Casey Luskin insists the Discovery Institute is a secular think tank. And he says it with a straight face.

What is it about the spreading of pseudo-science that makes reasonable people cringe and gag? One characteristic is surely the introduction of religious / political thinking into discussions of fact. The natural world simply is. If it upsets our human sensibilities, too freaking bad for us. When a bull shark bites a potential food item (a human leg, perhaps), it is being neither good nor evil; it's simply hungry and inquisitive. It's nothing personal. Thus, describing the natural world is best accomplished through observations of what is, not through contemplation of how things should be. Blaming Darwinism for the Holocaust, communism, capitalism, rock 'n roll music, abortion, racism, moral relativism, and the general decay of Western society is irrelevant to the scientific question of whether or not evolution by natural selection is a valid explanation for observed evolutionary change on planet Earth. What is and what ought to be are two distinct questions.

But throw a rock at the Discovery Institute and you're more likely to hit a lobbyist or a lawyer than an actual scientist. For example, Casey Luskin, an attorney with the DI, blogs to his fellow intelligent designers about the "it's just a theory" argument.

Darwinists love to bash Darwin-skeptics who call evolution "just a theory, not a fact." The truth is that I rarely, if ever, hear people who are closely involved with the ID movement using this line to oppose evolution. The "evolution is just a theory, not a fact" phrase tends to come from the vox populi—intelligent people who studied this issue in their biology class or perhaps have read books like Darwin’s Black Box, Icons of Evolution, or Darwin on Trial, but otherwise don’t follow the issue very closely.

But most creationists do use the argument, endlessly. They also use the "intelligent designer" and "irreducible complexity" arguments. The fact is that intelligent design creationists are a small minority. Polls indicate that most American creationists are of the Old Earth variety. And I think the Discovery Institute knows this full well. Isn't it really all about talking points, ones the DI can easily disseminate, and ones the general public can easily digest and regurgitate, regardless of the scientific facts?

Casey Luskins also lists his scientific qualifications:

Having taken over a dozen courses covering evolutionary biology at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, I’m a scientific skeptic of neo-Darwinism.

Fine, be a skeptic, Luskin. But are you as skeptical about intelligent design? Have you taken a dozen courses covering intelligent design at the undergraduate and graduate level? No, because intelligent design isn't a science, and it can be pretty well summed up in a single 15 minute lecture. ID is a vague conclusion, not an explanation. The only thing propping it up is a propaganda machine. And all the whining in the world about "morals", "culture", and "academic freedom" isn't going to polish the ID turd. The Discovery Institute calls itself the "Center for Science and Culture". But it really should choose one or the other, "science" or "culture", not both. Let "ought" and "is" be distinct; life works so much better when our desires don't cloud our judgment of reality.

Since I don't archive these Highlight notes at KeelyNet, I try to remember to post them to the KeelyNet Blog where they might still be available in future. Several items of interest as usual have been posted since the last update to this section.

July 2008 - KeelyNet is 20 years old!

Can’t believe KeelyNet has been online now since 1988! I spent about 2 months typing in roughly 8MB of information since I had no scanner in 1988. A BBS sounded like a great way to share a lot of information, thus was born the KeelyNet BBS out of Dallas, Texas.

I moved KeelyNet to the Internet in 1995 at the urging of Bill Beaty, longtime friend and operator of the excellent Amateur Sciences website, but for the prior 7 years KeelyNet was a one computer BBS system running out of my house. Back then we had about 2000 subscribers who shared information and comments...more at the link...

Item #1 - Imagine living on the moon where you only weigh 1/6th of your earth weight, you could FLY! Ben Bova Futurist - On August 6th the DaVinci Institute will be hosting the legendary science fiction author, Dr. Ben Bova, at its Night with a Futurist event. In his various writings, Dr. Bova has predicted the Space Race of the 1960s, solar power satellites, the discovery of organic chemicals in interstellar space, virtual reality, human cloning, the Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars), the discovery of life on Mars, the advent of international peacekeeping forces, the discovery of ice on the Moon, electronic book publishing and zero-gravity sex.

Item #2 - The absolute coolest thing I've seen in a long time is the Video - Algae - the Holy Grail of Biofuel - Closed Loop BioReactor - Algae can produce up to 20,000 gallons per acre per year and that is in an open pond system, not in our vertical reactor system. If we took 1/10 of the state of New Mexico, converted to vertical reactor algae production, we could meet all the energy demands of the United States.

Item #3 - You can buy or download this excellent 600 page ebook, A How-To Book for Everything From Water Filters to Fly Traps that could save you and your family in the event of catastrophe.

Item #4 - If you have a wound that won't heal or want to speed up the healing process, check out Electric Bandages that you can order and use NOW.

Item #5 - A 100% cancer cure in mice? Scientists to test if cancer cure can work in humans - The cells have also been able to kill cervical, prostate and breast cancer tumour cells in Petri dish tests. “All the mice we treated were 100 per cent cured,” lead researcher Dr. Zheng Cui told CTV News. “So that was very surprising for us.” Granulocytes account for about 60 per cent of all white blood cells in the human body.

KeelyNet Articles/URLs of Interest - 07/10/08

Uncle's Perpetual Motion Toy - 12/14/97
- As best I can remember the toy was about two feet high and about one foot square. It consisted of a spiral ramp that I think made about 3 1/2 turns from the top to the bottom, at the bottom of the ramp was a paddle wheel. This was connected through some gears to an elevator that went to the top. At the top was a hopper. In this hopper was placed about 10 marbles. There was a trip door on the hopper that would only let out one marble at a time. I think that it would release so that only one marble was going down the ramp at a time. Anyway, he tripped the gate and one marble rolled down the ramp, it took maybe 3 to 5 seconds to get to the bottom. It hit the paddlewheel and spun it causing the elevator to move up a little, this released another marble which repeated the process, this time the first marble was on the elevator and was moved up toward the hopper. I think there was about 5 marbles on the elevator at a time. Anyway once he started the toy running, it continued to run. He said that you had to have all the marbles in the hopper to start, once the first few marbles had hit the paddle wheel, it spun continuously. We were at their house for about three or four hours, and I spent most of my time watching the toy run.

the Ultimate Power Source revisited - Arthur Adams says the energy source he has discovered is like a huge natural battery in the earth — and it has nothing to do with the fusion of zinc and copper. “Believe me” he said earnestly “this is big, very big indeed. “it can produce a limitless supply of power… it gives off huge voltages and amps and it is self-regenerating.” Doubts - What is more, he claims to have synthesized the metal. He can produce it himself. A piece no bigger that a shirt button could replace batteries in cars and commercial vehicles. A slab half the size of a shoe box could provide all the power and light for a normal three up and two down family house — for next to nothing. Officials at the Institute of Geological Scientists who prospect for and map minerals in Britain said yesterday: “We have not discovered any minerals with these properties. If it is a substance unknown to science it is extremely exciting — but we doubt it."

"India’s largest automaker Tata Motors is set to start producing the world’s first commercial air-powered vehicle. The Air Car, developed by ex-Formula One engineer Guy Nègre for Luxembourg-based MDI, uses compressed air, as opposed to the gas-and-oxygen explosions of internal-combustion models, to push its engine’s pistons. Some 6000 zero-emissions Air Cars are scheduled to hit Indian streets in August of 2008. The Air Car, called the MiniCAT could cost around Rs. 3,50,000 ($ 8177) in India and would have a range of around 300 km between refuels. The cost of a refill would be about Rs. 85 ($ 2). Tata motors also plans to launch the world’s cheapest car, Tata Nano priced famously at One lakh rupees by October. Microcontrollers are used in every device in the car, so one tiny radio transmitter sends instructions to the lights, indicators etc. There are no keys - just an access card which can be read by the car from your pocket. According to the designers, it costs less than 50 rupees per 100Km (about a tenth that of a petrol car). Its mileage is about double that of the most advanced electric car (200 to 300 km or 10 hours of driving), a factor which makes a perfect choice in cities where the 80% of motorists drive at less than 60Km. The car has a top speed of 105 kmph. Refilling the car will, once the market develops, take place at adapted petrol stations to administer compressed air. In two or three minutes, and at a cost of approximately 100 rupees, the car will be ready to go another 200-300 kilometers. As a viable alternative, the car carries a small compressor which can be connected to the mains (220V or 380V) and refill the tank in 3-4 hours.
- Source

"The WindWing dispenses with propellers in favor of parallel panels that look like stacked WWI plane wings stuck up on a pole. The panels work similarly by lifting and lowering with the wind. Gene Kelley, Founder and CEO of W2 Energy Development Corp., recently turned his hand to improving the efficiency of turning wind into energy with his WindWings invention. Basically, it is a series of six to twelve horizontal parallel blades that move up and down in the wind. Here is his explanation for how it works: Have you ever stuck your hand out a car window? Then you know how the WindWing works. Your hand tilts up as it is pushed up by the wind and down as the wind pushes it down; all you have to do is direct it. Sensors behind the panels adjust the WindWing according to wind direction and strength. Once the series of panels are adjusted, the wind pushes them up and down collecting the energy through its stem and storing it in a box at the base. That energy can be converted into electricity, compressed air or put through a water pump. Since the WindWing works more efficiently than a traditional wind turbine, it costs one tenth the price. One WindWing can also replace about twelve propeller wind turbines depending on the surface area and needs of the community." - Source

"According to QED, or general quantum mechanics, the uncertainty at micro worlds dominates. If we take water, H2O is an average phenomena, and there is no certain locations or bond angles as to measure. A high voltage can easily "stress" covalent apparent bonding of H2O; thus in theory it is possible to stress the polarized H2O to a level which equalizes the bonding strength with only voltage (no current or amperage). The bond breakage can acutely happen, thus the dielectric characteristic of water (distilled) suddenly diminishes (catastrophic dielectric failure) which is a point where large amount of H2 and O2 exits. This is not exactly Faraday electrolysis and the resultant gas quantities can well exceed 300+ times more than Faraday’s expectations. An exotic observation here is the gas is produced between the two electrodes (commonly stainless steel plates) and not as expected at the electrodes. About the recent water car from Genepax, Japan, we had the exclusive opportunity to do some poking with the invention through our fellow researcher in Tokyo. Their cell is up to the claims, but their demonstration (car running in streets by Reuters) was not so genuine. It was running on the batteries, thus the energy unit was just loaded doing nothing significant. However, the water fuel cell truly produced 300W of power consuming water. They use ruthenium, platinum and some corral sands (probably to make the porosity of the membrane) in Membrane Electrode Assembly (MEA). Researchers are currently studying their two filled patents, which describes the catalytic disassociation of water." - Source

"This cooker cuts 70% of fuel (like LPG, electricity, coal, wood, etc.), cuts 70% of the cost and cuts 70% off the cooking time. This invention relates to the technique of cooking food, at low cost of fuel consumption. The present device is designed in such a manner that the food particles are cooked from all sides i.e. lower, upper and side including the middle of vessels. The main objective of the present invention is to reduce the consumption of the liquid petroleum gas (LPG). The oven is a double layered container, in which small jets are fitted on regular intervals. A gas pipeline is attached at one end which runs through all the small jets circulating the gas throughout the surface area of the oven. The inner container is detachable and designed to contain food stuffs for cooking. An orifice is made on the outer container which keeps a constant air flow for burning of the gas inside the vessel. Top of the vessel or oven is made up of heavy metal with double layers which is detachable and could be fixed with the help of hinge and lock. The body of the oven is such designed as it serves as an insulator for the inner container. Hence once the burners are switched one for a considerable time the heat is trapped for a long period in the vessel or oven and the food is cooked accordingly. The device such invented can solve many problems relating to gas consumption; it can save the gas by 70-80 % as in comparison to the conventional method of cooking." - Source

"Q. What are you working on now? A. I’m working on two projects. One is called drop blast bubble implosion fusion (DBBIF), which is, theoretically, a method of creating fusion by harnessing the energy of a liquid bubble as it collapses, thus increasing the pressure (by thousands of atmospheres) at which its temperature reaches extreme values. My other proto-venture relates to process technology for more cost-effective conversion of nonfood biomass to fuel." - Source

"Thushara, a 25-year-old from Athurugiriya, is the inventor of what could be a ground-breaking technology of powering a car by water, using an extremely low amount of electricity. According to the the young inventor, the generator he has designed is capable of running a motor car for 80 kilometres using only one litre of water, without any danger to life or any impact on the environment. The energy required to power the vehicle is produced by the splitting off of H2O (water) into separate Hydrogen and Oxygen molecules, of which the former is burnt according to a specified ratio to produce the energy needed to power the engine. The specialty of my invention is its ability to produce this energy from water with a minimal electric current of barely 0.5 amperes, which was not possible earlier,” Thushara says. A product of Christ King College, Pannipitiya, Thushara, on his test run of the water-powered car, has travelled all the way to Anuradhapura and back on mere three litres of water, a journey that would have cost several thousand rupees on a petrol or diesel vehicle. ”This generator could be fixed to any petrol or diesel vehicle with suitable adjustments depending on their cylinder capacity. While Hydrogen is 1000 times faster than petrol, the exhausts of water-powered vehicles consisting of water vapour are also entirely eco-friendly. Using water as opposed to oil that react with lubricating oil would also extend the life of the vehicle,” he adds." - Source

"Biofuels can be a sustainable part of the world's energy future, especially if bioenergy agriculture is developed on currently abandoned or degraded agricultural lands, report scientists from the Carnegie Institution and Stanford University. Using these lands for energy crops, instead of converting existing croplands or clearing new land, avoids competition with food production and preserves carbon-storing forests needed to mitigate climate change. Sustainable bioenergy is likely to satisfy no more than 10% of the demand in the energy-intensive economies of North America, Europe, and Asia. But for some developing countries, notably in Sub-Saharan Africa, the potential exists to supply many times their current energy needs without compromising food supply or destroying forests. The researchers estimate that globally up to 4.7 million square kilometers (approximately 1.8 million square miles) of abandoned lands could be available for growing energy crops. Researchers estimate that the worldwide harvestable dry biomass could amount to as much as 2.1 billion tons, with a total energy content of about 41 exajoules. While this is a significant amount of energy (one exajoule is a billion billion joules, equivalent to about 170 million barrels of oil), at best it would satisfy only about 8% of worldwide energy demand." - Source

"Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have discovered how to direct the growth of nanorods made up of two single crystals using a biomolecular surfactant. The researchers were also able to create “branched” structures by carefully controlling the temperature, time, and amount of surfactant used during synthesis. “Our work is the first to demonstrate the synthesis of composite nanorods with branching, wherein each nanorod consists of two materials — a single-crystal bismuth telluride nanorod core encased in a hollow cylindrical shell of single-crystal bismuth sulfide,” said G. Ramanath, professor of materials science and engineering at Rensselaer... “Our discovery enables the realization of two very important attributes for heat dissipation and power generation from heat,” Ramanath said. “First, the core-shell junctions in the nanorods are conducive for heat removal upon application of an electrical voltage, or generating electrical power from heat. Second, the branched structures open up the possibility of fabricating miniaturized conduits for heat removal alongside nanowire interconnects in future device architectures.” - Source

"These widely-advertised devices, known variously as a "hydrogen generator" or "hydrogen booster," claim to be able to use electricity from your car battery to split water into its components of oxygen and hydrogen. This supposedly forms what is called "Browns Gas." Perhaps the most notorious Web site promoting the concept is Water4Gas.com. Created by a gentleman who calls himself Ozzie Freedom, the site is a 12,000-word sales pitch for two electronic books advertised at $97.00. Doing a Web search for "water4gas" or "Ozzie Freedom" brings up page after page of search results and advertisements with headlines such as, "Is Water4Gas a Scam?" or "Water4Gas Reviewed," not to mention a wealth of videos that claim to show the device in action. It doesn't take long to realize that the "articles" and "reviews" appear to be sales pitches masquerading as unbiased reviews. Some sites present themselves as mechanics giving free advice to motorists. "All of these device/schemes seem to promote adding hydrogen to improve the combustion process. There is no way it can improve fuel economy by 50%, or even 5%," said Dr. Robert Sawyer, Professor of Energy Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. When we showed the instructions and claims to Dr. Andrew A. Frank, he had difficulty holding back the laughter. "It shows the desperation people feel!" said Frank, Professor of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of California, Davis.The Water4Gas site specifically says that you shouldn't listen to "experts." Instead, Mr. Freedom says that you should just order his books." - Source

"John Weston's 1992 Geo Storm doesn't look like much on the outside. But there are some people that say it's what's under a car's hood that matters. "Since I changed the fuel system unit, it's drastically different. I disconnected the fuel line from the injector so no liquid goes to the engine," said Weston. Weston showed NBC2 a version of his air vapor flow system where instead of liquid fuel, only vapors go to the engine. "They used to say, 'Hey I'm running on empty. I'm running on fumes.' Well, this is actually running on fumes," he said. Weston says the system burns cleaner and also made a bold claim about fuel efficiency from a one-time test. "It came up to 463 miles a gallon if we had driven in the same manner - a gallon," said Weston. "I drove from here to Fort Myers, and I'm up there keeping up with traffic running 80 mph." Now, the backyard mechanic is looking for investors so he can eventually take his invention public. In the meantime, he says you might see his car on the highway." - Source

Lots of patents and info on this at 01/31/99 - A History of Vapor Carburetors.

"In Gaza City, where gasoline is the rarest of commodities, Wassim Khazendar, electrical engineer, replaced the petrol engine in his Peugeot 205 four months ago with an electric motor. "I think I am the first person in the world to have been able to convert a car that runs on petrol, to one that runs on electricity," he says. Now it costs him about 50 cents to charge the car's 34 batteries, compared with the $425 he would have to spend to fill the tank with fuel. On full charge the Peugeot can cover about 180 kilometres at a top speed of 105 km/h, more than enough to get around the tiny Palestinian territory several times over. "I have attached the electric motor to the drive shaft, and that drives the car like a petrol engine," he says. "The manual gears work like normal. The only difference is that it costs nothing to get around, and here in Gaza, that means a lot." The secret, Mr Khazendar explains, is that he has found a way to use an alternating current electric motor instead of the heavier, direct current motors used in other electric cars. "For a car designed to run on a petrol engine, a direct current motor was too heavy, so when we tried it, it just didn't work properly." Sounding more like someone who could win a segment on the ABC's New Inventors program, Mr Khazendar says there is a secret box underneath the car that will protect his invention from imitators. In need of a patent attorney to ensure his invention was protected, Mr Khazendar looked up the office of a reputable Tel Aviv firm. "They said yes straight away - a very good Israeli patent attorney," he said." - Source

"Neptune Industries, which was founded in 1998, is primarily a technology development company with an emphasis in aquaculture. Neptune started to raise fish in the lakes using traditional aquaculture equipment, cages and net pens. The company also raises its trademark hybrid striped bass in a land-based raceway system. Testing showed that the water quality in the lakes was good. Pilot projects in three lakes, however, turned up several problems with the equipment. They had high levels of predation and fry escaping as turtles and alligators gnawed through the nets. They also saw that all the fish waste and uneaten feed went out into the lake and hurt the water quality. To solve these issues, the company developed the Aquasphere, a solid steel floating cage. The system uses a low-energy, low-head pumping system called an air lift to deliver oxygenated water to the fish and collects waste and uneaten food in a filter system at the bottom. Neptune’s land-based fish farm requires a 200 horsepower pump while the air-lift system uses a 2 horsepower blower. The Aquasphere also has hinge points that allow it to flex with ocean currents and waves. Ten 30-foot diameter Aquaspheres can produce 1 million pounds of fish per year. Combining the Aquasphere with algae production creates a second income stream by producing feedstock for biodiesel. Neptune Industry’s algae system is uncomplicated and takes advantage of the aquasphere’s environment. Long strips of plastic tubing are suspended on a frame of PVC piping and water and the fish waste fertilizer are circulated through the system. The system floats so the algae get all the sunlight it needs. Because the tubes are partially submerged, the system maintains a constant comfortable temperature for the algae. “It is basically a closed system,” Papadoyianis says. “You put the waste, which is the fertilizer, and the algae innoculum in, and it circulates around in a huge manifold. The water traverses literally thousands of feet as it circulates around. It gets the sunlight and keeps cool so you have the best of all possible worlds.” - Source

Land unter meint: Anscheinend gar nicht so einfach, sich im Bemühen um "freie Energie" Freunde zu machen...

Can't believe KeelyNet has been online now since 1988!

It all started after I had accumulated a lot of interesting articles and documents and got tired of making photocopies for so many people that I knew or met.

So I spent about 2 months typing in roughly 8MB of information since I had no scanner in 1988. A BBS sounded like a great way to share a lot of information, thus was born the KeelyNet BBS out of Dallas, Texas.

I moved KeelyNet to the Internet in 1995 at the urging of Bill Beaty, longtime friend and operator of the excellent Amateur Sciences website, but for the prior 7 years KeelyNet was a one computer BBS system running out of my house. Back then we had about 2000 subscribers who shared information and comments.

I don't have any photos of the BBS setup in my house from that time but it was much like the first one shown in the sample photos below. It was and has always been very interesting and a lot of fun.

So now it is 2008 which means KeelyNet has an online presence spanning 20 years! God I feel ANCIENT!

Not really, but it is a long time to devote to something unless you really do love it and are sincere about keeping it alive as long as you are able, and for now and the foreseeable future, I am all three of these.

I think the neatest and proudest thing for me, is to get emails from people who first logged on to the BBS when they were in their teens and trying to find out what they wanted to do with their lives. I've received several emails from guys who are now engineers, technicians or doctors who say they used to visit KeelyNet in the BBS days and it inspired them to pursue technical or medical careers.

My ultimate desire is to have my research lab where we could do a lot of tests and experiments.

I intentionally write WE since I get emails from people all over the world who have ideas or want to work in such a lab, so I have a list of who I want to invite here to work on their own project or other projects.

It will be much more than just a thinktank and something that could yield results that would change the world.

At any rate, we do what we can with what we have. So I'm glad KeelyNet has lasted this long and I hope we can do a lot more before it's my time to kick the bucket. Feel free to stop by KeelyNet and bookmark if you like.

Thanks for all your support over the years!

When I logged on today, man, it was so slow on EVERY site I tried to access, often saying can't find the page and asking to retry. Can't have this so used my old winME computer to lookup what I should do to reverse or delete the patch.

The instructions were;

Go to Control Panel
Open Add or Remove Programs
Click on Show Updates
Scroll down to Windows XP - Software Updates (which will be sorted by date)
Mine showed the last update on 07/10/08 but I didn't write down the name (like KB*****)
Clicked on that and told it to remove
Rebooted the machine

Opened my Firefox browser and wham, KeelyNet came up in a flash as it always did. No more Internet problems thanks to this simple fix. What a relief!

Doing it the way Americans do it isn't the only way nor is it the best. I read where a Mexican mother was advising her adult children before they left to work in the states. She said, 'Don't do everything the gringos do, some is right, some is wrong.'

We should always dynamically optimize and adapt by using the best methods we can find.

Who Will Rule the 21st Century? - "Straight-line extrapolation shows that China and India, with their faster growth rates, will eventually catch up to the U.S. in terms of pure economic size. But America has a final competitive advantage: its confluence of bright, hungry entrepreneurs and flush, eager investors; and its stable, highly adaptable system. For China, that would occur as early as 2045; for India, the date would be some 20 years later. Which is why you so often hear experts predicting that, by midcentury, the U.S. will be trailing the two new world superpowers." - Source

US Dominance in Space Slips as Other Nations Step Up Efforts - "Space, like Earth below, is globalizing. And as it does, America's long-held superiority in exploring, exploiting and commercializing "the final frontier" is slipping away, many experts believe. Although the United States remains dominant in most space-related fields -- and owns half the military satellites currently orbiting Earth -- experts say the nation's superiority is diminishing, and many other nations are expanding their civilian and commercial space capabilities at a far faster pace. "We spent many tens of billions of dollars during the Apollo era to purchase a commanding lead in space over all nations on Earth," said NASA Administrator Michael D. Griffin, who said his agency's budget is down by 20 percent in inflation-adjusted terms since 1992. "We've been living off the fruit of that purchase for 40 years and have not . . . chosen to invest at a level that would preserve that commanding lead." Six separate nations and the European Space Agency are now capable of sending sophisticated satellites and spacecraft into orbit -- and more are on the way...." - Source

"The Suntory Mermaid II successfully completed late Friday night a 4,350 mile trip from Honolulu, Hawaii, to the Kii Channel off the east coast of Japan, marking the longest known voyage by a wave-powered boat. The bow-mounted mechanism harnesses wave power to provide a dolphinlike tail kick from two independently mounted flippers. The design team originally estimated that the 31-foot-long, three-ton catamaran would average three to four knots and arrive off the east coast of Japan about 60 days after its departure on March 16. But, unusually good weather and calm seas resulted in the boat traveling an average of only 1.5 knots and the Mermaid’s maiden voyage ended up taking 111 days. Nevertheless, Dr. Terao and his team were satisfied with the result. “We were able to prove that our propulsion system delivers a 7,000-kilometer voyage,” Dr. Terao said in an e-mail interview from Japan. “And we can easily improve the speed. In fact, the improvements have already started.” - Source

"The "Rivera Method" - takes such agricultural refuse as cracked soy beans, rice and cotton seed hulls, grain sorghum, milo and jatropha and turns them into bio-crude oil. This crude - or Vertroleum, as Rivera calls it - can then be refined further into everything from gasoline to jet fuel and just about every petrochemical in between. What's more, Rivera claims that products made from Vertroleum burn at near 100 percent efficiency, leaving behind neither heat nor pollution as proof of the chemical reactions taking place. To demonstrate, Rivera set fire to two samples of oil. The first sample - a few drops of conventional petroleum - burned briefly before dying out, leaving behind only wisps of black smoke and an unmistakable smell. The second sample - Rivera's Vertroleum - not only produced a taller flame longer but was decidedly absent of both smoke and smell. For further proof, plant workers cranked up both a large industrial engine block and a four-wheeler powered by Vertroleum gasoline to display the fuel's compatibility with today's combustion engines. Even after a few minutes of operation, the engine block was cool to the touch while the four-wheeler's exhaust pipe seemed to emit little more than warm, odorless air. For more information on Vertroleum and Sustainable Power Corp, visit www.sustainablepower.com / "The company Sustainable Power Corp. claims to have created a form of bio-crude oil from agricultural refuse. They use agro-waste from cracked soy beans, rice and cotton seed hulls, grain sorghum, milo, and jatropha and turn it into bio-crude oil. This crude can then be further refined into everything from gasoline to jet fuel and just about every petrochemical in between. The CEO is quoted: 'Our biggest problem is that we are too good to be true. We can literally replace every gallon of gasoline, diesel and jet fuel in the United States using just 12 percent of the waste byproducts in the country.' They also claim that their fuel burns to near 100 percent efficiency." - Source

"Received a note from Don Lancaster, our resident skeptic and it is definitely worth posting; "Here, revealed in print for the very first time, are many of the super secret insider techniques to absolutely and totally ruin the performance of an onboard auto or truck hydrogen electrolysis generator. Please note that while any one of these by themselves is clearly a fatal flaw, using them in combination is strongly recommended to be absolutely sure your device ends up utterly and truly worthless…" - Source

"The device itself is basic enough. Inside a hard plastic one-quart container filled with distilled water, Schattenkerk inserts two steel electrodes. Wiring connects the electrodes to a ground on the car’s frame and a positive charge within the fuse box, which activates only when the ignition is turned on. The positively charged electrode sends water molecules into a frenzy. The electrolysis separates hydrogen and oxygen from each other in a vacuum and they return to gas, which is then sucked into the fuel mixture via plastic tubing and the engine’s intake manifold. The hydrogen works as a fuel additive, Schattenkerk says. When it is burned both the hydrogen and the oxygen return to water. However, water production is minimal — no more than what the engine may produce on a humid day — and stainless steel valves are not necessary, he added. A pinch of baking soda works as a catalyst for the electrolysis. But too much can blow a fuse. When Schattenkerk first hooked the hydrogen generator to his wife’s 1998 Saturn, the mid-size car improved its mileage from 28 miles per gallon to 35. Schattenkerk also claims that the hydrogen generator uses only a few amps of energy and is no less a drag on the alternator than maybe adding a radio to the car. As for maintenance, he said the device should be checked once about every 1,000 miles and water added as needed. It’s important that it’s distilled water since regular tap water holds minerals and other impurities that can cause corrosion. When the water turns brick red, Schattenkerk says it’s time to rinse out the container and add new water. After five different homemade models, he believes he’s nearly perfected the converter. For $150, including installation, he claims it can improve any car’s gas mileage by 10 percent to as much as 50 percent. Schattenkerk can be reached at (541) 513-0105 or hydrogenhybrids@yahoo.com" - Source

Mi spiegheresti il paradosso del palloncino?

Il palloncino immerso in un cilindro di acqua alto 2.000 metri che si carica da solo è un paradosso interessante. Se il palloncino ha la dimensione di un dm3, avrà una spinta verso l'alto di 1 kg.

Con la spinta di 1 kg è possibile far entrare nel palloncino con delle leve un pochettino di aria in più.

Quindi il palloncino di un dm3 dopo un percorso di un metro potrebbe diventare applicando la sua spinta verso l'alto, di circa 1,1 dm3 ed aumentare la sua forza applicata sull'argano.

Dopo cento metri di risalita il palloncino potrebbe diventare di un metro cubo, e la sua spinta verso l'alto diventerebbe di 1 tonnellata... (continua...)

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IL PARADOSSO DEL PALLONCINO DI SCHIETTI E LA TRUFFA DEI BACINI IDROELETTRICI

Ho dato incarico al mio avvocato N. S. dal momento che lo ritenesse opportuno di dare seguito ai miei esposti a Carabinieri e Polizia trasformandoli in vere e proprie denunce del genere class action con lo scopo di giungere ad accordi privati fra le parti in causa o a giudizi inappellabili in tribunale.

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From: Domenico Schietti
Sent: 12/7/2008 4:33:55 PM
To: carabinieri@carabinieri.it; urp.mi@poliziadistato.it
Subject: DENUNCIA COSTRUZIONE GRANDI BACINI IDROELETTRICI

Carissimi,

volevo ricordarvi che con una leva è possibile sollevare il mondo, e quindi con una leva è possibile ricaricare i grandi bacini idrolettrici senza bisogno di devastare l'ambiente costruendo grandi dighe sui fiumi.

Con una leva di grandi dimensioni è possibile alzare grandi pesi e quindi alzare grandi quantità d'acqua riportandola senza sforzo al bacino superiore di una centrale idorelettrica senza aspettare che l'acqua arrivi al mare, evapori si trasformi in nubi, in pioggia e neve, cada sulle cime delle... (continua...)

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