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  1. Re:Science Fiction on Orbiting Lasers for Hydrogen Power · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Production of Hydrogen with electricity is one of the most interesting ways to "store" the energy produced by wind generated power. The problem with all natural power sources is that it isn't always there are the peak demand period. The sun shines (almost) the same at noon as 4. By producint hydrogen via electricity you can effecticely "store" that energy for peak demand periods.

  2. Re:Junkbuster will work here on Microsoft Word Documents That "Phone Home" · · Score: 1

    Actually the way to make this work/(not work?) is to set a proxy configuration in IE that DOES NOT work. Then IE will gack and not find the proxy. This means that you need to use netscape or mozilla as your regular browser.

  3. Tell'm whatever you want on Shopping Online While Protecting Your Privacy? · · Score: 4

    I have gotten into that habit of "making mistakes" with these numbers. Just make them up!
    You ask me for my SSN? Sure its 554089652 the clerk writes it down everyone is happy. My phone number 342-980567 Yeah it's a little weird I have a cell phone... They won't tell me what they want with it so I don't feel the need to be truthfull with them either. Nobody makes you PROVE these random numbers do they? They depend on stupidity and truthfulness. Give them neither.

    The best piece of misinformation holds a kernel of truth. If you want to be totaly duplicidous just interchange some of the real numbers. Switch a couple of digits now and agian.

    -Kensail

  4. Re:I heard there was a way to minimze tornados... on Cities Influence Their Own Weather · · Score: 1

    Although inital conditions are important for the initiation of tornadic thunderstorms. Most of the energy for these storms comes from an upper atmosphereic condition that is set up due to TERRAIN, not soil color or extra lakes or roads, Warm moist air moves out of the gulf of mexico Northward while warm dry air flows NE from the Mexican Plateu. This creates a atmospheric setup with southerly wet air under westerly warm dry air. This is inherently unstable. When the air on the ground is warmed by the sun it rises to the level of the inversion. When it is warmed significanlty it can "punch" through the inversion and release enery by condenstation all the way to 200mb producing a thunderstorm. This thunder storm does not in itself produce a tornado, but rather the turning of the winds from SE/SSE to W/NW creates a slowly spinning mass. Then rapidly rising air can accelerate this mass into a tornadic thunderstorm, through conservation of angular momentum and other forces (specifically the rotation of horizontal vorticity into the vertical). For more explaination see http:// www.nssl.noaa.gov As you can see. Inital conditons at the ground are only a minor consideration in the process. Important yes the whole story not even close. Most of the process is an accumulation of many other things that occur very far away.

  5. Re:Bad for the school on Four Arrested For Internet 'Theft' At OSU · · Score: 1

    What is really bad for the school is that they actually admitted that some of the dorms do not have AIR CONDITIONING?!? Ah, this is Oklahoma here guys I live next to OU in Norman, Oklahoma and let me tell you it gets DAMN HOT around here. I turned on the AC today for about an hour or so (hit 79 in the house). No cable TVV, No A/C, and now no ethernet. Send out the peasents with torches.... -kensail