Hi folks,
My imagination says there will be future form of computer made up of fluid cooled blocks clamped to seal in slide in 'boards'. One would either have thermally controlled baffles to divide the flow, or rigid ones in a cheaper verions. I suspect a fine fluid for the job would be silicone oils. It would be great to see equipment smaller and more heat tolerant to abusive environments, among other things; as more equipment keeps going into the field in the endeavor to serve.
Sincerely, Gregory D. MELLOTT
"The greatest among you is the servant of all. Now remember that robot. (They won't make the grade either.)"
I understand the digital signal can possible narrow the bandwidth required 'some'. Yet Why don't they let the Stations use the remainder also? I suspect they might be afraid that they may try to compete with the other communication service providers for supplying other supplemental information and entertainment and perhaps even two way communications. I have noted that the cell phone frequency is not a healthy one [brain tumors are a possible concern]. It probably was an analog device I was using, none the less, it was making my head feel odd on the side I was holding it. I have no real love for them anymore.
As for the Government and financial system we are in; I am of the notion that the only wise way to go is to get back the original Constitution's potential for diversity in the executive branch. [We used to have two votes. It wasn't long before the political parties ground that to a halt.] Yet, since in the end the full nature of reality rules over us all; we need a system that is applied just as rigorously upon those that can put the hand of power over many, as it is applied to common science endeavors and common law. No doubt only one can be the boss. Yet the potential to check the dominate entity in the courts, at the very least, is not an insignificant influence. Likewise, the ability to sequester the executive branch where security concerns arise is understandable. Yet the facts should always eventually come out. They are sworn to service the people, not the other way around.
As far as the financial system goes, we are not well induced to consider the balance of things very well. I am of the view that there need to be two kinds of money. 1) Resource money, you cannot function without the resource base. 2) Cultivation money, one can work in the realm of IOUs with it, and not run into a wall. It might also help the people consider the balance of the various factors need to have a better standard of living. Also, given that there is a concern to reach the goal of more equitable availability of resources; business will be focused on cultivating the individuals to have their resources go through their system of cultivation. Ultimately everyone is poor where they cannot fully express the nature of the benefit they could provide to the whole. We just need a more balanced way to get there. I suspect, there would develop "instutions" of views and processes that would call out their benefits, and their competitor would point out the weaknesses. At least we might be better informed. And with MUCH computerized recording, it might even be possible to have the value of the cultivation moneys change as the processes fully played out their impacts and benefits. [Even failures have some value if they are recorded and used to prevent another.] At least it would keep everyone thinking more clearly, and precisely, in harmony with the reality that rules over us all; to which, perhaps, we owe the most.
Sincerely,
Gregory D. MELLOTT
I tend to think rather similarly. Actually doing things in more that one unit of measure can have its advantages. It allows one to check calculation processes, including a fumbling computer program. NASA lost one Mars probe to calculation errors when trying to get it into a valid orbit. The said the the wrong units were used. If they had been using both in relative lock step; the extra calculating that would have been done would show that the results were errant.
As far as tools go, I personally lean to the english set as there are usually fewer of them to carry around. But if someone is out to make something YOU can't fix; they make it need a tool that YOU don't have, in any case.
I cannot verify all the details, yet they seem valid in general. The amounts you speak of I'm sure of. (NASA will surely get a better handle on it with more and more of their satellites measuring things). The point I wish to assist here is that, there are many sources of energy not being used, that probably would not be that hard to use. The roiling ocean for one thing. Just a six foot wave has well over 1000 Watts of power for every foot of its length (when worked acrossed one wave length). From what I hear 20-30 foot waves in storms are not uncommon. And the North Pacific is noted as being storm breeding territory. That puts Alaska's Aleutian Islands right in the middle of it, as I figure it. During WWII the made ships out of concrete. Sounds like the ideal way to go to make a power generation system to me. (If one had the Moon's wealth of titantium for rebar they might have lasted longer than they did.) Limestone for concrete is very common. One might even solidify piles of sand in the desert with salt, by purifying sea water and make mounds that peak with an limestone oven to make concrete.
Korea and Alaska have 20 foot tides. Thats up and down then up in 12 hours, in general. I can imagine using a long piece of drill steel attached to paddles and floats and periodically anchored to the bottom of a tidal basins inlet and a sheet likewise anchored that restricts the flow to the top few feet by being tied to floats. A 2' head of water would give about 150 lbs of pressure on a paddle for every foot of its length, as I figure it. And if one needs to worry about animal getting through, I'm sure with some care and time, there would be ways to do that also. Using the same sheet anchoring process, one might make something similar to the gates in the Panama canal, where even a whale could use it.
Geothermal is no joke either, I hear that Mammoth Lake in California, may be heading for becoming a volcanoe again. Then its not a matter of how much heat, its just a matter of how and when. Shoot, with the way video displays are going, some people may not note the difference if they lived undergound, anyway. Growing food under LED lighting may even be easier, once one gets the space for it. And making diamond for drilling tunnels, etc., is no mean feat anymore either.
From what I've gathered, that statement is quite valid as far as we can functional grasp around it presently. Part of what may cause some of the significant swings may involve the methane ice that is under ocean sediment and in permafrost. Should temperatures rise much, it will get released, and there is millions of tons of it as I understand it. Obviously, the effect is to greatly enhance the thermal blanketing effect of CO2.
I cannot see precise how it could be done presently. Yet should automation, in space particularly, take a strong foot hold, mining and process of the Moon's resources may allow the creation of a method to limit or enhance the amount of sunshine reaching the earth. I suspect the L2 LaGrange point, where one could potentially be in gravitaional balance between the earth and sun may be a place of interest. Or polar orbiting mirrors that would arc nearly straight up in the sky at sunrise or sunset could enhance the sun's input.
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Hi folks,
My imagination says there will be future form of computer made up of fluid cooled blocks clamped to seal in slide in 'boards'. One would either have thermally controlled baffles to divide the flow, or rigid ones in a cheaper verions. I suspect a fine fluid for the job would be silicone oils. It would be great to see equipment smaller and more heat tolerant to abusive environments, among other things; as more equipment keeps going into the field in the endeavor to serve.
Sincerely, Gregory D. MELLOTT
"The greatest among you is the servant of all. Now remember that robot. (They won't make the grade either.)"
I understand the digital signal can possible narrow the bandwidth required 'some'. Yet Why don't they let the Stations use the remainder also? I suspect they might be afraid that they may try to compete with the other communication service providers for supplying other supplemental information and entertainment and perhaps even two way communications. I have noted that the cell phone frequency is not a healthy one [brain tumors are a possible concern]. It probably was an analog device I was using, none the less, it was making my head feel odd on the side I was holding it. I have no real love for them anymore. As for the Government and financial system we are in; I am of the notion that the only wise way to go is to get back the original Constitution's potential for diversity in the executive branch. [We used to have two votes. It wasn't long before the political parties ground that to a halt.] Yet, since in the end the full nature of reality rules over us all; we need a system that is applied just as rigorously upon those that can put the hand of power over many, as it is applied to common science endeavors and common law. No doubt only one can be the boss. Yet the potential to check the dominate entity in the courts, at the very least, is not an insignificant influence. Likewise, the ability to sequester the executive branch where security concerns arise is understandable. Yet the facts should always eventually come out. They are sworn to service the people, not the other way around. As far as the financial system goes, we are not well induced to consider the balance of things very well. I am of the view that there need to be two kinds of money. 1) Resource money, you cannot function without the resource base. 2) Cultivation money, one can work in the realm of IOUs with it, and not run into a wall. It might also help the people consider the balance of the various factors need to have a better standard of living. Also, given that there is a concern to reach the goal of more equitable availability of resources; business will be focused on cultivating the individuals to have their resources go through their system of cultivation. Ultimately everyone is poor where they cannot fully express the nature of the benefit they could provide to the whole. We just need a more balanced way to get there. I suspect, there would develop "instutions" of views and processes that would call out their benefits, and their competitor would point out the weaknesses. At least we might be better informed. And with MUCH computerized recording, it might even be possible to have the value of the cultivation moneys change as the processes fully played out their impacts and benefits. [Even failures have some value if they are recorded and used to prevent another.] At least it would keep everyone thinking more clearly, and precisely, in harmony with the reality that rules over us all; to which, perhaps, we owe the most. Sincerely, Gregory D. MELLOTT
I tend to think rather similarly. Actually doing things in more that one unit of measure can have its advantages. It allows one to check calculation processes, including a fumbling computer program. NASA lost one Mars probe to calculation errors when trying to get it into a valid orbit. The said the the wrong units were used. If they had been using both in relative lock step; the extra calculating that would have been done would show that the results were errant.
As far as tools go, I personally lean to the english set as there are usually fewer of them to carry around. But if someone is out to make something YOU can't fix; they make it need a tool that YOU don't have, in any case.
Sincerely,
Gregory D. MELLOTT
I cannot verify all the details, yet they seem valid in general. The amounts you speak of I'm sure of. (NASA will surely get a better handle on it with more and more of their satellites measuring things). The point I wish to assist here is that, there are many sources of energy not being used, that probably would not be that hard to use. The roiling ocean for one thing. Just a six foot wave has well over 1000 Watts of power for every foot of its length (when worked acrossed one wave length). From what I hear 20-30 foot waves in storms are not uncommon. And the North Pacific is noted as being storm breeding territory. That puts Alaska's Aleutian Islands right in the middle of it, as I figure it. During WWII the made ships out of concrete. Sounds like the ideal way to go to make a power generation system to me. (If one had the Moon's wealth of titantium for rebar they might have lasted longer than they did.) Limestone for concrete is very common. One might even solidify piles of sand in the desert with salt, by purifying sea water and make mounds that peak with an limestone oven to make concrete. Korea and Alaska have 20 foot tides. Thats up and down then up in 12 hours, in general. I can imagine using a long piece of drill steel attached to paddles and floats and periodically anchored to the bottom of a tidal basins inlet and a sheet likewise anchored that restricts the flow to the top few feet by being tied to floats. A 2' head of water would give about 150 lbs of pressure on a paddle for every foot of its length, as I figure it. And if one needs to worry about animal getting through, I'm sure with some care and time, there would be ways to do that also. Using the same sheet anchoring process, one might make something similar to the gates in the Panama canal, where even a whale could use it. Geothermal is no joke either, I hear that Mammoth Lake in California, may be heading for becoming a volcanoe again. Then its not a matter of how much heat, its just a matter of how and when. Shoot, with the way video displays are going, some people may not note the difference if they lived undergound, anyway. Growing food under LED lighting may even be easier, once one gets the space for it. And making diamond for drilling tunnels, etc., is no mean feat anymore either.
From what I've gathered, that statement is quite valid as far as we can functional grasp around it presently. Part of what may cause some of the significant swings may involve the methane ice that is under ocean sediment and in permafrost. Should temperatures rise much, it will get released, and there is millions of tons of it as I understand it. Obviously, the effect is to greatly enhance the thermal blanketing effect of CO2. I cannot see precise how it could be done presently. Yet should automation, in space particularly, take a strong foot hold, mining and process of the Moon's resources may allow the creation of a method to limit or enhance the amount of sunshine reaching the earth. I suspect the L2 LaGrange point, where one could potentially be in gravitaional balance between the earth and sun may be a place of interest. Or polar orbiting mirrors that would arc nearly straight up in the sky at sunrise or sunset could enhance the sun's input.