This will be my last post today. I came across a couple of Harry Chapin's songs. They are both kind of sad, and this one is a bit like a failed dream of youth that gets revisited in older age. Sometimes, I feel a little like that. Thanks for coming by, and have a great evening.
Al Fin: "Cowboy Commentary", aka "Eat your veggies" The Flag banner is posted in order to defy those who would make patriotic symbols illegal or disreputable.
Sunday, July 3, 2011
How to play Layla
I wish I was about 30 years younger and they had youtube back then. This is awesome.
AmpEnergo claims the Western Hemisphere
by Ivy Matt, Cold Fusion Now
For now the company will focus on developing a 1 MW device, to be available in late 2011 or early 2012. Unlike Defkalion it currently has no plans to develop a home heating unit.
There have been some comparisons of "cold fusion" with powered flight, which is popularly known from the story of the Wright Brothers.
Nearly five years after their first powered flight, they were still not believed.
1903
Following repairs, the Wrights finally took to the air on December 17, 1903, making two flights each from level ground into a freezing headwind gusting to 27 miles per hour (43 km/h). The first flight, by Orville, of 120 feet (37 m) in 12 seconds, at a speed of only 6.8 miles per hour (10.9 km/h) over the ground, was recorded in a famous photograph.
1908
Facing a lot of skepticism in the French aeronautical community and outright scorn by some newspapers that called him a "bluffeur," Wilbur began official public demonstrations on August 8, 1908 at the Hunaudières horse racing track near the town of Le Mans, France. His first flight lasted only one minute 45 seconds, but his ability to effortlessly make banking turns and fly a circle amazed and stunned onlookers, including several pioneer French aviators, among them Louis Bleriot.
Although the Wright Brothers achieved fame, it does not appear that they achieve much fortune from their invention. It is something of a cautionary tale to read their story. With the history of "cold fusion", it already shows some of the pitfalls an inventor can have in attempting to earn the profits from his intellect. Such as fate may also befall Rossi.
Burning down the house
George F. Will
“Reckless Endangerment” is a study of contemporary Washington, where showing “compassion” with other people’s money pays off in the currency of political power, and currency
All I know is that Democrats don't speak for me and I am supposed to be one of those who should support Democrats since I am a blue collar guy. On the other hand, maybe not, because I am a white man. An exception applies if you are "gay", of course. Then it would be all right.
Interactions of charged particles on surfaces (pdf)
Interactions of charged particles on surfaces Nabil M. Lawandya_ Department of Physics and Division of Engineering, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02903, USA _Received 5 October 2009; accepted 11 November 2009; published online 7 December 2009
Charges of the same polarity bound to a surface with a large dielectric contrast exhibit an attractive long-range Coulomb interaction, which leads to a two-particle bound state. Ensembles of like charges experience a collective long-range interaction, which results in compacted structures with interparticle separations that can be orders of magnitude smaller than the equilibrium separation of
the pair potential minimum. Simulations indicate that ensembles of surface bound nuclei, such as D or T, exhibit separations small enough to result in significant rates of fusion.
Significant rates of fusion. A theory for low energy nuclear reactions?
In conclusion, it has been shown that a system of like
charges can bind on the surface of a high dielectric constant
interface leading to new two-dimensional charged species or
ions with the possibility of having bosonic properties in the
ground state.
This is over my head. The reason this got my attention was that one of the videos that I have watched on the subject discussed "cold fusion" as a surface phenomenon. This paper looks like it fits in with that observation.
Morning Summary, 7/3
Several hours late this morning. I've been a bit busy doing the usual Sunday chores, but that isn't enough to cause this. Sure, my enthusiasm is waning. There was somebody who contacted me on email about possibly advertising on this site, but the timing is not so good. Now is not a good time. The best time would have been when readership was increasing. It is going down now, and the ecat is the only thing keeping it going.
Hopefully, the ecat can come through and this blog can be on the forefront of that news. That would be a miracle. You know how it goes. The big guys will swoop down and take all the oxygen from a little blog like this as soon as this thing becomes a real media sensation. Nobody will come here or to any other blog that is supporting the idea even though it isn't mainstream. As soon as it goes mainstream, they will got the mainstream blogs, even though none of them are supporting this now. But one can always hope.
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