RE: [Vo]: Re:[VO]: When push comes to shove

2006-06-12 Thread John Steck
Isn't this just capillary action? http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/Hbase/surten2.html#c4   Performance increase with decrease in ID... http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/Hbase/surten2.html#c5   Perhaps on the nanoscale the effect is amplified by the extreme _expression_ of the mechanics

Re: [Vo]: When push comes to shove

2006-06-12 Thread Grimer
At 08:13 am 12/06/2006 -0700, Jones wrote: > A second message is more subtle, requires thinking > 'outside the box' and would mean little to other > observers, outside the current threads on vortex > related to polywater and WaterFuel. If you think of the nano tubes as a rather exotic clay mine

Re: [Vo]: When push comes to shove

2006-06-12 Thread Grimer
At 08:13 am 12/06/2006 -0700, Jones wrote: > A second message is more subtle, requires thinking > 'outside the box' and would mean little to other > observers, outside the current threads on vortex > related to polywater and WaterFuel. > > Indeed, that message may be a 'missing link' in some >

Re: [Vo]: When push comes to shove

2006-06-12 Thread Grimer
At 10:10 am 12/06/2006 -0700, Jones wrote: >--- Grimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> We have here a phenomena well known to material >> scientists and concrete heads. It's called HYSTERESIS. > > Frank, > > I am only familiar with the term in regard to > magnetics - is there a big difference in me

Re: [VO]: When push comes to shove

2006-06-12 Thread RC Macaulay
Grimer wrote..     Indeed, the LLNL team measures water flow     rates up to 10,000 times faster than would     be predicted by classical equations, which     suggest that flow rates through a pore will     slow to a crawl as the diameter drops.     "It's something that is quite counter-int

Re: [Vo]: When push comes to shove

2006-06-12 Thread Jones Beene
--- Grimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We have here a phenomena well known to material scientists and concrete heads. It's called HYSTERESIS. Frank, I am only familiar with the term in regard to magnetics - is there a big difference in meaning in materials science (over the basic notion of 'tem

Re: [Vo]: When push comes to shove

2006-06-12 Thread Grimer
At 08:13 am 12/06/2006 -0700, Jones wrote: > >A second message is more subtle, requires thinking >'outside the box' and would mean little to other >observers, outside the current threads on vortex >related to polywater and WaterFuel. > >Indeed, that message may be a 'missing link' in some >of wha

Re: [Vo]: When push comes to shove

2006-06-12 Thread Grimer
At 08:13 am 12/06/2006 -0700, you wrote: > >--- Thanks to Colin Quinney for forwarding Technology >Review Daily Update From: MIT Technology Review >(6/12/2006) > >http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=16974 > >"Cheap Drinking Water from the Ocean" by Aditi Risbud The article is n

[Vo]: When push comes to shove

2006-06-12 Thread Jones Beene
--- Thanks to Colin Quinney for forwarding Technology Review Daily Update From: MIT Technology Review (6/12/2006) http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=16974 "Cheap Drinking Water from the Ocean" by Aditi Risbud As Colin must have keenly observed - this story may have two messa