Re: [Vo]:A memory of March 1989 and Arthur C. Clarke

2008-03-26 Thread Harry Veeder
On 26/3/2008 12:49 AM, thomas malloy wrote: Harry Veeder wrote: *There was interesting pragrom recently on CBC radio on the role* *of translation on western philosophy and thought.* *One guest pointed out that the King James bible is not really the word* *of God but a human

Re: [Vo]:A memory of March 1989 and Arthur C. Clarke

2008-03-26 Thread thomas malloy
OrionWorks wrote: Hi Thomas, Some follow-up thoughts. Terry Blanton wrote: Particularly is the Thai Buddhist concept of Nirvana. and proclaim it's all New Age Schick. - aka: schtic (Thank you, Terry!) No, it grows out out a particular world view. You appear to state

[VO]: O6 ? How to detect

2008-03-26 Thread R C Macaulay
Howdy Vorts, Another ozone question .. if O6 is present , is there a double check to make certain it's O6 ? Richard

Re: [Vo]:Emergency Electric Curtailment event in Texas / more bull from Lutz

2008-03-26 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mike Carrell wrote: Huge and small are relative. Jed points out that wind farms may total hundreds of megawattts, having hundreds of turbines. More important, they are spread out in arrays many kilometers wide. When the wind slows down in one part of the array it will likely pick up in

Re: [Vo]:A memory of March 1989 and Arthur C. Clarke

2008-03-26 Thread OrionWorks
Hi Thomas, A couple of additional musings. Is she destined to be a lost lamb for the rest of her miserable life, to eventually burn in hell simply because she walked out on Prager??? I think that her mind was already made up. My point was that Dennis' comments cut her to the quick. It

Re: [Vo]:Emergency Electric Curtailment event in Texas / more bull from Lutz

2008-03-26 Thread Robin van Spaandonk
In reply to Mike Carrell's message of Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:48:25 -0400: Hi, [snip] What is fundamentally different is that in the conventional system, the AC rotating machines are locked in synchronism with the 60 Hz grid, and if any one falls out of synch, destruction will follow. With wind

[Vo]:Re: Emergency Electric Curtailment event in Texas / more bull from Lutz

2008-03-26 Thread Michel Jullian
Is there anything in the grid proper (i.e. excluding converters at supply and receiving ends) that makes it inherently AC? If not, it would make sense to convert the whole system to DC, if only because root(2) more rms voltage would be allowed, i.e. 57% more power could be carried by the same

[Vo]:Re: Emergency Electric Curtailment event in Texas / more bull from Lutz

2008-03-26 Thread Michel Jullian
Oops I meant 41% (root 2 - 1), sorry. Michel - Original Message - From: Michel Jullian [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 10:23 PM Subject: [Vo]:Re: Emergency Electric Curtailment event in Texas / more bull from Lutz Is there anything in the

[Vo]:Two new papers on the radiation reported by Storms

2008-03-26 Thread Jed Rothwell
Ed says it is: Storms, E. and B. Scanlan. Radiation produced by glow discharge in a deuterium containing gas (Part 2). in American Physical Society Meeting. 2008. New Orleans. http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/StormsEradiationpa.pdf Rick says maybe not: Cantwell, R. Partial Replication of

[Vo]:OFF TOPIC The Navy says this isn't safe

2008-03-26 Thread Jed Rothwell
I agree! See scary yet hilarious photo of VW Beetle with ATV strapped to roof: http://www.safetycenter.navy.mil/photo/ - Jed

RE: [Vo]:Emergency Electric Curtailment event in Texas / more bull from Lutz

2008-03-26 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jeff Fink wrote: I was heavily involved with power station design from 1970 to 1983 for oil fired, coal fired and nuclear. I have never encountered a design where multiple turbine generators share a common boiler or reactor. That configuration must be quite rare. Ah. No doubt I was mistaken

Re: [Vo]:Re: Emergency Electric Curtailment event in Texas / more bull from Lutz

2008-03-26 Thread Robin van Spaandonk
In reply to Mike Carrell's message of Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:26:32 -0400: Hi, [snip] Current practice is thanve local feeds down the street at a few kilovolts with pole transformers every block or so to convert to house uasge. Curiously, this system uses an earth return on the high voltage side of