This could actually work to the utilities advantage if they embraced the
idea. Prices are higher because demand is higher. With the right pricing
structure, such arbitraging could prevent the construction of generating
facilities to meet peak demand.
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 10:34 PM, Blaze
Blaze Spinnaker blazespinna...@gmail.com wrote:
I think the folks of Shanghai might disagree with that one.
Why Shanghai? What's the news from Shanghai?
- Jed
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/12/131208133616.htm
[snip]In a microscopic high-pressure cooker called a diamond anvil cell (within
a tiny space about as wide as a pencil lead), combine ingredients: aluminum
oxide, water, and the mineral olivine. Set at 200 to 300 degrees Celsius and 2
Here is a graph of U.S. PV solar installations per quarter since 2010. It
shows rapid growth:
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2013/12/more-records-for-quarterly-us-solar-installations
It shows 930 MW in the July-September quarter. That means 930 MW peak
output from the solar
They say that there is nothing new under the sun. This applies to wet LENR.
Back in the 1960’s Joe Papp used the wet LENR formula to blast a crater
into the hardpan desert floor of the California desert.
Engineering is the art of turning disadvantage tp your fullest advantage.
Joe Papp did this
I am sending lists of papers to authors. I am asking them to check for
missing papers, or to contribute full text papers not on file if they would
like to.
This is taking a while. If you are an author and you would like to see the
list of your papers now, please contact me. Or, you can go to this
In fact there may not even be such a thing as a “WET” anomalous cell at
the nano scale… I am suggesting that at the scale of the these anomalous
environments the catalytic confinement powering these reactions result in
gas and plasma reactions. The lesser claims related to wet cell
http://a-sheep-no-more.blogspot.com/2013/12/9th-grade-science-project-finds-plants_3.html
This would be an interesting experiment to repeat with plants at varying
distance from the same router to see if there's a dose response effect.
Even better would be cellular culture, but that's harder
Snope.
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 8:37 AM, Ron Wormus prot...@frii.com wrote:
http://a-sheep-no-more.blogspot.com/2013/12/9th-
grade-science-project-finds-plants_3.html
This would be an interesting experiment to repeat with plants at varying
distance from the same router to see if there's a
Axil, we are in agreement over the value of cavitation bubbles which by
constant recreation avoid the need for persistent geometry and may even provide
a control feature for the reaction. I even agree that it is CURRENTLY naïve to
think persistent geometry will long withstand the pressures and
Ron Wormus prot...@frii.com wrote:
I think I will move my router further away from my desktop.
Yup. I did that last spring.
Here is a well-known graph of radiation:
http://www.motherjones.com/files/images/smartmeterhealth1.jpg
It seems to indicate there should be no problem. If this
OTOH .
This could be good news :-)
At least for those concerned about the risk of brain cancer from
cell-phones, which are in the same UHF frequency range.
Heck, using the same logic (or lack thereof) maybe UHF radiation kills
cancer cells. one would not think that UHF could both
This is really in reply to
http://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l@eskimo.com/msg86584.html
[Vo]:A Quantum Jewel
Terry Blanton Tue, 08 Oct 2013 06:26:30 -0700
...
which for some strange reason isn't showing up in my mail.
The Amplituhedron
http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.2007
Also see
Scientists
The Ni/H reactor builds nano-cavities on-the-fly and in real time as a
dynamic process.
Here is how it is done…
http://physics.aps.org/articles/v6/134
These nano-cavities are continually created by dynamic forses and distroyed
by the LENR reactions.
This dynamic micro/nano particle building
Once again, Y.E. Kim's BEC theory gets a leg up, if IBM really has
generated a room temp BEC. The guys at Exbits don't seem to realize the
implications reach far beyond computing.
IBM’s Achievement
In 1995 this was demonstrated for the first time at these extreme
temperatures, but today in a
Guys,
I think Doppler Weather and Military radar pulsing 750,000 to 3,000,000
watts 24/7 into the atmosphere is potentially the worst of the offenders.
The NEXRAD Doppler weather towers cover a 150 mile radius. In Sitka,
Alaska, within that 150 mile radius, the Yellow Cedar trees are slowly
Waldo anyone?
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 12:19 PM, ChemE Stewart cheme...@gmail.com wrote:
Guys,
I think Doppler Weather and Military radar pulsing 750,000 to 3,000,000
watts 24/7 into the atmosphere is potentially the worst of the offenders.
The NEXRAD Doppler weather towers cover a 150
I have been expanding my data/theory on quantum dark/vacuum energy making
up our gravity field with the Sun and triggering weather disturbances if
anybody is interested.
http://darkmattersalot.com/2013/04/15/is-it-our-brane-thats-still-foggy-or-is-it-just-string-theory-for-dummies-me/
There has
The room temperature BEC is formed from Polaritons. DGT has said that their
BEC was a Polariton BEC. DGT (also assume Rossi) uses micro-particles to
create their Polariton BEC, and IBM uses plastic.
Details from the expanded article as follows:
Polariton BEC within the polymer-filled
To get kWH/day from peak kW in PV, you multiply by the average full power
equivalent hours per day. In FL, this is 4 hours (mostly due to clouds).
In NM the number is 5. In the continental US as a whole, the number is
probably about 3.5-4. This is for a fixed (not tracking) array. This
number
Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com wrote:
I have a 5.3 kW peak fixed PV system that provides most of the power for
my house.
Wow! How many square feet is that? How much did it cost?
- Jed
http://www.wholesalesolar.com/Information-SolarFolder/SunHoursUSMap.html
I'm in Zone 6. :(
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.comwrote:
To get kWH/day from peak kW in PV, you multiply by the average full power
equivalent hours per day. In FL, this is 4 hours
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.comwrote:
It works great.
Is it cost effective?
Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com wrote:
To get kWH/day from peak kW in PV, you multiply by the average full power
equivalent hours per day. In FL, this is 4 hours (mostly due to clouds).
In NM the number is 5. In the continental US as a whole, the number is
probably about 3.5-4.
3.5
The figure of 100,000 watts for a cell phone tower seems a little high.
The most plausible figures from the web seem to be up to 500 watts if
they are covering a large area, or somewhat less if it is a small cell
in a city.
Nigel
On 12/12/2013 19:21, leaking pen wrote:
Waldo anyone?
On
Here is all kinds of great information about electric power generation:
http://www.eia.gov/electricity/
http://www.eia.gov/energy_in_brief/article/renewable_electricity.cfm
I think you are right, I was thinking FM broadcast stations
How far are you from the nearest FM radio tower? Those typically put out
100,000W.
Cell Towers
Although the FCC permits an effective radiated power (ERP) of up to 500
watts per channel (depending on the tower height), the majority of
Total U.S. generator capacity is roughly 1,000 GW. So it would take 1,700
years to replace that with solar at the present rate of installation.
Maybe, but the present amount of capacity has doubled 4 times over the last
10 years. If it becomes significantly profitable to install solar over
our
Based upon the number/type off cell channels on the tower it looks like it
can be a total of 30,000-75,000 W per tower at peak use. Multiply that by
x number of towers and you can see it adds up fast. Throw in a couple of
250,000 to 750,000 watt Doppler weather stations and a few FM and high def
Wind power is much larger than PV solar at present. That does not mean the
future capacity is more, it means wind has been developed longer. See:
http://www.windpoweringamerica.gov/wind_installed_capacity.asp#yearly
It is fun to watch the changing graphic map chart at the top right of this
page.
Blaze Spinnaker blazespinna...@gmail.com wrote:
Maybe, but the present amount of capacity has doubled 4 times over the
last 10 years.
Sure. It has great potential.
I would be wary of projecting that kind of growth into the future, because
there may be problems integrating it into the net.
Wind is terrific as well, however it's pretty hard to improve the tech all
that rapidly like solar. It also kills birds, ruins sight lines, etc.
But yes, wind is good.
I love this article in the economist:
There's a company called Solar City and what they do is install panels on
your house and then sell the electricity back to you at a lower rate than
what you pay your utility.
These are the sort of innovative things that are happening.
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Jed Rothwell
ERP is not the same thing as raw wattage 'into the waveguide'. It involves
antenna gain and the transmitter output can be much smaller.
Many TV stations saw huge reductions in energy use after the digital
transition. With analog, you needed a really strong signal to look good. With
digital,
Blaze Spinnaker blazespinna...@gmail.com wrote:
Wind is terrific as well, however it's pretty hard to improve the tech all
that rapidly like solar.
It is still moving ahead pretty quickly. Especially offshore installations.
In Northern Europe North Sea offshore installations could produce 4
It kills thousands of times fewer birds than coal smoke does, and steam
from power generator cooling towers do. It kills fewer birds than
reflective glass buildings do. If we could replace all coal with wind
today, it would save far more birds than it kills. It would also save
roughly 20,000 human
I am focusing on the pulsed klystrons in the NEXRAD weather and TDWR
stations
On Thursday, December 12, 2013, Chris Zell wrote:
ERP is not the same thing as raw wattage 'into the waveguide'. It
involves antenna gain and the transmitter output can be much smaller.
Many TV stations saw huge
I wrote:
At the rate wind is expanding it will not take centuries to catch up with
nuclear power. It is increasing at around 13 GW nameplate per year, or
about 4 nukes.
In other words, at this rate, wind will catch up to nukes and produce ~20%
of our electricity in about 20 years.
It has
http://www.wunderground.com/radar/map.asp
You mean these?
From: ChemE Stewart [mailto:cheme...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2013 5:01 PM
To: vortex-l@eskimo.com
Subject: Re: [Vo]:OT: 9th Grade Science Project: WiFi prevents seed germination
I am
Blaze Spinnaker blazespinna...@gmail.com wrote:
Sure, but if the rate of windmill capacity doubled 7 more times or so, I
wouldn't want to be a bird.
This really is not a problem. Birds are evolved to avoid whacking into
large, opaque moving objects. Such as pine trees waving in the wind. In
Yes, those are NEXRAD 750,000 watt pulsed Dopplers there are another 50 or
so TDWR 250,000 watt airport pulsed weather radars. Not shown. No long
term studies have ever been done
On Thursday, December 12, 2013, Chris Zell wrote:
http://www.wunderground.com/radar/map.asp
You mean these?
It is always difficult for me to accept that the living world constantly needs
our intervention, as if the whole of adaptive evolution never took place -
including dramatic catastrophes. Rupert Sheldrake once claimed that some small
birds learned to attack products delivered by the milkman-
From: ChemE Stewart [mailto:cheme...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2013 5:23 PM
To: vortex-l@eskimo.com
Subject: Re: [Vo]:OT: 9th Grade Science Project: WiFi prevents seed germination
Yes, those are NEXRAD 750,000 watt pulsed Dopplers there are another
Chris Zell chrisz...@wetmtv.com wrote:
It is always difficult for me to accept that the living world constantly
needs our intervention, as if the whole of adaptive evolution never took
place - including dramatic catastrophes.
Well, natural catastrophes wiped out entire species. We don't want
http://www.copradar.com/rdrrange/
As the above suggests, because the antenna is so tightly directional, the ERP
can be very high. I don't know typical wattage sent to a radar dish but I did
work with (non-pulsed) klystrons for many years.
Off Topic: A BSEE guy once told me that he and
I wrote:
In 2012, total installed nameplate capacity was 60 GW. With a capacity
factor of 30% that's ~18 GW. It produced 3% of U.S. electricity.
Ah ha. It is more than 3% now. That was with 2011 end-of-year capacity. See:
It is about 440 square feet on top of my flat patio roof. It is 2 strings
of 15 in parallel for a total of 30 panels. The total installed cost was
$35k, but I got back $20k from the state of FL (an incentive for growing a
solar business in FL) and then I got back about $2500 in tax credits. So
The way I look this is a little different. I was the first house in my
community of 50k to have PV. When I go to sell my house (which I plan to
do next year), if the solar power is the feature that attracts the customer
that buys my house, then it was paid back in that one instant.
It has been
Individually it's an interesting story, but on a mass scale it doesn't
quite add up - yet.
We need to be installing these solar panels without subsidies (and
including all install costs, labor etc) and still paying less than general
utility fees over 10 years or so.
When that happens, install
Perhaps also of interest -
Driving self-assembly and emergent dynamics in colloidal suspensions
by time-dependent magnetic fields
http://iopscience.iop.org/0034-4885/76/12/126601
Axil wrote:
The Ni/H reactor builds nano-cavities on-the-fly and in real time as a
dynamic process.
Here is how
Blaze Spinnaker blazespinna...@gmail.com wrote:
We need to be installing these solar panels without subsidies (and
including all install costs, labor etc) and still paying less than general
utility fees over 10 years or so.
I would agree to the no subsidy plan, but only after we level the
Brian Josephson knows a think or two about superconductivity.
IIRC he has speculated that the BEC is involved, but I don't have a cite.
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote:
The room temperature BEC is formed from Polaritons. DGT has said that
their BEC was a
Yeah, good points all. The implicit insurance subsidy for Nuclear is
pretty massive.
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote:
Blaze Spinnaker blazespinna...@gmail.com wrote:
We need to be installing these solar panels without subsidies (and
including all
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Blaze Spinnaker
blazespinna...@gmail.comwrote:
I also have this weird fear that we might create a drag that slows the spin
of the earth's rotation. :D
If we could work out a global windmill installation that could accomplish
that, I think our energy problems
maybe using the term paradigm shift is exaggerated.
a paradigm shift is something really, really annoying for the old paradigm.
this one seems a very convenient way to rephrase old theory. My impression
is that it is in the current paradigm of mathematized theoretical physics,
symmetry based
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