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Friday, December 9, 2011
The Truth About Fracking
Uploaded by ReasonTV on Jun 27, 2011
h/t Free Republic and Maggie's Notebook
The Administration is attempting a land grab into to stop this practice, which is harmless. It is the one true way that can lead to energy independence, which is not what the environmentalists have in mind.
h/t Free Republic and Maggie's Notebook
The Administration is attempting a land grab into to stop this practice, which is harmless. It is the one true way that can lead to energy independence, which is not what the environmentalists have in mind.
Mysterious "UFO" Footage Near Mercury Debunked
DailyTech
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There was this co worker once who asked me if I believe in UFO's. It wasn't the question, but the way it was asked. The question was asked as if I had any doubts about UFO"s, as if UFO's are established facts. I said "no", I don't believe in extra terrestrial visitors, because it doesn't make sense for them not to make their presence known.
Even if there was anything like that, what could you do about it?
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According to NRL's Russ Howard, head scientist, and Nathan Rich, lead ground systems engineer, the mystery UFO is actually Mercury itself. It is simply a ghost of where Mercury was positioned the previous day, and was visible due to the way raw HI-1 telescope data is processed.
Comment:
There was this co worker once who asked me if I believe in UFO's. It wasn't the question, but the way it was asked. The question was asked as if I had any doubts about UFO"s, as if UFO's are established facts. I said "no", I don't believe in extra terrestrial visitors, because it doesn't make sense for them not to make their presence known.
Even if there was anything like that, what could you do about it?
Oikophobia
James Taranto brought up a term that I hadn't heard of until fairly recently:
Oikophobia was a theme in the Bill Whittle video I linked to in the post Mordor?. I can follow Whittle's reasoning most of the way, but I stopped short of going the whole route by calling ones opponents evil. That represents falling into sort of a trap, I argued.
I have been offering a different thought, which I refer to as "Houston, We have a Solution". For instance, if the left says we have a problem with using fossil fuels, I say, let's figure out a better way. If you are inclined to say that there is no better way, well, maybe you could just be wrong. My proposal is not to engage in the argument over who is right or wrong, but find a common purpose and work from there. The common purpose is that we need to stop importing so much oil from unfriendly parts of the world. We also need to improve our trade balance and produce new jobs and new wealth. Why not do that by conquering space and perfecting fusion energy?
The left wants to impose new costs and burdens on us all. But is this really necessary? What if you could produce energy that is clean and affordable at the same time? That's the promise of fusion energy, advocated by Polywell Fusion and Focus Fusion. It is also the promise of space solar energy. Each of these are not economical at this time, but maybe we are a lot closer to that than most people seem to think.
Maybe the dragons that need to be slain are in own minds. Oikophobia posits that, but it also points the blame to someone else. Perhaps you could find it by looking in the mirror, since it could be that you are seeing the mote in your brother's eye. Our respective ideologies could be making us stupid and we just cannot see what is plainly in front of us.
Pointing fingers is not leadership. People should ask themselves what they could do better that is not being done now.
Jewish left-wing antipathy toward Israel poses a bit of a puzzle, but not a mystery. Guys like these are sometimes described as "self-hating Jews," but you understand everything if you realize that is a misnomer. They don't hate themselves at all. They have an inflated self-regard that leads them to disdain fellow Jews. It's simply the Jewish variant of oikophobia. (Perhaps someone will think to coin the portmanteau "joikophobia.")
Oikophobia was a theme in the Bill Whittle video I linked to in the post Mordor?. I can follow Whittle's reasoning most of the way, but I stopped short of going the whole route by calling ones opponents evil. That represents falling into sort of a trap, I argued.
I have been offering a different thought, which I refer to as "Houston, We have a Solution". For instance, if the left says we have a problem with using fossil fuels, I say, let's figure out a better way. If you are inclined to say that there is no better way, well, maybe you could just be wrong. My proposal is not to engage in the argument over who is right or wrong, but find a common purpose and work from there. The common purpose is that we need to stop importing so much oil from unfriendly parts of the world. We also need to improve our trade balance and produce new jobs and new wealth. Why not do that by conquering space and perfecting fusion energy?
The left wants to impose new costs and burdens on us all. But is this really necessary? What if you could produce energy that is clean and affordable at the same time? That's the promise of fusion energy, advocated by Polywell Fusion and Focus Fusion. It is also the promise of space solar energy. Each of these are not economical at this time, but maybe we are a lot closer to that than most people seem to think.
Maybe the dragons that need to be slain are in own minds. Oikophobia posits that, but it also points the blame to someone else. Perhaps you could find it by looking in the mirror, since it could be that you are seeing the mote in your brother's eye. Our respective ideologies could be making us stupid and we just cannot see what is plainly in front of us.
Pointing fingers is not leadership. People should ask themselves what they could do better that is not being done now.
Next Big Future posts on cold fusion
Brian Ahern talk on Energy Localization and Nanomagnetism as explanation for LENR/Cold Fusion
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Comment:
Once again, something that may be analogous to a "wave" gets connected to cold fusion. It may have little connection to this presentation, just an observation of mine. Here's another observation just now: "an overlap" of vibrational modes. Question: could these act like BEC's?
Magnetization textures in NiPd nanostructures
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But magnetism is not a part of the BECNF theory. Palladium is paramagnetic, while nickel is paragmagnetic above the Curie point. This appears to be something of a contradiction. But this isn't BECNF theory, it is another theory altogether. BECNF is my speculation in this instance.
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Cold Fusion in bulk, macroscopic systems is controlled by the overlap of the vibrational modes of the dissolved deuterium nuclei.
Comment:
Once again, something that may be analogous to a "wave" gets connected to cold fusion. It may have little connection to this presentation, just an observation of mine. Here's another observation just now: "an overlap" of vibrational modes. Question: could these act like BEC's?
Magnetization textures in NiPd nanostructures
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The NIST work further confirms the Brian Ahern theory that nanomagnetism plays an important part in low energy assisted nuclear reactions. The nickel and palladium electrodes used in many cold fusion experiments would have this nanomagnetic behavior.Comment:
But magnetism is not a part of the BECNF theory. Palladium is paramagnetic, while nickel is paragmagnetic above the Curie point. This appears to be something of a contradiction. But this isn't BECNF theory, it is another theory altogether. BECNF is my speculation in this instance.
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Newt and the Governing Class
American Thinker
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That kind of an opening was enough to catch my eye. But Bachmann is out there saying Newt is not the outsider. People seem not to like him and he is said to be blunt. Bluntness doesn't bother me, particularly if he is telling off these guys in Washington DC. Somebody has got to do it.
I did find something interesting in the comments section which mentions an Ann Coulter column, so I read it. Now, that's Ann Coulter and Glenn Beck who are anti Newt. Ann mentioned some stuff that was so off the wall that it is a source of concern about Gingrich.
There's two sides to a story. Gingrich got some good ratings from Conservatives who provide that info, although I can't site it here because I didn't make a note of it. At the time he was Speaker, the Congress was pretty conservative and held Clinton in check. After his party forced him out, they lost control of the spending, lost Congress, and opened the door for Obama.
So it is surprising to read that he is not really a conservative. I do remember Limbaugh saying it though. The truth may well be that he isn't that conservative, but how conservative is he really?
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I just returned from the belly of the beast, Washington, D.C.Comment:
That kind of an opening was enough to catch my eye. But Bachmann is out there saying Newt is not the outsider. People seem not to like him and he is said to be blunt. Bluntness doesn't bother me, particularly if he is telling off these guys in Washington DC. Somebody has got to do it.
I did find something interesting in the comments section which mentions an Ann Coulter column, so I read it. Now, that's Ann Coulter and Glenn Beck who are anti Newt. Ann mentioned some stuff that was so off the wall that it is a source of concern about Gingrich.
There's two sides to a story. Gingrich got some good ratings from Conservatives who provide that info, although I can't site it here because I didn't make a note of it. At the time he was Speaker, the Congress was pretty conservative and held Clinton in check. After his party forced him out, they lost control of the spending, lost Congress, and opened the door for Obama.
So it is surprising to read that he is not really a conservative. I do remember Limbaugh saying it though. The truth may well be that he isn't that conservative, but how conservative is he really?
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