I've had several conversations with a Physics PhD who groks cold fusion. He knows the theory inside and out. The obstacles to implementation are political. A $50 reactor would make the oil industry obsolete in a day, and we certainly couldn't have that now, could we.
which means that it may actually just be a shit-filled money hole.
And this would be different from hot fusion... how?
The hot fusion guys get untold $$ BILLIONS to fail. Here's an article from 1989:
The Government has spent many billions of dollars over more than a third of a century in a thus-far fruitless attempt to tame hot fusion, a process that proponents see as a source of safe, cheap and nearly inexhaustible power.
But experts say the effort, which is now nearing its goal of igniting self-sustaining fusion reactions, has recently been hurt by excessive secrecy and large financial cutbacks. As a result, they say, rivals in Japan and Europe are forging ahead and taking the lead in some areas.
The cold fusion guys get the scraps that are left over, and they make progress anyways. There was a Japanese researcher who held a demonstration in May 2008 of his Cold Fusion setup.
If $1 Billion was budgeted and scientists realized that "there are no questions that this is possible anymore", we'd have prototype reactors within a year.
In theory. In practice, you & your anti-science friends are eating crow:
Johan Frenje at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an expert at interpreting CR-39 tracks produced in conventional high-temperature fusion reactions, says the team's interpretation of what produced the tracks is valid.
"I must say that the data and their analysis seem to suggest that energetic neutrons have been produced," he says, although he would like to see the results confirmed quantitatively.
What's wrong with Cold Fusion? Hot Fusion is a money pit, whereas Cold Fusion is cheap, simple, and researchers now have evidence that nuclear reactions are indeed taking place.
They would guard the specifics [of B2 antigravity tech] but they wouldn't miss the chance to brag about our military might.
If anti-gravity technology is possible, then what need is there for military might? How would our plutocrats justify perpetual war if not for scarcity of energy?
And if a group of people can figure anti-gravity out, what would prevent someone else from independently discovering it? "If it were possible to negate gravity, how would I do it?" Then they'd go look at Thomas Townsend Brown's work and figure out what's missing.
Actually, I'll "only" be 25 next month, so I don't really remember being promised flying cars and all that jazz.
Back to the Future part II (which promised flying cars in 2015) was released in 1989, which was a little before you'd remember. We still have 6 years left - maybe someone will figure out how gravity and electromagnetics interact by then.
Or maybe the military-industrial complex will let the secret out - if the B2 bomber really did use anti-gravity technology, would they let anyone know?
The 1992-1995 Civic VX has a special 5-wire oxygen sensor. When conditions are right, it goes into a 'lean burn' mode, where it operates sort of like a diesel.
Lean Burn is somewhat dirty, and the car emits more nitrous oxides than other Hondas. The 5spd Honda Insight had lean burn, whereas the CVT version did not. Honda developed a catalyst for the nitrous oxides, so the Civic hybrids (2001 or so?) are able to use lean-burn too.
Kinda sad that my 15 year old Honda w/ 171,000 miles gets fuel economy equivalent to today's best hybrids...
I'm hoping that the MYT engine lives up to its promise as a retrofit engine - I'll probably need a replacement powertrain in the next 50-100,000 miles. (Watch the videos on YouTube, include a January 2009 prototype demonstration [with compressed air] at SJSU. Even if it doesn't take off as an engine, the MYT design would still save megawatt-hours of energy as a air/liquid pump.)
Another would be the impact of House Resolution 1207, Ron Paul's bi-partisan bill to audit the Federal Reserve. It currently has 91 cosponsors, and if/when it passes, it will result in a seismic restructuring of the financial system. Fractional Resrve banking is on the way out. I don't believe Gold == Money like some do - I'm more a fan of The American Monetary Institute's comprehensive banking reform. Anyways, if monetary reform gets passed soon, the world economy won't have to collapse like the Soviet Union did 20 years ago.
But his thesis is that such events are fundamentally unpredictable.
Taleb has said that the present crisis is not a 'black swan' event. This link, for example.
Black swans are predictable by some, but not by most. The impact of certain advances in technology which are considered impossible by otherwise-eductated scientists would qualify. Cold fusion became respectable again this month, so that'd be a good Swan candidate, methinks.
Do you pilot one of those planes whose contrail doesn't disperse like it should? Maybe they don't use pilots anymore - drone planes would work just as well. Maybe you plan where the drones are going to fly on a given day.
(Anyone who believes that the climate isn't already being engineered just isn't watching the skies.)
GRC's Microwave turns solid hydrocarbons into diesel, propane and butane. The prototype works on tires, and the website gives a bunch of other uses - oil sands, coal, tar sands, soil cleanup, etc. A 20lb tire turns into 1 gallon of diesel, 50cuF of propane/butane, some carbon black, and some steel.
It also solves the problem with getting the coal out of the ground. Instead of taking off the top of a mountain (or sending miners into tunnels in the earth), you can drill a hole, drop the microwave down, cap your drill hole and apply a vacuum.
There is much better technology coming down the pipe, but GRC's microwave is a nice tool to get us through the next couple years.
On one of the DHE tapes, Richard Bandler talks about the time he was invited to the hot tub at a nudist resort. So he put on his trunks, grabbed a towel, and strolled on over to the site. First thing out of his mouth: "NICE TITS!" IIRC, the girl promptly lowered herself such that her nice tits were below the waterline...
It's been many years since I listened to those (and I was only able to download a couple). Bandler mentioned impotence as one of the problems with nudist camps.
Also, in the present culture, how are women who don't have 'nice tits' supposed to feel? You work with the body you have, but there's no need to continually poke at some people's insecurities...
I should go find a torrent, thanks for the reminder.:)
Touched a nerve there, didn't I? --Was it the phrase, "Spineless cogs" or simply pointing out an obvious truth that nobody likes to think about?
It seems that you've committed both faux pas mentioned by Mr. Swann in the opening to one of his books:
ITEMS TO CONSIDER
It's unkind to point out the Obvious To those that don't want to see it.
But it's worse to point out the Invisible To those convinced it doesn't exist.
I found an excerpt on a web forum a few months back. I wanted to send it to someone, and in the process of searching I found that someone had scanned their copy to a 41mb PDF. The PDF of Penetration floating around the torrent sites looks like it's been OCR'd, as there are typos that are not in my photocopied version...
The effects of all these problems are cumulative, and society has now passed the breaking point. Which is fine - we just need to pick up the pieces and build something better.
The states are hurting, sure, but proposals such as New York's d/l tax don't recognize that the economy needs to be fundamentally reorganized.
Plastic is a petroleum product. Can the conversion process be reversed?
This is what Global Resource Corporation's microwave does. Right now they are fine-tuning their prototype on used tires. One 20-pound tire yields 1 gallon of diesel oil, 50 cubic feet of propane/butane, some carbon black and some steel.
The device uses a vacuum chamber to reclaim the hydrocarbons after they've been released from the solid.
A few years back I was handed a cassette with an Art Bell interview of Ingo Swann. Swann had appeared on Bell's show in support of his then-recently released book, Penetration: The question of human and extraterrestrial telepathy. At one point Art Bell asked, "What's on the moon, Ingo?" Fascinating interview - I bet you could find a torrent, or buy the mp3 at coast2coastam.com.
The book is very interesting. I wonder if it's true that there is no high-resolution imagery of the moon available to the public...
SOX is a bit player in a giant swindle. The jobs problem has nothing to do with the lack of venture capital. The problem is the economy is up to its eyeballs in debt, and there's no money to pay the interest due.
If the congress wanted to create jobs, it would issue interest-free money (such as Abraham Lincoln's United States Notes) and spend it directly into circulation on worthwhile projects. The most worthwhile project today is renewable energy technology. Wind farms are probably the best candidate, with hydrocarbon synthesizers to use all the power generated.
R&D on cold fusion and other paradigm-busting energy technology should get some money too - a Japanese researcher held a demonstration of his Cold Fusion setup in May.
Fixing the banking system is a good first step for restoring rosperity.
There is an underground movement underway. It's just known as "alternative medicine".
Conventional medicine treats the patient by treating the symptoms. "Alternative" medicine treats the patient by addressing an ailment's many causes. Sometimes the best you can do is treat the symptoms, but most the time you can do better.
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A $50 reactor ...
To clarify - $50 might get you parts for a 500-watt space-heater sized reactor. Replacement powerplants would cost significantly more, of course.
I've had several conversations with a Physics PhD who groks cold fusion. He knows the theory inside and out. The obstacles to implementation are political. A $50 reactor would make the oil industry obsolete in a day, and we certainly couldn't have that now, could we.
which means that it may actually just be a shit-filled money hole.
And this would be different from hot fusion... how?
The hot fusion guys get untold $$ BILLIONS to fail. Here's an article from 1989:
The Government has spent many billions of dollars over more than a third of a century in a thus-far fruitless attempt to tame hot fusion, a process that proponents see as a source of safe, cheap and nearly inexhaustible power.
But experts say the effort, which is now nearing its goal of igniting self-sustaining fusion reactions, has recently been hurt by excessive secrecy and large financial cutbacks. As a result, they say, rivals in Japan and Europe are forging ahead and taking the lead in some areas.
-U.S. Losing Ground in Worldwide Race for 'hot' Fusion
The cold fusion guys get the scraps that are left over, and they make progress anyways. There was a Japanese researcher who held a demonstration in May 2008 of his Cold Fusion setup.
If $1 Billion was budgeted and scientists realized that "there are no questions that this is possible anymore", we'd have prototype reactors within a year.
Cold fusion does not work.
In theory. In practice, you & your anti-science friends are eating crow:
Johan Frenje at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an expert at interpreting CR-39 tracks produced in conventional high-temperature fusion reactions, says the team's interpretation of what produced the tracks is valid.
"I must say that the data and their analysis seem to suggest that energetic neutrons have been produced," he says, although he would like to see the results confirmed quantitatively.
-Neutron tracks revive hopes for cold fusion
We Don't Have Any Money!
Exactly. And why don't we have any money? BECAUSE THE BANKS WON'T LEND IT TO US!
The obvious followup question is, why are we dependent on banks to create money?
So that we can better concentrate wealth, of course!
There's a better way to create money, of course, but the plutocracy won't be happy...
Hot Fusion, not Cold Fusion that is.
What's wrong with Cold Fusion? Hot Fusion is a money pit, whereas Cold Fusion is cheap, simple, and researchers now have evidence that nuclear reactions are indeed taking place.
Because they (plutocrats) hate freedom.
There, fixed that for ya. :)
They would guard the specifics [of B2 antigravity tech] but they wouldn't miss the chance to brag about our military might.
If anti-gravity technology is possible, then what need is there for military might? How would our plutocrats justify perpetual war if not for scarcity of energy?
And if a group of people can figure anti-gravity out, what would prevent someone else from independently discovering it? "If it were possible to negate gravity, how would I do it?" Then they'd go look at Thomas Townsend Brown's work and figure out what's missing.
Actually, I'll "only" be 25 next month, so I don't really remember being promised flying cars and all that jazz.
Back to the Future part II (which promised flying cars in 2015) was released in 1989, which was a little before you'd remember. We still have 6 years left - maybe someone will figure out how gravity and electromagnetics interact by then.
Or maybe the military-industrial complex will let the secret out - if the B2 bomber really did use anti-gravity technology, would they let anyone know?
Here's my fuel log.
The 1992-1995 Civic VX has a special 5-wire oxygen sensor. When conditions are right, it goes into a 'lean burn' mode, where it operates sort of like a diesel.
Lean Burn is somewhat dirty, and the car emits more nitrous oxides than other Hondas. The 5spd Honda Insight had lean burn, whereas the CVT version did not. Honda developed a catalyst for the nitrous oxides, so the Civic hybrids (2001 or so?) are able to use lean-burn too.
Kinda sad that my 15 year old Honda w/ 171,000 miles gets fuel economy equivalent to today's best hybrids...
I'm hoping that the MYT engine lives up to its promise as a retrofit engine - I'll probably need a replacement powertrain in the next 50-100,000 miles. (Watch the videos on YouTube, include a January 2009 prototype demonstration [with compressed air] at SJSU. Even if it doesn't take off as an engine, the MYT design would still save megawatt-hours of energy as a air/liquid pump.)
While I'm thinking about it...
so that'd be a good Swan candidate, methinks.
Another would be the impact of House Resolution 1207, Ron Paul's bi-partisan bill to audit the Federal Reserve. It currently has 91 cosponsors, and if/when it passes, it will result in a seismic restructuring of the financial system. Fractional Resrve banking is on the way out. I don't believe Gold == Money like some do - I'm more a fan of The American Monetary Institute's comprehensive banking reform. Anyways, if monetary reform gets passed soon, the world economy won't have to collapse like the Soviet Union did 20 years ago.
Here's hoping for this swan to arrive soon.
But his thesis is that such events are fundamentally unpredictable.
Taleb has said that the present crisis is not a 'black swan' event. This link, for example.
Black swans are predictable by some, but not by most. The impact of certain advances in technology which are considered impossible by otherwise-eductated scientists would qualify. Cold fusion became respectable again this month, so that'd be a good Swan candidate, methinks.
The worst part is that I was reading for a while before I decided to register a user account, as I didn't see the point.
Five digit palindromes are much better than four, three or two digit ones. I think you did pretty well.
I'm a climate engineer!
Do you pilot one of those planes whose contrail doesn't disperse like it should? Maybe they don't use pilots anymore - drone planes would work just as well. Maybe you plan where the drones are going to fly on a given day.
(Anyone who believes that the climate isn't already being engineered just isn't watching the skies.)
GRC's Microwave turns solid hydrocarbons into diesel, propane and butane. The prototype works on tires, and the website gives a bunch of other uses - oil sands, coal, tar sands, soil cleanup, etc. A 20lb tire turns into 1 gallon of diesel, 50cuF of propane/butane, some carbon black, and some steel.
It also solves the problem with getting the coal out of the ground. Instead of taking off the top of a mountain (or sending miners into tunnels in the earth), you can drill a hole, drop the microwave down, cap your drill hole and apply a vacuum.
There is much better technology coming down the pipe, but GRC's microwave is a nice tool to get us through the next couple years.
On one of the DHE tapes, Richard Bandler talks about the time he was invited to the hot tub at a nudist resort. So he put on his trunks, grabbed a towel, and strolled on over to the site. First thing out of his mouth: "NICE TITS!" IIRC, the girl promptly lowered herself such that her nice tits were below the waterline...
It's been many years since I listened to those (and I was only able to download a couple). Bandler mentioned impotence as one of the problems with nudist camps.
Also, in the present culture, how are women who don't have 'nice tits' supposed to feel? You work with the body you have, but there's no need to continually poke at some people's insecurities...
I should go find a torrent, thanks for the reminder. :)
Oh my!
Touched a nerve there, didn't I? --Was it the phrase, "Spineless cogs" or simply pointing out an obvious truth that nobody likes to think about?
It seems that you've committed both faux pas mentioned by Mr. Swann in the opening to one of his books:
I found an excerpt on a web forum a few months back. I wanted to send it to someone, and in the process of searching I found that someone had scanned their copy to a 41mb PDF. The PDF of Penetration floating around the torrent sites looks like it's been OCR'd, as there are typos that are not in my photocopied version...
The sky doesn't fall very often (meteors being the exception), but there are plenty of wolves in the forest.
The effects of all these problems are cumulative, and society has now passed the breaking point. Which is fine - we just need to pick up the pieces and build something better.
The states are hurting, sure, but proposals such as New York's d/l tax don't recognize that the economy needs to be fundamentally reorganized.
There's no way to revive it. As REM had foreseen, the world we knew has ended, and now we're just drifting until a new wind catches our sails.
If the Federal government would just fix the debt problem, all these other problems would rapidly fix themselves.
Plastic is a petroleum product. Can the conversion process be reversed?
This is what Global Resource Corporation's microwave does. Right now they are fine-tuning their prototype on used tires. One 20-pound tire yields 1 gallon of diesel oil, 50 cubic feet of propane/butane, some carbon black and some steel.
The device uses a vacuum chamber to reclaim the hydrocarbons after they've been released from the solid.
freeze dry in liquid nitrogen, use the resulting powder as fertilizer. wrote a diary a few years back:
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/11/6/0016/23536
A few years back I was handed a cassette with an Art Bell interview of Ingo Swann. Swann had appeared on Bell's show in support of his then-recently released book, Penetration: The question of human and extraterrestrial telepathy. At one point Art Bell asked, "What's on the moon, Ingo?" Fascinating interview - I bet you could find a torrent, or buy the mp3 at coast2coastam.com.
The book is very interesting. I wonder if it's true that there is no high-resolution imagery of the moon available to the public...
SOX is a bit player in a giant swindle. The jobs problem has nothing to do with the lack of venture capital. The problem is the economy is up to its eyeballs in debt, and there's no money to pay the interest due.
This is due to the debt-based nature of our financial system. See Money and the Crisis of Civilization and I Want the Earth plus 5%.
If the congress wanted to create jobs, it would issue interest-free money (such as Abraham Lincoln's United States Notes) and spend it directly into circulation on worthwhile projects. The most worthwhile project today is renewable energy technology. Wind farms are probably the best candidate, with hydrocarbon synthesizers to use all the power generated.
R&D on cold fusion and other paradigm-busting energy technology should get some money too - a Japanese researcher held a demonstration of his Cold Fusion setup in May.
Fixing the banking system is a good first step for restoring rosperity.
There is an underground movement underway. It's just known as "alternative medicine".
Conventional medicine treats the patient by treating the symptoms. "Alternative" medicine treats the patient by addressing an ailment's many causes. Sometimes the best you can do is treat the symptoms, but most the time you can do better.
Dr. Zieve's book is a nice start.