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1) - The Physics of Crystals 2) - History of the EV Gray Motor 3) - Browns Gas Water Torch Research and Applications 4) - Getting there and Saving on Gas Costs 5) - Shape Power and Gravity Resonance Phenomena 6) - The Worldof Free Energy 7) - The Dark Side of Amateur Science 8) - The Konehead Pulse Motor 9) - Aether, ZPE and Dielectric Nanostructure Arrays 10) - A Method of Stimulating Energy

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07/03/09 - Dean Kamen's Newest Invention: A Stirling Hybrid Scooter
According to Kamen's patent, the invention appears to be a conventional scooter with a Stirling engine and fuel tank under the seat, a rechargable battery pack in the floor, and a radiator in the front. The Stirling engine has a low energy output on its own, but it could supply power when the bike is at a standstill, making sure that the battery never dies. The inventor has invested $50 million in Stirling engine technology, which uses two pistons (a power piston and a displacer piston) to turn a crankshaft without using valves. The power piston's cylinder is heated from the outside, forcing gas inside the cylinder to expand, moving the power piston and giving the crankshaft a power stroke. Momentum from the flywheel keeps the engine moving. Instead of shooting expanded gas into the atmosphere, it's sent into the cooled displacer piston, where it contracts and is sent back to the power piston to be heated and used again. In other words, the Stirling engine, which can run on anything that burns, completely uses up whatever fuel is provided. And since the engine doesn't release any unburned hydrocarbons, CO2 emissions are minimal. Kamen's hybrid bike won't revolutionize anything--plenty of companies are working on hybrid scooters, bicycles, and motorcycles--but it could at the very least help make Stirling engines cool again. - Source

07/03/09 - U.S. Patent Filing on High Energy Synthetic Fuel
According to the Energy Information Administration's International Energy Outlook 2008, the world "will require 50% more energy in 2030 than it did in 2005 ... almost all of which will be derived from synthetic and bio fuel sources." Alkane's proprietary Syn-Fuel will surely play an integral role in this transformation. A quart of Syn-Fuel containing additive, Monster Diesel(TM), imparts to diesel fuel the energy equivalent of 25 gallons of regular diesel fuel. This revolutionary quality seems destined to place Monster Diesel(TM) at the forefront of the energy revolution -- ahead of even Ethanol, which actually contains significantly less energy than regular gasoline and therefore has the opposite effect when added to fuel. When one part of Monster Diesel(TM) is added to 1,000 parts of diesel fuel, the energy density of the diesel has been shown to increase by 9.9%. This boost in energy contributes to an increase of mileage per gallon by as much as 15% for both on-road and off-road diesel engines. "The development of this Syn-Fuel, like Nobel's invention of dynamite, is simply the stabilization of Nitro. But, like dynamite, the Syn-Fuel has the capacity to have an impact of similar magnitude on our society," said Mathew Zuckerman, Ph.D., CEO and President of Alkane. He went on to say, "The explosive power of Nitro in Nitroglycerine and in the gaseous product Nitromethane used in drag racing is well known. What Alkane has done is harness the power of Nitro in a liquid form to use as an alternative fuel. The ramifications of this proprietary technological breakthrough will have a similarly long lasting impact on our world." - Source

07/03/09 - Windbelt Generator
Windbelt is a radically different power generator that uses a fluttering membrane, magnets and a metal coil to turn wind into power (watch a video here). With no turbine, the Windbelt can produce energy at a cost-per-watt that's significantly lower than conventional devices. In 2007, inventor Shawn Frayne received a Breakthrough Award from Popular Mechanics for the device. He and his collaborators have since improved the Windbelt to a point where they can produce wind power for $1 per watt. This new development is called a 'Windcell Panel,' and its functionally a lot like a solar panel that catches the wind instead of the sun. The Panels consist of 20 individual Windbelts in a single frame, adding up to a rating of 100W of power per panel, with an off-the-line cost of around US$100. This translates to uninstalled electricity of around 4 cents per kWh with 6 m/s average winds -- four or five times cheaper than solar PV. We're engineering these systems to be simple, very low cost, modular, and able to catch low speed winds. The Humdinger team believes this new version of the Windbelt technology will allow cities to finally capture urban air flows over buildings and under bridges on a large scale of 10 kilowatts on up to 100 megawatts of grid-tied per installation (say, under the 30 km bridge recently installed in Shanghai, as shown in the illustration). We're also going after coastal installations and rural power -- basically, anywhere other energy technologies can't go cost-effectively. Or quickly -- we believe we will ramp up to several hundred installations relatively fast (relative to wind turbine farms or solar farms), since the Panels will be as easy to transport and install as a fence. - Source

07/03/09 - University test results for Green Mileage Maker by Vapster, Inc.
Patent-pending device uses an electrical heater rather than exhaust to pre-heat the fuel, resulting in improvements in mileage by 20-30%, as well as a reduction in emisisons by 80%, confirmed by a Florida university. Combined with hydroxy devices, the improvement in mileage goes as high as 45%. The newest product, the "Green Mileage Maker", has been shown to increase highway fuel mileage by 20-30% by pre-heating the fuel. Some of the vehicles that sport the device are a 1999 Ford Explorer, a 1993 Mazda MX6, a 2001 Ford Ranger, 2007 GMC Canyon, 3.7 liter. The newest addition will be a Ford 350 with a 7.3 L diesel engine. A South Florida University has shown exhaust emission reductions on diesels with the device up to 80%. See test report below. While Gerald was at the HHO Games in Bradenton, FL in Feb. 09, displaying his "Green Mileage Maker", a pre-heater for fuel injector engines, he met many people involved with Hydroxy generators that inject electrolyzed hydrogen and oxygen into the air intake for improved mileage efficiency. Mr. Rowley's invention pre-heats the fuel before it enters the engine. Gerald selected an HHO system that was simple and straight forward and easy to install. By combining the two systems Mr. Rowley said he was able to increase his fuel mileage by 45%. Gerald encourages all the HHO enthusiasts to consider installing a "Green Mileage Maker" along with their own Hydrogen generator. How it Works - The Vapster unit pre-heats the fuel, which enables it to burn more efficiently. Earlier units used the exhaust to do that, but it was hard to hit and maintain the right temperature, so now the units are fitted with an electrical heater. Installation can be done by anyone with nominal auto mechanical ability. Gerald says that in testing the mileage he uses the standard method of topping off his tank, and calculating the miles driven per gallons added. He tries to get a good number of baseline tests "before" the changes are made, as well as a good number of tests "after." In his Mazda, he has a one-gallon fuel tank in addition to the regular fuel tank, which he switches to for testing. - Source

07/03/09 - Who wants to live to be 150 years old?
With the advancement of medical technology comes the prediction that people may live to be 150-years old in the future. Whoop-dee-doo! That's just wonderful! If you live to be 150, instead of having a few nieces and nephews who ignore you, you'll have many nieces, nephews and many great-great-great nephews and nieces who ignore you. And instead of swallowing 14 or more prescriptive medicines a day, like my parents do now, in the year 2005, when you're 150, you lucky scamps, you'll probably be scarfing down 40 a day. I don't want to live to be 150-years old. Here are a few of the reasons why:... To put it all in perspective, imagine you were born in 1861, the year the civil war began, and you lived to be 150-years old, to the year 2011. You would live through the Civil War, the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the invention of the telegraph, automobile, airplane, radio, and television. You would live through World War I, the Great Depression, World War II, the development of the atomic bomb, the invention of the computer, the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King, the first landing on the moon by a manned spacecraft, the Vietnam War, the Persian Gulf War, the destruction of the World Trade Center twin towers, the attack on the Pentagon, the related airline crash in Pennsylvania, the war in Afghanistan, and the War in Iraq (the beginning, if not the end)... Who needs or wants to live to be 150-years old. Not I; I get tired just thinking about living through all of that. Just give me my 80 years or so -- or as many years as I'm happy and healthy -- and then let me go quietly into the bye and bye. - Source

07/03/09 - Three brothers invent Mosquito killer
Three young men of one family have put their heads together and invented a Mosquito Killer, a new invention which is the need of the hour in view of the escalating threat of Dengue fever. It is of significance that they used only locally available raw materials to turn out the equipment which would surely be a marvel of modern technology. Although they have not yet received the patent to introduce their invention to the market, they are hopeful that there will be an increasing demand for the equipment from the public in view of the Dengue epidemic that has already claimed more than 150 lives. A chamber in the DC Automatic Mosquito Killer has a tub of fresh water providing a breeding ground for mosquitoes. A chemical in a separate chamber with the scent of the human body attracts the mosquito towards it only to be destroyed by a blue ray that flashes. The tub of water with a high voltage destroys any mosquitoes that change their course and enter the breeding ground. The machine is equipped with a re-chargeable battery for use in areas without power. The inventors said the Mosquito Killer was a domestic device and that they were carrying out further experiments to develop outdoor equipment based on the same theory. They have applied for the patent and referred their invention to the health authorities as well. - Source

07/03/09 - Crap Detection 101
The answer to almost any question is available within seconds, courtesy of the invention that has altered how we discover knowledge - the search engine. Materializing answers from the air turns out to be the easy part - the part a machine can do. The real difficulty kicks in when you click down into your search results. At that point, it's up to you to sort the accurate bits from the misinfo, disinfo, spam, scams, urban legends, and hoaxes. "Crap detection," as Hemingway called it half a century ago, is more important than ever before, now that the automation of crapcasting has generated its own word: "spamming." Unless a great many people learn the basics of online crap detection and begin applying their critical faculties en masse and very soon, I fear for the future of the Internet as a useful source of credible news, medical advice, financial information, educational resources, scholarly and scientific research. Some critics argue that a tsunami of hogwash has already rendered the Web useless. I disagree. We are indeed inundated by online noise pollution, but the problem is soluble. The good stuff is out there if you know how to find and verify it. Basic information literacy, widely distributed, is the best protection for the knowledge commons: A sufficient portion of critical consumers among the online population can become a strong defense against the noise-death of the Internet. - Source

07/03/09 - Michael Jackson's Anti-gravity Illusion Patent
What comes as a surprise to Jackson fans is that their music icon owns a patent. MJ’s patent is on a “method and means for creating anti-gravity illusion.” Fans will recall the music video, “Smooth Criminal,” where Jackson and his dancers leaned forward, pausing slightly at a gravity-defying 45 degrees. One of the elements required to obtain a patent is that the invention must solve a technical problem. Jackson’s patent application stated that he had dance steps that would make it appear that a performer would lean forward beyond the center of gravity. But this required cables attached to his waist, which needed numerous stage hands, and can only be performed in his videos and not during a live performance on stage. Featured in Discovery News and recently in the morning show Umagang Kay Ganda, his invention solves the problem by making a special shoe, with a hitch designed to slip into a peg on stage, allowing the performer to lean forward beyond his or her center of gravity. Jackson filed his patent in 1992, which means he has exclusive rights over this for 20 years, until 2012. It is doubtful if a pair of shoes can rake in sales comparable to Jackson’s copyright royalties, but if we can get these shoes for the amazing 1500 detainees in the Cebu Provincial Detention Center, that would be quite a thriller. / United States Patent 5,255,452 - Jackson, et al. - October 26, 1993 - Source and check out this news report in a Youtube video.

07/03/09 - Wanna Buy A Wind Power Patent? Just Go to eBay
An eBay auction for the rights to a small wind turbine patent. The patent is New Zealand Patent No. 540102, and includes the international rights to PCT Application Pub. No. WO 2006/123951 ('951 application). The '951 application is directed to a wind turbine having a rotor (1) having blades, the rotor rotatably mounted about the axis of rotor shaft (2) within housing (3). Directional louvers, or shutters (15, 17), direct incident airflow to enhance the venturi effect and reduce drag for maximum power generation. Though at first glance it appears the seller is only auctioning the rights to the patent application, the description of the transaction reveals that a purchaser would get substantially more than that (or less, depending on your point of view). In fact, the purchaser would also buy an obligation to enter into a partnership with the inventor: What is being sold is the US rights to patent protection vested in a company substantially owned by the purchaser. The purchaser will have written authority from the inventor to assign the US intellectual property rights to the new company. All the inventor requires apart from the purchase price is a small shareholding of 10% of the shares in the new US company as a silent partner that the buyer will create by agreement, and acknowledgement that the invention was created by the inventor at all times. The seller is offering free shipping, although what this means in this context is not entirely clear. Would the buyer receive in the mail the patent application? A prototype of the invention? An executed assignment? The opening bid price is USD $27,500. The auction ends on June 24, 2009, and there have been no bids so far. - Source

07/03/09 - Unique hybrid propulsion system makes UK debut on London buses
Bus passengers in East London are the first in the UK to experience a unique form of hybrid power with four of 10 new Optare Tempos equipped with the GM-Allison Hybrid EP-System recently becoming operational. The patented ‘two mode’ parallel hybrid technology combines direct power from an electronically controlled diesel engine with electric power from an energy storage system and is already delivering significant fuel saving benefits, lower emissions, and raising vehicle performance for bus fleets over 115 cities worldwide. The complete GM-Allison Ep40/50 systems consists of the Ev DriveTM module – which serves as the vehicle transmission –, the Dual Power Inverter Module (DPIM), the Energy Storage System (ESS) – based on advanced Nickel Metal Hydride (NiMH) batteries –, two electronic control modules and the electronic driver interface with integrated display. This unique hybrid architecture combines the efficiency of a direct mechanical connection between engine and drive train of the parallel hybrid system with the advantages in engine management typical of serial hybrid design. The real invention is the EV DriveTM module which is designed with a concentric arrangement of gearing – planetary gear sets – and two electric machines. This module combines (torque blend) electrical machine power with engine power. Thanks to the unique electrical and mechanical integration, the EV DriveTM does not have fixed gear ratios as does a typical transmission, but its gear, speed and torque ratios are infinitely and continuously variable. This module forms a Hybrid Electrically Variable Transmission (HEVT). An Electrically Variable Transmission has the potential to combine the continuous control and urban drive cycle efficiency of the series hybrid with the high power capability and high efficiency of the parallel hybrid. From stationary, the electrical starter motor draws power from the battery, mounted on the roof of the bus, to set the vehicle smoothly and almost silently into motion. Then as the vehicle picks up speed, the 340 hp diesel engine comes into action, offering a direct power supply to the drivetrain as required and eventually feeding the battery with additional power. An automatic controller ensures that the battery is maintained at optimum charge. At cruising speed, the battery cuts out altogether and operates like a conventional drivetrain. This is why greatest benefits of the technology are experienced in lower speed, start-stop operations such as city buses. - Source

07/03/09 - Don't mess with the Bat Cat

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07/03/09 - CIA Quote Of The Day
CIA employee Michael Scheuer; "The only chance we have as a country right now is for Osama Bin Laden to deploy and detonate a major weapon in the United States---because it's gonna take a grassroots, bottom up pressure---because these politicians prize their offices, prize the praise of the media, and the Europeans. "It's an absurd situation again, only Osama can execute an attack which will force Americans to demand that their government protect them effectively, consistently and with as much violence as necessary." - Source

07/03/09 - Use Your Car Alarm as a Home Security Panic Button
Most home intrusions are crimes of opportunity, where the criminal seeks to get things of value as quickly as possible and get out without confronting the home owner or, worse, the police. Burglar alarms are a strong deterrent—not because they make your house an impenetrable fortress, but because they're loud and indicate the police are being called. Lack a security system, and installing a new one isn't in your budget? Frugality blog Wise Bread suggests using your car alarm's panic button: If you hear a noise outside your home or someone trying to get into your house, just press the panic button for your car. The alarm will be set off, and the horn will continue to sound until either you turn it off or the car battery dies. It's a security alarm system that you probably already have and requires no installation. Test it. It will go off from most everywhere inside your house and will keep honking until your battery runs down or until you reset it with the button on the key chain fob. It works if you park in your driveway or garage. If your car alarm goes off when someone is trying to break into your house, odds are the intruder won't stick around. After a few seconds all the neighbors will be looking out their windows to see who is out there and sure enough the criminal won't want that. Nobody wants to be burglarizing a house with an attention-getting alarm going off and the cops potentially on the way—but your mileage may vary widely on whether or not your neighbors get involved. - Source

07/03/09 - Record-Breaking Solar Cells Tailored To Location
"The quality of sunlight varies depending on where you live, but off-the-shelf solar cells are all identical. A new solar cell designed by UK firm Quantasol is easily tuned to adapt to the local light conditions, which boosts its long-term performance. Its short-term performance isn't bad though — the single junction solar cell has a peak efficiency greater than any previous device, beating a world record that's stood for 21 years." - Source

07/03/09 - Electric cars attract hype, but reality is less exciting
The electric car is about to conquer the world ... again. Every time there is an oil supply crisis, the price of gasoline jumps, or warnings about carbon dioxide (CO2)-induced global warming hit new hysterical highs, the electric car solution isn't far behind. It usually doesn't last long. Battery-powered cars in the past have been too expensive, too heavy, too ugly, would leave you stranded if you turn the air conditioning on, and just couldn't perform like a regular gasoline-powered automobile. They mostly still rely on energy from coal-fired power stations, so the CO2 source is merely moved, not eliminated. But news of the imminence of electrification is everywhere. Could this finally be the hour of the electric car? - Source

07/03/09 - Uncertainty Clouds Recovery of Govt's Investment in GM
If a new General Motors emerges from bankruptcy as planned, U.S. financial aid for the company will expand to nearly $50 billion, but neither the government nor the company is forecasting how much of the public money will be repaid. It's sure to be a stretch. For the United States to fully recover its investment, the value of General Motors stock will have to reach levels it has never before attained. - Source

07/03/09 - Ultra-dense Deuterium May Be Nuclear Fuel Of The Future
Imagine a material so heavy that a cube with sides of length 10 cm weights 130 tonnes, a material whose density is significantly greater than the material in the core of the Sun. Such a material is being produced and studied by scientists in Atmospheric Science at the Department of Chemistry, the University of Gothenburg. Towards commercial use - So far, only microscopic amounts of the new material have been produced. New measurements that have been published in two scientific journals, however, have shown that the distance between atoms in the material is much smaller than in normal matter. Leif Holmlid, Professor in the Department of Chemistry, believes that this is an important step on the road to commercial use of the material. The material is produced from heavy hydrogen, also known as deuterium, and is therefore known as “ultra-dense deuterium”. So what can this super-heavy material be used for? “One important justification for our research is that ultra-dense deuterium may be a very efficient fuel in laser driven nuclear fusion. It is possible to achieve nuclear fusion between deuterium nuclei using high-power lasers, releasing vast amounts of energy”, says Leif Holmlid. The laser technology has long been tested on frozen deuterium, known as “deuterium ice”, but results have been poor. It has proved to be very difficult to compress the deuterium ice sufficiently for it to attain the high temperature required to ignite the fusion. Energy source of the future - Ultra-dense deuterium is a million times more dense than frozen deuterium, making it relatively easy to create a nuclear fusion reaction using high-power pulses of laser light. “If we can produce large quantities of ultra-dense deuterium, the fusion process may become the energy source of the future. And it may become available much earlier than we have thought possible”, says Leif Holmlid. “Further, we believe that we can design the deuterium fusion such that it produces only helium and hydrogen as its products, both of which are completely non-hazardous. It will not be necessary to deal with the highly radioactive tritium that is planned for use in other types of future fusion reactors, and this means that laser-driven nuclear fusion as we envisage it will be both more sustainable and less damaging to the environment than other methods that are being developed.” - Source

07/03/09 - High Torque Electric Motor Being Tested
A lightweight electric motor designed by the Electronic Power Group at the University of Oxford is to power a new four-seat coupé, with track tests scheduled for the end of 2009. Nick Carpenter said: ‘We believe electric motors are the only way forward for road cars. All road cars will be driven electrically, regardless of how the energy is stored in the vehicle.’ Dr McCulloch adds: ‘The motor can achieve high torque for its weight, which ultimately means a smaller and cheaper motor. Torque is the twisting force that accelerates the car, and the peak torque we’re aiming for is 500Nm from 25kg.’ ‘We’ve optimised the materials and design, so that the motor is lighter and more effective, giving half the volume and twice the torque for the same power output.’ ‘Over 50 per cent of the world’s electricity powers electric motors, so it’s extremely important to improve the efficiency of motors. This motor can be adapted to achieve better performance in a whole range of applications.’ - Source

07/03/09 - Computer Program Creates Music Based On Emotions
A group of researchers from the University of Granada (UGR) has developed Inmamusys, a software program that can create music in response to emotions that arise in the listener. By using artificial intelligence (AI) techniques, the program enables original, copyright-free and emotion-inspiring music to be played continuously. UGR researchers Miguel Delgado, Waldo Fajardo and Miguel Molina decided to design a software program that would enable a person who knew nothing about composition to create music. The system they devised, using AI, is called Inmamusys, an acronym for Intelligent Multiagent Music System, and is able to compose and play music in real time. Inmamusys has the necessary knowledge to compose emotive music through the use of AI techniques. In designing and developing the system, the researchers worked on the abstract representation of the concepts necessary to deal with emotions and feelings. To achieve this, Molina says, "we designed a modular system that includes, among other things, a two-level multiagent architecture." A survey was used to evaluate the system, with the results showing that users are able to identify the type of music composed by the computer. A person with no musical knowledge whatsoever can use this artificial musical composer, because the user need do nothing more than decide on the type of music." - Source

07/03/09 - Kansas officials unveil first 'green' locomotive
The nation's first hydrogen-powered fuel cell locomotive has made its first trip, although it was just a short one. BNSF and the Army announced plans in January 2008 to develop the hydrogen-powered fuel cell engine. BNSF says the locomotive has the potential to reduce air pollution. The locomotive won't be pulling freight trains anytime soon. It heads now to Colorado for additional tests, then goes to California for more tests on the viability of the hydrogen technology. - Source

07/03/09 - Killer robots can be taught ethics
Adherence to the Three Laws of Robotics as put forth by Isaac Asimov has been, until now, entrusted to whoever held the joystick. That may change. A robotics engineer at the Georgia Institute of Technology has developed an "ethical governor," which could be used to program military robots to act ethically when deciding when, and whom, to shoot or bomb. Ron Arkin has demonstrated the system using attack UAVs and actual battlefield scenarios and maps from recent U.S. military campaigns in Afghanistan. (videos) In one scenario, a drone spots Taliban soldiers, but holds its fire because they're in a cemetery--fighting there is against international law. In another, the UAV identifies an enemy convoy close to a hospital, but limits itself to shooting up the vehicles so as to avoid collateral damage to the hospital. The mindful bot would also house a built in "guilt system," which would force it to behave more cautiously, after making a mistake. While the work shows promise, it also draws attention to the inadequacy of trying to program machines with morals, especially ones expected to perform in a complex battlefield environment, according to experts. - Source

07/03/09 - Subliminals Motivate People To Do Things They Already Wanted To Do
Dutch researcher Martijn Veltkamp has demonstrated that you can motivate people with subliminal messaging: quickly flashing words onto a screen without their noticing. This is only successful, however, if the subliminal message matches a biological need and if the behaviour is associated with a positive effect. To get people to behave in a certain way, the idea for such behaviour must first be planted in their minds. Once the idea has been planted in your mind (so-called ‘priming') then either a lack of something (deprivation) or a positive association with a certain action can ensure that you are actually motivated to carry out that action. These three factors have previously been investigated independently but Veltkamp has now shown for the first time how the three factors work together to trigger unconsciously motivated behaviour. Drinking when you're not thirsty - Veltkamp studied this interaction in a series of experiments. He flashed the words 'drinking' and 'thirsty' onto a computer screen very quickly so that they could not be consciously perceived. This priming is what researchers call ‘making the representation of the behaviour accessible'. In one group of participants this was combined with deprivation - they were thirsty. In another group the word 'drinking' was combined with positive words which led to a positive association. Veltkamp combined the three factors in different ways and then registered how willing the participants were to have a drink. The results of the experiments showed that motivation for carrying out certain actions (such as drinking) occurs when the action matches an existing deprivation or has a positive association. These two motivational states both independently indicate that carrying out a certain action is worth striving for. However, if both states issue a signal simultaneously then this does not lead to higher motivation. - Source

07/03/09 - Vegetarian diet 'weakens bones'
People who live on vegetarian diets have slightly weaker bones than their meat-eating counterparts, Australian researchers said Thursday. A joint Australian-Vietnamese study of links between the bones and diet of more than 2,700 people found that vegetarians had bones five percent less dense than meat-eaters, said lead researcher Tuan Nguyen. The issue was most pronounced in vegans, who excluded all animal products from their diet and whose bones were six percent weaker, Nguyen said. There was "practically no difference" between the bones of meat-eaters and ovolactovegetarians, who excluded meat and seafood but ate eggs and dairy products, he said. "The results suggest that vegetarian diets, particularly vegan diets, are associated with lower bone mineral density," Nguyen wrote in the study, which was published Thursday in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. - Source

07/03/09 - Anti-paparazzi device flashes lewd photographers right back
Adam Harvey's flashy anti-paparazzi purse will return fire at snooping cameras (and blind anyone around you to boot). The device is equipped with a photo cell that — once it detects a bright, sudden flash — will trigger an LED-controlling circuit to let off a burst of light of its own. The result? A good majority of the owner of the purse will be obscured by a flash, and the photo will be useless. Obviously, this works best at night. So far, a purse is the most accommodating and portable conveyance for the anti-paparazzi device, though Harvey is looking at ways to make it smaller so that it might work just as well on a necklace or tie. - Source

07/03/09 - People Unsure of Beliefs Are More Closed-Minded
People who are less confident in their beliefs are more reluctant than others to seek out opposing perspectives, researchers said today. The findings, which are based on a review of more than 90 studies, shed light on the debate over whether people intentionally steer clear of views conflicting with their own, or whether they are just exposed more often to ideas that conform to their own. The former seems to be the case. Another recent study revealed that college students gravitated toward news that fit their views. While it's not news that like-minded people often flock together, the new review suggests we actively keep our blinders on when opposing views are nearby. Overall, the studies suggested people are about twice as likely to cherry-pick information that supports their own viewpoints than to consider an opposing idea. Nearly 70 percent cherry-picked compared to about 30 percent who ponder the other side. Close-minded individuals opted for information that went along with their views 75 percent of the time. "Close-minded people are very certain and dogmatic in their views, and generally believe that there is a single correct point of view," said study researcher Dolores Albarracin, a psychology professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. "The implication is that you have a group of people who would only seek to confirm their points of view, resisting all evidence to the contrary via avoidance of exposure." - Source

07/03/09 - Cadillac World Thorium Fuel Concept
Tthe Cadillac World Thorium Fuel concept. Otherwise known as the Cadillac WTF. Created by Loren Kulesus, everything about the WTF has been created to last 100 years without maintenance. That's the reason for the element number ninety, thorium: to act as a nuclear fuel powering batteries that would power the car. Elsewhere, every major system is redundant in case of a failure. And the wheels don't have individual tires - in fact, what's located at each corner is one combined unit made up of six individual wheels. That gives you 24 wheels in total, and each wheel has its own induction motor. Said Kulesus, "The vehicle would require the tires to be adjusted every five years, but no material would need to be added or subtracted." - Source

07/03/09 - Ford Nucleon
The Ford Nucleon was a nuclear-powered concept car developed by Ford Motor Company in 1958. The design did not include an internal-combustion engine, rather, the vehicle was to be powered by a small nuclear reactor in the rear of the vehicle. The vehicle featured a power capsule suspended between twin booms at the rear. The capsule, which would contain a radioactive core for motive power, was designed to be easily interchangeable, according to the performance needs and the distances to be travelled. The passenger compartment of the Nucleon featured a one-piece, pillar-less windscreen and compound rear window, and was topped by a cantilever roof. There were air intakes at the leading edge of the roof and at the base of its supports. An extreme cab-forward style provided more protection to the driver and passengers from the reactor in the rear. Some pictures show the car with tailfins sweeping up from the rear fenders. The drive train would be integral to the power module, and electronic torque converters would take the place of the drive-train used at the time. It was said that cars like the Nucleon would be able to travel 8000 km (5,000 miles) or more, depending on the size of the core, without recharging. At the end of the core's life, it would be taken to a charging station, which research designers envisioned as largely replacing gas stations. The car was never built and never went into production, but it remains an icon of the Atomic Age of the 1950s, when concerns and dangers such as radiation poisoning, nuclear waste and the possibility of nuclear meltdown were not completely understood or acknowledged. - Source

07/03/09 - Glowing Films Reveal Traces Of Explosives
New spray-on films developed by UC San Diego chemists will be the basis of portable devices that can quickly reveal trace amounts of nitrogen-based explosives. Contaminated fingerprints leave dark shadows on the films, which glow blue under ultraviolet light. One of the films can distinguish between different classes of explosive chemicals, a property that could provide evidence to help solve a crime, or prevent one. A recent episode of CSI: Miami featured the technology, which linked fingerprints left on a video camera to a bomb used in a bank heist, revealing the motive for the robbery. In real life, the security systems company RedXDefense has developed a portable kit based on the technology that security officers could use with minimal training. - Source

07/03/09 - Super-sensitive Explosives Detector
Using a laser and a device that converts reflected light into sound, researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory can detect explosives at distances exceeding 20 yards. The method is a variation of photoacoustic spectroscopy but overcomes a number of problems associated with this technique originally demonstrated by Alexander Graham Bell in the late 1880s. The technique involves illuminating the target sample with an eye-safe pulsed light source and allowing the scattered light to be detected by a quartz crystal tuning fork. "We match the pulse frequency of the illuminating light with the mechanical resonant frequency of the quartz crystal tuning fork, generating acoustic waves at the tuning fork's air-surface interface," said Charles Van Neste of ORNL's Biosciences Division. "This produces pressures that drive the tuning fork into resonance." The amplitude of this vibration is proportional to the intensity of the scattered light beam falling on the tuning fork, which because of the nature of quartz creates a piezoelectric voltage. For their experiments, researchers used tributyl phosphate and three explosives - cyclotrimethylenetrinitromine, trinitrotoluene, commonly known as TNT, and pentaerythritol tetranitrate. They were able to detect trace residues with lasers 100 times less powerful than those of competing technologies. While the researchers have been able to detect explosives at 20 meters, using larger collection mirrors and stronger illumination sources, they believe they can achieve detection at distances approaching 100 meters. - Source

High Voltage & Free Energy Devices Handbook
This wonderfully informative ebook provides many simple experiments you can do, including hydrogen generation and electrostatic repulsion as well as the keys to EV Gray's Fuelless Engine. One of the most comprehensive compilations of information yet detailing the effects of high voltage repulsion as a driving force. Ed Gray's engine produced in excess of 300HP and he claimed to be able to 'split the positive' energy of electricity to produce a self-running motor/generator for use as an engine. Schematics and tons of photos of the original machines and more! Excellent gift for your technical friends or for that budding scientist! If you are an experimenter or know someone who investigates such matters, this would make an excellent addition to your library or as an unforgettable gift. The downloadable HVFE eBook pdf file is almost 11MB in size and contains many experiments, photos, diagrams and technical details. Buy a copy and learn all about hydrogen generation, its uses and how to produce electrostatic repulsion. - 121 pages - $15.00 - Source

DVD - the Physics of Crystals, Pyramids and Tetrahedrons
This is a wonderful 2 hour DVD which presents one man's lifelong study of pyramids, crystals and their effects. Several of his original and very creative experiments are explained and diagramed out for experimenters. These experiments include; 1) transmutation of zinc to lower elements using a tetrahedron, 2) energy extraction from a pyramid, 3) determining mathematic ratios of nature in a simple experiment, 4) accelerating the growth of food, 5) increasing the abundance of food, 6) how crystals amplify, focus and defocus energy, 7) using crystals to assist natural healing, 8) how the universe uses spirals and vortexes to produce free energy and MORE... - $20 DVD + S&H / Source to Buy and Youtube Clip

14 Ways to Save Money on Fuel Costs
This eBook is the result of years of research into various methods to increase mileage, reduce pollution and most importantly, reduce overall fuel costs. It starts out with the simplest methods and offers progressively more detailed technologies that have been shown to reduce fuel costs. As a bonus to readers, I have salted the pages with free interesting BONUS items that correlate to the relevant page. Just filling up with one tank of gas using this or other methods explained here will pay for this eBook. Of course, many more methods are out there but I provided only the ones which I think are practical and can be studied by the average person who is looking for a way to immediately reduce their fuel costs. I am currently using two of the easier methods in my own vehicle which normally gets 18-22 mpg and now gets between 28 and 32 mpg depending on driving conditions. A tank of gas for my 1996 Ford Ranger costs about $45.00 here so I am saving around $15-$20 PER TANK, without hurting my engine and with 'greener' emissions due to a cleaner burn! The techniques provided in this ebook begin with simple things you can do NOW to improve your mileage and lower your gas costs. - $15 eBook Download / Source to Buy

KeelyNet BBS Files w/bonus PDF of 'Keely and his Discoveries'
Finally, I've gotten around to compiling all the files (almost 1,000 - about 20MB and lots of work doing it) from the original KeelyNet BBS into a form you can easily navigate and read using your browser, ideally Firefox but it does work with IE. Most of these files are extremely targeted, interesting and informative, I had forgotten just how much but now you can have the complete organized, categorized set, not just sprinklings from around the web. They will keep you reading for weeks if not longer and give you clues and insights into many subjects and new ideas for investigation and research. IN ADDITION, I am including as a bonus gift, the book (in PDF form) that started it all for me, 'Keely and his Discoveries - Aerial Navigation' which includes the analysis of Keely's discoveries by Dr. Daniel G. Brinton. This 407 page eBook alone is worth the price of the KeelyNet BBS CD but it will give you some degree of understanding about what all Keely accomplished which is just now being rediscovered, but of course, without recognizing Keely as the original discoverer. Chapters include; Vibratory Sympathetic and Polar Flows, Vibratory Physics, Latent Force in Interstitial Spaces and much more. To give some idea of how Keely's discoveries are being slowly rediscovered in modern times, check out this Keely History. These two excellent bodies of information will be sent to you on CD. If alternative science intrigues and fascinates you, this CD is what you've been looking for... - Source

New Vanguard Sciences eBooks - Save a Tree! eBooks make great gifts!
Shape Power - Dan Davidson's analysis of the mysterious pyramid energies, Keely's aether force, Reich's orgone energy, Schauberger's diamagnetic energy, plus a host of others, and shows how shape and materials interact with the universal aether to modify the aether into electromagnetic, gravitic, and various healing energies... - Shape Power Youtube

The Physics of the Primary State of Matter - published in the 1930s, Karl Schappeller described his Prime Mover, a 10-inch steel sphere with quarter-inch copper tubing coils. These were filled with a material not named specifically, but which is said to have hardened under the influence of direct current and a magnetic field [electro-rheological fluid]. With such polarization, it might be guessed to act like a dielectric capacitor and as a diode...

'The Evolution of Matter' and 'The Evolution of Forces' on CD
Years ago, I had been told by several people, that the US government frequently removes books they deem dangerous or 'sensitive' from libraries. Some are replaced with sections removed or rewritten so as to 'contain' information that should not be available to the public despite the authors intent. A key example was during the Manhattan Project when the US was trying to finalize research into atomic bombs. They removed any books that dealt with the subject and two of them were by Dr. Gustave Le Bon since they dealt with both energy and matter including radioactivity. I had been looking for these two books for many years and fortunately stumbled across two copies for which I paid about $40.00 each. I couldn't put down the books once I started reading them. Such a wealth of original discoveries, many not known or remembered today. / Page 88 - Without the ether there could be neither gravity, nor light, nor electricity, nor heat, nor anything, in a word, of which we have knowledge. The universe would be silent and dead, or would reveal itself in a form which we cannot even foresee. If one could construct a glass chamber from which the ether were to be entirely eliminated, heat and light could not pass through it. It would be absolutely dark, and probably gravitation would no longer act on the bodies within it. They would then have lost their weight. / Page 96-97 - A material vortex may be formed by any fluid, liquid or gaseous, turning round an axis, and by the fact of its rotation it describes spirals. The study of these vortices has been the object of important researches by different scholars, notably by Bjerkness and Weyher. They have shown that by them can be produced all the attractions and repulsions recognized in electricity, the deviations of the magnetic needle by currents, etc. These vortices are produced by the rapid rotation of a central rod furnished with pallets, or, more simply, of a sphere. Round this sphere gaseous currents are established, dissymetrical with regard to its equatorial plane, and the result is the attraction or repulsion of bodies brought near to it, according to the position given to them. It is even possible, as Weyher has proved, to compel these bodies to turn round the sphere as do the satellites of a planet without touching it. / Page 149 - "The problem of sending a pencil of parallel Hertzian waves to a distance possesses more than a theoretical interest. It is allowable to say that its solution would change the course of our civilization by rendering war impossible. The first physicist who realizes this discovery will be able to avail himself of the presence of an enemy's ironclads gathered together in a harbour to blow them up in a few minutes, from a distance of several kilometres, simply by directing on them a sheaf of electric radiations. On reaching the metal wires with which these vessels are nowadays honeycombed, this will excite an atmosphere of sparks which will at once explode the shells and torpedoes stored in their holds. With the same reflector, giving a pencil of parallel radiations, it would not be much more difficult to cause the explosion of the stores of powder and shells contained in a fortress, or in the artillery sparks of an army corps, and finally the metal cartridges of the soldiers. Science, which at first rendered wars so deadly, would then at length have rendered them impossible, and the relations between nations would have to be established on new bases." - Source

$5 Alt Science MP3s to listen while working/driving/jogging
No time to sit back and watch videos? Here are 15 interesting presentations you can download for just $5 each and listen to while driving, working, jogging, etc. An easy way to learn some fascinating new things that you will find of use. Easy, cheap and simple, better than eBooks or Videos. Roughly 50MB per MP3. - Source

15 New Alternative Science DVDs & 15 MP3s
An assortment of alternative science videos that provide many insights and inside information from various experimenters. Also MP3s extracted from these DVDs that you can listen to while working or driving. Reference links for these lectures and workshops by Bill Beaty of Amateur Science on the Dark Side of Amateur Science, Peter Lindemann on the World of Free Energy, Norman Wootan on the History of the EV Gray motor, Dan Davidson on Shape Power and Gravity Wave Phenomena, Lee Crock on a Method for Stimulating Energy, Doug Konzen on the Konzen Pulse Motor, George Wiseman on the Water Torch and Jerry Decker on Aether, ZPE and Dielectric Nano Arrays. Your purchase of these products helps support KeelyNet, thanks! - Source to Buy

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