Originally Tesla claimed to be able to transmit power directly at great distances through the earth at greater efficiency than even the best designed modern power transmission systems.

Keith Howard, the inventor, has patented and now publicly published a simple test system that he hopes will prove the physics of his solution in the lead up to funding and producing a full scale prototype. The prototype is very expensive due to the massive voltages involved.

Demonstrations of the test system are available with an appointment at the workshop of the Inventor on the Central Coast of New South Wales.

Ric Richardson is available for interviews from his base in Byron Bay, NSW and also during his frequent trips to Sydney and other capital cities.

About Inventor Keith Howard: Keith is an inventor and electro-mechanical engineering enthusiast who has been working on solving the problems associated with Tesla's transmission and generation systems for nearly a decade.

As people started pondering that incredibly strange assertion, the story picked up speed. Late last week, journalists began buzzing about the bizarre paper that purported to explain all of life using "gyraxioms."

The basic idea is that everything, from subatomic particles to living systems, is based on helical systems the author calls "gyres," which transform matter, energy, and information. These transformations then determine the properties of various natural systems, living and otherwise.

What are these gyres? It's really hard to say; even Andrulis admits that they're just "a straightforward and non-mathematical core model" (although he seems to think that's a good thing).

Just about everything can be derived from this core model; the author cites "major phenomena including, but not limited to, quantum gravity, phase transitions of water, why living systems are predominantly CHNOPS (carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and sulfur), homochirality of sugars and amino acids, homeoviscous adaptation, triplet code, and DNA mutations."

This makes logical sense to me, but I've never heard these noises before in my 40+ years on this planet. I'm sure they're millions of people on this planet that would agree. What the expert failed to mention is... this is not a normal occurrence. If his theory is correct, then something in our solar system (micro) or galaxy (macro) is exciting Earth's North and South Poles to cause this strange sound. So, I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss this as just a normal thing.

As our solar system continues it's journey towards the "galactic center", are these sounds going to become more common and with greater intensity and frequency?

So, is the Bible correct when they refer to these sounds as trumpets in the "Book of Revelations"? (thanks to Joel McClain for this headsup. - JWD)

Meaning of the Trumpets - Geneva Study Bible - The angels, the administers of Christ, by sounding trumpet and voice (for they are heralds) effectually call forth the instruments of the wrath of God, through his power. - Full Article Source - Permalink

There are reports of similar sounds being heard before earthquakes. It is also possible the massive solar flares are creating intense ion shifts in the auroras which could create incredibly strong low frequencies.

In a study out this week in the Journal Nature, researchers at Brandeis in collaboration with Duke University explain how granular materials are transformed from a loose state to a solid state when force is applied at a particular angle, in a process known as shearing.

“Traditionally people thought of shearing as a mechanism for breaking up materials,” says Dapeng Bi, a graduate student in the Martin Fisher School of Physics. “In this case, we find shear actually drives solidification.”

An experiment performed at Duke which used photo-elastic discs of two different sizes to represent granular materials such as rice or sand. The discs were placed into a plastic box whose shape could be precisely manipulated and measured. The box was illuminated from the bottom, forcing light through the discs.

A polarized lens placed on top of the box revealed the photo-elastic discs creating colorful patterns — called force chains — caused by the pressure they received when the sides of the box were moved to create a rectangle. Using a computer program the Duke researchers were able to determine the amount of force that was exerted by the discs on each other.

“The polarized light changes the index of refraction of the materials and makes the patterns non-uniform,” says Bi. “We then use those numbers to calculate the forces and the geometry of the contact ?network that the discs formed.”

The researchers found that when the shape of the box changed due to shear, the discs exhibited a solid state even without the density changing. This, Chakraborty says, is remarkable because usually it is an increase in density that transforms loose material to a solid.

“For theorists like us, these experiments are wonderful because we can see exactly what this system is doing,” says Chakraborty. “How these patterns change as the discs are pushed and altered gives us information such as how many contacts each grain makes, and the force at every contact.”

Chakraborty says that using this data she and Bi constructed a theory that explains how the solid is being formed. “It’s possible that if there was no friction between the discs that they would have been able to slide past each other and not get jammed,” says Chakraborty. “We now are performing computer simulations to see if shear jamming will occur without friction.”

This information could potentially be used to further understand? things like avalanches and earthquakes and erosion. “Those are effects of shearing of granular materials,” says Chakraborty. “What we’re trying to do is get at a basic understanding of how sand responds to shear. Most natural forces are shearing forces.”

The behavior seen here is similar to “shear thickening,” which has been used when manufacturing bulletproof vests that present as a soft material when worn, but hardens upon impact of a bullet.

“The research shows that friction can fundamentally change the nature of granular materials in intriguing ways,” says Daryl Hess, program director for condensed matter and materials theory at the National Science Foundation. “Friction and shear reveal the richness of possible states of granular matter, pointing us down a road paved with new discoveries. These may expose deeper connections between jamming and seemingly unrelated phenomena spanning from earthquakes to transformations occurring in other kinds of matter, like water to ice.”

In industries where hoppers are used, like loading rice grains onto a truck for example, jamming can be a problem. One possible solution, says Chakraborty, is to change the traditional shape in order to both prevent and break up jams.

The cars are fueled by 225-kilogram lithium-ion batteries with a range of 160 kilometers. The batteries can be recharged at home or swapped for fully charged ones at a network of robotic battery-switching stations that Better Place has built throughout Israel to let owners extend their cars' range.

The switching stations, plus apps that guide a driver to them, are what make Better Place's business unique. In Israel, gas is expensive, and there are also high taxes on gasoline-powered cars, making electric vehicles more attractive.

Cells in the retina detect light as it comes into the eyes and then send messages to the brain, which is how we see. This is a demanding job, and the retina actually requires proportionally more energy than any other tissue in the body, so it has to have a good supply of blood.

However, with ageing the high energy demand produces debris and there is progressive inflammation even in normal animals. In humans this can result in a decline of up to 30% in the numbers of light receptive cells in the eye by the time we are 70 and so lead to poorer vision."

The researchers found that when old mice were given vitamin D for just six weeks, inflammation was reduced, the debris partially removed, and tests showed that their vision was improved.

The researchers identified two changes taking place in the eyes of the mice that they think accounted for this improvement. Firstly, the number of potentially damaging cells, called macrophages, were reduced considerably in the eyes of the mice given vitamin D. Macrophages are an important component of our immune systems where they work to fight off infections.

However in combating threats to the aged body they can sometimes bring about damage and inflammation. Giving mice vitamin D not only led to reduced numbers of macrophages in the eye, but also triggered the remaining macrophages to change to a different configuration. Rather than damaging the eye the researchers think that in their new configuration macrophages actively worked to reduce inflammation and clear up debris.

The second change the researchers saw in the eyes of mice given vitamin D was a reduction in deposits of a toxic molecule called amyloid beta that accumulates with age. Inflammation and the accumulation of amyloid beta are known to contribute, in humans, to an increased risk of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the largest cause of blindness in people over 50 in the developed world. The researchers think that, based on their findings in mice, giving vitamin D supplements to people who are at risk of AMD might be a simple way of helping to prevent the disease.

The technology could be so effective, it may end up in hospitals and home medicine cabinets, experts said.

Unlike regular sponges that absorb moisture, the lightweight sponge is coated with the protein thrombine -- a natural clotting agent already found in our bodies and combines it with tanic acids.

"What we're doing is actually releasing the thrombine in its active form immediately and allowing it to access the wound. It stops the bleeding within seconds," Hammond said.

Hammond said the nanotechnology is inexpensive to produce which could make it ideal for everyday use.

"The bandage they've developed looks very promising," King said. "If it makes my job easier in the operating room, that's good."

While actual battlefield use is still a few years away, Hammond and her team are already developing the next stage for the sponge.

Soaps are known as surfactants, because they lower surface tension, letting liquids surround particles, break them up, more completely and washing them away. Some surfactants have ions dissolved in them, like bromide and chloride.

Ions have a net charge, making them attract metal atoms. When scientists added tiny bits of iron to the solution, the ions clumped around them, creating groups of soap molecules with metal centers.

The team put these new solutions inside test tubes and poured a liquid that did not mix with the soap on top of the solutions. When they lowered a magnet into the middle of the top liquid, the soap solution defied gravity, flying up through the lighter liquid to cluster around the magnet.

So too can soap in the ocean, dumped in to help break up and sink a spill, rise up and cluster around a magnet, letting it be re-collected quickly and efficiently, without doing more damage. They might also be able to use magnets to target a spill directly, drawing the surfactant to where the spill is, and using less chemicals over all. But spills aren't the only use for magnetic soap.

Surfactants, which are used in all kinds of industrial applications, take on the properties of metal. They can conduct electricity, be turned on and off by application of an electric current, and can change shape via different applications of charge.

Higgins invented a device called the P-Pod that can make ponds and lakes healthier and more viable for trout and bass. That's accomplished by getting rid of high levels of phosphorus, an essential nutrient that causes algae to flourish in lakes and ponds, as well as other invasive species. High phosphorus levels, usually caused by runoff from lawn fertilizers, are the likely culprit of the problem in the pond at his childhood home.

For the past year, he has tested out the P-Pod on Lake Attitash, which has been dealing with problems of its own with algae and invasive species. Higgins started studying lake iron nodules, which are concentrated iron minerals that form in the bottom of lakes and ponds.

In the mid-1600s, there was a big industry in iron nodules collected from the water beds. The iron wasn't only important because of what people could do with it on dry land, but it was important in the bottom of a lake or pond too. "They have a high affinity for phosphorus," Higgins said. "Think of iron minerals as a sponge for phosphorus."

Higgins believes the reason iron nodules haven't been reappearing is because of acid rain. Without the iron nodules, the amount of phosphorus collected in the bottom grows more each year, which is a boon for algae. Without the iron nodules that would naturally absorb the excess phosphorus, there had to be another way to get rid of it.

In 2006, he started putting the bones together of his invention. The P-Pod doesn't use iron to reduce the levels of phosphorus; rather, it uses another method that kills off the phosphorus by reducing the sunlight in the bottom of a water bed. Higgins built a pod, or an enclosed space to go over the water bed. The water inside the enclosed space can be controlled in terms of temperature and it can also be pumped out, treated and sent back in.

Phosphorus wasn't the only victim. The P-Pod can also kill excess invasive plant life, which also need the sun to grow. Higgins said one of the P-Pod's selling point is the ease of use in terms of red tape. No dredging is required and sediment doesn't have to be removed. It doesn't require exhaustive permitting or studies, which could take years.

Russia wants to build either a space base on the surface of the Moon itself or a space station that closely orbits the heavenly body – and has planned talks with NASA and the European Space Agency about creating the manned base. It has been 40 years since humans visited the Moon and Russia cosmo-bosses want to go further this time.

"We don’t want the man to just step on the Moon,” agency chief Vladimir Popovkin said in an interview with Vesti FM radio station. “Today, we know enough about it. We know that there is water in its polar areas," he added. "We are now discussing how to begin [the Moon’s] exploration with NASA and the European Space Agency."

Russian space officials are already working on a "prospective manned transportation system" to the Moon, Popovkin said. The Moon plans form part of the Global Exploration Roadmap [PDF], an international plan for the human exploration of space. The roadmap's ultimate aim is human exploration of Mars.

Finally, they are getting it. We can't go to Mars in a single jump...first one or more space stations, then lunar colonies and staging areas, then Mars and other destinations.

The gyre appears to indicate that the ice is becoming thin enough over the Arctic Ocean that the wind is beginning to affect the motion of water under the ice.

A sudden release of this water or its emergence to the surface will greatly accelerate the melting of the remaining polar oceanic ice and likely alter oceanic circulation in the North Atlantic."

The bulge is some 8,000 cubic km in size and has risen by about 15cm since 2002. The rising trend has been running at 2cm per year.

"What we seen occurring is precisely what the climate models had predicted," said Dr Giles. "When you have clockwise rotation - the fresh water is stored. If the wind goes the other way - and that has happened in the past - then the fresh water can be pushed to the margins of the Arctic Ocean.

"If the spin-up starts to spin down, the fresh water could be released. It could go to the rest of the Arctic Ocean or even leave the Arctic Ocean." If the fresh water were to enter the North Atlantic in large volumes, the concern would be that it might disturb the currents that have such a great influence on European weather patterns. These currents draw warm waters up from the tropics, maintaining milder temperatures in winter than would ordinarily be expected at northern European latitudes.

Bob Aldrich sent me these two links. One is a weighted hammer moving in a pendulum fashion that appears to run without stopping.

But the second one using magnets is far more interesting.

It appears to be the work of our friend Robert Calloway and uses a weighted mechanism to kick the magnets past the infamous bump which stops all such mechanisms.

Beginning this month, Icarus Interstellar Inc., the managing company for Project Icarus, is teaming up with General Propulsion Sciences, a small propulsion research company based in Washington D.C., for a new effort to pursue the development of NTRs and other fission-based space technologies.

The program, called Project Bifrost, recognizes fission as a crucial stepping-stone technology towards the next generation of space travel, and will take steps to advance the technological maturity of NTRs. In the coming decades, sending humans to Mars is considered by many to be the Holy Grail for space exploration, a mission which NTRs are ideally suited for.

Brad Appel of General Propulsion Sciences frames the situation in more familiar terms: "To look at it another way, imagine you are planning a road trip from New York to Los Angeles and back. Except, there are no gas stations along the way -- you need to pack all of the fuel along with you.

Using a chemical rocket to send humans to Mars would be like making the road trip in a cement truck. You might barely make it, but it would be one enormous, inefficient, and expensive voyage.

The booze boost was particularly strong for test subjects put under stressful conditions, with the scientists noting that the addition of small amounts of pure alcohol produced significantly more robust looking subjects, compared to a control "teetotal" group.

The test subjects in this case were worms, though the scientists, and indeed the Register editorial team believe the research is highly likely to be applicable to humans.

The C elegans worms tested are often used as a model in experiments into human ageing, and indeed we share half of our genes with the soft-bodied mud-munchers.

The discovery came about accidentally in an experiment that was originally intended to test reactions to cholesterol. Tiny amounts of ethanol were used to dissolve the cholesterol in the liquid surrounding the worms. The scientists were stunned to see that it doubled the lifespan of worm larvae from an average of 10-15 days to 20-30.

Until now expensive, bulky lasers and a fiber-optic cable had to be attached to an animal brain, making study of cell manipulation in the context of an animal's normal behavior impossible.

But a new company called Kendall Research has developed several prototype devices that are small and light and powered wirelessly, allowing mice and other small animals under study to move around freely. The company is also developing systems to control experiments automatically and remotely.

Optogenetics relies on genetically altering certain cells to make them responsive to light, and then selectively stimulating them with a laser to either turn the cells on or off. Instead of a laser light source, Kendall Research uses creatively packaged LEDs and laser diodes, which are incorporated into a small head-borne device that plugs into an implant in the animal's brain.

The device, which weighs only three grams, is powered wirelessly by supercapacitors stationed below the animal's cage or testing area. Such supercapacitors are ideal for applications that need occasional bursts of power rather than a continuous source. The setup also includes a wirelessly connected controller that plugs into a computer through a USB. "It's essentially a wireless router for the brain," says Wentz.

Many report this is what the Mexistim does for them, especially when they sleep on top of a pad or blanket placed over a large wirescreen that is connected to the Mexistim.

The additive that makes the water boiled, according to Dr Khe, is a kind of chemical using nano technology. The chemical substance can liberate hydrogen, and then joins the catalytic process to separate electron and proton H+ in hydrogen. The process will have influences to the equipment to emit direct current DC (also designed by the center). The DC power which goes through the inverter, will become alternating current AC.

Declining to give details about the substance, but Dr Khe said that in order to start a power equipment with the capacity of 300W which can run for several hours, it will only cost a small sum of money of less than 1000 dong (1,000.00 VND = 0.0480538 USD) (I find this hard to believe but this is the number the article provided - JWD).

No sound was heard at the lab of the center. And according to Dr Khe, the process of generating power from water and catalyst substance does not generate pollution to the environment. As for the nano technology-based chemical substance, it only has effect with water; therefore, it is absolutely safe during the transportation process.

Also according to Khe, not only clean water, but sea water or domestic waste water can be used as the fuel for the power generator.

With the sample products now being kept at the center, the product with the capacity of 2000W, strong enough for the most basic machines at families, such as lamps, electric cooks, TVs, fans, microwave oven or refrigerator, would be priced at 32 million dong (32,000,000.00 VND = 1,537.72 USD).

Meanwhile, the product with the lower capacity of 300W, would be priced at 6-8 million dong. If everything goes smoothly, under the agreement signed between the two parties, the first commercial products would hit the market in June 2012. In the immediate time, there would be two kinds of products with the capacity of 2000W and 300W. The products with different capacities would be available on the market later, depending on the demand of people. Khe has affirmed that it is not difficult to increase the power generation capacity.

The inventors have affirmed that the power generators would have the life expectancy of five or six years, while the pots containing water and catalysts would be stable for 3-4 years. As for the power generation equipments, after that time, if troubles occur, it would be just necessary to clean and replace damaged devices.

Aerospace engineer Ian Bryce said sloppy procedures, shoddy set up and a mysterious power supply to the contraption developed by an Italian inventor all pointed towards it almost certainly not working as hyped.

Italian scientist Andrea Rossi claims to have invented "cold fusion" technology, which could solve the world's energy problems by producing almost limitless power. The claims and the contraptions -- of which Mr Rossi claims to have sold several for about $2 million each -- have been met with deep cynicism from the scientific community.

Mr Smith, a self-described long-time sceptic of outlandish technological claims, has offered $200,000 to NSW north coast man Sol Millin -- who is spruiking (Aussie for carnival barker, shouting great deals or bargains to attract customers) the technology locally -- if he can prove it actually works. Mr Bryce said analysis of reports and videos of Mr Rossi's public tests of the "E-CAT" device -- or energy catalyser -- raised questions about its validity.

Mr Rossi claims the technology fuses hydrogen and nickel at normal room temperatures in a series of nuclear reactions. He claims power directed into the machine is magnified at least six-fold by the process, which he has shown to numerous scientists and media observers at his warehouse in Bologna.

Mr Bryce said one of the most indicative signals that the technology was unlikely to perform as claimed was the presence of a large, unexplained "blue box" sitting adjacent to the invention, which was clearly a substantial power supply. He said Mr Rossi's "results" from the experiment -- three pages of data scrawled with handwritten corrections -- and the "very shoddy set up" of the device all suggested it didn't work.

He has recently invented a gas heating system that generates unlimited hot water – requiring neither municipal pressure nor energy in the form of electricity.

His groundbreaking project, if unearthed, could challenge Eskom, as his invention provides an alternative system for heating water. With electricity prices ever soaring in South Africa, the poor – for whom this is invention is beneficial, featured prominently in his mind, given that generators as an alternative are costly and beyond reach of the underprivileged. The simple system has potential to ease energy hardships experienced by poorer folks in our townships and rural areas.

Matthews used a five-kilogramme gas cylinder, 12-volt battery, a tank and plumbing copper pipes in building a stand-alone system that is ideal for domestic use or by travellers. This user-friendly technology can equally heat seawater in 35 seconds – proof that any form of water could be warmed up by his innovation.

With relevant authorities pledging support but not forthcoming, he is seeking partners to help fund the development of the system on a commercial basis, and roll it out throughout the country and beyond. He harbour ambitions of devising a similar system for industrial use.

He is urgently seeking a solid partnership with established companies such as Eskom, in order to embark on large-scale manufacturing of the stand-alone system, which could employ more people in the process. Besides this advantage, Matthews’s system has potential to help rural communities who overwhelmingly use wood as a fuel source. Wood fuel is associated with socio-economic and environmental issues such as deforestation and indoor air pollution. “This is my idea. It is strictly designed by me,” he brags.

Asked whether he had taken steps to protect his invention, Matthews was circumspect: “Patents are expensive; l do not have the money. If l am featured on television, maybe various stakeholders will acknowledge my efforts and come on board,” he reckons.

He remains steadfast about the simple techniques he used as a surety that no one would steal his idea. He is optimistic that, despite heavy odds, his water heating system will attract investors to give it international acclaim and establish a global footprint.

Hot water heating systems using municipal pressure and energy from Eskom take longer time to heat up. In comparison, Mathews’s invention works faster. At a flick of a switch and within 35 seconds, hot water gushes out. The unique feature about this system is that the hot water runs out endlessly, hence the designer’s reference to it as an “unlimited hot water system”. This is in sharp contrast to traditional systems that intermittently run out of hot water.

Though the current cost of the system is R13 000 (ZAR - 1,638.10 USD), he is of the view that once stakeholders embrace the invention, the law of demand and supply will kick in, which could lower its cost drastically to about R4 000 (ZAR - 504.032 USD). In addition, he has plans to lobby for electricity rebate from Eskom once his systems are fully operational.

What role will medical informatics play in this brave new world? Hint: Little data projects may be as important as big data projects such as gene sequencing.

At a recent symposium on personalized medicine, Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD, chairman of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health at the University of Pennsylvania, questioned whether it would make more sense to target all the lifestyle mistakes that patients make rather than analyze genetic defects.

His view: 'Personalized medicine misses the most important fact about modern society -- little ill health and premature death is genetic, much more is lifestyle and social.' Is Emanuel a dinosaur or a pragmatist?"

Take a moment to imagine what it would be like to live robustly to the ripe old age of 100 or more. You wouldn't die of any particular illness, and you wouldn't gradually waste away under the spell of some awful, enfeebling disease that began years or decades earlier.

It may sound far-fetched, but it is possible to live a long, disease-free life. Most of the conditions that kill us, including cancer and heart disease, could be prevented or delayed by a new way of looking at and treating health. The end of illness is near.

Personalized medicine isn't as far away as you might think. Consider what's already happening in genetic profiling for individuals, which is available today for several hundred dollars. I co-founded a genetic screening company and am a big proponent of the technology.

Angela: "So I made something that's an iron-oxide, gold dangle...

Hartman: "You lost me." (laughter)

Eventually, here's what he did get. Angela's idea was to mix cancer medicine in a polymer that would attach to nanoparticles -- nanoparticles that would then attach to cancer cells and show up on an MRI. so doctors could see exactly where the tumors are. Then she thought shat if you aimed an infrared light at the tumors to melt the polymer and release the medicine, thus killing the cancer cells while leaving healthy cells completely unharmed.

"I think it was more of a -- 'This is really cool, I want to see if it works' -- type thing," she said.

"And when you found out it did..." asked Hartman.

"That was pretty amazing."

It'll take years to know if it works in humans -- but in mice -- the tumors almost completely disappeared.

The grainy structure is then fused together by heating at 2000 °C for several days. The surface of the resulting part is cloudy, and has to be mechanically polished to make it optically clear.

All that work pays off. AlON can do amazing things. Here, for instance, a 1.6? thick AlON plate successfully resists a huge, powerful .50 AP bullet that smashes easily through more than twice that thickness of conventional laminated glass armor, with plenty of energy left over to extremely kill a plastic mannequin head.

So if a digital camera that’s not a cell phone hopes to survive these days, it better be able to do some pretty snazzy techno-voodoo. Enter the Lytro. Not only does it do away with the whole matter of focusing a shot, but it also turns photos into playthings.

Allow me to explain. Shaped like a stick of butter, the Lytro deals with light in a truly innovative way. It captures far more data–including the light’s direction and angles–than a conventional camera, all of which is stored in the photo. The result is that there’s not just one version of an image, but many. Each person who views it can shift the focus, creating a different picture. In short, your photos on Facebook or Flickr or wherever else you want to post them, become truly interactive.

Two versions of the Lytro will be available when it hits the market soon, a $399 model that holds 350 shots and a $499 version that holds 750. Neither of these early models will be able to shoot video nor can your images be loaded on to anything other than a Mac at this point. And as Joshua Goldman noted in a CNET review, you can’t do much real photo-editing yet and there’s no wireless way to transfer images to your computer.

Lytro cameras will also create interactive, living pictures that can be endlessly focused and refocused by both the photographer and the viewer, bringing new creative possibilities to photography.

The light field fully defines how a scene appears, from the foreground to the background and everything in between. Unlike conventional cameras, which capture a scene in two dimensions, light field cameras can capture all of the light traveling in every direction through a scene in four dimensions.

Light field cameras capture fundamentally more powerful data than possible in regular photographs. To record this additional data, Lytro cameras feature a light field sensor that captures the color, intensity and direction of every light ray. Powerful software within the camera then processes the picture into a light field picture file that anyone can interact without usage of special software.

Within the next five years, chances are that 3D printing (also known by the less catchy but more inclusive term additive manufacturing) will have become so advanced that we will be able to upload design specifications to a massive robot, press print, and watch as it spits out a concrete house in less than a day. Plenty of humans will be there, but just to ogle.

Minimizing the time and cost that goes into creating shelters will enable aid workers to address the needs of people in desperate situations. This, at least, is what Behrokh Khoshnevis, a professor of engineering and director of the Center for Rapid Automated Fabrication Technologies, or CRAFT, at the University of Southern California, hopes will come of his inventions."

This is a prototype of an amazing robot that will be able to construct homes in as little as 24 hours. Uploaded with permission by Dr. Behrokh Khoshnevis. You can learn more about the technology at http://www.contourcrafting.org/.

Now, geothermal energy developers plan use a new technology called Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) to pump 24 million gallons of water into the side of the dormant Newberrry Volcano, located about 20 miles south of Bend, Oregon, in an effort to use the earth's heat to generate power.

'We know the heat is there,' says Susan Petty, president of AltaRock Energy, Inc. of Seattle. 'The big issue is can we circulate enough water through the system to make it economic.'

Since natural cracks and pores do not allow economic flow rates, the permeability of the volcanic rock can be enhanced with EGS by pumping high-pressure cold water down an injection well into the rock, creating tiny fractures in the rock, a process known as hydroshearing.

Then cold water is pumped down production wells into the reservoir, and the steam is drawn out. Natural geothermal resources only account for about 0.3 percent of U.S. electricity production, but a 2007 Massachusetts Institute of Technology report projected EGS could bump that to 10 percent within 50 years, at prices competitive with fossil-fuels.

But a "technological mishap" brought it all unstuck - Mr Rossi never rang. Meeting organiser and Byron New Energy Charitable Trust founder Sol Millin didn't call the scientist because, he said, Mr Rossi was a busy man and he did not want to disturb him.

"He was waiting 12 hours before he should have been," Mr Millin said yesterday. "He stayed up for an hour awaiting the call but he ended up going to bed."

Mr Rossi's invention supposedly uses a process known as cold fusion to create large amounts of energy from almost nothing. Mr Millin describes it as "the most important discovery of our time".

Mr Smith was going to donate $200,000 if the presenters could convince the sceptical Mr Bryce that the machine worked. They didn't.

The Sunday press were similarly unimpressed, and quoted Mr Smith saying, after the presentation, he was "suspicious" and intended to keep his money in the bank. Mr Millin yesterday remained adamant the machine worked and claimed he and Mr Rossi were portrayed unfairly.

Asked if he thought Mr Smith would invest in the project, Mr Millin replied: ''Absolutely.'' Mr Bryce has advised Mr Smith otherwise. ''My view was that it was much too early to talk about investing. I have serious concerns about the invention's credibility and lack of sound scientific theory behind it.''

Multiple sclerosis is a chronic inflammatory disease that erodes the fatty myelin sheaths around the axons of the brain and spinal cord, and can result in serious disability. Similar effects occur naturally with aging.

From New Scientist: 'White blood cells called macrophages from the young mice gathered at the sites of myelin damage. Macrophages engulf and destroy pathogens and debris, including destroyed myelin. "We know this debris inhibits regeneration, so clearing it up is important," says team member Amy Wagers of Harvard University.' Here's the academic paper's abstract."

They linked the bloodstreams of young mice to old mice with myelin damage. Exposure to youthful blood reactivated stem cells in the old mice, boosting myelin generation.

White blood cells called macrophages from the young mice gathered at the sites of myelin damage. Macrophages engulf and destroy pathogens and debris, including destroyed myelin - Full Article Source

Italian doctor may have found simple cure for Multiple Sclerosis - “An Italian doctor has been getting dramatic results with a new type of treatment for Multiple Sclerosis, or MS, which affects up to 2.5 million people worldwide. In an initial study, Dr. Paolo Zamboni took 65 patients with relapsing-remitting MS, performed a simple operation to unblock restricted bloodflow out of the brain – and two years after the surgery, 73% of the patients had no symptoms.

Unemployment is at 9.1 percent, 46 million Americans are on food stamps, the Obama administration claims 117,000 jobs were created in July — but payrolls dropped by 38,000 — the Dow has gone wild, global markets are freaked, and even the New York Times writes that it’s now time to say the words: “double dip.”

Mr. Obama’s policies are, it can also be said at long last, a dismal failure. He has been in office for 30 months, so his agenda, with the help of a sympathetic Senate, has been, for the most part, enacted. And things have gotten worse. Note to the GOP: If you’re looking for a mantra for 2012, it’s right there — Things Have Gotten Worse. Clean, simple, true.

America went 235 years with the best credit rating in the world. Then, Mr. Obama came along, added more debt than the first 43 presidents (check it yourself; politifact.com says it’s true), and got us downgraded. - Full Article Source - Permalink

I did a search on youtube and was pleased to find the Gashole movie has made it online so had a chance to watch it. Excellent video, very informative. Another friend (sunwukong) has provided a new URL which will lookup any patent for you, apparently from DAY ONE, not just back to 1972, compile a PDF and let you download that PDF for free. And it has some limited search options.

“Actor Scott D. Roberts and his filmmaking partner, Jeremy Wagener are the unlikely men behind the new documentary GasHole. Narrated by The O.C. and American Beauty actor Peter Gallagher, the film chronicles the history of oil prices and alternative fuels. It will screen for one night only at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Village 8 Theater in Louisville.

This is its second stop in Louisville; a screening on July 14 sold out. The idea started 21/2 years ago when gas prices were at a then-high of $2.20 and a letter to the editor in The Modesto Bee newspaper sparked Roberts’ interest. The letter writer told of a Buick Roadmaster he saw come to the Crows Landing Naval Airfield in the 1940s that its inventor claimed was water-injected and could get 100 miles per gallon.

The inventor said he became a millionaire by selling the patent to Shell Oil Co., but one of the conditions was he could not make any more. “His story was jaw-dropping,” Roberts said. So Roberts called his friend Wagener, an L.A.-based writer-director, and said he might have a great idea for a movie.

The two began researching it and tracked down Kunde, who tells his story in the film. From there, the filmmakers went in search of the elusive patent sold to Shell. They found one from 1946 registered to a man who lived 20 miles outside Modesto; they thought it could be the invention in question. They brought the design to an engineer, who agreed that it might be able to improve fuel economy. From there, the documentary took off.

Kunde’s story led them to find other documented cases of fuel-saving inventions that never have seen the light of day. They include Texas inventor Tom Ogle’s 100-mpg vapor fuel system and Shell’s own internal 1977 publication “Fuel Economy of the Gasoline Engine,” which shows that Shell engineers were able to achieve 149.95 mpg on a 1947 Studebaker. www.gasholemovie.com

(If anyone can find this patent number, please share it with everyone. Email Me. The US patent website doesn’t allow searches without specific numbers before 1972, but I ran some numbers and found this one for January 1st, 1946 – 2,391,988. It’s not the patent in question, but it gives a range of numbers to hunt. – JWD)”

The Crozier patent information states;

Patent 2,407,478 - Sept. 10, 1946 - H.E. Crozier et al
Antiknock or Detonation dampening device

Our invention relates generally to internal combustion engines and more particularly to simple and efficient means for counteracting and dampening detonation or engine "knock,' and the principal object of our invention is to provide simple and efficient automatic means for introducing steam vapor to the carburetor to mix with the combustible gaseous mixture drawn into the cylinders.

The steam vapor when entering the combustion chamber acts as a coolant during the explosion cycle and its expansion through the differential in temperature will act as a cushion or dampener respectively producing a gas of its own to further assist combustion, so that detonation, more familiarly known as an engine "knock" is thus eliminated.

It may readily be seen that with a device of this kind, higher compression ratios can be utilized materializing more power and fuel economy and also permitting the use of lower grade fuels.

Now this all ties in with vapor carburetors and we've had two files online since the late 1990s dealing with this very subject. See A History of Vapor Carburetors and the other file which deals with mixing detergent, up to 70% water with gas in the Gunnerman Patent.

It strikes me there could be a hybrid engine that uses heating, ultrasonics as in the Cottell Ultrasonic Water & Gasoline Mix and the Gunnerman detergent, water and gas mix mentioned above.

Seems to me the government should force the car companies and oil companies to work together for gas efficiencies of at least 100mpg or else face nationalization (takeover by the government) or massive fines and punishment.

They could easily build cases against both car and oil companies for treason for suppressing these higher efficiency technologies with all the resultant problems, including wars, deaths, etc. and all the peripheral problems that could have so easily been avoided except for their corporate greed.

Just like disbanding and taking over the FED by our government, these crooks should also face the very logical possibility that they could also be TAKEN OVER or be made to pay on so many levels.

There is an off the shelf standard substance used to dissolve clots in heart attacks called Streptokinase. About 5 years ago, it was noticed in a woman patient who had cancer, that when streptokinase was given to clear up clots in her heart, her CANCER DISSOLVED TOO! Why? Because the fibrin sheath was dissolved, EXPOSING THE CANCER to the immune system!!

I don't want to get anyones hopes up, but this is incredible!!!! Now, this amazing person has located even more information that provides further insights.

CD4 cells are the warrior cells that eat cancer. CD8 cells inhibit the activity of the CD4 cells in cancer patients. It has been found that Tagamet (known as Cimetidine) will cancel this inhibiting action of CD8 to CD4 cells as it unleashes these tigers to further destroy cancer cells.

Our friend says in one remarkable case, simply the introduction of Cimetidine to the patients bloodstream, IS REPORTED TO HAVE completely cleared up a cancer patient in about two weeks.

So, based on what has been uncovered, this is our friends' suggested protocol in the event our friend had to fight cancer;

1) An IV with a standard off the shelf dose of Streptokinase to unmask the cancer cell by dissolving the sheath, this lets the immune system see the cancer so that it can go forth and destroy it.

2) take Tagamet/Cimetidine to release the CD4 warrior cells

3) take an immune stimulator like typhoid vaccine to bolster the natural healing activities of the immune system.

Because the concepts build on each other, it is helpful to take the Rot & Rust "tour" one page at a time starting at the beginning. When you get to the end of the page you can just click on to the next.

The pH balance of the human bloodstream is recognized by all medical physiology texts as one of the most important biochemical balances in all of human body chemistry.

pH is the acronym for "Potential Hydrogen". In definition, it is the degree of concentration of hydrogen ions in a substance or solution. It is measured on a logarithmic scale from 0 to 14.

Higher numbers means a substance is more alkaline in nature and there is a greater potential for absorbing more hydrogen ions.

Lower numbers indicate more acidity with less potential for absorbing hydrogen ions.

Our body pH is very important because pH controls the speed of our body's biochemical reactions. It does this by controlling the speed of enzyme activity as well as the speed that electricity moves through our body.

Indus magnet as alternative energy - I have invented a simple energy generation device that I call Indusmagnet. It utilises energy contained by permanent magnets. Advantages of this device are that no fuel is consumed and no thermodynamic operation is involved in the motor. It is just like an electric motor. The device is not gravity-based, so there is no need of constructing large dams. As no fuel is burned inside the device, there is no environmental pollution as there is no carbon emission.

The research I have done includes testing of insulation material for shielding magnetic attraction or repulsion. I have tested more than 2,000 materials in testing laboratory. I have spent years on methods of manufacturing of different parts of this device: those includes magnetic casing for stator, rotor assembly and insulation carriage.

Despite this incongruity, several of these inventions were awarded patents. It is interesting that in 1974 an American inventor made a low-cost permanent magnet motor which on demonstration ran for over a month without any power supply. This was refused a patent, so the inventor published, in the ‘Popular Mechanics’ monthly magazine, details of how to make it in the public domain.

However, all references to this — the only permanent magnet motor that was cheap, easy to build and really worked — have been expunged from the literature by the oil, gas, and electric companies as it would decimate their profits. It may be that this electro-mechanical device works by tapping into vacuum energy present in superstrings in the other 7.3 dimensions (other than the known four mass-energy space time dimensions). This was predicted by the late great scientist and philosopher, Arthur C. Clarke of Sri Lanka, who also predicted the use of satellites for communication decades before it became commonplace.

On March 9, 2006, Allan Widom, a condensed matter physicist with Northeastern University, and Lewis Larsen, chief executive officer of Lattice Energy LLC, published a landmark theory that offers a promising explanation for low-energy nuclear reactions. Two scientists at NASA’s Langley Research Center, Dennis Bushnell and Joseph Zawodny, saw the promise of the Widom-Larsen ultra-low-momentum neutron theory of LENRs.

For several years, Bushnell and Zawodny spoke favorably and enthusiastically about the Widom-Larsen theory as well as LENR in general. Thursday, Larsen told New Energy Times that he spoke with both NASA employees by phone to help them learn about LENR and his theory.

“I spent six months tutoring Zawodny so he had the basics of the theory,” Larsen said. Larsen told New Energy Times that Bushnell and Zawodny also led him to believe that NASA might provide some funding for his company.

“In a series of telephone calls I had during the spring and summer of 2008 with Zawodny and Bushnell, they dangled a carrot ­- the possibly of significant funding from NASA,” Larsen said. “I told them that I was wiling to teach them the basic physics but I would not transfer Lattice’s proprietary knowledge about how to use nanotechnology to improve the reliability of LENRs without having a contract.

Metrics for health could include such elements as blood pressure, respiratory rate, and temperature. Ultimately, this tool will collect large volumes of data from ongoing measurement of health states through a combination of wireless sensors, imaging technologies, and portable, non-invasive laboratory replacements.

Given that each team will take its own approach to design and functionality, the device's physical appearance and functionality may vary immensely from team to team. Indeed, the only stated limit on form is that the mass of its components together must be no greater than five pounds."

But because an important part of the qualifying round will be evaluating consumer experience in using it, the limitations set by this competition will force teams to make choices. Teams will have to consider tradeoffs amongst weight, functionality, power requirements, battery life, screen resolution, AI engine location, diagnosis capability, end consumer cost, and so on.

Beyond the weight requirement, there is no limit as to how many discrete components constitute a viable solution. For example, teams may use sensors that are attached to a phone-like control unit, fastened individually to the consumer, or kept apart and reserved for occasional use or home monitoring.

Before you get excited, smokers, the researchers say the study has nothing to do with cigarettes. They looked at 74 non-smokers with an average age of 76. Half got a nicotine patch of 15 mg per day for six months; the other poor bastards got a placebo. Neither group knew whether they had the real patch.

the patches helped patients do better on cognitive tests for "attention memory, speed of processing and consistency of processing." After 6 months of treatment, the nicotine group regained 46 percent of normal longterm memory for their age. The placebo group got 26 percent worse.

Dr. Newhouse doesn't recommend running out and buying nicotine patches for elderly family members, or yourself for that matter, because precise dosage seems to be important: "If you're already functioning fine, but slip down the hill, nicotine will push you back up toward the top," he says in a press release. "A little bit of the drug makes poor performers better. Too much, and it makes them worse again, so there's a range. The key issue is to find the sweet spot where it helps."

Plus, while nicotine alone is not nearly as bad for you as when it's delivered via cancer stick, it's not entirely safe. Some of the bad things it does on its own include possibly increasing your chance of getting diabetes, it can speed up tumor growth, it can be intensely addictive, and it can kill you if you overdose. There might be more, research is ongoing.

But in addition to potentially treating Alzheimer's symptoms, researchers are looking to nicotine as a potential treatment for Parkinson's. Studies have also found nicotine helps ulcerative colitis patients suffer fewer flare ups. Stanford research found nicotine helps grow new blood vessels, which can be good in people like diabetes patients with poor circulation (but it's bad when the blood vessels are in tumors).

I thought everyone knew its not the tobacco or nicotine that causes cancer from cigarettes, its the PAPER and the HOT FUMES that inflame tissue. Take a piece of paper and burn it in a dish to see the creosote that comes from it. When I was a teenager working at a drivein, I burned my hand and my boss lady didn't have any medicine.

In SRI's process, methane preheated to 600 °C displaces much of the water required, thus reducing the unwanted reaction with the coal. The methane also reduces the amount of heat absorbed by the gasification process, eliminating the need for oxygen and combustion to maintain the 1,400 to 1,500 °C temperatures the process requires. As a result SRI says it can eliminate the use of oxygen-fired combustion that the process requires, making do with zero-carbon renewable or nuclear power instead.

Skipping oxygen not only eliminates a source of carbon dioxide, but contributes substantial cost savings by eliminating the need for an oxygen plant. Further savings are achieved through more efficient fuel synthesis.

Like solar, they needed it in the beginning stages of development, but now they are just trying to protect their turf. Many major discoveries, inventions, developments and improvements that benefit society, such as nuclear power, started out with subsidies. The big difference with solar is that it is a renewable resource.

[Uwe] channeled a little bit of [Apollonius] when he realized that a flat cardboard ring with a section removed could be joined together into a conic section. The resulting section looks just like one concentric ring in a Fresnel reflector. [Uwe] wrote a small program in Visual Basic to calculate the necessary diameter and angle of his conic sections.

A bit of cardboard was cut out and pieced together with some very reflective aluminum tape. The resulting Fresnel reflector concentrates 117 times the normal solar radiation onto a small point. It’s more than enough to burn holes in construction paper, but we’ll be using a microwave for our lunch today.

Fresnel reflectors consist of concentric mirrored rings. Each ring is tilted inward by a precise angle. Any light falling on the ring from above is reflected toward a central focal point.

Graphene is a sheet of carbon atoms arranged in a chicken wire structure. In its pristine state, it exhibits no signs of the conventional magnetism usually associated with such materials as iron or nickel. The Manchester researchers took nonmagnetic graphene and then either ‘peppered’ it with other nonmagnetic atoms like fluorine or removed some carbon atoms from the chicken wire. The empty spaces, called vacancies, and added atoms all turned out to be magnetic, exactly like atoms of, for example, iron.

“It is like minus multiplied by minus gives you plus,” says Dr Irina Grigorieva. The researchers found that, to behave as magnetic atoms, defects must be far away from each other and their concentration should be low. If many defects are added to graphene, they reside too close and cancel each other’s magnetism. In the case of vacancies, their high concentration makes graphene disintegrate.

"Also known as “Mushroom of Immortality” in China, it has been used as a strenghthening medicine for thousands of years. Research suggests that reishi may help diabetics as an alternative medicine since it can help manage diabetes. Research also suggests that the results on diabetics after using reishi have been similar to insulin therapies.

These mushrooms offer natural cure to a diabetic, since they have medicinal properties which dramatically lowers blood sugar. Reishi mushroom thus helps a diabetic manage his diabetes through a natural way and without being insulin dependent.

They are also known to aid detoxification of kidneys and liver and thus help them function in a more regulated manner. It is also known to strengthen immune system so that it protects the body much before the damage is done. Since they help body to adopt to different types of stress, they are known to keep adrenaline flowing evenly due to their low fight response.

It helps diabetics because it is useful in building strong immune system. It also is an alternative medicine that helps maintain and restore balance to body’s various systems. It is safe because it is not known to possess any unfavorable side effects and thus can be used on a long term basis."

Instead, Knittel says, 'Most of that technological progress has gone into [compensating for] weight and horsepower.' ... Indeed, Knittel asserts, given consumer preferences in autos, larger changes in fleet-wide gas mileage will occur only when policies change, too. 'It’s the policymakers’ responsibility to create a structure that leads to these technologies being put toward fuel economy,' he says.

Among environmental policy analysts, the notion of a surcharge on fuel is widely supported. 'I think 98 percent of economists would say that we need higher gas taxes,' Knittel says."

While auto-industry critics have long called for new types of vehicles, such as gas-electric hybrids, Knittel’s research underscores the many ways that conventional internal-combustion engines have improved. Among other innovations, as Knittel notes, efficient fuel-injection systems have replaced carburetors; most vehicles now have multiple camshafts (which control the valves in an engine), rather than just one, allowing for a smoother flow of fuel, air and exhaust in and out of engines; and variable-speed transmissions have let engines better regulate their revolutions per minute, saving fuel. To be sure, the recent introduction of hybrids is also helping fleet-wide fuel efficiency.

Knittel’s research has impressed other scholars in the field of environmental economics. “I think this is a very convincing and important paper,” says Severin Borenstein, a professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley. “The fact that cars have muscled up rather than become more efficient in the last three decades is known, but Chris has done the most credible job of measuring that tradeoff.” Adds Borenstein: “This paper should get a lot of attention when policymakers are thinking about what is achievable in improved automobile fuel economy.”

The models illustrate the idea behind Invelox – a wind generation system designed to capture, accelerate and concentrate wind power. Life-size counterparts will be rolled out in the next few months for testing. And if Allaei can convince the world that his idea works, he can envision a day when his wind generation systems are atop every building and every home all around the world.

It was mid-2008 when Allaei was working on a proposal for the U.S. Department of Energy regarding wind turbine vibration that he realized people were going about wind harvesting all wrong. “Hold the breaks, let’s relook at this,” he said. Allaei noted a number of problems with traditional wind turbines and wind farms. “Birds don’t like it, humans don’t like it, we’re going to a dead end,” he said.

He developed a tower shaped like a giant old phonograph horn lying on its back that could collect wind closer to the ground than traditional turbines, thereby reducing the cost of construction materials as well as operation and maintenance costs. “Harvest energy closest to the source,” he reasoned. The company, SheerWind, was created two years later.

In addition to reducing costs, Allaei believes his creation to be more efficient and more versatile than the kinds of windmills people have used for thousands of years. “It is based on a concept of elegant simplicity,” states his promotional brochures. “Instead of a pinwheel, you begin with a scoop.”

The Invelox (a combination of “increased” and “velocity”) captures wind moving as slow as 2 mph, funnels it down a tapered passageway designed to increase its speed, and into a ground-level generator. Allaei believes the Invelox can outperform a tradi-tional 300-foot turbine 3-to-1 at half the size and with one-tenth the land needed. In addition, multiple towers could be connected to form a wind farm.

The water-resistant wristband called 'Me Finder', is priced at £14.99 and children can choose from three different options, including a monkey and flower design. They are currently available from her website www.kidsshowandtell.com and from airline Aer Lingus. The former marketing worker, from Highgate,London was inspired to create the product after her son Billy, now five, went missing at a football match.

No wires, except for the little tail-like antenna, were attached to those lamps. They contained no batteries, they were entirely unconnected to any source of power. Yet they were alight. How? The answer to that question records the achievement of a goal, a Promised Land of Science that has been sought for 40 years. It is something new under the sun. For those lamps were receiving power from the big horn, through the air. Power, in that laboratory, was being broadcast.

Those little lights, shining in a prosaic laboratory, marked the coastline of a new land. No powerlines march Indian-file over the hills and through the valleys of that land; no wirepacked conduits lie buried under the streets of the cities; no third-rails or overhead wires parallel the railroad tracks. The people there do not need those things, for they can tune in a supply of power as easily as we tune in a radio program.

There are no gas stations in that land. Automobiles have no gas tanks, no batteries; driven by electric motors, they draw their power from the airwaves. Airplanes are free from the leash of limited fuel capacities, for they carry no fuel; they can fly from New York to Hawaii, to Hong Kong, to India, with never a stop. Houses have no furnaces, no oil burners, no steam pipes or radiators; they are heated by electrically-activated coils set in the walls. Power is everywhere, in the air itself, always available, waiting only to be funneled out through a strand of wire and put to work in a thousand ways.

That is the land whose first dim outlines were picked out by the light of the little lamps in that laboratory. It is the El Dorado for which cranks, dreamers and geniuses alike have been looking for two generations. Our passport to it is the pair of doughnut-shaped copper containers manipulated by that Westinghouse engineer. Separately, the containers are called rhumbatrons; together, with a copper pipe connecting them, they form an invention which has been authoritatively described as “the most important advance in radio since the invention of the audion in 1906?: the Klystron.

Yet for all its versatility the Klystron, like most great inventions, is essentially simple; , it consists chiefly of nothing more complicated than two oscillating magnetic fields. Through the first field, in rhumbatron No. 1— called the “buncher”—a stream of electrons is squirted from a cathode; the field, shuttling rapidly back and forth, alternately speeds up and slows down the electrons passing through it so that they emerge from it not in a steady stream, but in bunches, with empty spaces i between. These bunches of electrons, traveling at a clip of 25,000 miles a second, shoot through a copper pipe to the second rhumbatron, the “catcher”; there they hit the ; second, or backstop, magnetic field, which absorbs their motion -energy and converts it into high-frequency radio waves. These are the waves of power.

The whole process -takes place inside a space no larger than that occupied by a portable radio. A Klystron, complete, weighs only about five pounds. Even the name of it and its parts are, as scientific names go, compact and simple; the rhumbatron is so called because of the rhythmic motion of the magnetic field inside it; “Klystron,” derived from Greek, signifies “waves breaking on a beach”—a phrase which pictures very aptly what happens in the “catcher” rhumbatron.

But the waves produced by the Klystron are different from any ever known before. The Klystron waveband is narrow—the wavelength is from one centimetre to one metre—but there is room in it for about 500,000 separate signals, as compared to about 100 separate signals possible in the standard 200 to 450 metre band. Also, the Klystron wave travels through air in a straight line; it does not follow the curvature of the earth, and it goes through the Heaviside Layer, that mysterious ionized stratum which serves so usefully as a backboard for all other radio waves, like a bullet through cardboard. If directed into a copper pipe, however, it will flow in that pipe like water, even around turns.

So how can we tell the difference between aliens and humans in space? One way is to move the telescope! If you’re pointed at an alien transmitter, then moving the telescope will point you in a different direction, and the signal should go away. On the other hand, strong satellite signals can be detected by radio telescopes even when they point in another direction; the signal can leak into the telescopes even when you’re pointed well away. This is called "side lobe interference", and it’s a major pain for radio astronomers when they’re observing faint objects.

But in this case it’s actually helpful: the astronomers moved the telescope, and yet they continued to see these signals. So it’s clear these signals are coming from our own satellites orbiting the Earth, and not Klaatu, Klingons, or Klendathu.

Not long ago Charles L. Julliot, French lawyer, proposed that airplanes or dirigibles transport such patients above the clouds. His suggestion, which America hears was approved by the medical faculties of France, called attention to the fact that high altitude and sunshine produce well-known changes in the blood, in many cases beneficial. Add to this the natural exhilaration of an air trip, he says, and the effect might be even better than that of a mountain vacation (P.S.M., Mar. ’30, p. 34).

Dr. Karl Arnstein, vice president and chief engineer of the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corporation, and the man in charge of building the Navy’s great new airships at Akron, O., has described for Popular Science Monthly just how this hospital airship might be designed. The drawing of the “flying clinic” shown above was prepared from data supplied by Dr. Arnstein. Like a huge blister, on top of the airship, would rise the aerial sanatorium, with suitable provision for the care and comfort of the patients. In that position it would receive the full benefits of sunlight. Its walls and roof would be studded with windows, the panes made of celluloid or some similar material which transmits the healthful rays of the sun. Glass would be ruled out because of the danger of breaking and the added weight.

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...