RE: [Vo]:Requesting recommendations on Web Authoring tools animation generation packages
Steven .. I have used the following software for years .. They allow me to design and maintain many small web sites. Might be worth a look. -DonW- Web Design: http://www.xara.com/us/products/designer/ http://www.lauyan.com/en/tw-home/index.html http://www.dbqwikedit.com/ Making SlideShows with Photos and Movies: http://www.wnsoft.com/picturestoexe/ http://www.magix.com/ca/photostory-on-cd-dvd/deluxe/ Photo Editing: http://www.acdsee.com/en/products/acdsee-pro-5 http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/cambridge/projects/autocollage/ http://www.portraitprofessional.com/ Video: http://www.avs4you.com/AVS-Video-Editor.aspx http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/download/trials/moviestudiope http://www.nchsoftware.com/videopad/index.html?gclid=CIODqrzLz64CFcoZQgodPns hXw Visual Processor: http://www.smartdraw.com/product/ Flash: http://www.flashslider.com/ http://aleosoft.com/ http://koolmoves.com/ Audio: http://coolrecordedit.com/ http://www.nextup.com/TextAloud/ http://www.magix.com/us/music-maker/ http://www.chordpulse.com/index.html Data Management: http://www.treepad.com/ http://www.exe-ebookcreator.com/ http://www.treepad.com/treepad_pdf/ http://www.treepad.com/treepadfreeware/ http://www.bookmarkbuddy.net/index.php http://softi.co.uk/scanwiz.htm From: OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson [mailto:orionwo...@charter.net] Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2012 8:14 AM To: Vortex Subject: [Vo]:Requesting recommendations on Web Authoring tools animation generation packages For more than five years now I have occasionally spent highly focused periods of time exploring a personal interest of mine, an interest that has involved exploring computer algorithms often used to simulate the physics associated with celestial mechanics. Actually, the scope of my on-going research is much broader than categorizing it as work specific only to the field of Celestial Mechanics. Much of the research eventually ended up exploring various aspects associated with chaos theory. In my research I think I've occasionally stumbled across interesting characteristics (or artifacts) that, as best as I can tell, may have been routinely dismissed and/or ignored by others, perhaps as nothing more than unimportant side-effects of little value and not worth exploring. If that's an accurate assessment, I beg to differ! Some of what I have been exploring appears eccentric enough that it would not surprise me if most simply discarded the results. Meanwhile, the only way to determine if what I've uncovered merits further research is to publish the results. The most expedient (and cheapest) way to publish in today's society is to place one's work on-line. In my own case, this would involve either creating a new subdirectory out on my current OrionWorks.com web site - or by securing a new domain name, such as OrionWorks.org. The latter idea actually sounds better to me since the subject material would focus on scholarly research, not just artistic pursuits. This leads me to ask the Collective for advice on what others might recommend as simple easy-to-use web authoring tools. I must confess the fact that my current OrionWorks.com website has been stuck in the ancient past. I still use Microsoft's antiquated FrontPage 2003 package to sporadically update certain links. Because I have not needed to update the website frequently it has not been a high priority to explore new web authoring tools. However, if I'm going to start putting together a collection of research papers that include lots of graphics (Charts and Graphs), and possibly a few animated simulations as well... well then, it's time to explore what's available, and also what's affordable! I want to employ the KISS approach. At present I have little interest in building a sophisticated website that possibly ends up incorporating fancy database search features employing SQL. However, if someone can convince me that to do so would not be too difficult...I might reconsider. My primary goal is to publish personal articles and research papers that allows others easy access. I want to give users the ability to download papers and articles in popular formats, like PDF. One of the goals would be to give everyone the ability download articles onto tablets. BTW, as hinted at, some of my computer simulations have produced extensive animated graphics. Technically speaking, it would be more accurate to say that my some of computer simulations generate individual graphic files that in turn need to be assembled into a video file in order to comprehend what's happening. Can anyone recommend economical software packages that allow one to assemble batches of individual/still graphics into an animated video clip? Thank you for letting me bend your Collective ears. I'm am now all ears! Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
[Vo]:The BLOOM BOX
Just on 60 Minutes The interwebs are aflutter with excitement over Bloom Energy's top secret Bloom Box fuel cell system finally revealing itself. For those who haven't already checked it out (the website is still just a marquee), the company boasts that their systems could literally replace the electricity grid with dispersed, clean, and easy to maintain fuel cell boxes running on a variety of fuels, water, and oxygen, with no combustion at all. Here's what we know about its actual technology: the Bloom Box is based largely on a solid-oxide fuel cell (that can run on biomass or natural gas) developed by scientists at NASA and is made out of cheaper materials than those built by its competitors (at least according to company PR). The device is also said to withstand a wider range of temperatures, making it suitable for a wide array of applications (even the space shuttle). http://www.bloomenergy.com/ http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/411/ http://green.venturebeat.com/2010/02/19/fuel-cell-maker-bloom-energy-finally-sheds-cloak-of-mystery-this-sunday/ Google the following: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - bloom energy fuel cell - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - http://www.google.com/search?hl=ensource=hpq=bloom+energy+fuel+cellaq=1sxaqi=g-s1g-sx2g-s1g-sx6oq=bloomenergy
Re: [Vo]:Do it backwards: added 1997-style, science-based Vortex
I saw it and followed the link ... It was in your post of June 8th http://pages.csam.montclair.edu/~kowalski/cf/368TGP_oriani.pdf I'm one of many lurkers that pay close attention to most of the topics presented here. I value the insight of most of the members of this list on both on-topic and off-topic discussions. In my personal discussions, I reference Vortex most days. The views presented here give me a very optimistic outlook on our future. This is my contribution to this list .. Simply to spread your group knowledge/POV's to the people who don't know, and don't care that Vortex exists. BTW people like Gork are automatically discounted and ignored. -DonW- - Original Message - From: William Beaty bi...@eskimo.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 2:29 AM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Do it backwards: added 1997-style, science-based Vortex On Wed, 17 Jun 2009, Horace Heffner wrote: I don't see the problem. All such subjects already have breathing room. If you want to post on a subject then post on the subject. If anyone has interest in contributing they will post on it. There's a 100% replicable CF experiment. People on other lists are trying it out. Nobody on vortex is interested. (Really? Or was it just lost in the noise?) If not, then not. Where is the suppression? What's the big deal? Did you yourself read that message, click on the link? It looks to me like there's way too much traffic on vortex to read every single message continuously for months on end, much less clicking on linked articles. One thing I appreciate is that if anything anomalous develops the news will likely end up here and be visible in the noise. It may end up here, but nobody would notice it among all the current conversations. If there are ten televisions in the room, all playing favorite shows, there's a good chance that not one person hears an announcement over the PA, important or not. (( ( ( ( ((O)) ) ) ) ))) William J. BeatySCIENCE HOBBYIST website billb at amasci com http://amasci.com EE/programmer/sci-exhibits amateur science, hobby projects, sci fair Seattle, WA 206-762-3818unusual phenomena, tesla coils, weird sci No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.339 / Virus Database: 270.12.77/2184 - Release Date: 06/17/09 17:55:00
[Vo]:ZPE from Casimir Cavities
This may be another explanation of the Hydrinos of Blacklight Power. -DonW- From the web site of NEXT BIG FUTURE Jovion Corporation of Boulder aims to develop and commercialize a device for extracting energy from the reservoir of zero point energy that has been shown to fill all of space. The Jovion device would employ numerous Casimir cavities, consisting of closely spaced metal plates within which a range of electromagnetic modes are excluded due to quantization of the electromagnetic field. The harvested energy would be in the form of electromagnetic radiation and could in principle be converted directly into electrical power through the incorporation of solar cells. The POCi funding covers the design, construction and testing of a practical and scalable energy harvesting system. The funding is contingent on the satisfactory achievement of certain scientific proof of principle milestones relating to a prototype Casimir cavity device as described in a current research grant to Dr. Garret Moddel, Professor in CU-Boulder's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and an inventor of the technology. The patent is based primarily on papers published in the journal Physical Review by Hal Puthoff in 1987 and Timothy Boyer in 1975. Bernard Haisch, who is a co-inventor, is quick to point out that this is all purely speculative at this point and that they have not yet been able to prove anything in the laboratory. The sporadic signals they have seen can't be ruled out as experimental error. That said, the model is still well worth pursuing. It is a high risk / high gain venture, he said, wanting to avoid the common mistake of overselling and under-delivering. They are presently (as of Feb. 4, 2009) looking for major funding of around $10 million to carry out more sophisticated testing. http://nextbigfuture.com/2009/02/jovion-corporation-gets-patent-for-zero.html http://www.calphysics.org/Patent7379286.pdf http://www.google.com/search?hl=enq=%22jovion+corporation%22aq=foq= http://www.calphysics.org/ http://www.calphysics.org/zpe.html Jovion Corp is trying to extract energy from the reservoir of zero point energy using Casimir cavities. One proposed device would generate up to 21.5 kilowatts of heat from sugar cube sized device. The heat would need to be captured and converted to electricity. Micro-gap thermal photovoltaics could match up well for this application to convert 50% or more of the heat to electricity. NOTE: This is a funded company that is a technology spin-off of research from the University of Colorado. Jovion plans to use MEMS devices or polymer sheets to form the small Casimir cavities. Francis Roarty [Unknown Qualifications/Background] Interpretation Francis Roarty believes and writes that the Jovion work is closely related to Blacklight Powers Hydrinos. Francis also wrote up his description at the science blog. --- Francis seems to at least have read the work of Blacklight Power and the University of Colorado researcher at Jovion closely. They are both talking about reducing electron orbits using previously unknown means. The reasons being given about how these changes are occurring are very different. The University of Colorado reasoning is based on quantum mechanics while Blacklight Power applies a variation on classical mechanics. --- The physical result of energy production can end up being the same even if only one of the explanations is right. The experiments could work even if both explanations are substantially wrong or incomplete. By suppressing electromagnetic quantum vacuum energy at appropriate frequencies a change may be effected in the electron energy levels which will result in the emission or release of energy. Mode suppression of electromagnetic quantum vacuum radiation is known to take place in Casimir cavities. A Casimir cavity refers to any region in which electromagnetic modes are suppressed or restricted. When atoms enter into suitable micro Casimir cavities a decrease in the orbital energies of electrons in atoms will thus occur. Such energy will be captured in the claimed devices. Upon emergence form such micro Casimir cavities the atoms will be re-energized by the ambient electromagnetic quantum vacuum. In this way energy is extracted locally and replenished globally from and by the electromagnetic quantum vacuum. This process may be repeated an unlimited number of times. This process is also consistent with the conservation of energy in that all usable energy does come at the expense of the energy content of the electromagnetic quantum vacuum. Similar effects may be produced by acting upon molecular bonds. Devices are described in which gas is recycled through a multiplicity of Casimir cavities. The disclosed devices are scalable in size and energy output for applications ranging from replacements for small batteries to power plant sized generators of electricity
[Vo]:Cold fusion And the heat goes on
http://www.dailynewstribune.com/opinion/x106220350/Verner-Cold-fusion-And-the-heat-goes-on Verner: Cold fusion: And the heat goes on By Gayle Verner, Guest columnist GHS Posted Nov 23, 2008 @ 12:18 AM There isn't a day that goes by where we don't hear the national angst over alternative energy; it's predominately either wind or solar, end of discussion. Many may think this subject is a big yawn. I, on the other hand, am furious. What about the other energy - from sea water? We used to call it cold fusion, but it's been so unfairly disparaged over the years that you have to be careful who you tell. Simply put, it's energy from fusing the heavy hydrogen atoms found in the ocean with a piece of precious metal and a jolt of electricity; ultimately, you get more heat out than you put in. The result? Another clean energy source - at room temperature. One day this kind of energy-from-water could substitute for all the Earth's oil reserves. The harnessing and perfecting of this process continues to this day, making way for higher-efficient water boilers, alternative energy systems for cars and even potable water. In 1989, Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann, two electrochemists from Utah and England, discovered it, publicizing a primitive version of the process. Ironically, it was at the same time of Exxon Valdez's oil spill in Alaska's pristine waters - and the same beautiful area where Gov. Sarah Palin speaks of with so much awe. At first, the pair received thunderous applause. Problem was, few could reproduce it. For a variety of reasons, including pending patents, they released partial details of their experiments to the world. It was like an incomplete recipe for a cake, not to mention a recipe for disaster when the media turned on them. Their praise turned to ridicule, biased accusations of fraud and disdain. It simply can't exist, detractors told the world, claiming it flies in the face of conventional physics where fusion supposedly can only occur in the multi-million degree sun. The fraud word circulated, unfairly, sticking like gum to an old shoe. Bottom line? The scientists rolled up their sleeves. Growing vigilant over accuracy and slaving over their experiments, the cold fusioneers defended both the scientific process and their work to mob-like, powerful, reactionary scientists who just didn't get it. Early in August, I attended the International Conference on Cold Fusion-14 in Washington, D.C. More than 180 attended, including a number of prestigious scientists from the most highly acclaimed laboratories around the world. Not too shabby for a technology that doesn't exist. So far, these scientists have designed devices and systems to better measure and control workable reactions. They have shown higher, robust levels of power than ever, ultra clean, non-radioactive energy production with no CO2 generation. And there have been thousands of publications showing positive results, from some of the finest scientific minds on the planet. Why do these people remain resilient? Because they know something's there. Trying to decrease everyone's carbon footprint isn't easy, providing you believe in the concept. Yet, most still struggle financially, receiving no, or very little, to conduct their craft. And they watch as government funds are taken entirely by representatives of competing systems, some non-working. Undeterred, they convert their garages and eke out makeshift labs within labs, and use closet-like space in corners of academic institutions as long as the administrators aren't reminded of their existence. On March 23, 2009, this science will be 20 years old. Cold fusion is real and respectable and continues to be examined by respectable people who have steadfastly advanced the technology. Given its progress, it deserves to be included in the national energy debate. Gayle Verner works in cold fusion research and publishing. A former People magazine correspondent, she lives in Wellesley.
[Vo]:The Coming Electricity Crisis
This newsletter usually has interesting Near Future content. -DonW- = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = From: Whiskey Gunpowder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 11:30 AM Subject: The Coming Electricity Crisis Greg's Note: As unpleasant as it is to contemplate, we have to face the likelihood of future energy shortages resulting in frequent brownouts and blackouts. Scarcer energy also means much more expensive energy when it is available. Byron King faces the challenges and offers some answers. Send all questions and comments to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whiskey Gunpowder By Byron W. King November 4, 2008 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. ~~ The Coming Electricity Crisis ~~ OK, so I don't have a copy of the Sunday business section from next March. But I think I know what at least one major issue will be within the next 24 months. The headlines will scream, Power Failures, Price Spikes Plague Northeast U.S. And the same thing will also hit the Western U.S. And the Southeastern U.S. And parts of the Midwest. They sure did not talk about power failures in the presidential debates, did they? I don't know why not. All the insiders know about it. Indeed, power failures and price spikes are baked into the national economic cake. People who follow these things are quite sure of it. It's just a question of when, exactly, the lights will start to flicker. We already had one experience with a regional blackout. Do you remember the power failure of Aug. 14, 2003? Almost the entire Northeast U.S. went dark, except it occurred in the middle of the day. The effects were immediate on over 50 million people in the U.S. and Canada. Skyscrapers just stopped working - no elevators, no lights, no water, no nothing. Hospital operating rooms went dark. Traffic signals stopped functioning and people were in the midst of instant gridlock. If you ran out of gas, there was no power for the pumps at the gas station. Refrigerators stopped humming and large amounts of food spoiled. Rail systems stopped running - from streetcars in Toronto to subways in New York and Amtrak and freight trains in the middle of nowhere. FAA flight controllers had to communicate with airborne pilots via battery-powered walkie-talkies. Sewage systems shut down, and a lot of you-know-what backed up in many low-lying areas. The 2003 power failure was bad news, although short in duration. And then it was back to business for the U.S. Things became (if you will excuse the expression) normal again. Just like in Amity. Looking back, the utility companies got the power back up and running, right? And the experts investigated the origins of the problem, right? The people who know all about power grids fixed the problem, right? It could not happen again, right? The U.S. power grid has ample electricity-generating capacity, right? And there's plenty of transmission to move power from one region to another, right? Well, no. Earlier this week, I attended a privately sponsored presentation on U.S. energy policy. The main speaker was a senior faculty member from Carnegie Mellon University. This guy has been doing electricity for about 40 years or so. He has written reports for the National Academy of Sciences. When the people at the U.S. Department of Energy have a question about electricity, they call this CMU professor. The news is not good. In 2007, there were about 144 new coal-fired power plants on the drawing boards of the U.S. energy utilities. But, said the professor, We will probably build none of them. Indeed, The electric industry in the U.S. is in terrible shape, said the CMU man. So we should expect local and regional brownouts and blackouts to become common occurrences within five years. But the first isolated instances of brownout and blackout will hit us much sooner than that. Why is there such a gloomy forecast? Because essentially, the deregulation of the 1990s was botched. According to the CMU electricity expert, botched deregulation slowed investment, raised prices and led to more and more uncertainty. So now few utilities or their executives want to take political, regulatory, technical or financial risks. Hence, the entire long-range planning cycle has broken down. It's almost impossible to decide what to build, and at what scale. Costs are exploding, particularly for new construction. It's safe to say that most power plant construction cost projections have doubled within the past 18 months. The prospect of fast-changing environmental regulations also adds to the uncertainty. No one wants to build a power plant and learn in five or 10 years or so that environmental regulations are going to shut it down. Even the alternative energy industry - with wind, solar and geothermal as the poster children - has formidable challenges. The biggest issue is cost competitiveness. That's because alternative systems provide power at costs that range from slightly higher to much higher than traditional power from
Re: [Vo]:The Off Topic Threads
Dr. Storms and Jed, it is not painful for me to discuss this. Knowing the enemy is half the battle. This condition becomes somewhat dangerous when the person does not recognize what they are doing and have moved into a position of power. It seems this chrismatic skill lends itself to the political arena. I suspect many politicians have this condition in various degrees. Believing in what you say is a very powerful communications tool, and is very difficult to fake unless you are an actor or possess this ADD confabulating mechanism. We are the type of people that are most productive when kept behind a locked door and tossed a pizza every now and then. We most definitely think outside the box, in part due to the memory linkage errors, and can be extremely creative ... but not predictable. Our type definitely has a place in society just not in a position of power or authority. If asked how we arrive at C we cannot outline the steps A and B because for the most part our behavior is intuitive (which can be dangerous). I have seen this behavior pattern in President Bush's arguments many times. Another one of the flags for this condition is the simple child like humor that President Bush exhibits on many occasions. I also possess this hard to suppress drive to make somewhat crude jokes at another person's expense. This is just part of the ADD package. Anyone on this list who would like deeper insights into the ADD mindset; feel free to ask me (off list, if desired), this is one subject I am an expert at. One last comment, most ADD personalities can be handled easily by people who know what they are doing. We do not want this type of person as president or vice president. However; they are extremely effective at bringing in the votes. This is our oxymoron for the day. -DonW- - Original Message - From: Jed Rothwell To: vortex-L@eskimo.com Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008 11:56 AM Subject: Re: [Vo]:The Off Topic Threads DonW wrote: Several former rivals have pointed to her uncanny ability to make emotional connections with voters, even when she can't answer a question. Both of the above are major *FLAGS* for ADHD. I should know .. I have this condition. . . . These people can be very chrismatic, are experts at circular logic and usually pathological liars. When they are unscripted, they have major issues with memory LINKAGE. They have the memories but have delayed access to them, usually minutes - hours - days after needed. This results in a subconscious effort to fill in the memory holes; hence the pathological lies. Wow. Thanks for discussion what must be a painful thing to deal with. The process of filling in memory holes -- as you call them -- is observed in other conditions, such as long term memory loss. An extreme example was described by Oliver Sacks for a patient with Korsakov's syndrome (amnesic-confabulatory syndrome). It is not lying because the person momentarily believes the statements are true. It is confabulating. Sacks also describes holes: [The patient] remembered nothing for more than a few seconds. He was continually disoriented. Abysses of amnesia continually open beneath him, but he would bridge them, nimbly, by fluid confabulations and fictions all kinds. For him they were not fictions, but how he suddenly saw, or interpreted, the world. . . . So far as he was concerned, there was nothing the matter . . . - The Man Who Mistook His Wife for Hat, p. 109 Since they believe in what they are saying (at the moment), and the memory fills are tailored to the event/person in front of them, they can be chrismatic. Yes. That's what Sacks and others say. - Jed No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.173 / Virus Database: 270.7.6/1710 - Release Date: 10/6/2008 9:23 AM
Re: [Vo]:The Off Topic Threads
Has any one noticed that Palin cannot complete a logical thought to its logical end without injecting random ideas? This way of thinking is similar to the unscripted Bush. Several former rivals have pointed to her uncanny ability to make emotional connections with voters, even when she can't answer a question. Both of the above are major *FLAGS* for ADHD. I should know .. I have this condition. I have long suspected that Prez Bush and Bill Gates have ADD. These people can be very chrismatic, are experts at circular logic and usually pathological liars. When they are unscripted, they have major issues with memory LINKAGE. They have the memories but have delayed access to them, usually minutes - hours - days after needed. This results in a subconscious effort to fill in the memory holes; hence the pathological lies. Since they believe in what they are saying (at the moment), and the memory fills are tailored to the event/person in front of them, they can be chrismatic. http://www.attentiondeficit-add-adhd.com/famous-people-with-ADHD.html http://www.greatschools.net/cgi-bin/showarticle/2258 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention-deficit_hyperactivity_disorder -DonW- - Original Message - From: Jed Rothwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vortex-L@eskimo.com Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 12:46 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:The Off Topic Threads Edmund Storms wrote: Has any one noticed that Palin cannot complete a logical thought to its logical end without injecting random ideas? This way of thinking is similar to the unscripted Bush. Very similar. I have not seen this before. Bush and Palin are both smart in many ways, but they are incurious, unorganized and incapable of expressing coherent thought. Also, you might say they have no respect for facts. Palin was described in the Atlanta Journal the other day: . . . many Alaska political observers have advised against underestimating her. Several former rivals have pointed to her uncanny ability to make emotional connections with voters, even when she can't answer a question. Andrew Halcro, who lost the governor's race to Palin in 2006, wrote in the Anchorage Daily News last week that she was unintimidated by his mastery of policy details. 'Andrew, I watch you at these debates with no notes, no papers and yet when asked questions you spout off facts, figures and policies and I'm amazed. But then I look out into the audience and I ask myself, 'Does any of that matter?' ' he recalls Palin telling him after a debate. . . . http://www.ajc.com/search/content/opinion/stories/2008/10/01/tucked.html The Bush administration's contempt for facts was made famous by this quote: The aide [who was upset with the author] said that guys like me were 'in what we call the reality-based community,' which he defined as people who 'believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.' I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. 'That's not the way the world really works anymore,' he continued. ''We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.' http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/magazine/17BUSH.html This contempt for facts is typical of anti-cold fusion people as well. See also Altemyer's web site on Authoritarian thought processes: http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~altemey/ - Jed
[Vo]:OFF TOPIC National ID in the Near Future .. Maybe
Check out the attached URL .. George Orville would roll over in his grave. The sad part of it is that its not just in government hands. With the new National ID, pending it will be in private industry's hands. http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/pizzacall -DonW-
[Vo]:The World is changing - as it always does
The following article hit home with me -DonW- http://www.coloradoan.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080123/OPINION04/8012 30308 World's changing - as it always does Joseph C. Nemeth One evening, a friend was hanging out at our house, and we were talking about the sad state of the world: peak oil, global warming, terrorism, government-promoted fear of terrorism, all the usual suspects in the unraveling of the world. We were having a fine depress-fest. At about that point, my (then) 19-year-old son walked in to return some DVDs on his way to his apartment, and he lingered to listen to us old curmudgeons trying to decide which monster under the bed would get us first. Finally, he snorted at us - he snorted, the disrespectful young whippersnapper! - and broke in to give us his shockingly optimistic view of the future. His vision was based on almost-free energy and nanotech fabrication, both of which have left the realm of science fiction and have started to move into the laboratory. I don't know if he's right, but this interchange pointed out one thing very clearly: doomsayers take no part in finding solutions. Solutions come from a position of hope. There is right now a company in California printing solar panels on aluminum foil in commercial quantities that provide solar power at one-third the cost of coal: Doomsayers did not invent that. = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Cold fusion got a bad rap a few years back, but it caught scientists' attention, not because it was magic but because it was so extremely plausible as science. It might actually take nothing more than the persistence of an Edison to crack cold fusion. Doomsayers will not be taking on that challenge. Imagine a world in which limitless clean energy is available for cheap, and material goods come out of a fabricator that absorbs unformed raw materials, breaks them down into building blocks, and then builds anything you can design from the molecular level upward. Such a world solves almost all of our known material problems and creates new problems we can't really even imagine - which actually quite accurately describes the world we live in right now, as seen by our grandparents. What's wrong with this country, if anything, is its growing conservatism - probably caused by all of us baby boomers turning into curmudgeons. Conservatism is about conserving, hanging on to what was good in the past. = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = News flash: The only thing in the past is a whole lot of dead people. Living is about change, usually radical change. Twenty-thousand years ago, all of the mammoth-fur coat manufacturers went belly up when the ice retreated. It's hard to guess how many settlements, villages, even civilizations went underwater in that global warming trend. A hundred years ago, buggy whip and carriage manufacturers went belly up when the automobile became affordable. Ten years ago, it was mom-and-pop local bookstores going out of business. A century ago, Fort Collins was a dirt crossroad, and a century from now, it may be completely absorbed into the Front Range Metro area under the North American-Chinese Joint Civicorporate Charter, formed in 2080 after the economic collapse of the Second American Fascist Protectorate. Or some other currently unimaginable future that our great-grandchildren will be living in. I've come around to my son's point of view. The world isn't ending - it's just changing. As it has always done. Joseph C. Nemeth lives in Fort Collins, Colorado USA
[Vo]:General Fusion
A interesting small company .. From the OTHER side of the Fusion coin -DonW- General Fusion is working on a new, patent pending concept based on a recent development in fusion research called Magnetized Target Fusion (MTF). MTF has been building momentum in the fusion community for a few years now. It is the goal of General Fusion to demonstrate this new clean, safe and economical concept by 2010. http://www.generalfusion.com/ Management Team: http://www.generalfusion.com/management_team.php Tucked away in the back corner of an old mattress warehouse in this Vancouver suburb sits a silver sphere not much larger than a human head. Like some mad inventor's futuristic Chia pet, it sprouts numerous wires that lead to banks of capacitors, batteries capable of delivering their charge at lightning speed. It could easily pass for a school science project from some overly keen teen -- complete with its very own home-made flourishes, like a particle detector hidden inside a stovepipe and held together with black electrical tape. But if this is a science project -- and in many ways that is what it is for Michel Laberge, the 40-something PhD who has spent five years building and perfecting it -- it is among the most ambitious ever conceived. This modest assemblage of wires and dreams is in fact a home-brew nuclear-fusion reactor -- if reactor is the right word to describe a device that has in the past few years achieved a micro-second's worth of miniscule energy output just seven times. Michel Laberge, the 40-something PhD, has spent five years building and perfecting his nuclear fusion device. But for Mr. Laberge, a slightly dishevelled Quebecer who built his fusion device in an old gas station on an island near Vancouver, it is the prototype for something enormous -- something that, in his words, will actually save the planet. http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/story.html?id=2785016f-0338 -4253-b594-aeee1ca49385k=57937
RE: [Vo]:UFO's over the US Capitol
-Original Message- From: thomas malloy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 5:40 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: [Vo]:UFO's over the US Capitol Flimed in 1952 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6426240870588647115 I wonder what the flashing spike on the right side, background is? [DonW] There is one on the left side also, somewhat hidden by the trees. Looks like Flag Poles on the roof of the Whitehouse, they are floodlit at night.
RE: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC Taubes is at it again
I really hate to say this ... But there is a little bit of truth to this statement. I was ordered by a Doctor to lose 50 lbs (just over a year ago). They assigned a dietitian to help me in this quest. On the diet alone .. I lost 20 lbs and stayed there for a long time. It was explained to me that when the body reaches about 25-30 lbs of your ideal weight, it can fight to keep it on. It seems that some of us (not all) have a feast or famine switch in us that wants to keep a little reserve in place. So, when we reach that line, our metabolism slows down. They forced me to start exercising to break this threshold. I walked for two miles a day on the treadmill, for 5 months and lost no weight. I actually gained for a while, as my legs gained muscle mass. I did eliminate the need for high blood pressure meds, though. Only when I increased to 4 miles a day did I start to lose weight again. I average about 2 lbs a month, now. I was told by the dietitian, that on moderate exercise, the slight increase in appetite does offset the calories burned during the exercise. That's why I needed to exceed the 2 miles per hour on the treadmill. It appears there is a small zone of exercise/eating where he is correct. -DonW- -Original Message- From: Jed Rothwell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 3:56 PM To: vortex-L@eskimo.com Subject: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC Taubes is at it again This guy is amazing! Almost as stupid as Mark Mills. See his latest here: The Scientist and the Stairmaster Why most of us believe that exercise makes us thinner -- and why we're wrong. http://nymag.com/news/sports/38001/ His hypothesis is that you always eat more to compensate for exercise. Apparently he has never met manual laborers. I suppose they are rare in modern U.S. society, but you would think he has seen photos . . . - Jed -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.488 / Virus Database: 269.13.30/1030 - Release Date: 9/25/2007 8:02 AM
[Vo]:OT: MELs MAGNA CARTA and MANIFESTO
For some reason I have been on this Mailing List for a long time. I am politically, an Independent. This is from Mel Hilgenberg, Chairman of the NORTH CENTRAL COLORADO REPUBLICAN Is this a sign of things to come??? -DonW- FRIDAY'S (September 7, 2007) NORTH CENTRAL COLORADO REPUBLICAN ISSUES BREAKFAST: MEL'S MAGNA CARTA MANIFESTO: Thoughts and ideas to reform the Republican platform, differentiate our party of choice from the others, and reinstate Constitutional Conservative principles and core Judeo-Christian values to public policy and civilized discourse! -- For Congress to declare war against the enemies of freedom, e.g. terrorists, those who harbor, ennable or finance terrorists, countries which are not democratic, are religiously intolerant, have economies which are not capitalist, i.e. communist, and have a low rate of literacy. If you are not hitting on all six, we, the U.S. and The Federation of the Free, the new alliance after we pull out of the corrupt and impotent United Nations, are coming after you sooner and later, are going to crush you militarily, depose corrupt, despotic and dictatorial rulers, give you a McArthur Japanese constitution and come home. If you screw it up, we'll be back. -- Establish a United States of Israel (USI) from the Euphrates to the Nile giving arbitrary Balfour Declaration states one of three options: 1.) They can be a sovereign state in the USI 2.) They can be a protectorate of the USI like Puerto Rico is of the USA or 3.) They can become like our Indian reservations, but not independent or sovereign. Also, renew the Monroe Doctrine and be a leader of the sovereign nations in the western hemisphere, not a shill for the New World Order and One World Government. National service for all 18 year olds with no exceptions. At least 4 years if selecting military service, 1-2 years for everyone else with commensurate credit to attend college or university following service. --Sovereignty. Abolish the federal reserve and reinstitute the government only printing money, abolish the IRS and go to a 10/10/10-- 10% income tax, 10% national sales tax and 10% tax credit or tax deduction for any church or charitable contributions except think tanks and the other leeches that are sucking our national life's blood out. Secure the borders, deport all people not here legally, bill countries for all services provided for anchor babies and the relatives they have brought in on their anchor, change that law, and return to U.S. Senators being chosen by the respective state legislatures. Reduce federal and state bureaucracies by 75%. -- Education. Repeal the Blaine amendment in all 30+ states where it exists. Have the money follow the child via means tested vouchers, tax credits or tax deductions in Colorado and elsewhere. This would put into the hands of parents the state share of education funding for schooling at home, in private or parochial schools or in the tax supported government monopoly schools. Abolish teacher unions by ending de facto collective bargaining, passing federal and state Hatch Acts for teachers and other public employees, removing their tax exemptions, and have labor departments declare war on co-mingling funds for politics and worthy purposes and other means of corruption. Reform funding of Higher Education, particularly student grants, scholarships and loans, reward students choosing hard sciences and engineering, and penalize those in liberal arts, ethnic studies, etc. -- Water. There is plenty of water in North America, but it is managed very poorly. In Colorado, renew the aquifers during periods of high run off, transmit water from the western slope, and deepen and build more reservoirs. Reform and repeal most environmental and endangered species laws and abolish the parasitic bureaucracies dependent on leftist nonsense and junk science. Get the vertical reactor in operation state wide, nationally and internationally. In a joint private/public US venture with other international entities, do similar things in Africa with the Congo River. --Transportation. Mag Lev monorail, rubber tired trains and mass transit that makes sense, not just trying to force subsidized 19th century systems on cities. In Colorado, mag lev or high speed trains from Cheyenne to Albuquerque and running out to the eastern border of Colorado. = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = --Energy. Manhattan project for clean coal, reducing CO2 emissions, oil shale, tar sands and other carbon fuels and nuclear. Get serious about countering alternative energy a major blight by junk scientists, corporate elites and weak willed elected leaders who give nonsense a bad name. = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = --Life. Planned Parenthood should be called Contrived Elitist Genocide, taxed and regulated heavily, and no abortion should be permitted until
[Vo]:Scientists Generate Hydrogen on Demand
Scientists generate 'hydrogen on demand' Purdue researchers develop technique by adding water to aluminium/gallium alloy Robert Jaques, vnunet.com 28 Aug 2007 US scientists have developed a technique to produce 'hydrogen on demand' to act as a pollution-free energy source for vehicles and other engine-powered devices. The technique developed at Purdue University produces hydrogen by adding water to an alloy of aluminium and gallium. The aluminium splits water by attracting oxygen and liberating hydrogen in the process. The Purdue researchers are developing a method to create particles of the alloy that could be placed in a tank to react with water and produce hydrogen on demand. The gallium is a critical component because it hinders the formation of an aluminium oxide skin normally created on aluminium's surface after bonding with oxygen, a process called oxidation. This skin usually acts as a barrier and prevents oxygen from reacting with aluminium. Reducing the skin's protective properties allows the reaction to continue until all of the aluminium is used to generate hydrogen, explained Jerry Woodall, a distinguished professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue, who invented the process. The gallium component is inert, which means that it can be recovered and reused. This is especially important because of the currently much higher cost of gallium compared with aluminium, said Professor Woodall. Because gallium can be recovered, this makes the process economically viable and more attractive for large-scale use. Also, since the gallium can be of low purity, the cost of impure gallium is ultimately expected to be many times lower than the high-purity gallium used in the electronics industry. As the alloy reacts with water the aluminium turns into aluminium oxide, also called alumina, which can be recycled back into aluminium. The recycled aluminium would be less expensive than mining the metal, making the technology more competitive with other forms of energy production, Woodall claimed. The research findings are detailed in the first research paper about the work, which will be presented on 7 September during the second Energy Nanotechnology International Conference in Santa Clara. The paper was written by Woodall, Charles Allen and Jeffrey Ziebarth, both doctoral students in Purdue's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Permalink to this story http://www.vnunet.com/2197485 -DonW-
[Vo]:Advanced Energy Technology Colloquium Report
http://pesn.com/2007/08/27/9500495_Advanced_Energy_Technology_Colloquium/ Having been probing the field for 20 years, Major Hathaway pulled together a conference on Aug. 20, 2007 in Bethesda, to highlight what is real and ready among the exotic technologies being developed. Major (Sel) Todd Hathaway is an Army Nuclear Counterproliferation Officer currently assigned to Advanced Civil Schooling at the University of Maryland, majoring in Nuclear Engineering. His involvement with advanced alternative energy technologies started ~20 years ago with a paper on superconductivity. His first cold fusion event was held in 1997 in College Station, Texas, after Texas AM University kicked the event off campus. Nora H. Maccoby is an award-winning screenwriter (Buffalo Soldiers, Bongwater), television producer of VH1's new show Stephanie Spring; author; and lecturer with expertise in alternative energy technologies. She is co-founder of Nature's Partners, a non-profit foundation devoted to energy literacy/education. As Vice President of The Maccoby Group, she consults with a broad range of energy users and influentials, including members of Congress, the Department of Defense, International Fund for China's Environment, the State of California, the government of Grenada, the New Energy Congress, private industry and new energy technology entities. BETHESDA, MARYLAND, USA -- Since reviewing the U.S. Army National Ground Intelligence Centers report on zero point energy research, I chose to conduct an independent investigation of advanced energy technologies that do not fall into conventional alternative energy fields of research and development. This independent investigation culminated in an event held in Bethesda, Maryland on August 20, 2007, hosted by New Energy Congress member Nora Maccoby. -MORE-
[Vo]:RE: Happy trails, guys
I agree with John .. I'm mostly a lurker (I'm sure there are many of us)who just looks forward to and enjoys the BANTER .. Both on and off topic. I have no expertise in this area .. But find the subjects and constructive disagreements informative. In my little circle of influence I can and do knowledgeably argue the cause of Cold Fusion. Without you guys I could not do this. As others have already stated.. There is no other GROUP like this one on the internet. -DonW- -Original Message- From: John Steck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 10:13 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: [Vo]:RE: Happy trails, guys Useless? Come on Horace, snap out of it the only time one becomes useless is when they are dead and buried in a box unable to fertilize the tree they planted you next to. Every time you hit 'send' is a another contribution to this circle of misfits. There is a very short list in my head of core individuals on vortex for whom I would and do pine their absence. You are one of them... keep hitting 'send' ya useless old retired guy. -john
[Vo]:Cold fusion - hot news again
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/fundamentals/mg19426021.000-cold-fusion- -hot-news-again.html Article Preview Cold fusion - hot news again? * 05 May 2007 * Bennett Daviss * Magazine issue 2602 Physicists scoff, but enthusiasts say they now have evidence that proves room temperature fusion is real. New Scientist investigates FROM a distance, the plastic wafer Frank Gordon is proudly displaying looks like an ordinary microscope slide. Yet to Gordon it is hugely more significant than that. If he is to be believed, the pattern of pits embedded in this unassuming sliver of polymer provides confirmation for the idea that nuclear fusion reactions can be made to happen at room temperature, using simple lab equipment. It's a dramatic claim, because nuclear fusion promises virtually limitless energy. Gordon's plastic wafer is the product of the latest in a long line of cold fusion experiments conducted at the US navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center in San Diego, California. What makes this one stand out is that it has been published in the respected peer-reviewed journal Naturwissenschaften, which counts Albert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg and Konrad Lorenz among its eminent past authors (DOI: 10.1007/s00114-007-0221-7). Could it really be true that nuclear fusion ...
[Vo]: Cold fusion back on the menu (ACS) 2007 conference
http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/2007/March/22030701.asp Cold fusion back on the menu 22 March 2007 Most chemists would rather forget all about cold fusion. After the barrage of criticism dismissing Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann's sensational 1989 claims that nuclei could be forced to fuse and release excess energy at room temperature, only a small core of researchers has kept the idea from fading away entirely. Yet preparations are under way for an invited symposium focusing on cold fusion and low-energy nuclear reactions at the American chemical society's (ACS) 2007 conference in Chicago next week. Isolated presentations have been scattered around ACS meetings before, and the American physical society (APS) groups together a number of cold fusion researchers every year, but the last comparable session was 'so far off I can't remember', according to cold fusion advocate George Miley, of the University of Illinois, US. Even Fleischmann himself has a paper at the ACS, though the eighty-year old chemist will not be attending. 'I feel there is a strong rebirth of interest in cold fusion,' said Miley. He and other cold fusion supporters are taking their ACS presence as one more indication of the subject's growing respectability. Organiser Jan Marwan said he was very surprised at how easy it was to gain acceptance for the symposium. But Gopal Coimbatore, program chair of the ACS's division of environmental chemistry, felt that unless a forum was provided, the subject might never get discussed; and 'with the world facing an energy crisis, it is worth exploring all possibilities'. The chances of cold fusion meeting that crisis may seem remote, but enthusiasts point to recent research from the US navy's Space and naval warfare systems center (Spawar) in San Diego, California. Here, Stanislaw Szpak and Pamela Mosier-Boss have claimed a ream of evidence for nuclear reactions occurring in a system similar to the 1989 reports. Pons and Fleischmann suggested that electrolysis could pack deuterium nuclei into a palladium lattice so tightly that they were fusing together; Szpak and Boss now claim to have speeded up this process by co-depositing palladium and deuterium onto a thin wire subjected to an electric field. They have used plastic films - so-called CR-39 detectors - to track charged particles emerging from their reactions, publishing most recently in Naturwissenschaften. And, unlike the original 1989 experiments, the researchers claim their results are easily reproducible, with other groups reportedly detecting products of nuclear reactions such as alpha particles and gamma rays. Acceptance by the scientific community is still the main target for cold fusion advocates - hence the importance of replication, appearing at major conferences, and publishing in peer reviewed journals. In this at least, success seems imminent: Miley says his cold fusion paper is the first to be accepted to the Journal of Fusion Energy, which normally covers 'hot' thermonuclear fusion or sonofusion (which uses pulses of sound to rapidly compress bubbles in liquids). Meanwhile, Scott Chubb, who chaired a cold fusion session at an APS meeting in March, feels that Physical Review Letters, one of the top physics journals, may finally start accepting papers in the field. Avowed critics of cold fusion don't see anything to shout about, though. Frank Close, of the University of Oxford, UK, says he sees no renewed interest, 'just the usual suspects recycling'. Indeed, Fleischmann's ACS report is a re-presentation of research from the 1990s, showing that his calorimetry measurements were accurate. Bob Park, at the University of Maryland, US, agrees, but concedes that 'there are some curious reports - not cold fusion, but people may be seeing some unexpected low-energy nuclear reactions'. But will the flare-up of cold fusion excitement last? Chubb is sure of it, but Fleischmann himself is less bullish. He approves of the Spawar research, but, as he told Chemistry World, 'my optimism is tempered by realism'. And Close's opinion is clear: 'Let's not confuse noise with signal'. Richard Van Noorden
[Vo]: Further evidence of nuclear reactions in the Pd/D lattice: emission of charged particles
Just found this on a Google News Alert for: Cold Fusion: http://www.springerlink.com/content/75p4572645025112/?p=36faf43185bd4180b239 1cb40c4031e7pi=1 -DonW- Further evidence of nuclear reactions in the Pd/D lattice: emission of charged particles. Journal Naturwissenschaften Publisher Springer Berlin / Heidelberg ISSN 0028-1042 (Print) 1432-1904 (Online) Subject Biomedical and Life Sciences, Chemistry and Materials Science and Earth and Environmental Science Category Short Communication DOI 10.1007/s00114-007-0221-7 SpringerLink Date Thursday, February 15, 2007 Further evidence of nuclear reactions in the Pd/D lattice: emission of charged particles Stanislaw Szpak1, Pamela A. Mosier-Boss1 and Frank E. Gordon1 (1) Space and Naval Warfare (SPAWAR) Systems Center San Diego, San Diego, CA 92152-5001, USA Received: 5 September 2006 Revised: 20 December 2006 Accepted: 2 January 2007 Published online: 15 February 2007 Abstract Almost two decades ago, Fleischmann and Pons reported excess enthalpy generation in the negatively polarized Pd/D-D2O system, which they attributed to nuclear reactions. In the months and years that followed, other manifestations of nuclear activities in this system were observed, viz. tritium and helium production and transmutation of elements. In this report, we present additional evidence, namely, the emission of highly energetic charged particles emitted from the Pd/D electrode when this system is placed in either an external electrostatic or magnetostatic field. The density of tracks registered by a CR-39 detector was found to be of a magnitude that provides undisputable evidence of their nuclear origin. The experiments were reproducible. A model based upon electron capture is proposed to explain the reaction products observed in the Pd/D-D2O system. Pamela A. Mosier-Boss Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [Vo]: OT: Whoa, Fido....
The following clips are also interesting: 9/11 Truth: Scott Forbes describes power-downs in WTC http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEJmcvTzYfomode=relatedsearch= 9/11 Truth: What Happened to WTC Building 7 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DoibU5njEM 9/11 Truth: David Ray Griffin Speaks @ Santa Rosa http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_a9vLJIR69Amode=relatedsearch= NORAD Stand-Down on 9/11: Not Just Simple Incompetence http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5q2DO7ofnQmode=relatedsearch= -DonW- -Original Message- From: Jones Beene [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2007 10:30 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: [Vo]: OT: Whoa, Fido Is this Sirius [sic]? or sickly serious...? Either this guy in the vid is a good actor, or you-know-who is in deep dog-poo, so to speak. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkpOsUmp-9wNR I suspect that if these allegations were even remotely true, then the interested party, the group iconically represented by a jackass, would have delayed its release until summer 2008 ... for maximum effect on the voting public. Or else 'impeachement' is the name-of-the-game (inevitable retribution for the excess of Monica-gate? We do not need impeachment, and all the disharmony that process entails at this critical time in World events - and with all the other bad news coming out of DC, if that is the purpose of these allegation. Doghouse evaluation: Even this political cynic is hoping that this clip is some kind of elaborate hoax. BTW the name of the philosopical school which evolved into the concept and 'meme' of cynicism - goes way beyond negativism, but is literally the doghouse g i.e. it is derived from the building in Athens, Greece called 'Cynosarges,' which was the earliest home of the school, being derived from the Greek word for dog, cyno The ancient Cynics, and even the more modern variety, have little problem in taking the dog as their symbol. Arf-arf. -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.441 / Virus Database: 268.18.2/692 - Release Date: 2/18/2007 4:35 PM
[Vo]: OT Phenomenon Archives Heavy Watergate The War Against Cold Fusion
This TV Documentary was made in 2000. I'm sure many of you are aware of it. However, for those of us who have not viewed it, here it is. -DonW- Phenomenon Archives: Heavy Watergate, The War Against Cold Fusion http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=222951174860205q=fusionhl=en In 'Phenomenon Archives: Heavy Watergate, the War Against Cold Fusion,' viewers investigate the idea of cold fusion. If viable, cold fusion ... all » offers the possibility of limitless cheap energy. Some have suggested that the quashing of cold fusion projects in the late '80s was due to certain agencies not wishing to undermine the position of U.S. energy corporations
[Vo]: Rethinking Alternative Energy
http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?no=342064rel_no=1 Rethinking Alternative Energy Some potentially powerful sources not getting attention Sebastian Baciu (SebastianB) Alternative energy sources have been gaining increasing attention as of late, both in the media and with the public at large. Environmental issues even managed to sneak their way into the U.S. president's recently delivered State of the Union speech. Clearly the result of our dependence on fossil fuels, this focus on alternative energy sources has yielded some interesting results that have not all obtained the same amount of publicity. Cold fusion, despite its somewhat scandalous debut in a 1989 experiment, has managed to remain fairly concealed from the public at large despite the enormous prospects this technology demonstrates. Fusion, the process by which two nuclei are forced together to form a heavier nucleus (thereby releasing energy) normally requires enormous amounts of energy and heat in order to take place, and often, the energy and heat released from the reaction are rarely equivalent. Cold fusion on the other hand can take place at room temperature and pressure and has the same potential to produce energy as normal fusion. While not currently a commercially viable option for producing energy, cold fusion has the potential (albeit vague and distant) of being one of the most efficient forms of alternative energy. Cold Fusion, initially discovered in 1989 by Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann, was heavily publicized and announced amid much hype and fanfare. The excitement quickly died down however, primarily due to problems many scientists had replicating the experiments as well as the exaggerated manner in which it was announced. In 2000 however, renowned author Sir Arthur C. Clarke urged for cold fusion research and experiments to again be considered seriously among the scientific community, due to promising experimental results from a number of institutions. As it turns out, cold fusion was not as completely forgotten as it first seemed. Among some of those still supporting cold fusion research is the U.S. Department of Defense, the French and Italian governments, as well as a handful of small private investors (venture capital firms in particular). Most major recent research in cold fusion has taken place either in the south of France at a research laboratory partially sponsored Toyota or at SRI International in northern California. While no research has yet pointed to cold fusion as being a definite possibility or a permanent to solution to the energy crisis, a sufficient number of people are convinced that it is a possibility, enough in fact for there to be an annual cold fusion conference. While most of the researchers participating are often older and have a stable career (many younger researchers fled the cold fusion research field years ago, amid the initial scandal it caused), we at least have some assurance this important field isn't being completely ignored.
[Vo]: Low-Heat-to-Electricity Conversion
http://pesn.com/Radio/Free_Energy_Now/shows/2007/01/06/9700221_Eneco_thermal _electric/ ENECO Engineering Low-Heat-to-Electricity Conversion for Market ENECO chips could replace the Stirling engine in Stirling Energy System's (SES) commercial solar arrays, producing electricity at approximately twice the efficiency but at half the cost. Inversely, if electricity is applied to the die, a refrigeration effect is evoked, potentially going down as low as minus 200°C. This, likewise, has a wide range of commercial applications, such as cooling computer systems. ENECO envisions harnessing the heat produced in a laptop motherboard, for example, and then using that energy to cool the essential components. The science is done, says Brown. Now we just need to engineer this for production, The company was established in 1991 by Hal Fox in connection with cold fusion research being performed by Pons and Fleishmann at the University of Utah. ENECO was tasked with finding a way of efficiently harnessing low-level heat. In order to be feasible, cold fusion needed a method of converting low-level heat into electricity.
[Vo]: A new model system of nanostructures
http://www.pnl.gov/breakthroughs/current/documents/breakthroughs.pdf A new model system of nanostructures has been synthesized and could lead to control of chemical transformations critical for enhancing the nation's energy future. This new nanostructure model system, developed by researchers at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, the University of Texas-Austin (UT) and Washington State University, offers insights into the structure and reaction mechanism of metal oxides. Metal oxides are important catalysts for producing fuels for transportation and value-added chemicals. In the new model system, nanoclusters composed of cyclic tungsten trioxide line up molecule-by-molecule on a titanium dioxide platform. One tungsten atom from each cluster is raised slightly, holding forth the potential to execute catalytic reactions-a striking layer. This unique, uniform feature may enable scientists to predict with increased accuracy and control the reactions that will occur, thereby enhancing the effectiveness of catalytic reactions. The researchers employed specialized equipment at the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, a DOE user facility on the PNNL campus, to prepare and characterize the platform as well as the clusters. Using a unique approach that changed the tungsten oxide directly from a solid to a gas, the researchers successfully stabilized the molecular rings-or trimers-of tungsten on the titanium platform. The new nanostructure model system was developed as part of the Early Transition Metals as Catalysts project at PNNL, supported by the DOE Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences Division. . difference from commercial catalysts. Commercial catalysts vary in size and chemical composition, making it difficult to understand or predict the reactions taking place at the molecular level. In the new model, all the nanoclusters are the same size, evenly dispersed, and oriented in one of two directions on the titanium oxide crystal Uniform nano-clusters signal improved catalysts A scanning tunneling microscope image (left) shows nano-clusters deposited on a titanium dioxide platform with consistent orientation of the atoms (right). The dark triangle indicates the center of the tungsten trioxide molecular ring on the platform; the brighter side depicts the raised atom.
RE: [Vo]: Removal of chi ?
Interesting Articles: Is not Safe: http://www.relfe.com/microwave.html http://www.healingdaily.com/microwave-ovens.htm http://www.proliberty.com/observer/20041013.htm http://www.jrussellshealth.com/microwaves.html http://www.life.ca/nl/103/microwave.html Is Safe: http://www.foodsafety.gov/~fsg/fs-mwave.html http://www.abc.net.au/science/k2/moments/s1597903.htm Google Search microwaved food http://www.google.com/search?hl=enq=%22microwaved+food%22btnG=Google+Searc h Do this at home: Test your microwave By Larry Cook If you have ever wondered whether or not microwaved food is safe, here's an experiment you can do at home: Plant seeds in two pots. Water one pot with water that has been microwaved, the other with regular tap water. The seeds that received microwaved water won't sprout. If microwaved water can stop plants from growing, think of what microwaved food can do to your health! -Original Message- From: Jones Beene [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 7:49 AM To: vortex Subject: [Vo]: Removal of chi ? Some rather profound quandaries are often presented by experiments in high school science fairs ... and often mainstream physics can only guess at the answers: hhttp://www.execonn.com/sf/
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[Vo]: Focus Fusion Society
Focus Fusion Society http://www.focusfusion.org/index.html Welcome from the Focus Fusion Society Has the Energy Crisis got you down? Are you worried about global warming, the economy, war for oil? Don't like being asked to choose between preserving the arctic refuge or building nuclear reactors? Would you like to live in a world with unlimited, cheap, safe, clean energy with prosperity and affluence for all? If you answered yes to these questions, then you should know that there is a novel solution to these problems called Focus Fusion. The goal of the Focus Fusion Society is to turn the dream of safe, cheap, clean, unlimited energy from nuclear fusion into a practical reality, to do it as soon as possible, and to ensure that this technology is made available to all mankind. We will pursue this goal by developing the Plasma Focus Device for hydrogen-boron nuclear fusion. To finance the research needed, we will raise funds from the general public and publicize the need for government funding of research aimed at developing this ideal energy source. We believe that: hydrogen-boron fusion is the Energy of the Present; the Plasma Focus Device is a practical means to harness hydrogen-boron fusion; and with your help we can build the Plasma Focus Device, prove that fusion works, and propel humanity into a new era. Our confidence is based on solid theoretical work and experiments that have achieved temperatures of over a billion degrees. The successful development of Focus Fusion Energy will: eliminate the environmental destruction of fossil fuel use, reduce global carbon emissions and therefore, global warming, free the world economy from the crushing burden of high energy prices, eliminate the continual wars aimed at maintaining control of oil resources, give to everyone decentralized, small-scale power, eliminating corporate control of energy, provide the cheap energy needed to eliminate world poverty, make possible a new space propulsion system that will radically cheapen and speed space exploration, free the world from 19th-century energy sources and provide power for the Third Millennium.
[Vo]: Fusion System for Future Military Aerospace Vehicles
One of the authors of this paper is George Miley -DonW- http://stinet.dtic.mil/oai/oai?verb=getRecordmetadataPrefix=htmlidentifier=ADA446973 Accession Number : ADA446973 Title : Propulsion and Power Generation Capabilities of a Dense Plasma Focus (DPF) Fusion System for Future Military Aerospace Vehicles (POSTPRINT) Descriptive Note : Conference Paper Corporate Author : AIR FORCE RESEARCH LAB EDWARDS AFB CA PROPULSION DIRECTORATE Personal Author(s) : Knecht, Sean D. ; Mead, Franklin B. ; Thomas, Robert E. ; Miley, George H. ; Froning, David Handle / proxy Url : http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA446973 Check NTIS Availability... Report Date : 06 OCT 2005 Pagination or Media Count : 8 Abstract : The objective of this study was to perform a parametric evaluation of the performance and interface characteristics of a dense plasma focus (DPF) fusion system in support of a USAF advanced military aerospace vehicle concept study. This vehicle is an aerospace plane that combines clean aneutronic dense plasma focus (DPF) fusion power and propulsion technology, with advanced waverider-like airframe configurations utilizing air-breathing MHD propulsion and power technology within a reusable single-stage-to-orbit vehicle. The applied approach was to evaluate the fusion system details (geometry, power, T/W, system mass, etc.) of a baseline p-11B DPF propulsion device with Q = 3.0 and thruster efficiency, eta prop = 90% for a range of thrust, Isp and capacitor specific energy values. The baseline details were then kept constant and the values of Q and eta prop were varied to evaluate excess power generation for communication systems, pulsed-train plasmoid weapons, ultrahigh-power lasers, shielding/cloaking devices and gravity or time-distorting devices. Thrust values were varied between 100 kN and 1,000 kN with Isp of 1,500 s and 2,000 s, while capacitor specific energy was varied from 1 - 15 kJ/kg. Q was varied from 3.0 to 6.0, resulting in gigawatts of excess power. Thruster efficiency was varied from 0.9 to 1.0, resulting in hundreds of megawatts of excess power. Resulting system masses were on the order of 10's to 100's of metric tons with thrust-to-weight ratios ranging from 2.1 to 44.1, depending on capacitor specific energy. Such a high thrust/high Isp system with a high power generation capability would allow military versatility in sub-orbital space, as early as 2025, and beyond as early as 2050. This paper presents only the views and recommendations of the authors themselves and are not necessarily those of the Air Force. Descriptors : *AEROSPACEPLANES, MILITARY OPERATIONS, SYMPOSIA, AUSTRALIA, CAPACITORS, SUBORBITAL TRAJECTORIES, HYBRID PROPULSION, AIR BREATHING ENGINES(UNCONVENTIONAL), MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS, THRUSTERS, PLASMAS(PHYSICS), ELECTRIC POWER PRODUCTION Subject Categories : RESEARCH AND EXPIRIMENTAL AIRCRAFT PLASMA PHYSICS AND MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS Distribution Statement : APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
[Vo]: [OT] Nature Solves Own Problems
An article from the Asbury Park Press: http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060628/OPINION/606280538/1032 TOPIC OF THE DAY Global warming Posted by the Asbury Park Press on 06/28/06 Nature solves own problems As a retired scientist I marvel at the progress made in science during the last 50 to 60 years in spite of efforts to subvert that progress by such bogus notions as cold fusion, the ozone hole and global warming. The first of these has properly been relegated to the dust bin of history. The second still survives annihilation because of the need of NASA scientists to protect their sinecure, being dependent on an easily spun Congress to provide budget money for whatever project can be spun as important. Ozone is easily degraded during the Antarctic winter (with or without the assistance of chlorofluorocarbons) when there is no sunlight, and is quickly restored by sunlight when it returns in the Antarctic spring. These facts have escaped the notice of our non-scientific lawmakers. The third is being kept alive by proactive environmentalists with an obvious agenda: the destruction of America's capitalist system. Global temperature variation is controlled mainly by the variable energy output of the sun. Even if global warming were caused by anthropogenic activity, so what? Fear mongers demagogue that glaciers will melt and the seas will rise and flood our coastline. I dispute this: The winter temperatures in Greenland vary from 20 below to 20 above zero, and the summer temperatures from 40 to 60 degrees. The difference between the average temperatures is far greater than any prediction of global warming, yet we see no sea level rise in summer in the northern hemisphere because it is balanced by freezing in the southern hemisphere, and vice-versa. This is not to say we should ignore conservation. On the contrary, the planet has a fixed amount of oil and, in the absence of substitutes, it will one day run out. I am confident substitutes will be developed in the meantime, but we should slow down consumption. Nature was designed with such care, using checks and balances, that man can have little, if any, direct influences to change any of its aspects. A.J. Petro BERKELEY
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