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2005-06: Alternate captain Tallied 22-43-65, 50 PIM and was -9 in 80 games Set career highs for goals (tied), assists and points Led the club in points, assists, game-winning goals (6), shorthanded goals (2-tied) and multi-point games (19), ranked third in goals and shooting percentage (15.2 pct.) and fifth in power play goals (5) and shots on goal (145) Ranked second among forwards in ice time (20:41 per game) Is first player in team history to record three consecutive 20-goal seasons Scored 13-23-36 over the last 36 games, including 6-10-16 over the last 12 Played in franchise-record 194-straight games from Oct. 17, 2002-Dec. 20, 2005, before a rib injury forced him to miss the Dec. 21 game vs. Dallas Named the NHL's Offensive Player of the Week for Jan. 23-29 after tallying 2-5-7 with multi-point games in three Columbus wins Had a six-game point streak from Oct. 28-Nov. 9 (5-3-8) and a five-game point streak from Jan. 8-16 (5-2-7), which included a four-game goal streak from Jan. 11-16 (5g) Improved to 4-of-4 in his career on penalty shots when he scored on Dec. 17 vs. Nashville (Tomas Vokoun) Is the franchise's all-time leader in goals (90), assists (137), points (227), games played (295) and shorthanded goals (7), while ranking second in game-winning goals (14) and shots on goal (656) Tallied 1-3-4 in eight games to help the Czech Republic earn the bronze medal at the 2006 Olympic Games in Turin, Italy Games lost to injury: 2 Multi-point (goal) games: 19 (4) Most Points: 3 (4x) - Apr. 18 vs. Dallas (1-2-3), most recent Most Goals: 2 (4x) - Apr. 15 vs. Chicago, most recent Most Assists: 3 (2x) - Jan. 24 vs. Vancouver, most recent Most PIM: 4 (4x) - Mar. 13 at St. Louis Most Shots: 6 - Oct. 28 vs. Minnesota.
CAREER: Has totaled 90-137-227 and 134 PIM in 395 games during his five seasons with the Blue Jackets Played in franchise-record 194-straight games from Oct. 17, 2002-Dec. 20, 2005, before a rib injury forced him to miss the Dec. 21 game vs. Dallas In five seasons in the Czech Elite League, totaled 100-173-273 in 252 games 2004-05: Had 12-34-46 with 10 PIM and was +12 in 51 games with Sparta Praha Tied for fifth in the Czech Elite League in points Added 2-5-7 in five playoff games 2003-04: Registered 22-31-53 with 40 PIM and was -26 in 82 games Recorded career highs in goals, assists and points Finished second in goals and points, while leading the Jackets in assists Also led the Jackets and tied for fourth in the NHL with four shorthanded goals, a team record Only Jackets player to appear in all 82 games Notched first career hat trick Nov. 7 vs. Atlanta Tied team record (fourth time in franchise history) with five-point performance (1-4-5) Feb. 28 vs. Colorado Named NHL Player of the Week after recording 3-6-9 during the week of Feb. 23-29, becoming first non-goalie to win the award for the Blue Jackets Played his 300th career NHL game Mar. 3 at Dallas Scored 50th career NHL goal Oct. 28 at Vancouver 2002-03: Registered 20-26-46 with 16 PIM and was +12 in 79 games Established Blue Jackets record for plus/minus in a season Finished tied for third in goals, fourth in points and fifth in assists on the Jackets Second on the club with four game-winning tallies Goal Mar. 1 vs. Edmonton was the 100th point of his NHL career Registered first multi-goal game of his NHL career with two tallies Mar. 10 at Carolina Notched two three-point performances, Jan. 11 at Calgary (1-2-3) and Mar. 10 at Carolina (2-1-3) 2001-02: Registered 13-18-31 with six PIM and was -14 in 75 games Second-year pro tied his first-year numbers in goals and was one shy in assists and points Tied for second with six power play goals Netted a goal in back-to-back games twice (Jan. 9-10 & Mar. 25-26) Two points (game-winning goal and assist) in first win at Detroit (Feb. 8) 2000-01: Registered 13-19-32 with 22 PIM and was -9 in 79 games Finished in the top 10 of five NHL rookie categories Ranked seventh in takeaways (39) and shots, eighth in power play points (12-tied) and 10th in points (32) and goals (tied) Established a NHL record by becoming the first rookie to score on multiple penalty shots Scored on Chicago's Rob Tallas at 7:16 of the second period in a 2-1 road loss on Oct. 15 Beat Nashville's Tomas Vokoun at 18:01 of the third period in a 2-1 home loss on Mar. 19 Tallied a career high three points (1-2-3) Mar. 24 vs. Calgary First multi-point game of his career with a pair of assists Dec. 29 vs. Carolina Netted his first NHL goal in his first NHL game Oct. 7 vs. Chicago 1999-00: Collected 25-38-63 in 50 games for Sparta Praha in the Czech Republic Ranked second in the league in scoring and third in assists Helped Praha to both regular season and playoff championships along with a 34-10-8 mark Scored the game-winner in a 1-0 win over HC Slovnaft Vsetin to give Praha a 3-0 sweep in the league playoff championship Ranked third in the league in plus-minus rating with a +43 rating Selected to play in the league's annual all-star game 1998-99: Recorded a career high in points with 24-46-70 in 52 games Won the league's scoring title by 18 points Selected to play in league's annual all-star game and finished second in the fastest skater competition Tied for fifth in the league in goals and first in assists Recorded 0-3-3 in the all-star game, helping Team West to a 13-4 win 1997-98: Played his first and only season in the Swedish Elite League with MoDo, tallying 16-21-37 in 45 games 1996-97: Recorded 20-29-49 in 47 games Helped Praha to a third-place finish in postseason league tournament, totaling 2-3-5 in the best-of-three series consolation round Ranked 14th in the league in scoring and ninth in assists 1995-96: Returned to Europe after one se
ason in North America, collecting 19-36-55 in 52 games Ranked 10th in the league in scoring and assists Helped Sparta to a first-place finish in the regular season with a 27-10-3 mark 1994-95: Tallied 23-38-61 in 76 games with Cape Breton, Edmonton's American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate Ranked fifth among all AHL rookies in scoring and ranked third on the team in scoring Netted seven power play goals and a team-high five game-winning goals OTHER: Has represented the Czech Republic at the World Championships in 2005, '04, '03, '02, '01, '00, '99, '97 and '96, helping his country to three gold medals ('96, '99, 00) and a bronze ('97) Had 1-3-4, eight PIM and was +3 in nine games for Czech Republic in nine games at World Championships in 2005 Was +5 in five games at World Cup of Hockey 2004 Was the third-leading scorer at the 2000 tournament with 4-6-10 in nine games and a Second Team All-Star selection in voting by the media Also played for the Czech Republic at the World Junior Championships in 1993 (6-9-15 in seven games) and 1994 (2-5-7 in seven games).
PERSONAL: Married: wife, Irena; son, Michal (3/20/00) Nickname: "Veebs" Hobbies: Soccer, Tennis Favorite Sports Team: Real Madrid Favorite Athlete: Roger Federer Favorite Actor: Al Pacino Favorite NHL City: Montreal Favorite Food: Chicken and Pasta Idol Growing Up: Sergei Makarov His father is a hockey coach in Czech Republic Started playing hockey at age 3 Spends off-season in his native Czech Republic.
CAREER TRANSACTIONS: Edmonton's second pick, 33rd overall, in the 1993 Entry Draft Signed by Columbus as a free agent on June 8, 2000.
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Panspermia via 3D Printer
Jun 4, 2014 |
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In a thousand years, assuming humans survive, it looks as if we might know how to make a human embryo using nothing but a 3D printer. Scientists can already grow ears, print blood and print teeth. I don't see why future humans won't someday be printing DNA.
In order to print DNA, you'd need to translate the entire human genome into zeroes and ones. That seems doable.
Now comes the interesting part.
Once you have the designs for 3D printers that can print anything organic, and you have the zero-and-one code for human DNA, you can transmit human life at the speed of light to other advanced civilizations. All you need to do is send out the plans for both the 3D printer and the human genome using pulses of lasers in every direction.
Any civilization advanced enough to decode the message would be advanced enough to build the 3D printer and start churning out humans. You'd want to send some extra instructions on the care and feeding of humans just to keep things safe. Perhaps the 3D printer can print whatever the human needs for food and healthcare as time goes by.
The only real risk is that the printed humans would become pets, slaves, or foods for the aliens. But hey, landing on the moon had risks too.
And there's also the risk that an advanced race of peaceful, tiny aliens will print a soulless monster of a human that grows up and wipes out their entire civilization like Godzilla on bath salts. That feels like a decent possibility on at least some of the planets that pick up the message from Earth.
Okay, SciFi fans, tell me the name of the printed human that wipes out the peaceful alien civilization.
Answer: Adam
What's the first thing Adam does after he kills all of the aliens?
Answer: Adam prints Eve
What's the next thing that happens?
The 3D printer breaks.
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Proof (Almost) of Intelligent Design
Jun 1, 2014 |
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I can't provide 100% certainty that human life on Earth is the result of intelligent design. But I can get to around 99.99% certainty.
By intelligent design, I mean Earth is seeded with DNA provided by human-like inhabitants of another planet.
I'm borrowing my argument from others. None of this is original, and I've written about it before. What's new is that we're getting close to being able to seed another planet with our own DNA. And
there's talk of doing just that
because there's a non-zero chance that humans of the Earth variety won't survive unless we seed other planets.
I imagine we'd launch one big rocket into space that would leave the atmosphere and divide into thousands of small rockets that can make tiny adjustments to their direction but otherwise use the inertia of the mother rocket as propulsion. These tiny rockets can scan planets on the fly for earthlike properties and navigate toward ones that look promising, ending in a parachute landing.
If we decide to seed other planets with our DNA, which seems inevitable, it's likely we'd send thousands of seed rockets, not one. Sending one rocket would be a bad bet.
And since scientists are already talking of doing something like that now, and apparently we will have the ability to do so, it stands to reason that our genetic spawn on those planets will someday evolve to have the same impulses and capabilities. Then they will send out their own DNA seed ships.
So the odds are that planet-seeding will happen not once but thousands if not millions of times as one seeded planet begets thousands of others and so on.
We have no reason to believe we're the original humans. Sure, we evolved from lower creatures, but that might have been exactly how the seeding works. You start with the lower forms of creatures and let them evolve until humans have plenty to eat when they come along later. That's how I'd play it.
Or maybe the dinosaurs were seeded by some alien species whereas mammals came from human-like aliens. There are lots of possibilities.
What seems least likely is that we're the first humans on the first planet with an original idea about seeding other planets. It's far, far, more likely we're somewhere in the middle of the trend. We might be one of thousands or one of millions of planets seeded.
You might be tempted to quibble with the timing of things. But perhaps evolution on the newer planets is sped up by the designers. The original humans might have taken a billion years of evolution to arrive. By the hundredth iteration of humans seeding humans, perhaps the process has been compressed to a million years. That seems within the realm of possible.
So I say there's a 99.99% chance we are the result of past seeding by earlier humans. If you still believe we're the first, perhaps that is a case of feeling special more than a case of rational thought.
What's wrong with this line of reasoning?
1. The seeders couldn't guarantee creating humans just like us. But we know, for example that eyes evolved in at least two separate lines of evolution on earth. I'll bet intelligence is also likely to increase over time in at least one species. And once intelligent, that creature would need less speed and strength and even hair covering. So I think evolution might create weak, hairless, intelligent creatures with eyes as often as not. Add some symmetry and limbs and you're close enough.
I allow the possibility that the race seeding us looked more a customer in a Star Wars bar scene than like Brad Pitt. Close enough.
2. I'm surprised how many people think we won't ever have the technology to launch rockets that can sniff out the remote signature of habitable planets. Not in a thousand years? Really?
3. As to whether we would be motivated to seed other planets, all you need is one billionaire who wants to give the universe a facial. You think that guy won't exist in the next thousand years?]
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Physics for Morons Question
May 31, 2014 |
General Nonsense
Excuse the sloppy wording of this question, but I think you'll get the idea. Physics isn't my field.
This question is inspired by the discussion of ion harvesting in my prior posts.
If you were to instantly remove all of the positive charges from the particles in a given cubic meter of the atmosphere, what happens next?
Do those de-charged particles go someplace and reacquire a charge? And does that happen at the speed of light?
How fast does the cubic meter you drained of energy "refill" to the level before you drained it?
Does the space drained of electrical charge act like a vaccuum to suck in more charged particles? And if so, does the recharging happen at the speed of light or slowly?
I ask because I see a lot of folks saying there is a limited energy potential in the atsmosphere so no matter how efficiently you harvest the ions you have no hope of generating meaningful amounts of energy.
It seems to my physics-challenged brain that the rate of replenishing is as important as the quantity in existence at any given moment. Or to put it another way, if the energy you take out of the atmosphere is backfilling fast enough, and you are sucking it out fast enough, don't you have something like unlimited potential?
I assume the answer is no, but I'd like to hear it from an authority.
Who can give me the simple answer to these questions?
Follow-up question:
If I understand the answers so far, the speed with which a given space in the atmosphere can repopulate with electrons depends on the speed of the airflow and the physical composition of the air "dust."
So my follow-up question is whether you can boost the efficiency of an ion antenna by putting it in a natural wind tunnel (or high in the atmosphere) and perhaps introducing some type of optimal "dust" in that air to carry charge.
And is there any way to move charged electrons through a vaccuum that contains the ion antenna and also introduce new electrons into the vaccuum without opening it and without using more energy to do it than you create?
Thoughts on Scaling
According to yoru comments, the factors influencing the amount of ions you can harvest are wind speed, altitude, weather in general, and surface area of the antenna.
So let's say you "painted" a windmill with graphene and connected it to the same electronics handling the wind power. That saves you the expense of land, government approvals, elecronics, transmission, etc.
You could have about a thousand times more area on the windmill compared to the hobbyist's antenna.
And since windmills are in windy places, and they have elevation, you get perhaps ten times more ions. Just a guess.
Now because the wind mill blades are turning perpendicular to the incoming wind, you have the speed of the wind on top of the speed of the propeller cutting sideways throug the wind.
It can't be cheap to cover a windmill in graphene, but those costs will naturally come down.
I believe none of this gets you to good economics, but I just got you closer.
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Electricity from Air - Update 2
May 30, 2014 |
General Nonsense
Don't read this update unless you are familiar with the topic from my posts
. And be sure to read the comments as well.
Okay, if you are playing along at home, you know I asked the company to do two things to demonstrate the credibility of their claims:
1. Tell us how much wattage the device produces over X period of time.
2. Provide a video that is a continuous tracking shot of the working prototype from antenna to operating appliance, with no edits.
I'll pause to remind you that 99% of claims "like this" turn out to be complete bullshit. I'm not backing the claims, just giving them their time in the sun to see what happens. I find this fascinating no matter the outcome.
I predicted that if this is a scam, the wattage estimates would be delayed or there would be some excuse for why they can't be produced. And if this is a scam, I predicted that the video of the continuous tracking shot of the prototype would never arrive.
So how'd they do?
The company produced for me a video of the technology from antenna to capacitors but it included an edit break before the working appliance. I rejected that video as being exactly what a scammer would produce. They acknowledge my point and plan to reshoot without an edit. The reason given for the edit break is that the camera had to be put down because it takes two hands to start the appliance safely in the lab environment. They will shoot again with one camera person and one operating the appliance.
Keep in mind that a video would not show how long it took to charge the capacitors, and one could never be sure there are no hidden power cords or batteries. But if the company can't produce a video showing the prototype working from antenna to appliance without an edit break, there's nothing here.
The company also offered this
, taken this week by another hobbyist who visited their lab because he works on the same sort of stuff. This video doesn't have the continuous shot either, but you'll see a lot more detail about the company's claims.
Next, I asked about the average wattage produced. Their lawyer, who has an electrical engineering background, produced what follows. I don't understand any of it, and I'm intensely curious whether they would dare to publish complete bullshit about electronics on this particular blog. That would be the worst scam strategy of all time.
My personal bullshit filter says that anything this complicated is intended to confuse. But that's just a bias based on pattern recognition. I'll let you decide how real it is.
Here's the LinkedIn
of the lawyer/EE:
And here is his
And here is his wattage estimate analysis.
Analysis Procedure:
The Median Values Estimate, far bottom, is derived from calculations averaging a highly active ion harvesting period with a low active ion harvesting period to arrive at a Median Values Estimate.
Highly Active Ion Harvesting Period:
15 minutes to charge 75uF to 17.5kV. With those numbers:
We have charged 75uF of capacitance to 17.5kV in 15 minutes. To calculate the current it takes to charge the capacitors to that voltage in that time, we use the following formula:
I= 75x10^-6 x 17500 / 15(60) The factor of 60 is introduced because the formula uses seconds, so we multiple 15 minutes by 60 to get the amount of seconds.
So, I=1.45mA
To calculate the power available, then, we multiply 1.45mA by 17,500 and we get 25.4W from the single collector.
Multiplying this by 4 to get an hour, a single collector produces approximately 100Wh or 360,000 Joules.
Slow Ion Harvesting Period
In the case in which it took 2 hours to charge 75uF to 4kV:
We have charged 75uF of capacitance to 4kV in 2 hours. To calculate the current it takes to charge the capacitors to that voltage in that time, we use the following formula:
I= 75x10^-6 x 4000 / 120(60) The factor of 60 is introduced because the formula uses seconds, so we multiple 15 minutes by 60 to get the amount of seconds.
So, I=41.7uA
To calculate the power available, then, we multiply 41.7uA by 4000 and we get 167mW from the single collector.
Dividing this by 2 to get an hour, a single collector produces approximately 83mWh or 300 Joules.
Median Values Estimate:
So for median values, we have
I = 745uA with a /- 25% tolerance gives a range of
to 931uA
P = 12.78W with a /- 25% tolerance gives a range of
to 15.98W
W= 50Wh or 180kJ with a /- 25% tolerance gives a range of
(135kJ) to 62.5Wh (225kJ)
Scalability and Economy of Scale:
A preliminary test indicates that 1 ion collector of determined length located at 300 feet altitude approximates similar output compared to the combined proof-of-concept harvesting towers at 130 feet altitude, subject to repeatability tests and confirmation. The "two balloon" experiment conducted in 2006 strongly suggests that this technology
scalable, subject to repeatability tests and confirmation.
Preferred Method:
The preferred method of determining an average output is through the use of a Data Logger/Recorder. In the absence of owning a Data/Logger Recorder, the above estimates have been substituted.
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Did they answer my question of how much wattage is produced on average?
Some of you asked why they don't just get a local university or other experts to take a look and validate their technology. I can confirm from my own experience trying to find an expert for that task that no one who answers to a boss knows how to get permission for this sort of thing. It looks like a career suicide mission.
So while failure to get an expert's opinion fits the pattern of a scam, it also fits the pattern of an inventor with no credibility and a lab in a cow field.
I'll remind you again that things "like this" turn out to be bullshit 99% of the time. Don't lose that context. But let's reject ideas based on data, not pattern.
My personal view comes down to this. The basic idea of getting energy from the air is proven science. You can see other experiments of this type on Youtube. The company's claim is that they tried different antennae until they found one (graphite/graphene) that works far better than others. That seems plausible to me because it would be surprising if all antennae performed the same.
What we don't know is whether the new antenna is so much better that it could make this technology economical. The inventor doesn't know that either. He's asking for money to find out.
The critics among you have pointed out that it is unlikely there is enough energy in the air to be harvested economically. I say that if the invention can (for example) collect ions for three hours and light a bulb for half an hour then that feels like something worth developing further. But the company hasn't shown that it can do what I described in a way I find credible.
I'll close by reminding you again that this sort of thing turns out to be bullshit 99% of the time. Skepticism is warranted.
What do you think now?
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Pyramids Save the World
May 29, 2014 |
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Update: China is
building pyramids
. Sort of. Well, they're tall and pointy. The concept is similar.
You hated my idea of building canals all across America. And you don't trust the company that claims to harvest usable energy from the atmosphere. But you'll love my pyramid idea.
Imagine an enormous pyramid in the middle of a desert, miles wide and reaching miles into the sky. The purpose of the pyramid is energy production. And it does so in a variety of ways.
For starters, the inner core of the pyramid is hollow from the ground to the sky. Air enters through holes in the base and is drawn up through the hollow center because warm air rises. That gives you enough airflow to generate electricity.
If you put some scrubbers in the device I think there's a way to deal with pollution and climate change too. I saw some sort of tube-to-the-sky concept that was supposed to do that but I'm too lazy to search for the link. So let's say we fix climate change with our pyramid as a bonus. Perhaps that requires a separate hollow tube in the same pyramid.
We'd also cover the sunny sides of the pyramid with motorized mirrors to reflect sun down to generate solar-steam power on the ground. I think that's more economical than using photovoltaic cells but maybe not.
If it's possible to collect ions from the air in useful quantities (which most of you doubt) then we know there is a higher concentration at high altitudes. So perhaps someday we have ion antennas near the top of the pyramid too.
And let's not forget the temperature differential between the desert floor and the top of the pyramid. That difference could power Stirling generators.
And I would expect lots of natural wind a few miles up, so maybe we can have windmill-type generators on whichever side of the pyramid gets the least sun.
If your desert is within pipeline access to the ocean, I think that turning salt water into steam gets you desalinization. I would think you could make fresh water with the byproduct of your solar steam generator.
None of this works if building the pyramid is too expensive. So I wonder how hard it is to fashion suitably strong bricks out of sand. If it's only a case of heating the sand until it becomes hard as glass, all we need is giant magnifying glasses aimed at our brick-making oven on site.
We'd need robot laborers, and lots of them. Their job would be moving and placing each brick of the pyramid, which isn't terribly complicated work. That seems feasible with current technology.
To power the robots, you need to start your project by first building a solar power plant on the desert floor. That too would be the type that concentrates the sun to create steam power. And the solar power plant wouldn't go to waste because if the first pyramid works, you can keep building more nearby and power the robots continuously. When you're done building pyramids, the power plant connects to the grid.
When aliens helped the early Egyptians build the original pyramids perhaps they were leaving a clue for future generations. That conversation probably went like this:
: We need to tell future generations of humans about pyramids. It will save them.
: I can write a message on a wall.
: I've seen your hieroglyphics. They're shit. Look at that one. (Points at wall.) I can't tell if that guy is winning a war or trying to date his ox.
: I just realized you guys are made of meat. And if I'm not mistaken, you're boneless.
And that's why the pyramids exist but there is no evidence of aliens.
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Passion is Dead
May 28, 2014 |
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Electricity from Air - Updates
May 27, 2014 |
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In my prior
I described a small company that claims it can harvest useful amounts of electricity directly from the atmosphere. Is this a case of a bold scam or is it simply an inventor who is more optimistic than qualified? Or - and this is the least likely possibility by far - could it be a legitimate breakthrough?
Whatever it is, I think we all agree on the following fact: Almost every part of the company's pitch fits the pattern of a classic scam.
If you knew nothing except what has been presented to you so far, including the information and calculations provided by the sleuths who left comments, you would be generous to assume a 1% chance that this is a legitimate scientific breakthrough in green energy. On the face of it, you'd have to give it a 99% or better odds of being bullshit. If you tell me the odds are more like 99.9999% bullshit I'll be happy to agree because I'm not that good at calculating the odds of things.
But here's where it gets interesting.
Do you know what else can sometimes look exactly like a scam? Answer: A legitimate breakthrough.
If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and swims like a duck, it must be a duck, right? Unless it's a hunter with a remote-controlled duck. There's always the thing you didn't consider.
What interests me most about this situation is that the company has been consistent from the start in asking for both public attention and qualified scientific scrutiny. They even offered to ship me a desktop prototype that I can witness lighting a bulb.
Are they bluffing?
That's an interesting question. Let's take a journey to find out. I hope you'd agree that unmasking scammers (if that's what happens) would be interesting.
Based on your comments, I asked the company this question yesterday: "How much useful wattage does the prototype produce?"
If the wattage estimate is trivial, or for some reason unavailable, or delayed for a variety of excuses, I think we're done. Would you agree?
The company claims that its technology is different from the devices you can see on YouTube that are harvesting too-trivial-to-matter electricity from the air. That technology is decades old. And they say their technology doesn't use the EM from radio stations. There's no way for me to verify that from a distance.
If the wattage estimate that they come back to me with is in the useful range, I would next ask for a video that tracks end-to-end from the antenna to the intermediate equipment to the working household device (light bulb, fan, etc.).
And I would also ask for their location relative to the nearest radio station.
If the video and the wattage estimate are still intriguing, and they aren't too near a radio tower, I say we put a qualified expert in the same room as the prototype and have some more fun.
Would that plan entertain you?
[Update: Yesterday the inventor provided me with some wattage figures along the lines of "keeps a 15-watt bulb lit for x minutes." I asked a follow-up question of how long the device needs to collect energy before releasing it for those x minutes. He informed me that he was called away on a family emergency and would follow up. If you are following along at home, this is exactly what a scammer would do. That doesn't make it a scam. But the pattern is consistent with one.]
[Update 2: The comments that support the company didn't show up for a few days because our comment system puts new accounts in a limbo zone for reasons I don't understand. See comment from
in particular
[Update 3: I have received wattage information from the company in a few email exchanges but I am pressing to get that information in the form of "On average, my prototype produces enough wattage in x minutes to power a bulb of a certain type for Y minutes." What I have received so far doesn't tell me how long it takes to charge a capacitor to light a fluorescent bulb for a period of time. This is the response all of you predicted.]
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Making Electricity from Air
May 23, 2014 |
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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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Actor to Play Dilbert
May 22, 2014 |
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What do you think of this actor,
Adam DeVine
, to play Dilbert in a live-action movie?
He's quickly becoming one of my favorite comedy talents. He's the right age and look too.
I'm hoping to write a Dilbert movie script this summer and it helps to have an actor in mind even if the actor isn't aware of it.
[Update: Please stop saying Drew Carey in the comments. He would have been ideal about 20 years ago. The story I have in mind is more of an origin story in which we see a younger Dilbert freshly into the cubicle world. He would age in sequels.]
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Predicting Commercial Hits
May 21, 2014 |
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How good are you at predicting commercial hits?
Amazon has a new feature that shows the percentage of reviewers who "liked" a book. That's a combination of 4 and 5-star reviews divided by the total number of reviews. I decided to see how my nine original books came out on the "liked" ranking. I was curious if sales were aligned with reviews.
Liked Title
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big
Dobert's Top Secret Management Handbook
The Dilbert Principle
Dilbert and the Way of the Weasel
The Dilbert Future
The Religion War
The Joy of Work
God's Debris
Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain
So given those user ratings, let's see how good you are at predicting hits. In this case you're predicting the past, but since you don't have complete data you still need a lot of intuition or experience to answer these questions.
1. Which two books have been read by the FEWEST people?
2. Which two books has been read by the MOST people?
If you can answer even one of those questions correctly, you would be the best book publisher in the world.
Scroll down for the answers.
The two books that have been read by the FEWEST people include the one that is least liked (67%) and the one that is most liked (90%).
The two books that have been read by the MOST people are The Dilbert Principle (88% - 3rd place) and God's Debris (68% - almost tied for last place).
If you ask a publisher (and I have) how well they can predict hits, they'll tell you no one has that ability. The quality and likability of a book have no correlation to sales.
I've been talking to a lot of folks who work in the venture capital field (including seed and angel) as part of the CalendarTree.com ramp-up. Start-up funding is a bizarre world in which everyone holds these two contradictory views:
1. A successful start-up must have the following elements (x,y,z...)
2. No one can predict which start-ups will succeed.
As far as I can tell, the only reason for the first item on the list is so folks have something to talk about in the meetings. Obviously there are some minimums, such as the ability to create an actual product, but beyond that no one can predict anything.
Publishing has the same absurdity. It goes like this.
Bob, it's your job to pick our next hit book.
Bob, no one can predict which books will be a hit.
I'll bet you're having the same kind of conversation at your job. It goes like this.
Add this new feature to our product even if you have to work nights and weekends.
Will that increase sales?
Beats me.
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When a friend referred to "dirty old men" the other day, I wondered why we don't have an archetype for the "dirty old woman." Archetypes hold some truth. So I'm wondering if the "dirty old woman" exists in any big numbers--and if not, why not?
Men do generally lead more sexually aggressive lives than women do. Men account for the vast majority of our online predators, sex addicts, rapists, sociopaths, and pedophiliacs.
In turn, if we want to know why we haven't heard much about "dirty old women," we might assume that the male's sex drive is bigger or lasts longer into old age than a woman's sex drive does. While nearly all of us get bitter as we grow older and alone, a man's frustration might be just be more sexual. We might have "dirty old men" on the one hand and "bitter old ladies" (whose frustration is less sexualized) on the other. That said, the relative strength of our sex drives has never been clearly established.
There's also the fact that sexual predators are basically aggressors--and men and women have different relationships with aggression. Men tend to direct their aggression outwards, into external conquests. Women are more likely to take their anger out on themselves. That's one reason why women suffer higher rates of depression than men do. Depression is often described as anger turned in on yourself.


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Brad's hair is amazing... (not facial hair)
Barb, what was your most recent life epiphany, where everything just fell into place, made sense and gave you the feeling that you grew up a little bit at that moment?
Brad's hair is amazing... (not facial hair)
Barb, what was your most recent life epiphany, where everything just fell into place, made sense and gave you the feeling that you grew up a little bit at that moment?
who contributed the better song to a ninja turtles movie - m.c. hammer or vanilla ice?
What's the meaning of life?
Interesting choice in jobs.
Ummm don't know if this has been asked
If you could live anywhere where would it be (money is no object)?
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Barbara, your "One that got away" story nearly brought tears to my eyes! They were alittle like happy tears though, because for some reason my first thought was, "watch, 5 years from now their paths will cross again and he'll be ready to settle down!"
Its like the Infinite Monkey Theorem, if you put X amount of monkeys in a room with a typewriter and ask them to give you Shakespeare 99% of them will fling their shit at you while the other 1% will masturbate in the corner.
Barbara, what do you love about Japan?
Whiskey Sour
2 oz blended whiskey
Juice of 1/2 lemon
1/2 tsp powdered sugar
1 cherry
1/2 slice lemon
Shake blended whiskey, juice of lemon, and powdered sugar with ice and strain into a whiskey sour glass. Decorate with the half-slice of lemon, top with the cherry, and serve.
do you have a favorite movie?
Ever see a ghost or have what you would consider a supernatural encounter (other than meeting me of course)?
Herro Kitty,
A movie is being made about your life. Is it live-action or animated? If it's live-action, who plays your role? If it's animated, who is the artist or production company you'd like to work on it? Also, what songs are on the soundtrack?
Ahem... since it seems to have been skipped over, I'll ask my previous qustion again. How has your taste in music evolved over the years? What did you grow up listening to?
Have you ever thought about how you'd go about inventing a time machine? Also, do you think the Back To The Future movies were just government propagganda so we wouldn't invent time machines?
Herkitty...what inspires you? BTW, I just love your peppp!!!
If you could give one thing to each of your ex-lovers, what would you give them?
Which decade has had more of an influence in your life, the 90's or the 00's?
what smell, odor, or fragrance do you find completely irresistable? Besides man-sweat of course.
Also, white or wheat?
The story of my life would definitely be animated. I want Hayao Miyazaki to write the story and CLAMP to produce it. Hayao Miyazaki's stories are always magical. His protagonists rely on their wits and strength in order to survive their dilemmas, and call me a cornball, but I want to be like that, too. And CLAMP has the cutest shit ever:
Hehe. I'm gay.
As for the soundtrack, well, these songs would be sprinkled throughout the movie:
Arcade Fire - In The Back Seat
Feist - I Feel It All
Kimya Dawson - I Like Giants
Queen - Somebody To Love
Why? - Song Of The Sad Assassin
2Pac - Keep Ya Head Up
I had a really shitty childhood for music. I had no idea what music was; I only had KIIS FM and Radio Disney. My parents were refugees from the Vietnam War so they were worried about having a steady income rather than art and music. My high school was almost 100% first generation Asian kids, so we all grew up with top 40. The first "rock" song I ever heard was Linkin Park's "Crawling." No wonder I was so angsty now that I look back; I was fed trash. Thankfully two friends of mine somehow broke through the musical barrier senior year and came back with Coachella. I felt like I put prescription glasses on and could finally see individual leaves instead of blobs on the trees So all of this is so new to me, and I am so glad that I found this messageboard. I pretty much get all my research done here. I trying to catch up with everything but it feels like I never will. I'll try, though.
Miss Kitty, I expect you to think about these long and hard providing well thought out responses.
Who is your favorite anime character?
Can you out-drink Feather?
Do you still drive around with a snake on your arm?
Do you prefer the karate chop or the roundhouse sweep?
Finally, how amazing were the lasers at Ghostland Observatory?
tell us about a crazy dream you have had, if there are any you remember.
If you could change one event in history regardless of time what would that be? And how do you forsee that affecting the spacetime continuum? Would it make things better or worse?
If money truly did not matter, I would be in Japan right now, enrolled in a sushi or ramen school.
Oh! My favorite animated movie is Howl's Moving Castle, by Hayao Miyazaki!
I like the smell of menthol on a guy, but I don't want to be there when he is smoking. The smell of jasmine flowers floating in the breeze on a cool summer night is tops, though.
Wheat is good for you, but white is too delicious to pass up.
Feather is on an entirely different level than me. She is a party beast and I am her newborn party cub
Aw I don't anymore, but I should! Just so people know not to fuck with me when I drive. He got much bigger, I should take a new picture.
The lasers blew my mind. The patterns were so intricate that I wanted to shake hands with the light guy.
If you could change one thing about Coachella, what would it be? Just one thing.


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