Thought I replied to this yesterday, but I guess I forgot to click 'submit'.
My inspiration to take action wasn't a 'suggestion' as you would typically think. It was a sudden flash of intuition. I did something I'd never done before, and have reaped the benefits of doing so.
Everyone has intuitive insights all the time - it's just whether we pay attention to them or not that makes the difference. I'd pimp my special report here (Napolean Hill said "Free advice is worth exactly what you pay for it"), but slashdot moderators only appreciate free info/links, and I don't have my new shopping cart up yet anyways.
I noticed that your blog's tagline is "geniuses think in their own kind of box"
just wanted to let you know my tagline: "geniuses don't have to call themselves geniuses"
The site is supposed to be about the structure of genius, how Tesla and others were able to leap above mediocrity. Or something like that.
While I bought the domain name 7 years ago, I didn't do any site development until a year ago, and I just installed Wordpress last month. I don't want to be presumptuous, and have been considering alternate taglines.
But then again, I told a woman yesterday about my idea for the Enterprise and she thought that it was frickin' brilliant. She knows someone who's son is relatively high up on an aircraft carrier's chain of command, so I'm hoping to get some feedback from a Navy guy soon.
While knowing is half the battle, I didn't have time to write a full explanation about what to do. I'd refer you to my ebooks, but I'm redoing my website with the Wordpress blogging software and haven't gotten those re-posted for sale. Insomniacs may be interested in my Radial Appliance site, http://radialappliance.teslabox.com/ (get the free reports sent via email).
PMR [Progressive Muscle Relaxation] works like a charm for most people. Relaxing your body naturally leads to a relaxed mind.
Exactly. I spent hundreds of hours reading all about the benefits of relaxation. I spent dozens of hours "trying" to relax, but nothing worked.
My mother found a woman who did "trigger point therapy" about 2.5 years after my head trauma experience. Trigger points are places on the body with a sharp, distinct pain. The "therapist" held these points - mostly on my back - for a time until they released and the pain disappeared.
About 1/2 way through the second session (saw her 3x over a spring break), my body just shut down and I "melted" into the massage table. Sweet, blissful relaxation! I relaxed completely again during the third session. Ahh, relief at last!
The first week back at teh college had a profound change from my lackluster relaxation/dreaming accomplishments: I started to wake from the most intense dreams I'd ever had.
I had been attempting to remember my dreams for about 2.5 years at that point, but all I could remember were vague hints of my dreams of the night before. After the trigger-point induced relaxation, I woke up feeling good, and I was able to lay in bed to revel in sweet magic dreams.
After a week of waking from blissful dream recollection, I decided to start writing in my dream journal again. That's the only dream I still remember. It was also the last intense dream I had until I figured out the rest of my puzzle...
That night I laid in bed and attempted to progressively relax, as was my usual custom for tricking my body into falling asleep. But this time something different happened, and instead of passing out my body relaxed and I started to experience the fabled "hypnagogic imagery" (I say 'fabled' because this was something I'd read about many times for many years, but had never personally experienced). These were sort of like green ribbons - a plasma light show. As someone who'd never experienced such before, it was a spectacular experience.
So yes, progressive relaxation is great, if you can do it. While the trigger point therapy helped me once for a week, I couldn't get a repeat performance from the same therapist the following summer. I tried other massage therapists, and while some helped me attain states of fleeting relaxation, at-will relaxation was elusive until I started an exercise program to go with the "device" (see the store link on my website).
Yeah, I find masturbation can help me sleep sometimes too.
Sex usually helps more than masturbation. If you can get it... I personally couldn't get laid until after my Osteopathic experience.
About 3.5 years ago I had a rather intuitive insight, and pulled a proverbial needle out of a haystack. That is, the intuition suggested I do something that I hadn't ever done before. I followed the suggestion & met the girl.
My memories of going to sleep as a child are of tossing and turning every night in bed.
My parents bought my brother a waterbed when he outgrew his twin bed. I thought I'd fall asleep quicker in a waterbed than my old mattress, so I pestered my parents endlessly until they relented and bought me a waterbed too. It didn't help.
I learned about self-hypnosis, lucid dreaming, and "mental imagery" when I was 17 years old. One style of self-hypnosis calls for relaxing the physical body, then relaxing the mind. I was fascinated by the prospects of "internal senses".
I tried to relax in chairs and on the bed (such as for a "nap") as best I could, but the only relaxation I experienced was fleeting. I'd feel good for a half a second, then I'd notice feeling good and I'd pop out of the relaxation and be stuck in my overly tense body once again.
Some of the web pages on dreaming (1999 or so) and books that I read talked about a "drifty-dreamy" hypnagogic state between sleep and wakefulness. I tried to relax as best I could in bed. I always passed out before I noticed anything.
I left for college the next year, and developed something like lupus (lots of inflammation). I thought I had an RSI, but the P.A. and M.D. at the campus health center said there was nothing wrong with me that a little exercise wouldn't fix. I didn't believe them, so I started my own search for answers.
Many years passed, and I eventually I ended up in the hands of a capable Osteopath who specialized in hands-on therapy. I told him my story: head trauma when I was 17 y.o., swelling and pain in forearms, etc. He did his thing, and over a course of about a year he gradually helped my body's structures move back into their proper place.
Other disciplines look at a bone that's out of place as if it's a problem. One maxim from early Osteopathy was that "muscles move bones, and nerves control muscles". So rather than directly popping a bone back into place, a skilled osteopath will evaluate a patient to see what causes a structure to be malpositioned.
The good doctor likened a case such as mine to peeling an onion: stored trauma comes off a layer at a time.
One night after a few months of regular treatments, I opened my mouth to brush my teeth and noticed that the constant clicking noise in my jaw (TMJ) was no longer present. I opened and closed my mouth a few times in disbelief. The clicking had been with me for about four years at that point...
I also noticed that I no longer had to "try" to relax in bed before I passed out - most nights I quickly fell asleep.
Good sleep comes from having a balanced body, and hands-on therapies are one way to restore balance. There are others that I've found useful, but that's a much longer post.
Attention Insomniacs: Watch for my replies in this thread & story - I'll try to get some more information online shortly. I just want to get this comment posted while the story is still fresh.:)
Anyway I don't see how game would be less fun if you were playing afghani guerrillas shooting at "invading" UN troops. It might actually make the game stand out of the crowd in terms of gameplay.
You have to take social programming into account to better understand what's considered 'fun'. My ex-army/afghan vet friend couldn't enjoy a game as the guy who killed his squad ('allegedly' - he apparently has a few versions).
And most people believe verbatim what the big news networks tell them to believe, so how could they play a game with a conflicting premise? (ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, CNN - all share certain sacred beliefs about the forever war, and differ only in unimportant details)
But I do understand your point... I found an old book called Enemies are Human (1955) at the thrift store once.
sorta like credit unions, in that banks should be run for the benefit of their customers.
Or that the government should runt he banks?
Private banks make the money supply today. I believe that the government should make money, not JP Morgan Chase (in cahoots with the privately-owned central bank).
Not a whole lot would change in your day-to-day interaction with the banking system: you'd still have your choice of privately-run banks and credit unions. But this would be a seismic shift in the economic balance of power...
While that's one approach, it still doesn't address the fundamental problem: banks create the money supply by making loans. No loans, no money.
The investing class have the technical development of the world in a stranglehold: they feed money to developments that pay good dividends, and starve projects which would make their other investments obsolete.
Ellen Brown advocates publicly owned banks to finance public infrastructure projects. Here's a post about financing an energy revolution:
With hydrocarbons, energy consumers pay for their energy a little at a time. With clean technologies, a large up-front investment is made, which pays for itself over a period of many years.
Most energy consumers can't afford the initial cost... And if they get a loan, interest costs eat up any savings that they might have gotten.
One small engineering advancement will make the energy companies obsolete.
Everybody thinks they deserve to go to college. Everybody thinks that because they have a degree, they can command six figures.
Yes, but you have to put the reason why this is so in context.
Before WWII, only rich people could afford to send their children to college. They did this so their children would always have a leg up on the proletariat. If two people apply for a job, usually the one with the extra piece of paper will get it, right?
After WWII, congress passed the GI Bill to keep soldiers from getting restless. This bill made college affordable for many more people. The explosion of college costs can be pretty directly tied to the subsidization of college by the government.
While that's a nice article, it doesn't mention sunscreen's biggest hazard: it prevents the body from synthesizing Vitamin D, the anti-cancer vitamin.
The best advice is to avoid the sun between 10am and 2pm, or wear a hat/long sleeves. If you do get burned, take a large dose of Vitamin C, and slather on some fresh Aloe Vera (have you ever looked at the label on that green gunk sold as "aloe" at the megamart?)
Most sunscreens are swindles. They might prevent a burn, but you're more likely to get cancer a few years later - either due to the chemical itself, or because the body was unable to get all the Vitamin D it could have used..
Could it have something to do with the fact that petroleum is an energy dense substance that's easy to suck out of the ground?
I thought the BP/Deepwater Horizon episode proved that oil isn't "sucked" out of the ground. Oil reserves are under high pressure: prick a hole and the oil gushes out.
No amount of money is going to change that -- unless all of our knowledge of chemistry and physics is wrong.
You're right in that it's a "follow the money" problem. Remember that Nikola Tesla's financier (JP Morgan) pulled his funding when they realized they couldn't put an electricity meter on Tesla's system for wireless energy distribution. He also ran his car on vacuum tubes and other electrical parts.
Disruptive technology is disruptive because it flattens social power structures. Serfs aren't serfs anymore when they don't have to work 40hrs/week just to survive (with about 1/2 that going to pay taxes, and most of the rest paying banks interest for making the money/loans for the economy's money supply).
And the Send-the-Enterprise guy will be arriving in 3... 2... 1...
Whew, almost missed this story! Glad you noticed my absence, and I'm extra glad I decided to check slashdot before I got on the road.:)
That's actually Google's top result for me on the query send the enterprise! Not bad, not bad at all.
I'm working on a followup, now that the epic disaster has been brought under partial control. (what happens when another hurricane comes through?) The Enterprise is set to be retired from its duties as an aircraft carrier within 3 years. Why not convert it into a nuclear powered disaster response ship? The Navy sent an aircraft carrier to Haiti to help with disaster relief:
On 13 January 2010, the day after the 2010 Haiti earthquake, Carl Vinson was ordered to redirect from its current deployment in the North Atlantic Ocean to Haiti to contribute to the relief effort as part of Operation Unified Response. Upon receiving orders from USSOUTHCOM, the Carl Vinson battle group proceeded to Mayport, Florida where the ships loitered offshore to receive additional supplies and helicopters. The ships arrived off Port au Prince on 15 January 2010 to commence operations.[25][26][27] In addition to providing medical relief, CVN-70's excess desalination capacity has been critical to providing water to Haiti's population during the earthquake relief.[28]
Perhaps a better comparison would be with the algal blooms...
Many of the problems associated with algal blooms also trace back to an oxygen deficiency:
When phosphates are introduced into water systems, higher concentrations cause increased growth of algae and plants. Algae tend to grow very quickly under high nutrient availability, but each alga is short-lived, and the result is a high concentration of dead organic matter which starts to decay. The decay process consumes dissolved oxygen in the water, resulting in hypoxic conditions. Without sufficient dissolved oxygen in the water, animals and plants may die off in large numbers.
As someone stated the other day in my thread, most of the cleanup efforts are little more than a Public Relations campaign. Skimming has, so far, collected a astonishingly small amount of oil.
... In a March report that was not questioned by federal officials, BP said it had the capacity to skim and remove 491,721 barrels of oil each day in the event of a major spill.
As of Monday, with about 2 million barrels released into the gulf, the skimming operations that were touted as key to preventing environmental disaster have averaged less than 900 barrels a day.
Skimming has captured only 67,143 barrels, and BP has relied on burning to remove 238,095 barrels. Most of the oil recovered -- about 632,410 barrels -- was captured directly at the site of the leaking well.
This is obviously due to the huge disparity between the size of a fishing boat and the vastness of the Gulf of Mexico.
I'm going to pimp my proposal again: Send the Enterprise, use the nuclear reactors to power air compressors that will pump air (oxygen) into the oil plumes in the depths of the ocean. The oxygen feeds the bacteria that eat crude oil.
The Enterprise would be stationed in the vicinity of the Macondo Prospect site (where the Deepwater Horizon went down). Bubble fences would circle the wellhead at, say, 1 mile and 2 miles, or would be concentrated in whichever direction the oily currents tend to flow.
And I was just thinking today: coastal communities could experiment with running bubble fences some distance from their beaches. These compressors could be powered by the grid. Booms seem to be a big joke - look what happened when that little storm blew threw.
All the cleanup efforts are experimental, so the President ought to order at least one aircraft carrier to the Gulf. If it helps, send the rest of the nuclear navy.:)
The best way to find the problems is to put it into mass use.
Health problems are often subtle, and frequently masquerade as something else.
As a non-obese diet caffeine free soda drinker in his early thirties that has recently found out he is diabetic... I will eat GM food and use GM and nano products. Please make em available. If other people are to scared of the bogey man then great I'll have benefits they don't.
Like diabetes, eh?
It's completely ridiculous that they can't give GM crops to starving people because protestors,
It's completely ridiculous that there are starving people, with all the food that goes wasted or goes into ethanol/biodiesel. Mechanization -> unlimited abundance. Poverty is now a political problem more than anything else.
Please figure out a way to make carb free bread that doesn't suck.
How about this: your body can't handle bread. Stop eating it. That'd be the smart thing to do.
I do know that the navy and a "ship of heroes" is not the answer, that should be blatantly obvious.
dude, the comment in the opening paragraph of my piece was solely a reference to the fictional Enterprise that most people think of first when they hear the proto-meme, "Send the Enterprise".
I want to get a nuclear-powered ship into the hands of gulf researchers and scientists, so they can see what can be done with hundreds of megawatts of thermal power. Seeing as I don't have any kind of platform to make that possible, I have to promote the idea somehow.
The stats say I've gotten more than 800 clicks in the last 26+ hours. Would that have happened if I'd've said something else ("try out oxygenating the plumes with the USS G.H.W. Bush")? You can think about that one yourself.
It's like the marketing genius said: if I haven't pissed someone off by noon I'm not doing something right.:) Two more people clicked on yesterday's link while I was typing up this response. Take that to mean what you will.
You have a very good point here - Maybe I should have known that the "military-industrial complex" is incapable of doing anything "quickly". But thanks for pointing it out!
And you're right - I underestimate timetables all the time.:)
It seems clear to me that the author has never tried sourcing a custom made pump before. Redesigning equipment designed to operate at speed and pressure, and getting it produced takes a phenomenal amount of time. The up-front engineering hours alone would amount to months of work before the pump would be ready to run through a production line.
The MYT pump is simple. It has 22 parts, while a conventional piston pump/engine has thousands.
Furthermore, a geothermal energy company is looking to use the pump on one of their wells.
Geothermal Application
For that reason, Morgado has been successful in talking one renewable energy company, The Tesla Corporation, LLC, into using his system for harnessing the geothermal energy found on their land in Southern Utah. In fact, Co-President, Korey Robinson, surprised Morgado the other day telling him that they have drilled and capped a small well and are now waiting for Morgado's 14-inch motor to plug into the well to harness the constant geothermal energy that is there. The engineers at Tesla Corporation looked at the data on Morgado's website, especially the graphs and charts on the rpm/torque and air pressure/ torque curves, ran the math, and concluded that he was right in saying that his engine would be a good fit for their application.
"The MYT engine is the most efficient expander for steam engines," says Morgado.
The problem is that Morgado is presently maxed out in his time and resources getting ready for the SAE-Oregon demonstration May 15, in which he plans to showcase his newest 6-inch engine design running on biodiesel.
He told me that with adequate financing in place, he could put his friend over at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory on task in working up the engineering and materials needed to fit this application and customize the unit for this specific application. The steam and composition of the fluid from geothermal sources can be brutal on turbines, but Morgado thinks that his pump can be designed to handle this environment rigorously.
Running the MYT pump off a nuclear reactor's steam lines would be very similar to a geothermal application. How hard can it be to get 22 components into production?
They're going to be spending money on maintenance and operations of the aircraft carrier anyways. Do you think it'd be more productive to spend it on bombs, jet fuel, pay for 8,000 sailors to fight forever wars on blowback ("terrorism")?
Au contraire, I think it'd be a hell of a lot cheaper to send the Enterprise to the gulf with a skeleton crew.
310MW is not epic on any scale. I suggest you look up how much power your city consumes at peak power.
310 MW may not be epic, but it's still 310 MW that could be put to productive use. The Enterprise isn't doing anything right now, so why not see what can be done?
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Thought I replied to this yesterday, but I guess I forgot to click 'submit'.
My inspiration to take action wasn't a 'suggestion' as you would typically think. It was a sudden flash of intuition. I did something I'd never done before, and have reaped the benefits of doing so.
Everyone has intuitive insights all the time - it's just whether we pay attention to them or not that makes the difference. I'd pimp my special report here (Napolean Hill said "Free advice is worth exactly what you pay for it"), but slashdot moderators only appreciate free info/links, and I don't have my new shopping cart up yet anyways.
I noticed that your blog's tagline is "geniuses think in their own kind of box"
just wanted to let you know my tagline: "geniuses don't have to call themselves geniuses"
The site is supposed to be about the structure of genius, how Tesla and others were able to leap above mediocrity. Or something like that.
While I bought the domain name 7 years ago, I didn't do any site development until a year ago, and I just installed Wordpress last month. I don't want to be presumptuous, and have been considering alternate taglines.
But then again, I told a woman yesterday about my idea for the Enterprise and she thought that it was frickin' brilliant. She knows someone who's son is relatively high up on an aircraft carrier's chain of command, so I'm hoping to get some feedback from a Navy guy soon.
some people are best served by the pharmaceutical industry. Good luck with that.
While knowing is half the battle, I didn't have time to write a full explanation about what to do. I'd refer you to my ebooks, but I'm redoing my website with the Wordpress blogging software and haven't gotten those re-posted for sale. Insomniacs may be interested in my Radial Appliance site, http://radialappliance.teslabox.com/ (get the free reports sent via email).
> uncholowapo (1666661)
I've seen some good UID #'s, but ... wow. How did you get it?
And doesn't your palindromic UID make up for the insomnia somehow?
PMR [Progressive Muscle Relaxation] works like a charm for most people.
Relaxing your body naturally leads to a relaxed mind.
Exactly. I spent hundreds of hours reading all about the benefits of relaxation. I spent dozens of hours "trying" to relax, but nothing worked.
My mother found a woman who did "trigger point therapy" about 2.5 years after my head trauma experience. Trigger points are places on the body with a sharp, distinct pain. The "therapist" held these points - mostly on my back - for a time until they released and the pain disappeared.
About 1/2 way through the second session (saw her 3x over a spring break), my body just shut down and I "melted" into the massage table. Sweet, blissful relaxation! I relaxed completely again during the third session. Ahh, relief at last!
The first week back at teh college had a profound change from my lackluster relaxation/dreaming accomplishments: I started to wake from the most intense dreams I'd ever had.
I had been attempting to remember my dreams for about 2.5 years at that point, but all I could remember were vague hints of my dreams of the night before. After the trigger-point induced relaxation, I woke up feeling good, and I was able to lay in bed to revel in sweet magic dreams.
After a week of waking from blissful dream recollection, I decided to start writing in my dream journal again. That's the only dream I still remember. It was also the last intense dream I had until I figured out the rest of my puzzle...
That night I laid in bed and attempted to progressively relax, as was my usual custom for tricking my body into falling asleep. But this time something different happened, and instead of passing out my body relaxed and I started to experience the fabled "hypnagogic imagery" (I say 'fabled' because this was something I'd read about many times for many years, but had never personally experienced). These were sort of like green ribbons - a plasma light show. As someone who'd never experienced such before, it was a spectacular experience.
So yes, progressive relaxation is great, if you can do it. While the trigger point therapy helped me once for a week, I couldn't get a repeat performance from the same therapist the following summer. I tried other massage therapists, and while some helped me attain states of fleeting relaxation, at-will relaxation was elusive until I started an exercise program to go with the "device" (see the store link on my website).
Yeah, I find masturbation can help me sleep sometimes too.
Sex usually helps more than masturbation. If you can get it... I personally couldn't get laid until after my Osteopathic experience.
About 3.5 years ago I had a rather intuitive insight, and pulled a proverbial needle out of a haystack. That is, the intuition suggested I do something that I hadn't ever done before. I followed the suggestion & met the girl.
My memories of going to sleep as a child are of tossing and turning every night in bed.
My parents bought my brother a waterbed when he outgrew his twin bed. I thought I'd fall asleep quicker in a waterbed than my old mattress, so I pestered my parents endlessly until they relented and bought me a waterbed too. It didn't help.
I learned about self-hypnosis, lucid dreaming, and "mental imagery" when I was 17 years old. One style of self-hypnosis calls for relaxing the physical body, then relaxing the mind. I was fascinated by the prospects of "internal senses".
I tried to relax in chairs and on the bed (such as for a "nap") as best I could, but the only relaxation I experienced was fleeting. I'd feel good for a half a second, then I'd notice feeling good and I'd pop out of the relaxation and be stuck in my overly tense body once again.
Some of the web pages on dreaming (1999 or so) and books that I read talked about a "drifty-dreamy" hypnagogic state between sleep and wakefulness. I tried to relax as best I could in bed. I always passed out before I noticed anything.
I left for college the next year, and developed something like lupus (lots of inflammation). I thought I had an RSI, but the P.A. and M.D. at the campus health center said there was nothing wrong with me that a little exercise wouldn't fix. I didn't believe them, so I started my own search for answers.
Many years passed, and I eventually I ended up in the hands of a capable Osteopath who specialized in hands-on therapy. I told him my story: head trauma when I was 17 y.o., swelling and pain in forearms, etc. He did his thing, and over a course of about a year he gradually helped my body's structures move back into their proper place.
Other disciplines look at a bone that's out of place as if it's a problem. One maxim from early Osteopathy was that "muscles move bones, and nerves control muscles". So rather than directly popping a bone back into place, a skilled osteopath will evaluate a patient to see what causes a structure to be malpositioned.
The good doctor likened a case such as mine to peeling an onion: stored trauma comes off a layer at a time.
One night after a few months of regular treatments, I opened my mouth to brush my teeth and noticed that the constant clicking noise in my jaw (TMJ) was no longer present. I opened and closed my mouth a few times in disbelief. The clicking had been with me for about four years at that point...
I also noticed that I no longer had to "try" to relax in bed before I passed out - most nights I quickly fell asleep.
Good sleep comes from having a balanced body, and hands-on therapies are one way to restore balance. There are others that I've found useful, but that's a much longer post.
Attention Insomniacs: Watch for my replies in this thread & story - I'll try to get some more information online shortly. I just want to get this comment posted while the story is still fresh. :)
Anyway I don't see how game would be less fun if you were playing afghani guerrillas shooting at "invading" UN troops. It might actually make the game stand out of the crowd in terms of gameplay.
You have to take social programming into account to better understand what's considered 'fun'. My ex-army/afghan vet friend couldn't enjoy a game as the guy who killed his squad ('allegedly' - he apparently has a few versions).
And most people believe verbatim what the big news networks tell them to believe, so how could they play a game with a conflicting premise? (ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, CNN - all share certain sacred beliefs about the forever war, and differ only in unimportant details)
But I do understand your point... I found an old book called Enemies are Human (1955) at the thrift store once.
sorta like credit unions, in that banks should be run for the benefit of their customers.
Or that the government should runt he banks?
Private banks make the money supply today. I believe that the government should make money, not JP Morgan Chase (in cahoots with the privately-owned central bank).
Not a whole lot would change in your day-to-day interaction with the banking system: you'd still have your choice of privately-run banks and credit unions. But this would be a seismic shift in the economic balance of power...
While that's one approach, it still doesn't address the fundamental problem: banks create the money supply by making loans. No loans, no money.
The investing class have the technical development of the world in a stranglehold: they feed money to developments that pay good dividends, and starve projects which would make their other investments obsolete.
Ellen Brown advocates publicly owned banks to finance public infrastructure projects. Here's a post about financing an energy revolution:
Out of the Ashes of GM: The Phoenix of Renewable Energy
With hydrocarbons, energy consumers pay for their energy a little at a time. With clean technologies, a large up-front investment is made, which pays for itself over a period of many years.
Most energy consumers can't afford the initial cost... And if they get a loan, interest costs eat up any savings that they might have gotten.
One small engineering advancement will make the energy companies obsolete.
Everybody thinks they deserve to go to college. Everybody thinks that because they have a degree, they can command six figures.
Yes, but you have to put the reason why this is so in context.
Before WWII, only rich people could afford to send their children to college. They did this so their children would always have a leg up on the proletariat. If two people apply for a job, usually the one with the extra piece of paper will get it, right?
After WWII, congress passed the GI Bill to keep soldiers from getting restless. This bill made college affordable for many more people. The explosion of college costs can be pretty directly tied to the subsidization of college by the government.
This connection was made in a book I found at a thrift shop: The Screwing of the Average Man.
While that's a nice article, it doesn't mention sunscreen's biggest hazard: it prevents the body from synthesizing Vitamin D, the anti-cancer vitamin.
The best advice is to avoid the sun between 10am and 2pm, or wear a hat/long sleeves. If you do get burned, take a large dose of Vitamin C, and slather on some fresh Aloe Vera (have you ever looked at the label on that green gunk sold as "aloe" at the megamart?)
Most sunscreens are swindles. They might prevent a burn, but you're more likely to get cancer a few years later - either due to the chemical itself, or because the body was unable to get all the Vitamin D it could have used..
Could it have something to do with the fact that petroleum is an energy dense substance that's easy to suck out of the ground?
I thought the BP/Deepwater Horizon episode proved that oil isn't "sucked" out of the ground. Oil reserves are under high pressure: prick a hole and the oil gushes out.
No amount of money is going to change that -- unless all of our knowledge of chemistry and physics is wrong.
You're right in that it's a "follow the money" problem. Remember that Nikola Tesla's financier (JP Morgan) pulled his funding when they realized they couldn't put an electricity meter on Tesla's system for wireless energy distribution. He also ran his car on vacuum tubes and other electrical parts.
Disruptive technology is disruptive because it flattens social power structures. Serfs aren't serfs anymore when they don't have to work 40hrs/week just to survive (with about 1/2 that going to pay taxes, and most of the rest paying banks interest for making the money/loans for the economy's money supply).
And the Send-the-Enterprise guy will be arriving in 3... 2... 1...
Whew, almost missed this story! Glad you noticed my absence, and I'm extra glad I decided to check slashdot before I got on the road. :)
That's actually Google's top result for me on the query send the enterprise! Not bad, not bad at all.
I'm working on a followup, now that the epic disaster has been brought under partial control. (what happens when another hurricane comes through?) The Enterprise is set to be retired from its duties as an aircraft carrier within 3 years. Why not convert it into a nuclear powered disaster response ship? The Navy sent an aircraft carrier to Haiti to help with disaster relief:
There are thousands of offshore oil wells - if they lose control of another one, the Enterprise will (hopefully) be ready.
Perhaps a better comparison would be with the algal blooms...
Many of the problems associated with algal blooms also trace back to an oxygen deficiency:
The end products of crude oil bioremediation are carbon dioxide and whatever heavy metals were in the crude oil to begin with. Here are some links:
Oil-Eating Microbes a Possible Solution
Local company volunteers oil-eating bacteria
Thanks for your comments!
As someone stated the other day in my thread, most of the cleanup efforts are little more than a Public Relations campaign. Skimming has, so far, collected a astonishingly small amount of oil.
This is obviously due to the huge disparity between the size of a fishing boat and the vastness of the Gulf of Mexico.
I'm going to pimp my proposal again: Send the Enterprise, use the nuclear reactors to power air compressors that will pump air (oxygen) into the oil plumes in the depths of the ocean. The oxygen feeds the bacteria that eat crude oil.
The Enterprise would be stationed in the vicinity of the Macondo Prospect site (where the Deepwater Horizon went down). Bubble fences would circle the wellhead at, say, 1 mile and 2 miles, or would be concentrated in whichever direction the oily currents tend to flow.
And I was just thinking today: coastal communities could experiment with running bubble fences some distance from their beaches. These compressors could be powered by the grid. Booms seem to be a big joke - look what happened when that little storm blew threw.
All the cleanup efforts are experimental, so the President ought to order at least one aircraft carrier to the Gulf. If it helps, send the rest of the nuclear navy. :)
The best way to find the problems is to put it into mass use.
Health problems are often subtle, and frequently masquerade as something else.
As a non-obese diet caffeine free soda drinker in his early thirties that has recently found out he is diabetic ... I will eat GM food and use GM and nano products. Please make em available. If other people are to scared of the bogey man then great I'll have benefits they don't.
Like diabetes, eh?
It's completely ridiculous that they can't give GM crops to starving people because protestors,
It's completely ridiculous that there are starving people, with all the food that goes wasted or goes into ethanol/biodiesel. Mechanization -> unlimited abundance. Poverty is now a political problem more than anything else.
Please figure out a way to make carb free bread that doesn't suck.
How about this: your body can't handle bread. Stop eating it. That'd be the smart thing to do.
I do know that the navy and a "ship of heroes" is not the answer, that should be blatantly obvious.
dude, the comment in the opening paragraph of my piece was solely a reference to the fictional Enterprise that most people think of first when they hear the proto-meme, "Send the Enterprise".
I want to get a nuclear-powered ship into the hands of gulf researchers and scientists, so they can see what can be done with hundreds of megawatts of thermal power. Seeing as I don't have any kind of platform to make that possible, I have to promote the idea somehow.
The stats say I've gotten more than 800 clicks in the last 26+ hours. Would that have happened if I'd've said something else ("try out oxygenating the plumes with the USS G.H.W. Bush")? You can think about that one yourself.
It's like the marketing genius said: if I haven't pissed someone off by noon I'm not doing something right. :) Two more people clicked on yesterday's link while I was typing up this response. Take that to mean what you will.
You have a very good point here - Maybe I should have known that the "military-industrial complex" is incapable of doing anything "quickly". But thanks for pointing it out!
And you're right - I underestimate timetables all the time. :)
It seems clear to me that the author has never tried sourcing a custom made pump before. Redesigning equipment designed to operate at speed and pressure, and getting it produced takes a phenomenal amount of time. The up-front engineering hours alone would amount to months of work before the pump would be ready to run through a production line.
The MYT pump is simple. It has 22 parts, while a conventional piston pump/engine has thousands.
Furthermore, a geothermal energy company is looking to use the pump on one of their wells.
Running the MYT pump off a nuclear reactor's steam lines would be very similar to a geothermal application. How hard can it be to get 22 components into production?
It'd be a hell of a lot cheaper,
They're going to be spending money on maintenance and operations of the aircraft carrier anyways. Do you think it'd be more productive to spend it on bombs, jet fuel, pay for 8,000 sailors to fight forever wars on blowback ("terrorism")?
Au contraire, I think it'd be a hell of a lot cheaper to send the Enterprise to the gulf with a skeleton crew.
310MW is not epic on any scale. I suggest you look up how much power your city consumes at peak power.
310 MW may not be epic, but it's still 310 MW that could be put to productive use. The Enterprise isn't doing anything right now, so why not see what can be done?
but I don't think it's going to stop an oil leak in reality.
Nothing in the proposal is about stopping the leak. It's about mitigating the impact that the oil is having on the gulf of Mexico.