Popular Mechanics article

2004-07-16 Thread Jed Rothwell
As Einstein said when they told him about the atom bomb: oy veh. Actually, after reading Steve Krivit's report I was expecting something worse. The magazine cover and headlines are dreadful, and the article has some ridiculous statements, but overall it is not too bad. As I said yesterday, any

Re: Popular Mechanics article

2004-07-16 Thread Jed Rothwell
Here is one statement from the article that is certainly right, although probably for the wrong reasons: The DOE will only acknowledge that its decision to re-examine cold fusion is in part based on national security concerns. I would love to know who said that, and what they had in mind. I

Re: Popular Mechanics article

2004-07-16 Thread Steven Krivit
Jed: If other nations are quicker to develop new energy technology than the U.S., then an entire system of economic and political balance may become unstable. This would be a matter of national security just as much, if not more threatening, than bombs. There is the slight possibility that in

RE: Natural gas and oil supplies - a huge crisis may be looming

2004-07-16 Thread Keith Nagel
Hey Jed. You write: Mark, for crying out loud, STOP SAYING THING LIKE THAT! It is terribly annoying. You are missing the point! If you have a gadget that produces ZPE energy, at any level, even a tiny fraction of a watt, all you need to do is release it to the public in the form of

Re: Water as a transportation fuel

2004-07-16 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jones Beene writes: I see that Rothwell has suddenly become an expert on the automotive ICE. Wonderful. I'm sure Ford, BMW, and GM should hire him to adivse them before they waste any more of the millions they have put into this effort. Somehow, these lunatic harebrained engineers at Ford

Re: Water as a transportation fuel

2004-07-16 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mark Goldes writes: If you devoted a fraction of the excellent effort you have expended on cold fusion to learning about cars running on hydrogen, you would find that many excellent conversions have been done. Yes, I am aware of that. I have read several books about hydrogen, and ICE. A Toyota

RE: Magnetic motors and generators

2004-07-16 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mark Goldes writes: The Brady device is likely to be demonstrated in Europe, or South Africa, if not in the U.S., sometime later this summer. What is the Brady device? Is there a web site, or description? I personally expect a demonstration magnetic motor, requiring no external input, that

Handpicked collaborators

2004-07-16 Thread Jed Rothwell
I wrote: I am quite sure that Mark Goldes is not qualified to select the best company to develop a 20 kW ZPE generator. No one is qualified to make this decision. No human being can understand the problem in enough detail or predict the future that well. To give a well-known concrete example

Re: 2010 and beyond

2004-07-16 Thread Jones Beene
- Original Message - From: Terry Blanton Instead, it is about the dangers of *human* duplicity and deception. Remember- in 2001, when the designers failed to 'mention' a key little design-criterion in Hal 9000 to the astronauts? Hey, Hal was just doing his job - the dirty

RE: 2010 and beyond

2004-07-16 Thread Steven Vincent Johnson
Regarding AC's work on 2001. It would also be useful to remember that the movie, 2001, was as much Kubrick's creation as it was Clark's novel. In certain on-line discussion groups debates concerning Kubric versus Clark's hand in the making of the movie have raged one and on, never really being

RE: Brady and the U.S.

2004-07-16 Thread Mark Goldes
Brady had an American rep, namely Sterling Allen. Sterling broke off a few months ago, as a result of several unpleasant disputes Brady has had with investors and suppliers, having nothing, apparently, to do with the technology. Brady is actively trying to sell his invention for $500 million.

Re: 2010 and beyond

2004-07-16 Thread Mike Carrell
As one old enough to have seen 2001 in its first release (in a former Cinerama theater), and having read following books by Clarke, and seen 2010 in its first release, and seen both again later, I can make the following remarks. I have forgotten whether Hal killed the hybernating crew first or

Re: Handpicked collaborators

2004-07-16 Thread Mike Carrell
Jed wrote, following a familiar theme: No one is qualified to make this decision. No human being can understand the problem in enough detail or predict the future that well. To give a well-known concrete example that I have mentioned before, ATT licensed hundreds of companies to make

RE: Brady Magnetic Motor Perendev-Power.com

2004-07-16 Thread explorecraft
-Original Message- From: Steven Vincent Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 2004 July 17 09:12 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ...X... For the second time, doesn't anyone find it odd that according to this article nobody is attempting to license this allegedly

RE: Water as a transportation fuel

2004-07-16 Thread explorecraft
Jed is correct on this point: retrofitting ICE engines to use LENR would be economic folly. The problem is that the characteristics of any LENR process differ vastly from the relatively tame process of combustion. The caustic nature and the presence of voltage gradients would turn current

Re: Popular Mechanics article

2004-07-16 Thread Standing Bear
On Friday 16 July 2004 12:14, Jed Rothwell wrote: Here is one statement from the article that is certainly right, although probably for the wrong reasons: The DOE will only acknowledge that its decision to re-examine cold fusion is in part based on national security concerns. I would love