RE: [Vo]: Magnetic effect on water

2006-11-15 Thread Michael Foster
Somewhere on Bill's endlessly large website is an experiment showing that exposure to a magnetic field increases the viscosity of water. This is such an easy thing to test that I tried it. It really works. At first I thought that this is mysterious and inexplicable. Then it occurred to me that

[Vo]: Re: E-Field Mass Cancellation

2006-11-13 Thread Michael Foster
But isn't this effect more closely related to Brown-Biefeld; or am I missing something? M. ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web!

RE: [Vo]: OT: Oersted

2006-09-01 Thread Michael Foster
Harry Veeder wrote: > This might be an example of why credentials matter > when a significant discovery is made. Maybe Romagnosi was ignored > because his was viewed as an "amateur"?? It's from histories such as this one that I have finally come to the conclusion that really original discoveries

RE: [Vo]: Tiny Bubbles in the Sky . . .

2006-06-25 Thread Michael Foster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > . . . they are there; but, we don't know why. > http://www.zpenergy.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1946 > Space is fizzing. Above our heads, where the Earth?s magnetic > field meets the constant stream of gas from the Sun, thousands > of bubbles of superh

RE: Cold fusion advocates should put up or shut up

2006-06-02 Thread Michael Foster
andi makes the rules up as he goes along. Jed has also stated that he is not Michael Foster. Isn't he lucky? M. ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web!

RE: Cold fusion advocates should ...

2006-05-30 Thread Michael Foster
Walter Faxon wrote: (snip) > Maybe if the cold fusioneers weren't looking so hard for transmutations > they would have discovered Makarova's magnetic carbon years before she > did. At least they can produce a version more easily: Makarova has to > process her buckyballs into a polymer using p

RE: A Nuclear future for Australia?

2006-05-20 Thread Michael Foster
Robin wrote: > Using dirt cheap paper thin plastic cylindrical Fresnel lenses, > with the actual plumbing lying on the surface, and hence requiring > no supporting structure, combined with "selective surface" > technology, solar could be 10-100 times cheaper than it currently > is (guesstimat

RE: cobalt hydroquinone

2006-03-14 Thread Michael Foster
Horace wrote: > Speculation: cobalt hydroquinone may be a useful hydrogen storage > matrix.http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/03/060306213121.htm What makes you think that? Why not palladium hydroquinone or nickel hydroquinone, for example? You been staring at the periodic table and let

Re: Internet blows CIA cover

2006-03-12 Thread Michael Foster
Fred wrote: > Any Vortex subscribers-lurkers names there, Bill? > http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/12/0353200 > http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/politics/14076456.htm > I have my suspicions about a certain party that uses a "handle". :-) I'm sure there are lotsa str

Re: Wow... 2good-2b-true

2006-03-11 Thread Michael Foster
Jones wrote: > If your throw the switch off and let the caps charge for several > days (they will slowly charge) ... and then get the camera ready > and flip the switch, you can probably get the bulb to stay lit > long enough to get a convincing image. Despite my natural level of skepticism,

Re: OFF TOPIC: Travel advice for NYC

2006-02-14 Thread Michael Foster
Standing Bear wrote: > Lets get one thing straight here. Ethnologically > and biologically, the Semite people are ALL the > people of the fertile crescent and their descendants. > Thatmeans not only Israeliis, but Arabs, Chaldeans, > Medes, many Egyptians, Yemenis, Adenites, Djiboutians, > and

RE: TT Brown

2006-02-13 Thread Michael Foster
Jones wrote: > This may be for interest to anti-gravity or gravimagnetic theory: > http://www.angelfire.com/scifi/EclipseLab/2k1/EG/cellgrav.html > Executive Summary: This is very important, according to the modest > assesssment of the experimenter, as an experiment because it > confirms that

RE: OT: German Americans was: Hagelstein Lecture

2006-01-26 Thread Michael Foster
Jones wrote: > It is amazing that we don't speak the mother-tongue here in the > States - since if you were to count the Scots and Irish separately > from the English (and you damn well better) then the largest ethic > population in the USA is German - not English. Almost as many here > as ov

RE: Yow! Resistivity of printer paper: an actual value!

2006-01-19 Thread Michael Foster
Hey, nice work! This is something I've been meaning to get around to for years. M. Original Message== After reading Bill Beaty's comments, I took another stab at it, and actually got a result! With a #6B artist's pencil I drew (free-hand) two dark solid lines on a sheet of

Blue Anode Glow Observations

2006-01-17 Thread Michael Foster
I haven't messed with this for a while, so I just stuck a couple of aluminum strips cut from a pie plate into a drinking glass full of saturated borax solution. The aluminum strips were hooked in series with a 65 watt light bulb plugged into 120 volts AC. The light bulb turned on at full brightn

Re: One-Man Hovercraft for Around The Farm. US 5,503,351

2006-01-12 Thread Michael Foster
Fred wrote: > I was scooped by this 1996 patent (US 5,503,351) for using a > 10-15 HP lawnmower engine and radial diffuser plates at the tip > of the 4 ft diameter x 18 inch blade, 600 RPM,(~12,000 CFM) > radial fan (squirrel cage wheel?) to get torque cancelation and better > airflow over

RE: Electrostatic cooling

2005-12-30 Thread Michael Foster
David Jonsson wrote: > This effect can not be so unknown as some say. > The inventor even says the effect is unknown. > http://www.rexresearch.com/blomgren/blomgren.htm > I think it is easy. Thermal motion causes the charges > to emit radiation. I've played around with this effect a little.

RE: Organic Electricity

2005-12-24 Thread Michael Foster
Horace wrote: > These people never heard of cathodic protection systems? > You can just bet the ground interface is not aluminum. > The energy providing consumable here is probably aluminum. > Aluminum is a non-organic BTW. Actually, there might be something to this, other than a simple electro

Re: weird glow from aluminum in baking soda solution

2005-12-19 Thread Michael Foster
Robin wrote: > If the electrodes do indeed form diodes, and the glow occurs > during reverse bias, then that is when a high voltage falls across > a very thin chemical layer. The electron leakage current could be > sufficiently accelerated to produce energetic electrons capable of > exciting

Re: A Conductive Jet Switch?

2005-12-17 Thread Michael Foster
Fred wrote: > Since exploding wire technology is employed to > maximize energy density, but is slow and cumbersome, > why not a jet of electrolyte or metal to effect > kilojoule-megajoule energy discharge of capacitor > banks? > For instance a pool of Lithium Hydroxide Electrolyte, > D2 Gas, or

Re: Exploding Wires in D2O, Simulates Cavitation Bubble Collapse?

2005-12-16 Thread Michael Foster
Fred wrote: > Things might get really interesting if Pd wires are > exploded in a 200-400 atmosphere pressure D2 gas. Sounds like a really low cost (ahem) thermo- nuclear device. Or would you need to add a dash of tritium? M. ___ Join Excite! - ht

Re: Einstein Frequency/Temperature & Photon-Phonon Heterodyne Action

2005-12-15 Thread Michael Foster
Fred wrote: > Michael Foster asks: >> > >> Could some CF be going on in these crystals unnoticed? In >> other words, if you measure the optical energy of the laser >> wavelength going in, the unconverted laser energy, the >> energy of the doubled wavelen

RE: A very low-tech seasonal amusement

2005-12-15 Thread Michael Foster
Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: > Assuming you live in the Northland, where the humidity drops into one's > shoes time time of year) > Hang a paper snowflake from the ceiling, using tape and a thread. (Or, > better yet, hang up several.) > Blow up a latex balloon (the old-fashioned rubbery ki

Re: Einstein Frequency/Temperature & Photon-Phonon Heterodyne Action

2005-12-12 Thread Michael Foster
Fred wrote: > Known-Measured Effects related to the Brillouin Effect: > Lamb Shift. > Raman Effect (Stokes and AntiStokes lines).. > Compton Effect. > This (Stimulated Brillouin Scattering) research covers a lot: > http://www.nat.vu.nl/atom/thesis-iavor.pdf This discussion brings up a

Corn Burners

2005-12-10 Thread Michael Foster
Here is an interesting story about people converting from using natural gas or electricity to burning corn in specially designed stoves to heat their homes: http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/12/09/051209141924.flu6l9pn.html Apparently the cost of burning the corn is about a third of that of na

Re: Maser

2005-11-29 Thread Michael Foster
If there is an acoustic equivalent of the laser, that would be the simple whistle. Coherent waves of sound are emitted, capable of many of the same phenomena as coherent light. Constructive and destructive interference can be demonstrated, along with numerous other properties associated with las

Re: The Most Astounding Nobel Prize Ever!

2005-11-29 Thread Michael Foster
Harry Veeder wrote: > Michael Foster wrote: >> Actually, I think that problem that has sickened science >> is not the craving for certainty. It is the compulsion to >> consensus that has caused the outrageous behavior of the >> "scientific community

Re: The Most Astounding Nobel Prize Ever!

2005-11-27 Thread Michael Foster
Robin wrote: > Subconsciously all humans crave certainty, which is > why we are so unwilling to give it up just when we > think we have hold of a large chunk of it. > Of course in reality, there is no such thing as > certainty, so our struggle is either endless, or > we settle for delusion. A

RE: BYU. professor thinks bombs, not planes, toppled WTC

2005-11-21 Thread Michael Foster
Harry Veeder posted: > The physics of 9/11 - including how fast and symmetrically > one of the World Trade Center buildings fell - prove that official > explanations of the collapses are wrong, says a Brigham Young > University physics professor. > In fact, it's likely that there were "pre-po

Re: Jed Predicting a gradual extinction of Cold Fusion

2005-11-14 Thread Michael Foster
Ed wrote: > An interesting graph. However, the scatter > in the data creates an uncertainty that makes > a constant interest equally likely. Based on > a constant interest, the average is 79 ± 14, > with ICCF-1 and ICCF-3 being outliers at both > extremes. I have no idea what Jed is predicting;

RE: Anti-gravity patent (new)

2005-11-10 Thread Michael Foster
And to think they're not allowing any cold fusion patents. M. ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web!

RE: OT: The French Connection

2005-11-07 Thread Michael Foster
Jones wrote: > In particular, the situation with the Iraq war > betrayal and treachery was absolutely deplorable > to Cheney, Rummy & Co. - even though Chirac's > judgment proved to be correct (adding insult to > injury) - this is certainly a buildup for a > certain kind of behind-the-scenes "

Re: Small Nuclear Power Reactors

2005-11-03 Thread Michael Foster
Jones wrote: > - although the worst kept secret in nuclear engineering > is that there is a huge anomaly in how many "free" neutrons > one gets from a deuterium moderator. Would you care to elaborate? M. ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.co

RE: Micro comes to Water-power

2005-10-28 Thread Michael Foster
Jones wrote: > Magnetohydrodynamic methods can generate electricity > through natural ionization in plain-old water. At the level of > the micro-channel, you do not even need to "split" the > water. This kind of process should make Fred Sparber > happy, as he has mentioned that the "natural" ion

RE: Cheap Hydrogen

2005-10-25 Thread Michael Foster
Oh yeah, Ronnie is really ambitious. If you read his "radiant energy" water dissociation patent application, you find that it depends on a membrane that separates monatomic hydrogen from monatomic oxygen and water vapor. The nature of this membrane is unspecified in the patent app. However, I th

RE: Message sent to Salt Lake City Weekly reporter

2005-10-20 Thread Michael Foster
Damn, Jed, that's a hell of a well thought out riposte. OTOH, the number of subscribers to the Salt Lake City Weekly Reporter is probably smaller than the number of subscribers to this list. M. ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personal

Re: "The Long Emergency" (book)

2005-10-11 Thread Michael Foster
Just another Chicken Little running around in metaphorical circles shouting, "The sky is falling! The sky is falling!" M. ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web!

RE: More PolySci less SciPolitics

2005-10-08 Thread Michael Foster
I don't think I could possibly agree more with what you have put forth here. I can only say, "Yea, verily." I was unaware of Mizumo's low temp D2 magnetic field experiment. I need to read through all the stuff on Jed's website more thoroughly. I have the D2; I usually have liquid nitrogen on ha

Re: Sealed Beam Tungsten-Halogen Headlamp OU Solar Collectors

2005-10-07 Thread Michael Foster
Fred wrote: > Astute calculations show that dissociation > of an Iodine molecule at the filament, with > uptake and subsequent discharge of an > electron attached to an Iodine atom > at the bulb (internal) reflector coating could > yield up to 20 amperes at ~ 0.5 volts from > the 12 watts of so

Re: Sealed Beam Tungsten-Halogen Headlamp OU Solar Collectors

2005-10-06 Thread Michael Foster
Fred wrote: > I pointed a 250 watt heat lamp at the sun coming through a double-pane window > with a DVM hooked to the terminals. > Surprisingly after a couple of minutes there wasn't any readable voltage, > but there was a couple of microamps of current flow which dropped off as the > filamen

SES

2005-10-06 Thread Michael Foster
Thanks for the ref, Alex. Check this out: > DAYTIME ONLY > Why hasn't Stirling Energy's technology made more > of a splash in the power business? "Our dilemma > has always been how to get costs down," explains > Osborn. The dish assemblies now run $250,000 > each. But that's because most have

RE: DP and Coal. What's The Story?

2005-10-06 Thread Michael Foster
Rhong Dhong wrote: > Depolymerization supposedly makes oil out of just > about anything. > How does DP compare in this respect with other methods > to process oil shale into oil? > Would it be possible to turn out the oil from it much > faster and with simpler processing than with corncobs > a

RE: Methyl Chloride

2005-10-05 Thread Michael Foster
Keith wrote: > So presumably as you go inland, the levels drop off. > How fast do they do so? And what numbers did you measure? I never made any inland measurements. I just got a bug up my *** one day when I was taking my boat out and took the chromatagraph with me. I was damn lucky I didn't d

RE: Methyl Chloride

2005-10-05 Thread Michael Foster
Keith wrote: > I'm glad you took some measurements, but I'm confused > by your results. If you see no drop off from 1 > to 5 miles inland, how do you know the results are > coming from the ocean? Another source listed > on the EPA site is burning biomass. I recall you've > had quite a bit of tha

RE: Methyl Chloride

2005-10-05 Thread Michael Foster
Keith wrote: > Hi Michael, > Perhaps you should actually check what the EPA sez about Methyl Chloride? > http://www.epa.gov/ttn/atw/hlthef/methylch.html > Methinks you've been inhaling too much Vortex of recent, > it has a corrosive effect on common sense (grin). > K. I have read it. That's

Methyl Chloride

2005-10-04 Thread Michael Foster
Fred wrote: > If you are referring to the Hero Engine the calculator > gives ammonia as well as Methyl Chloride CH3Cl. Either > should do okay in Green's "steam engine" too but I don't > think you want to mess with it or Methyl Chloride!. :-( Now Fred, you shouldna got me started. Usually, outf

Re: And the hills of the Chankly Bore!

2005-10-03 Thread Michael Foster
And here I thought I was the only one to have a theory wacked-out enough to believe that space is actually the highest density stuff around, and that everything in it is just wave forms. I was going to mention how my pet crackpot theory meshes nicely with your Beta- atmosphere idea, but now I see

RE: Will this lead to ultra-cheap hydrogen?

2005-10-02 Thread Michael Foster
Jones wrote: > Pyrolysis (thermal decomposition) of water normally requires lots of > high temperature thermal energy, plus a means to avoid immediate > recombination - but what about catalytic pyrolysis? There's no theoretical reason why catalytic pyrolysis couldn't work, and at much lower temp

vortex-l@eskimo.com

2005-10-01 Thread Michael Foster
Frank wrote: > Now firstly - let's get the idea of gravity out of the way. > This has no more to do with gravity than Naudin's lifters. > It is clearly a electromagnetic effect of the same type as > Hutchison's and Shoulders's. After all, it is the result of > an electromagnetic pulse moderated b

Wasted Fuel

2005-09-30 Thread Michael Foster
After spending a couple of night sweating whether I was going to be evacuated, or worse yet, loosing the new house I've been living in for only four months, I began to wonder how many MW hours per acre were going up in smoke. I suppose it's akin to wondering how much power could be could be extra

Re: AE Economics - Hybrids: Don't buy the hype

2005-09-30 Thread Michael Foster
Actually, I'd say don't buy the hype, but buy the car anyway. It's true that if many of the features incorporated into the Prius were incorporated into a non-hybrid you could have a car that got within shaving distance of the same mileage for $3000 less. By buying a hybrid, you help advance the t

Re: OT: Secondary Disaster hits New Orleans

2005-09-29 Thread Michael Foster
High taxation and big government spending = corruption. What a surprise. M. ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web!

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 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: Solar hydrogen production at only 400 deg C

2005-09-28 Thread Michael Foster
Jed wrote: > Remarkable. See: > http://www.pureenergysystems.com/news/2004/09/14/6900043_Solar_Hydrogen/ Remarkable indeed. I've following the progress of this system for a while, and was somewhat skeptical of the claims. However, it seems they have something here. OTOH, look at the size, sc

RE: The Grip of Gas

2005-09-27 Thread Michael Foster
Jed wrote: > The other day I complained about economists who still say demand for oil is > "inelastic." The 1970s oil crisis proved that is not true. However, as > these two articles show, short-term demand is inelastic compared to other > commodities. There are some easy steps that people co

Re: Off topic - US climate loonies

2005-09-26 Thread Michael Foster
>>You can't make a phenomenon happen by popular vote, going on a march, >>praying or endorsement by pop idol. It just isn't like that. John Fields wrote: --- > Wrong. Take a look at Ghandi and what he forced the UK to do > without his use of physical force. Sorry, I just can't let this one go, n

Third World Energy

2005-09-24 Thread Michael Foster
My recent posts about super cheap fresnel solar concentrators have generated a lot more interest than I would have imagined. Some have expressed, both on and off-list, that this might help energy problems in the third world. This is a perfectly valid concern, and one which I happen to share. After

RE: cheaper than oil?

2005-09-24 Thread Michael Foster
That's kind of funny. Somewhere on Bill's website is a description of the same thing done, I believe, back in the 70s. This really amounts to yet another energy offset scheme. The only practical candidate for this method is aluminum, and, as we all know, that takes huge amounts of electrical ene

RE: Two poems about cold fusion

2005-09-22 Thread Michael Foster
Jed wrote: So I guess we'll just rely on Gasoline at three, uh..four, no..five bucks a gallon And climate temperatures that soar. ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web!

Re: A New Approach to Hurricane Reduction

2005-09-22 Thread Michael Foster
Frederick Sparber wrote: > Why not just fly a very large fleet of jumbo jets and military aircraft > stacked at intervals in the right direction. Their 1800+ exhausts and > condensible water vapor from a million barrels of jet fuel ~ 5.5 trillion > BTU plus it's kinetic energy might make it. ???

Tesla Automobile

2005-09-21 Thread Michael Foster
No, not that one. I tried this about five years ago. And now, given the present situation, I think it deserves a second look. I sometimes try things for no rational reason. It's a compulsion. I can't help myself. Anyway, maybe someone else should try this out. I hooked up one of those old

Re: why the levee failed

2005-09-21 Thread Michael Foster
(I wrote:) >> Yes, and so much worse than those non-racist bigots we used to >> have. Jones Beene wrote: > If you are implying the two words are synonomous, that is > incorrect. A racist is a subset, but in fact the great majority of > bigots are not overtly racist. Case in point: the term 'bigo

RE: RP and the BBC

2005-09-21 Thread Michael Foster
Remy wrote: >However the BBC and other UK providers have dropped "Received Pronunciation" >and we are greeted with wild accents ranging from Brummie to Jordie. Nothing >wrong with this as long as it is mild and correct and this does much to drop >the comic connotations associated with such accent

Scientific Debate

2005-09-20 Thread Michael Foster
When I was a child, I had my first "scientific debate". I think vorts will find the line of reasoning very familiar. This was a long, long time ago. Truman was still President. I was attending what today would be called a pre-school. It was quite a nice place with well-behaved children. I rememb

Re: why the levee failed

2005-09-19 Thread Michael Foster
Jones Beene wrote: > Agreed. Turner is not just nuts - but a racist bigot. Definitely > Klan material. Yes, and so much worse than those non-racist bigots we used to have. Did anyone else happen to see the eyewitnesses say that it was an untethered barge that ran into the levee and broke it? O

Re: infighting

2005-09-19 Thread Michael Foster
Ed wrote: >I hope you notice that this issue is very one sided. I have no problem >with Swartz other than he can not carry on what I consider to be a >useful discussion of either his work or of the issue he considers to be >censorship. His main problem with me has been my disagreement with his

Fresnel Guy vs Cold Fusion

2005-09-18 Thread Michael Foster
One of my all-time favorite coolest inventions is a reflective fresnel solar concentrator invented by a guy named Richard Steenblik. He's a Georgia Tech grad, Jed. This amazingly clever device works like this: You cut a piece of flexible metallized plastic into a spiral and lay it down on a ri

Re: Fresnel Dream Part II

2005-09-18 Thread Michael Foster
Colin Quinney wrote: > Does ( or can ) the manufacturing method of 65 inch wide Fresnel sheeting > focus a trough line? This would allow a pipe to be placed at the focal > point. Could a pipe would get hot enough to run liquid salt ? - most > probably not - but I'm sure there are other ideas out

Re: Fresnel Dream Part II

2005-09-18 Thread Michael Foster
Harry Veeder wrote: > Could you use your fresnel lens to get > more electricity per unit area on a > photovoltaic cell? The objective of > the lens would be to concentrate the > light rather than focus the light. In this case, focus and concentrate mean the same thing. There are photovoltaics m

Re: Fresnel Dream

2005-09-18 Thread Michael Foster
Robin van Spaandonk wrote: >Michael Foster wrote: >>Conversely, imagine this cheap stuff stapled to a cheap >>wooden or maybe tubular plastic frame. You blast it with >>a heat gun or perhaps even hold it over an open fire >>and the film shrinks tight as a drum, giving

Re: Intrinsic Electrolysis Cell OU or Big Error?

2005-09-17 Thread Michael Foster
You been out dynamiting stumps again, Fred? No error, at least no arithmetic error. Was this a trick question you used to give physics students? Your question hinges on what is probably an erroneous assumption. That assumption is that the hydrogen and oxygen are generated in their nascent state a

Re: Intrinsic Electrolysis Cell OU or Big Error?

2005-09-17 Thread Michael Foster
You been out dynamiting stumps again, Fred? No error, at least no arithmetic error. Was this a trick question you used to give physics students? Your question hinges on what is probably an erroneous assumption. That assumption is that the hydrogen and oxygen are generated in their nascent stat

Re: Fresnel Dream

2005-09-17 Thread Michael Foster
Robin wrote: > What would it add to the cost of a sq. meter, > to sandwich the lens material between two flat > sheets of polycarbonate, to add structural rigidity? Thanks for the interest, Robin. This is the perfect question. Polycarbonate is a pricey plastic, shatter resistant, but kind of

RE: Why the method is important to CF

2005-09-17 Thread Michael Foster
As one of the nuts not covered with quite enough chocolate for your tastes, I have a couple of comments on this subject. I read the papers on your thermoelectric research and I must say it looks quite promising. These papers were written in a style slightly less opaque than the standard technica

RE: OT: the mind-control Pox

2005-09-16 Thread Michael Foster
Jones wrote: (Infected with the pox were) > Christopher Columbus, Ludwig van Beethoven, > Robert Schumann, Franz Schubert, Flaubert, > Charles Baudelaire, Guy de Maupassant, Abraham > Lincoln, Vincent van Gogh, Friedrich Nietzsche, > Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, Adolf Hitler and > Isak Dinesen.

RE: Some experts believe global warming is causing stronger hurricanes

2005-09-16 Thread Michael Foster
Jed wrote: > The problem is, by the time the debate > is fully settled it may be too late > to do stave off a catastrophe. We must > act on the basis of incomplete and > unsure information. But Jed, isn't that exact logic W used to invade Iraq? (The devil made me write this. I have no control

Discount Fusion Reactors

2005-09-16 Thread Michael Foster
Do those clever folks at eBay know something we don't? I noticed this ad when looking over the Vort posts on mail-archive.com. Discount Fusion Reactors New & used Fusion Reactors. aff Check out the huge selection now! www.eBay.com Naturally, I clicked on the link to see what would come up, bu

Fresnel Dream Part II

2005-09-15 Thread Michael Foster
I failed to make a number of points in my fresnel lens post. It was Strother Martin syndrome, "What we have heah is a failyah to commun'cate." I really must emphasize again how much cheaper my fresnel stuff is, less than a dollar per square meter. The thickness, weight and tensile strength combi

Fresnel Dream

2005-09-14 Thread Michael Foster
A number of recent posts on this list have concerned various schemes to use solar concentrators. This is something I've been fascinated with and have played around with all my life. I own a company that manufactures, among other things, fresnel lens arrays. Unfortunately, these have been used e

Re: Aqueous Catalytic Hydrogen-Methane Generation UsingBiomass

2005-09-14 Thread Michael Foster
Fred, I'm a little confused by this information. Does this process only work with starch, or will cellulose do as well? M. ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web!

RE: Buying D2O, buying insurance, and 9/11

2005-09-14 Thread Michael Foster
Jed wrote: > This discussion about buying D2O has gotten off the track. It is quite > clear to me D2O has become more difficult to purchase, and so have many > other chemicals. Ed Storms has told us that although he can get D2O, he has > to go through bureaucratic rigmarole. The government is cra

RE: Desert Ice - fact or fiction

2005-09-13 Thread Michael Foster
Jones wrote: > No, not a misspell of 'dessert ice' (not this time anyway)... > Poser-of-the-Day: Can anyone imagine making real ice, as in > solid-water ice, but in the desert, using zero electricity and > only natural forces? I can absolutely imagine it. I used to do it when I was a kid. Not

Re: CF Suppression?

2005-09-13 Thread Michael Foster
More on my vast left or right wing conspiracy theory of cold fusion suppression. On the subject of my possible low budget Pb207 isotope separation I wrote: >> I couldn't get any uranium because the nuclear section was >> more or less off limits to me, and besides the melting point >> is too high

Re: CF Suppression?

2005-09-13 Thread Michael Foster
Is Ed Storms actually a Super Double Secret Dysinformation Agent who has penetrated the white knights of Vortex-L? (Gasp!) I suppose not, but Ed's response to my original post on the subject of possible cold fusion suppression was a little funny. You know, Dimitri, just a little.funny. On th

CF Suppression?

2005-09-12 Thread Michael Foster
Is cold fusion being actively suppressed? Although I'm not a fan of conspiracy theories, I believe it is. Is it the big oil companies? Nah, they couldn't possibly be more bored with the idea. Besides, any company that size usually moves and makes decisions with the speed of a glacier. If CF b

Re: eliminating oil

2005-09-08 Thread Michael Foster
Jed wrote: > We will also need oil for plastics and > other synthetic materials. Today, > roughly 20% of oil is used for such "non- > fuel" applications. However, I expect it > will be safer and cheaper to synthesize > oil on site from garbage rather than to > dig it out of the ground and tra

Re: O. T. Gopher War Saga

2005-09-08 Thread Michael Foster
And here I thought I was the only one to have the "SO2 experience". When I was about 12 years old, I was hired by the local slumlord to fix all the refrigerators in his crumbling awful apartment buildings. These babies were really old and mostly had ammonia refrigerant, probably illegal, even ba

RE: Global Warming - State of Fear

2005-09-06 Thread Michael Foster
Before all the superannuated socialists who largely populate this list get your knickers in a twist, you should perhaps read Mr. Crichton's book. I have read all of Michael Crichton's books including this one. It's really not up to his normal standard in terms of being a novel. It's kind of sec

RE: Prevailing Scientific Protocol?

2005-06-10 Thread Michael Foster
--- On Fri 06/10, Christopher Arnold < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > Subject: Prevailing Scientific Protocol? > http://www.ucomics.com/nonsequitur/2005/06/08/ For the most part, yes. For a more elaborate discourse on this subject and more, read this: http://www.crichton-official.com/speeches/

Re: Electrospray Ionization (ESI)

2005-06-10 Thread Michael Foster
--- On Fri 06/10, William Beaty < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Frederick Sparber wrote: >> Why is this interesting? >> http://www-methods.ch.cam.ac.uk/meth/ms/theory/esi.html. > Also, electrospray may explain an electrostatic anomaly noticed by M

Re: OT Noise Cancelation

2005-06-09 Thread Michael Foster
After you try complicated, you might want to try simple. I found myself in a similar situation years ago and was unable to move at the time. I built a white noise generator with a low frequency bias, i.e. pink noise. When you adjust the volume to the level that the offensive noises no longer bo

Re: DoThe Emitted Electrons From Hot Tungsten Break The H-H Bond?

2005-06-08 Thread Michael Foster
Frederick wrote: >> "Might a prolific electron emitter like Lanthanum Hexaboride or >> Cesium Hexaboride serve better?" Jones wrote: > This is an interesting observation because - beside indicating > that Frederick is a pretty good mind reader - it highlights one of > the significant unanswe

Re: DoThe Emitted Electrons From Hot Tungsten Break The H-H Bond?

2005-06-08 Thread Michael Foster
According to Langmuir they do. M. ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web!

Re: Heat Pipe Power Generator?

2005-06-05 Thread Michael Foster
>> I've actually been doing this off and on for about >> three years, but said nothing on vortex because I >> thought there would be little interest. And yes, >> Jones, it does work. There are a few counter-intuitive >> effects I've observed in playing around with it. Jones wrote: > By "work" ar

Re: Heat Pipe Power Generator?

2005-06-05 Thread Michael Foster
I've actually been doing this off and on for about three years, but said nothing on vortex because I thought there would be little interest. And yes, Jones, it does work. There are a few counter-intuitive effects I've observed in playing around with it. First, non-polar fluids work far better th

Re: Mile-high Solar Towers: political ramifications

2005-05-21 Thread Michael Foster
Speaking of solar towers, does anyone know why Solar One, which became Solar Two, was decommissioned? It was in Daggett, CA, and was visible from I-15 on your way from Los Angeles to Las Vegas. Steam-on-a-stick, as it was called, seemed to be producing plenty of electricity, so why was it shut d

RE: Dead core memory returns

2005-05-06 Thread Michael Foster
--- On Fri 05/06, Jed Rothwell < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > What if you could turn computers on and off as quickly as a light switch > without having to wait for software to "boot up"? Sound like science fiction?" > No, it sounds like 1962, or the core-memory central office telephone > swi

RE: The SMOT game over, Greg Watson gone

2005-05-05 Thread Michael Foster
Aw, c'mon, Bill. Don't you think you're being unkind to the morally handicapped? I was sort of getting kick out the dodging and weaving. M. ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web!

Odd Electrostatic Phenomenon

2005-05-05 Thread Michael Foster
It is well known that a high voltage AC corona source will effectively discharge practically all electrostatic charges from an insulator. Commercial devices based on this principle are used to remove the static charges from plastic films as they are wound through machinery. In addition to such

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