Re: Survey questions from Dr. Peter Gluck

2005-04-08 Thread Robin van Spaandonk
In reply to Mike Carrell's message of Fri, 8 Apr 2005 22:21:20 -0400: Hi, [snip] >- WHAT IS COLD FUSION (LENR, CANR, >CMNS)? Historically the definition has come to be any process generating heat beyond normal chemistry, &/or resulting in transmutation of elements, that happens at near room tempe

Re: New battery technology

2005-04-08 Thread Standing Bear
On Friday 08 April 2005 18:13, Robin van Spaandonk wrote: > In reply to Standing Bear's message of Fri, 8 Apr 2005 11:42:28 > -0400: > Hi, > [snip] > > >mirror fusion engine for main power. It is powered by a nuclear reactor. > >If these things can get us to the moon where we can mine the tritiu

RE: Experimental Challenge!!!!!

2005-04-08 Thread Keith Nagel
Hi Bill. You write: >Well, I've had my nose repeatedly rubbed in the fact that I barely exist Perhaps you should post to your list more than once every two months. you're ignoring us, not the other way around... Seriously, I understand what you're saying, it's not quite what I had in mind, but go

FW: WHAT'S NEW Friday, April 08, 2005

2005-04-08 Thread Akira Kawasaki
> From: What's New <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Akira Kawasaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 4/8/2005 1:24:07 PM Subject: WHAT'S NEW Friday, April 08, 2005 WHAT'S NEW Robert L. Park Friday, 8 Apr 05 Tucson, AZ 1. PROLIFERATION: JUST WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS, MORE RELIABLE NUKES. Three years

Re: AWEA estimate of global power needs

2005-04-08 Thread RC Macaulay
In the never ending game of musical chairs the ownership of Texas power plants has an interesting history. Houston Lighting and Power Company ( Old Houston Electric Company owned by Stone and Webster) partnered with City of Austin ( Austin Power) and Central Power and Light (CPL, now AES) to

Survey questions from Dr. Peter Gluck

2005-04-08 Thread Mike Carrell
Vorts,   Peter Gluck is a veteran CF supporter who lives in Romania. He asked me to forward the questions below for comment on vortex.   Mike Carrell -- Dear Friends,   This was once a group dedicated  to Cold Fusion and perhaps it still is. Therefore I am tr

China Ups Reactor Plans

2005-04-08 Thread Terry Blanton
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4419313.stm "China has announced it will build 40 new nuclear reactors within the next 15 years, a big increase on earlier plans. The move is intended to boost electricity capacity as the country's economic boom has caused serious power shortages."

Re: Experimental Challenge!!!!!

2005-04-08 Thread William Beaty
> "when you go into your church, you talk about god. > when we go into our teepee we talk TO god." > - Chief Seattle - Apparently that's a fake quote, written in 1974. Most "Chief Seattle" quotes were taken from an article manufactured by an author who was writing a Hollywood-ized movie script

Re: Experimental Challenge!!!!!

2005-04-08 Thread William Beaty
On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Keith Nagel wrote: > I'll give everyone a day or two to respond to the list, > and if ANYONE can post something which has some remote > whiff of truth to it, I'll post the experiment and you > can all do it for yourselves and see what I'm > talking about. Everyone talks about B

Re: Coaxial Capacitor Thrustor

2005-04-08 Thread William Beaty
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, John Berry wrote: > Your analysis makes it tempting to try and build it, except that in air > there really is a displacement current due to polarizing the air. > A force would certainly be generated no doubt, but so would a stream of > moving air. >From the Chris Tinsley era:

Re: AWEA estimate of global power needs - 15 years to catch up with nukes

2005-04-08 Thread Jed Rothwell
I wrote: I presume that means 1.3 million MW nameplate capacity, or 415,000 MW real. That comes to 3,842 NPRE . . . I meant that if you crank these numbers, you get a world total electric power demand equaling ~3,842 NPRE, and they are hoping to have wind supply 12% of this total. Actually, that

Re: Conventional nuclear fission plants are not cost effective

2005-04-08 Thread Jed Rothwell
Robin van Spaandonk wrote: >be reasonably safe, although no one has found a good way to get rid of the >waste yet. Actually, there may be a several ways to "get rid" of the waste. One of the most interesting I have seen is a patent that uses a technique involving a form of NMR to speed up the d

AWEA estimate of global power needs

2005-04-08 Thread Jed Rothwell
See the document I cited before: http://www.awea.org/news/03-04-o5-GlobalWindEnergyMarkets.pdf. Quote: "According to the report Wind Force 12 (3), boosting investment in wind energy to a level where it would provide 12% of world electricity generation by 2020 would result in annual reductions o

Re: Conventional nuclear fission plants are not cost effective

2005-04-08 Thread Robin van Spaandonk
In reply to Jed Rothwell's message of Fri, 08 Apr 2005 14:00:38 -0400: Hi, [snip] >I am assuming here that some kind of effective >hydrogen buffer or giant batteries could smooth demand. [snip] At several times the energy density of lead-acid batteries, and a fraction of one percent of the cost,

Re: Conventional nuclear fission plants are not cost effective

2005-04-08 Thread Robin van Spaandonk
In reply to Jed Rothwell's message of Fri, 08 Apr 2005 13:08:40 -0400: Hi, [snip] >Next generation nuclear reactors may well be cost effective, and they may >be reasonably safe, although no one has found a good way to get rid of the >waste yet. Actually, there may be a several ways to "get rid

RE: SONY Patents Metaverse First Step

2005-04-08 Thread Keith Nagel
Hi Terry, Boy, is this ever a product liability nightmare! You will remember back in the good old days, when Vo users actually posted about invention and technology, that our own John Schnurer had done some work for the USAF concerning this technology. The modality was magnetic eddy current induc

Re: New battery technology

2005-04-08 Thread Robin van Spaandonk
In reply to Standing Bear's message of Fri, 8 Apr 2005 11:42:28 -0400: Hi, [snip] >mirror fusion engine for main power. It is powered by a nuclear reactor. >If these things can get us to the moon where we can mine the tritium, then >pure fusion mirror devices become feasible. In any case, the m

Re: OT: Question regarding condoms

2005-04-08 Thread Jed Rothwell
I wrote: In advanced countries such as Japan where there is treatment and universal health care, AIDS is not increasing. The number of infections in Japan is holding steady at 12,000, with fewer than 500 deaths per year. That should be: the number of infected people in Japan in holding steady at

Re: OT: Question regarding condoms

2005-04-08 Thread Jed Rothwell
Horace Heffner wrote: It is perfectly logical that condom use will slow the spread of aids. It does not take an expert to see that. Further, the more the onslaught is delayed, the larger the number of people who will be saved by medical advances if and when they come. You are missing the point

Re: OT: Question regarding condoms

2005-04-08 Thread Horace Heffner
At 8:23 AM 4/8/5, leaking pen wrote: >your math assumes that all encounters are with someone who is hiv positive. Not true. I made no assumptions that the sample data was valid or in what context they would be valid. However, if it will make you happy I will now suggest that a 1/1000 infection r

Re: Conventional nuclear fission plants are not cost effective

2005-04-08 Thread Jed Rothwell
I wrote: We could easily find the money and the wind resources to 10 per year, or 50, and that would cost roughly $250 billion than building 50 nuclear reactors. . . . That came out all scrambled up, and I am not even using voice input. I meant we could build the equivalent of 10 to 50 nuclear po

Conventional nuclear fission plants are not cost effective

2005-04-08 Thread Jed Rothwell
Standing Bear wrote: Once the anti nuclear leftovers from the maoist antiwar subversion campaign by the heirs of the old Comintern of the 1970's are mostly dead or quiet, and that is happening now as most of these were drug users and have had short lives;  then the new atmosphere of nuclear com

SONY Patents Metaverse First Step

2005-04-08 Thread Terry Blanton
"IMAGINE movies and computer games in which you get to smell, taste and perhaps even feel things. That's the tantalising prospect raised by a patent on a device for transmitting sensory data directly into the human brain - granted to none other than the entertainment giant Sony."   http://www.newsc

Re: OT: Question regarding condoms

2005-04-08 Thread leaking pen
id like to clarify. i spent several days researching this issue about a year ago for a similar discussion. the numbers i quote are recollections. heres another for you, btw. teens who were in abstinence based sex education programs were shown to have a HIGHER rate of sex, and a higher rate of u

Re: OT: Question regarding condoms

2005-04-08 Thread Jed Rothwell
Horace Heffner wrote: I take it then that no one here actually knows the failure rate of condoms with regard to protection from aids. No one here does, but people elsewhere do. I have some friends at the CDC who could tell you all about it. Yet there are such fervent beliefs expressed regarding

Re: New battery technology

2005-04-08 Thread Standing Bear
On Tuesday 29 March 2005 13:59, Jed Rothwell wrote: > I wrote: > >The biggest problem with charging stations would be lack of customers. I > >think most people would find it more convenient to recharge at home > >overnight, rather than interrupt their commute. > > In other words, charging stations

Re: OT: Question regarding condoms

2005-04-08 Thread leaking pen
your math assumes that all encounters are with someone who is hiv positive. On Apr 8, 2005 7:41 AM, Horace Heffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I take it then that no one here actually knows the failure rate of condoms > with regard to protection from aids. Yet there are such fervent beliefs > ex

Re: OT: Question regarding condoms

2005-04-08 Thread Horace Heffner
I take it then that no one here actually knows the failure rate of condoms with regard to protection from aids. Yet there are such fervent beliefs expressed regarding promoting condom use as "safe sex". I can not see why this posture is not utterly reckless. If you can not understand my point re

Re: Windmills in the sky after all!

2005-04-08 Thread Jed Rothwell
Terry Blanton wrote: I'm no expert; but, there are some really exotic proposals: http://alt-e.blogspot.com/2004/12/wind-power-laddermills-high-altitude.html That is strange! That thing is mechanical?!? It says the kites turn a large wheel on the ground. It is hard to believe any material would

Re: vortex-digest Digest V2005 #174

2005-04-08 Thread Terry Blanton
Wait!  Don't give up so easily.  Besides, you're in Utah and this list probably wouldn't exist were it not for the work performed by F&P there.   Besides, I wanted to tell you of a book, Glenn Kleier's "The Last Day", which has a scene where all the leaders of the world's religions come to Utah to

Re: vortex -digest Digest V2005 # 174

2005-04-08 Thread RC Macaulay
Several ways to look at Vortexians. Either they are a mixed collection of absolute humorists masquerading as intelligent form of life, or they are absolute intelligents trying to act like  humorists.   A person like John, that can write with an eloquence, should not quit the Vorts. Anyone fro

Re: vortex-digest Digest V2005 #174

2005-04-08 Thread leaking pen
dont do that. we thrive on dissagreement. On Apr 7, 2005 9:24 PM, John Robertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- John Robertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Dang! I was going to stop talking. > > You *could* reconsider. > Thanks, Terry. You're absolutely right. I have reconsidered, and