Using 400nm laser light instead of electricity?
Radium
Any chance of replacing electricity -- as a power source -- to 400nm
laser light pumped by D-T fusion in the next 20-30 years? These
theoretical 400 nm lasers are powered by a long-distance Deuterium-
Tritium reactor.
The power supply starts off as a high-power 400 nm laser that is
pumped by D-T fusion at a remote power station. As the laser light
runs to my home, it does not do so at full-blast -- that would mean
total destruction in everything in the path of the laser. Instead this
gigalaser is used to power and pump smaller less intense 400 nm lasers
which lead to my house. The lasers get smaller and less intense on
their way from the power-station to my house. At my house they provide
the same amount of power that a normal electric socket would provide.
One potential advantage I see, is that -- unlike electrical devices --
these optical devices will not be damaged by solar flares [a common
cause of blackouts] or EMP [ElectroMagnetic Pulse].
The hypothetical laser power I am describing does not require any
electrical or magnetic equipment at all.
Does anyone see this happening in the next 2-3 decades from now?
What would be the disadvantages of the D-T pumped laser power that I
describe?
Thanks,
Radium
Exxon Liars & Thieves
Satanist Sociopaths Cheer!!!
With more than 50 square kilometers of polar ice cap melting every
single day, it's no wonder a new Dust Bowl is threatening the US. But
the accelerating greenhouse effect will hit children and poor people
most.
Global warming has been cited in numerous studies as the main cause
for the dramatic climate changes Earth is witnessing nowadays,
including the recent warm winter and the drought that affected
Australia.
Global warming is defined as the observed increase in the average
temperature of the Earth's near-surface air and oceans in recent
decades and its projected continuation. It is responsible for the
rapid melting of Earth's ice cap at the North Pole and for the
proliferation of fungi (among others), that leads to a faster
decomposition of leaves and dead tree-trunks.
A new study shows that global warming will also accelerate the
proportions of the drought that affects the Southwest of the US,
prompting for urgent measures to deal with the scanty water supplies
in the region.
"The bottom line message for the average person and also for the
states and federal government is that they'd better start planning for
a Southwest region in which the water resources are increasingly
stretched," said Richard Seager of Columbia University's Lamont
Doherty Earth Observatory.
Seager's study was published in this week's edition of Science. The
scientists in his team compared 19 computer models of the climate,
including data that went back to the first weather recordings, in
1860. The projection in the future showed that the continuous drying
of the Southwestern US and of some northern regions in Mexico-
observed in the late 20th century- will not stop and is likely to
continue at a faster pace.
The conclusions of Seager's study are in accordance with previous NASA
findings, which cautioned that global warming might increase droughts
across certain parts of the world, including the southwestern United
States.
NASA researchers compared historical records of the climate impact of
changes in the sun's output with model projections of how a warmer
climate driven by greenhouse gases would change rainfall patterns.
They found a warmer future climate likely will produce droughts in the
same areas as those observed during ancient times but potentially with
greater severity.
The reduction in rainfall could reach levels of the 1930s Dust Bowl
that ranged throughout the Midwestern United States, Seager said in a
telephone interview with AP.
Last winter, precipitation in the US was above average in the center,
while large sections of the East, Southeast and West were drier than
average. The global average temperature was the warmest on record for
the December-February period. According to the U.S. Drought Monitor,
25 percent of the continental U.S. was in moderate-to-exceptional
drought at the end of February. The most severe conditions were in
southwest Texas, northern Minnesota, Wyoming and the western High
Plains.
However, Seager cautioned that the dust storms reported in the '30 are
not likely to occur in our times, because back then poor agricultural
practices were involved too. But he added that the reduction in
rainfall could be equivalent to those times when thousands of farmers
abandoned their parched land and moved away in search of jobs.
Agriculture will still play a role in the 21st century Dust Bowl,
since most of the water in the Southwestern US is used for irrigation.
The problem gets bigger though when we consider the increasing urban
population that needs clean water resources.
"So, in a case where there is a reduced water supply, there will have
to be some reallocation between the users," Seager said. "The water
available is already fully allocated."
The scientist suggested that a solution would be a concerted effort to
reduce water consumption in agriculture (by withdrawing some land from
the agricultural circuit) and conserving water in urban areas.
"But it's something that needs to be planned for," Seager said. "It's
time to start thinking how to deal with that."
Jonathan T. Overpeck, director of the Institute for the Study of
Planet Earth at the University of Arizona, cited by CNN, said the
finding "agrees with what is already happening in the Southwest, and
will be further complicated by the already declining spring snowpack
due to warming."
"These are scary results, but scary in part because they are results
of well thought-out scientific work by a large number of strong
scientists," said Overpeck, who did not participate at the study.
The Chihuahua Desert straddling the U.S.-Mexican border is suffering
from drought and intensive farming and overgrazing. North America's
largest desert, the Chihuahua has 3,500 unique plant species,
including an array of cactus and yucca, that could be at risk.
In a previous study published in 1997 in Science magazine, Richard
Seager's team also showed that the eastern equatorial Pacific cooled
during the 20th century.
A new UN climate report released Friday in Brussels projects that one-
fifth of all animal and plant species are threatened with extinction
if warming continues at the current pace.
Another report, cited by Reuters, showed also that up to 175 million
children would be affected every year over the next decade by climate-
related disasters like droughts, floods and storms.
That is 50 million a year more than in the 10 years to 2005. Being
society's vulnerable members, children would be hurt
disproportionately, and millions more would be killed, forced from
their homes or hit by hunger and disease.
"The poorest of the poor in the world... are going to be the worst hit
and are the most vulnerable in terms of impact of climate change,"
said Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change chairman Rajendra
Pachauri.
The Ghost In The Machine
<gluc...@gmail.com>
wrote
on 6 Apr 2007 16:17:50 -0700
<1175901470.6...@q75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>:
> Hi:
>
> Any chance of replacing electricity -- as a power source -- to 400nm
> laser light pumped by D-T fusion in the next 20-30 years? These
> theoretical 400 nm lasers are powered by a long-distance Deuterium-
> Tritium reactor.
Several problems with that.
[1] 400 nm is essentially blue light. This is fine, but the
transmission of light over long distances is an interesting
problem, especially as power delivery. IINM fiber optics
needs repeaters every few miles.
[2] Fiber-optic cable is fragile and easily damaged. Stranded copper is
far easier to handle.
[3] Where do we get the tritium from? At least a
hydrogen-boron reactor makes some sense from a resource
perspective -- and there's no neutrons therefrom,
although the alpha particles/helium nuclei will
probably make tiny gas pockets, eventually destroying
the vessel walls (an issue, BTW, for fission waste
disposal as well, it turns out).
[4] The aforementioned blue light needs to be converted
to mechanical power (something turning, pushing,
or pulling) in order to be of any use at all, given
current technology. It might be useful for boiling
water, but that's about it -- and a steam turbine is
workable but I think it's probably better to keep said
turbine close to the heat source -- the reactor core.
Or were you envisioning radiosondes everywhere? :-)
[5] Lasers are not noted for their efficiency.
[6] Laser light bright enough to power, say, a 100W
light bulb is going to be extremely bright. As someone
once put it, "don't look at laser with remaining
eye"...and that's presumably for a much less intense
continuous-wave affair. Might as well stick a lance
through your contacts, glasses, or cornea.
[7] Laser light is line-of-sight. Bending around corners
or going over mountains will require highly reflective
mirrors -- or good-quality fiber-optic cable that
can both handle being bent and not have too high an
attenuation while doing so.
>
> The power supply starts off as a high-power 400 nm laser that is
> pumped by D-T fusion at a remote power station. As the laser light
> runs to my home, it does not do so at full-blast -- that would mean
> total destruction in everything in the path of the laser. Instead this
> gigalaser is used to power and pump smaller less intense 400 nm lasers
> which lead to my house. The lasers get smaller and less intense on
> their way from the power-station to my house. At my house they provide
> the same amount of power that a normal electric socket would provide.
Chained lasers? Good luck! One laser is bad enough.
>
> One potential advantage I see, is that -- unlike electrical devices --
> these optical devices will not be damaged by solar flares [a common
> cause of blackouts] or EMP [ElectroMagnetic Pulse].
>
> The hypothetical laser power I am describing does not require any
> electrical or magnetic equipment at all.
>
> Does anyone see this happening in the next 2-3 decades from now?
Uh, no. Photovoltaics are more likely than this idea --
and PV's have their own problems.
>
> What would be the disadvantages of the D-T pumped laser power that I
> describe?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Radium
>
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The Ghost In The Machine
<cos...@lifeform.org>
wrote
on Fri, 06 Apr 2007 21:41:31 -0500
<FyDRh.2691$p56....@newsfe03.lga>:
> The Ghost In The Machine wrote:
>> In sci.environment, Radium
>> <gluc...@gmail.com>
>> wrote
>> on 6 Apr 2007 16:17:50 -0700
>> <1175901470.6...@q75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>:
>>> Hi:
>>>
>>> Any chance of replacing electricity -- as a power source -- to 400nm
>
>> [1] 400 nm is essentially blue light.
>
OK, soft UV then. Not that it matters much.
>
> I think that's about 3.1 eV, so it's essentially equivalent to the
> electrocatalysis of water. There you have it. No fusion is required.
>
The fusion is for the power source. Something has to electrocatalyze
(?) the water; how else would one do it?
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Paul Ciszek
In article <1175901470.6...@q75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>,
Radium <gluc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>What would be the disadvantages of the D-T pumped laser power that I
>describe?
The one that occurs to me right off the bat is trying to run things
like blenders, washing machines, microwave ovens, and home computers
off of blue light. I cannot think of a light-driven motor that would
not be hideously inefficient. Most appliances would have to convert
the blue light into electricity and use that, which raises the
question of why we couldn't just produce electricity from the D-T
fusion and distribute it using existing technology.
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> Touche' You're right!
Yep.
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MEDIA PROMOTE GLOBAL WARMING FRAUD
When it comes to Iraq, our media have been preoccupied with the issue
of whether there was adequate intelligence to justify the invasion and
if policy-makers made up evidence before the war. But on the matter of
global intervention to stop global warming, there seems to be no need
for scientific evidence to justify what is shaping up as a global
carbon tax of 35 cents a gallon of gas on the American people.
Our media want the public to believe that the same organization that
gave us the oil-for-food scandal can be trusted on its dire
predictions of calamity from alleged man-made global warming.
The media's conflict of interest can be seen in the fact that Jeffrey
Immelt, the chairman and CEO of General Electric, which owns MSNBC and
NBC News, has joined with environmental pressure groups in the United
States Climate Action Partnership in promoting an international U.N.-
style bureaucracy to reduce the emissions blamed for the warming.
They claim evidence for their view in the recent much-publicized
United Nations climate change report. But this document, which blames
global warming on people, had no published science to back it up.
A front-page Washington Post story about the report waited until the
20th paragraph of a 21-paragraph story to mention that the "detailed
scientific documentation" for the claim is not yet available and won't
be released "for a few months." A New York Times account waited until
the 40th paragraph of a 44-paragraph story to disclose that "thousands
of pages of technical background," supposedly the basis for the
alarming conclusions, would be released later in the year.
Faith-Based Science
Now how many people read until almost the end of these articles to
discover that the scientific evidence is not yet available?
The odds are that many people didn't get past the sensational New York
Times headline, "Science Panel Calls Global Warming 'Unequivocal.'"
Clearly, we are supposed to accept all of this on faith.
In fact, the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
is officially sponsored by the U.N. Environmental Program, which once
organized an Environmental Sabbath project so people could pay homage
to the planet. The program included an exercise for children to sit
around a tree, hold hands, and meditate.
The coverage of the IPCC report demonstrates how mainstream
journalists have abandoned even a pretense of objectivity.
This reflects the influence of such figures as Socialist Senator
Bernie Sanders, who, at the recent so-called National Conference on
Media Reform, said that the media should not cover both sides of the
global warming debate.
Dissenters
However, some scientists are raising the alarm.
The IPCC's decidedly unscientific approach has come under attack from
Harvard University physicist Lubos Motl, who declared, "In the past,
scientists had to do their research before the implications for
policymaking could have been derived from this research." Mocking the
U.N. process, he commented, "Today, the vastly superior postmodern
scientific method of the IPCC members allows them to publish the
summary for policymakers first."
A Google search of current news, however, turned up only two places
where Motl's criticism of the IPCC was mentioned-a story carried by
Fox News and attributed to Brit Hume and a CNSNews.com story. Hume
cited the CNSNews.com report, which also quoted Richard Lindzen,
professor of atmospheric science at MIT, as saying that issuing a
conclusion before producing the evidence for that conclusion is
completely improper and that a business which issued a report in such
a fashion would be investigated by the government for fraud.
Senator James Inhofe, ranking Member of the Senate Environment &
Public Works Committee, called the IPCC report "the corruption of
science for political gain" and said the process is completely lacking
in scientific integrity. He noted that page 4 of "Appendix A to the
Principles Governing IPCC World" includes the following: "Changes
(other than grammatical or minor editorial changes) made after
acceptance by the Working Group or the Panel shall be those necessary
to ensure consistency with the Summary for Policymakers or the
Overview Chapter."
This means that the scientific data may be altered to conform with
what has already been published.
Instead of highlighting the lack of scientific data to support the man-
made global warming assertions, our media are trying to discredit
critics of the report by trying to tie them to oil companies. Such
stories never mention the billions of federal dollars being showered
on advocates of the man-made global warming theory.
Pandering to the alarmists, Samuel Bodman, the Secretary of Energy in
the Bush Administration, accepted the IPCC report and urged "global
solutions" to the alleged problem.
One such "global solution" is a global carbon tax, in order to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions, administered and even collected by the U.N.
One U.N.-sponsored report suggests a global tax amounting to 35-cents
a gallon.
An international conference to promote global taxes, dubbed
"solidarity levies," was held in Oslo, Norway, from February 6-7. An
international tax on airline travel is already being implemented. One
of the biggest state delegations to the conference came from South
Korea, whose foreign minister, Ban Ki-moon, took over in January as
U.N. Secretary-General.
A Global Carbon Tax
A supporter of "solidarity levies" to fund global causes before he
became U.N. chief, Ban thinks the IPCC report requires an immediate
response from the international community. A special climate change
summit, where President Bush could be pressured to endorse a global
carbon tax, may be held later this year.
The mass hysteria that passes for coverage of global warming infected
Anne Applebaum, who used to be a moderate voice on the Washington
Post's editorial page. She wrote a column endorsing a "simple" carbon
tax to hike energy prices and added that "If a future American
president wants to rally the nation around a patriotic and noble
cause, then he or she has the perfect opportunity." Is this a plug for
Al Gore?
She wrote that a carbon tax "should be applied across the board to
every industry that uses fossil fuels, every home or building with a
heating system, every motorist, and every public transportation
system. Immediately, it would produce a wealth of innovations to save
fuel, as well as new incentives to conserve. More to the point, it
would produce a big chunk of money that could be used for other
things," such as balancing the budget or fixing Social Security.
Did it ever occur to her that taking a "big chunk of money" out of the
economy would slow economic growth and throw people out of work? That
it would hurt the poor?
Her column included such gems as, "If the Chinese see that such a tax
has produced unexpected benefits in America and Europe, they'll
follow." But Applebaum, being a scholar and writer on the evils of
communism, has to know that the communist Chinese government is
pursuing its own national self-interest economically and militarily
and that the regime's increasing production of greenhouse gasses is
among the least of its worries.
This kind of analysis goes beyond silly. It reflects emotion, not
reason, and wishful thinking, not serious argument. But that is what
is driving much of the coverage of this issue.
She tips her hand when mentioning the "apocalyptic climate change
rhetoric" that she accepts and believes should spur action at the
national and global levels. These people really believe that we are on
the verge of the apocalypse. For the acolytes of Al Gore, the
apocalypse will come not because an Islamic terrorist or nation will
use a nuclear bomb on the U.S. or the world, it will occur because
Americans and Chinese are driving too many cars. They believe that a
carbon tax, preferably at a global level, has the potential to save
the world.
Media Support Carbon Tax
A new website, from an organization devoted to promoting a carbon tax,
the Carbon Tax Center, points out that the New York Times and
Washington Post are among the leading news organizations in the
country in promoting higher energy prices through carbon taxes. "The
Times has six regular editorial columnists, four of whom have
supported a carbon tax," it says. At the Post, the paper has
editorialized in favor of a carbon tax, and columnist Sebastian
Mallaby has endorsed it. Applebaum can now be added to the list.
One of the co-founders of the Carbon Tax Center is a leader of a "bike-
advocacy" organization.
We will be anxiously waiting for Applebaum, Mallaby, Washington Post
editorial writers and those New York Times columnists to announce that
they are personally combating global warming by riding bikes to and
from work. But like Al Gore, whose "big fat carbon footprint" and
frequent airplane travels have been thoroughly documented by the
Competitive Enterprise Institute, we doubt that we'll see the global
warming alarmists cutting back on their luxurious lifestyles.
Exposing their hypocrisy won't stop them because while this is a
political movement that wants to control our lifestyles through
government taxes, it is also religious in nature. Though presented to
the public as a Southern Baptist, Gore wrote a book entitled Earth in
the Balance, in which he wrote sympathetically about the Gaia
hypothesis of an earth spirit. One chapter is entitled,
"Environmentalism of the Spirit." Gore believes the Gaia concept is
able to "evoke a spiritual response in many of those who hear it." In
this context, he adds that "...the simple fact of the living world and
our place on it evokes awe, wonder, a sense of mystery-a spiritual
response-when one reflects on its deeper meaning."
The Earth Spirit
Some of the leading global warming "scientists" involved with the U.N.
also believe in this approach. Gore endorsed a book by Dr. Stephen H.
Schneider, a climatologist who cited the Gaia theory in his own book
on global warming. Schneider asked, "...is there a Goddess of the
Earth?" He is one of several scientists who contributed to the 2004
book, Scientists Debate Gaia. A description of the book declares,
"Despite initial dismissal of the Gaian approach as New Age
philosophy, it has today been incorporated into mainstream
interdisciplinary scientific theory, as seen in its strong influence
on the field of Earth System Science."
This "Gaian approach" demonstrates why the "science" behind the man-
made global warming theory, if it exists, has to be considered
extremely questionable. What is driving the acceptance of the theory
is not science but a mystical or "New Age" view of the world. It is
their religion.
LIBERAL TV PERSONALITY ATTACKS AIM
General Electric's slogan used to be that it "brings good things to
life." But under GE chairman and CEO Jeffrey Immelt, that has changed.
GE owns a low-rated cable network, MSNBC, which features a wise guy
former sportscaster, Keith Olbermann, who has made a spectacle of
himself by insulting people, acting like a clown, and consciously
imitating famous journalist Edward R. Murrow.
Last October, taking on President Bush as an unprecedented threat for
the umpteenth time, Olbermann mimicked one of Senator Joe McCarthy's
critics by saying, "Have You No Sense of Decency, Sir?" Olbermann was
upset that Bush had given a speech identifying the enemy and its
apologists as defenders of a form of fascism, and had mentioned an
Osama bin Laden letter in which he talked of "a media campaign to
create a wedge between the American people and their government."
Olbermann was outraged, having convinced himself that Bush was
impugning the patriotism of the news media. And who would entertain
such a thought? It's just that the New York Times has done its best to
undermine the U.S. Government's most effective counter-terrorism
programs. What's more, an NBC military analyst, William Arkin, wrote a
column for the Washington Post web site attacking U.S. soldiers in
Iraq as mercenaries. He eventually apologized for the smear.
On February 6, Olbermann used his show to identify Accuracy in Media
editor Cliff Kincaid as "The Worst Person in the World" for drawing
attention to the racist comments of Democratic Senator Joseph Biden,
who has been leading the opposition to the Bush Administration's troop
surge in Iraq, and the media's failure to hold him up to the same
standard they apply to Republicans.
Olbermann Attacks AIM
It is tempting to dismiss Keith Olbermann's labeling of various people
as "The Worst Person in the World" as a harmless and infantile prank.
But AIM discovered that some people watch his show because they think
they are getting legitimate news and information on current events.
Olbermann has authored a book, cut-and-pasted from his show, on this
topic. Most of his high-profile targets are conservatives.
>From the point of view of the far-left, this clownish routine might
somehow serve a purpose if there was some truth behind the charge. But
the attack on Kincaid was based on a deliberate deception.
Kincaid was attacked because he had co-authored a column with AIM
writer Andy Selepak drawing attention to the media double-standard on
Senator Joseph Biden's racist comments about Senator Barack Obama.
Biden had said that "you got the first mainstream African-American who
is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy." The AIM
column said that "If a Republican had condescendingly referred to a
black person as 'clean,' 'bright' and 'articulate,' he or she would
have been branded as a racist and banished from public life."
Olbermann claimed to have uncovered a double-standard on AIM's part,
commenting that, "Same day as Biden's comments came out, President
Bush said about Senator Obama, 'He's an attractive guy. He's
articulate.' So Mr. Kinkaid [sic], you're saying the president should
be branded as a racist and banished from public life? Yikes!"
Olbermann concluded, "Cliff Kinkaid [sic] of Accuracy in Media, it's a
brand name, not a description. Today's Worst Person in the World."
The Facts
Here's the background to Olbermann's false claim: On Fox News, Bush
was asked by Neil Cavuto, "How do you think the troops would feel
about a President Obama?" His response was, "Oh, I don't know. He
hasn't gotten elected yet. He hasn't even gotten the party's
nomination. He's an attractive guy. He's articulate. I've been
impressed with him when I've seen him in person, but he's got a long
way to go to be president."
Anybody familiar with the facts knew that Bush had not referred to
Obama being the "first" mainstream black candidate to be articulate,
attractive and "clean." That is how Biden described him, and that is
why Biden, not Bush, had to apologize. Bush had not made the comments
in a condescending manner, drawing a contrast with other blacks.
Nevertheless, several people had fallen for Olbermann's misleading
attack, thinking that AIM was somehow guilty of failing to hold Bush
to the same standard that it had applied to Biden.
One blogger, insisting that Olbermann had made a profound observation,
said that "Olbermann pointed out that George Bush made similar
comments about Obama the same day as Biden and wondered if Kincaide
[sic] meant Bush should be labeled a racist." Another told me in an
email that Olbermann was "promoting true accuracy in the media when he
showed that Bush said the same thing as Biden."
It turns out that Olbermann was not the first to raise this phony
comparison. New York Times blogger Kate Phillips had done a story
about the Bush comments, saying that Bush "obviously had not been told
about the controversy surrounding Senator Joseph R Biden Jr.'s take on
Mr. Obama..."
This was an attempt to falsely suggest that Bush's remarks about Obama
were similar to those of Biden, and that Bush, therefore, should be
subject to the same kind of criticism leveled at Biden.
Biden's comments were significant not only because he singled out
Obama, comparing him favorably to other black candidates, but because
his comments were not the first racist remarks he had had made. Last
year he made a disparaging comment about Indian-Americans, saying,
"you cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a
slight Indian accent."
As AIM noted in the commentary that provoked Olbermann's ire and false
attack, Biden's rhetoric suggests that he pays close attention to how
members of minority groups look, smell or sound. However, it is also
important to note that Biden did not really suffer politically for
what he said. He apologized for the remarks but retained his position
as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
By contrast, when then-Republican Senator and candidate George Allen
called an Indian-American a "macaca" during a campaign rally, he was
hounded by the media to the point where the controversy contributed to
his eventual defeat. Republican Senator Trent Lott's joking comments
that one-time segregationist Strom Thurmond would have been a good
president were covered so extensively by the media that Lott was
forced to step down from his post as Senate majority leader.
This was really the main point of our column-that Biden was NOT going
to suffer the same fate as Allen or Lott because Biden was organizing
opposition to the Bush Administration's policy in Iraq and his
position had to be protected and maintained. For our media, destroying
the Bush policy in Iraq takes precedence over making an issue of
Biden's racism.
In attacking Kincaid for drawing attention to this double-standard,
Olbermann was practicing damage control for one of the leading lights
of the national Democratic Party.
What You Can Do
Please send the enclosed cards or cards and letters of your own
choosing to GE chairman Jeffrey Immelt, NBC chief Jeff Zucker, and
Senator James Inhofe.
Radium
> In article <1175901470.602731.103...@q75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>,
> Radium <gluceg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >What would be the disadvantages of the D-T pumped laser power that I
> >describe?
> The one that occurs to me right off the bat is trying to run things
> like blenders, washing machines, microwave ovens, and home computers
> off of blue light.
As for computers, my dream PC is holographic. It is fully laseronic
and does not require electricity to any extent, but instead, is
powered by a remote nuclear fusion reactor.
Instead of electronic chips, this PC contains laseronic chips [laser
circuits instead of electric circuits]. No magnetism, no electricity.
Just 400 nm lasers power by a long-distance Deuterium-Tritium reactor.
All storages devices are solid-state. No discs, no tapes. Everything
is purely hardware. There is no microcoding. Everything is hard-wired,
except for the RAM chip. The laseronic RAM chip acts as a solid-state
HDD. Windows 98 SE is the OS and Mozilla 1.8b is the browser and,
Creative Music Synth is the MIDI synth.
Last but not least, all the lasers use a wavelength of 400 nm.
quotes from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcode :
"Each machine instruction (add, shift, move) was implemented directly
with circuitry. This provided fast performance, but as instruction
sets grew more complex, hard-wired instruction sets became more
difficult to design and debug."
I still prefer the "hard-wired instruction sets"
"a bug could often be fixed by replacing a portion of the microprogram
rather than by changes being made to hardware logic and wiring."
But I still perfer the "hardware logic and wiring".
Yup. Just for personal preference, I also like my PC to be massively-
parallel.
The power supply starts off as a high-power 400 nm laser that is
pumped by D-T fusion at a power station. As the laser light runs to my
home, it does not do so at full-blast -- that would mean total
destruction in everything in the path of the laser. Instead this
gigalaser is used to power smaller less intense 400 nm lasers, these
lasers are less intense but powerful enough to energize my photonic
PC. Withing the PC itself, the intensity of the 400 nm laser light are
much less still, just like the electric voltages in conventional PC
are much lower in the motherboard, HDD, and other devices, than the
110 volt socket with takes in the initial electricity.
As for microwave ovens, both microwaves and light waves are photons.
So it is, at least in theory, possible to design a device that will
convert light to microwaves.
> I cannot think of a light-driven motor that would
> not be hideously inefficient.
AFAIK, there are certain proteins that change shape when exposed to
light. Perhaps contractile proteins -- similar to those found in our
muscles -- could be constructed in such a way that they would contract
and relax in a manner analogous to the intensity of the blue light
they are exposed to.
> Most appliances would have to convert
> the blue light into electricity and use that, which raises the
> question of why we couldn't just produce electricity from the D-T
> fusion and distribute it using existing technology.
Electrical devices may blackout during solar storms. Optical devices
won't.
The Ghost In The Machine
<HyPRh.13$Ze1...@newsfe03.lga>:
> Bawana wrote:
>
>> What You Can Do
>
> Well, you could try to understand the relationship between 400 nm light
> and chemical energy. I suggest you start with bismuth iodide.
>
I'd rather know how 400 nm laser light could be transported far
distances in order to drive my fridge, radio, computer, fans,
oven, heating/cooling system, etc.
And maybe my car as well.
At least with electricity it's not all that difficult. :-)
--
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GNU and improved.
Charles Foot
Souls Black as Coal
> cited the CNSNews.com report, which also quoted RichardLindzen,
The CORRUPT RICHARD S. LINDZEN, DESPICABLE OUTCAST OF SCIENCE
(Climatology) DOCTOR Richard Lindzen speaks about passive smoke and
health, Next up, prominent ROOFER discusses faults in modern Quantum
Mechanics Theory.
=========================
Philip Morris
Passive Smoking: How Great A Hazard?
Date: 19910700/P
Length: 48 pages
http://tobaccodocuments.org/pm/2046323437-3484.html
Page 36: cyb09e00
Richard Lindzen, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has
emphasized that problems will arise where we will need to depend on
scientific judgement, and by ruining our credibility now we leave
society with a resource of some importance diminished. The
implementation of public policies must be based on good science, to
the degree that it is available, and not on emotion or on political
needs. Those who develop such policies must not stray from sound
scientific investigations, based only on accepted scientific
methodologies. Such has not always been the case with environmental
tobacco smoke.
=========================
In 1993 documents appeared in secret tobacco conspiracy file cabinets
about a fake science conference organized by the documented corrupt S.
Fred Singer. This meeting in Washington, DC, was facetiously titled
"Scientific Integrity in the Public Policy Process", funded by two
lung-killer industries tobacco and asbestos, and Lindzen was a
prominant hoaxer at this event. Lindzen has been paid in a CRIMINAL
CONSPIRACY to defraud the public on the immanent dangers of Global
Warming, just as he participated with co-conspirators to aid Singer's
science hoaxes on behalf of tobacco and asbestos SERIAL MURDERER
CORPORATIONS.
Every single fact below can stand up in court in the trial of Lindzen
for FELONY CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY. Much more incriminating evidence will
be adduced at trial.
Google search engine reports 164 results looking for Richard S.
Lindzen AND "Washington Times" owned by the convicted felon Sun Myung
Moon. Moon has hosted many fake science conferences to exploit for
propaganda purposes. Singer apprenteced the fake science conference
back when Singer was President of the moonie "Washingon Institute for
Values in Public Policy". No records exist in public archives on what
Moon paid Singer as president of the Wash Inst, but here is a link
showing how generous Moon is to one successor president after Singer's
term -- $142,708/yr salary.
http://documents.guidestar.org/1998/521/293/1998-521293998-1-9.pdf
Moon is master of money laundering and subversive payoffs -- we will
never know who all he paid and how much they pocketed. We do know that
Google search engine finds 152 webpages linking Moon AND Lindzen.
There is an unseemly association between a science corruptor and a
known identified corrupt Lindzen: 314 webpage results for Lindzen AND
"Sun Myung Moon" OR "Washington Times".
http://tobaccodocuments.org/mayo_clinic/2025498346.html SUBJECT: The
Heidelberg Appeal Date: 23 Mar 1993
BACKGROUND
This coalition has its roots in the asbestos industry, but has become
a broad and independent movement in a littlc bit less than a year. We
are involved with the coalition through the French NMA, but we are
being discreet because some of the coalition members are concerned
about a "tobacco connection".
Our strategy is to continue discreetly supporting the coalition and
help it grow in size and credibility. The timing is particularly
opportune because of Bill Clinton's sympathy to the messages of the
coalition (see attached IHT article).
If you would like more information on how to help support thc
movement, pIease contact me or Tom Borelli on the US side.
http://tobaccodocuments.org/pm/2502284041-4042.html
(Philip Morris Documents)
Scientific Integrity in the Public Policy Process Semi-Final Program
930524 - 930525 the Madison Hotel 15th and M Streets, Nw Washington,
D.C. Date: 19930525/D
Length: 2 pages
Persons identified in pulling off this science hoax included: CORRUPT
Michael Fumento, CORRUPT Michael Gough, CORRUPT Robert Jastrow,
CORRUPT Michael Salomon, CORRUPT Robert Tollison, and the arch-
CORRUPTOR S. Fred Singer ringleader.
http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Richard_S._Lindzen
Richard S. Lindzen
Dr. Richard S. Lindzen, a distinguished professor of meteorology at
MIT, is one of a small band of global warming skeptics used by
industry to undermine and delay any kind of regulatory action meant to
address the looming environmental crisis.
Lindzen was reported in 1995 to "charges oil and coal interests $2,500
a day for his consulting services; his 1991 trip to testify before a
Senate committee was paid for by Western Fuels, and a speech he wrote,
entitled 'Global Warming: the Origin and Nature of Alleged Scientific
Consensus,' was underwritten by OPEC." [1]
According to Ross Gelbspan, Lindzen and skeptics like him -- including
Dr. Pat Michaels, Dr. Robert Balling, Dr. Sherwood Idso, and Dr. S.
Fred Singer, among others -- "assert flatly that their science is
untainted by funding. Nevertheless, in this persistent and well-funded
campaign of [global warming] denial they have become interchangeable
ornaments on the hood of a high-powered engine of disinformation.
Their dissenting opinions are amplified beyond all proportion through
the media while the concerns of the dominant majority of the world's
scientific establishment are marginalized. By keeping the discussion
focused on whether there is a problem in the first place, they have
effectively silenced the debate over what to do about it." [2]
External links
* Ross Gelbspan, "The Heat is On: The warming of the world's
climate sparks a blaze of denial," Harper's magazine, December 1995.
* Daniel Grossman, Dissent in the Maelstrom,"Scientific American,
November 2001.
* "Richard Lindzen," Wikipedia.
http://dieoff.org/page82.htm
THE HEAT IS ON:
The warming of the world's climate sparks a blaze of denial
by Ross Gelbspan.
from HARPER'S MAGAZINE/December, 1995
... The people who run the world's oil and coal companies know that
the march of science, and of political action, may be slowed by
disinformation. In the last year and a half, one of the leading oil
industry public relations outlets, the Global Climate Coalition, has
spent more than a million dollars to downplay the threat of climate
change. It expects to spend another $850,000 on the issue next year.
Similarly, the National Coal Association spent more than $700,000 on
the global climate issue in 1992 and 1993. In 1993 alone, the American
Petroleum Institute, just one of fifty-four industry members of the
GCC, paid $1.8 million to the public relations firm of Burson-
Marsteller partly in an effort to defeat a proposed tax on fossil
fuels. For perspective, this is only slightly less than the combined
yearly expenditures on global warming of the five major environmental
groups that focus on climate issues -- about $2.1 million, according
to officials of the Environmental Defense Fund, the Natural Resources
Defense Council, the Sierra Club, the Union of Concerned Scientists,
and the World Wildlife Fund.
For the most part the industry has relied on a small band of skeptics
-- Dr. Richard S. Lindzen, Dr. Pat Michaels, Dr. Robert Balling, Dr.
Sherwood Idso, and Dr. S. Fred Singer, among others -- who have proven
extraordinarily adept at draining the issue of all sense of crisis.
Through their frequent pronouncements in the press and on radio and
television, they have helped to create the illusion that the question
is hopelessly mired in unknowns. Most damaging has been their
influence on decision makers; their contrarian views have allowed
conservative Republicans such as Representative Dana Rohrabacher (R.,
Calif.) to dismiss legitimate research concerns as "liberal claptrap"
and have provided the basis for the recent round of budget cuts to
those government science programs designed to monitor the health of
the planet.
Last May, Minnesota held hearings in St. Paul to determine the
environmental cost of coal burning by state power plants. Three of the
skeptics -- Lindzen, Michaels, and Balling -- were hired as expert
witnesses to testify on behalf of Western Fuels Association, a $400
million consortium of coal suppliers and coal-fired utilities.
[#1] ...
[#l In 1991, Western Fuels spent an estimated $250,000 to produce and
distribute a video entitled "The Greening of Planet Earth," which was
shown frequently inside the Bush White House as well as within the
governments of OPEC. In near-evangelical tones, the video promises
that a new age of agricultural abundance will result from increasing
concentrations of carbon dioxide. It portrays a world where vast areas
of desert are reclaimed by the carbon dioxide-forced growth of new
grasslands, where the earth's diminishing forests are replenished by a
nurturing atmosphere. Unfortunately, it overlooks the bugs. Experts
note that even a minor elevation in temperature would trigger an
explosion in the planet's insect population, leading to potentially
significant disruptions in food supplies from crop damage as well as
to a surge in insect-borne diseases. It appears that Western Fuels'
video fails to tell people what the termites in New Orleans may be
trying to tell them now.]
Peter B. P.
> I'd rather know how 400 nm laser light could be transported far
> distances in order to drive my fridge, radio, computer, fans,
> oven, heating/cooling system, etc.
>
> And maybe my car as well.
>
> At least with electricity it's not all that difficult. :-)
We need an optical superconductor. A Nobel prize awaits you!
--
regards , Peter B. P.
http://titancity.com/blog , http://macplanet.dk
The Ghost In The Machine
<pe...@DIESPAMMERSCUM.dk>
wrote
on Sun, 8 Apr 2007 04:18:51 +0200
<1hw8h34.1ag13zux72vr8N%pe...@DIESPAMMERSCUM.dk>:
> The Ghost In The Machine <ew...@sirius.tg00suus7038.net> wrote:
>
>> I'd rather know how 400 nm laser light could be transported far
>> distances in order to drive my fridge, radio, computer, fans,
>> oven, heating/cooling system, etc.
>>
>> And maybe my car as well.
>>
>> At least with electricity it's not all that difficult. :-)
>
> We need an optical superconductor. A Nobel prize awaits you!
>
I'd need an explanation of the term "optical superconductor". :-)
In any event, copper is not a superconductor but has served us well for
many years.
400 nm laser technology has a far worse problem than the light
equivalent of impedance. How does one convert very bright 400 nm
laser light into motive power?
Best I can do is inject the light into a mirror arrangement with some
sort of fluid, that heats up as it absorbs the light. Once hot enough,
the fluid will boil another fluid, probably water, turning a steam
turbine.
Not the most efficient of processes. An electric motor, by contrast,
can translate energy into motive power far more efficiently (though
there is the issue of the conversion *to* electricity).
--
#191, ewi...@earthlink.net
Useless C++ Programming Idea #12398234:
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Radium
<e...@sirius.tg00suus7038.net> wrote:
> How does one convert very bright 400 nm
> laser light into motive power?
AFAIK, there are certain proteins that change shape when exposed to
Radium
<e...@sirius.tg00suus7038.net> wrote:
> I'd rather know how 400 nm laser light could be transported far
> distances in order to drive my fridge, radio, computer, fans,
> oven, heating/cooling system, etc.
Beaming, crystals, mirrors, and optic fibers designed to handle 400 nm
light of high intensity for long distances. Perhaps the laser-
repeating mechanism I was describing:
"The power supply starts off as a high-power 400 nm laser that is
pumped by D-T fusion at a remote power station. As the laser light
runs to my home, it does not do so at full-blast -- that would mean
total destruction in everything in the path of the laser. Instead this
gigalaser is used to power and pump smaller less intense 400 nm lasers
which lead to my house. The lasers get smaller and less intense on
their way from the power-station to my house. At my house they provide
the same amount of power that a normal electric socket would provide."
As for radio, by the time, something like 400 nm power is the norm,
radio will be obsolete. All telecommunications will use digital 400 nm
lasers. Electronics replaced by laser-based photonics.
Vendicar Decarian
"Radium" <gluc...@gmail.com> wrote
> Any chance of replacing electricity -- as a power source -- to 400nm
> laser light pumped by D-T fusion in the next 20-30 years? These
> theoretical 400 nm lasers are powered by a long-distance Deuterium-
> Tritium reactor.
Funny you should ask, because from what I hear, Condi Rice is powering most
of the White House with just such a fusion reactor and laser system hidden
in her ass.
She sheds excess reactor heat through her feet and that's why she has an
Amelda Marcos sized collection of shoes.
The Ghost In The Machine
<1176253802.4...@w1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>:
Do you have an idea on how efficient a laser is?
--
#191, ewi...@earthlink.net
Windows. When it absolutely, positively, has to crash.
The Ghost In The Machine
<1176253500.6...@p77g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>:
Perhaps. I'm not all that hopeful. ;-)
--
#191, ewi...@earthlink.net
Windows. When it absolutely, positively, has to crash.
--
Radium
<e...@sirius.tg00suus7038.net> wrote:
> Do you have an idea on how efficient a laser is?
More efficient than electricity. Electrical equipment can easily
blackout during solar storms and EMP blasts.
A laser-based source of power pumped initially by D-T fusion wouldn't
be so significantly damaged by solar flares and EMPs.
Radium
> which raises the
> question of why we couldn't just produce electricity from the D-T
> fusion and distribute it using existing technology.
Because electrical devices will short-circuit during solar storms and
exposure to EMPs.
Radium
> Because electrical devices will short-circuit during solar storms and
> exposure to EMPs.
Not to mention lightning strikes.
The Ghost In The Machine
<1176612497.4...@n76g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>:
I was asking about *efficiency*, not *reliability*.
This is a commercial cutter unit. It's a 1000 watt continuous wave
near infrared laser, with built-in chiller.
http://www.nuvonyx.com/products/LaserSystems/HighPowerFiberCoupled/ISL1000M.shtml
The closest thing to an amp draw I can find on this spec, unfortunately,
is an amplitude range of 10 to 65 amps, with an accuracy of 0.1 amp
and +/- 2%. l The voltage is 208-220 VAC single phase. Assuming a power
factor of near 100% (resistive load), that suggests an input power of
about 2,080 W minimum -- a 50% efficiency -- at the very most, and the
input power could be as high as 14,300 W, or less than 7%.
http://www.repairfaq.org/sam/laserdps.htm
suggest some very interesting issues regarding laser diodes; they are
rather sensitive little beasts. Thermal issues are mentioned, which
means that the things heat up during operation. This also means that
not all of the input power comes out as laser light.
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kdt...@yahoo.com
> On Apr 10, 9:01 pm, The Ghost In The Machine
>
> <e...@sirius.tg00suus7038.net> wrote:
> > Do you have an idea on how efficient a laser is?
>
;> More efficient than electricity. Electrical equipment can easily
'> blackout during solar storms and EMP blasts.
I think ol radium here is past his half life. Kind of radiatied away
his substance in decay.
hahahahah
Paul Ciszek
In article <1176612660.7...@w1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>,
Hasn't been a promplem for me so far. I have *heard* of sunspot activity
causing problems with the electrical grid, but I haven't experienced it.
And when they start dropping Nukes, I suspect I will lose internet access,
so it won't matter much if my computer doesn't work anymore.
Radium
> Hasn't been a promplem for me so far. I have *heard* of sunspot activity
> causing problems with the electrical grid, but I haven't experienced it.
Um. In Canada, solar wind caused major blackouts a few years ago. The
sky light up with pink aurorae that night.
> And when they start dropping Nukes, I suspect I will lose internet access,
> so it won't matter much if my computer doesn't work anymore.
Well, computers are not the only electrical devices we use.
There are many electric/electronic equipments that have become are
part of our daily basic lives ever since their inventions.
What if you had a seriously-injured relative or friend in the ER,
whose basic functions are regulated by electronic devices?
Chris
@ftpsrv1:
Yeah, I sell em, along with the "write-only-memory'