Saturday, June 8, 2013

ParaPundit: Obama's Surveillance State And Terrorist Immigrants

ParaPundit: Obama's Surveillance State And Terrorist Immigrants

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My advice to you: stop watching TV news. Unplug from the most powerful propaganda sources. Our elites pump out reality distortion messages. Your challenge: figure out the people who have taken the Red Pill and read them.

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The Matrix! Dang.

Iron oxide cycle for hydrogen production

Found this while researching my own site. When all else fails...

Anyway, the wikipedia article links up to this one, which describes an intriguing idea that may be workable with a Fresnel lens that Rojas has been demonstrating on the Greenpowerscience site.

Now, I can envision a cycling of the lens so that it produces the hydrogen and then cycles back to consume the oxygen. A way to split off the hydrogen from the oxygen must be found. It may be in the article, but it is hidden behind a pay wall.

Perhaps I can think of one. It wouldn't be energy efficient, but that might not matter. Anything would be better than paying $3.50 gallon for gasoline.

A possibility here: at the 1400 centigrade, hydrogen is split off from the water. It will leave a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen gas. The gas can be vented off into a cooling apparatus than will use fractional distillation to separate out the hydrogen. You can use liquid hydrogen for this. Rapidly cool it down until the oxygen liquifies, then separate the remaining hydrogen gas.

The cold hydrogen gas comes from the previous batch that has been cooled down to liquification. It can be cooled back down as before and reused again and again.

Perhaps you can recapture some of the lost heat by setting up a Stirling engine with the cold side being the liquid oxygen and the hot side being the hot gas mix. The Stirling engine can power another Stirling engine that does the liquification of the hydrogen.

Now, just take your oxygen and route it back into the reactor vessel. It will do the oxidation part of the reaction at the lower temperature.

You can cycle back and forth between high and low temperatures making hydrogen and recycling the stuff that makes it in the oxidation cycle.

Production of Hydrogen by Solar Thermochemical Water-Splitting Cycles

Florida Solar Energy Center

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Once upon a time, I read about a methane reformer on the web. Now, after googling all sorts of combination of searches, I can't find anything like what I saw before.

How frustrating.

Anyway, I did find this link. Why produce methane when you may be able to produce hydrogen directly from a solar dish? It would not require transportation, you would simply collect it from your own property.

Think of it this way. If you drive 40 miles a day, it means less than 1 kilogram must be produced per day.

How much energy to produce one kg of hydrogen? If it came from thermal, it could be cheaper than using electricity on it, or so I imagine. Lets say 15 kwh would do it. Now, 15 kwh out of a battery may go 60 miles in a Tesla. With 15 kwh needed, and about 6 hours of sunshine per day, that would mean about 2.5 square meters of dish. Or Fresnel lens. That's three or so of Dan Rojas' Fresnel lens gadget thingies.

It would focus heat energy on the device and the device would split the water and collect the hydrogen.

This article doesn't discuss it that way, unfortunately. It seems focused upon producing a system that would require transportation facilities that don't exist.

Simberg: Susan Rice?

transterrestrial musings

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Susan Rice is no more qualified to opine on matters of national security than a character from The Wizard of Oz. Like Obama himself, she is a highly politicized, over-credentialed Scarecrow, with certificates from Stanford, Oxford, and the Brookings Institution in place of a brain.

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Here's what he's comparing Susan Rice to, the Scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz.

But Rice can lie pretty good. Maybe that's all that matters in this White House.

The political class is a criminal class and they are running the country

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Hard as that lesson is to learn, the even harder lesson is that there's nothing that can be done about it, says this article.

Well, you can try, anyway.

Published on Zero Hedge (http://www.zerohedge.com)

The 4th Amendment Violations Will Continue Until Morale Improves

By Tyler Durden

Created 06/07/2013 - 16:46

It should be as plain as day at this point. Yet some people still have a hard time understanding that they're living under an oppressive, destructive, unaccountable government. Most other cultures get it. If you go to Argentina, Vietnam, Italy, or China, people there have absolutely no trust or confidence in their governments. It's something that's 'almost' uniquely American - a lifetime of steady, bombastic propaganda that inculcates a deep belief that our system is the 'best'. And, even in the face of such overwhelming evidence, it's still hard for people to break from this programming and acknowledge that their government is just as corrupt as Mexico's... albeit slightly more sophisticated. The politicians running the nation are sociopathic criminals, plain and simple.

Source URL: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-07/4th-amendment-violations-will-continue-until-morale-improves

NSA's Verizon Spying Order Specifically Targeted Americans, Not Foreigners

Forbes, via Ace

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In a top secret order obtained by the Guardian newspaper and published Wednesday evening...Aside from the sheer scope of that surveillance order, reminiscent of the warrantless wiretapping scandal under the Bush administration, the other shocking aspect of the order its target: The order specifically states that only data regarding calls originating in America are to be handed over, not those between foreigners.

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Those who condemned Bush for warrantless wiretapping have managed to make Bush look like an amateur.

Nice job. /snark

RUSH: There's A Coup D'etat Taking Place In The US

via Ace, Foxnews

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I know.