What a lousy initial post regarding sea level causing this little disputed bump to disappear. It is such an outrageous lie as is the associated image.
Sea levels have been rising slowly and steadily for well over a century. Check out http://www.skepticalscience.com/Visual-depictions-of-Sea-Level-Rise.html for an excellent very recent article with a chart from back to 1870 along with very recent highly accurate data. Pretty minimal changes in past 140 years. At least seven author/sources are noted. Even the modest rate of change in continued rise since the 40's is well within natural variability in eon scale cycles. In the past 20 years the sea level has fallen in some areas!
deadmongrel and PhunkySchtuff have really answered your question the best of all.
I can't add much to it except for these comments. denyhosts works great and we use a threshold of 1 failure on unknown logins and only 3 failures on known logins. It takes attention to detail as a remote user but it really works well. We set the thing to completely shut out someone who pulls that SSH crap on us, assuming that they are a bad buy. By extension, we use our firewall to log things that shouldn't be happening and tell us about the source IP. Again we assume they are bad guys (or gurls) and simply shut em out forever. Same thing goes for POP3 scans, etc. Hey, there are only a few billion possibilities (in IP4), knock em down and coordinate your data with others to save them time.
I concluded a year ago that this was a lot of smoke and mirrors, mostly depending on the obvious square function of the formula for energy storage vs. voltage. However, several people who actually have worked with pure barium titanate note it's highly non-linear characteristics, i.e. its dielectric constant drops dramatically as the field gradient increases, an effect also known as dielectric saturation. It gets right down to atomic level physics.
The reduction in capacitance at stated voltages is so great that the claims appear to be overstated by a factor of 100 or so! To make this work they are claiming they have overcome the fundamental limitations of this material. The patent spells out part of it but does not prove it actually works.
Anatoly Moskalev gave some great analysis in this link:
http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=46 (search for "About EEStore supercapacitor hype")
If correct, these guys are still using non-proven hype to attract capital. If any single investor has not had the device actually proven for both energy density and voltage, they are taking a huge, huge risk.
Personally, I hope we are all wrong and this thing actually works. It would be a HUGE advance. However, I'm not investing nor holding my breath...
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What a lousy initial post regarding sea level causing this little disputed bump to disappear. It is such an outrageous lie as is the associated image. Sea levels have been rising slowly and steadily for well over a century. Check out http://www.skepticalscience.com/Visual-depictions-of-Sea-Level-Rise.html for an excellent very recent article with a chart from back to 1870 along with very recent highly accurate data. Pretty minimal changes in past 140 years. At least seven author/sources are noted. Even the modest rate of change in continued rise since the 40's is well within natural variability in eon scale cycles. In the past 20 years the sea level has fallen in some areas!
During the dispute time frame, the sea level rose a bit less than 3 inches. Had this occurred in the late 1800's the sea level would have risen a bit more than 2 inches.
See: http://www.skepticalscience.com/images/sea-level-tidal-satellite.jpg for the first chart.
deadmongrel and PhunkySchtuff have really answered your question the best of all.
I can't add much to it except for these comments. denyhosts works great and we use a threshold of 1 failure on unknown logins and only 3 failures on known logins. It takes attention to detail as a remote user but it really works well. We set the thing to completely shut out someone who pulls that SSH crap on us, assuming that they are a bad buy. By extension, we use our firewall to log things that shouldn't be happening and tell us about the source IP. Again we assume they are bad guys (or gurls) and simply shut em out forever. Same thing goes for POP3 scans, etc. Hey, there are only a few billion possibilities (in IP4), knock em down and coordinate your data with others to save them time.
I concluded a year ago that this was a lot of smoke and mirrors, mostly depending on the obvious square function of the formula for energy storage vs. voltage. However, several people who actually have worked with pure barium titanate note it's highly non-linear characteristics, i.e. its dielectric constant drops dramatically as the field gradient increases, an effect also known as dielectric saturation. It gets right down to atomic level physics. The reduction in capacitance at stated voltages is so great that the claims appear to be overstated by a factor of 100 or so! To make this work they are claiming they have overcome the fundamental limitations of this material. The patent spells out part of it but does not prove it actually works. Anatoly Moskalev gave some great analysis in this link: http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=46 (search for "About EEStore supercapacitor hype") If correct, these guys are still using non-proven hype to attract capital. If any single investor has not had the device actually proven for both energy density and voltage, they are taking a huge, huge risk. Personally, I hope we are all wrong and this thing actually works. It would be a HUGE advance. However, I'm not investing nor holding my breath...