Re: OT: Mini icon on nav bar

2005-09-29 Thread Steven Krivit
Awesome, thanks, I didn't even know what to call that thing. I owe ya one. s

Krivit listed on ICNT Conference schedule

2005-09-29 Thread Steven Krivit
FYI: http://www.ianano.org/Program1.html (I'm on Tuesday morning, you can use your browser's search feature to search on "krivit") s

Re: I think pragmatism wins

2005-09-29 Thread Harry Veeder
Jed Rothwell wrote: > Jones Beene wrote: > >> The USA is slowly moving towards the Scandinavian model, because we are >> (despite lip service to unbridled-capitalism) also very pragmatic people. >> Forbes Magazine itself is the "mouthpiece of capitalism," no? Yet they >> tell it like it is... >

"peak oil"

2005-09-29 Thread Harry Veeder
I think "peak oil" will happen, but it will result from peak demand rather than peak supply. Harry

Re: OT: Mini icon on nav bar

2005-09-29 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Steven Krivit wrote: Can any html-heads out there tell me how to add a mini icon to the front of the nav field on a browser? I used Dreamweaver. If you mean what I think you mean, you just need to create a file named "favicon.ico" and put it in the top level directory of your website (same

OT: Mini icon on nav bar

2005-09-29 Thread Steven Krivit
Can any html-heads out there tell me how to add a mini icon to the front of the nav field on a browser? I used Dreamweaver. TIA, Steve

Re: Weather Control

2005-09-29 Thread ThomasClark123
In a message dated 9/29/2005 2:32:48 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: gee you should talk to this guy who quit his job as a meteorologist to prove what you already knowhttp://www.weatherwars.info/ Thanks for the above reference.  It seems to me that it would be a simple matter

RE: Converters and Calculators

2005-09-29 Thread John Steck
Title: Message Very useful site... thanks for sharing the URL. -john   -Original Message-From: Frederick Sparber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 4:22 AMTo: vortex-lSubject: Re: Converters and Calculators http://www.csgnetwork.com/aviationconverters.htm

RE: Secondary Disaster hits New Orleans

2005-09-29 Thread John Steck
Ok, patronage deals and loose purse strings generally go hand in hand (regardless of which party is in power). I don't like it either, BUT have any of the outraged here ever gone through a government bid before? The ideal utopia in your head doesn't exist outside that theater. Slow is not the ri

RE: Weather Control

2005-09-29 Thread John Steck
Title: Message Wow.  'nuf said.  8^)     -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 11:02 AMTo: vortex-l@eskimo.com; [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: Weather Control In a message dated 9/14/2005 1:46:40

OFF TOPIC Pinned down by a sniper in New Orleans!

2005-09-29 Thread Jed Rothwell
From the New York Times, "Fear Exceeded Crime's Reality in New Orleans": A contingent of National Guard troops was sent to rescue a St. Bernard Parish deputy sheriff who radioed for help, saying he was pinned down by a sniper. Accompanied by a SWAT team, the troops surrounded the area. The sh

Re: Weather Control

2005-09-29 Thread Alex Caliostro
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I received an email from some persons working for President Bush claiming that there are computer systems which do indeed control the weather globally based on political cycles and other data at the time the hurricanes were hitting Florida. gee you should talk to thi

Re: I think pragmatism wins

2005-09-29 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jones Beene wrote: The USA is slowly moving towards the Scandinavian model, because we are (despite lip service to unbridled-capitalism) also very pragmatic people. Forbes Magazine itself is the "mouthpiece of capitalism," no? Yet they tell it like it is... Well, I hope we do develop in this

Re: Harnessing artificial tornadoes as an energy source

2005-09-29 Thread Jed Rothwell
Wow! Neat idea. Thanks for telling us about that. - Jed

Harnessing artificial tornadoes as an energy source

2005-09-29 Thread OrionWorks
Vorts, An interesting article: http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=4455446 or http://tinyurl.com/8wl89 Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com

Re: Social Capitalism

2005-09-29 Thread Mark Goldes
I believe what happens in Finland can best be described by this title. Our own economy will benefit greatly if such a trend accelerates. Mark From: "Jones Beene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: vortex-l@eskimo.com To: Subject: Re: I think pragmatism wins Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 09:52:31 -0700

Re: I think pragmatism wins

2005-09-29 Thread Jones Beene
- Original Message - From: "Jed Rothwell" In terms of economic competitiveness, even without the benefit of natural resources, the message has been clear for years. Socialism rules. I disagree. Finland's wealth comes from private corporations such as Nokia. That is not disagreemen

I think pragmatism wins

2005-09-29 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jones Beene wrote: Would the USA even be in the top 10 if we were not blessed with extreme natural resources, timber, minerals, petroleum and good farm land? Probably yes. Natural resources help but there are many cultural factors at work. Apart from water, Mexico has as many natural resource

Re: Weather Control

2005-09-29 Thread ThomasClark123
In a message dated 9/14/2005 1:46:40 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Weather modification and control might seem really outlandish.  But, wecould be nearing the point where where weather modification and controlcould be possible. I know for sure that weather control by means

Re: The Grip of Gas

2005-09-29 Thread Jones Beene
Original Message - From: "Jed Rothwell" > We could encourage the sidelining of gas guzzlers > by taxing new large vehicles like SUVs. The old ones will > wear out in > time and sideline themselves. Michael Foster wrote: Excuse me while I run outside to wave my little worker's ha

Re: The Grip of Gas

2005-09-29 Thread Jed Rothwell
Standing Bear wrote: All that four dollar gas price is going to do is guarantee a depression and radicalization of our politics . . . Not if it is imposed carefully, along with a tax cut for people making less than $30,000 per year. The better solution and a better one for political stabil

Re: The Grip of Gas

2005-09-29 Thread Jed Rothwell
Michael Foster wrote: > solved by rationing. We could encourage the sidelining of gas guzzlers > by taxing new large vehicles like SUVs. The old ones will wear out in > time and sideline themselves. Excuse me while I run outside to wave my little worker's hat and sing another rousing chorus of

Re: Solar hydrogen production at only 400 deg C

2005-09-29 Thread Jed Rothwell
Frederick Sparber wrote: I said Help Out, Jed. Almost all of the farm wastes that undergo anerobic bacterial digestion end up adding to the methane/CO2 burden of the atmosphere. Why not get the energy from it (Bio Gas) . . . Sure! This is a great idea and we should do it anyway to remediate

Re: O.T. Strange Mountains

2005-09-29 Thread Alex Caliostro
From: "RC Macaulay" Now you spoiled 'em, we don't want 'em back cause we done found us an unlimited labor pool and all we need to do is forget to close the gate. this just in "A big earthquake with the strength of 8.1 on the Richter scale has hit Mexico. Two million Mexicans have died a

RE: The Grip of Gas

2005-09-29 Thread Jed Rothwell
Craig Haynie wrote: > price falls to $2.50. I wish the leaders would tell the > citizens that oil > is running out, and it is time to make sacrifices and make > changes. [...] I am curious why you want to do this. The market will do this naturally as the supply of oil begins to fail to keep pac

Re: aussie solar challenge underway

2005-09-29 Thread Wesley Bruce
Standing Bear wrote: On Wednesday 28 September 2005 20:15, Wesley Bruce wrote: Alex Caliostro wrote: set the controls for the heart of the sun 2000 miles in a cramped position http://www.wsc.org.au/2005/competition/ any of our friends downunder know whos leading _ -alex

propellantless propulsion

2005-09-29 Thread Alex Caliostro
recently posted by dr sarfatti on his list "Subject: Advanced Space Flight Technology No more Space Shuttles ever needed again. I have been asked by Deep Black "Ok Jack , I read it. Assuming its true, then pray tell how do we get some and bottle it as fuel?" Forget fuel. There is no fuel!

Re: O.T. Strange Mountains

2005-09-29 Thread RC Macaulay
Bear sez ... Now I find out that our President has a ranch there. Guess that explains a lot. Everybody in that place was drunk or getting that way. My dog Dragon, a good judge of character if ever there was one, stayed at a constant growling alert f

Re: O.T. Strange Mountains

2005-09-29 Thread OrionWorks
Bear sez ... >Now I find out > that our President has a ranch there. Guess that explains a > lot. Everybody in that place was drunk or getting that way. > My dog Dragon, a good judge of character if ever there was one, > stayed at a constant growling al

Re: Methane Hydrate Reserves & CO2 Sequestration

2005-09-29 Thread Frederick Sparber
http://marine.usgs.gov/fact-sheets/gas-hydrates/title.html   " Recent mapping conducted by the USGS off North Carolina and South Carolina shows large accumulations of methane hydrates. A pair of relatively small areas, each about the size of the State of Rhode Island, shows intense concentratio

Re: Methane & Water to Methanol

2005-09-29 Thread Frederick Sparber
For the hardy.  :-)   Frederick 1, CH4 (16 Lb) + H2O  (18 Lb) + Heat/Catalyst >  CO (28 Lb) + 3 H2 (6 Lb)   2,  CO (28 LB) + 2 H2 (4 Lb) >  CH3OH (32 Lb)   3,  CH3OH (32 Lb) +  H2O (18 Lb) makes a good motor fuel that freezes below minus 65 deg F.   CH4 is about 4.24 Lbs/ccf HHv 23,600

Re: deceptively simple question

2005-09-29 Thread Alex Caliostro
From: Robin van Spaandonk Why are *high* pressure areas warm, and *low* pressure areas cold? (If low pressure regions are caused by rising *warm* air, then they shouldn't be *cold*, they should be warm). because low pressure results from dimples and hi pressure from bumps bumps hold in heat

Re: The Grip of Gas

2005-09-29 Thread revtec
Sounds like socialism to me. It worked great in the USSR. I'm sure it will be terrific here. Nixon tried gas rationing. We had gas lines wrapped around the block. The law of supply and demand will set the proper price and there will be no lines and no shortages. People who decide they can't a

Re: The Grip of Gas

2005-09-29 Thread revtec
- Original Message - From: "Standing Bear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 12:56 AM Subject: Re: The Grip of Gas > On Tuesday 27 September 2005 17:47, Jed Rothwell wrote: > > Michael Foster wrote: > > >I have a number of personal observations that seem to il

Re: Secondary Disaster hits New Orleans

2005-09-29 Thread revtec
Between listening to talk radio and reading posts from this group, my head is spinning. Will the real planet earth please stand up, so I can figure out which one I'm on! Jeff - Original Message - From: "Jones Beene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "vortex" Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 7

Re: OT: Secondary Disaster hits New Orleans

2005-09-29 Thread Michael Foster
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Re: Converters and Calculators

2005-09-29 Thread Frederick Sparber
http://www.csgnetwork.com/aviationconverters.html   "Some of these are directly related to the aviation community and some are of indirect interest"   I like this one, especially for finding out how much stuff my garage will hold. http://www.csgnetwork.com/longlatdistance.html        

Re: Off topic - US climate loonies ...Ghandi was lucky

2005-09-29 Thread Michael Foster
Standing Bear wrote: > About face. Ghandi was lucky! Just 80 years earlier a far different Britain > in 1857 conducted mass executions of all who would stand in their way, > especially if those waystanders were not white Anglo-Saxon protestants. > One picture showed ranks of cannon, each with a S

RE: The Grip of Gas

2005-09-29 Thread Craig Haynie
Hello Jed! > [...] I wish the government would impose a tax to raise > the price to > $4 per gallon permanently. The tax would increase to $1.50 if > the base > price falls to $2.50. I wish the leaders would tell the > citizens that oil > is running out, and it is time to make sacrifices and make

Re: The Grip of Gas

2005-09-29 Thread Michael Foster
Standing Bear wrote: > All that four dollar gas price is going to do is guarantee a depression and > radicalization of our politics as the poor finally are driven to find their > voice. The better solution and a better one for political stability is to > impose rationing. Another solution would b

Re: Current Methanol Production & Hydrogen

2005-09-29 Thread Frederick Sparber
IOW,  why 3 H2 + CO2 <> CH3OH + H2O is the industry standard.   CH3OH (32 lbs) + H2O (18 lbs)  makes a good antifreeze ( ~ minus 65 deg F) motor fuel.     http://www.chemicals-technology.com/projects/sipchem/ "The 1 million tpa methanol production plant is being built by Japan's Chyioda Cor

hydrogen

2005-09-29 Thread thomas malloy
Frederick Sparber posted; As to storage of cheap hydrogen, reacting it with CO2 to make methanol to use in ICEs and fuel cells is the most practical near-term option. 3 H2 + CO2 <---> CH3OH + H2O I agree. a C to C AM interviewee said that 3% hydrogen will escape from the best containers. Given

David Moon's paper on microwaves

2005-09-29 Thread thomas malloy
Title: David Moon's paper on microwaves Vortexians; The cold fusion theorist, David Moon sent me the following paper and asked me to post it on Vortex. Microwaves, should we mind? Microwave ovens warm food because the microwave energy resonates with natural