First use solar panels that work in either a front or back direction: http://www.ebarasolar.thomasregister.com/olc/ebara solar/bennies.htm
Micro accurate GPS. By triangulating cell phone and wireless ethernet you should be able track if the pad is "on the table" or "under couch". Further by placeing mems on all of your portable possesions you could then FIND anything you might have lost.
Airline seat mount bracket: A simple velcor device that allows hand free viewing in an airline seat.
no so. With liquid nitrogen cooled super conducter cable you could transport DC current with only marginal losses. You could then also eliminate most of the transformers. The cost might still be a problem.
More appropriately every house/business should have solar thermal colletors for hot water. They should all be well insulated. People should live closer to their work. In the southwest home solar photovoltaics are pratical.
With this kind of thinking we will never colonize space.
The basis of their study is to transport all of the materials from earth. The high cost of the previous 20 year old study was transportation to space. So this study was DESIGNED to be cost prohivitive.Thus just like the people proposing mars exploration at the expence of asteriod mining.
Spaced based power must be constructed from space based resources. When America moved west they built the train engines and rails in Pittsburgh. The railroad companies were given a large amount of land near the right of ways. The timber, gravel, food, fuel etc. were aquired locally.
You would think we have better planners today. Maybe it takes a few good robber barrons!!
Subject: RE: (no subject)
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 10:12:44 -0700
From: "Heller, Edwin J"
Hello
Thank you for your interest in our mini-robots. We
are sorry to say that at present, we have no spares to
offer, and older models are refurbished with new
technology as we develop it. As a national laboratory,
it is not our practice to distribute our technology without
very special arrangements.
Thank you
Ed Heller
There needs to several levels of improvement in the way docters and the medical insurance business account and pay for services. Specifically the HMO will not cover certain expences without the doctor "checking" off certain diagnostics were done. It is a contract managment problem, a doctor-patient problem, government - hmo problem and many others. Contracts -- especially government regulations change this landscape daily.
One problem with any solution is to push doctors into a cookie-cutter approach to helping their patients.
If you have a doctor doing cookie-cutter medicine then having an AI system take over is the next step.:-)
Have two networks: one for net browsing and another for in-house records just to be safe PLEASE!!!!!
This sounds like a great chance to charter a cruise ship to sail near ground zero and watch it fall in the sky. What a party! Plus you can invite your favorite space mutated earth fungas.
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First use solar panels that work in either a front or back direction: http://www.ebarasolar.thomasregister.com/olc/ebara solar/bennies.htm
Micro accurate GPS. By triangulating cell phone and wireless ethernet you should be able track if the pad is "on the table" or "under couch". Further by placeing mems on all of your portable possesions you could then FIND anything you might have lost.
Airline seat mount bracket: A simple velcor device that allows hand free viewing in an airline seat.
no so. With liquid nitrogen cooled super conducter cable you could transport DC current with only marginal losses. You could then also eliminate most of the transformers. The cost might still be a problem.
More appropriately every house/business should have solar thermal colletors for hot water. They should all be well insulated. People should live closer to their work. In the southwest home solar photovoltaics are pratical.
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With this kind of thinking we will never colonize space.
The basis of their study is to transport all of the materials from earth. The high cost of the previous 20 year old study was transportation to space. So this study was DESIGNED to be cost prohivitive.Thus just like the people proposing mars exploration at the expence of asteriod mining.
Spaced based power must be constructed from space based resources. When America moved west they built the train engines and rails in Pittsburgh. The railroad companies were given a large amount of land near the right of ways. The timber, gravel, food, fuel etc. were aquired locally.
You would think we have better planners today. Maybe it takes a few good robber barrons!!
Subject: RE: (no subject) Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 10:12:44 -0700 From: "Heller, Edwin J" Hello Thank you for your interest in our mini-robots. We are sorry to say that at present, we have no spares to offer, and older models are refurbished with new technology as we develop it. As a national laboratory, it is not our practice to distribute our technology without very special arrangements. Thank you Ed Heller
There needs to several levels of improvement in the way docters and the medical insurance business account and pay for services. Specifically the HMO will not cover certain expences without the doctor "checking" off certain diagnostics were done. It is a contract managment problem, a doctor-patient problem, government - hmo problem and many others. Contracts -- especially government regulations change this landscape daily. :-)
One problem with any solution is to push doctors into a cookie-cutter approach to helping their patients.
If you have a doctor doing cookie-cutter medicine then having an AI system take over is the next step.
Have two networks: one for net browsing and another for in-house records just to be safe PLEASE!!!!!
Its very heavy!
This sounds like a great chance to charter a cruise ship to sail near ground zero and watch it fall in the sky. What a party! Plus you can invite your favorite space mutated earth fungas.