IMHO, the idea of our eliminating oil use is an idea worthy of Analog
or Amazing Stories.
I listened to Matt, the author of this website, interviewed on C to C
AM. He contends that the fractional banking system and by extension
the American economy is being kept afloat by oil production. Sudde
Phillip Stell, professor emeritus wrote an article in which he makes
the case that the Darwinian paradigm is not useful as a heuristic in
formulating research which results in biological breakthroughs. I
gave it a 5. Take that Parksie!
http://www.the-scientist.com/2005/8/29/10/1
I sent this letter to Pat Bailey.
Dear Pat;
I mentioned your book review on Vortex-L. I was quite under whelmed
by the one response that I got, one request for a copy of it. I
reviewed the review and posted it again, with basically the same
response. I sent a copy of my review to Hal Puthoff
Jed wrote:
> We will also need oil for plastics and
> other synthetic materials. Today,
> roughly 20% of oil is used for such "non-
> fuel" applications. However, I expect it
> will be safer and cheaper to synthesize
> oil on site from garbage rather than to
> dig it out of the ground and tra
http://www.thenewstribune.com/24hour/healthscience/story/2694642p-11241051c.html
Controversy swirls around wind farm plan
The Associated Press
Wednesday, September 7th, 2005 06:21 AM (PDT)
LANCASTER, Calif. (AP) - An energy company wants to build 130 wind turbines,
each taller than the Statue of
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/09/07/BUG9NEJD3L1.DTL
Magnetic energy? Perhaps
David Lazarus
Wednesday, September 7, 2005
Smaller businesses can tailor a job to needs of desirable candidates
The nation's energy industry is struggling to recover from Hurricane Katrina.
Ga
> From: thomas malloy
>
> Steven Johnson posted
>
> > In my book: Recognizing one's "self" is to recognize
> > the existence of one's soul. The fact that they may
> > not be capable of reading Hebrew is a trivial factor
> > in the greater scheme of things.
> >
> > I can't read Hebrew either.
>
Steven Johnson posted
In my book: Recognizing one's "self" is to recognize the existence of
one's soul. The fact that they may not be capable of reading Hebrew
is a trivial factor in the greater scheme of things.
I can't read Hebrew either.
I can't make the leap from recognizing one's self a
Jed wrote:
>
> Frederick Sparber wrote:
>
> >FWIW, Jed.
> >A couple of items.
> >1, Biomass char is an excellent carbon source for the production of iron.
> >This is
> > why the British depleted their forests before they started mining
coal
>
> Yeah, I thought of that. But would there be enoug
Frederick Sparber wrote:
FWIW, Jed.
A couple of items.
1, Biomass char is an excellent carbon source for the production of iron.
This is
why the British depleted their forests before they started mining coal
Yeah, I thought of that. But would there be enough wood to replace coal in
this a
Hi Michael.
That "K" size cylinder of obsolete SO2 was a freebie from a refrigerant
dealer.
I'm still around even after reading up on dynamiting a bunch of stumps from
centuries-old cottonwoods in order to save the $85.00 a local octogenarian
wanted for bulldozing them out.
Before proceeding I co
Geraldo interviews storm victims at the convention center that say
they have had nothing to drink in 5 days which is a modern day
miracle considering.
WE see the deployment of 12 drone mini planes contracted to survey
damage.
School busses lay in water, boats prohibited for use in rescue
OrionWorks wrote:
>> From: thomas malloy
>
>> Parksie was up to his usual shtick. IMHO, you have to be
>> blind in order to miss that the biological mechanism is
>> just a container for the soul. Consequently a Chimp may
>> share 99% of it's DNA with us, but it lacks the thing
>> which makes us h
FWIW, Jed.
A couple of items.
1, Biomass char is an excellent carbon source for the production of iron.
This is
why the British depleted their forests before they started mining coal
and colonizing the
world.
2, Hydrogen produced from renewable energy can be used for reduction of CO2
(
> From: R.O.Cornwall
...
> Jed,
> On education: You can take the child out of the ghetto
> but can you take out the ghetto out of the child...
>
> This is controversial but hey, we like that stuff on Vo.
> Humans are subject to the laws of genetics as other
> animals: if I look at people around
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is controversial but hey, we like that stuff on Vo. Humans are subject
to the laws of genetics as other animals: if I look at people around
Deptford in SE London I see many descendants of dock workers - they are
thickset and none too bright (and violent).
I take e
Plastics are made from oil as well.
Harry
Wesley Bruce wrote:
> We wont totally eliminate oil. There will always be car enthusiasts. My
> father is restoring a 1920's Bullnose Morris truck. When I suggested
> converting it to Cold Fusion he threatened me with grievous bodily harm.
> ;-)He wa
And here I thought I was the only one to have the
"SO2 experience". When I was about 12 years old,
I was hired by the local slumlord to fix all the
refrigerators in his crumbling awful apartment
buildings. These babies were really old and mostly
had ammonia refrigerant, probably illegal, even ba
Remember Mt Pinatobe(?) I'm sure the weather took a little dip for a year
but things recovered.
It seems that stratospheric temperatures took a rise after Mt. Pinatubo.
http://www.ghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/MSU/msusci.html
Craig Haynie (Houston)
Terry Blanton wrote:
Crichton's new book. Page 455:
"Has it ever occurred to you how astonishing the culture of Western
society really is? Industrialized nations provide their citizens with
unprecedented safety, health, and comfort. Average life spans increased
fifty percent in the last cent
Fred,
Apparently when volcanoes go off we are talking billions of equivalent
mega-tonnes of TNT, cubic kilometres of rock, lots and lots of gas.
Remember Mt Pinatobe(?) I'm sure the weather took a little dip for a year
but things recovered.
It can't be that bad.
Remi.
___
Yes,
Learning to play classical music, reading to children, stable families
without domestic violence, taking care of mental and physical health, a
family dinner around the table with the TV off etc. etc.
It's the old nature nurture question. Though take a leaf out of sport, you
don't necessarily
Mathias,
I believe the dental care is free for under 16s and emergency via A+E is of
course free.
Jed,
On education: You can take the child out of the ghetto but can you take out
the ghetto out of the child...
This is controversial but hey, we like that stuff on Vo. Humans are subject
to the laws
Wesley Bruce wrote:
We wont totally eliminate oil. There will always be car enthusiasts.
That's what I said in my book, in chapter 17. I am a step ahead of you!
We will also need oil for plastics and other synthetic materials. Today,
roughly 20% of oil is used for such "non-fuel" application
There are millions of acres of subsidized acres that are usually mowed with
a brush hog to get about $35.00/acre-year.
Most of this land is in the states that could easily show 6 tons/acre annual Miscanthus yield.
If nothing else it could be buried in the coal strip mining backfill to offset
I originally posted this quote on May 30th:
Crichton's new book. Page 455:
"Has it ever occurred to you how astonishing the culture of Western society
really is? Industrialized nations provide their citizens with unprecedented
safety, health, and comfort. Average life spans increased fifty per
That's hysterical!
Also, I loved the story about the rolling atomic bomb.
- Jed
> From: thomas malloy
> Parksie was up to his usual shtick. IMHO, you have to be
> blind in order to miss that the biological mechanism is
> just a container for the soul. Consequently a Chimp may
> share 99% of it's DNA with us, but it lacks the thing
> which makes us human, a soul. This is the
Thanks Nick.
http://bioenergy.ornl.gov/papers/miscanthus/miscanthus.html
"Miscanthus is a tall perennial grass that has been evaluated in Europe during the past 5-10 years as a new bioenergy crop. It is sometimes confused with elephant grass (Pennisetum purpureum) and has been called bo
After two years at Sandia Labs in 1957 we bought 4.25 acres of flood irrigated land
in the Rio Grande valley 30 miles south of Albuquerque. I had it terraced for
easier irrigation and planted alfalfa hay.
The "pocket" gophers appreciated this ready food supply and burrowed
about 8 to 12 inche
We wont totally eliminate oil. There will always be car enthusiasts. My
father is restoring a 1920's Bullnose Morris truck. When I suggested
converting it to Cold Fusion he threatened me with grievous bodily harm.
;-)He was just kidding I hope.
Oil based fuel will become an boutique energy t
Oops SO3 should have been SO2.
Corrected:
It seems that nature is trying to bring things into balance
by absorbing the acidic gases CO2, SO2 and NO2 in raindrops
thus bringing them to the earth where they are absorbed by cations in the soil
and sea water.
In Atmospheric Raindrops:
CO2 +
It seems that nature is trying to bring things into balance
by absorbing the acidic gases CO2, SO3 and NO2 in raindrops
thus bringing them to the earth where they are absorbed by cations in the soil
and sea water.
In Atmospheric Raindrops:
CO2 + H2O > H2CO3
SO3 + H2O -> H2SO3
2
Jed Rothwell wrote:
Just like us, almost. See:
http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,68706,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_10
QUOTE:
"[Human and chimp] DNA remains highly similar -- about 96 percent to
almost 99 percent identical, depending on how the comparison is made.
Still, the number of gene
thomas malloy wrote:
Parksie was up to his usual shtick. IMHO, you have to be blind in
order to miss that the biological mechanism is just a container for
the soul. Consequently a Chimp may share 99% of it's DNA with us, but
it lacks the thing which makes us human, a soul. This is the same
me
Parksie was up to his usual shtick. IMHO, you have to be blind in
order to miss that the biological mechanism is just a container for
the soul. Consequently a Chimp may share 99% of it's DNA with us, but
it lacks the thing which makes us human, a soul. This is the same
mentality which labels th
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