The Associated Press showed Ron Paul winning by a landslide in early every pricinct. Then later, the same AP report numbers changed. But even in the first report, the totals at the bottom of the page do not coincide with what was reported pricinct by pricint. The page-bottom total showed McCain far ahead and Ron Paul trailing; but the pricinct-by-pricint tallies showed very few votes for McCain.
Whoever has the necessary access might want to update the link at Slashdot.
I might point out that the Slashdot community gernally belittled to story. I take some satisfaction in seeing that two years later the subject is featured at Google Tech Talks.
In my experience, the best email filter is Cloudmark.com, for Outlook or Outlook Express.
It doesn't use a challenge message (which I've found few people respond to, so I end up having to carefully review the trash heap).
Cloudmark is a community-policing approach.
If a spam message slips through into my inbox in Outlook Express, I simply click on a "spam" link in the tool bar (installed by Cloudmark), and the message is moved to the "Spam" folder where Cloudmark has automatically placed other items considered "spam" by others in the community. Such a designation is tagged on the sender's messages, automatically sending their messages to the "spam" folder on the other user's accounts so they never see it.
An individual participant's credibility rating is weighed in whether or not a message is actually flagged as spam for the other members of the community.
They have a 15-day free trial. In the first month I used it, only four legitimate messages made it into the "spam" folder, where I then clicked on the "unblock" button in the tool bar, to send it to the inbox. That is far less than any of the other filter services I've used. I've not had anything legitimate land there for a week. And what's nice about it is that they are all in one folder (the "spam" folder), and it is easy to visually scan down through them to make sure nothing legitimate is there. I can scan about 1000 spam messages in about a minute.
I get around 800 spam/phish/virus messages a day. Of those, probably around 15-20 spam messages make it into my inbox. I only get about one phish message every three to four days in my inbox.
One downside of this method is that all of my email (including the volumes of spam/phish/virus email) is being downloaded onto my computer, making my Norton pop up virus interception messages nearly every time Outlook Express cycles to retrieve new mail each hour. With SpamArrest, only the cleared emails were downloaded.
Overall, with Cloudmark, I spend much less time tending to the junk mail each day.
Cloudmark Desktop is the first and largest spam-fighting community in the world, which contributes to the speed and accuracy in tagging spam/phish/viruses.
This coming Saturday, I will be conducting a 1-hour, live interviw with Jefferson Tester, who headed this Geothermal panel and report. It will be broadcast live from 6:00 to 6:55 pm Eastern time.
http://pesn.com/2007/01/22/9500449_MIT_Geothermal_ Report/
Steorn to Push Tipping Point for Magnet Motor Technology - To solidify the credentials of a radical, new energy approach, Irish Company intents to select jury of 12 hard-core skeptics with high academic qualifications to review existing data, then design testing procedure, test, and publish the results.
Very nice guy. One of the most impressive groups I've encountered in my quest for legitimate free energy technlogy.
I spoke this morning by phone with Simon Hauger who is the director of the West Philadelphia High School auto program.
He said that his students have been working on this car for a couple of years, and that they ran it in the Tour de Sol and won their division in May 2005. The 50 mpg mileage was well documented there.
They were then able to enter the car into the Philadelphia Car Show, where the car was the star of the show.
The Philadelphia Inquirer ran a feature, which CBS News then noticed and came to the school to run the feature which they aired a week ago.
Hauger said that the camera crews were there for an entire day and took four hours of footage.
"You never know what they will select to include in their three minutes of air time," he said.
The coverage had generated a lot of favorable media interest. The question that gets asked over and over, he said, was "Why aren't the major automobile manufacturers doing this?"
"It kind of begs the question," he said. "This is all off-the-shelf stuff. These kids are not geniuses, and look at what they have been able to come up with on a shoestring budget."
What's under the hood is a VW turbo diesel in the back, and an AC propulsion electric motor in the front.
They're still working out some issues with the hybrid aspect of the car, and did not use that in winning the Tour de Sol.
In other words, the technology exists in presently-manufactured automobiles to achieve these kinds of efficiencies and power. Why aren't the major automobile companies doing this as a matter of course?
"We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys." -- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
It's not perpetual motion. It doesn't violate laws of physics. It does add a new rule to the textbook that will become a chapter in all electronics textbooks, and will be standard fare in all electric motors.
3.5-x the output as conventional motors with the same electrical input and size.
Build the proof of concept, you will see the phenomenon for yourself.
We will also be posting a set of plans for building a motor using this technology.
These are being posted by Michael Schuckel, an associate of Joseph Flynn, in the two weeks he has prior to possibly joining Joseph in working with Boeing on some proprietary applications of this technology.
Thanks. I've made the change to the wording to "is developing".
-- Sterling
p.s. I sure enjoy reading through the Slashdot comments. Lots of interesting, funny, stupid, brilliant, mindless, serious stuff. I hope the Sea Solar Power people take a look. It might help them in their planning and development. I'll be encouraging them to do that.
Thanks. I've added the following sentence to the article, per your comment:
"Converting diesels to run on veggie oil gained momentum in 2005, and will likely gain many more advances in 2005; but it will probably be a decade before our highways smell like French fries."
From: Eric Lerner To: Sterling D. Allan Cc:... Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 7:32 PM Subject: Re: ITER response: Tokamak has serious competitor in Focus Fusion
Sterling, you can post this:
Dr. Shimada did not read the papers carefully enough. His calculation is based on the plasma parameters that we actually achieved in our last experiments in 2001. We did not claim that those parameters are near breakeven. They were not even optimal for the current we achieved, because the radius of the anode (the inner electrode) on this device could not be changed
What the paper does demonstrate is that scaling laws that have both good theoretical foundations and experimental backing indicate that break-even parameters can be achieved with a somewhat higher current but a physically smaller device. With the parameters that we expect to reach in our next set of experiments, fusion yield per shot should be of the order of 5-20 KJ. No strange physics is needed. We are aiming for a 40-fold increase in plasmoid magnetic field and fusion yield (at fixed ion temperature) scales as B^4. Temperature will also be higher.
From: Bill Spears To: Sterling D. Allan Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 11:46 AM Subject: Re: comment please: Tokamak has serious competitor in Focus Fusion
Dear Sterling,
Sorry for the delay in replying. It takes time to give you a reasoned reply and not just shoot from the hip. It also takes time to read and understand detailed scientific reports to make sure you are not missing something. I asked Dr. Michiya Shimada, our Head of Physics Unit, to review the material and make a comment. After he and his people reviewed the background papers indicated in your article, he concluded:
"The plasma focus isn't going to be a rival of the tokamak unless there's some very strange physics nobody has seen before.
Using the plasma parameters quoted in their publication, the proton-boron fusion energy obtainable in a plasma focus discharge is estimated to be 0.6 x 10^-4 J, which is a fraction of a billionth of the electrical energy spent to create this plasma (~ 160 kJ). The point is that the plasma volume is very small (~ 6 x 10^-9 cm^3) and the discharge duration very short (~ 1 x 10^-8 s).
The dense plasma focus has been studied extensively in the early years of fusion research. They might find it interesting to compare their results with those obtained a few decades ago to see whether anything new has really been discovered here."
I hope you find that a significantly strong counter-remark to your original article to be worth publishing also this viewpoint.
Certain thing such as patents, engineering companies you can contact, etc.. go a long way toward the believability of a person's claim.
I've been had before, and I imagine I'll be had again.
But I prefer to go through live giving people the benefit of the doubt until they prove they don't deserve it. Then I really go after them to expose them for what they are.
I contacted CCP but they are spread out doing booths for expos/conferences or something like that. The receptionist said she would relay my message to someone to have them call me back.
Doesn't the extensive testing they have done by a reputable wind engineering company count for something? And 10 years of prototyping. They are not pulling their numbers out of thin air.
It's fair to state that a given technology is "not clearly thought through all the way." What science is as it emerges? It is only after somethign has been subjected to years of collective wisdom that it becomes codified.
To call it "crack pot" is a low blow that is not deserved. As much was said of the Wright Brothers, and not to the compliment of those who were so narrow minded.
The process of presenting concepts that look promising in a forum such as Slashdot is that there is a wealth of productive commentary tha comes from the braint trust of people who contribute to the dialogue. It is a fascinating process.
I don't claim to be perfect in my assessment of the viability of the technologies about which I report, but I can say it is not a bad thing to be keeping an eye out for that killer idea that will make this world a better place.
As mentioned above, this story was also covered by CBSNews and Yahoo News, among other mainstream media organs. Google News: {Cheyenne wind vertical}
Are you going to call them crackpots too?
Go grind your ax elsewhere. Open Source Energy Network is in it for the benefit of the planet, not for salacious stories. We take what we do very seriously, and at great personal sacrifice.
Note that the photos posted with the TMA story are not the most recent iterations. They are earlier designs. The latest version is 8x more effective than their first.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.chaban.ripside.com/forum/index.php?topic=18.msg45#msg45
The Associated Press showed Ron Paul winning by a landslide in early every pricinct. Then later, the same AP report numbers changed. But even in the first report, the totals at the bottom of the page do not coincide with what was reported pricinct by pricint. The page-bottom total showed McCain far ahead and Ron Paul trailing; but the pricinct-by-pricint tallies showed very few votes for McCain.
Something screwy is going on.
This story makes reference to a slashdot story about Focus Fusion I submitted a couple of years ago.
Unfortunately, the website (I'm no longer associated with it) referenced in that article is not in good shape, and that link is now dead.
The identical story, which was composed by myself, was also published at PESN.
Whoever has the necessary access might want to update the link at Slashdot.
I might point out that the Slashdot community gernally belittled to story. I take some satisfaction in seeing that two years later the subject is featured at Google Tech Talks.
Focus Fusion is the first technology we reviewed when I founded the New Energy Congress a couple of years ago. It has remained in our top 100 since that time. See our feature page: http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Focus_Fusion (second return for a Google search on 'focus fusion'.)
In my experience, the best email filter is Cloudmark.com, for Outlook or Outlook Express. It doesn't use a challenge message (which I've found few people respond to, so I end up having to carefully review the trash heap). Cloudmark is a community-policing approach. If a spam message slips through into my inbox in Outlook Express, I simply click on a "spam" link in the tool bar (installed by Cloudmark), and the message is moved to the "Spam" folder where Cloudmark has automatically placed other items considered "spam" by others in the community. Such a designation is tagged on the sender's messages, automatically sending their messages to the "spam" folder on the other user's accounts so they never see it. An individual participant's credibility rating is weighed in whether or not a message is actually flagged as spam for the other members of the community. They have a 15-day free trial. In the first month I used it, only four legitimate messages made it into the "spam" folder, where I then clicked on the "unblock" button in the tool bar, to send it to the inbox. That is far less than any of the other filter services I've used. I've not had anything legitimate land there for a week. And what's nice about it is that they are all in one folder (the "spam" folder), and it is easy to visually scan down through them to make sure nothing legitimate is there. I can scan about 1000 spam messages in about a minute. I get around 800 spam/phish/virus messages a day. Of those, probably around 15-20 spam messages make it into my inbox. I only get about one phish message every three to four days in my inbox. One downside of this method is that all of my email (including the volumes of spam/phish/virus email) is being downloaded onto my computer, making my Norton pop up virus interception messages nearly every time Outlook Express cycles to retrieve new mail each hour. With SpamArrest, only the cleared emails were downloaded. Overall, with Cloudmark, I spend much less time tending to the junk mail each day. Cloudmark Desktop is the first and largest spam-fighting community in the world, which contributes to the speed and accuracy in tagging spam/phish/viruses.
This coming Saturday, I will be conducting a 1-hour, live interviw with Jefferson Tester, who headed this Geothermal panel and report. It will be broadcast live from 6:00 to 6:55 pm Eastern time. http://pesn.com/2007/01/22/9500449_MIT_Geothermal_ Report/
Steorn to Push Tipping Point for Magnet Motor Technology - To solidify the credentials of a radical, new energy approach, Irish Company intents to select jury of 12 hard-core skeptics with high academic qualifications to review existing data, then design testing procedure, test, and publish the results.
Very nice guy. One of the most impressive groups I've encountered in my quest for legitimate free energy technlogy.
Appended as preface at http://pesn.com/2006/02/28/9600238_High_School_Soy _Sports_Car/
Feb. 30, 2006
I spoke this morning by phone with Simon Hauger who is the director of the West Philadelphia High School auto program.
He said that his students have been working on this car for a couple of years, and that they ran it in the Tour de Sol and won their division in May 2005. The 50 mpg mileage was well documented there.
They were then able to enter the car into the Philadelphia Car Show, where the car was the star of the show.
The Philadelphia Inquirer ran a feature, which CBS News then noticed and came to the school to run the feature which they aired a week ago.
Hauger said that the camera crews were there for an entire day and took four hours of footage.
"You never know what they will select to include in their three minutes of air time," he said.
The coverage had generated a lot of favorable media interest.
The question that gets asked over and over, he said, was "Why aren't the major automobile manufacturers doing this?"
"It kind of begs the question," he said. "This is all off-the-shelf stuff. These kids are not geniuses, and look at what they have been able to come up with on a shoestring budget."
What's under the hood is a VW turbo diesel in the back, and an AC propulsion electric motor in the front.
They're still working out some issues with the hybrid aspect of the car, and did not use that in winning the Tour de Sol.
In other words, the technology exists in presently-manufactured automobiles to achieve these kinds of efficiencies and power. Why aren't the major automobile companies doing this as a matter of course?
-- Sterling D. Allan
"We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys." -- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
A Child's play is roleplaying for adulthood.
He who is one step ahead is a genius. He who is two steps ahead is a crackpot.
100% in the old paradigm is based on a set of rules that don't include this new rule.
The new rule does not breach physics. It is in harmony.
By the way, SeaGate computers has licensed Flynn's technology to use in their hard drive motors.
The plans for building the basic flux demonstration unit are complete/adequate.
The patent is adequate for building a motor.
Mike did it from the patent and the flynn site -- several times. And it worked as stated.
What is pending will be a more user-friendly presention of the motor design at PESWiki.
We've got the plans for how to build the proof of concept of the Parallel Path technology here:
n n's_Parallel_Path_technology
http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Joseph_Fly
Fresh today.
It's not perpetual motion. It doesn't violate laws of physics. It does add a new rule to the textbook that will become a chapter in all electronics textbooks, and will be standard fare in all electric motors.
3.5-x the output as conventional motors with the same electrical input and size.
Build the proof of concept, you will see the phenomenon for yourself.
We will also be posting a set of plans for building a motor using this technology.
These are being posted by Michael Schuckel, an associate of Joseph Flynn, in the two weeks he has prior to possibly joining Joseph in working with Boeing on some proprietary applications of this technology.
Thanks. I've made the change to the wording to "is developing".
-- Sterling
p.s. I sure enjoy reading through the Slashdot comments. Lots of interesting, funny, stupid, brilliant, mindless, serious stuff. I hope the Sea Solar Power people take a look. It might help them in their planning and development. I'll be encouraging them to do that.
"When you're one step ahead of the crowd you're a genius. When you're two steps ahead, you're a crackpot."
-- Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, Lincoln Square Synagogue, Feb. 1998
(Arizona Jewish Post; Sept. 18, 1998; p. B-10.)
Thanks. I've added the following sentence to the article, per your comment:
9 600216_Year_in_Review_and_Forecast/page2.htm
"Converting diesels to run on veggie oil gained momentum in 2005, and will likely gain many more advances in 2005; but it will probably be a decade before our highways smell like French fries."
http://www.pureenergysystems.com/news/2006/01/01/
Also appended:
...
From: Eric Lerner
To: Sterling D. Allan
Cc:
Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 7:32 PM
Subject: Re: ITER response: Tokamak has serious competitor in Focus Fusion
Sterling, you can post this:
Dr. Shimada did not read the papers carefully enough. His calculation is based on the plasma parameters that we actually achieved in our last experiments in 2001. We did not claim that those parameters are near breakeven. They were not even optimal for the current we achieved, because the radius of the anode (the inner electrode) on this device could not be changed
What the paper does demonstrate is that scaling laws that have both good theoretical foundations and experimental backing indicate that break-even parameters can be achieved with a somewhat higher current but a physically smaller device. With the parameters that we expect to reach in our next set of experiments, fusion yield per shot should be of the order of 5-20 KJ. No strange physics is needed. We are aiming for a 40-fold increase in plasmoid magnetic field and fusion yield (at fixed ion temperature) scales as B^4. Temperature will also be higher.
Eric Lerner
Appended to story:
From: Bill Spears
To: Sterling D. Allan
Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 11:46 AM
Subject: Re: comment please: Tokamak has serious competitor in Focus Fusion
Dear Sterling,
Sorry for the delay in replying. It takes time to give you a reasoned reply and not just shoot from the hip. It also takes time to read and understand detailed scientific reports to make sure you are not missing something. I asked Dr. Michiya Shimada, our Head of Physics Unit, to review the material and make a comment. After he and his people reviewed the background papers indicated in your article, he concluded:
"The plasma focus isn't going to be a rival of the tokamak unless there's some very strange physics nobody has seen before.
Using the plasma parameters quoted in their publication, the proton-boron fusion energy obtainable in a plasma focus discharge is estimated to be 0.6 x 10^-4 J, which is a fraction of a billionth of the electrical energy spent to create this plasma (~ 160 kJ). The point is that the plasma volume is very small (~ 6 x 10^-9 cm^3) and the discharge duration very short (~ 1 x 10^-8 s).
The dense plasma focus has been studied extensively in the early years of fusion research. They might find it interesting to compare their results with those obtained a few decades ago to see whether anything new has really been discovered here."
I hope you find that a significantly strong counter-remark to your original article to be worth publishing also this viewpoint.
Best regards,
Bill
I am a trusting person until someone proves they cannot be trusted, then I nail them.
http://www.greaterthings.com/News/Tilley/fraud/
Certain thing such as patents, engineering companies you can contact, etc.. go a long way toward the believability of a person's claim.
I've been had before, and I imagine I'll be had again.
But I prefer to go through live giving people the benefit of the doubt until they prove they don't deserve it. Then I really go after them to expose them for what they are.
I contacted CCP but they are spread out doing booths for expos/conferences or something like that. The receptionist said she would relay my message to someone to have them call me back.
When someone has data support their claim, reporting those claims is not advertising, it is news.
Doesn't the extensive testing they have done by a reputable wind engineering company count for something? And 10 years of prototyping. They are not pulling their numbers out of thin air.
It's fair to state that a given technology is "not clearly thought through all the way." What science is as it emerges? It is only after somethign has been subjected to years of collective wisdom that it becomes codified.
To call it "crack pot" is a low blow that is not deserved. As much was said of the Wright Brothers, and not to the compliment of those who were so narrow minded.
The process of presenting concepts that look promising in a forum such as Slashdot is that there is a wealth of productive commentary tha comes from the braint trust of people who contribute to the dialogue. It is a fascinating process.
Thanks for the tip. I'll be including this in tomorrow's news at osen.org
bravo. refreshing.
I don't claim to be perfect in my assessment of the viability of the technologies about which I report, but I can say it is not a bad thing to be keeping an eye out for that killer idea that will make this world a better place.
As mentioned above, this story was also covered by CBSNews and Yahoo News, among other mainstream media organs. Google News: {Cheyenne wind vertical}
Are you going to call them crackpots too?
Go grind your ax elsewhere. Open Source Energy Network is in it for the benefit of the planet, not for salacious stories. We take what we do very seriously, and at great personal sacrifice.
Note that the photos posted with the TMA story are not the most recent iterations. They are earlier designs. The latest version is 8x more effective than their first.