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

2012-01-02 Thread Nick Palmer
wattsupwiththat.com - 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: [Vo]:Jed and others 2012 predictions please

2012-01-02 Thread Nick Palmer
ld be beneficial as it would enable the Green movement to concentrate more on habitat and biodiversity protection and all the other stuff apart from climate change and peak oil. Nick Palmer On the side of the Planet - and the people - because they're worth it Blogspot - Sus

Re: [Vo]:Cold Fusion Economic Effects

2011-12-13 Thread Nick Palmer
here are real and obvious 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

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]:Corrections to "heat after death" calculations

2011-09-01 Thread Nick Palmer
es in the "cold 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 -

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

2011-08-29 Thread Nick Palmer
u are a midget and a very rude incorrigible 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]:A New Reason to Go Green

2011-08-20 Thread Nick Palmer
t and I don't know any other environmentalists who support felling it! - if we had 500 -1500 years to stabilise the atmosphere, it would be an extremely good strategy, assuming that we could find space for it and still grow enough food... but we don't have that time. Nick Palmer O

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

2011-08-19 Thread Nick Palmer
ur views are and start by applying maths in a rational 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

2011-08-18 Thread Nick Palmer
icalscience.com 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

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

2011-07-30 Thread Nick Palmer
n his earlier work - rather comprehensively debunked here http://bbickmore.wordpress.com/2011/07/26/just-put-the-model-down-roy/ 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: our reactors now produce a totally dry steam

2011-06-19 Thread Nick Palmer
further criticism of/investigation on this point. Big smelly red flags! The bit about universal credibility coming from working units sold commercially raises another red flag to those of us who have seen many such promises before. It could not be red flaggier unless he mentioned "shipping

Re: [Vo]:OT:Economic crisis and post-capitalism

2011-06-16 Thread Nick Palmer
he global economy cannot continue without continuing to deteriorate the natrual systems that sustain us. If we don't grow the economy, there will be a gigantic financial crash to make the 1930s look like a wonderful time. There are no easy answers to what we need to do. Nick Palmer On the si

Re: [Vo]:Weak Winds for Brits

2011-04-28 Thread Nick Palmer
tricity at exactly the moment when demand peaks during the summer, because air conditioning kicks in when the sun is hottest." America is not the whole world! In Britain, we don't really use air-con much. I guess our peak electricity is in the winter when we have electric fires on. Nic

Re: [Vo]:Weak Winds for Brits

2011-04-27 Thread Nick Palmer
Jed wrote: "I do not know of any environmentalist support for cold fusion except our poor lonely friend Nick Palmer here, but I doubt that environmentalists will be strongly opposed to it." I don't know of any direct environmental movement support or belief - the general feel

Re: [Vo]:Weak Winds for Brits

2011-04-27 Thread Nick Palmer
of the firm I think built this turbine for the other side of the story. 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]:Weak Winds for Brits

2011-04-27 Thread Nick Palmer
llfact.org/factchecks/wind_turbines_performance_capacity_muir_trust_express_daily_mail-2646 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]:Weak Winds for Brits

2011-04-27 Thread Nick Palmer
rry picking and misrepresentation he indulges in here is quite spectacular. 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]:RE: Rothwell goes into brain freeze

2011-04-20 Thread Nick Palmer
Re: the Jones/Jed spat Part of it might be explained by the confusion between "factor of 2 or 3" and "factor of 1000". If one was meaning orders of magnitude and the other wasn't, the flame war might become more resolvable. Nick Palmer On the side of the Planet -

Re: [Vo]:Rossi impact betting pool?

2011-04-02 Thread Nick Palmer
I'm far more optimistic. My guess (if we're talking about a sale of the proposed 1 MW unit). First mention in major mass media other than Washington Times (already happened). [1 day] Major coverage in mass media; i.e. front page news, everyone else copies. [2-3 days] Nick

Re: [Vo]:Latest Rossi news at PESN

2011-03-09 Thread Nick Palmer
b with their bare hands - if they could find a martyr who didn't mind dying for the cause (seemingly not a problem). Also, of course, non fissionable grade material can be converted into dirty bombs. Nick Palmer On the side of the Planet - and the people - because they're worth it

Re: [Vo]:Replicating Rossi at home

2011-02-02 Thread Nick Palmer
<> I don't think they made them. The tile I saw in Chris Tinsley's living room literally WAS a kitchen tile (I'm 90% sure) with a melted hole in it. Chris remarked something like "you ought to see it when the reaction lights up". Nick Palmer On the side

Re: [Vo]:Replicating Rossi at home

2011-02-01 Thread Nick Palmer
ip 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 the

Re: [Vo]:Replicating Rossi at home

2011-02-01 Thread Nick Palmer
urn" experiment 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]:Monday Update to Release Information on Self Sustain Mode

2011-01-22 Thread Nick Palmer
you may think it's a long way 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]:Input power must be far lower than ~10 kW

2011-01-16 Thread Nick Palmer
nal mixed in with the environmental noise 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

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

2011-01-14 Thread Nick Palmer
ive credibilty to CF. 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

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 t

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

2010-11-05 Thread Nick Palmer
<>... ... 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 - because they're worth it Blogspot - Sustaina

Re: [Vo]:NanoSpire

2010-10-31 Thread Nick Palmer
river - 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

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

Re: [Vo]:Bloom Box Enters Production Phase

2010-10-18 Thread Nick Palmer
up to use the "waste" heat 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

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 Blo

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

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

2010-09-07 Thread Nick Palmer
minally more expensive than the foreign/out 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

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

2010-08-31 Thread Nick Palmer
eep buying 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]: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]:glabal warming conference

2010-04-01 Thread Nick Palmer
(expensive) lattice/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]:Krivit's new claim, transcript of ACS Krivit Pop Quiz

2010-04-01 Thread Nick Palmer
ABD wrote: <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 of the Planet - and the people - because they&#x

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

2010-03-30 Thread Nick Palmer
nd that all the technologies necessary 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]: scepticism was Request for "fusion" definition

2010-03-24 Thread Nick Palmer
ABD wrote <> Here is a funny exposition of pathological scepticism well worth five minutes of anyone's time http://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 st

Re: [Vo]:Fusion confusion

2010-03-23 Thread Nick Palmer
tance of the phenomena as real... 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]:Sea Power News

2010-02-23 Thread Nick Palmer
the Rance has a dam 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]:A positive comment about cold fusion in the New York Times

2010-01-07 Thread Nick Palmer
might put the resources of Google into research. 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]:steorn january experiments announcement

2010-01-01 Thread Nick Palmer
Terry wrote: <> Frain motor too? Nick Palmer

Re: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC Nick Palmer uploads video on Climategate

2009-12-09 Thread Nick Palmer
Rick Monteverde wrote: Nick Palmer has zero credibility on this particular issue as he has openly advocated on this forum that it should be ILLEGAL to voice opposition to the theories of global warming! Suck on that, you intellectually inferior First Amendment huggers. To actually achieve that

Re: [Vo]:Total and MIT announce solar battery project

2009-11-07 Thread Nick Palmer
I read Horace's link to Total's research venture into solar battery storage and what did I see at the bottom of the page? This link may be old news but it was news to me http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2247854/blacklight-gains-academic Nick Palmer On the side of

Re: [Vo]:Reactionless drive claim: Emdrive

2009-10-31 Thread Nick Palmer
Harry asked: <> Amazingly, yes. I love the low-tech garage-tech smoke generation system http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9NViY0Dnkc&NR=1 Nick Palmer On the side of the Planet - and the people - because they're worth it Blogspot - Sustainability and stuff according to N

[Vo]:zinc air "bettery"

2009-10-28 Thread Nick Palmer
The "bettery" approaches? This article (particularly page 2) discusses a sort of flow cell technique although they don't mention it by name, comparing it instead to a fuel cell. http://www.technologyreview.com/business/23812/ Nick Palmer On the side of the Planet - and the p

Re: [Vo]:Nickel has unique physical properties

2009-10-25 Thread Nick Palmer
ot; out of ceramic piezolectric/triboelectric material, plating it with P or Ni, loading it up with D or H and then zapping the piezoelectric material with high frequency/high amplitude electric voltage. See what happens. Nick Palmer On the side of the Planet - and the people - because they&#

[Vo]:Re: including ALL the physics...

2009-10-14 Thread Nick Palmer
This lot realised (eventually) that experimental results trump theory - or a least that results can suggest that there is a problem with a theory, or its application and assumptions. If they know how to investigate and what to do about anomalies, why doesn't Big Nuclear Science? Nick Palmer

Re: [Vo]:Fleischmann

2009-10-13 Thread Nick Palmer
I seem to recall that "essential tremor" is eased by alcoholic beverages whereas Parkinson's is not. Anyway, it's a good excuse to buy some wine... Nick Palmer On the side of the Planet - and the people - because they're worth it Blogspot - Sustainability and stuff

Re: [Vo]:Fleischmann

2009-10-13 Thread Nick Palmer
orted, and you omitted the negative parts of it from your own report." Again you are wrong - it wasn't hearsay neither did I omit anything significant. The only part I cannot swear by is Martin's comment that it was "other people" (rather than him) who were behind the

Re: [Vo]:Fleischmann

2009-10-13 Thread Nick Palmer
just the Dardik's controlling access to someone they are trying to use to give their operation credibility. They have lost any credibility they may have had with me, if this is the way they operate. 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]:clever electric bike design

2009-09-24 Thread Nick Palmer
ks as if it can bank over, whilst still keeping the stability of three wheels. Nick Palmer On the side of the Planet - and the people - because they're worth it BlogSpot Sustainability and stuff according to Nick Palmer

Re: [Vo]:Papers uploaded but having trouble downloading

2009-09-05 Thread Nick Palmer
Jed - I had this problem myself very recently. Try Firefox Tools-> Options-> Applications - you might find that Firefox has set itself to "always ask" about opening pdfs. The effect is that nothing happens and the tab hangs. I am sure you will figure out what to do to fix it.

vortex-l@eskimo.com

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Palmer
Lead acid[5] 0.14 0.36 Spring 0.0003 0.0006 Springs therefore don't seem to be a practical energy storage solution (mass per stored kWh is about 1000 times more than that of other types)>> Nick Palmer On the side o

vortex-l@eskimo.com

2009-09-01 Thread Nick Palmer
"lossy" middlemen stages. Nick Palmer On the side of the Planet - and the people - because they're worth it

[Vo]:Clockwork

2009-08-31 Thread Nick Palmer
Gnorts, Vorts Anyone have any idea if big clockwork "mainsprings" could be used at a domestic level to store energy - and how to calculate available storage capacity? Nick Palmer On the side of the Planet - and the people - because they're worth it

Re: [Vo]:Gulf Stream energy

2009-07-27 Thread Nick Palmer
f the current very rapid (instead of taking the hundreds of years it was expected to take). While still not an immediate danger, observations show that the ice sheets seem to be melting/breaking up much faster than the IPCC predictions at the time (and even those of the 2007 IPCC report)... N

Re: [Vo]:Perspective on Heat Vs. Everything Else

2009-07-25 Thread Nick Palmer
ck up a NIB magnet and shake it by their cold fusion cell to be instantly rewarded by a blinding wave of light and heat... Nick Palmer

Re: [Vo]:Hydrino represents Lorentz contraction in the opposite direction from event horizon

2009-07-24 Thread Nick Palmer
between Casimir plates. Fire short half life particles/atoms though the gap between the plates and see if there is an effect on their lifespan. Nick Palmer On the side of the Planet - and the people - because they're worth it

Fw: [Vo]:vortex balls!

2009-06-27 Thread Nick Palmer
- Original Message - From: John Berry To: Nick Palmer Sent: Saturday, June 27, 2009 11:58 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:vortex balls! Unfortunately,"Full many a rose is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air " On the subject of such, well I did j

Re: [Vo]:vortex balls!

2009-06-27 Thread Nick Palmer
Horace rather plaintively wrote:

Re: [Vo]:OT video

2009-06-24 Thread Nick Palmer
n powers the eyes of the choir... Nick Palmer On the side of the Planet - and the people - because they're worth it

Re: [Vo]:New drill to make geothermal easier

2009-06-16 Thread Nick Palmer
of it." If geothermal proved to be a problem, I think it would be easily soluble. Nick Palmer On the side of the Planet - and the people - because they're worth it

Re: [Vo]:Traffic flow

2009-06-10 Thread Nick Palmer
I looked at the animation for this idea and, frankly, Bill's animation is head and shoulders better. The core reason behind "phantom" jams is absolutely obvious with Bill's whereas this one is pretty confusing unless you understand the idea in advance of watching it. Nick

[Vo]:OT: carbon capture

2009-06-07 Thread Nick Palmer
Jeff Fink wrote (3rd June): <> Here's a "Climate Crock of the Week" video showing how dangerous and misleading this "CO2 as plant food" propaganda from the denialists is. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFGU6qvkmTI&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fnickpalmer.blogspot.c

Fw: [Vo]:The Science of Greenhouse Effect...Time for some balance?

2009-06-05 Thread Nick Palmer
Nick Palmer On the side of the Planet - and the people - because they're worth it - Original Message - From: "Nick Palmer" To: "Mark Iverson" Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 1:54 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:The Science of Greenhouse Effect...Time for some balance?

Re: [Vo]:The Science of Greenhouse Effect...Time for some balance?

2009-06-04 Thread Nick Palmer
Ferenc Miskolczi - balance? - oh please! Before you now it he will be "proving" his theories using the size, relationships and angles of the great pyramids. http://www.realclimate.org/wiki/index.php?title=Ferenc_Miskolczi Nick Palmer On the side of the Planet - and the people

[Vo]:test

2009-05-14 Thread Nick Palmer
Just testing to see if Eskimo.com is letting my messages through yet. Nick Palmer On the side of the Planet - and the people - because they're worth it

[Vo]:Tesla coil music

2009-03-18 Thread Nick Palmer
If you're going to waste energy, you might as well have fun. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJqoRaphiEk Nick Palmer On the side of the Planet - and the people - because they're worth it

Fw: [Vo]:Red Hot Lies

2009-03-12 Thread Nick Palmer
Nick Palmer On the side of the Planet - and the people - because they're worth it - Original Message - From: "thomas malloy" To: "Nick Palmer" Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 4:47 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Red Hot Lies Nick Palmer wrote: The author of this b

Re: [Vo]:Red Hot Lies

2009-03-12 Thread Nick Palmer
anyone who will listen that they're the only one who is sane and everyone outside in the world is mad? Nick Palmer On the side of the Planet - and the people - because they're worth it

Re: [Vo]:Organic farming under threat...

2009-03-09 Thread Nick Palmer
elworm and so nematicides are routinely applied to the non-organic crop. A well established organic field has fungi which literally have "lassos" which catch the nematodes. The crop still gets eelworm attack but it is much less of a problem than it is to those who farm with "dead&qu

[Vo]:more power - arrh, arrh!

2009-02-19 Thread Nick Palmer
Gnorts, This Australian company has just announced 60% electrical efficiency for their solid oxide microgeneration combined heat and power unit - 85% total efficiency! http://www.cfcl.com.au/ Nick Palmer On the side of the Planet - and the people - because they're worth it

Re: [Vo]:Climate Change

2009-02-16 Thread Nick Palmer
confuse weather and climate in the public's mind. Predicting weather is like predicting how many times red or black comes up in the next few spins on a roulette wheel. You won't get rich. Predicting climate change is like knowing that, over time, the red and black "incidents" will statistically work out at around 50-50 - the casino gets rich. Nick Palmer

Re: [Vo]:Climate Change

2009-02-13 Thread Nick Palmer
would be one such mechanism. Nick Palmer

Re: [Vo]:Climate Change

2009-02-13 Thread Nick Palmer
their spiel, which has been compared to that of snake oil salesmen. Having heard one of these shows for the first time I have to say that they appear to be a great evil - spreading lies and distortion and misrepresentation and manipulating gullible people all in the name of free speech - liberty? - more like licence! Nick Palmer

[Vo]:Re: Unstoppable Global Warming...

2009-02-10 Thread Nick Palmer
it was otherwise a chilly night. Nick Palmer On the side of the Planet - and the people - because they're worth it

Re: [Vo]:Scientists Agree Human-Induced Global Warming Is Real

2009-01-21 Thread Nick Palmer
ars to use the same misleading "paper" written by the Robinsons and Soon which has been comprehensively demolished as misleading and deceptive not to mention highly based on old discredited or superseded papers. Nick Palmer

Re: [Vo]:Are they all correct?

2009-01-19 Thread Nick Palmer
<> Michel, are you absolutely sure that you are a Frenchman? Nick Palmer On the side of the Planet - and the people - because they're worth it

Re: [Vo]:Homegrown wind generators

2009-01-19 Thread Nick Palmer
f higher ground that birds are likely to use when migrating. Painting the blades in an asymmetric pattern (to induce flicker - but watch out for epileptics too) also helps. Nick Palmer On the side of the Planet - and the people - because they're worth it

Re: [Vo]:The PickensPlan website

2009-01-06 Thread Nick Palmer
" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_VmMIbWKoo Nick Palmer On the side of the Planet - and the people - because they're worth it

Re: [Vo]:The PickensPlan website

2009-01-06 Thread Nick Palmer
upplied by the equivalent of Walmart instead of the equivalent of DeWalt... . Nick Palmer On the side of the Planet - and the people - because they're worth it

Re: [Vo]:OT: Snowstorms in the Midwest

2008-12-23 Thread Nick Palmer
environmental space! Obviously some of this area would be hostile desert, ice fields, mountains, rainforest etc. The world suddenly looked rather cramped. I even wrote a poem featuring the figure (and blue whales and advertising) - excerpt follows - "the population is in a jam, two hun

Re: [Vo]:OT: Snowstorms in the Midwest

2008-12-22 Thread Nick Palmer
s a non-starter that "gigatonnes of seawater" solution that cropped up here recently) and so is NOT far more important as a greenhouse gas than CO2 is - this is another denialist deceit that they keep on plugging, again long after it has been proved to be false. Nick Palmer On the side

Re: [Vo]:OT: Snowstorms in the Midwest

2008-12-21 Thread Nick Palmer
n as a globe about 1km in diameter within which we have a patch of "Earth" about 270 meters square, 70% of which is ocean, leaving the aforementioned patch of land 150 metres square to live on. I think that shows that Earth is pretty cramped and it is beyond rational belief that our activities are not affecting things. Nick Palmer On the side of the Planet - and the people - because they're worth it

Re: [Vo]:OT: Snowstorms in the Midwest

2008-12-20 Thread Nick Palmer
e in good agreement with models. " Most of the denier myths are exploded here (not the best, most definitive or clearest but probably the largest number in one place) http://www.skepticalscience.com/argument.php Nick Palmer On the side of the Planet - and the people - because they're worth it

Re: [Vo]:OT: Snowstorms in the Midwest

2008-12-19 Thread Nick Palmer
ce age but we won't get there for another few thousand years. Despite this the planet is measurably warming due to our activities. This should ring even louder alarm bells. Nick Palmer On the side of the Planet - and the people - because they're worth it

Re: [Vo]:Solar Energy Ltd. "intends to develop cold fusion"

2008-12-12 Thread Nick Palmer
ued "iron-fertilization" prove out measures in connection with Planktos Corp., divested substantially all of the assets of Planktos Corp. and pursued financing commitments for its ongoing plan of operation. >> Nick Palmer On the side of the Planet - and the people - because they're worth it

Re: [Vo]:'Heavy' drinkers live longer

2008-12-01 Thread Nick Palmer
holesterol level which would support your theory about healthy animal fats but would not suggest that vegetable oils were unhealthy... Nick Palmer On the side of the Planet - and the people - because they're worth it

Re: [Vo]:'Heavy' drinkers live longer

2008-11-30 Thread Nick Palmer
<the body then tries to fill with cholesterol. In short vegetable oils are not "healthy" alternatives, they are the primary cause of heart disease. The healthy alternative is nice heavy animal fats. Hey Robin, you'll have to explain why vegetarians get far less heart dis

Re: [Vo]:The evolution of good governance

2008-10-01 Thread Nick Palmer
ism can be the ideal form of capitalism.*Eat you heart out, Remi.>> Generally speaking, the Dutch are also amongst the "nicest" people in the world too - co-incidence? I think not. Nick Palmer On the side of the Planet - and the people - because they're worth it

Re: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC News of the bailout

2008-09-29 Thread Nick Palmer
for another year or so to let his bile stocks build up again, perhaps it won't be long before he's off again. Any body else counting the minutes? Nick Palmer (slightly right-leaning environmentalist) On the side of the Planet - and the people - because they're worth it

Re: [Vo]:GM Chevy Volt at CalCars

2008-09-19 Thread Nick Palmer
John Steck shot a load of stuff from the hip... <> Oh dear, I didn't realise that according to John, the kind of neo-con thinking that got us into the various messes we're in, or about to be in - Climate change, peak oil, global financial meltdown and global overpopulation was what was neede

Re: [Vo]:NIST debunking

2008-09-08 Thread Nick Palmer
Err guys, don't get carried away with the conspiracy - try to consider how long a pool of molten metal would stay molten... <> Even if thermite was used, what mechanism could possibly keep pools of molten steel - molten - beams dripping - glowing - for WEEKS after they were melted. It's just

Re: [Vo]:Sunspotless

2008-09-08 Thread Nick Palmer
Rick wrote > Your position would only be acceptable if the various "opinions" were of equal weight. They are not. Lindzen's opinion counts a lot because he is the just about the most serious climate sce

Re: [Vo]:Sunspotless

2008-09-07 Thread Nick Palmer
Apologies for the "shouting" in this post! Rick wrote: > There is tons of evidence for CO2 as a (but not the only) cause for warming. The basic theory and experimental evidence goes back over 100 years.

Re: [Vo]:Sunspotless

2008-09-07 Thread Nick Palmer
Just to try to "level" the field wherein all the argument takes place over AGW. Richard Lindzen is probably the most respected of the atmospheric scientists who are sceptical about catastrophic climate change. He has been the AGW sceptical scientist-of-choice on many TV programmes and writes l

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