tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post8449734815623965135..comments2024-02-28T22:03:57.237-05:00Comments on The Automatic Earth: October 17 2011: Diamonds in the RoughIlargihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comBlogger129125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-50932958134411637652011-10-20T14:01:45.977-04:002011-10-20T14:01:45.977-04:00Hi Stoneleigh, Folks...
Here are some links to fo...Hi Stoneleigh, Folks...<br /><br />Here are some links to follow upon re: IFR, and other 'New Nuclear' (Stage 4, et al) reactors.<br /><br />Short term, immediate, solution:<br /><br />'Navy Nuclear'... until IFR, and or Thorium reactors come online, this interim step would see large barges with multiple (4 ?) small reactors onboard... anchored offshore and powering large cities, xtropy27https://www.blogger.com/profile/07420203877034016710noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-85335691963519577272011-10-20T12:24:58.210-04:002011-10-20T12:24:58.210-04:00New post up.
Like Gypsies in the Dust
.New post up.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://theautomaticearth.blogspot.com/2011/10/october-20-2011-like-gypsies-in-dust.html" rel="nofollow"><b>Like Gypsies in the Dust</b></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />.Ilargihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-52414060560239293752011-10-20T12:04:21.160-04:002011-10-20T12:04:21.160-04:00Greenpa
Did they mention whether the Testla coil ...Greenpa<br /><br />Did they mention whether the Testla coil comes from a Chevy or a Ford? Unless the universe has changed since I was last in university, there is no way that a voltage potential is going to effect the rate of decay. Thanks for going through the link. Any more juicy tidbits?<br /><br />Here is another laser application beyond possible nuclear fusion that would produce a el gallinazohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00642036843036726232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-6041213802533982562011-10-20T11:38:23.212-04:002011-10-20T11:38:23.212-04:00This is their "explanation"; they ARE cl...This is their "explanation"; they ARE claiming to use nuclear decay as the power input:<br /> <br />"LPS's proprietary thorium-fueled laser-turbine electricity generators, which are protected by 20 patents, use a Tesla coil to drive a spark-plug-like device which accelerates the natural decay of thorium. The emitted alpha- and beta-particles are used by proprietary electronics Greenpahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17224906349154302210noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-67503439138294020402011-10-20T11:35:31.611-04:002011-10-20T11:35:31.611-04:00Xtropy27
Please give me a URL describing a workin...Xtropy27<br /><br />Please give me a URL describing a working, commercial sized thorium reactor. I would love to see the details of how one is doing in the "real world" after a certain period of operation.el gallinazohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00642036843036726232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-86178833347229124862011-10-20T11:32:05.078-04:002011-10-20T11:32:05.078-04:00Ok; a serious question for Stoneleigh- have you lo...Ok; a serious question for Stoneleigh- have you looked into the physics and economics of this concept? <br /><br />http://tinyurl.com/3dqd9js<br /><br />It was a new one to me. Yes, it uses thorium; but NOT for fission, rather merely as a heavy element chemical dope for a laser, to increase the laser's output.<br /><br />Not a reactor. The claims being made reek of the usual fantasies Greenpahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17224906349154302210noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-51705752991658295482011-10-20T11:08:44.581-04:002011-10-20T11:08:44.581-04:00Ash – Kudos... An interesting article you linked, ...Ash – Kudos... An interesting article you linked, which includes this oxymoronic jewel of language - “sustainable expansion.” <br />Isn't that much like a bubble? Don't they burst over time?<br />I believe the only sustainable expansion in the universe is the universe itself (possibly—if it is infinite). As to this little planet I believe Copernicus trumped Genesis a few centuries ago.<brHombrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12930734368916487826noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-78575652010794129832011-10-20T11:04:36.335-04:002011-10-20T11:04:36.335-04:00Euro market gamecast update:
Down by 40 (.4%). 4t...Euro market gamecast update:<br /><br />Down by 40 (.4%). 4th and long in its own endzone. 30 seconds left. No timeouts. Can it get the first down and preserve some remote semblance of hope for 20 seconds? Or will it get sacked for a game-ending safety? Find out later today.Ashvinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00692970226443206815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-73036751834402984802011-10-20T11:00:20.946-04:002011-10-20T11:00:20.946-04:00Nice "short film" from KD:
Hypocrisy....Nice "short film" from KD: <br /><br /><a href="http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=196292" rel="nofollow">Hypocrisy... And Danger....</a>Joe in NChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02182396413057310516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-91409129338192517792011-10-20T10:38:04.299-04:002011-10-20T10:38:04.299-04:00"Nuclear power is a further attempt to solve ..."Nuclear power is a further attempt to solve the problems of complexity with more complexity."<br /><br />Yes. And, it's an attempt to fix the really horrific dilemmas of our Tumor Economics by growing the tumor bigger.Greenpahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17224906349154302210noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-53538936896003862082011-10-20T09:10:57.910-04:002011-10-20T09:10:57.910-04:00Link for above found in, what else, Bloomberg News...Link for above found in, what else, Bloomberg News in an article about why Merkel won't let the EMU break up:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-20/merkel-won-t-let-euro-split-could-cause-dark-age-rifkin-says.html" rel="nofollow">Merkel Won’t Let Euro Split, Could Cause ‘Dark Age,’ Rifkin Says</a>Ashvinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00692970226443206815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-20459226190583186432011-10-20T09:07:22.654-04:002011-10-20T09:07:22.654-04:00Stoneleigh said..."Nuclear power is a further...Stoneleigh said..."Nuclear power is a further attempt to solve the problems of complexity with more complexity."<br /><br />No worries, though, because advisor to Angela Merkel and Wharton Business School Professor, Jeremy Rifkin, has just laid out the solution to both Europe's economic woes and the world's energy predicament:<br /><br />[/SARCASM, in all capitals to signify Ashvinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00692970226443206815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-4416274416899862052011-10-20T07:51:23.222-04:002011-10-20T07:51:23.222-04:00Pipedreams of carbon capture and storage technolog...Pipedreams of carbon capture and storage technology (CSS are fading away, what a "surprise":<br /><br /><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-15371258" rel="nofollow">Longannet carbon capture scheme scrapped</a>Alexander Achttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16845172528191878930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-80258783955822971142011-10-20T04:16:51.933-04:002011-10-20T04:16:51.933-04:00xtropy27,
The videos were meant to be short. Gett...xtropy27,<br /><br />The videos were meant to be short. Getting into a discussion of next generation nuclear technology was beyond the scope of that one. I'll be doing a longer interview on the same subject with Jim Puplava soon, so I can get into it then.<br /><br />I am not a fan of newer reactor designs either. We do not have the reprocessing facilities or plants that run on thorium. A Stoneleighhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15099878430757036461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-75155558170632554012011-10-20T02:39:34.129-04:002011-10-20T02:39:34.129-04:00I only wanted a size 14½
I think we will one day ...<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2051081/Missed-decimal-point-sees-slipper-ordered-China-returned-size-1-450--big-owner-sleep-in.html" rel="nofollow">I only wanted a size 14½</a><br /><br />I think we will one day miss globalisation. :)<br /><br>Nassimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18014132282872515690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-57302109920453386952011-10-19T23:55:31.948-04:002011-10-19T23:55:31.948-04:00Hold your nose and read it.
Cris Sheridan summariz...Hold your nose and read it.<br />Cris Sheridan summarizes the<br />Sanders Report. Conflicts of interest galore at the Federal Reserve.<br /><br />http://www.financialsense.com/contributors/cris-sheridan/2011/10/19/latest-fed-audit-reveals-numerous-conflicts-of-interestseychelleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17758362037570506475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-76655629454964842032011-10-19T23:40:42.192-04:002011-10-19T23:40:42.192-04:00I couldn't watch Stoneleigh's whole Nuclea...I couldn't watch Stoneleigh's whole Nuclear Energy video... because it seemed surprisingly uniformed of new Nuclear technologies. I suggest that she reads Stewart Brands book 'Whole Earth Discipline'' to learn more about IFR (Integral Fast Reactor) & Thorium Reactor technologies. These are often referred to as 'Stage 4' Nuclear Reactors. Dr. James Hanson, of NASA.xtropy27https://www.blogger.com/profile/07420203877034016710noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-39447832586889731202011-10-19T23:13:30.900-04:002011-10-19T23:13:30.900-04:00jal said...
Did I sleep through a declaration of ...jal said...<br /><br />Did I sleep through a declaration of war?<br />_________________________<br /><br />After a fashion. Just call it the North American Union. Consider Canada to be Tonto to the Lone Ranger down south. Harper should read the biography of Quisling, particularly the last chapter, another hero of the far north.el gallinazohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00642036843036726232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-33262439803946792372011-10-19T22:52:55.203-04:002011-10-19T22:52:55.203-04:00“Halifax's Irving Shipbuilding was awarded the...“Halifax's Irving Shipbuilding was awarded the $25 billion contract to build 21 Canadian combat ships and Vancouver's Seaspan Marine was handed a $8 billion contract for 7 non-combat vessels.”<br /><br />Now that’s a real good place to invest (EROI) ... if your going to war.<br /><br /><br />Didn’t we just lately decided to buy a few billion dollars worth of american jet fighters.<br /><jalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16969819389823705458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-22787026122394111552011-10-19T21:13:06.567-04:002011-10-19T21:13:06.567-04:00@El G,
Small "a" anarchy is comfortable...@El G,<br /><br />Small "a" anarchy is comfortable with me. But affiliation with any of the current "party" nominees (liberal, progressive, conservative, libertarian, anarchist (?), et al) seems pointless and that is (I think) the consensus of the OWS supporters. It is a new paradigm that they seek and that is "progressive" in the old way of thinking but is most Archiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17474700824903759325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-33113105676885750642011-10-19T19:52:23.075-04:002011-10-19T19:52:23.075-04:00Ash: Thanks for the reference.
I found one in a...Ash: Thanks for the reference. <br /><br />I found one in an e-mail I sent yesterday to friends and neighbors but I doubt it will make anyone's list. This diamond example comes from Lifeboat #5 and #6: Share with your neighbors and friends and when TSHTF, of which we all pretty much agree will happen, then they will help you. In this very direct sense maybe Kierkegaard is correct for the Lynford1933https://www.blogger.com/profile/03219003310267757286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-79129916182821314512011-10-19T19:24:55.844-04:002011-10-19T19:24:55.844-04:00@El G:
Re: Occupy the Board Room
Ever see the op...@El G:<br /><br />Re: Occupy the Board Room<br /><br />Ever see the opening scene of the film Dogma?thethirdcoasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02828310354952426682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-15179360748151449402011-10-19T19:17:18.293-04:002011-10-19T19:17:18.293-04:00Archie
The Tea Party no longer exists. They have...Archie<br /><br />The Tea Party no longer exists. They have either left to support Ron Paul or become Kochsuckers, the latter maintaining the title for the most part. I obviously was referring to the Owners wishing to split ***the dissident movement.*** They are afraid that it could become a majority. Of course they will rely on the ultraconservatives, the name your minority haters, and the el gallinazohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00642036843036726232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-2548206905654083452011-10-19T19:05:01.205-04:002011-10-19T19:05:01.205-04:00el gallinazo said...
The elite will not relinquish...el gallinazo said...<br /><i>The elite will not relinquish power voluntarily and they are tried and true sociopaths of the vilest order. If they cannot co-op the movement into "harmlessness," which means either ineffectiveness or even a cadre, such as they did with the Tea Party into Kochsuckers, then it will be agent provocateurs, martial law, and mass killings of unarmed and peaceful NZSanctuaryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04166233807474941124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-72760723767752991742011-10-19T18:51:25.368-04:002011-10-19T18:51:25.368-04:00Cheryl
Will you be here giving advice on skinn...Cheryl<br /><br /> Will you be here giving advice on skinning rats when it all blows up?<br /><br /> Woulda,coulda,shoulda,will drive a person mad.<br /><br /> Bee good,or<br /> Bee careful<br /><br /> snuffysnuffyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03978637281755386311noreply@blogger.com