11/27/09 - Crop Circles - Crossover from Another Dimension?
Discover the hidden secrets of a timeless mystery in this award winning film about the greatest Crop Circle formations ever created. The creators of these paranormal formations still remain a mystery. After years of painstaking research, scientific evidence still points to alien influences that are responsible for this phenomena. One thing is certain, what you are about to see in this amazing film can only be described as miraculous evidence of a secret art form that continues to defy explanation. (Thanks to Guy Alland for the headsup on this newest film. I wonder what might be revealed by using crop circle images with the http://photosounder.com software in an earlier post? This is the best crop circle video I have yet seen, very interesting! Be sure to use the FULL SCREEN viewing option! Crop Circles via UV- JWD) - Full Article Source

11/27/09 - LED Lenses - a Brighter Idea
It seems so obvious now, but a year ago none of the major lighting manufacturers had thought to make highly efficient LED lights even more efficient by adding a lens. Innovative Lighting did. The Story County manufacturer makes lenses that direct light at 90-degree angles away from light-emitting diodes, making the tiny bulbs ultra-efficient replacements for fluorescent lights in grocery display cases. The concept is hitting the market at a time when retailers across the country are looking for ways to boost profit margins by cutting fixed expenses, including energy use and maintenance costs. "Want to save money?" asks Paul Runyan, Innovative Lighting's marketing director. The company's LEDs use about a third as much power as fluorescent lights and last more than three times as long. A big advantage for Innovative Lighting over other LED suppliers is that, even with fewer bulbs, the Iowa company's lights do a better job of throwing light on products in display cases. Thornton recently installed Innovative Lighting's LEDs side by side with the LEDs of another supplier at a West Des Moines Hy-Vee store so the supermarket chain could compare the two. - Full Article Source

11/27/09 - Major barriers to the mass production of electric tractors
Writer George Monbiot says; "There are no obvious barriers to the mass production of electric tractors and combine harvesters." But to anyone who has worked with farm machinery, especially on smaller and poorer farms, the idea of electric tractors will seem ridiculous. So far, electric traction has been developed only for transport, and most successfully in railway trains. The development of batteries and control systems has been directed at the needs of passenger cars, which do not have to pull heavy loads at low speeds for long periods. Electric tractors do exist, but are light machines similar to ride-on lawn mowers, with power outputs of around 40kW. Typical farm tractors have outputs of 100kW-200kW, and no currently available batteries could provide anything like this amount of energy, or anything approaching the working life of a diesel engine. The best lithium-ion electric car batteries and motors work at high voltages (500V for example). As an engineer, I would blench at the idea of maintaining a 100KW, 500V system in a damp and muddy farmyard, let alone carrying out running repairs in the middle of a 50-hectare field, in the rain. As far as I know, electric traction for farm machines has not yet been even considered as an option. If it ever reaches the stage of production, it will be very expensive indeed – far beyond the budgets of even large farms. So the diesel tractor will be with us for some time. - Full Article Source

11/27/09 - The Sound of Fractals & Photographs
http://photosounder.com Various fractals and photographs found around the web turned into sounds using Photosounder. Links to the original image (when it still exists) in the annotations. - Full Article Source

11/27/09 - Global Warming Fraud: Somebody Needs to Go to Jail
The revelations that scientists at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (CRU) doctored the data supporting the global warming claims of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) means that EVERYTHING attributed to or based upon “global warming” is invalid. It means the Kyoto Climate Protocols that nations agreed to on December 11, 1997 and which entered into force on February 16 2005, and all subsequent agreements based on “global warming” have no validity, scientifically or as the basis for public action by any nation, state, province, city or town. It means that Al Gore’s pusillanimous “documentary” is a fraud along with just about every other statement uttered by any scientist, academician, or politician claiming that something, anything, should be done to avoid “global warming.” There is no “global warming”, if by that discredited term, you mean a dramatic increase in the Earth’s temperature, the vast rising of ocean levels, the melting of the polar ice caps, and the thousands of other things attributed to a massive fraud orchestrated by the IPCC and a vast network of scientists and environmental groups that benefited from the billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars they received in grants and other payments for their “research.” - Full Article Source

11/27/09 - Man versus electricity: Meet Doctor Megavolt
Sporting a stainless steel mesh suit and a Tesla coil capable of producing 200,000 volts, here is Austin Richards or Dr Megavolt as he put on an electrifying performance at San Francisco's Exploratorium. / (We did this in Dallas at the Mr. Zap show back in 1988 where I played with 2.1 MILLION volts using a machine supplied by Dr. Bob Wallace from the Gates Planetarium in Denver. - JWD) - Full Article Source

11/27/09 - Plasma Device Kills Bacteria On Skin In Seconds
"In medicine, plasma, the fourth state of matter, is already used for sterilizing surgical instruments; plasma works at the atomic level and is able to reach all surfaces, even the interior of hollow needle ends. Now the BBC reports that researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics have demonstrated a plasma device that can rid hands, feet, or even underarms of bacteria, including the hospital superbug MRSA, by creating cold atmospheric plasma that produces a cocktail of chemicals that kills bacteria but is harmless to skin. 'The plasma produces a series of over 200 chemical reactions that involve the oxygen and nitrogen in air plus water vapor — there is a whole concoction of chemical species that can be lethal to bacteria,' says Gregor Morfill. 'It's actually similar to what our own immune system does.' The team says that an exposure to the plasma of only about 12 seconds reduces the incidence of bacteria, viruses, and fungi on hands by a factor of a million — a number that stands in sharp contrast to the several minutes hospital staff can take to wash using traditional soap and water. Morfill says that the approach can be used to kill the bacteria that lead to everything from gum disease to body odor and that the prototype is scalable to any size and can be produced in any shape." - Full Article Source

11/27/09 - Space Saving Wind Turbines
Arranging wind turbines like a school of fish could reduce the amount of land they take up by 100-fold while maintaining their electrical output, say researchers. Wind farms based on the approach might also be considerably safer for migrating birds. Placing one HAWT in another's draft drastically reduces the efficiency of the trailing windmill. That's because the turbulent breeze created by the leading turbine's blades can't propel the trailing blades as well as an unobstructed airflow. So engineers spread the giant fans across hundreds of hectares of land--a practice that has created a backlash from people who find the turbines unsightly. Turn a windmill on its side, so to speak, and the drafting benefit returns. That's what two fluid dynamicists from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena have discovered. Robert Whittlesey and John Dabiri decided to study how a new type of generator, called a vertical-axis wind turbine (VAWT), stacked up against its more conventional counterpart. VAWTs resemble giant versions of the lawn ornaments that gardeners install to scare away birds and other veggie-loving critters (see picture). The researchers measured airflows at a prototype VAWT array in Glendora, California. They then compared that data with existing studies of how water flows through schools of swimming fish to see how geometrically arranging the arrays affected their performance. Bunching up the vertical-axis turbines behind a leader pays off, Whittlesey and Dabiri reported yesterday at the annual meeting of the American Physical Society in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In fact, using a new mathematical model they developed from the Glendora data, the researchers found that arranging the VAWT arrays just like schools of fish produced the best results. Such tightly packed VAWT arrays can produce as much electricity as conventional windmills, all while using as little as one-hundredth of the land area. "I don't think I expected to see as great an improvement in the land use," says Whittlesey. The study revealed that the most efficient arrangement involved alternating the rotational direction of the turbines: a clockwise rotation in the lead turbine, say, with two counterclockwise rotators next in line, followed by three clockwise rotators, and so on. Whittlesey notes that the models are preliminary, so even greater improvements might be possible with further study. And he says that the VAWT arrays could be much less deadly to birds because "the faster they spin, the more solid they appear," thereby allowing birds to see the turbines more easily and navigate around them. - Full Article Source

11/27/09 - Liquid battery big enough for the electric grid?
Because the technology is being patented and could lead to very large-scale commercialization, Sadoway will not discuss the details of the materials being used. But both Sadoway and ARPA-E say the battery is based on low-cost, domestically available liquid metals that have the potential to shatter the cost barrier to large-scale energy storage as part of the nation's energy grid. In announcing its funding of Sadoway’s work, ARPA-E said the battery technology “could revolutionize the way electricity is used and produced on the grid, enabling round-the-clock power from America's wind and solar power resources, increasing the stability of the grid, and making blackouts a thing of the past.” A large, utility-owned system “doesn’t have to be crash-worthy; it doesn’t have to be ‘idiot-proof’ because it won’t be in the hands of the consumer.” And while consumers are willing to pay high prices, pound-for-pound, for the small batteries used in high-value portable devices, the biggest constraint on utility-sized systems is cost. In order to compete with present fossil-fuel power systems, he says, “it has got to be cheap to build, cheap to maintain, last a long time with minimal maintenance, and store enormous amounts of energy.” And so the new liquid batteries that Sadoway and his team, including graduate student David Bradwell, are designing use low-cost, abundant materials. The basic principle is to place three layers of liquid inside a container: Two different metal alloys, and one layer of a salt. The three materials are chosen so that they have different densities that allow them to separate naturally into three distinct layers, with the salt in the middle separating the two metal layers —like novelty drinks with different layers. The energy is stored in the liquid metals that want to react with one another but can do so only by transferring ions — electrically charged atoms of one of the metals — across the electrolyte, which results in the flow of electric current out of the battery. When the battery is being charged, some ions migrate through the insulating salt layer to collect at one of the terminals. Then, when the power is being drained from the battery, those ions migrate back through the salt and collect at the opposite terminal. The whole device is kept at a high temperature, around 700 degrees Celsius, so that the layers remain molten. In the small devices being tested in the lab, maintaining this temperature requires an outside heater, but Sadoway says that in the full-scale version, the electrical current being pumped into, or out of, the battery will be sufficient to maintain that temperature without any outside heat source. - Full Article Source

11/27/09 - 74 Mesmerizing Slow Shutter Shots
The coolest slow-shutter shots you'll see today. Honesty: I never, in my wildest dreams, expected your slow shutter photography to be this crazy-awesome. But 74 of you turned in some humbling shots for this week's Shooting Challenge. Your digital camera has many options to create both high speed and slow speed photo effects. - Full Article Source

11/27/09 - Power plant uses salt to make electricity
NORWAY unveiled the world's first osmotic power plant overnight, harnessing the energy-unleashing encounter of freshwater and seawater to make clean electricity. Osmotic energy is based on the widespread natural phenomenon of osmosis, which allows trees to drink through their leaves and plays on the different concentration levels of liquids. When freshwater and seawater meet on either side of a membrane - a thin layer that retains salt but lets water pass - freshwater is drawn towards the seawater side. The flow puts pressure on the seawater side, and that pressure can be used to drive a turbine, producing electricity. Osmosis has been used by industry to desalinate seawater, but the company's prototype at Tofte marks the first time it has been used to produce energy. Although the plant will for now produce just enough electricity to power a coffee-maker, it could prove to be a great potential clean, environmentally friendly power source. Statkraft hopes to start building the first commercial osmotic power plant, which would have a 25 megawatt capacity, enough to provide about 10,000 households with electricity, in 2015. - Full Article Source

11/27/09 - Ant Pedometer suggest Ants Count
Most ants get around by leaving smell trails on the forest floor that show other ants how to get home or to food. They squeeze the glands that cover their bodies; those glands release a scent, and the scents in combination create trails the other ants can follow. That works in the forest, but it doesn't work in a desert. Deserts are sandy and when the wind blows, smells scatter. Harald Wolf of the University of Ulm and his assistant Matthias Whittlinger proposed that ants have "pedometer-like" cells in their brains that count the steps they take. - Full Article Source

11/27/09 - Japanese robots are coming to take your job away
A new mood is in the air: the downturn, says a Tsukuba University engineer, has honed Japanese robotics research and forced it to be more practical. Companies and universities once given unlimited budgets to push the boundaries of robotics are being told to come up quickly with something usable and commercial. Perhaps disturbingly for workforces around the world, say representatives of several of the largest robot makers, there is now a fast-growing list of human jobs that robots can do quicker and better. The opening of the four-day show yesterday brought the debut of Kawada Industries’ new Hiro robot — a humanoid that can identify colours, shapes and human faces and boasts some of the most dextrous mechanical paws created. Japanese Trade Ministry regulations prohibit humans and robots from working alongside each other. A Kawada engineer said: “We are working on the assumption that those barriers will be gone in the future . . . our society has fewer children, and a lot of people want robots to do the hard work.” - Full Article Source

11/25/09 - Polar Printer Reimagines the Way Magnets Work
A team of engineers in Alabama unveils an invention that reimagines the way magnets work, and that could change the way we do everything from closing the fridge to building frictionless gears. A startup company in Hunstville, Ala. has revealed an invention that can reconfigure the charges of magnets in never-before-seen patterns, a breakthrough that may lead to new varieties of contact-free attachments and friction-free gears. The company, Correlated Magnetics Research (CMR), creates magnets that, instead of carrying a positive charge on one end and a negative on the other, have complex field patterns that can be used to attract corresponding magnetic fields. When the correlated patterns on two magnets match, they attract and clasp. With a simple turn, the correlation is lost and the two sides can be easily separated. Most magnets used in self-assembly rely on electricity to switch their positive and negative poles to initiate action. But Fullerton's desire for a simpler solution led to a question: What if he could instill multiple magnetic poles, instead of just two, into magnetic material? In collaboration with company engineers, he created a machine that uses an electromagnetic print head to focus a high-intensity magnetic field to form new patterns in the material. The company has developed a more advanced technology that reprograms magnets by heating up material to above its Curie temperature, the maximum temperature at which a material can retain its magnetism. It then brings the material into contact with a magnetic structure that instills the material with new magnetic field patterns. When the material cools, the multipole pattern remains. CMR is making prototype devices that demonstrate some other possibilities: Two handheld smart magnets mounted on handles clasp together tightly, but when they are twisted they come apart. This ability could come in handy in, say, tightly securing freezer doors—perfectly sealed with powerful magnets, but opened easily once the magnets rotate. Another key benefit of the arrangement becomes clear with this prototype: the attraction between correlated magnets falls off more quickly than that between traditional magnets as distance between the magnets increases. (The presence of so many positive and negative points close together saps the long-distance magnetic force. This is explained in some depth on the company's website.) This ability could allow for strong magnets to be used in everyday applications without destroying nearby credit cards, for instance, or it could control magnetic emissions used in medical imaging equipment that are not compatible with medical devices such as Pacemakers. - Full Article Source

11/25/09 - Inventor's Machine produces super cheap Feminine Napkins
Last week, school dropout A. Muruganantham, who sparked a hygiene revolution in Indian villages through a machine that churns out cheap sanitary napkins, won a National Innovation Foundation award for his invention. But the 43-year-old from Coimbatore, who received the prize from the President, is more excited that his invention has freed poor women from the tyranny of unhygienic menstrual periods. “Whereas napkins made by MNCs cost at least Rs 100 (2.17486 USD) for a pack of five, the napkin made by my machine costs just 50 paise per piece. (1 rupee is 100 paise which is about .021 cents US, so one feminine napkin made with his machine costs about a penny!!!) The semiautomatic machine that I invented makes 1,000 napkins in eight hours, runs on 5 amp power connections and costs just Rs 85,000 (1,848.63 USD),” says Muruganantham, who couldn’t complete schooling after his father died in an accident. His machines have also made sure that self-help groups (SHGs) that bought them take home tidy profits. “We sell each napkin for Rs 2 and, at the of the month, each member of our SHG takes home at least Rs 3,000 (65.2458 USD) from the profits,” says G. Kamala, who heads an SHG in Villupuram district of Tamil Nadu. Thanks to the publicity given to his invention by the National Innovation Foundation (NIF), dozens of self-help groups across the country placed orders for the machines. Muruganantham supplies them the raw material — pinewood chips imported cheap from America. Easy on the pocket, the napkins are also biodegradable, another reason for their popularity. When the Massachusetts Institute of Technology came to know about Muruganantham’s invention, it placed orders for supply of the machines to Bangladesh and several African countries. - Full Article Source

11/25/09 - New Theory of Gravity Decouples Space & Time
"Petr Horava, a physicist at the University of California in Berkeley, has a new theory about gravity and spacetime. At high energies, it actually snips any ties between space and time, yet at low energies devolves to equivalence with the theory of General Relativity, which binds them together. The theory is gaining popularity with physicists because it fits some observations better than Einstein's or Newton's solutions. It better predicts the movement of the planets (in an idealized case) and has a potential to create the illusion of dark matter. Another physicist calculated that under Horava Gravity, our universe would experience not a Big Bang but a Big Bounce — and the new theory reproduces the ripples from such an event in a way that matches measurements of the cosmic microwave background." - Full Article Source

11/25/09 - Bionic Contact Lenses
“The true promise of this research is not just the actual system we end up making, whether it’s a display, a biosensor, or both,” Dr. Parviz said in a recent interview. “We already see a future in which the humble contact lens becomes a real platform, like the iPhone is today, with lots of developers contributing their ideas and inventions. As far as we’re concerned, the possibilities extend as far as the eye can see, and beyond.” Even Parviz can’t resist the easy jokes and puns, but his vision is off to a good start: He has already tested prototypes of the contact lenses on rabbits, which wore them for some 20 minutes with no adverse side effects, he claimed. Parviz conducted these prototype tests early last year, and those lenses only included one LED light — a far cry from a rich user experience like the iPhone. Parviz, however, believes it’s a start. Parviz said the lenses could be used as biosensors to display body chemistry or vital signs. In other words the contact lens will no longer be a tool that only enables us to see the outside world better, it will help us get a better view of what is going on inside our own bodies, too, Parviz predicts. Parviz’s prototype lenses are powered by radio waves and 330 microwatts of power from a loop antenna that picks up power beamed from nearby radios, but Parviz and collaborators are currently working on future versions of the lenses that are able to harvest power from a cell phone. The search for wireless electricity is clearly key for the success of the contact lens as wireless health’s future, but it’s a challenge Parviz recognizes. - Full Article Source

11/25/09 - Federal Circuit Rules That Muscle Magazine Ad Invalidates Patent
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently upheld a lower court's ruling that a muscle magazine advertisement about a bodybuilding supplement rendered the underlying patent obvious and invalid. The court's Nov. 19 panel decision in Iovate Health Sciences Inc. v. Bio-Engineered Supplements & Nutrition Inc. upheld an Eastern District of Texas decision that seven claims of the patent were invalid because the invention "was disclosed in a printed publication before the critical date." The patent's licensee, Iovate Health Sciences Inc., and its assignee, University of Florida Research Foundation Inc., sued Bio-Engineered Supplements & Nutrition Inc. and Medical Research Institute in March 2007, claiming patent infringement. The lower court concluded that June 1995 and 1996 advertisements in Flex magazine about two other supplement companies' products "anticipated" the foundation's November 1997 provisional patent application and its November 1998 formal application. The Federal Circuit concluded that a person with ordinary skill in the art would be able to figure out the exact amounts of the known ingredients listed in the ad to practice the invention, wrote Federal Circuit Judge Alan Lourie. "Thus, contrary to Iovate's assertions, the district court correctly concluded, as do we, that a person of skill in the art, combining his or her knowledge of the art with the advertisement's suggestions, would have considered the advertisement to be enabled," Lourie wrote. - Full Article Source

11/25/09 - Saguaro Kills Man legend True or False
Snopes finally gets around to covering a 10-year old story about a saguaro cactus.

11/25/09 - Recession Pushes More Workers To Steal Data
A recent transatlantic survey which suggests that the recession is pushing workers to be a little bit more accommodating when it comes to sharing, viewing, or stealing sensitive information from the company they work(ed) for. "Pilfering data has become endemic in our culture as 85% of people admit they know it's illegal to download corporate information from their employer but almost half couldn't stop themselves taking it with them with the majority admitting it could be useful in the future! [...] The survey entitled 'the global recession and its effect on work ethics,' carried out for a second year by Cyber-Ark – found that almost half of the respondents 48% admit that if they were fired tomorrow they would take company information with them and 39% of people would download company/competitive information if they got wind that their job was at risk. Additionally a quarter of workers said that the recession has meant that they feel less loyal towards their employer." - Full Article Source

11/25/09 - CO2 Recycler Creates Fuel From Carbon Dioxide
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have built a machine that uses the sun’s energy to convert carbon dioxide waste from power plants into transportation fuels such as gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel. The system could provide an alternative to carbon sequestration; instead of permanently storing CO2 underground, the CO2 could be recycled and put to use. Called the Counter-Rotating-Ring Receiver Reactor Recuperator (CR5), the cylindrical machine consists of two chambers on the sides and 14 rotating rings in the center. The outer edges of the rings are made of iron oxide. When the scientists heat the inside of one chamber to 1,500C with a solar concentrator, the iron oxide undergoes a thermo-chemical reaction where it gives up oxygen molecules. As the rings rotate (at one revolution per minute), the hot side approaches the opposite chamber and begins to cool down. When carbon dioxide is pumped into this chamber, the iron oxide retrieves oxygen molecules from the carbon dioxide, transforming it into carbon monoxide. The carbon monoxide could then serve as a building block to create a liquid combustible fuel. - Full Article Source

11/25/09 - Shortage of Helium 3 Stalls Nuclear Bombs Detection
"The NY Times reports that a program to detect plutonium or uranium in shipping containers has stalled because the United States has run out of helium 3, a crucial raw material needed to build the 1,300 to 1,400 machines to be deployed in ports around the world to thwart terrorists who might try to deliver a nuclear bomb to a big city by stashing it in one of the millions of containers that enter the United States every year. Helium 3 is an unusual form of the element that is formed when tritium, an ingredient of hydrogen bombs, decays — but the government mostly stopped making tritium in 1989 after accumulating a substantial stockpile of Helium 3 as a byproduct of maintaining nuclear weapons. 'I have not heard any explanation of why this was not entirely foreseeable,' says Representative Brad Miller, chairman of a House subcommittee that is investigating the problem. Helium 3 is not hazardous or even chemically reactive, and it is not the only material that can be used for neutron detection. The Homeland Security Department has older equipment that can look for radioactivity, but it does not differentiate well between bomb fuel and innocuous materials that naturally emit radiation like cat litter, ceramic tiles and bananas — and sounds false alarms more often. In a letter to President Obama, Miller called the shortage 'a national crisis' and said the price had jumped to $2,000 a liter from $100 in the last few years. With continuing concern that Al Qaida or other terrorists will try to smuggle a nuclear weapon into the United States, Congress has mandated that, by 2012, all containers bound for the US be inspected overseas." - Full Article Source

11/25/09 - Man Pleads Guilty To Selling Fake Chips To US Navy
"Neil Felahy of Newport Coast, California, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy and counterfeit-goods trafficking for his role in a chip-counterfeiting scam. Felahy, along with his wife and her brother, operated several microchip brokerage companies under a variety of names, including MVP Micro, Red Hat Distributors, Force-One Electronics and Pentagon Components. 'They would buy counterfeit chips from China or else take legitimate chips, sand off the brand markings and melt the plastic casings with acid to make them appear to be of higher quality or a different brand,' the US Department of Justice said in a press release. The chips were then sold to Naval Sea Systems Command, the Washington, D.C., group responsible for maintaining the US Navy's ships and systems, as well as an unnamed vacuum-cleaner manufacturer in the Midwest." - Full Article Source

11/25/09 - Rosen Healthcare Solutions - a Model for National Healthcare
If the politicians ever get it through their heads to GET THE ECONOMY back on track so everyone would be ABLE to AFFORD decent healthcare, this looks like a very viable model. I saw it on CNN today and went to the site to check it out.

11/24/09 - Modern PhotoTherapy will be based on Dinshahs Sprectro-Chrome
Have to pass this on to you. For years I looked for a copy of the rare 3 volume set of Dinshah Ghadiali's 'Spectro-Chromemetry Encyclopedia'. Several years ago, Health Research found several copies in an old warehouse. I bought a set for about $60 and was totally delighted with all the detailed information on healing with very intense colored light. I loaned out the #2 volume which covered the technical details and never got it back. So in my internet travels I found the World Research Foundation page which offered, (get this), the ENTIRE 3 volume set scanned and reformatted to fit into a single volume for the unbelievable price of $14.00!! It cost me $6 for shipping to Mexico and I got it yesterday so have been reading since then. Amazing information and this is one of those books you have to get a copy of before they disappear as so many volumes like this do. You will not be disappointed and will quickly see why Dinshah was so hated and attacked by the medical establishment then and even TODAY. Though some are (re)discovering the healing power of light using colored lasers and high intensity colored LEDs, but these days, they called it 'Photo Therapy'...right, don't mention Dinshah and all the successful CURES he accomplished using light. I see this time and time again, where new discoveries are in fact repackaged old discoveries with NO CREDIT to the original. I don't know if it's because they just don't know or want to keep it quiet so they will be considered the original discoverer. All that aside, if you have a spare $20, get a copy of this book, 'Spectro-Chromemetry Encyclopedia'...you will be reading it for hours and learn a lot of new things. You will also wonder why we can't use tunable dye lasers or intermixed laser or colored LED beams to produce similar miraculous healing results these days. I am so pleased to have the full set of all 3 volumes, even in the form of one book, back in my personal library for reference and study. It is a platinum mine of useful information and research possibilities for those who can think for themselves. - Full Article Source

11/24/09 - Foretelling the Future - Chinese Style
I'm not really too concerned about Swine Flu, but one has to wonder about this point:

11/23/09 - Movies that Leap From the Screen! (Jan, 1929) (without stereo glasses)
The man’s name is Dimitre Daponte. In his early years he was troubled with faulty eyesight, and in studying the mechanics of the eye was intrigued with the phenomenon of sight known as “persistence of vision.” This is the term physicists use in describing the ability of the eye to retain an impression after the scene has changed or after the eye has been closed to the view. You can bring the truth of this to mind in recalling that after looking at the sun there will be a vivid impression of a ball of fire left on the retina of the eye by the light. In real life the eye sees around a thing, so to speak. One eye, being set a short distance from the other sees just enough different a view to let a sort of mental triangulation take place which enables the mind to estimate distance and depth. The reason that the third dimension or dimension of depth is left out when a picture is presented on the screen is that both eyes see exactly the same view. M. Daponte reasoned that if a camera could be made which would take two views from two points no farther apart than the distance between one’s eyes, and then re-project them so that each eye would recognize its own view, then blend them so that continuous motion could be imparted to the film, that a sterescopic motion picture would result. He was right, and recent demonstrations in London have proved his claims to the letter. The machine devised was a combination team of a camera and projector which would follow out M. Daponte’s theory. He built a camera with two lenses spaced about two inches center to center and arranged the shutters so that first one lens and then the other took pictures of the action. Only he speeded the film up to 32 feet a second so that ordinary 16 foot per second speed would result to the eye, since it was his plan to make each eye view only its own side of the picture. The film resulting from such a camera you can visualize as you read this page by winking first one eye and then another in rapid succession at, say, a chair, noting the difference in view. With the resulting two strips of film there remained the problem of putting them into one reel, so that the film could be run by the average operator in various theaters. Daponte devised a projection system which is fool proof, since the dissimilar views are finally printed on a master positive. Instead of being printed side by side and projected in superposed positions on the screen, which would result only in a blur, Daponte made use of the previously explained phenomenon of the persistence of vision. He ran this master film at double speed, threw one view after the other alternately on the screen so that the eye was actually fooled into thinking it was looking at the stirring events pictured before it as though they were real life. - Full Article Source

11/23/09 - Berkeley Engineers Have Some Bad News About Air Cars
"We've argued before over compressed air vehicles, a.k.a. air cars. Air cars are an enchanting idea, providing mobility with zero fuel consumption or environmental impacts. The NYTimes' Green Inc. blog reports that the reality is less rosy. New research from UC Berkeley and ICF International puts a period at the end of the discussion, showing that compressed air is a very poor fuel, storing less than 1% of the energy in gasoline; air cars won't get you far, with a range of just 29 miles in typical city driving; and despite appearing green the vehicles are worse for the environment, with twice the carbon footprint as gasoline vehicles, from producing the electricity used to compress the air. Given these barriers, manufacturer claims should definitely be taken with a grain of salt." - Full Article Source

11/23/09 - Experience the Unexpected
Wow, this girl can spin! One of our Samsung Mobile Explorers caught this ice skater warming up for Vancouver 2010 Winter Games. Seems she knows a few unusual tricks... - Full Article Source

11/23/09 - Scottish invention promises power revolution
A radical new design of electrical generator that solves an engineering quandary and promises to be cheaper, lighter and more reliable than anything currently available has been unveiled by scientists at the University of Edinburgh. The blades of conventional turbines are connected to a generator via a gearbox. In harsh conditions at sea, this is prone to breakdown, leading to costly repairs which themselves are at the mercy of the weather. The alternative is to dispense with the gearbox and connect the blades directly to a generator via an axle. The institute’s design — through a novel arrangement of the magnets inside the generator and the copper coils that produce electricity as they pass the magnets — has succeeded in cutting the weight of direct-drive generators by up to half and made assembly much easier. A prototype installed on a wind turbine has proved that the design works. - Full Article Source

11/23/09 - Kid invents 2D spinning LED technique
Young inventor Logan Glasson has big plans for his hi-tech creation. Logan has figured out a way to display two-dimensional pictures on a spinning light-emitting diode. He has made it possible, through some smart electronics and programmed trigonometry, to download pictures created in Microsoft Paint. - Full Article Source

11/23/09 - Story of the Indian techie who built air-car
Welcome to the world of Kanak Gogoi, an entrepreneur based in Guwahati, who has over a dozen innovations to his credit ranging from gravity-operated bicycle to a car which can run on air. Among his innovations are a solar hybrid car, whose 320 watt battery is charged by solar panels and is powered by a 100cc engine. Another car that Gogoi made from integration of motorcycle and Maruti 800 [ Images ] engines runs on air energy powered by a hand glider and can reach a maximum speed of 120 km per hour. He, however, has not bothered to apply for intellectual property rights (IPR) for any of his innovations, although they have cost in Rs 1.5 crore of his own money. "When anybody talks about things like IPR or patents, it is generally assumed that the person must be a Ph.D or DLitt. Who will think of an undergraduate as a genuine and worthy innovator? Besides, paperwork of the kind that is required for patent filing has always been an anathema for me," Gogoi said. In fact it is the National Innovation Foundation, headed by noted scientist Raghunath A Mashelkar, that applied for a patent on Gogoi's behalf for his gravity operated cycle, which converts gravitational force released by pedaling of the cycle into kinetic energy. Another of Gogoi's invention is the speed breaker that can generate electricity simply when vehicles pass over it. Gogoi explains that a ramp under the speed breaker would absorb the static energy produced by the sheer mass of the vehicle and convert it into kinetic energy. This is, in turn, transferred into electricity and stored in a battery cell. A vehicles weighing one tonne can create electricity equivalent to one kilowatt. - Full Article Source

11/23/09 - Common Sense
Sarah Palin has figured out how to appeal to the common man. Just claim that every problem is simple, and can be solved by using common sense: Sarah Palin Tells Rush Limbaugh the Magic Word. In answering about a dozen questions, Palin said some combination of "solutions," "conservative" and "commonsense" twenty-five times. To Rush's credit, he actually asked her about politics. Policy. That's where she shines. - Full Article Source

11/23/09 - Michigan Becoming Little Iraq
Tens of thousands have fled Michigan's troubled economy in recent years, yet Iraqi refugees continue to move there despite a U.S. government policy trying to limit refugee resettlement in the Detroit area. Family ties and cultural support from the region's large Middle Eastern community appear no match for the U.S. effort, which tries to place refugees in cities where they stand a better chance of financial success. "What the government gives you as a support is not a great deal. ... If you'd like to live decently, you should have a live connection - that's your family here in Michigan," said Alsaqa, 34, who lives in suburban Birmingham with family. Southeastern Michigan has one of the country's largest Middle Eastern populations - about 300,000 can trace their roots back to the region - and has long been a top destination for Arab immigrants to the U.S. And its affecting the fast food market: Kabobs are easier to come by than Big Macs in some areas of the Detroit suburb of Dearborn that more closely resemble a Middle Eastern city than a Midwestern one. Arabic signs are common on storefronts, headscarves are worn by many women and at some fast food joints in the city, the meat is halal - meaning it is prepared according to Islamic law. - Full Article Source

11/23/09 - LiftMagic - Instant Cosmetic Surgery and Anti-Ageing Makover tool
Welcome to LiftMagic.com, the world's most advanced facelift, anti-aging, and cosmetic surgery simulation application, offering fully automated one-click makeovers in just seconds! To use LiftMagic, upload your own photo, and then click and drag the sliding circles to the left of this page to see immediate effects. - Full Article Source

11/23/09 - Will The Unemployment Disaster Be Obama's Katrina?
The members of the Obama administration may not be attending a birthday party at John McCain's ranch in Sedona or shopping for expensive Ferragamo shoes in New York as a great American city is destroyed, but their decidedly lackadaisical response to what job losses are doing to multiple great American cities raises the question: will unemployment be Barack Obama's Katrina? His economic team's resistance to a second round of stimulus, "lukewarm" reaction to Congressional jobs legislation, and prioritization of deficit reduction over job creation certainly has the feel of a taking-in-the-damage-from-2,500-feet flyover moment. Of course, the real problem isn't the outside experts; the administration's wrongheaded approach is a classic inside job. Sen. Sherrod Brown summed it up on CNN, telling John King that when it comes to putting the focus on Main Street, the president's "advisors are mixed." Which makes one wonder: what level of unemployment would it take to unmix them? Even 10.2 percent, the highest level in 26 years, after 22 straight months of job losses, doesn't seem to have quickened the pulse of Larry Summers and Tim Geithner. So, clearly, the winds of change are picking up in Washington and around the country. It's time for the White House to stop holding no-rush summits and insisting that everything is going as planned, and course-correct. Now. And there is no shortage of bold steps the administration can take to mitigate the damage before it turns into an all-out catastrophe. The unemployment disaster has already inflicted great damage all across the country. And the Obama White House will be defined by its response to it. So what is it going to be: a muscular, multi-tiered jobs plan to deal with reality or "heck of a job" delusion? - Full Article Source

11/23/09 - Ten Things Mobile Phones Will Make Obsolete
"recombu.com has an article examining ten things mobile phones will make obsolete, including phone booths, wristwatches and handheld games consoles. It's interesting to see how many devices have been absorbed into mobile phone technology, and it raises the question: are we better off having everything in one device? The author poignantly concludes that while it's great to have so much power at our fingertips, it does mean that some of us will rely on mobile phones for even basic mental tasks, which is great until the battery runs out." - Full Article Source

11/22/09 - Free Classified Section for KeelyNet
If you have something you might want to buy or sell, feel free to post to the classified section. Please don't abuse it, might be helpful to a few of us, thanks! A link is provided above or in this post. - View KeelyNet Classifieds

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. These two excellent bodies of information will be sent to you on CD. To give some idea of how Keely's discoveries are being slowly rediscovered in modern times, check out this Keely History. 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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