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There's nothing worse
than flying away from home only to later find out the airline
you've booked with has suddenly gone out of business.
Unfortunately, this situation has confronted many travellers, which
explains why the British government is working on measures to
prevent this kind of situation from arising again.
The UK's Civil Aviation Authority (AAA) is proposing to
introduce greater protection for passengers booking direct with
airlines. It wants individual passengers to enjoy the same
protection given on bookings through tour operators. This measure
is designed to cover the possibility of an airline going bust with
passengers stranded overseas.
The move follows a consultation in 2003, when the CAA set out to
investigate the problem where trends showed people were purchasing
separate travel components, often including flights on no-frills
airlines, rather than complete vacation packages. These bookings
carry either limited protection against insolvency or none at all,
but research showed that the public was not aware of that.
The CAA's draft advice, which is now being circulated to key
parties before being submitted to the UK Government, suggests that
advance payments for bookings direct with airlines should be
financially protected in the same way as vacation packages. It
means airline tickets booked directly may have to have an
additional charge or levy to cover the costs of the scheme. The
CAA's proposal would require a change in UK law.
Over the past seventeen years, Air Travel Organisers' Licensing
(ATOL) has managed over 300 tour operator failures, rescuing almost
190,000 people from being stranded and giving refunds to more than
a million others at a total cost of �160 million ($295
million). Since March 2003, 3,900 people were rescued or refunded,
at a cost of �1.3 million.
ATOL is managed by the CAA and gives comprehensive protection
from losing money or being stranded abroad to people in the UK who
buy air holidays and flights from tour operators each year. It is
by far the largest travel protection program in the UK, and the
only one for flights and air holidays sold by tour operators. The
problem is that ATOL is not set up to apply to tickets bought
directly from airlines.
The CAA says changing
patterns in technology and the increased availability of cheap
scheduled tickets has led to the public buying their holidays in
new ways. It published research indicating that there was public
confusion over which travel products included insolvency protection
and which did not, and put a series of questions relating to the
proper scope of consumer protection and the means by which it
should be provided.
All tour operators selling flights and air holidays must hold a
license from the CAA. Before it gets a license each operator is
examined to ensure it is properly managed and financially sound,
and it must lodge a bond, which is a financial guarantee provided
by a bank or insurance company. If it fails, the CAA then uses the
money to pay for people abroad to continue their holidays and to
travel home as planned, and to make refunds to those who have paid
but not travelled. If the bond is not enough, any shortfall is met
by the Air Travel Trust Fund, which is managed by the CAA and backs
up the individual bonds.
There is no equivalent scheme covering sales made directly by
airlines. Most passengers carried on charter airlines buy their
tickets through tour operators and are protected by ATOL.
Passengers carried on scheduled airlines are not protected by ATOL
unless they buy the seat, perhaps as part of a package, from an
ATOL holder.
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The perfect Palm Springs location. Perfect views. Custom furniture both indoors and out. Perfect Paul Trusedale designed home. The perfect Palm Springs home!
(Owner has another vacation rental in Long Beach: VRBO listing #280444).
Rolling gate installed from the street into the auto court and driveway area for greater security and privacy. Plus, a call box that rings into the home. ALSO, a new pedestrian gate into pool area from auto court.
Use owners annual Pass to Joshua Tree National Park! Just 40 minutes away and a world apart!
Step through the front gate and you enter your perfect private mid-century resort with an oversized pool and plenty of covered patio space perfect for dining or relaxing.
Beautiful landscaped grounds with mature trees and perfect mountain views and many seating areas with classic (mid-century) outdoor furniture. Several seating and reclining areas including a double chaise lounge, four poolside chaises and outdoor eating areas in both the front and back all create the perfect blend of seating and outdoor dining. Outdoor shower.
Inside, you will discover a Paul Trousdale designed Mid-Century classic post and beam perfectly refined and updated in 2009 & 2010. Walls of glass in almost every room open onto the patio and pool area providing easy access and the ultimate indoor/outdoor desert experience. Whether throwing some shrimps on the gas barbecue, dining al fresco or just relaxing by the pool, you'll be sure to enjoy this completely private (walled/hedged and gated), quiet and relaxing desert oasis.
Owners art collection includes Plein-Air paintings by Mark Kerkhoff. Modern artwork by Chris Westergaard and Miro. Mid Century furnishings abound both inside and out.
There are two separate bedroom wings allowing plenty of privacy. The Master Wing contains a large bedroom featuring a king size bed, a 42" flat screen HDTV and a bathroom with dual modern vanities and the ultra shower experience with two shower heads, three body sprays and a shower wand. There are plenty of usable drawers and a clothing armoire. The other wing contains another master bedroom with a queen size bed and a bathroom with a limestone countertop and a whirlpool tub and shower. Both master bedrooms have vaulted ceilings with recessed lighting and walls of glass opening onto the patio and pool area. The third guest bedroom features twin beds and an en-suite bathroom with a shower panel with multiple shower heads and body sprays. All 3 bathrooms are have all been beautifully updated with contemporary cabinetry, fixtures and custom travertine flooring. Flat screen Televisions in Both Master bedrooms, the Media Room and Kitchen. Each bedroom has a ceiling fan for individual comfort although the house has dual heating and air conditioners, dual swamp coolers as well as dual water heaters. Bedroom #2 and #3 now have instant hot water heater.
The living room has a vaulted ceiling with recessed lighting and walls of glass opening onto the patio and pool area extending the indoor/outdoor feeling. There is also a gas fire and ice fireplace surrounded by beautiful floor-to-ceiling stacked stone and a limestone hearth for warm, cozy, intimate nights. The living room and much of the house features slate tile floors and generous stone accents. Off the living room is a Media Room including a 50-inch plasma TV, DVD player and built-in surround sound for the ultimate movie watching experience. Wine Refrigerator located in home theater room. There is also the ability to separately play music throughout much of the house and the outdoor spaces with built-in speakers and volume controls in each area. A new DISH satellite system thoughtout the home, and wireless internet are provided. Professionally designed contemporary furnishings and artwork are found throughout the house.
The fully-equipped kitchen was also updated in 2009 with Caesarstone countertops, custom cabinetry and stainless steel appliances including a professional style range and a built-in microwave. The kitchen conveniently opens onto the dining room and features a large, bright window onto the rear patio with outdoor dining for 6. Just about everything you could possibly need is at hand. There is a separate wine refrigerator (in the media room) and Agave Gardens with six Palo Verde trees and a private garden retreat.
Perfectly located just a mile south of Downtown Palm Springs in the less-windy Tahquitz River Estates neighborhood and surrounded by other single-family residences. Close to everything, shopping, restaurants and nightspots of Downtown Palm Springs and the Spa Resort & Casino are just a mile away. Golfing on both public and private courses, horseback riding and numerous hiking trails are only minutes away as well. Hot air balloons located in Indio, 30 minutes away. The world-famous Palm Springs Aerial Tram and and the designer shopping of El Paseo are only 15 minutes away. An afternoon of shopping at the Cabazon Shopping Outlets are a few miles away off Interstate 10 West.
No Airport Noise.
City of Palm Springs Vacation Rental Registration Certificate TOT permit number: 4750
Keywords: House, Resort, Pool, Oasis, Desert, Palm Springs, Mid-Century, Modern, Contemporary, View, Hiking, Private/Walled/Hedged/Gated.
Welcome to my Palm Springs home. I have spent a lot of time updating many features including all furnishings both indoors and out, interior painting and landscaping. I hope you find my home the perfect retreat and your home away from home. I strive to provide a restful, relaxing and re-charging vacation rental experience.
The Owner purchased this house in 2010
I love Palm Springs. I love this house. Fantastic location. The home sits North/South allowing for wonderful afternoons without glaring sun. Quiet location. Wonderful seperation of bedrooms. Recently updated bathrooms and kitchen. All new furniture. New DISH TV Network. Wine Refrigerator. Upgraded home theatre with surround sound through the home. Recently painted. Walled, hedged and gated. Outdoor shower. Many gardens and plantings. Plein Air Desert paintings throughout the home. Read my over 30 property reviews. This is an amazing home to decompress from the everyday world.
Lots of shade and plenty of sun. Great South facing swimming pool. Quiet street with plenty of parking in the driveway. NOW! New electronic rolling gate across the driveway with intercom to home. The best of Palm Springs in a great location. Recently updated with all new furniture, paint and fabric throughout...indoors and out. A Paul Truesdale....classic re-engineered for todays desert living. Amazing agave and butterfly/hummingbird gardens. Desert Plein Air artwork throughout. Outdoor Shower.
Surround sound for music or TV throughout the home. Wine Refrigerator.
The Spa Casino, great bike riding, and the famous Indian Canyons. Close to grocery shopping.
Walk to Koffi and the Ace Hotel. Horseback riding very close into desert oasis'.
No Airport Noise.
VIsit Joshua Tree National Park with use of homeowners Annual Park Pass!
Close to many golf courses.
Keurig Coffee Maker.
Amazing gardens throughout with mature trees and hedging.
Very Private. Hedged. Walled. Gated.
Electric Gate for privacy and security.
Outdoor Shower.
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|Weekend Night
|Monthly *
Fall 2014
Oct 1 2014 - Dec 31 2014
3 night minimum stay
Winter Rates
Jan 1 2015 - Jun 30 2015
3 night minimum stay
|Cleaning Fee
|Refundable damage deposit
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Rates are subject to change until confirmed by owner.
Cleaning fee: $175.00
Pool Heating fee (winter only) $50.00 per day
Supplemental Air Conditioning surcharge (summer only) $25.00 per day
* Approximate monthly rate. Actual rate will depend on the days of the month you stay.
Payment is usually accepted in the quoted currency (USD) unless the currency and the amount is specifically agreed in advance with the owner / advertiser.

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Last week when I bought my first bunch of little beets from the farmer's market in West Allis, I had no idea what they would become. As the sole beet eater in my house, I often have mixed feelings when I see my favorite vegetables of all time. I grew up in a family of beet lovers, ruby roots making their way often to our table boiled or roasted, or pickled in spicy brine. It almost makes me ache that my own family wants nothing to do with them.
The beets I found at the market were small actually, but they boasted huge and flawless greens, which are every bit as healthy and delicious as the beetroot itself. Two dollars lighter, I brought home my rubberbanded bunch and began scheming for ideas...
A quick google search revealed this tagline from the New York Times: "Beet Recipes Even a Beet Hater Can Love." I didn't hold much hope that the staunch beet haters in my house would buy into it, but the gratin I looked at sure convinced me that I needed to make it right away. It makes use of the entire beet, has a good amount of protein from a couple of eggs, and can be served hot, cold or room temperature – much like the quiche-like strata I recently wrote about.
A gratin is defined by Alan Davidson as a French noun that in as early as the 16th century referred to "that part of a cooked dish which stuck to the pot or pan and had to be scraped (gratte) off if it was not to be wasted." Like most culinary things, the term gratin has evolved over time, but most always it means that the vegetable was sliced and baked with a small amount of cheese (or that cheese was dusted over the top prior to baking, as in the term 'au gratin') and that the top was baked until crispy or well-browned. That definition of gratin translates well in my mind; not one morsel of this dish will be wasted.
Beet Gratin (adapted from Martha Rose Shulman, The New York Times)


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Hero (Warcraft III)
From Wowpedia
This article or section contains lore taken from Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, the manuals, and official bonus maps.
A hero (also called a hero unit, or rarely a legend) is a unit-type in Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos and the expansion Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne. Heroes are very special units. They have the ability to advance in levels, collect items in a small inventory, and confer special benefits to the units near them. In many ways, they are the leaders of your other units.
- Heroes can level up to become stronger. He or she earns 1 Ability Point each level and can learn new abilities or improve existing ones.
- The level cap is 10, but can be changed in custom maps.
- The three hero attributes are:
- Strength – Increases hit points and hit point regeneration.
- Agility – Increases armor, attack speed and movement speed.
- Intelligence – Increases mana and mana regeneration.
- Each hero has a Primary Attribute which is one of the three above. Besides its usual effect, it also increases the hero's base damage. As the hero's level increases, the number of attribute-points will increase. Additional points can also be gained by using books that are usually dropped by creeps.
- A hero can carry up to six items that increase his or her attributes (also attributes such as Hit Points, regeneration rate, and attack speed) and/or have some other special effect.
- When a hero dies, he or she can be revived at an altar, or at a tavern (The Frozen Throne only), for a price depending on the level of the hero. The price is higher at taverns because it revives the hero instantly while an altar needs some time to re-summon the hero.
- When a hero dies, it leaves no corpse. Instead of decaying down into the ground like most other units, dead heroes will turn transparent and levitate upwards before they disappear (the soul flies to the heavens). Undead heroes have different ways of dying, such as the Lich's implosion and the Dreadlord explosion into bats, but a stream of souls will fly upwards from where they died. Heroes without a dissipation-animation will turn transparent and disappear on the ground.
Melee games
- A player may have up to three different heroes. The first one will only cost 5 food, while the two others will in addition to food cost gold and lumber.
- Every hero starts at level 1, with 1 point to assign to an ability.
- Heroes can be trained at altars or at a tavern. The altar only offers heroes of the race which the altar belongs to, while the tavern offers Neutral Heroes which can be hired by any race. It is possible to mix them, for example choosing two heroes from the altar and a third from the tavern.
- The name of the hero is randomly chosen.
- In campaigns, heroes are often major characters in the plot. There are however melee heroes in some missions. Most of the hero-types in the melee games are "represented" in the campaigns through these plot-related heroes, which in gameplay comparison only differ in visual looks and sound-quotes.
- Usually, the player can't train any other heroes. It is, however, often still possible to revive any dead heroes. If it is not, the death of the hero will likely trigger mission defeat. If this is the case, the quest-objective will mention that the hero(es) must not die.
- Heres that represent characters are carried through the campaign. They keep their items, experience and abilities.
- The level cap can be different per mission, to prevent the hero from reaching level 10 too fast.
See also
- Warcraft III heroes, for a list of all Warcraft III heroes.
- Random hero, for a list of randomly generated heroes.
- (These lists are very similar, and overlaps each other to some degree)
External links
Battle.net Heroes F.A.Q.


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Alexander Blachly, director; All singers: Elizabeth Baber, Michele Kennedy, Dominique Surh, Melissa Fogarty, Luthien Brackett, Silvie Jensen, Robert Isaacs, Neil Farrell, Thom Baker, Michael Steinberger, Thomas McCargar, Jeffrey Johnson, Kurt-Owen Richards, Peter Stewart
Paragraph about the ensemble:
Pomerium's primary mission is to perform and record the great a cappella polyphony of the 14th to 16th centuries. Singing from editions prepared for the ensemble by its director from original sources, Pomerium strives to achieve a vitality in performance that can help today's audiences appreciate music as the equal of the other arts of the period, with the hope that a composer such as Ockeghem might be recognized as an artist comparable in stature to Botticelli in painting or Donatello in sculpture, or that Josquin Desprez might be recognized, as he was in a treatise from 1567, as the "Michelangelo" of Renaissance music. Founded in 1972, Pomerium draws on decades of experience in presenting Renaissance choral masterpieces. One of its many reviews in the New York Times stated that the group's "unisons are impeccable, the pacing unmannered...Josquin's Virgo salutiferi sounded as dramatic as any Ride of the Valkyries.
Educational/Outreach add-ons available:
Illustrated lectures on Music from the Sistine Chapel and Mannerist Music of the Renaissance.
Titles of touring programs for 2012-13:
William Byrd (ca. 1540-1623): Catholic Composer in an Anglican Land Mannerist Music of the Renaissance: Expression and Exaggeration by Orlando di Lasso, Giaches de Wert, and Carlo Gesualdo Musica Vaticana, 1503-34: Musical Masterpieces from the Sistine Chapel at the Time of Michelangelo Music for the Easter Season: Passion and Resurrection Motets of the Renaissance
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This is a sickening and unfinished story of a professor and his family who is targeted by mega-church staff.
He blogged – he dared make some mildly critical posts about this church and a few staff.
What happened to this man and his family over a series of months as church staff targeted him for character assassination, identity theft, cruelty, slander, stalking, threats…is terrifying.
This is a church which has a staff of about 109 people, and about 15 thousand attendees. It is independent and leadership answers to no-one. Think about it, this church is the size of a town and leadership answers to no-one.
You can read Dr. Duncan`s story here.
A great deal has happened since he posted his chronological account and you can follow what has happened since at his blog.
Dr. Duncan, who is an assistant professor of communication at Anderson University, was interviewed by Chris Rosebrough.
This hour long interview goes into the evil of complicit silence, arrogance of unaccountability, culture of violence, and crushing of critics. This is a mild excerpt from Holy Rage at the Spring:
On August 2, Maxwell asks his NewSpring readers if anyone has any ideas to further harass me. Jason Moorehead, a NewSpring pastor, lives just a few houses behind mine, in the neighborhood from which we had welcomed kids into our yard. It was Moorehead who was receiving Maxwell's messages in his Twitter feeds. The very next day, Maxwell is chirping about kids playing on my zip line. More than just reading, did NewSpring's pastor feed content to Maxwell? I don't know for sure, but the only other way that Maxwell knew about kids playing on my zip line was for him to have parked outside our house to watch my son play, or to enter my property to see what was back there. Perversely, the Moorehead theory is the most comforting.
Even so, once we connected those dots, all those possibilities were rather terrifying for my wife. She, quite reasonably, feels violated and unsafe in our own home.
As he points out in the audio interview, none of what occurred is innocuous.
This content is not appropriate for younger readers, it is not safe for the spiritually sensitive.
This is bone chilling.
Months of willful, depraved, escalating bullying by the perps on the church staff does not leave anyone unscathed.
Update: I'd like to make a link above more prominent because of concerns expressed in the comments by someone who follows US mega church ministries. Here part of the statement from New Spring Church:
Recently, certain events occurred that Pastor Perry and the Church's leadership feel the NewSpring Church family needs to know about.
Earlier this year, a critic of the church from the Anderson community created a critical blog site and posted numerous blogs disagreeing with the methods of NewSpring Church and the messages that Pastor Perry has preached, including basic theological doctrine.
In February an employee of the church met with this individual in an attempt to resolve any misunderstandings and listen to his concerns. Since that meeting, the frequency and intensity of the critical blogs have increased.
In the summer of 2009, one NewSpring employee and two volunteers, acting on their own accord and unbeknownst to the Church, began a wholly inappropriate campaign directed at the author of the blog site. None of their actions were known to, or condoned by, the Church or its leadership in any way.
Here is a tweet from Noble after the church statement was posted.
James Duncan re: errors in the church statement.
Update: I've read every post about what the Duncan family went through. I've read Dr. Duncan's blog (yes, it took a couple of days and I learned a lot). One of the better posts was by Phoenix Preacher who gave James Duncan some advice.
My advise to the blogger?
Run away!
Noble will survive and prosper and you will be demonized for life.
His survival will embolden him and he will learn that he is indeed bullet and blog proof.
Been there, done that.
Butts in the pews cover and pay for a multitude of sins and few will leave his church over this.
Nobody really cares as long as the show is good and the props are refreshed on a timely basis.
I take that back;
Jesus cares, but nobody will know that until He returns to finish cleaning up the mess.
Duncan has told his story and taught his lessons (after reading his blog I got romping around Ecclesiastes -seemed like a good place to go after reading so many opinions;^). He gave readers room to think and he spoke to critics gracefully on the front porch of his blog. Here's the declaration:
I couldn't really think of how to say this, so I'll resort to a bit of cricket speak, if you'll indulge me.
I think it's time to declare the innings closed and retire to the pavilion.
Pajama Pages will stay here as an archive, but I don't foresee any more new posts for a while. After all that I've written over the last nine months, and especially in the last 10 days, if you don't see what I'm saying yet, no more words from me are going to get that done.
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Christmas Vacation -- The comic misadventures of the beleaguered Griswold family continue in this latest 'Vacation' outing, the third and most successful of the series.
Christmas Vacation -- The Griswold family's plans for a big family Christmas predictably turn into a big disaster.
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I am interested in the weight attribute for edges and I am drawing large graphes (may be 50k nodes, 1M edges), so I wish to use sfdp. I have read here (http://graphviz.org/content/attrs#dweight) that weight can be used with sfdp. And this example (http://www.graphviz.org/Gallery/undirected/gd_1994_2007.html) seems to use weight.
But, when I have the same image result, using weight or not with sfdp. Moreover, weight is working well with fdp. Did I miss someting ?
Here is the beginning of a graph, of nodes, and edges definitions.
digraph {
graph [overlap=prism,bgcolor=none,layout=fdp];
node [label="",shape=diamond,style=filled,width=1,height=1];
"101000011" [color="#42bc00"];
"000101001" [color="#48b600",shape=circle];
"110110000" [color="#3ac400"];
"000001011" [color="#31cd00",shape=circle];
"110000011" [color="#56a800",shape=circle];
"100010110" [color="#34ca00"];
"001101000" -> "001101001" [color="#d52900"]
"001101000" -> "011101000" [color="#c83600"]
"011001000" -> "011000000" [weight="1000.0",color="#6f8f00",style=bold,arrowhead=none]
"011001000" -> "001001000" [weight="1000.0",color="#4faf00",style=bold,arrowhead=none]
"011001000" -> "010001000" [weight="1000.0",color="#20de00",style=bold,arrowhead=none]
The command line look like :
sfdp -Tpng -oOut.png In.txt
fdp -Tpng -oOut.png In.txt
I may use fdp for small graphs, but I wish to use sfdp for bigger graphs.
Thanks for your help
Weight not working with sfdp
Sorry, the documentation was incorrect and has been fixed. At present, sfdp does not handle edge weights or lengths, clusters or initial/fixed positions, as these are tricky to handle with multiscale techniques.
Weight not working with sfdp
Thanks for your answer.
I can understand it is difficult to implement with the multiscale technique and I was hoping it was magicaly done...
Weight not working with sfdp
Miaou, so how did you draw multiscale graphs with weight?
I am sorry I did not answered
I am sorry I did not answered you sooner.
I did not solve the problem. You have to use fdp when my graphs are smalls, and sfdp without weight when graps are big...
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Pulled my credit reports this morning and was disappointed because I havn't gotten the bump I thought I'd get after paying off credit cards---but 2/4 still havn't reported zero balance.
But, I noticed that an account I'm listed as an AU on is still reporting. I've called Juniper about this a few times and was told each time that the CRA's had to update it (1st call was over a year ago). So I called EQ this morning about it and they tell me it's Juniper who hasn't taken me off--chances are a "glitch" wouldn't be showing the same on all 3 reports. So I call Juniper again and this time they confirm my name was never removed from the ex's account!! Now I'm miffed and I let them know it! The ex has been using this card more and it's hitting my util. Thank goodness it's in good standing though.
Decision made----Juniper is a disorganized mess and it's time it goes in the sock drawer! Out of exasperation and the need to replace the CL from the Juniper card, I apped for a Chase Freedom card. Impulse action. It'll probably be denied because I have a BK from 2003 on my report.
Maybe I need a 12 step program....
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Hip-Hop Mogul: Turn In Your Guns and Get Free Beyoncé Tickets
Something tells us this wasn't what Michael Bloomberg had in mind when he started the "Demand a Plan" campaign–but it has potential. Hip-hop mogul Michael "Blue" Williams, whose clients include Cee-Lo and Outkast and who doesn't claim to be the world's best manager despite choosing the Twitter handle @TheBestManager, has proposed a campaign called "Guns for Greatness" designed to reduce the number of firearms on New York streets by offering "mentorships" and free Beyoncé/Jay-Z concert tickets to anyone who turns his weapons in to the police department.
Sure, it sounds a little ridiculous at first, but according to a letter Williams sent to the NYPD earlier this week, he's already three quarters of the way toward his goal of raising $100,000 to fund the initiative.
Beyoncé, Jay-Z and the NYPD have yet to sign off on the proposal, but top cop Ray Kelly did tell the New York Daily News that "We want to get as many guns off the streets, and if this works, we'd like to support it."


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Sessions are friendly, fun and encourage social engagement.
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Sessions cover skills, tactical awareness and positioning to improve the players' confidence and technical ability.
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Despite the continued bombardment by Syrian forces, the rebels have made strategic gains in the country's north.
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The latest public executions by a group that declared allegiance to al-Qaeda have only fuelled their fears.
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A famous scientist developed a formula to bring statues to life.
He went to a local park to try it out on a statue of Gen. Ulysses Grant.
After application, Gen Grant began to move and soon was completely alive.
The scientist asked, "What's the first thing you'll do, General?"
The general answered while drawing his pistol "I'm going to kill about a million damn pigeons!"
Thanks to: l w smith - gambrills - md - USA.
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A young ensign had nearly completed his first overseas tour of sea duty when he was given an opportunity to display his ability at getting the ship under way. With a stream of crisp commands, he had the decks buzzing with men. The ship steamed out of the channel and soon the port was far behind.
The ensign's efficiency has been remarkable. In fact, the deck was abuzz with talk that he had set a new record for getting a destroyer under way. The ensign glowed at his accomplishment and was not all surprised when another seaman approached him with a message from the captain.
He was, however, a bit surprised to find that it was a radio message, and he was even more surprised when he read, "My personal congratulations upon completing your underway preparation exercise according to the book and with amazing speed. In your haste, however, you have overlooked one of the unwritten rules -- Make Sure The Captain Is Aboard Before Getting Under Way."
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During training exercises, the Lieutenant driving down a
muddy back road encountered another car stuck in the mud
with a red-faced colonel at the wheel.
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The Army has been experimenting for years to come up with a liquid that will eat through anything and they finally did it. It eats through glass, stainless steel, iron,and all kinds of metal, rock and granite. Now if they could only find something to put it in.
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Most people
are aware of the basics of the current system of banking that we
have in place. Joe Average takes his savings to Steve's Bank, and
gives it to them as a deposit. They credit his account with the
amount of money he has given them. They then take the majority of
that money, we'll say 60% as an example, and loan it out to borrowers,
charging an interest rate. If Joe should return to collect on his
deposit before the bank collects on the loan, they will pay it out
to him either through their takings from interest on other loans
or from the accounts of other customers of the bank. This system
is why economists say that savings and investment are so closely
linked. Without savings, placed in the hands of fractional reserve
banks, there could be no loans, and without loans, there could be
no large-scale investment, at least, under our present system.
This system
does not work too badly (we'll get to that later) in the absence
of a federal bank and fiat currency. However, in our current system,
it is an inherently inflationary process that serves to distort
the structure of production and cause what economists call the business
Suppose that
there is a sudden increase in the demand for loans in our current
system. Banks, of course, oblige this desire for loans. However,
since the supply of money has remained the same, they react by raising
interest rates.
Interest rates, are, essentially, the price of borrowing money.
So of course, they obey the laws of supply and demand like any other
price mechanism. However, the government has in place a price control
on interest rates. It takes the form of the federal reserve, which
will respond to rising interest rates through pumping money into
the economy, in an attempt to keep rates at what the fed has set
as its target. The result of this is of course, inflation. Anytime
the demand for loans is increased, money is simply taken out of
thin air and placed into the economy by the fed!
Like any
policy that refuses to let markets clear, the fed's policy of trying
to control the interest rate is misguided and has ill effects. By
refusing to allow interests rates to function properly, and keeping
them artificially low via the creation of new money, the fed encourages
malinvestment. Investors who believe that interest rates will always
be (relatively) low have much less reason to invest carefully. Why
not take big risks? After all, you can always take out more loans,
it's not as if the price of loanable funds is liable to change just
like the price of anything else in a market. Of course, eventually
this malinvestment boils over, and the demand for loanable funds
begins to skyrocket as poorly made investments go bottom up. Sometimes,
the fed responds by bailing out banks (remember that they keep only
a fraction of actual savings) through loaning them large amounts
of money. The result is large-scale inflation. Sometimes it chooses
not to, believing it is best to stick to a tight money policy. The
result is bank runs. With the federal reserve in charge, you are
damned if you do and damned if you don't!
So, clearly,
this is a problem. It traps us in a constant state of boom-bust
capitalism, the business cycle always nipping at our heels. Is there
nothing we can do? There is an answer, however politically infeasible
it seems currently. The answer is a complete end to government monopoly
of the money supply. We should instead institute a system of free
banking, whereby banks print and compete with their own notes.
we discuss this, it is important to understand the nature of money,
and what it really is. Everybody knows how a primitive, barter-based
economy works. If I have wheat, and I want meat, I take my wheat
and I find someone who A.) Has meat in the quantity I want, and
B.) Wants wheat in the quantity I have. We can then trade. For obvious
reasons, this gets very inconvenient very fast, especially when
more complex trade enters the scenario. The result is that some
good appears in the barter economy, which is widely traded enough,
that it actually becomes the standard of trade itself. Everyone
is confident that everyone else will be willing to accept it in
trade. In the history of the west, and indeed of all advanced economies,
this has near universally been gold. So let us assume that, in the
absence of the dollar, gold becomes our standard of trade (though
really it could be anything). Of course, just as nobody wants to
lug all of their dollars around with them in cash, nobody wants
to lug all of their gold around with them. That would be even more
So people
pay to have the gold deposited in banks, and are issued receipts,
in the form of bank notes, to use as trade. Now, obviously, banks
are going to want to compete to have the best notes. After all,
banks want to get the most deposits. The result will be that banks
will try to minimize the risk a consumer takes by depositing with
them of a run on
the bank. This could spell the end of fractional reserve banking
altogether, and the creation of a separate market for loanable funds
independent of banks. It could also mean that fractional reserve
banking will continue, but, in the absence of a price control (federal
reserve), interest rates will set themselves according to the actual
demand for loanable funds. It will likely be some mix of the two,
with some banks engaging in fractional reserve, but using other
perks to get savers to deposit with them instead of with other banks.
In any event, it is the end of inflation, and it minimizes the risk
of bank runs (since investors will be much less likely to malinvest
if they know that interest rates might change rapidly). Fractional
reserve banking with a central bank structure is the cause of the
business cycle and of boom-bust capitalism. Free banking is the
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The following is the process I used to remove rust from the inside of a motorcycle gas tank.
All the information herein can be (and was) found on the internets. This was my first foray into electrolysis and I supplemented my newly gleaned knowledge w/ much caution.
Keep an eye on our fledgling blog, dorque.net, for more Honda CB related goodness.
Step 1: Materials & Tools
- A gas tank with rusty innards
- Some Arm & Hammer Super Washing Soda
- A sacrificial anode made of steel (but not stainless) or iron
- A battery charger
- Some scrap wood
- A bucket
- Water
Step 2: The Sacrificial Anode
The anode itself is a piece of steel rod formerly used to hold up a plant (I think). Stainless steel will produce toxic substances during this process, so steer clear of it.
To suspend it inside the tank I fashioned a collar of sorts out of some scrap wood. The rod is bent above the collar to keep it from sliding into the tank and bent below to thread the narrow clearance between the underside of the top of the tank and top of the bottom ridge.
Note the amount of rod above the collar. This is a mistake. The extra weight actually pulled the bottom part of the rod into contact with the top of the tank when the battery charger was later connected.
Step 3: The Electrolytic Solution
For every gallon, add a tablespoon of of the Arm & Hammer Super Washing Soda. Adding more doesn't speed up the process, but I haven't read anything to suggest more soda will impede it either.
Stir thoroughly.
When all the soda is dissolved, top off the tank with the solution. Be sure to put a cork in any holes in the bottom of the tank (for petcock etc.)
I had all kinds of trouble until I got the right battery charger. My "good" one wouldn't work for this unless it was also connected to a low (not dead) battery.
Doing this now on a '73 Yamaha. Made the soda from household baking soda by baking it at 350F for 30 minutes. Put duct tape over the tank outlet. It's been actively bubbling for 2 hours so far with a 1.5 amp charger. Made the electrode by putting some short hose sections on a piece of thin strap steel.
I'm doing this right now on a 72 Honda CL100, its working great!
FYI if you can't find washing soda just bake regular baking soda at 400
For 15 to 20 minutes the heat alters the soda to be more caustic.
The oxygen bounces harmlessly off of the graphite and exits the solution as O2 gas
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Most importantly, I am concerned about re-rusting. Not many of rust removal solutions address this. For example, there are many forums that say to use vinegar, acetone, or muriatic acid etc. All of these, unless successfully neutralized, would temporarily remove oxidation but accelerate the rusting process.
I am sure electrolysis poses less rust potential than acid based solutions. However, what is the proper procedure immediately following electrolysis?
Rinse with denatured alcohol? Rinse with soapy water? Rinse with diesel fuel or gasoline? Rinse with WD-40? Does the tank HAVE to be sealed with something such as Kreem?
You can get a fuel tank sealer kit from the Eastwood Company (http://www.eastwood.com) that is as simple as pouring the liquid in, sloshing it around, pouring the excess out and letting it dry. Considering that most steel fuel tanks are originally protected by a zinc coating inside when new, and after you've removed rust the coating is almost certainly gone. the plastic sealer coating is essential to preventing new rust formation.


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2011 Columbia Cup: Sunday Images
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July 31, 2010
Kennewick, WA
Testing, Unlimited Heats 2A, 2B & 2C; 3A, 3B & 3C; Final Heat & Awards Ceremony
2011 Columbia Cup: Saturday Images
Images by Chris Denslow
July 30, 2010
Kennewick, WA
Testing, Driver's Autograph Session, Air Show, GP's, Vintage Hydros & Unlimited Heats 1A, 1B & 1C
2011 Columbia Cup: Friday Images
Images by Chris Denslow
July 29, 2010
Kennewick, WA
Testing, Air Show, Vintage hydros & Dash for Cash
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Well, I am back, but jetlagged and way behind on some work. Within the next few days I hope to get some stuff up on Iran/Iraq and a review of John Robb's new book, Brave New War.
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Making Electricity from Air
May 23, 2014
General Nonsense
Imagine you have two choices. You can either...
Do nothing, or...
Do something simple that has a 1% chance of helping billions of low income people live substantially better lives, but it comes with a 99% chance that the only outcome is your own permanent embarrassment.
Here I'm talking about the kind of embarrassment that follows you around forever. If you have a Wikipedia page, your embarrassment will end up on it. Every time you go to a party, someone will bring it up. When your obituary is written, it will be mentioned. Your credibility will forever be defined by this embarrassment.
Do you take that 1% chance?
This isn't a thought experiment. I'm dealing with that decision right now. Luckily for the world (maybe), I don't feel embarrassment like normal people. So I'm all in for the 1% chance of helping the world. I live for this sort of thing.
Here's my story.
About a decade ago I got an email from an engineer/inventor who claimed he could make electricity out of air. It had something to do with harvesting ions or some such blah, blah, blah. I was interested because I have a nerdy curiosity about green energy projects, but I assumed that this would be like most ideas in that realm and it wouldn't pan out.
The inventor formed a tiny company and the company stayed in touch with me by email as they filed their patents and worked on their prototypes. Patents were granted. Bigger and better prototypes were built. I've seen their videos of the prototypes powering household appliances.
If the videos are to be believed, the prototypes are harvesting useful amounts of electricity directly from the atmosphere, day or night, rain or shine. What the company doesn't yet know is how well it scales up, and whether or not normal engineering improvements in the process can make this economically feasible. The company thinks the odds are good.
If it scales up, and proves to be economical, the world will be transformed.
I like to think my bullshit filter is better than average. After ten years of following this project, I have concluded that the people are real, the patents are real, and the prototype does create electricity from the atmosphere. I could be wrong, so you should be skeptical. And I'm encouraged by the fact that the company doesn't claim to know it can scale up; they are looking for funds to find out.
And just to be super-clear, things that are in the "too good to be true" category turn out to be bullshit 99% of the time. That's our context.
But I'm going to take the 99% chance of embarrassing myself along with the 1% chance of helping the world by giving some attention to this technology.
I give you the company's
crowd funding link
I don't have a financial interest in the company.
The company has offered to fly me out to their tiny field laboratory in some godforsaken Florida cow field to see the prototype myself. I said they should spend their money showing it to atmospheric physicists (to further validate the potential) or investors in the green energy field.
If you are one of those types, I can put you in touch with the company. Depending on your credentials, I might even pay for your trip to see it. Contact me at
if you're interested.
Here are the patent links:
Patent 1
Patent 2
Patent 3
[Update: Read all of the comments before forming an opinion. And keep in mind that this is in the class of things that are bullshit 99% of the time.]
[Update 2: I'll forward to the company for response any simply-stated question you have about the technology or the economics of scaling up.]
[Update 3: And please stop categorizing me as gung-ho for an idea I have described as being in the class of things that are 99% likely to be bullshit. It's going to be hard enough to keep "Cartoonist involved in scam" off my Wikipedia page.]
[Update 3: For some reason there are comments I can see on my CMS that aren't getting posted. If you put a phone number in your comment, that might be why. Try an email address. The comments getting omitted include an alleged eyewitness to the prototype. And there are a few comments I can't comment on because my CMS doesn't work. -- Scott]
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May 29, 2014
@d4n: "And chuck.milner, here is why you care if it scales up. Imagine making a nuclear power plant to power your fridge. It would cost millions of dollars and never breakeven. But it scales, so you can build a bigger nuke for 10 x that price and power 1,000,000 fridges you have something."
That is an example of something that scales up well but doesn't scale down well. So not related to the question of whether this technology scales up well.
"If this can only generate 1000 watts an hour per square mile well it depends on how much it costs,, doesn't it? If it costs a couple of hundred bucks, then fine, but if it costs 200k it is not so useful, is it? "
That is not exactly a question of scale either (ignoring the fact that "watts per hour" is nonsense). The question of scaling up isn't "how much does it cost per watt?". The question is if you make it bigger, how does the power production increase? Linearly? Less than that? If less, how much less? This, combined with the cost information, determines the largest commercially viable scale. For example, it may produce 100 Watts at a 1 cubic meter size, but only 200 Watts at 10 cubic meters. In that case, it doesn't scale up very well. However, milner's point is that even if it doesn't scale up it could be useful. But it sounds like it probably isn't useful at any scale.
@Scott: "Maybe it's me, but I think the response to "Look at me power this light bulb" isn't "It can't, because math." It either works in the lab or it doesn't."
Right, the response is "release your data so other scientists can replicate your results". If they won't do that, and the only evidence is a video, then I would say "it can't work because math" is a better response than "it works because look at their video", though the best response is "who knows if this can work, so no you can't have my money".
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May 28, 2014
[I'm not a scientist, so I will ask a layperson's question. Is that calculation for all the energy of this type on the planet, or the energy one could get from one antenna? Would a second antenna next to the first double the energy output or does the one antenna somehow suck all the energy out of the entire county before the other can get some? -- Scott]
The 50 MW would be the maximum clear weather power output. It would require an electrode in the ionosphere. Additional "receivers" would not generate additional power. You could almost double the output of a given receiver by putting a second receiver near it but if you put receivers over the whole globe then the max total would be in the neighborhood of 50 MW.
Now if you wanted to include thunderstorms then the potential would rise to about 100 GW but then you would need your apparatus to chase storms and to have some out of this world capacitors. (Literally)
[Maybe it's me, but I think the response to "Look at me power this light bulb" isn't "It can't, because math." It either works in the lab or it doesn't. If it does, the second question is why-the-hell it works because it shouldn't. -- Scott]
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May 27, 2014
If the voltage stored on those capacitors (not sure why they would not be environmentally friendly) is in the range of 150kV, how many ion collectors would you need to reach Megawatts? Enough to collect only 7A. If you had a field of 100 poles arranged in a 10 x 10 square, with 100ft spacing, could it generate megawatts? I'd like to see.
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May 27, 2014
These two posts caught my eye:
Here is my back of the envelope math. Please feel free to make fun of it.
1 Coloumb (C) = 6.241E18 electrons
1 Ampere (A) = 1 C / 1 second or just 1 C/s
Tropospheric ion density from sketchy source on internet: 1000 ions per cc (i.e., cubic centimeters)
Sidenote: If we could get it from the ionosphere some 300km above the Earth's surface it would be more like 1E6 ions per cc, but that wouldn't really help anyway.
So. How much volume of air is needed just to get 1C of electrons? (Again if you believe sketchy data)
6.241E18 electrons / 1000 electrons per cc = 6.241E15 cc or if you prefer Liters, 6.241E12 L
Just to get 1A of current, you need to extract every free ion from 6.241E12 Liters of air every second!! (yes, I know, variances in atmospheric pressure, etc. ,etc.)
This is why they are using GIANT capacitors (which are not so environmentally friendly).
******* OK, that's 6.241 cubic kilometers of air every second just for 1 Amp of current.
And they want to scale for megawatts? That's probably thousands of amps.
Total world power consumption per year: 144,000 Terawatthours (from Wikipedia)
Total power dissipated in lightning strikes worldwide per year: 170 TWH (from Uppsala University)
So if ALL of the energy in lightning (think of it as the ionic energy in the atmosphere already handily packaged for you) were harnessed it would account for only 0.1% of the world's 'needs'. If we assume the efficiency of the process (if it were to work at all) would probably be low, and the distribution of the energy in the atmosphere is diffused worldwide, not just where we need it, and we assume that the net efficiency of those two factors is also 0.1% (just a presumably very generous guess),
****** then the overall potential power supplied by the process in question would be 0.0001% of the world's needs.
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May 27, 2014
I really don't understand all these vitriolic remarks. What part of this technology is so hard to understand? That there is an enormous amount of ionic energy in the air? Someone listed the amount of energy that is dissipated in yearly lightning strikes. While it is a large number, it doesn't even come close to the actual amount of energy that is available in the air. Also, nowhere does the company profess to be able to solve all the world's energy needs. They have powered small appliances and devices by charging up some capacitors by simply hanging some carbon strands in the air. The crowd funding step appears to be focused on scaling the measurements to see how much power they can generate. So what else is hard to believe? That if it is so simple, why hasn't anyone done it before? Why didn't you stick a carbon fiber 100 ft up in the air and measure the power if it is so simple?
I'm like Scott. It produces energy on a small scale. I am SUPER interested to see what it can do on a grand scale. Maybe it won't work. But if it does, even in enabling the storage of megawatts, wouldn't it be a neat thing to say you were a part of? And just think of all the possibilities...
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May 27, 2014
The President worked for ten years as a dental hygienist before getting into the power business.
She has an AAS in Dental Technology. (Maybe - actually, she may have just taken some courses in the program at Pensacola JC)
Look up Lisa McCowen on LinkedIn.
Good luck.
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May 27, 2014
I think the "solar roadway" guys have a much better chance at making something useful.
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May 27, 2014
I have one simple question that needs to be answered before they have any real credibility. They have been operating a test facility for years so they almost certainly have data on power collection.
"How much power per year has their test system produced?"
Until they answer that question in a straightforward manner this is 100% a scam.
Along with the significant red flags that others have raised I also question the use of crowd funding. If this idea really had strong economic potential they would be looking for investors who would take an equity stake. Crowd funding works in a non-scammy way for the production of products that can be pre-sold to the donors. In this case people are donating for hope (and some really ugly plaques). In this case, in the non-zero probability that this does actually work, the "inventors" will collect all the profits. In almost certain case that it doesn't work, they still get to keep whatever they pocket from the donations.
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May 27, 2014
I'll try this one more time.
Scott - this is absolutely a real thing - they are drawing electrical current from the atmosphere, using a phenomenon that is well known, and relatively well understood.
But that does not mean it is a good idea. To me the definition of a good idea is a matter of relativity. How does this idea compare with other ideas? First of all it does in fact work - which makes it better than most ideas.
But there are many-many other ideas that are much more practical, efficient, safe, and dependable than this idea. I will name a few.
Photovoltaic cells - about 100x more efficient on a Watt/area basis.
Ground source heat pumps - about 30x more efficient
Wind turbines - likely more efficient even in very calm places.
Biomass production - about 50x more efficient
Biogas capture - much more scalable.
You like to play with probabilities to make your point. Well I refute your 99% BS figure. This idea is 100% real. It is also a 99.999% poor idea. Not because it isn't real - but because it is essentially a useless toy.
That said - these things would be most efficient in the high arctic where atmospheric ionization is the highest - solar ionization is concentrated their by the Earth's magnetic field, the atmosphere is slightly thicker, and ionic flux is less.
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May 27, 2014
Scott, even if the prototypes are real, this is at best a high-school science experiment.
Everyone is trying to come up with new ways of generating and of storing power. Any new invention in the field would have to break WAY more barriers before being taking seriously than this video has.
If he were really on to something, he would be working with a university somewhere to make it happen, not trying to draw funding on Indiegogo. Everything about this site is designed in a way to impress non-scientific people. The responses that have popped up in my inbox, but disappeared when I came back to this site, shows people who are talented at the art of writing a lot of big, scientific-sounding words, but saying very little. And, unfortunately, they're reading through all the comments on this blog, and using the experience to hone their technique. They'll try again in 3 years, after the fuss has died down, and their scam will be more convincing because of what they learned on this site.
Ions are well-understood by scientists. This campaign makes them seem mysterious and unexplored. Their solution is money. Scam. The solution isn't money ... the solution is a physics book. If they were serious, they would take a more academic approach with this. Our society already has a way to make people like this successful, if their idea has merit. That is, until power-players like the oil industry gets involved.
Scott, you have to protect your brand ... your name. Associating yourself with these guys in any way does serious damage to the thing that makes you valuable. If these guys were legit, they'd have Elon Musk on board in 20 seconds. That's why they aren't pursing Elon Musk or a university, or any of the other obvious pathways to success that exist for this sort of thing.
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May 27, 2014
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May 27, 2014
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May 27, 2014
Here's another back of the envelope calculation for you.
Total world power consumption per year: 144,000 Terawatthours (from Wikipedia)
Total power dissipated in lightning strikes worldwide per year: 170 TWH (from Uppsala University)
So if ALL of the energy in lightning (think of it as the ionic energy in the atmosphere already handily packaged for you) were harnessed it would account for only 0.1% of the world's 'needs'. If we assume the efficiency of the process (if it were to work at all) would probably be low, and the distribution of the energy in the atmosphere is diffused worldwide, not just where we need it, and we assume that the net efficiency of those two factors is also 0.1% (just a presumably very generous guess), then the overall potential power supplied by the process in question would be 0.0001% of the world's needs.
If you're looking for for a more believable scam try: http://www.starscientific.com.au
Good luck!
[Based on your calculations, do you conclude that the prototypes shown in the videos are fake? -- Scott]
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May 27, 2014
Site with the math.
About 50 MW total power. A useful amount but not a commercial power supply.
[I'm not a scientist, so I will ask a layperson's question. Is that calculation for all the energy of this type on the planet, or the energy one could get from one antenna? Would a second antenna next to the first double the energy output or does the one antenna somehow suck all the energy out of the entire county before the other can get some? -- Scott]
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May 26, 2014
My name is Keith Brahms. I tried posting this yesterday, but if don't think it worked, so I'm reposting it today...
I am in one of the videos on the Indiegogo crowd funding page for Ion Power Group. I have no financial stake in the company or the technology, but I have known the inventor and his family for about a decade. I am just a guy who graduated from USAFA, served in the Air Force and now works as an airline pilot, so I'm not an expert in electrical engineering or atmospheric science, but I am fascinated by the technology and the results I've seen in person at the test site. I've worked on the project doing small tasks like soldering circuits or assembling the collectors, off and on for nine or 10 years. While I have no idea whether the technology is capable of scaling up to a commercial-sized power generation plant, I do know that it absolutely works at the proof of concept scale. The test facility is literally in the middle of a farmer's cow pasture in the middle of nowhere, and was put there to minimize the chances that power lines or radio towers or any other sources of electricity could impact the results.
I understand the skepticism. I understand the criticism of the video, too: it's hokey. The bottom line is this is essentially one family and a couple of friends on a near-zero budget trying to change the future. The owners are small town people who made the crowd funding page with very little help. The point of this new phenomena of online crowd funding is to raise capital without entering the venture capitalist world. Private equity capital is expensive and usually demands a large percentage of the company they are funding. I take it very personally when accused of participating in a scam. I know the amount of hard work and years of self funding that have gone into this project so far, and the flippant remarks of internet trolls grow old quickly.
Is this Ion collection a part of the puzzle of fulfilling the world's future energy requirements? I don't know yet, but I'm fascinated with the potential. I do know that anyone with the background to analyze the existing facility and provide an unbiased, honest assessment of the technology is welcome to do so. If you are a scientist or engineer and want to verify this technology, you can call me and I will put you in contact with the owners of Ion Power Group. If you come to see the facility, I will most likely be the one picking you up at the airport. My cell number is (850) 685-0932. Call me if you are qualified and serious.
Please be skeptical. Please ask for more information. However, if you're only purpose is to deride individuals on their looks or their public speaking ability, you are wasting everyone's time. I know there are plenty of con men out there, so I won't ask you to trust me or anyone involved with this technology without third party verification, but asking for donations as small as ten bucks would hardly be worth the time if it was only meant as a scam.
To those of you who posted thoughtful and sincere posts, thanks for your interest and feedback. I know everyone is reading every post. Mr. Adams, thank you for your belief in humanity and I think your willingness to write about this was a brave decision.
Like I said at the beginning, I'm not an owner of this company and I just volunteer my time with it because I find it fascinating. If it is a technology that can be part of the energy mix for our nation, it could be a game changer, so I'm interested in seeing the technology develop. I am looking forward to hearing your comments. Thank you.
--Keith Brahms
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May 26, 2014
Florida receives the most lightening strikes in a given period during the summer season. - Wikipedia It stands to reason that there would be enough free ions to make a nice light show, but it's all smoke and mirrors. 50,000 Volts times 5e-6 Amps = nothing useful. You could solve the word's energy crisis more effectively by having children rub glass rods with silk cloth. It makes this energy solution actually sound like a good idea:
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May 26, 2014
To Phantom II and All You Other Veterans, Past and Present:
Sorry the world is what it is, that your service was necessary. Despite all the anger and the fear of the evil that has not yet been subdued, we're glad you were at your station. Some of you gave years of your life, some gave limbs. Some lost their peace of mind, some their very lives. We couldn't expect Superman or Wonder Woman (today that is Wolverine and Storm) to come in and save the day, so we are grateful you did your part. Not just your sacrifice, but your family too, your parents, spouses and children. In a way, they served too. Whether in a foreign land together or here without you, you were missed.
Here's to the day when your sacrifice will no longer be required.
Until then,
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May 26, 2014
I looked briefly into a technology *extremely* like this some time ago.
It's genuine .. but not on the scale of generating power for consumers. Where it shows promise is for remote dataloggers .. extracting enough power to wake up every few minutes and transmit a tiny packet with some data.
For example - right now we can make working electrostatic 'ambient energy' converters which generate an impressive 58 uW. That's nothing to most people .. but just enough for some implantable sensors.
Also - electrostatic 'wind' harvesting works quite well - this example (http://www.ijiee.org/papers/240-L0035.pdf) which uses a different technique a theoretic 5 mW .. not bad ..
Where technologies like the *really* come into their own is scaling in the other direction ... if you want to harvest energy to supply nanobots with power than electrostatic harvesting is exactly the kind of thing that might well be used in 50 years time.
Ignoring the theatrics of the presentations, what makes it appear 'scammy' is that it gives the impression of hiding information. For example they could say "Basic calculations indicate that it won't scale up at all - but we'd like to try to scale it anyway just to see". That would be straight forward - and very noble and worthwhile .. someone should try it and publish the results so we can all learn. (That's the kind of '1%' chance that I can really support)
But by hiding the information (that basic calculations don't support it) it really gives a much less honourable impression. This stuff isn't unknown - there are probably thousands of PhDs done in this exact area .. figuring out the details of getting power out of the ambient environment.
Here's an example calculation using a slightly different technique (using a MEMS) :
Is this technique comparable? I don't know .. but you can be damned sure that SOMEONE has written a nice little paper on the subject and calculated a maximum output energy density for this technique.
If they don't know of it (or they do know of it but aren't revealing it) - then it isn't a flattering look.
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May 26, 2014
Scott: It's a _fraud_.
The guys behind it *know* it doesn't work, they're trying to _steal_ your money.
I don't know what the laws are over there but maybe the authorities need to get involved.
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May 26, 2014
"Isn't this what Tesla was working on 100 years ago? Well, when he was taking a break from his earthquake machine, I mean... "
Yes, but Tesla was putting energy into the air with huge generators.
This scam _might_ work if everybody lived next to a huge radio transmitter and only wanted to light up a couple of light bulbs (Disclaimer: I haven't done the math for that)
Using cosmic rays, etc? Not a chance. You can get some volts out of the air, sure, (early "crystal" radios worked without batteries!) but not enough *Watts* to do anything useful around the house.
It's the Watts that count, not the volts.
Scott: You only need to ask them *one* question, "How many Watts does it generate".
[I asked that exact question for you. I'll let you know when I have an answer. And thank you for making it simple. -- Scott]
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Solar power got a big boost this week with news that the U.S. government is guaranteeing $1.37 billion in loans to BrightSource Energy for the construction of three solar thermal plants in the Mojave Desert. The plants are expected to generate 400 megawatts of electricity — enough to power 140,000 homes — in what is being called the world's largest solar energy project.
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If all goes well with the permit process, BrightSource expects to start construction later this year, with an expected completion date of 2014 for all three plants. The plants should generate plenty of jobs — 1,000 positions during the construction phase and 86 permanent jobs. Of course, there are still some hurdles to overcome before the plants can be built. BrightSource has already been forced to scale back its solar thermal plant plans significantly because of concern for a rare tortoise.
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fireofenergy February 27, 2010 at 10:11 pm
This is great, but at over $3 a watt x 4 (for 25% capacity) = a bit more than that nuclear deal…
Also, Can't the Feds support the molten salt approach, that is, how much will it cost to make the heliostat field FOUR times larger and store 3 times the energy as molten salt (which boils water whenever). Wouldn't the price be back down to tolerable levels (since the Brayton or less effecient Rankine would always be running and is part of that "quarter capacity" cost anyways)?
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This looks a lot like the Mohave desert from Barstow to Las Vegas on Interstate 15. Hot and sunny! Rain maybe 3 days in a year.
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