[Vo]: Detroit Sees the Light

2006-08-11 Thread Terry Blanton
And it's electric! http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060809/AUTO03/608090317/1149 http://tinyurl.com/o88tu

[Vo]: Sarfattisms

2006-08-11 Thread Terry Blanton
This has got to be one of the best: What is mind? Mind is a macro-quantum coherent ODLRO (off diagonal long-range order) field in the brain/body microtubule caged electron protein dimers (S. Hameroff) protected against decoherence by More is different Goldstone phase rigidity. :-) Terry

[Vo]: New Segway Products

2006-08-11 Thread Terry Blanton
One is the Robotic Mobility Platform: http://www.segway.com/products/rmp/ A friend told me about this several months ago (before it was announced). This person was writing systems integration software for military robots. One comment was, imagine a Segway with a chain gun rolling into a batch

[Vo]: RIP Detroit - Formally: Detroit Sees the Light

2006-08-11 Thread OrionWorks
From Terry Blanton And it's electric! http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060809/AUTO03/608090317/1149 http://tinyurl.com/o88tu This reminds me of when I purchased my first home computer back around 1978. I was fresh out of college and had just landed my first real

[Vo]: Printing Solar Cells

2006-08-11 Thread Terry Blanton
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/280625_solarcell10.html Solar cells change electricity distribution By DAVE FREEMAN AND JIM HARDING GUEST COLUMNISTS In separate announcements over the past few months, researchers at the University of Johannesburg and at Nanosolar, a private company in

[Vo]: Whither the Polysulphide Battery?

2006-08-11 Thread Zell, Chris
I noticed that Stuart Licht's Polysulphide battery patent will expire in another year, relative to the '87 filing date. ( 4828942) It claims to be a cheap, efficient flow cell unit with 3 times the storage capacity of lead/metal systems. I can't find any evidence that it was ever built. I wonder

Re: [Vo]: Printing Solar Cells

2006-08-11 Thread Terry Blanton
On 8/11/06, Terry Blanton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In separate announcements over the past few months, researchers at the University of Johannesburg and at Nanosolar, a private company in Palo Alto, have announced major breakthroughs in reducing the cost of solar electric cells. While trade

Re: [Vo]: New Segway Products

2006-08-11 Thread Terry Blanton
On 8/11/06, Jed Rothwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can this gadget tell who is bad, and who is innocent? Just shoots the ones in black hats. A problem for the Israelis in Lebanon, innit? The software package was quite interesting. It integrated 30,000 combat elements including UAVs and

Re: [Vo]: Correa Patent Issued

2006-08-11 Thread Mike Carrell
Chris, If you reread the original post where I complimented the Correa's and many others, you might notice it was I that was attacked by said Correa. MC: I can believe that, even though I haven't followed this thread from its start. A while back on Vo there were unjustified attacks from an

[Vo]: Plug-in Hybrid School Buses

2006-08-11 Thread Terry Blanton
http://www.ic-corp.com/site_layout/news/newsdetail.asp?id=772 11 States are First in the Nation to Receive Hybrid School Buses as IC Corporation Awarded Bid by Advanced Energy Consortium IC Corporation Works with Enova Systems to Supply First Hybrid School Buses That Can Attain Up To 40 Percent

[Vo]: First installment

2006-08-11 Thread Jones Beene
In 1874, Jules Verne had finished publishing (in 62 installments !) his “Robinsonade” (yes, this is a real word, Robin) called “The Mysterious Island,” a tale which follows the adventures of a group of castaways who use their survivalist skills to build a functional community on a remote island.

Re: [Vo]: New Segway Products

2006-08-11 Thread Edmund Storms
The idea of good guys and bad guys in war is useless and distracting to what is actually happening. War is a means to gain power over others. War no longer makes a distinction between those who are fighting and those who are not. Both are killed with equal intensity, although it is still

Re: [Vo]: RIP Detroit - Formally: Detroit Sees the Light

2006-08-11 Thread Terry Blanton
On 8/11/06, OrionWorks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Meanwhile, according to the article that Terry supplied us with, there are other contenders in the market, like the Xebra, a city car made by the company Zap, a 3 wheeler that goes as fast as 40 mph and can go as far as 40 miles per charge. The

Re: [Vo]: New Segway Products

2006-08-11 Thread Terry Blanton
On 8/11/06, Edmund Storms [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We need to use our creativity to explore another way. That's easy: 1) Make energy free. 2) Eliminate religion. It's only the path which is in question. Terry

Re: [Vo]: New Segway Products

2006-08-11 Thread Edmund Storms
Terry Blanton wrote: On 8/11/06, Edmund Storms [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We need to use our creativity to explore another way. That's easy: 1) Make energy free. Unfortunately, free energy would not solve the problem. Free energy would mean the Middle Eastern countries would be even

Re: [Vo]: New Segway Products

2006-08-11 Thread Terry Blanton
On 8/11/06, Edmund Storms [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Free energy would mean the Middle Eastern countries would be even poorer than they presently are. This was not intended to be an epistemological thread; however, since you ask, free energy means no one is poor and no one is rich. All men are

[Vo]: FW: [BOBPARKS-WHATSNEW] What's New Friday August 11, 2006

2006-08-11 Thread
Forward from [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Akira Kawasaki) [Original Message] From: What's New [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 8/11/2006 2:18:48 PM Subject: [BOBPARKS-WHATSNEW] What's New Friday August 11, 2006 WHAT'S NEW Robert L. Park Friday, 11 Aug 06 Washington, DC 1. JAMES

Re: [Vo]: New Segway Products

2006-08-11 Thread Jed Rothwell
Edmund Storms wrote: Unfortunately, free energy would not solve the problem. Free energy would mean the Middle Eastern countries would be even poorer than they presently are. Probably, but that will be their choice, and the outcome will be their fault. The countries have long since

Re: [Vo]: New Segway Products

2006-08-11 Thread Philip Winestone
The idea of good guys and bad guys in war is useless and distracting to what is actually happening... I believe statements such as that are distracting. At its simplest, if one person is an aggressor and starts a fight, Nature has decreed that the intended victim fights back, and if

Re: [Vo]: New Segway Products

2006-08-11 Thread Philip Winestone
Israel is only rich because it is supported by the US and donations, and it has harvested brain power from all over the world. Now that's what I call a rich statement. Can you explain it so that mere mortals like myself can understand it? P. At 02:56 PM 8/11/2006 -0600, you wrote:

Re: [Vo]: New Segway Products

2006-08-11 Thread OrionWorks
Edmund Storms [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The idea of good guys and bad guys in war is useless and distracting to what is actually happening. War is a means to gain power over others. War no longer makes a distinction between those who are fighting and those who are not. Both are killed

Re: [Vo]: New Segway Products

2006-08-11 Thread Mike Carrell
- Original Message - From: Edmund Storms [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Vo]: New Segway Products The idea of good guys and bad guys in war is useless and distracting to what is actually happening. War is a means to gain power over others. War no longer makes a distinction between

Re: [Vo]: New Segway Products

2006-08-11 Thread Mike Carrell
- Original Message - From: OrionWorks [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Vo]: New Segway Products I just posted a response to Ed's remarks, and now I wish to comment on Steve's thoughtful observations. I will snip both for brevity. The accusation that the US is acting as colonial

RE: [Vo]: Re: Are we there yet?

2006-08-11 Thread John Steck
I wonder if this couldn't be adapted as a safe storage production method for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles maybe not with beer cans per se (look officer, I'm just trying to get to work here. hee hee), but with blocks, rods, or pellets of material. Aluminum is not terribly cheep, but it is the