Re: [Vo]:[OT] Federal Reserve Notes

As some of us who've been around for a while have noticed, the bills in common circulation have changed their names a couple of times. Not so long ago, they were silver certificates, redeemable for the metal. Then, they became Treasury notes and after that Federal Reserve notes. Most of this c

Re: [Vo]:Butanol not a good idea?

Horace Heffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One downside to butanol is it is both toxic and water > soluble, a very bad combination. This is the problem with > another gasoline additive, MTBE. Gasoline spills not having > MTBE are much easier to clean up, and less likely to > actually get to we

RE: [Vo]:Tata Motors - full of compressed air!

I take it none of you guys has been in Indian traffic or seen the typical vehicle mix. A compressed air car would be perfect for India. Even on the highways the speed limit is 60 kph, roughly 40 mph. It's never that high in the cities. Imagine the type of traffic you get when no one pays any

Re: [Vo]:The evolution of good governance

Jones wrote: > > We could produce more if needed; but, we already have > surpluses and > pay farmers not to plant crops. > > > Is this still going on despite record prices for corn? > > If so, it weakens the "no food-grain for fuel" > argument. That is: if we have land which is not being > p

Re: [Vo]:Somewhat OT: Atlanta gas crisis

Jed wrote: > From: Jed Rothwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [Vo]:Somewhat OT: Atlanta gas crisis > To: vortex-L@eskimo.com > Date: Monday, September 29, 2008, 12:13 PM > Atlanta is now in about 2 weeks into a severe gasoline > shortage. > > There may have been some panic buying and "topping o

Re: [Vo]:The end of corn-ethanol

Jed wrote: > Beene refers to "ag waste." As I have pointed out > numerous times, > most of the energy in agricultural plants is in the seeds, > and we eat > them. All plants concentrate energy in the seeds, and > plants bred for > food concentrate even more (making them vulnerable to > natural

Re: [Vo]:GM Chevy Volt at CalCars

Jed wrote; > http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/calcars-news/message/999 > > Calcars-news is the place to go for PHEV info. They have > more > in-depth technical details than news organizations do. I find this an exciting development. I hope GM can deliver. The 40 mile electric range would no

Re: [Vo]:NIST debunking

Jed wrote: > And the NYFD rolled over and play dead. Because as we all > know officials in > New York City are timid and passive people who never > question authorities. > They are easily duped, and slavishly devoted to Republican > administration. > > Plus, what would they have to gain? I mean,

[Vo]:Sunspotless

Could a significant global cooling effect be taking place.? I notice there is a deafening silence from Pope Algore and his Church of Global Warming on this subject. It would be very inconvenient for the selling of carbon indulgences, oops... that's offsets. Nothing is made of the fact that 2

Re: [Vo]:Double phase-change

Hi Jones, While there's lots of stuff on the internet about M. Nègre and his compressed air car I don't seem to be able to find any reference to the phenomenon you describe. Any links? While I've never met Ratan Tata, I deal with a couple of his business associates in India and they assure me t

Re: [Vo]:Really simple Casimir force energy extractor

--- On Mon, 7/21/08, Horace Heffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > An idea too simple or too inefficient to work detectably? > Obtain > molecules that readily go into suspension (colloids) that > are > comparatively flat, like graphite pieces, but which slide > comparatively easily sideways

Re: [Vo]:UEE and one-watt flames

Jones wrote: > > MF: I haven't followed this story, but I wonder > if > they've tried colloidal silver. It's way cheaper > and > very easy to make. > > My supply of "Silver Biotics" brand of colloidal > silver was sacrificed to the cause yesterday, and it > did not have any positive effect ove

Re: [Vo]:UEE and one-watt flames

--- On Fri, 7/11/08, Horace Heffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Horace Heffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Vo]:UEE and one-watt flames > To: vortex-l@eskimo.com > Date: Friday, July 11, 2008, 11:41 AM > On Jul 11, 2008, at 7:05 AM, Jones Beene wrote: > > > > Can a catalyst be found

Re: [Vo]:Dual-Use solar panels?

--- On Thu, 7/10/08, Stephen A. Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So why not just use an interference filter? By > multicoating a clear > substrate and carefully choosing the thicknesses and > refractive indices > of the coatings you can selectively reflect certain > frequencies. This >

Re: [Vo]:Re: Knudsen machine? Semi-conductors

Michel wrote: > Interesting! Are those results published somewhere Michael? > > - Original Message - > From: "Michael Foster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > I use one of these, but not for semiconductors. I > doesn't sputter, it deposi

Re: [Vo]:Knudsen machine? Semi-conductors

--- On Tue, 6/17/08, Steven Krivit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anybody here know about the chip biz? > I'm trying to learn something about a machine that was > identified to me as > a "Knudsen" machine. > I believe it is used to sputter thin films. > > Direction appreciated. > > s I use one o

RE: [Vo]:Ethanol not all bad?

--- On Mon, 6/16/08, Lawrence de Bivort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The 'evil conspiracy of Big Oil' might seem less so > if there were more > transparency in their dealings with US government > officials. Why do you > suppose the participants in and gist of the conversations > between Big Oil >

RE: [Vo]:Ethanol not all bad?

--- On Mon, 6/16/08, Jeff Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The mortgage bailout of a few weeks ago is also > "funded" for 300 billion. > So, double the cost to the responsible American! > > I'm really tired of having responsible American being > made responsible for > everyone else's irresponsi

Re: [Vo]:Ethanol not all bad?

Horace wrote: > On Jun 16, 2008, at 10:03 AM, Michael Foster wrote: > > > > > For example, the recent "meager" farm > subsidy bill was $307 > > billion! That's $1000 for each person in the U.S., > or roughly $2600 > > per household. How is

Re: [Vo]:Ethanol not all bad?

Horace wrote: > On Jun 16, 2008, at 10:03 AM, Michael Foster wrote: > > > > > For example, the recent "meager" farm > subsidy bill was $307 > > billion! That's $1000 for each person in the U.S., > or roughly $2600 > > per household. How i

Re: [Vo]:Ethanol not all bad?

Jones wrote: > Critics wrongly blame ethanol, not diesel tractor fuel > or fertilizer for the rising food costs - and then > they have the nerve to point the finger at > "massive" > farm subsidies ... Ha ... these subsidies are meager > compared to the tax breaks and value of oil depletiotn > allo

Re: [Vo]:In the Limelight

Jones wrote: > This is the page that mentions the way that the > characteristic greenish color of the light was > obtained, with some other interesting stuff. > > http://www.chem.leeds.ac.uk/delights/texts/Demonstration_19.htm > > Apparently the greenish color occurs when the oxygen > is cut-off

Re: [Vo]:In the Limelight

Since I'm likely the only Vort who has actually made a limelight, allow me to make a few observations. First, limelight isn't lime colored or even slightly greenish, a common misconception on account of the name I guess. It has a very aggreable color compared to the blue-white of the carbon arc,

[Vo]:Cold Fusion, Wet or Dry?

Since I haven't read all the papers on LENR-CANR, I'm not sure if this subject has already been covered. The recent Arata demonstration confirms what I've thought for some time concerning the CF phenomenon. That is, the electrolytic version of CF has been difficult to reproduce because electroly

Re: [Vo]:John Lear Interview

And of course there are those inconvenient retroreflectors placed there by the astronauts. Anyone with a 16 inch telescope and a 10W laser can see them. Neither these pieces of equipment is out of the price range of the amateur anymore, so what's the issue? Were those optical devices placed thei

Re: [Vo]:John Lear Interview

And of course there are those inconvenient retroreflectors placed there by the astronauts. Anyone with a 16 inch telescope and a 10W laser can see them. Neither these pieces of equipment is out of the price range of the amateur anymore, so what's the issue? Were those optical devices placed ther

RE: [Vo]:Stationary Fresnel Array (Hybrid)

--- On Sun, 5/4/08, Hoyt A. Stearns Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Hoyt A. Stearns Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: [Vo]:Stationary Fresnel Array (Hybrid) > To: vortex-l@eskimo.com > Date: Sunday, May 4, 2008, 4:47 PM > I don't know if this is relevant, but I'm reminded > of what I t

Re: [Vo]:Re: Fresnel focused solar

Michel wrote: > Sounds impressive! So what material are you using in your > roll process? Do you have a web site showing these things? The substrate I normally use is polyethylene pterphthalate (PET) film, generally from 12 microns to 125 microns in thickness, depending on the application. The

Re: [Vo]:Fresnel focused solar

It's so much fun to hear all you folks speculate on what's happening in this particular field. First, no one or no company has "beat me to the punch" in using fresnel lenses to concentrate sunlight for a photovoltaic system. This is an old and obvious idea, newly revived because of the run up i

Re: [Vo]:Ethanol Al

Jed wrote: > I concur with Nick Palmer. I do not now of any knowledgeable > > environmental scientists in favor of ethanol. Some amateur > environmentalists and politicians favor it. Most mass media > reporters > and editorial writers were in favor of it until a few > months ago, but > as Tr

[Vo]:Ethanol Al

Just for the record, now that they are all running for cover and ducking the tough questions, those so-called enviromentalists and global warming twinkies who initially promoted biofuels need to be held accountable. They won't, of course, since they'll be responsible for the death of hundreds of

Re: [Vo]:The Rent-a-Motor concept

Jones wrote: > BTW - why do we continue to have pennies? What a waste > of copper and *time* for clerks. I bet the net-cost of > using pennies and even nickels is in the billions of > wasted dollars. Let's get rid of this gigantic > anachronism, ASAP !!! Pennies aren't copper, or at least not

Re: [Vo]:Re: corn price and ethanol

Michel wrote: > (Marie-Antoinette, not Marie, you ignoramus ;-) Well actually, if she said it at all it was, "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche." Nothing about cake. This may sound silly or irrelevant to the discussion but it's not. Her husband, Louis XV1, had gone to great lengths to convince Fren

Re: [Vo]:Farnsworth's nephew comments on fusor

--- On Wed, 4/16/08, Jed Rothwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Jed Rothwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [Vo]:Farnsworth's nephew comments on fusor > To: vortex-L@eskimo.com > Date: Wednesday, April 16, 2008, 7:20 AM > Interesting historical notes. See: > > http://itseasyto.com/farnsworth

Re: [Vo]:CNN video of Vertigro algae factory

Jones wrote: > > I "want" them to be accurate (100,000 gallons per > acre > of oil and 700,000 pound of algae protein) but I fear > that they are inflated. I had no idea algae were nitrogen fixating organisms, which they would have to be to produce so much protein. I thought the bulk of the non-

Re: [Vo]:Riots, instability spread as food prices skyrocket

--- On Mon, 4/14/08, Jed Rothwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Jed Rothwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [Vo]:Riots, instability spread as food prices skyrocket > To: vortex-L@eskimo.com > Date: Monday, April 14, 2008, 2:07 PM > Many experts, such as Pimentel, saw this coming years ago. >

Re: [Vo]:[OT]Sony Wins One

--- On Mon, 4/14/08, Terry Blanton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gnorts, Vorts! > > Even though Betamax was superior to VHS in many ways, the > economic > advantage of the VHS transport mechanism beat out the > superior quality > of Betamax. > > With the announcement by Blockbuster that it would

Re: [Vo]:Re: Nostalgae

Sorry about the last non-message. It just sort of sent itself. --- On Sun, 4/13/08, Michel Jullian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Michel Jullian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > ... > > It sort of makes me wonder if algae might grow a > little better in a radioactive environment. > > You know, some

Re: [Vo]:Re: Nostalgae

--- On Sun, 4/13/08, Michel Jullian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Michel Jullian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > ... > > It sort of makes me wonder if algae might grow a > little better in a radioactive environment. > > You know, some like it hot. > > Random mutation genetic engineering, eh

[Vo]:Nostalgae

All this talk of algae reminds me of a project I embarked upon when I was about 14 years old. I had the rather ambitious idea that I could use algae to feed an animal tissue culture. Essentially what I tried to do was grow algae in a glass tube and using a bacterial or protozoan intermediary,

Re: [Vo]:Burning our food for fuel

--- On Thu, 4/10/08, Stephen A. Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Stephen A. Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [Vo]:Burning our food for fuel > To: vortex-l@eskimo.com > Date: Thursday, April 10, 2008, 8:14 PM > Quite some time back someone on this list -- Jed, maybe, or > maybe

Re: [VO]: Blowing smoke in the wind

Jed wrote: > This is bunk. First, the wind power subsidies are modest > compared to > the tax breaks (depletion allowances and so on) for oil, (snip) While I'm no fan of "Big Oil", I think it's important to point out that the oil depletion allowance has been virtually nil since 1978. > Thir

Re: [Vo]:PowerPoint question

I wish you well in figuring out how to translate a PowerPoint presentation into something useful. In my company's meeting/boardroom there is a prominently displayed sign that says simply, "No PowerPoint Allowed". This can really take the wind out of somebody's sails who was about to launch into

Re: [Vo]:[Vo] Re: Heretical biology: video!

--- On Thu, 4/3/08, William Beaty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just heard that there are other simple demonstrations! > See the > descriptions on this page: > > Liquid crystalline water discovered at interfaces > http://www.i-sis.org.uk/liquidCrystallineWater.php > > > And here's a 1-ho

Re: [VO]: OT: Numbers and cucumbers

That's a very informative analysis, Richard. Thanks. --- On Wed, 4/2/08, R C Macaulay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: R C Macaulay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [VO]: OT: Numbers and cucumbers > To: vortex-l@eskimo.com > Date: Wednesday, April 2, 2008, 7:54 PM > Howdy Vorts, > Ever get the f

Re: [Vo]:Re: Algae: 'The ultimate in renewable energy'

--- On Wed, 4/2/08, Jones Beene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am not sure "efficiency" is the main concern. > If the comparative cost of the oil produced is close but > acceptable, and the dollars stay at home instead of going > into the hands of our enemies: Saudi Arabia in particular, > then

Re: [Vo]:Close the Patent Office

on has the impression that a patent gives the imprimatur of credibility, which is why, I suppose this expensive joke is allow to continue. M. --- Jed Rothwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Foster wrote: > > >It is said that the head of the U.S. Patent Office wanted i

Re: [Vo]:Heretical biology

--- William Beaty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wonder if the "structure" is easy to detect. For example, if you shine > a red laser through ultra-pure water, you can see the beam, since it's > scattered by nano-crystallites which are part of water's short-range > structure. Polarizing the wat

Re: [Vo]:Heretical biology

Yep, it's required reading at my house now. --- William Beaty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Here's a biology book I'm going to buy: "Cells, Gels, and the Engines of > Life" by G. Pollack, a researcher here at UW Bioengineering. Someone at > work was talking about this book having heretical bio

[Vo]:Close the Patent Office

It is said that the head of the U.S. Patent Office wanted it closed in 1845, because everything significant had already been invented. I'm not sure if that's really true, but I have another reason for wanting it closed. Here is a good example. http://www.google.com/patents?id=m0d9EBAJ&pg=PA1

Re: [VO]: Call for new Ozone process

Hello Richard, I have no idea what's out there commercially, but here's how I would do it. There are high power, medium pressure argon-mercury UV lamps available commercially with quartz tube walls. One of these could be placed next to a quartz tube through which the water is pumped. A sparge woul

Re: [Vo]:OT: 9/11 encore une fois

--- R C Macaulay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since Cotillard is an intellectual perhaps he can explain in simple language > why he believes in a 9/11 conspiracy. Where are "they" hiding the > passengers? >While on the subject.. who the heck is "they". How does one gain > sufficent "cr

[Vo]:OT: 9/11 encore une fois

I read where Marion Cotillard is a believer in the 9/11 conspiracy theory. It's important that those with the crediblity to do so express their insights publicly. The sheer mental force brought by such a well-known French intellect is probably more convincing close up. I suspect even a common sen

Re: [Vo]:Wind-Switching.: Making butanol for < a dollar a gallon

While it might be true that we need new engines for most of the new fuels, butanol can be used in gasoline engines with little or no modification, making Jones' idea doubly useful. --- "R.C.Macaulay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (snip) > > In this admosphere and culture, don't expect results. Expe

Re: [Vo]:Creationism (was Re:OT: periodic table)

I really hate to jump in on such a subject that is so far off topic, but this is something that has bugged me for years. I really don't understand what the argument is about. I'm not religious, nor am I much of an atheist (requires too much faith in the unknown). As God works in mysterious ways,

[Vo]:Nanosolar and Rare Elements

Here's an interesting article concerning rare elements and the world economy. http://www.science.org.au/nova/newscientist/027ns_005.htm An excerpt: = Armin Reller, a materials chemist at the University of Augsburg in Germany, and his colleagues are among the fe

Re: [VO]: OT: Voodoo economics

Yes, Richard, it's appropriate that you should call this voodoo economics, because that's what it is. That's as opposed to the time that George H.W. Bush called the Laffer curve by that name. Arthur Laffer was completely correct and there are thousands of years of history going back to Hamarabi t

Re: [Vo]:Water Arc Ball Lightning?

Hi Fred, Did I miss out on a previous discussion of this? Aren't all muons negative and why would a metastable one exist in an oxygen atom? Presumably the muon would be in place of an electron, but why would that allow forcing a proton into the oxygen's electron cloud, except for the muon's great

Re: [Vo]:Nanosolar has started production

--- Terry Blanton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Our good friend Greg Watson of SMOT fame has beat you to the punch: > > http://www.greenandgoldenergy.com.au/ > > Word is that he is making $$A. > > Terry Hardly. Watson is using conventional compression molded acrylic fresnel lenses. The high ten

Re: [Vo]:Nanosolar has started production

I hope they succeed at what they are doing. I am concerned that I cannot find how much indium and gallium they use either per square meter or per watt. The price of both of these elements is rising geometrically. Since they are byproducts of other metal refining, there is no way to increase product

Re: [Vo]:If Al Gore Only Had A Guitar....

--- Frederick Sparber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > *http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC8nDdPM_Qk* > "County Roads" doesn't quite cover Al's itinerary these days. The right John Denver song for him would be "I'm Leaving on Gulfstream". It would be one o

Re: [Vo]:Nanosolar San Jose factory construction

It's hard to see how any of the CIGS photovoltaic systems can succeed. Their cost projections were based on the price of indium when they first formed their companies. The demand for indium, in the form of indium tin oxide (ITO), used as the transparent conductor in flat panel displays, grows geome

Re: [Vo]:50 mcg Missing

--- Terry Blanton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Theft in Paris? > > http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070912/ap_on_re_eu/shrinking_kilogram;_ylt=A0WTcUqtguhGTH8AhRms0NUE > > http://snipurl.com/1qtfk > > "By JAMEY KEATEN, Associated Press Writer > Wed Sep 12, 1:00 PM ET > > PARIS - A kilogram just i

Re: [Vo]:Triboelectric metals

--- Horace Heffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is surprising that lead is a powerful electron donor, as powerful > as "cat fur": > > http://www.school-for-champions.com/science/static_materials.htm > > Also noted as a weak donor is aluminum. > > This seems somewhat consistent with the el

Re: [Vo]:Faster than light

--- Michael Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Check this out: > > http://tinyurl.com/25h7cb > > Here we have an experiment that has been done by several > groups, but they usually claim some esoteric excuse as to > why it's not really violating Einstein'

[Vo]:Faster than light

Check this out: http://tinyurl.com/25h7cb Here we have an experiment that has been done by several groups, but they usually claim some esoteric excuse as to why it's not really violating Einstein's theory. This group has finally just come out and said that it's FTL. Maybe they'll be intimidated

Re: [Vo]:The Ho Motor

--- Jones Beene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lost amidst the Steorn recriminations: > > http://www.panaceauniversity.org/Magnetic_Motor.pdf > > From China, with love - or more self-delusion? > > > Awkshully, this one makes some sense. Time will tell. > > It is tough for a dedicated punster

Re: [Vo]:Ethanol as a fuel

Interesting article, Michel. But this is the part that attracted my attention. "There is plenty of intellectual firepower in the U.S.," said Prashant V. Kamat, an expert in the chemistry of solar cells at the University of Notre Dame, who has some Energy Department financing. "But there is lim

[Vo]:Ethanol as a fuel

A while back I posed the question if burning corn, or any other food crop is immoral. Check this out: http://tinyurl.com/24gqmk Here we see immediate results of corn crops being diverted to make ethanol fuel and its effect on the ice cream business. Now obviously, no one is going to starve to

Re: [Vo]:The Twilight Experience

I wrote: > Virtually all of these things are somehow conventionably > explainable. But still, it makes you sort of ponder. Conventionably? I guess my brain became temporarily involved in a parallel universe where conventionally has turned into whatever that word must mean. M. _

Re: [Vo]:The Twilight Experience

Well it might be that O/U researchers occasionally occupy a parallel universe, but some might just have a very loose acquaintance with the concept of truth. You guys have no idea how deep into the Twilight an individual can penetrate, even if he doesn't want to or has no idea what is causing it

RE: [Vo]:Why isn't this creating a stir?

I really like the straightforward descriptions by the builder of the Bedini and the magnet motor. He said point-blank that his Bedini was 53% efficient. If you listen carefully, the interviewer asks him if the magnet motor will keep running by itself and he says "uh-uh". I suspect the magnet

Re: [VO]:Steorn SPDC caution!

Nick Palmer wrote: > P.S. When I referenced "Alice through the Looking Glass" originally I stated > that it was the Red Queen who claimed that "words mean etc". I was wrong, it > was Humpty Dumpty. I would have welcomed correction... That's OK, Nick. I just misspelled "leisurely" and no one c

Re: [Vo]:Griggs Device Observations

Jed wrote: >Michael Foster wrote: >>The heat was detected from the outside of the aluminum tubing, so I'm >>not sure that the specific heat of the liquid itself is a factor here. >>OTOH, I'm a pretty fair inventor, but a rotten scientist. The heat was >>m

Re: [Vo]:50,000kW/h 57000eur costing water vortex power plant..

Terry Blanton wrote: >Horace Heffner wrote: >> That structure with turbine is easily adapted to driving > an underwater pump >> for water lifts for irrigation. > Yes. > I am working on a public demonstration of a high efficiency motor > whose torque/load relationship must remain constant.

Re: [Vo]:Griggs Device Observations

Jones wrote: > Unless you tried a number of liquids to arrive at that conclusion (Kerr > constant) it would seem not to be justified by just comparing nitrobenzene, > which is very reactive -- with water, which is not very reactive. > The more likely explanation IMHO would involve sonochemist

[Vo]:Griggs Device Observations

Several months back, I had my machinist build a very small Griggs device for use in my work. Hydrosonics only sells really large industrial size machines, or I would have just bought one. I was interested in heating certain monomers and oligomers in an "instant hot water" method. My idea was

Re: [Vo]:US Lost

It seems that no one wants to focus on why all these problems are happening, other than laziness and a temporary overabundance of everything. U.S. manufacturing has been punished from every sector of our nation and culture. Rampant technophobia has infected both common discourse and education. Say

Re: [Vo]:Happy trails, guys

Kyle, everyone else on the list has already expressed better than I, our sympathies for your situation. I can only add one more ray of hope toward your eventual spiritual recovery. Good luck to you. Michael

Re: [Vo]:A sound way to turn heat into electricity

Harry Veeder wrote: > A sound way to turn heat into electricity > > http://forum.physorg.com/index.php?showtopic=15401 > > > University of Utah physicist Orest Symko holds a match to a small heat > engine that produces a high-pitched tone by converting heat into sound. > Symko's research te

RE: [Vo]:Infamous SHOE FOOT X-RAY Machine

William Beaty wrote: > Antique Simplex Shoe Fitting X-Ray Machine 1930's-40's > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220118855684 > Collectors pay big bucks for these! But you'll have to drive to Kansas > to pick it up. Likely the three or four thousand dollar price is less than

RE: [Vo]:Tesla Revisted

Jeff Fink wrote: > So, why can’t people living within a few hundred feet > of high voltage transmission lines tap useful “free” > power with a 60 Hz receiver circuit? They can and have. You don't see it anymore, but I used to read of the occasional farmer caught at this sort of thing, usually j

Re: [Vo]:Tesla Revisted

Michel wrote: > Indeed a primary with an open secondary behaves > like a pure inductor, so it's a purely reactive > load, so current in it can be made to oscillate > non dissipatively (assuming resistance of the > coil is negligible). In terms of transformer it > makes perfect sense. But in te

Re: [Vo]:Britannica "electrolysis" concise article corrected

>From the Britannica article: "Electrolysis of molten sodium chloride yields metallic sodium and chlorine gas; that of a strong solution of sodium chloride in water (brine) yields hydrogen gas, chlorine gas, and sodium hydroxide (in solution); and that of water (with a low concentration of

RE: [Vo]:Tesla Revisted

Oh, here's another one, where they actually mention Tesla but claim he only attempted it. I guess they don't know he used to light up his whole lab this way. This sort of thing never ceases to amaze me. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070607/ap_on_hi_te/wireless_power M.

[Vo]:Tesla Revisted

Check this out. "Scientists" have discovered wireless transmission of power in the home. Don't suppose they'll give poor ol' Tesla any credit. http://tinyurl.com/3e4c6b M. ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on t

RE: [Vo]:wassup wid D2 ?

Jones wrote: > ... and is D2 such a hot potato, so to speak, that it > has changed hands more times than a Christmas Fruitcake ? I gotta hand it to you, Jones. Those are most aggressively mixed metaphors I've seen in years; and both food, too! M. _

RE: [Vo]:Excitonic electrets?

Jones wrote: > I have often wondered about using the massive cooling towers of nuclear > power plants to move large amounts of electric charge a few hundred feet > apart, which requires work - (which is essentially 'free' due to the > buoyancy of waste heat in the water vapor). > By collectin

[Vo]:Induction Heating of Earth

Here is a concise description of the amount of solar radiation received by the earth from the sun. These are figures most vorts are probably familiar with. http://home.iprimus.com.au/nielsens/solrad.html A short quote from this site: "The energy intercepted by the Earth over a period of one

[Vo]:RE: [Vo]: 41% efficient solar cells

Jed wrote: > In December 2006, Boeing-Spectrolab announced a 40.7% efficient cell > that costs $3,000 per kW of capacity. That's remarkable. I did not > know these things were so advanced. See: > http://www.energy.gov/news/4503.htm Yes, but these are not just the flat panel type photovoltaics

Re: [Vo]: Fred's Van de Graaff Antics

Stephen A Lawrence wrote: > You've said two different things here: "the strength of the > field will drop", and "the voltage drops". The dielectric will > _certainly_ affect the voltage, just as interposing a charged > parallel plate capacitor would affect the voltage (which would > reduce it by

RE: [Vo]: Fred's Van de Graaff Antics

I wrote: > There is a fundamental problem with this idea. While the earth > has a net negative charge of say, one megajoule, the tiny > fraction of a joule per square meter just won't supply the > repulsive force you need unless your Van de Graaff spacecraft > is very large and already elevat

[Vo]: Fred's Van de Graaff Antics

I'm trying to figure out how a couple of guys who are clearly better educated, and probably a lot smarter than I, can have gone so far wrong. Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: > Frederick Sparber wrote: > Posted earlier: >> This Field Line Applet is cheaper than buying more VDGs. http://www.cco.cal

Re: [Vo]: NYC Stinks

If it smelled like methyl mercaptan, it probably was methyl mercaptan. It's added to natural gas to make it stink, as a safety measure. Consequently, most people associate the odor with a gas leak. The smell of swamp gas from permafrost, while disagreeable, does not resemble methyl mercaptan, e

Re: [Vo]: Optics question

Mike Carrell wrote: > There is a misunderstanding of the nature of DLP technology. The active > element is an array of tiny mirrors created by silicon machining techniques, > one for each pixel. Each mirror can be tilted by a small angle under control > from a TV signal. That tilt determines w

Re: [Vo]: Re: What Energy Crisis?

Harry Veeder wrote: > I've heard it said that a rise in the demand for > energy is a prerequisite for a rise in incomes. Yes, but the rise in incomes will happen in India, China, and the oil-rich middle east. Of course, maybe we'll wise up in the U.S. and Europe and really pursue seriously alte

RE: [Vo]:Hall of Mirrors Universe

What I find most fascinating about the Hall of Mirrors Universe idea is not its mathematical or physical validity. I don't find myself qualified to comment on this. What's most interesting to me is that all the references to this concept, of which there are many on the internet, call a soccer ba

Re: [Vo]: Re: Going Van de Graaff

Fred wrote: > It seems that there is a substantial difference between the Earth's > net negative charge (~ 500,000 C) and it's surface charge (`26,000 C). It seems to me that even though the earth's total negative charge at the surface might sound impressively large, the local field strength wou

RE: [Vo]: Coconut shell composition?

Jed wrote: > (Coconut) shells are: > Lignin 36% > Cellulose 53% > That's 89%. What else? Likely some higher molecular weight insoluble polyphenols and maybe some traces of amino acids. The soluble polyphenols are in the oil, I believe. Charcoal from various plants probably has different prop

[Vo]: Re: Going Van de Graaff

Hello Fred, Unless I'm missing something, the setup you describe is a self-charging assymetrical capacitor, an electric dipole. The end of the dipole closest to the earth will be more strongly attracted to it, resulting in an apparent weight gain. The long separation between the Van de Graaff

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