TFA states that they want to use this H2 generator in large, presumably diesel engines. If the H2 is mixed in with the air, this may cause premature detonation on the compression stroke. This is bad; ask your ex-girlfriend about it. I don't see how they could mix the H2 in with the diesel fuel, either, as it still has to be compressed to very high pressures by the injection pumps.
I remember reading about the variable star Eta Carinae, which has varied greatly in brightness over the years. It varies because it's a huge, unstable star that has already blown off a big gas nebula. It's expected to go supernova eventually. One scientist claims that it's close enough to bathe the earth in so much gamma radiation that the nitrogen in the upper atmosphere turns into NOx, and the sky becomes opaque. Like in the Matrix. Google for pix of thy Doom.
It takes a bit of googling, but a human exhales ablout 800 lbs of CO2 a year. This is negligible compared to the output of coal-burning power plants. Estimates were made from an analysis of carbon content of foods, and from exhaled CO2 measurements
I've read the two papers linked in your post, and I can't see how you gave either a careful reading.
If you read the entire 24-page nanotech paper with any care at all, it's clear that completely unregulated nano research is dismissed as politically untenable and rash, given the plausible dangers of a new and powerful technology. He suggests that a Joy-ish ban of nano research, or hiding nanotech in a military skunkworks environment is unworkable because it can be conducted in someone's basement-- it doesn't require enormous funds or industrial infrastructure. The paper seems to feel the best course is similar to the restrictions placed on genetic engineering by researchers themselves at the Asilomar conferences.
It also seems that you don't know what a law review article is, such as the second link. The "right to revolution" ideas are not Reynold's personal opinion, but are contained in the clear language of the Tennesee state constitution, which he is citing. Tennesee is not alone in this; several other states have similar language in their constitutions. A law review article explores what case law and respected legal commentary say about such "right to revolution" clauses.
To describe Reynolds as a "libertarian nutjob" is a real slander against a thoughtful, pragmatic commentator. I encourage/. readers to get the full text of the above links, and judge for themselves who the "nutjobs" are. While you're at it, check out Reynold's other articles on such topics as the DMCA and "Homeland Security". Instapundit.com is his weblog.
I doubt that many ISPs have any way, right now, of monitoring actual web pages visited. We supply dns lookup for our customers, so we can see who's looking for www.goatsie.a.nl, but we can't stop you from spreading your dns requests among multiple servers. Once you have the IP address resolved for a site, actual traffic is handled by the powerful 25-MHz '486 in the Lucent Portmaster, so it couldn't log anything.
Resistance to this logging by the public could be by replacing the bursty occasional traffic caused by web surfers with a continuous stream of random page fetches, from which you extract the one you're really looking for. This would hide what you're really after, but would bring the Internet to its knees. Sort of like a DOS attack on the entire network. I think the power that x million users could wield can thwart surveillance.
See the papers on timedomain.com. Their UWB scheme uses.5 nanosec pulses with a gaussian waveform that spreads the signal very thinly and evenly over a very large spectrum. A 100 kbit/s receiver will listen for these pulses at a sequence of 1 ns wide windows.
The window sequence is pseudorandom, with something over 100k windows distributed over 1 sec. The hard part of the technology comes from : very wideband antennas syncing ghz oscillators at transmitter and rcvr precise timing (they have a dedicated chip) establishing the sequence with multiple receivers
In reading the article, I noticed that the bacteria Venter was looking at turned CO2 into methane. My understanding is that CH4 is a more powerful greenhouse gas than CO2. If the methane is collected, rather than being vented into the atmosphere, what do we do with it? Burn it, and get the same amount of CO2 back?
If the merger fails, Fiorina, and several HP and
Compaq execs will get Golden Parachutes. These
execs have been working with each other in a "Clean Room", where they have access to the business details of both companies. If the merger fails, they know too much proprietary info
about the other company to go back to being competitors. They'll have to resign, sign a non-
compete agreement for X years, and pull the Golden Ripcord.
I hired on at HP in the late 70's, and it was emphasized to me that as a bottom-level production hire, I was only 5 vertical promotions from being CEO, and I knew the names of 5 people directly above me. When I left HP in the early 90's, there were 11 steps above me,
and the names were constantly changing. HP was changing from an engineer's company to an MBA's company, and the the sense of sheer fun in developing new products was going away. The best and most creative engineers I knew there went away to places like pixar and Apple.
Maybe this had to happen, as most engineers can't direct multi-billion dollar corporations. One HP manager I still see sometimes is very positive about Carly, saying she's sharp as a whip and sees right through any bs from engineering managers. Still, all of the long-term hp-ites I talk to have regretted the passing of the old hp for several years now.
Since geosynchronous satellites are over the equator, I think they'll be in the dark for several hours a day. Some of the craters near the moon's poles are believed to get sunlight continuously, but the power transmitting antennas would have to be re-aimed, I think. The
places with continuous, sunlit, stable orbits are
the L-5 points. I don't think any of this stuff is practical, or economic, for the production of domestic energy. They are, however, the "killer apps" if we had to prevent another Ice Age.
This can be compared with IBM's punch-card business with Nazi Germany. IBM's card tabulators were essential to the Reich's citizen catalogs that made the ensuing roundups so effective. Holocaust survivors are now suing IBM for its involvement. There's a well- researched book, "IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation" recently
published about this.
Is IBM:Hermann Goering as Oracle:John Ashcroft?
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TFA states that they want to use this H2 generator in large, presumably diesel engines. If the H2 is mixed in with the air, this may cause premature detonation on the compression stroke. This is bad; ask your ex-girlfriend about it.
I don't see how they could mix the H2 in with the diesel fuel, either, as it still has to be compressed to very high pressures by the injection pumps.
I remember reading about the variable star Eta Carinae, which has varied greatly in brightness over the years. It varies because it's a huge, unstable star that has already blown off a big gas nebula. It's expected to go supernova eventually. One scientist claims that it's close enough to bathe the earth in so much gamma radiation that the nitrogen in the upper atmosphere turns into NOx, and the sky becomes opaque. Like in the Matrix.
Google for pix of thy Doom.
It takes a bit of googling, but a human exhales ablout 800 lbs of CO2 a year. This is negligible compared to the output of coal-burning power plants.
Estimates were made from an analysis of carbon content of foods, and from exhaled CO2 measurements
I've read the two papers linked in your post, and I can't see how you gave either a careful reading. /. readers to get the full text of the above links, and judge for themselves who the "nutjobs" are. While you're at it, check out Reynold's other articles on such topics as the DMCA and "Homeland Security". Instapundit.com is his weblog.
If you read the entire 24-page nanotech paper with any care at all, it's clear that completely unregulated nano research is dismissed as politically untenable and rash, given the plausible dangers of a new and powerful technology. He suggests that a Joy-ish ban of nano research, or hiding nanotech in a military skunkworks environment is unworkable because it can be conducted in someone's basement-- it doesn't require enormous funds or industrial infrastructure. The paper seems to feel the best course is similar to the restrictions placed on genetic engineering by researchers themselves at the Asilomar conferences.
It also seems that you don't know what a law review article is, such as the second link. The "right to revolution" ideas are not Reynold's personal opinion, but are contained in the clear language of the Tennesee state constitution, which he is citing. Tennesee is not alone in this; several other states have similar language in their constitutions. A law review article explores what case law and respected legal commentary say about such "right to revolution" clauses.
To describe Reynolds as a "libertarian nutjob" is a real slander against a thoughtful, pragmatic commentator. I encourage
I doubt that many ISPs have any way, right now, of monitoring actual
web pages visited. We supply dns lookup for our customers, so we can
see who's looking for www.goatsie.a.nl, but we can't stop you from
spreading your dns requests among multiple servers. Once you have the
IP address resolved for a site, actual traffic is handled by the powerful
25-MHz '486 in the Lucent Portmaster, so it couldn't log anything.
Resistance to this logging by the public could be by replacing the bursty
occasional traffic caused by web surfers with a continuous stream of random
page fetches, from which you extract the one you're really looking for.
This would hide what you're really after, but would bring the Internet to
its knees. Sort of like a DOS attack on the entire network. I think the
power that x million users could wield can thwart surveillance.
See the papers on timedomain.com. .5 nanosec pulses with a
Their UWB scheme uses
gaussian waveform that spreads the signal very
thinly and evenly over a very large spectrum.
A 100 kbit/s receiver will listen for these pulses at a sequence of 1 ns wide windows.
The window sequence is pseudorandom, with something over 100k windows distributed over 1 sec. The
hard part of the technology comes from :
very wideband antennas
syncing ghz oscillators at transmitter and rcvr
precise timing (they have a dedicated chip)
establishing the sequence with multiple receivers
In reading the article, I noticed that the
bacteria Venter was looking at turned CO2 into
methane. My understanding is that CH4 is a more
powerful greenhouse gas than CO2. If the methane
is collected, rather than being vented into the
atmosphere, what do we do with it? Burn it, and
get the same amount of CO2 back?
If the merger fails, Fiorina, and several HP and
Compaq execs will get Golden Parachutes. These
execs have been working with each other in a "Clean Room", where they have access to the business details of both companies. If the merger fails, they know too much proprietary info
about the other company to go back to being competitors. They'll have to resign, sign a non-
compete agreement for X years, and pull the Golden Ripcord.
I hired on at HP in the late 70's, and it was emphasized to me that as a bottom-level production hire, I was only 5 vertical promotions from being CEO, and I knew the names of 5 people directly above me. When I left HP in the early 90's, there were 11 steps above me,
and the names were constantly changing. HP was changing from an engineer's company to an MBA's company, and the the sense of sheer fun in developing new products was going away. The best and most creative engineers I knew there went away to places like pixar and Apple.
Maybe this had to happen, as most engineers can't direct multi-billion dollar corporations. One HP manager I still see sometimes is very positive about Carly, saying she's sharp as a whip and sees right through any bs from engineering managers. Still, all of the long-term hp-ites I talk to have regretted the passing of the old hp for several years now.
Since geosynchronous satellites are over the equator, I think they'll be in the dark for several hours a day. Some of the craters near the moon's poles are believed to get sunlight continuously, but the power transmitting antennas would have to be re-aimed, I think. The
places with continuous, sunlit, stable orbits are
the L-5 points. I don't think any of this stuff is practical, or economic, for the production of domestic energy. They are, however, the "killer apps" if we had to prevent another Ice Age.
This can be compared with IBM's punch-card business with Nazi Germany. IBM's card tabulators were essential to the Reich's citizen catalogs that made the ensuing roundups so effective. Holocaust survivors are now suing IBM for its involvement. There's a well- researched book, "IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation" recently
published about this.
Is IBM:Hermann Goering as Oracle:John Ashcroft?