Re: [Vo]:Video of every known nuclear explosion conducted on the planet

2010-08-03 Thread Terry Blanton
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 8:43 PM, Harry Veeder hlvee...@yahoo.com wrote: ooops...I must have gone to the washroom and missed the end of the movie. Yeah, it got kinda slow. The end frame is at the top of the web page showing the totals. T

[Vo]:Article on concentrating solar power (solar thermal)

2010-08-03 Thread Jed Rothwell
See: http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2010/07/concentrating-solar-power-builds-up-heat The table has an interesting comparison of the land use for solar thermal versus PV, comparing two systems both in Riverside, CA: 350 MW PV, 2844 ha 986 MW trough solar thermal, 2091 ha -

RE: EXTERNAL: [Vo]:Article on concentrating solar power (solar thermal)

2010-08-03 Thread Roarty, Francis X
Science Daily (Aug. 2, 2010) - A new process that simultaneously combines the light and heat of solar radiation to generate electricity could offer more than double the efficiency of existing solar cell technology http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100802101813.htm

Re: [Vo]:Article on concentrating solar power (solar thermal)

2010-08-03 Thread Ron Wormus
Along these lines this looks very promising: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100802101813.htm Ron --On Tuesday, August 03, 2010 9:56 AM -0400 Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: See:

RE: [Vo]:Solar EMP: the biggest threat to our way of life?

2010-08-03 Thread Jones Beene
Solar alert. I sent the solar EMP post below two weeks ago, and already a large mass of solar plasma is due to hit earth tonight. The Northern Lights should be intense - and let's hope that this light-show is the limit of the effects of coronal mass ejection. It could be much worse.

Re: [Vo]:Article on concentrating solar power (solar thermal)

2010-08-03 Thread Jed Rothwell
Ron Wormus wrote: Along these lines this looks very promising: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100802101813.htm Ha. A combination photovoltaic and thermoelectric chip. Clever. Similar methods of converting heat at different power levels or states have been developed. Some

RE: EXTERNAL: RE: [Vo]:Solar EMP: the biggest threat to our way of life?

2010-08-03 Thread Roarty, Francis X
Jones, If Naudts is correct about the hydrino being relativistic hydrogen then wouldn't the hydrinos ejected from the sun be based on classic spatial acceleration as opposed to equivalent acceleration due to suppression inside a cavity? I would expect relativistic hydrogen to

Re: [Vo]:Solar EMP: the biggest threat to our way of life?

2010-08-03 Thread Terry Blanton
Images of the flare: http://spaceweather.com/ T On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Solar alert. More information than you want: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/alerts/index.html T

[Vo]:Solar thermal and the book The Long Emergency

2010-08-03 Thread Jed Rothwell
I read part of a book recently (a free sample on Kindle!) titled The Long Emergency by James Kunstler. Based on the first chapter and the reviews, I gather the author thinks that alternative energy such as wind or solar will not suffice to maintain modern, high-tech, high energy civilization

RE: [Vo]:Solar EMP: the biggest threat to our way of life?

2010-08-03 Thread Jones Beene
Fran, Within the realm of possibilities are: 1)Naudts may be incorrect, or only partially correct 2)Naudts may describe a broad formative process for a particle which becomes a stable particle, once it leaves a cavity - both on its own, or as a hydride, or in a bound form 3)

Re: [Vo]:Solar thermal and the book The Long Emergency

2010-08-03 Thread mixent
In reply to Jed Rothwell's message of Tue, 03 Aug 2010 15:40:38 -0400: Hi, [snip] I do not have the exact numbers handy but I have looked up the amount of energy it takes to mine and manufacture uranium fuel compared to the energy produced by the fuel, and the numbers are quite favorable

[Vo]:D/H ratio

2010-08-03 Thread mixent
Hi, In Nuclear Physics of stars by Christian Iliadis, the author calculates that the D/H equilibrium ratio is about 1E-18 to 1E-17 depending on temperature. He also quotes a figure of 3E-5 for the ratio in the primordial gasses of the universe. Both are much smaller than the ratio in water which

Re: [Vo]:Article on concentrating solar power (solar thermal)

2010-08-03 Thread Jed Rothwell
The people who developed the Luz International trough solar thermal plant in California are now running a company called BrightSource Energy: http://www.brightsourceenergy.com/bsii/history They now believe that the tower design is better than the trough design. They give a number of reasons

RE: [Vo]:D/H ratio

2010-08-03 Thread Jones Beene
-Original Message- From: mix...@bigpond.com Is it possible that there is an unknown CF mechanism at work in the universe creating extra D? ;) Such a mechanism would have to be unknown since according to Wiki there is no known ongoing mechanism to create deuterium, and the amount we