The kicker is re-charging the borax with hydrogen. It will cost more energy than the charged borax produces to re-charge it.
The fuel cell is *NOT* an energy source. If you think it is then you are eligible for an Ignoble prize for reinventing the perpetual motion machine. It is an energy transducer, from chemical to electrical. What it does provide is a means of using energy in a mobile application.
If we build nuclear power plants, we could use the electricity produced to electrolize water and produce hydrogen. Thus we would have a way to increase our energy supply by using nuclear technology. Thus we could transition to a nuclear based energy economy , which would include, indirectly, mobile applications.
Would it be possible to seed the spambots with the email addresses of politicians who support pro spam policies/laws.
It would be wonderful to subject them to the same crap they shove at us.
If the power grubbing politicians get sufficiently pissed off by having their cell phones jammed with spam, maybe we can get laws passed to smash the spammers.
Nah!, the spammers will just keep up the "campaign contributions" and we will be screwed again.
Here we go again. A bunch of engineers who take measurements of some phenomena, but lack an understanding of the basic physics, make revolutionary extrapolations. This stuff is nonsense.
If you can turn off gravity, you could raise a weight expending no energy, turn off the anti-gravity and let the falling weight turn a generator. Repeat this in an endless cycle and you have all the energy you want for free.
Too bad that it violates the law of conservation of energy.
There is, however, no law of conservation of the number of fools.
We need to fight the practice of patenting the obvious and restricting our freedoms.Here are some ways to fight by funding the following activities. 1. Do legal research to find and document prior art. 2. Challenge the absurd software patents through the legal process. 3. Contact and develop relationships with main stream journalists and provide them with the fruits of your research. Be scrupulously honest in the material provided. Lead them to make a mockery of the inept Patent Office. The goal here is to create such widespread justified contempt for the Patent Office, that they will be forced to change behavior. 4. Keep the funding going. This will be a long war.
I think you are right on the money. I remember seeing a comment on the Transmeta presentation Wednesday that they were thinking of doing an SMP based system in the future.
It makes sense. If you can run at an order of magnitude lower power, you should be able to scale the performance higher per board.
Imagine a motherboard with 16 or 32 cheap CPUs running on a workstation. Yummie.
Who the F*** are you to step on my freedom to buy a supercomputer. I don't need a note from my mother to buy one and I sure don't need your permission.
The only thing fascists like you would accomplish, besides destroying our freedom, is to drive personal supercomputer production out of the USA.
You raise the key issue and I see that others responding to your post give valid examples of why this "control from outer space" is a looney idea.
Unfortunately, many of the "holier than thou" twits with "morally superior" agendas wriggle their way into power and inflict their dreams (our nightmares) on the rest of us.
I am sure that this idea will spread to this side of the pond (USA). Probably the same mental giants who gave us the small water tank toilet ( two, three, and even four flushes) will then have another insane cause to pursue.
Today some Yanks import real crapers from Canada. Maybe we will have to smuggle fake electronic controllers in the future.
The story simply says that the bacteria can clean up hazardous waste in the presence of high levels of radiation. The bacteria does nothing about reducing the radiation. One can conceive of a chemical reaction that might make it easier to retrieve the radioactive material for a less threatening disposal, but the material at the nuclear level remains unaffected.
The creation of patents was meant to protect real innovation, the type recognized as having a scientific or engineering character. Whether or not we agree with the patent concept at all, the avaricious lawyers and greedy business interests have hijacked the process for their own benefit.
The courts have failed to spot the "innovation" impostors and are largely responsible for the abuse of the intent of the patent laws. The Amazon "One Click" innovation is so obvious as to be laughable, but the notion that business model innovation is protectable under patent law is the big problem. The constitutionality of business model patents needs to be challenged.
Defeating the notion of software patents is a harder proposition. I suggest that the open source community start a web site devoted to finding prior art for claimed software patents. Using the Internet we could probably sink a lot of claims and make the notion of software patents so absurd as to make it vulnerable to a formal legal challenge. This is going to be a long struggle, I am afraid.
Measure all energy going in and out of this "thingy" over time. This is what calorimetry tries to do. If the net energy coming out divided by the mass of the device and all the "stuff" in it, including anything added during the operation exceeds the energy density of known chemical reactions and gets into the nuclear energy density regime, then its time to say "Eureka."
After reading the news story, I predict that the word "Bullshit" is what will be said when the above test is run. Conservation of energy is a powerful debunking tool.
Given the spectacular market cap for Red Hat, buying up Corel and open sourcing their apps may make great sense. It could be a wooden stake in Microsoft's heart and would not cost RedHat too much.
The Linux install wizard stuff would be a nice bonus.
Very good. But the key is what you typed in bold, "NON-COERSIVE." That is the test that proves that free software or OSS is neither communism nor its subsuming category, fascism.
Nice try astroturfer. Sun is giving away an Office Suite that competes with 50% of M$'s business. They are doing to M$ what M$ did to Netscape. What goes around comes around.
Power corrupts, as history teaches us. Your statement that "... if you're clean, Uncle Sam leaves you alone." is absurd. The founding fathers must be rolling over in their graves over your trust of the power grubber class.
Vigilence against the statists is the only solution.
The Alpha needs Merced badly. Developers will now, because of Merced, make their software 64 bit compatible. When the software is there and 64 bit capable, then Alpha can compete.
Yes, I believe this gets to the heart of the problem. Those with $ in effect have bought the legal process. We need a legal doctrine that says that lawyers who bring lawsuits or harass others with no legal basis should be disbarred and the corporations severely punished.
Of course it won't happen, because some of that money goes to "campaign contributions."
With modern RAM and disk capacities and the dropping cost of computers, I would much rather have statically linked binaries. Too damn much time is wasted hunting down shared libraries to get something to link. There may be some exceptions to this (e.g. servers), but IMHO, shared libraries are for masochists.
I use Red Hat and will soon also use Suse on another machine. But Debian is our safety net. I think the Red Hat guys are smart enough to realize that and won't pull any stunts.
Debian is important for all of us, even if we don't use it.
This is so consistent with Microsoft's general behavior. They are masters of the art of dissembling.
With MS faking videos in its Anti-Trust trial, is anyone surprised at their use of shills to protest the characterization of MS as less than wonderful?
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The kicker is re-charging the borax with hydrogen. It will cost more energy than the charged borax produces to re-charge it.
The fuel cell is *NOT* an energy source. If you think it is then you are eligible for an Ignoble prize for reinventing the perpetual motion machine. It is an energy transducer, from chemical to electrical. What it does provide is a means of using energy in a mobile application.
If we build nuclear power plants, we could use the electricity produced to electrolize water and produce hydrogen. Thus we would have a way to increase our energy supply by using nuclear technology. Thus we could transition to a nuclear based energy economy , which would include, indirectly, mobile applications.
Equality before the law is the whole point.
Would it be possible to seed the spambots with the email addresses of politicians who support pro spam policies/laws. It would be wonderful to subject them to the same crap they shove at us.
If the power grubbing politicians get sufficiently pissed off by having their cell phones jammed with spam, maybe we can get laws passed to smash the spammers.
Nah!, the spammers will just keep up the "campaign contributions" and we will be screwed again.
Here we go again. A bunch of engineers who take measurements of some phenomena, but lack an understanding of the basic physics, make revolutionary extrapolations. This stuff is nonsense.
If you can turn off gravity, you could raise a weight expending no energy, turn off the anti-gravity and let the falling weight turn a generator. Repeat this in an endless cycle and you have all the energy you want for free.
Too bad that it violates the law of conservation of energy.
There is, however, no law of conservation of the number of fools.
We need to fight the practice of patenting the obvious and restricting our freedoms.Here are some ways to fight by funding the following activities. 1. Do legal research to find and document prior art. 2. Challenge the absurd software patents through the legal process. 3. Contact and develop relationships with main stream journalists and provide them with the fruits of your research. Be scrupulously honest in the material provided. Lead them to make a mockery of the inept Patent Office. The goal here is to create such widespread justified contempt for the Patent Office, that they will be forced to change behavior. 4. Keep the funding going. This will be a long war.
I think you are right on the money. I remember seeing a comment on the Transmeta presentation Wednesday that they were thinking of doing an SMP based system in the future.
It makes sense. If you can run at an order of magnitude lower power, you should be able to scale the performance higher per board.
Imagine a motherboard with 16 or 32 cheap CPUs running on a workstation. Yummie.
Who the F*** are you to step on my freedom to buy a supercomputer. I don't need a note from my mother to buy one and I sure don't need your permission.
The only thing fascists like you would accomplish, besides destroying our freedom, is to drive personal supercomputer production out of the USA.
Quick, somebody get a net.
Then there is the O.J. solution: # ps aux|grep wife 666 wife # kill -9 666 But seriously, don't try this at home.
You raise the key issue and I see that others responding to your post give valid examples of why this "control from outer space" is a looney idea.
Unfortunately, many of the "holier than thou" twits with "morally superior" agendas wriggle their way into power and inflict their dreams (our nightmares) on the rest of us.
I am sure that this idea will spread to this side of the pond (USA). Probably the same mental giants who gave us the small water tank toilet ( two, three, and even four flushes) will then have another insane cause to pursue.
Today some Yanks import real crapers from Canada. Maybe we will have to smuggle fake electronic controllers in the future.
The story simply says that the bacteria can clean up hazardous waste in the presence of high levels of radiation. The bacteria does nothing about reducing the radiation. One can conceive of a chemical reaction that might make it easier to retrieve the radioactive material for a less threatening disposal, but the material at the nuclear level remains unaffected.
The creation of patents was meant to protect real innovation, the type recognized as having a scientific or engineering character. Whether or not we agree with the patent concept at all, the avaricious lawyers and greedy business interests have hijacked the process for their own benefit.
The courts have failed to spot the "innovation" impostors and are largely responsible for the abuse of the intent of the patent laws. The Amazon "One Click" innovation is so obvious as to be laughable, but the notion that business model innovation is protectable under patent law is the big problem. The constitutionality of business model patents needs to be challenged.
Defeating the notion of software patents is a harder proposition. I suggest that the open source community start a web site devoted to finding prior art for claimed software patents. Using the Internet we could probably sink a lot of claims and make the notion of software patents so absurd as to make it vulnerable to a formal legal challenge. This is going to be a long struggle, I am afraid.
Measure all energy going in and out of this "thingy" over time. This is what calorimetry tries to do. If the net energy coming out divided by the mass of the device and all the "stuff" in it, including anything added during the operation exceeds the energy density of known chemical reactions and gets into the nuclear energy density regime, then its time to say "Eureka."
After reading the news story, I predict that the word "Bullshit" is what will be said when the above test is run. Conservation of energy is a powerful debunking tool.
Given the spectacular market cap for Red Hat, buying up Corel and open sourcing their apps may make great sense. It could be a wooden stake in Microsoft's heart and would not cost RedHat too much.
The Linux install wizard stuff would be a nice bonus.
The Debian thing is irrelevant in this scenario.
Very good. But the key is what you typed in bold,
"NON-COERSIVE." That is the test that proves that free software or OSS is neither communism nor its subsuming category, fascism.
Nice try astroturfer. Sun is giving away an Office Suite that competes with 50% of M$'s business. They are doing to M$ what M$ did to Netscape. What goes around comes around.
Power corrupts, as history teaches us. Your statement that " ... if you're clean, Uncle Sam leaves you alone." is absurd. The founding fathers must be rolling over in their graves over your trust of the power grubber class.
Vigilence against the statists is the only solution.
The Alpha needs Merced badly. Developers will now, because of Merced, make their software 64 bit compatible. When the software is there and 64 bit capable, then Alpha can compete.
#(3) I think is real. I saw several main stream articles on a spin-off from Los Alamos National Labs, which promised this capability very soon.
It is based upon a roll up polymer sheet with the "right" electrical properties.
I don't know if it is actually going to be available, as there are some real issues. The user needs to refill the battery with alcohol.
But it is not a scam like (1) and (2). This one should not be in the list with the others.
Yes, I believe this gets to the heart of the problem. Those with $ in effect have bought the legal process. We need a legal doctrine that says that lawyers who bring lawsuits or harass others with no legal basis should be disbarred and the corporations severely punished.
Of course it won't happen, because some of that money goes to "campaign contributions."
Political corruption devastates freedom.
With modern RAM and disk capacities and the dropping cost of computers, I would much rather have statically linked binaries. Too damn much time is wasted hunting down shared libraries to get something to link. There may be some exceptions to this (e.g. servers), but IMHO, shared libraries are for masochists.
Didn't Compaq just make a much faster math library available for the Alpha? I think it is free and downloadable.
I use Red Hat and will soon also use Suse on another machine. But Debian is our safety net. I think the Red Hat guys are smart enough to realize that and won't pull any stunts.
Debian is important for all of us, even if we don't use it.
This is so consistent with Microsoft's general behavior. They are masters of the art of dissembling.
With MS faking videos in its Anti-Trust trial, is anyone surprised at their use of shills to protest the characterization of MS as less than wonderful?
Sickening, isn't it?