath care, Mutually exclusive. Given the state of the economy, and the fact that Hillary isn't promising an instant withdrawal from Iraq (as far as I

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

2008-04-22 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Jed Rothwell wrote: Sometimes they go after the disease has become very serious, and then they are bankrupted by the system, which -- as I said -- may charge a patient his entire net worth in a few days. Healthcare costs are the largest cause of middle-class bankruptcy. Ironically, I've

Re: [Vo]:CNN.COM: Scientists offered $1 million to grow laboratory chicken

2008-04-23 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Jed Rothwell wrote: The PETA prize turns out to be bogus. They will only give it to researchers who have already succeeded and who are in a position to make billions. That was actually quite clear from the earlier stories. The stuff must go all the way to market before it's eligible, by

[Vo]:Oil price elasticity: Cutting through the fog

2008-04-23 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
There's so much outright garbage on the Internet about the price of oil, I decided to do a little crude modeling of my own to try to get a handle on this. My conclusion is that, using a trivial model and some simple historical values, it appears that oil may not get past $150 in the next year.

Re: [Vo]:Oil price elasticity: Cutting through the fog

2008-04-24 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
There turned out to be some issues with the analysis I did. First, a brief bit of background which I left out: Elasticity of demand is the percentage by which demand changes for a given percentage change in the price. So, if elasticity is -1, then if the price increases by 10%, the amount

Re: [Vo]:Oil price elasticity: Cutting through the fog

2008-04-25 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
thomas malloy wrote: Taylor J. Smith wrote: Hi Stephen, Nice simulation; but human greed and stupidity, which are impossible to over-estimate, are not Personal reflections: I hope they're right. Not sure that I do. Does your calculation factor in an increase in the supply of oil

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

2008-04-27 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
A lot of marginal farmland in the United States has been returned to forest land. It's the same throughout much of New England -- lots of woods, but it's all second growth because it all was farmland a century ago. It was terrible farmland, but in the absence of the Interstate system and

Re: [Vo]:Re: Toshiba Bettery

2008-04-30 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Michel Jullian wrote: That's for the cathode material, and it is nanostructured. The rest seems to be standard Li ion battery materials. It has all the features one can dream of for a Bettery (5mn charge, works down to -30°C, 10 yrs life), except for energy density. From the page you quote:

Re: [Vo]:Re: Toshiba Bettery

2008-04-30 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Michel Jullian wrote: They say here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_ion_battery that the A123 battery has slightly lower energy density that other competing Lithium Ion technologies. Standard Li-ion (not high power): 150 to 200 Wh/kg (sez above article), so slightly lower would be

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

2008-05-04 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: Jones Beene wrote: It is perhaps possible to provide a *stationary* Fresnel array which has virtual tracking. Imagine a fixed, stationary array of Fresnel lens and underlying photocells, somewhat as in this image: http://www.sinosolargroup.com/en/images/toushe33

Re: [Vo]:The Bendini Motor

2008-05-11 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
thomas malloy wrote: Rick also mentioned Li ion batteries. He said that Energetics will never produce a charger for them. Apparently they tend to catch fire, or explode. Either event is not conducive to getting a UL seal of approval. Of course we've all heard about the flaming power books

Re: [Vo]:BLP makes yet another announcment

2008-05-28 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Mike Carrell wrote: My take on BLP strategy. The publication of reports of experiments and theory lets all see the RD, especially the patent department, a full log of reduction to practice over many years. In the companion paper Commercializable...you will find the approach is somewhat

Re: [Vo]:BLP makes yet another announcement

2008-05-29 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Got this response from Robin von Spaandonk, who requested that I forward it to the list. = In reply to Stephen A. Lawrence's message of Wed, 28 May 2008 23:22:16 -0400: Hi Steven, Would you mind forwarding this to Vortex, it rejects me.

Re: [Vo]:Cold Fusion, Wet or Dry?

2008-05-31 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Michael Foster wrote: Since I haven't read all the papers on LENR-CANR, I'm not sure if this subject has already been covered. The recent Arata demonstration confirms what I've thought for some time concerning the CF phenomenon. That is, the electrolytic version of CF has been difficult to

Re: [Vo]:Alien Contact Proof?

2008-06-01 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Terry Blanton wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J30WGDq-AXU Watch the brief scene in the hallway. The motion of the creature looks very complex for a marionette. What do inquiring minds think? Inquiring minds think the old video footage of the Apollo astronauts cavorting on the

Re: [Vo]:The Science of Intention

2008-06-03 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
OrionWorks wrote: There's a popular NewAge saying which proclaims that we create our own reality. I suspect most who ponder the ramifications of the NA phrase take the meaning metaphorically, perhaps in the same vein as reading certain passages from the bible, particularly Genesis. Others are

Re: [Vo]:The Science of Intention

2008-06-03 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Edmund Storms wrote: You are right, Steven, if belief were only required, the reality we find ourselves in would not work and it would not survive long enough for us to debate the issue. I suppose we could conclude that the Darwin process has eliminated this possibility. If this is true,

Re: [Vo]:The Science of Intention

2008-06-04 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Edmund Storms wrote: To get back to science, a lot of scientific study has been done to reveal the existence of this ability. The results of this work, at least to me, show that thought transfer is real. But like all such claims, this belief is rejected by conventional science. My question

Re: [Vo]:The Science of Intention

2008-06-04 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Edmund Storms wrote: Interesting logic, Stephen. Let's explore another possibility. Suppose thought transfer is common in animals that do not have a complex language. One might use schooling fish as an example or perhaps a flock of birds. While other explanations can be suggested for the

Re: [Vo]:The Science of Intention

2008-06-04 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Thanks -- that's a very nifty pair of anecdotes. As one of our favorite demons once said, The plural of anecdote is data (from the collected aphorisms of Bob Park). They have a big advantage over the theophanies which are commonly experienced (and which are one of the primary engines which

Re: [Vo]:Three Words That Could Overthrow Physics

2008-06-04 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Terry Blanton wrote: What is Magnetism http://discovermagazine.com/2008/may/02-three-words-that-could-overthrow-physics The author of the piece wants something that will explain why magnets do what they do. Physics doesn't explain. It models. There's a huge difference. The model of

Re: [Vo]:Three Words That Could Overthrow Physics

2008-06-04 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Harry Veeder wrote: I am calling your bluff. ;-) Not a bluff, though it involves some fuzzy reasoning. The difference between a proof and an explanation has bugged me since junior high, when I found out that most mathematical facts are proven without ever being explained. As I said

Re: [Vo]:Self Runner

2008-06-05 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Jed Rothwell wrote: Terry Blanton wrote: Okay, so, say you have a machine which puts out 500 Watts with 50 Watts input and the model cost $5,000. Would anyone buy one? I would, in a heartbeat. Especially if you can arrange to eliminate the 50 W input after she revs up, and self-sustain.

Re: [Vo]:Self Runner

2008-06-05 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Terry Blanton wrote: On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 7:19 PM, Jones Beene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With an IPO that raised say $10 billion (which alone would drag things out an additional 6 months) you could count on the first product capable of powering a home coming to market in 4 years- at the

Re: [Vo]:The Science of Intention

2008-06-05 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
OrionWorks wrote: Thanks for bringing Sai Baba back to my attention, Ed. How foolish of me to have temporarily forgotten him. Isn't it interesting that someone with his unique perception on reality, combined with his ability to manipulate reality (seemingly the fundamental laws of physics) as

[Vo]:The Lightning: Electric car with wheel motors, nano-titanate batteries

2008-06-07 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
I hadn't heard of this one until I stumbled across it while looking for something else in Google. It's a high end niche car but none the less I thought it was interesting. Wheel motors, used on all electric locomotives, have, as far as I know, never been used on a car (in recent memory, at

Re: [Vo]:Oil Gang responds

2008-06-09 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
R C Macaulay wrote: Howdy Vorts, Gosh, golly, gee folks, here we go again with the Jews and arabs. This time the wedge is oil. The USA uses oil like toilet paper and everybuddy knows wez intitled to it.. or we think we do. We have enough oil provided we turn off a few lights and live like

Re: [Vo]:Three Words That Could Overthrow Physics

2008-06-09 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Harry Veeder wrote: On 4/6/2008 10:53 PM, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: Harry Veeder wrote: I am calling your bluff. ;-) Not a bluff, though it involves some fuzzy reasoning. The difference between a proof and an explanation has bugged me since junior high, when I found out that most

Re: [Vo]:Three Words That Could Overthrow Physics

2008-06-09 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Robin van Spaandonk wrote: In reply to Stephen A. Lawrence's message of Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:51:17 -0400: Hi, [snip] Aether theory is predicated on the notion that there is some kind of aether which carries some kind of vibrations; as such that's a sort of fuzzy explanation (though the

Re: [Vo]:Oil Gang responds

2008-06-10 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
OrionWorks wrote: Philip sez: ... People are where they are because it's where they are, as part of the dream. My approach is, live with it. go out, have a coffee and a bagel (or some nice organic bread) and get on with life. There's room enough for everyone, and everyone can make good,

Re: [Vo]:Oil Gang responds

2008-06-10 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Edmund Storms wrote: Stephen, you are making a huge assumption when you say that past lives are not remembered. True, it's a big one; it's based on the small amount I've read about brain science plus some major guesses. So far, as we continue to learn more about brain function,

Re: [Vo]:Re: Arata's results are really astounding

2008-06-10 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Jones Beene wrote: Only problem is he sent out dozens of samples to MRI XPS and NMR specialists and not a single one will independently confirm his claim. When contacted indpendently - even Mills best supporter has hedged. Eric Kreig, no matter what you may think of him, has tried to verify

Re: [Vo]:Oil Gang responds

2008-06-10 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Apology to all: This is way, way off topic. I won't respond again on anything biblical, or even Middle Eastern, in this thread. (If you want to yell at me about it do it privately and spare the rest of the list.) thomas malloy wrote: Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: R C Macaulay wrote

Re: [Vo]:Oil Gang responds

2008-06-10 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
won the pitched battles. But, will they win the war without compromise? Ed thomas malloy wrote: Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: R C Macaulay wrote: Howdy Vorts, Gosh, golly, gee folks, here we go again with the Jews and arabs. This time the wedge is oil. The USA uses oil like toilet paper

Re: [Vo]:Divine Intervention

2008-06-11 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
OrionWorks wrote: Perhaps against my better judgment I feel compelled to share the following incident. FWIW I believe it is a truthful account. A couple of years ago at one of those informal UFO meetings I attend in the Milwaukee area I had an unusual conversation with a good acquaintance of

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