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    Oil on other Planets?

    The mark arrives as expected. Anyone else think there's a law that ends debate? Thank you for invoking Godwin?s Law; in doing so you insure this political debate survives indefinitely, another good reason to never advance a political agenda in a technical forum. In your large post, the...
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    Oil on other Planets?

    Your repetition does not elicit fact from fiction, although, as Goebbels demonstrated, it does sway the masses. A president makes political decisions; a scientist does research; sometimes the two are in harmony, sometimes they are not. You have your opinion I have mine. I am quite certain my...
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    Oil on other Planets?

    You are correct. I should have distinguished between the "natural gas" released via the in-situ process vs. that brought in from remote locations. Further, I should have mentioned that external energy sources are needed to initiate the processes, perhaps for several years. The intent of my...
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    Oil on other Planets?

    Is this a leftest political forum wherein one expresses their distorted political dogma or a technical forum?
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    Oil on other Planets?

    No, only you. Better proof; is there a superlative, "more proofer", "proofier"? Unlike BT, I've provided some sources to substantiate my statements. You do know that this is the 'Highly Technical" forum. Political twaddle should be posted elsewhere. ?pure thermodynamics?; as opposed to...
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    Oil on other Planets?

    My guess is you plan to major in Education or Polysci?
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    Oil on other Planets?

    Wrong! Wrong! Wrong! Really, really, wrong! Where do you come up with this stuff? Do you think they would burn expensive gas in the conversion process when the much less expensive coal and kerogen fuels are at hand? http://www.clean-energy.us/facts/coal.htm Countries with the...
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    Oil on other Planets?

    Wrong on both counts. Just heat the shale to convert the kerogens to oil. Shell Oil estimates its in situ process will consume 1 unit of energy to yield twice its equivalent in barrels of sweet crude oil. Major corporations are evaluating four other processes. (WO/1983/003676) ANALYSIS...
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    Oil on other Planets?

    Not to worry, there?s plenty of oil in our backyard, lots of it. In fact the US has more oil than the rest of the word combined, much more, 1/3 of the entire world?s reserve, about 1 trillion barrels, enough for over 200 years at present rates of consumption?more than the mid-east ever had...
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    Zude! What do you think?

    I'm an old guy who's not into many of the web activities that interest you young'uns. I have a non-financial interest (know some people) in the success of ZUDE. Please click on the link and let me know what you think of it. http://www.zude.com/tour.htm
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    Is a Power State Other Than 0 and 1 Possible?

    Linky thingy: The Russians did it first! ...
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    nothing can travel faster than the speed of light...

    Sorry posted to wrong thread ...
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    can magnetic fields be made to spin?

    Only the first sentence above is correct. In addition to the strong magnetic field, a weaker field is applied to create a gradient of magnetic flux. The result is each pRoton has a slightly different tilt than its neighbor, thus a means to provide positional information. A radio signal is...
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    Automobile Environmentalism: Hybrid vs. Combustion

    But part of the fun of driving a hybrid is to watch the gauges and try to extract the most energy from every last drop of fuel. My dealer friend says sell about 2 yrs before battery warranty is up.
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    Automobile Environmentalism: Hybrid vs. Combustion

    Actually the $35.00 figure is quite a good estimate but the Israelis, sitting on an abundance of high quality shale, are looking to produce at about $20.00 per barrel. Agreed, however there are always alternative methods. Economics is the key to production methodology, not a perceived...
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    Automobile Environmentalism: Hybrid vs. Combustion

    Needless worry! ?A settler in Parachute Creek, Colorado built a log cabin using the local black rock to make the fireplace and chimney . He invited a few neighbors to a house warming and lit a fire. The fireplace, chimney, and ultimately the whole cabin caught fire and burned to the ground...
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    How long does it take for a light to traverse distance of one light year?

    Just to add to this a little. The quantum particle associated with EM radiation is the photon. A red photon carries more energy than a photon emitted by a radio stations antenna. A red photon has less energy than a blue photon that has less energy than the ultra-violet photon; all have less...
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    Is matter completely observable?

    Its composition is unknown, its existance is certain. Dark matter is not an anti-gravity force, you're thinking of "dark energy".
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    First Windows?

    ...computer chips and stuff is not needed to build and program a computer. The first digital computer was invented cc. 1850 by Babbage (analytical Engine). It was entirely a mechanical device. The first programmer was Ada Bryon (Lovelace), daughter of the poet. Ada was a super...
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    Voltage Could this be correct?

    Well you want to measure the voltage referenced to common, not to ground. So put one probe on the yellow wire and the other probe on the red wire. You should measure 12vdc with a polarity depending on how the probes are connected, can't remember but I think the yellow wire is common. The...
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    So how exactly does a level work?

    POst X 2-Sorry!
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    So how exactly does a level work?

    Many years ago when I was in the instrumentation field, we had a need of tubing with a varying inner diameter. We purchased precision bore glass tubing and reheated it while it passed through a pulling device. By controlling the rate of pull, the tubing diameter, inner and outer, would change...
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    New type of engine - breakthrough?!?!!

    I don?t see any resemblance to a Wankel engine at all. The mfg. claims only 2 moving parts but I see a lot more. The vanes that actuate the wobble plate must be a nightmare to seal and must have an enormous amount of friction with so many rubbing surfaces. The operation seems to be a...
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    Revolutionizing Math and possibly other subjects in education

    You?re living in a dream world. The education system in the UK is famous for its lack of qualified teachers and poor results. Why do you think Blair is trying to privatize it? In higher education the US is the world leader by every standard of measurement in every field. Why not stay on...
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    Revolutionizing Math and possibly other subjects in education

    Plausible idea, but including teachers as instructors is a bad idea. Those who chose `Education? as a major generally achieve low SAT scores; just marginally better then the `poly-sci? students. In the US, our worst students become part of the government bureaucracy while the next worse...
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    Sattelite Power Idea...

    Link to NASA re: power from satellite cable. http://science.msfc.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast08sep97_1.htm
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    Sattelite Power Idea...

    Yucky - but I'm old enough to remember the 16 baud modems and 5 bit com codes.
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    Sattelite Power Idea...

    A cable dangling from a satellite can be used for higher or lower altitude corrections via changing the center of mass. A variety of losses come into play so inevitably some type of active propulsion must make up for it. Systems of tethered satellites may use the energy loss or gain of one to...
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    Sattelite Power Idea...

    The experiment has been done twice using the NASA shuttles. The winch failed in the first trial but several years later over 12 miles of cable was deployed. Very high currents at low voltages were recorded. After 5-6 hours, the cable snapped at the winch connection with a large shower of sparks.
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    Hopefully a simple Physics Question for some...

    Well rather than try to explain what I think I know, I suggest these two books about the physics of golf. The first requires no math but is very good reading. The second would be better understood by someone with a little physics/math background and is a good but slower read. Search for the...
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    Hopefully a simple Physics Question for some...

    It just occurred to me that I may have replied to you before-Sorry.
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    Hopefully a simple Physics Question for some...

    For the last 20 yrs or so, when I became aware that metal head components were available for purchase, I have been building all of my clubs. I?ve done some research in order to construct clubs most suitable to my swing. Assume no friction, an inelastic ball and club head, and the club head...
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    Let's invent a force field

    Sure its easy. Just position a few blackholes to guide the beam anywhere you want. You can also expand and contract space to alter the EM frequency.
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    Can someone help me identify this cosmic structure in this photo?

    I am not an astronomer but there seems to be a filament connecting the bright and dimmer points of light. This is more obvious if you look at a ?negative? of your image. If so, it must be a single object. Since there was no apparent motion it must be a distant object and I think we can rule...
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    Hydrogen

    Wrong again! The US has the largest deposits of oil in the entire world! More than 2 trillion barrels or about a 200 year supply! http://www.fe.doe.gov/programs/reserves/publications/Pubs-NPR/40010-373.pdf Its extraction was never before economically competitive with oil well...
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    Hydrogen

    Sorry Wreckage you are incorrect. You seem to be unable to grasp the obvious fact that hydrogen does not exist except in chemical combination with other elements. It takes energy to free it from its chemical bond. There will always be, repeat always be, a net loss in the process. On this...
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    Trapping Light

    Matter exists as ?matter? and ?anti-matter?. The two are identical except anti-matter has the reverse electrical charge as does matter. The ?positron? is the anti-matter equivalent of the ?electron? and likewise for the ?anti-proton?. The two can combine to make an ?anti-hydrogen? atom...
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    Magnetics in Anti-Gravitational vehicles

    There is no doubt Tesla was a brilliant engineer. There is no doubt he would have advised you to take your own advice; "learn and read". Just for starters; a wire does not carry electrical energy, the wire determines the direction the energy takes. The energy is carried by the...
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    Trapping Light

    All materials including the best of mirrors absorb light. Light is not a BB that bounces off the surface of a mirror. The reflection depends on the interaction of a photon with a free electron. By free electron, I mean one that is not part of an atom. Metals have many free electrons, that is...
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    Confused about "earth ground"

    As f95toli stated there is no way to know. Your DMM will in all probability read a much higher voltage than would a non-electronic analog meter because the DMM has a higher input impedance. Whatever the reading is, it has no significance. If you attach a 100-ohm resistor across the meter...