A few observations:
There are thousands of vessels in the danger zone at any given time, several times that many heading into or out of it as well. That would require perhaps over a hundred thousand marines, mercenaries, whatever, to be aboard ships from port to port to provide coverage for each one that passes through the area.
Merchant vessels are prohibited by international treaty from being armed.
So far, the pirates have not executed any hostages (except when a rescue is taking place). If the force equation tilts upward, they may begin to kill instead of capture.
Untrained seamen are not likely to provide coordinated, effective resistance with light weapons.
Cost/benefit analysis has thus far not driven the shippers to change the situation. Why would a government assume the huge cost of effectively protecting an entire region when only a small percentage of ships traversing it are under its flag?
No easy answers here.
BAYTOWN, TX, Jul 14, 2008 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) -- Sustainable Power Corp.
(PINKSHEETS: SSTP) is pleased to announce today a Strategic Alliance has been
formed with Envirocompanies, Inc., a Nederland, TX based company, to purchase
and distribute up to 140 million gallons a day of Sustainable Power's
revolutionary biocrude. Envirocompanies, Inc. is a 100% American owned logistics
company, dedicated to improving the energy industry by making it green and
environmentally friendly.
"We are looking forward to working with SSTP under our Strategic Alliance to
produce value added products to be introduced to the petroleum industry. We will
begin converting their revolutionary biocrude into BG100 biogas, jet fuel,
marine fuel and diesel. We will refine, blend and assimilate the end products to
our large, diverse existing client base. Envirocompanies, Inc. is fully licensed
in the fuel and chemical industry in the state of Texas. We are anxiously
working to reduce and help eliminate the dependency of foreign oil," stated
Robert Romero, President and CEO of Envirocompanies, Inc.
Seven very successful companies make up "Envirocompanies, Inc.": Enviro
Solutions, Enviro Waste Solutions, Petrofuels Quality Marketing, Petroleum
Express, Webb Communications, Bayou Construction and High Island Petro Chemical.
For more information, please visit http://www.envirocompanies.com/
-- Petrofuels Quality Marketing is the flagship company of the
Envirocompanies Group. Petrofuels specializes in the gathering and
marketing of various hydrocarbon and petrochemical streams, heavy and light
fuel oil cutters, marine fuel cutters and feed stocks. Petrofuels may also
purchase co-products or by-products from various manufacturing processes.
-- High Island Petrochemical, LLC operates an atmospheric distillation
process which separates light fractions from heavy fractions through heat
and various distillation processes. After separation, each fraction
stream is marketed into the respective area for which that product is
viable.
-- Enviro Solutions' management has been in the hydrocarbon recycling
and related businesses since 1982. Its experience in handling waste and
recyclable streams will ensure its customers their by-products are handled
correctly.
-- Bayou Construction & Excavation, LLC is a rapidly growing and very
aggressive company that caters to the refining, petrochemical, pipeline,
transportation and liquid natural gas industries, as well as private and
commercial property owners.
-- Petroleum Express treats each customer as if they were its ONLY
customer. They specialize in chemical, petrochemical, waste water, lube
oils, and used oil transportation services. They are a bulk liquid contract
carrier servicing the continental US. They maintain an updated fleet of
Freightliner trucks and make sure they meet all industry standards.
John Rivera, CEO of Sustainable Power Corp., stated: "With today's Strategic
Alliance we have closed the circle for total self sufficiency in the energy
market. We are not dependent on any one feed stock to manufacture, produce,
refine and sell our Vetroleum(TM) biocrude family of green energy products. We
can now concentrate on the production of our Vetroleum(TM) biocrude and let the
experts with more than 30 years' experience, Envirocompanies, Inc., complete the
circle and bring up to 140 million gallons per day to market. I believe that
with the expertise of the Romero Family and Envirocompanies, Inc. we can be a
major contributor to our goals of energy independence for the America we love."
About Envirocompanies, Inc.
Envirocompanies.com is provided to our current and future clients to showcase
the abilities, products, and services of seven very successful companies. All of
our companies are built on the belief that hard work, honesty, and a can do
attitude can accomplish anything. We strive to be the best at what we do, and it
shows in everything we provi
Also, recent test was done producing aviation fuel mixture. Even if these products were only mixed with existing fuels, any reduction in petroleum consumption would be a good thing.
You can call me stupid, but I invested in this company months ago. It's a pink sheet stock, about $.04/share right now. Symbol is SSTP. Upside is huge, downside is small. Process looks good; check out videos, read up on recent partnerships and development deals. Company website is http://www.sustainablepower.com/
Things are starting to pop, and every now and then someone actually manages to start something big from something small (HP, Apple, Evilsoft, etc.). Don't be a player hater.
If one concedes that in an isolated, perfect system, a perpetual motion machine could be constructed (with magnets, or gravity, or whatever method you choose), the point is that you cannot withdraw any energy from the system, or it will fail.
"Free" energy has to come from somewhere. It cannot be created or destroyed.
Somehow I bet no one reads this.
The idea that one could mount a gravity generator on "top" of a ship, and use the generator to pull the ship away from the ground is patently absurd. Not only would the ship be pulled toward the generator, but so would the ground. You would actually increase the attraction of the two masses (ship and ground). Also, this would simply increase the net mass of the ship with generator by the mass of the generator. Essentially, you'd just be making the ship act more massively, not less.
Now, true antigravity wavicles would (and I believe this is what the article is addressing) potentially be usable to cancel out the nominal gravity in an area or for an object. Perhaps one could eventually discover/create an anti-gravitational force that would push masses apart instead of pulling them together. It is odd that the only fundamental force that seems to have no real-world negative counterpart is gravity.
Oh well, what do I know anyway?
Not super-rats; rats that get fat and won't die from heart attacks. Hardly a super-power.
The self-assembling nature of these nanopeptides is the most interesting aspect of this. It should reduce or eliminate the need for repeat administrations.
Also, there is likely no downside from this type of treatment; it shouldn't prevent any healing or advantageous adaptation.
Before anyone reminds me, yes, this is a first step, and we're at least several years from human use. And yes, it's unlikely that this will be one of the few successes out of the many trials. But it's still good research!
Yes, the original definition (the first one, in your link) arose from the Roman practice of punishing unsuccessful legions by killing one man in ten. It has been sloppily used, much more recently, to generally suggest massive casualties within a population. I personally think the modern usage sucks, since it deviates from the original by so much, and there are plenty of other good words out there that mean the same thing, only more correctly: slaughtered, obliterated, massacred, destroyed, wiped out, annihilated, etc.
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A few observations: There are thousands of vessels in the danger zone at any given time, several times that many heading into or out of it as well. That would require perhaps over a hundred thousand marines, mercenaries, whatever, to be aboard ships from port to port to provide coverage for each one that passes through the area. Merchant vessels are prohibited by international treaty from being armed. So far, the pirates have not executed any hostages (except when a rescue is taking place). If the force equation tilts upward, they may begin to kill instead of capture. Untrained seamen are not likely to provide coordinated, effective resistance with light weapons. Cost/benefit analysis has thus far not driven the shippers to change the situation. Why would a government assume the huge cost of effectively protecting an entire region when only a small percentage of ships traversing it are under its flag? No easy answers here.
Actually, because of the way traffic spaces itself at higher speeds, more cars can travel more (total) miles in a given period at lower speeds...
BAYTOWN, TX, Jul 14, 2008 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) -- Sustainable Power Corp. (PINKSHEETS: SSTP) is pleased to announce today a Strategic Alliance has been formed with Envirocompanies, Inc., a Nederland, TX based company, to purchase and distribute up to 140 million gallons a day of Sustainable Power's revolutionary biocrude. Envirocompanies, Inc. is a 100% American owned logistics company, dedicated to improving the energy industry by making it green and environmentally friendly. "We are looking forward to working with SSTP under our Strategic Alliance to produce value added products to be introduced to the petroleum industry. We will begin converting their revolutionary biocrude into BG100 biogas, jet fuel, marine fuel and diesel. We will refine, blend and assimilate the end products to our large, diverse existing client base. Envirocompanies, Inc. is fully licensed in the fuel and chemical industry in the state of Texas. We are anxiously working to reduce and help eliminate the dependency of foreign oil," stated Robert Romero, President and CEO of Envirocompanies, Inc. Seven very successful companies make up "Envirocompanies, Inc.": Enviro Solutions, Enviro Waste Solutions, Petrofuels Quality Marketing, Petroleum Express, Webb Communications, Bayou Construction and High Island Petro Chemical. For more information, please visit http://www.envirocompanies.com/ -- Petrofuels Quality Marketing is the flagship company of the Envirocompanies Group. Petrofuels specializes in the gathering and marketing of various hydrocarbon and petrochemical streams, heavy and light fuel oil cutters, marine fuel cutters and feed stocks. Petrofuels may also purchase co-products or by-products from various manufacturing processes. -- High Island Petrochemical, LLC operates an atmospheric distillation process which separates light fractions from heavy fractions through heat and various distillation processes. After separation, each fraction stream is marketed into the respective area for which that product is viable. -- Enviro Solutions' management has been in the hydrocarbon recycling and related businesses since 1982. Its experience in handling waste and recyclable streams will ensure its customers their by-products are handled correctly. -- Bayou Construction & Excavation, LLC is a rapidly growing and very aggressive company that caters to the refining, petrochemical, pipeline, transportation and liquid natural gas industries, as well as private and commercial property owners. -- Petroleum Express treats each customer as if they were its ONLY customer. They specialize in chemical, petrochemical, waste water, lube oils, and used oil transportation services. They are a bulk liquid contract carrier servicing the continental US. They maintain an updated fleet of Freightliner trucks and make sure they meet all industry standards. John Rivera, CEO of Sustainable Power Corp., stated: "With today's Strategic Alliance we have closed the circle for total self sufficiency in the energy market. We are not dependent on any one feed stock to manufacture, produce, refine and sell our Vetroleum(TM) biocrude family of green energy products. We can now concentrate on the production of our Vetroleum(TM) biocrude and let the experts with more than 30 years' experience, Envirocompanies, Inc., complete the circle and bring up to 140 million gallons per day to market. I believe that with the expertise of the Romero Family and Envirocompanies, Inc. we can be a major contributor to our goals of energy independence for the America we love." About Envirocompanies, Inc. Envirocompanies.com is provided to our current and future clients to showcase the abilities, products, and services of seven very successful companies. All of our companies are built on the belief that hard work, honesty, and a can do attitude can accomplish anything. We strive to be the best at what we do, and it shows in everything we provi
Also, recent test was done producing aviation fuel mixture. Even if these products were only mixed with existing fuels, any reduction in petroleum consumption would be a good thing.
You can call me stupid, but I invested in this company months ago. It's a pink sheet stock, about $.04/share right now. Symbol is SSTP. Upside is huge, downside is small. Process looks good; check out videos, read up on recent partnerships and development deals. Company website is http://www.sustainablepower.com/ Things are starting to pop, and every now and then someone actually manages to start something big from something small (HP, Apple, Evilsoft, etc.). Don't be a player hater.
If one concedes that in an isolated, perfect system, a perpetual motion machine could be constructed (with magnets, or gravity, or whatever method you choose), the point is that you cannot withdraw any energy from the system, or it will fail. "Free" energy has to come from somewhere. It cannot be created or destroyed. Somehow I bet no one reads this.
Yeah, no kidding...
The idea that one could mount a gravity generator on "top" of a ship, and use the generator to pull the ship away from the ground is patently absurd. Not only would the ship be pulled toward the generator, but so would the ground. You would actually increase the attraction of the two masses (ship and ground). Also, this would simply increase the net mass of the ship with generator by the mass of the generator. Essentially, you'd just be making the ship act more massively, not less. Now, true antigravity wavicles would (and I believe this is what the article is addressing) potentially be usable to cancel out the nominal gravity in an area or for an object. Perhaps one could eventually discover/create an anti-gravitational force that would push masses apart instead of pulling them together. It is odd that the only fundamental force that seems to have no real-world negative counterpart is gravity. Oh well, what do I know anyway?
Not super-rats; rats that get fat and won't die from heart attacks. Hardly a super-power. The self-assembling nature of these nanopeptides is the most interesting aspect of this. It should reduce or eliminate the need for repeat administrations. Also, there is likely no downside from this type of treatment; it shouldn't prevent any healing or advantageous adaptation. Before anyone reminds me, yes, this is a first step, and we're at least several years from human use. And yes, it's unlikely that this will be one of the few successes out of the many trials. But it's still good research!
Yes, the original definition (the first one, in your link) arose from the Roman practice of punishing unsuccessful legions by killing one man in ten. It has been sloppily used, much more recently, to generally suggest massive casualties within a population. I personally think the modern usage sucks, since it deviates from the original by so much, and there are plenty of other good words out there that mean the same thing, only more correctly: slaughtered, obliterated, massacred, destroyed, wiped out, annihilated, etc.