Re: Why are the oil companies making such huge profits?

2005-08-16 Thread leaking pen
umm, yes, in teh basic model of capitalism, corporations ARE beholden to society. corps were not ALLOWED to exist in the good olde days of capitalism like they do now, becuase it was KNOWN they would wrok this way. a large corps ability to influence the market destroys the essence of pure capital

Why are the oil companies making such huge profits?

2005-08-16 Thread Steve Krivit
This, I was asked by someone today, when discussing the apparent shortage of oil and price escalation that appears to be related to supply/demand. He referred to this snip: 1) Oil > Big Oil's obscene profits - Exxon Mobil, the world's largest publicly traded oil company, announced a 32 percent

Re: Pollution Quotient - PQ - was "MPG" => "MPG+e"?

2005-08-16 Thread Harry Veeder
The average joe (which includes me) as no intuitive feel for a KwH. Instead, the "Energizer Bunny" comes to mind. How far could an "Energized Car" travel on 10,000 AA batteries? Harry

Re: Gravity is an Asymmetrical Effect of the ZPF

2005-08-16 Thread Wesley Bruce
That's not even half new. I have papers from 8 years ago with the same basic theory. The earliest papers date from 1988. Fusion Facts had articles on this work back in the 1990's. The original idea comes from the soviet dissident scientist Andrei Sakharov back in the 1960's. When I argued in fa

Re: New papers by Szpak et al.

2005-08-16 Thread Jones Beene
- Original Message - From: "Jed Rothwell" http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/SzpakSevidenceof.pdf And a surprise bit of history in the introif it is correct. However, it is 'suspect' since an accelerator must have been involved. If incorrect, statements like this cast doubt on what f

New papers by Szpak et al.

2005-08-16 Thread Jed Rothwell
See: http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/SzpakSevidenceof.pdf http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/SzpakStheeffecto.pdf

Re: Pollution Quotient - PQ - was "MPG" => "MPG+e"?

2005-08-16 Thread Terry Blanton
> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Seems to me that the greatest obstacle to going all out EV remains costs and > adequate battery storage capacity. Yup. Wasn't too long ago a Vort said all we need is a good battery.

Re: Pollution Quotient - PQ - was "MPG" => "MPG+e"?

2005-08-16 Thread orionworks
Terry sez: > Google says 2 to 4 miles per kWhr for "current" EVs. :-) > > You want air conditioning with that? Of course! > "Savvy Vort"? Oxymoron. Here's a web page that gives it to > ya in all ways: > > http://www.accs.net/users/cefpearson/convers.htm > > In the interest of obfuscation,

Re: Non-hybrid Corolla versus Prius

2005-08-16 Thread Jed Rothwell
By the way, I forgot to mention that the Prius produces five to 10 times less pollution than standard / non-hybrid Toyota Corolla and other ICE-only cars. (I mean emissions other than CO2.) The engine runs under optimal conditions at all times; it has the very latest pollution control equipment

Re: Pollution Quotient - PQ - was "MPG" => "MPG+e"?

2005-08-16 Thread Jed Rothwell
Terry Blanton wrote: Google says 2 to 4 miles per kWhr for "current" EVs. Okay, so let's do some simple arithmetic. At $0.10 / kWh that's 2.5 to 5 cents per mile, versus 10 cents per mile for the average ICE car with gasoline at $2.20 per gallon. Two to 4 times cheaper. And when gas hits $5

Non-hybrid Corolla versus Prius

2005-08-16 Thread Jed Rothwell
John Steck wrote: BTW, has anyone else noticed the MPG on a standard / non-hybrid Toyota Corolla? 30/38 mpg for automatic 32/41 mpg for manual. Not bad for standard technology in a reasonably sized 4-door sedan IMO. This is a good point. There are standard cars with excellent gas mileage. I

Re: Pollution Quotient - PQ - was "MPG" => "MPG+e"?

2005-08-16 Thread Terry Blanton
> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > This brings up an important question that I hope some savvy veteran Vort will > help educate me on: Google says 2 to 4 miles per kWhr for "current" EVs. :-) You want air conditioning with that? "Savvy Vort"? Oxymoron. Here's a web page that gives it to ya in all

Re: Pollution Quotient - PQ - was "MPG" => "MPG+e"?

2005-08-16 Thread orionworks
> > orionworks sez: > Jed sez: > > Granted, one really can't use the MPG rating when dealing > > with an all-electrical vehicle. In that case it seems to > > me that using a simple KwH rating might be an adequate > > gage. How many miles can the car go on a single Kilowatt > > hour. Again, just as

Re: Pollution Quotient - PQ - was "MPG" => "MPG+e"?

2005-08-16 Thread Jed Rothwell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Granted, one really can't use the MPG rating when dealing with an all-electrical vehicle. In that case it seems to me that using a simple KwH rating might be an adequate gage. How many miles can the car go on a single Kilowatt hour. Again, just as in MPG ratings, the h

Re: Pollution Quotient - PQ - was "MPG" => "MPG+e"?

2005-08-16 Thread orionworks
Jones Sez: > I suggest as an alternative measure - PQ or pollution > quotient. Perhaps CPM, or Carbon (equivalent) per Mile > would be less finger-pointing, but don't we need > a "stick" as well as a carrot? ... > http://www.sacunion.com/pages/state_capitol/articles/5749/ > > That's the left-

Re: Pollution Quotient - PQ - was "MPG" => "MPG+e"?

2005-08-16 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jones Beene wrote: I suggest as an alternative measure - PQ or pollution quotient. Perhaps CPM, or Carbon (equivalent) per Mile would be less finger-pointing, but don't we need a "stick" as well as a carrot? Actually, to be fair to rail and bus transportation, we should make the units passen

Pollution Quotient - PQ - was "MPG" => "MPG+e"?

2005-08-16 Thread Jones Beene
- Original Message - From: "Jed Rothwell"   > Ed Storms and others have objected to the terminology "250 mpg" with > reference to plug in hybrid cars. It is confusing and inaccurate.   I suggest as an alternative measure - PQ or pollution quotient. Perhaps CPM, or Carbon (equivalen

Nuclear H2 Production

2005-08-16 Thread Terry Blanton
A fellow petrophobe alerted me to the STAR-H2, Secure Transportable Autonomous Reactor, a lead cooled water cracker: http://www.hydrogen.anl.gov/publications.html (last one.)

"MPG" => "MPG+e"?

2005-08-16 Thread Jed Rothwell
Ed Storms and others have objected to the terminology "250 mpg" with reference to plug in hybrid cars. It is confusing and inaccurate. I had the same reaction Ed did when I saw the term "250 mpg hybrid car" in a New York Times op-ed column a couple of months ago. I thought: "That's ridiculous.

Re: vortex server

2005-08-16 Thread Terry Blanton
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: 2005/08/16 Tue AM 10:14:33 EDT > To: vortex-l@eskimo.com > Subject: vortex server The escribe servers are frequently unavailable. The URL still resolves to an IP address with our DNS. Try again later.

Re: Gravity is an Asymmetrical Effect of the ZPF

2005-08-16 Thread Terry Blanton
> From: Harry Veeder > This was posted on another list. Thanks. Remy had sent this to me also. Seems the Eurekalert article is the complete article. Sneaky of NS to try to get you to spring for $4.95 to read a few extra paragraphs.

Re: Gravity is an Asymmetrical Effect of the ZPF

2005-08-16 Thread Harry Veeder
Terry Blanton wrote: > > Anyone have a Newscientist subscription to fetch the whole article? > > http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7844&feedId=online-news_rss20 > This was posted on another list. Harry >> 13 August 2005 >> >> From New Scientist Print Edition . >> >> Mark Anderson

Re: From the BB to Neutron Stars

2005-08-16 Thread Jones Beene
From: "Terry Blanton" These subjects have appeared on the list lately. Jones, maybe neutron stars *are* n=1/137 hydrinos: Excellent observation Or going one step further, maybe there are two similar objects - cosmic cousins so to speak the "gamma burster" is (hydrino-based), but t

Re: MAHG is a 3 Port Device

2005-08-16 Thread Jones Beene
From: "John Harris" Refering to Pages 3.501.205 & 3.558.149 it is fairly clear that the centre rod you refer to is the connection to one end of the cathode grid This means the connections they are using now is from No 2 to No 4 to heat the cathode element. and as you said there is no anod

vortex server

2005-08-16 Thread R . O . Cornwall
Vo, For those of us who lurk and may subscribe/unsubscribe but want to keep up with what's gone, http://www.escribe.com/science/vortex/ doesn't appear to be working. Has the url changed? R. ... Website http://luna.bton.ac.uk/~roc1 ...

RE: Another Plug-In Article

2005-08-16 Thread Jed Rothwell
John Steck wrote: All electric vehicles will not reduce pollution, just shift it out of urban areas to more harmful types. This is incorrect. All modern electric vehicles are far more fuel efficient than pure ICE, and somewhat better than hybrid ICE. There are two reasons: the initial genera

From the BB to Neutron Stars

2005-08-16 Thread Terry Blanton
These subjects have appeared on the list lately. Jones, maybe neutron stars *are* n=1/137 hydrinos: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/08/15/MNGUSE7QIA1.DTL

Re: MAHG is a 3 Port Device

2005-08-16 Thread John Harris
- Original Message - From: "Terry Blanton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The "oil filter" housing lead is the one I referenced in this thread. There are also two other electrical connections at the base. One appears to feed the "cathode" grid and the other seems to feed the center rod, what I am c

Gravity is an Asymmetrical Effect of the ZPF

2005-08-16 Thread Terry Blanton
In 1996 Haisch and Rueda published a ZPF explanation for intertial mass: http://www.calphysics.org/haisch/mercury.html They now say they have a similar explanation for gravitational mass: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-08/ns-ijv081005.php "Rueda and Haisch argued that charged matte

Re: MAHG is a 3 Port Device

2005-08-16 Thread Terry Blanton
> From: "John Harris" > What is this "centre anode " part? > > From my limited understanding the W grid is a heated cathode and the > Sputtered Copper housing is the Anode. The "oil filter" housing lead is the one I referenced in this thread. There are also two other electrical connections at