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Old July 7th 04, 01:42 AM
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(Len Over 21) wrote in message
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This is one weird group of licensed amateur extra regulars!


To say the least. Did you pick up on the new thread where someone
asked if a person works in the industry and has a commercial license,
would he be welcomed at a ham radio club meeting?


Yes. What wasn't mentioned was the demand that non-amateur
radio hobbyists MUST drink from different fountains and use the
"special" restrooms. :-)


Welp, if they were available, I'd use them too. Some kind of
fanatical rabid love of code develops after drinking from the Chalice
of Morse.

They care more about their "honor" in telling fibs of their exploits
then get totally pished at others who have had truthful
experience beyond the limitations of Part 97. Fantasyland at
times! :-)


It's all just a matter of ego.


NO!? Say it isn't so... :-)


Yup. Sad but true.

BPL-PLC will mean an END to low-level signal reception on HF and
low VHF in urban areas but the licensed amateur extras in here
just want to FIGHT with anyone who challenges their mighty words.


Not to worry. Morse always gets thru.


Right! That's why all the other radio services rely on morse! :-)


They may have to. And amateur radio operators will lead the way to
salvation.

They won't DO anything against the already-here problem of HF
pollution but they want to destroy anyone not believeing in their
fantasies of the religion of St. Hiram and the League-ionaires.


Just notice who's remaining in this sorry group.


Yes. Weiner von Brawn and his sidekick in PA. :-)


Wheiner (can be pronounced either "wee-ner" or "why-ner") keeps trying
to make friends.

Isn't all so much fun to have a private "ham" chat room to talk all
about the space program, national economics, traveling salesmen,
the educational system, and other assorted "ham interest" items?


And arguing with CBers. They impress people wherever they go. If
they don't immediately get the attention they think they deserve, they
thump their chests a few times to make their "achievements" more
visible. I really do wish the FCC would issue some kind of combat
infantry badge to these guys.

Even more bizarre is the on-going "discussion" between two extras
who have NO experience in space travel talking all about Big Issues
in Space...none of which concerns amateur radio policy! :-)


They've managed to combine "Missiles of October," and "October Sky."
Maybe one day they'll launch an Estes rocket and attain the altitude
of 1,200' AGL.


If either one cancels their Popular Science subscription, we won't
know the answers to all those profound questions of "ham interest"
policy problems.


Don't forget Popular Mechanics, and Popular Psychology. Ooops.
Scratch teh second one.

Well, time to celebrate the 4th coming up...and to worship at the
Church of St. Hiram who invented radio and the vacuum tube, etc.
:-)

Len


Never knew the man, but he is legend.


...celebrated in song and story forever, the founder of the Service.
A real firecracker that put sparklers in the eyes of all worshippers.
[shipping extra cost]

:-)



Kind of like the followers of Rev. Moon.
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Old July 7th 04, 02:57 AM
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In article ,
(William) writes:

(Len Over 21) wrote in message
...
In article ,
(William) writes:

(Len Over 21) wrote in message
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This is one weird group of licensed amateur extra regulars!

To say the least. Did you pick up on the new thread where someone
asked if a person works in the industry and has a commercial license,
would he be welcomed at a ham radio club meeting?


Yes. What wasn't mentioned was the demand that non-amateur
radio hobbyists MUST drink from different fountains and use the
"special" restrooms. :-)


Welp, if they were available, I'd use them too. Some kind of
fanatical rabid love of code develops after drinking from the Chalice
of Morse.


An epiphany strikes?

"The chalice with the keyer has the brew that is true,
the chalice with the mike has the brew that is peew!"

- from the motion picture "The Morse Jester" starring Danny Kode.

They care more about their "honor" in telling fibs of their exploits
then get totally pished at others who have had truthful
experience beyond the limitations of Part 97. Fantasyland at
times! :-)

It's all just a matter of ego.


NO!? Say it isn't so... :-)


Yup. Sad but true.


I am disheartened. snif :-)

BPL-PLC will mean an END to low-level signal reception on HF and
low VHF in urban areas but the licensed amateur extras in here
just want to FIGHT with anyone who challenges their mighty words.

Not to worry. Morse always gets thru.


Right! That's why all the other radio services rely on morse! :-)


They may have to. And amateur radio operators will lead the way to
salvation.


The Army? ["it's a Service!!!" :-) ]

They won't DO anything against the already-here problem of HF
pollution but they want to destroy anyone not believeing in their
fantasies of the religion of St. Hiram and the League-ionaires.

Just notice who's remaining in this sorry group.


Yes. Weiner von Brawn and his sidekick in PA. :-)


Wheiner (can be pronounced either "wee-ner" or "why-ner") keeps trying
to make friends.


Is THAT what the putzmacher is trying to do?!?!?


Isn't all so much fun to have a private "ham" chat room to talk all
about the space program, national economics, traveling salesmen,
the educational system, and other assorted "ham interest" items?


And arguing with CBers. They impress people wherever they go. If
they don't immediately get the attention they think they deserve, they
thump their chests a few times to make their "achievements" more
visible. I really do wish the FCC would issue some kind of combat
infantry badge to these guys.


It's called "The Blue Riffle." Comes from riffling through lots of QST
ads and product reviews, then portraying themselves as "expert"
radio heroes.

Even more bizarre is the on-going "discussion" between two extras
who have NO experience in space travel talking all about Big Issues
in Space...none of which concerns amateur radio policy! :-)

They've managed to combine "Missiles of October," and "October Sky."
Maybe one day they'll launch an Estes rocket and attain the altitude
of 1,200' AGL.


If either one cancels their Popular Science subscription, we won't
know the answers to all those profound questions of "ham interest"
policy problems.


Don't forget Popular Mechanics, and Popular Psychology. Ooops.
Scratch teh second one.


I think it's old NASA brochures and hand-outs of the 70s and 80s.
Those don't cost anything from a dump.

Well, time to celebrate the 4th coming up...and to worship at the
Church of St. Hiram who invented radio and the vacuum tube, etc.
:-)

Len

Never knew the man, but he is legend.


...celebrated in song and story forever, the founder of the Service.
A real firecracker that put sparklers in the eyes of all worshippers.
[shipping extra cost]

:-)



Kind of like the followers of Rev. Moon.


Oh, NO! Not "mooning" again! :-)

Sigmund Fraud will start making another libelous AOL Home Page
shouting and hollering all about "naked men" and "pornographic
images!!!" And, his favorite pejorative, "Liars!!!" :-)


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Old July 7th 04, 12:24 PM
N2EY
 
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In article , Mike Coslo
writes:

N2EY wrote:
In article ,
(Steve Robeson K4CAP) writes:


Not enough money.


Sure there is. It's just a matter of priorities.


And everybody's got different ones. If the majority of Americans would
rather have better transit than put a man on Mars, whose priority should be
followed?


Sad to think that the spirit of exploration is just about dead.


I don't think it's dead at all, Mike.

And it wasn't the spirit of exploration that sent people to the moon. It was
the need to show the Rooskies that we could do better than they could.

Spirit of exploration is great but bankrolling it with trillions of taxpayer
dollars is a hard sell when people see the middle class being eroded at every
turn...

Sad to
think that a bunch of nerds sitting around in a room guiding robots are
what pass for adventurers these days.


Sadder to think that such triumphs of engineering are dismissed so easily.

I bet if you asked for volunteers to go on a manned Mars mission, 3 years long,
with all sorts of risks and discomforts, the response would be so overwhelming
that you'd need a major budget item just to deal with it. Even more so for a
lunar mission. Heck, if you asked for volunteers to go to the Moon on a
*permanent* basis (as in "we don't know when or even if there will be space on
a ship to bring you back") there'd be the same flood of volunteers.

Even if the Elser-Mathes Cup stays unclaimed....


Nobody but me seems to know what that award is...

The only difference here is that you're asking Joe Average to be ready
to
give up his/her SUV (or at least keep it garaged a lot more) and they
don't want to do it.

No, what I'm asking is for a lot more - responsibility.

That's what I said, Jim...Joe Average doesn't want to give up
his/her
SUV. To do so would be to take some responsibility for participating in
helping the enviroment.


That's cured by education. And it doesn't stop at the
SUV-as-a-commuting-vehicle - there are lots of other opportunities to
reduce consumption, resulting in eventual energy independence.


What do you think of the energy density of hydrogen and it's effect on
trying to convert to hydrogen vehicles?


That energy density is determined by how the hydrogen is stored. Normally it's
quite low, but when comressed, quite a bit of hydrogen can be stored in a small
space. Same for methane (natural gas). Trouble is, do you want to drive around
with a high pressure fuel tank and fuel lines?

One interesting solution is proposed by the same guy who gave us LCDs. His idea
(IIRC) is that the hydrogen is stored chemically in metal hydride pellets,
which give off hydrogen when warmed by engine waste heat. No high pressure
tank.

The big hydrogen question is: where do we get all the hydrogen from?

btw, did you see who the Democrats are running for VP?


I was kind of hoping for Wes Clark


Me too but he's dropped below the radar.

73 de Jim, N2EY
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Old July 7th 04, 02:31 PM
William
 
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(Len Over 21) wrote in message ...
In article ,
(William) writes:

(Len Over 21) wrote in message
...
In article ,
(William) writes:

(Len Over 21) wrote in message
...

This is one weird group of licensed amateur extra regulars!

To say the least. Did you pick up on the new thread where someone
asked if a person works in the industry and has a commercial license,
would he be welcomed at a ham radio club meeting?

Yes. What wasn't mentioned was the demand that non-amateur
radio hobbyists MUST drink from different fountains and use the
"special" restrooms. :-)


Welp, if they were available, I'd use them too. Some kind of
fanatical rabid love of code develops after drinking from the Chalice
of Morse.


An epiphany strikes?


If it strikes the Yell Yell Marine, he's got the right to use lethal
force.

"The chalice with the keyer has the brew that is true,
the chalice with the mike has the brew that is peew!"

- from the motion picture "The Morse Jester" starring Danny Kode.


Danny Kode was superb. Alas, they are making color movies today.

They care more about their "honor" in telling fibs of their exploits
then get totally pished at others who have had truthful
experience beyond the limitations of Part 97. Fantasyland at
times! :-)

It's all just a matter of ego.

NO!? Say it isn't so... :-)


Yup. Sad but true.


I am disheartened. snif :-)

BPL-PLC will mean an END to low-level signal reception on HF and
low VHF in urban areas but the licensed amateur extras in here
just want to FIGHT with anyone who challenges their mighty words.

Not to worry. Morse always gets thru.

Right! That's why all the other radio services rely on morse! :-)


They may have to. And amateur radio operators will lead the way to
salvation.


The Army? ["it's a Service!!!" :-) ]


W1AW will be on the AM boradcast band, but in CW. Everyone will be
standing in line to have a bfo installed in their
Pioneer/Kenwood/Panasonic car stereos.

They won't DO anything against the already-here problem of HF
pollution but they want to destroy anyone not believeing in their
fantasies of the religion of St. Hiram and the League-ionaires.

Just notice who's remaining in this sorry group.

Yes. Weiner von Brawn and his sidekick in PA. :-)


Wheiner (can be pronounced either "wee-ner" or "why-ner") keeps trying
to make friends.


Is THAT what the putzmacher is trying to do?!?!?


In a dysfunctional way. His only means.

Isn't all so much fun to have a private "ham" chat room to talk all
about the space program, national economics, traveling salesmen,
the educational system, and other assorted "ham interest" items?


And arguing with CBers. They impress people wherever they go. If
they don't immediately get the attention they think they deserve, they
thump their chests a few times to make their "achievements" more
visible. I really do wish the FCC would issue some kind of combat
infantry badge to these guys.


It's called "The Blue Riffle." Comes from riffling through lots of QST
ads and product reviews, then portraying themselves as "expert"
radio heroes.


Ging once, going twice...

Even more bizarre is the on-going "discussion" between two extras
who have NO experience in space travel talking all about Big Issues
in Space...none of which concerns amateur radio policy! :-)

They've managed to combine "Missiles of October," and "October Sky."
Maybe one day they'll launch an Estes rocket and attain the altitude
of 1,200' AGL.

If either one cancels their Popular Science subscription, we won't
know the answers to all those profound questions of "ham interest"
policy problems.


Don't forget Popular Mechanics, and Popular Psychology. Ooops.
Scratch teh second one.


I think it's old NASA brochures and hand-outs of the 70s and 80s.
Those don't cost anything from a dump.


Like those old Air Force pubs Yell Yell was claiming I got my military
experience from. He probably reads them at every CAP meeting.

Well, time to celebrate the 4th coming up...and to worship at the
Church of St. Hiram who invented radio and the vacuum tube, etc.
:-)

Len

Never knew the man, but he is legend.

...celebrated in song and story forever, the founder of the Service.
A real firecracker that put sparklers in the eyes of all worshippers.
[shipping extra cost]

:-)



Kind of like the followers of Rev. Moon.


Oh, NO! Not "mooning" again! :-)

Sigmund Fraud will start making another libelous AOL Home Page
shouting and hollering all about "naked men" and "pornographic
images!!!" And, his favorite pejorative, "Liars!!!" :-)



That goes hand in hand with the code problem, except without the
peanut butter sandwiches.
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Old July 8th 04, 03:43 AM
Mike Coslo
 
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N2EY wrote:

In article , Mike Coslo
writes:


N2EY wrote:

In article ,
(Steve Robeson K4CAP) writes:




Not enough money.



Sure there is. It's just a matter of priorities.




And everybody's got different ones. If the majority of Americans would
rather have better transit than put a man on Mars, whose priority should be
followed?



Sad to think that the spirit of exploration is just about dead.



I don't think it's dead at all, Mike.


Maybe I'm hanging out with the wrong people, Jim.

And it wasn't the spirit of exploration that sent people to the moon. It was
the need to show the Rooskies that we could do better than they could.


Yeah, we know why the pols bankrolled it. But I highly doubt that was
reason number one in the astronauts minds.

Spirit of exploration is great but bankrolling it with trillions of taxpayer
dollars is a hard sell when people see the middle class being eroded at every
turn...


....and while we are decrying the expense of doing things, we might
want to look over our shoulder, someone's catching up and will pass us.


Sad to
think that a bunch of nerds sitting around in a room guiding robots are
what pass for adventurers these days.


Sadder to think that such triumphs of engineering are dismissed so easily.


Heavens no! I love the engineering. But there is a world of difference
between the "adventurers" giving a live press conference from the studio
and adventurers being *there*. If that doesn't make a big difference to
you , I guess it is kind of a "Jeep" thing.


I bet if you asked for volunteers to go on a manned Mars mission, 3 years long,
with all sorts of risks and discomforts, the response would be so overwhelming
that you'd need a major budget item just to deal with it.


Yup. Kind of tells me something.

Even more so for a
lunar mission. Heck, if you asked for volunteers to go to the Moon on a
*permanent* basis (as in "we don't know when or even if there will be space on
a ship to bring you back") there'd be the same flood of volunteers.


Uh huh! I'd be one of 'em.


Even if the Elser-Mathes Cup stays unclaimed....



Nobody but me seems to know what that award is...


I looked it up. Too bad the Apollo astronauts didn't have a 2 meter
HT.. 8^)


The only difference here is that you're asking Joe Average to be ready
to
give up his/her SUV (or at least keep it garaged a lot more) and they
don't want to do it.

No, what I'm asking is for a lot more - responsibility.

That's what I said, Jim...Joe Average doesn't want to give up
his/her
SUV. To do so would be to take some responsibility for participating in
helping the enviroment.


That's cured by education. And it doesn't stop at the
SUV-as-a-commuting-vehicle - there are lots of other opportunities to
reduce consumption, resulting in eventual energy independence.


What do you think of the energy density of hydrogen and it's effect on
trying to convert to hydrogen vehicles?



That energy density is determined by how the hydrogen is stored. Normally it's
quite low, but when comressed, quite a bit of hydrogen can be stored in a small
space. Same for methane (natural gas). Trouble is, do you want to drive around
with a high pressure fuel tank and fuel lines?

One interesting solution is proposed by the same guy who gave us LCDs. His idea
(IIRC) is that the hydrogen is stored chemically in metal hydride pellets,
which give off hydrogen when warmed by engine waste heat. No high pressure
tank.

The big hydrogen question is: where do we get all the hydrogen from?


My guess is that it would come from electrolysis at hydropower or more
likely Nuc power plants. Dunno if it would be done at the same sites
where desalinization would (*will*) be happening. (welcome to your
future, California!)

Of course there will be environmental issues, such as what to do with
all the salt. Another biggie is that seawater electrolysis tends to
produce chlorine instead of oxygen:

http://www2.electrochem.org/cgi-bin/...g=204&abs=0710

Hard to argue that chlorine wouldn't be a pollutant. The anti
environmentalists might even agree on that one!

and using seawater is probably pretty important, because....

Who on earth is going to want to give up their fresh water? The left
coast? Hardly likely! They are the ones that are going to be surviving
on electrolysis in the future. East coast? We're so variable here, and
population is eventually simply going to limit fresh water supplies.

And just as I don't like biofuels, I think that using a substance that
people depend on for their lives like food and water means that some
terrible choices might have to be made in the future.

Put simply, if it isn't seawater, it isn't going to happen.


btw, did you see who the Democrats are running for VP?


I was kind of hoping for Wes Clark



Me too but he's dropped below the radar.


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Old July 8th 04, 04:46 AM
Len Over 21
 
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In article ,
(William) writes:

(Len Over 21) wrote in message
...
In article ,
(William) writes:

(Len Over 21) wrote in message
...
In article ,
(William) writes:

(Len Over 21) wrote in message
...

This is one weird group of licensed amateur extra regulars!

To say the least. Did you pick up on the new thread where someone
asked if a person works in the industry and has a commercial license,
would he be welcomed at a ham radio club meeting?

Yes. What wasn't mentioned was the demand that non-amateur
radio hobbyists MUST drink from different fountains and use the
"special" restrooms. :-)

Welp, if they were available, I'd use them too. Some kind of
fanatical rabid love of code develops after drinking from the Chalice
of Morse.


An epiphany strikes?


If it strikes the Yell Yell Marine, he's got the right to use lethal
force.


Not quite the epiphany I had in mind.

According to Yell Yell, nobody, absolutely NO ONE can possibly
know a damn thing about amateur radio without passing a little
test, receiving the nice piece of paper with a fancy border (suitable
for framing), and then coming on like a Dill Instructor with a mouth
full of pickle.

Apparently, one gets a Full Knowledge (or something like that) on
receiving that call sign. Perhaps a subtle divine voice from on high
that imparts all the smarts on hum raddio to the fully licensed?

Poor guy can't separate the reality from his murine fantasy of the
"amateur corps."

"The chalice with the keyer has the brew that is true,
the chalice with the mike has the brew that is peew!"

- from the motion picture "The Morse Jester" starring Danny Kode.


Danny Kode was superb. Alas, they are making color movies today.


Morse is colorless. It fits. Morse is 160 years old. Didn't even
have motion pictures back in 1844.

But, according to Yell Yell and his kin, ALL amateurs MUST know
morse to gain "the true knowledge" on passing the Test. For a hobby
activity.

There's lots of ANGER floating around the newsgripe...yelling and
yelling at those who didn't do EXACTLY like the Kodies did or
embrace "the service" like it was a murine corps.

They care more about their "honor" in telling fibs of their

exploits
then get totally pished at others who have had truthful
experience beyond the limitations of Part 97. Fantasyland at
times! :-)

It's all just a matter of ego.

NO!? Say it isn't so... :-)

Yup. Sad but true.


I am disheartened. snif :-)

BPL-PLC will mean an END to low-level signal reception on HF and
low VHF in urban areas but the licensed amateur extras in here
just want to FIGHT with anyone who challenges their mighty words.

Not to worry. Morse always gets thru.

Right! That's why all the other radio services rely on morse! :-)

They may have to. And amateur radio operators will lead the way to
salvation.


The Army? ["it's a Service!!!" :-) ]


W1AW will be on the AM boradcast band, but in CW. Everyone will be
standing in line to have a bfo installed in their
Pioneer/Kenwood/Panasonic car stereos.


Riiiiiight. :-)

They won't DO anything against the already-here problem of HF
pollution but they want to destroy anyone not believeing in their
fantasies of the religion of St. Hiram and the League-ionaires.

Just notice who's remaining in this sorry group.

Yes. Weiner von Brawn and his sidekick in PA. :-)

Wheiner (can be pronounced either "wee-ner" or "why-ner") keeps trying
to make friends.


Is THAT what the putzmacher is trying to do?!?!?


In a dysfunctional way. His only means.


There's at least two putzmachers in here. May the fnortz be with
them and their attempts at purity and ethnic cleansing.

Isn't all so much fun to have a private "ham" chat room to talk all
about the space program, national economics, traveling salesmen,
the educational system, and other assorted "ham interest" items?

And arguing with CBers. They impress people wherever they go. If
they don't immediately get the attention they think they deserve, they
thump their chests a few times to make their "achievements" more
visible. I really do wish the FCC would issue some kind of combat
infantry badge to these guys.


It's called "The Blue Riffle." Comes from riffling through lots of QST
ads and product reviews, then portraying themselves as "expert"
radio heroes.


Ging once, going twice...


:-)

Even more bizarre is the on-going "discussion" between two extras
who have NO experience in space travel talking all about Big

Issues
in Space...none of which concerns amateur radio policy! :-)

They've managed to combine "Missiles of October," and "October Sky."
Maybe one day they'll launch an Estes rocket and attain the altitude
of 1,200' AGL.

If either one cancels their Popular Science subscription, we won't
know the answers to all those profound questions of "ham interest"
policy problems.

Don't forget Popular Mechanics, and Popular Psychology. Ooops.
Scratch teh second one.


I think it's old NASA brochures and hand-outs of the 70s and 80s.
Those don't cost anything from a dump.


Like those old Air Force pubs Yell Yell was claiming I got my military
experience from. He probably reads them at every CAP meeting.


Yell Yell was a Murine. That sums it up.

All else are inferior...unless the else are code-tested extras. :-)

Well, time to celebrate the 4th coming up...and to worship at the
Church of St. Hiram who invented radio and the vacuum tube, etc.
:-)

Len

Never knew the man, but he is legend.

...celebrated in song and story forever, the founder of the Service.
A real firecracker that put sparklers in the eyes of all worshippers.
[shipping extra cost]

:-)



Kind of like the followers of Rev. Moon.


Oh, NO! Not "mooning" again! :-)

Sigmund Fraud will start making another libelous AOL Home Page
shouting and hollering all about "naked men" and "pornographic
images!!!" And, his favorite pejorative, "Liars!!!" :-)



That goes hand in hand with the code problem, except without the
peanut butter sandwiches.


"Peanut butter sandwiches?!?" :-)


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Old July 8th 04, 05:35 AM
Len Over 21
 
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In article , Mike Coslo
writes:

N2EY wrote:

In article , Mike Coslo
writes:

N2EY wrote:

In article ,
(Steve Robeson K4CAP) writes:


Not enough money.


Sure there is. It's just a matter of priorities.


And everybody's got different ones. If the majority of Americans would
rather have better transit than put a man on Mars, whose priority should

be
followed?


Sad to think that the spirit of exploration is just about dead.


I don't think it's dead at all, Mike.


Maybe I'm hanging out with the wrong people, Jim.

And it wasn't the spirit of exploration that sent people to the moon. It

was
the need to show the Rooskies that we could do better than they could.


Yeah, we know why the pols bankrolled it. But I highly doubt that was
reason number one in the astronauts minds.

Spirit of exploration is great but bankrolling it with trillions of

taxpayer
dollars is a hard sell when people see the middle class being eroded at

every
turn...


....and while we are decrying the expense of doing things, we might
want to look over our shoulder, someone's catching up and will pass us.

Sad to
think that a bunch of nerds sitting around in a room guiding robots are
what pass for adventurers these days.


Sadder to think that such triumphs of engineering are dismissed so easily.


Heavens no! I love the engineering. But there is a world of difference
between the "adventurers" giving a live press conference from the studio
and adventurers being *there*. If that doesn't make a big difference to
you , I guess it is kind of a "Jeep" thing.

I bet if you asked for volunteers to go on a manned Mars mission, 3 years

long,
with all sorts of risks and discomforts, the response would be so

overwhelming
that you'd need a major budget item just to deal with it.


Yup. Kind of tells me something.

Even more so for a
lunar mission. Heck, if you asked for volunteers to go to the Moon on a
*permanent* basis (as in "we don't know when or even if there will be space

on
a ship to bring you back") there'd be the same flood of volunteers.


Uh huh! I'd be one of 'em.

Even if the Elser-Mathes Cup stays unclaimed....


Nobody but me seems to know what that award is...


I looked it up. Too bad the Apollo astronauts didn't have a 2 meter
HT.. 8^)

The only difference here is that you're asking Joe Average to be ready
to
give up his/her SUV (or at least keep it garaged a lot more) and they
don't want to do it.

No, what I'm asking is for a lot more - responsibility.

That's what I said, Jim...Joe Average doesn't want to give up
his/her
SUV. To do so would be to take some responsibility for participating in
helping the enviroment.

That's cured by education. And it doesn't stop at the
SUV-as-a-commuting-vehicle - there are lots of other opportunities to
reduce consumption, resulting in eventual energy independence.

What do you think of the energy density of hydrogen and it's effect on
trying to convert to hydrogen vehicles?


That energy density is determined by how the hydrogen is stored. Normally

it's
quite low, but when comressed, quite a bit of hydrogen can be stored in a

small
space. Same for methane (natural gas). Trouble is, do you want to drive

around
with a high pressure fuel tank and fuel lines?

One interesting solution is proposed by the same guy who gave us LCDs. His

idea
(IIRC) is that the hydrogen is stored chemically in metal hydride pellets,
which give off hydrogen when warmed by engine waste heat. No high pressure
tank.

The big hydrogen question is: where do we get all the hydrogen from?


My guess is that it would come from electrolysis at hydropower or more
likely Nuc power plants. Dunno if it would be done at the same sites
where desalinization would (*will*) be happening. (welcome to your
future, California!)

Of course there will be environmental issues, such as what to do with
all the salt. Another biggie is that seawater electrolysis tends to
produce chlorine instead of oxygen:

http://www2.electrochem.org/cgi-bin/...g=204&abs=0710

Hard to argue that chlorine wouldn't be a pollutant. The anti
environmentalists might even agree on that one!

and using seawater is probably pretty important, because....

Who on earth is going to want to give up their fresh water? The left
coast?


Those snarled-at "left coast" people designed the first stage
rockets for Apollo. The "left coast" people designed the SSMEs
that push shuttle.

Hardly likely! They are the ones that are going to be surviving
on electrolysis in the future.


"Left coast" people are getting electrolysis treatments to remove
unwanted hair? I think not.

Try removing the internal hair and the left-brain, right-brain
thinking when talking about the coastal regions of the UNITED
States of America.

Washington, Oregon, and northern California have plentiful water.

East coast? We're so variable here, and
population is eventually simply going to limit fresh water supplies.


What has that got to do with amateur radio policy?

Note: The FCC does NOT regulate water.

BPL = Broadband over Power Lines, NOT over water lines.

And just as I don't like biofuels, I think that using a substance that
people depend on for their lives like food and water means that some
terrible choices might have to be made in the future.

Put simply, if it isn't seawater, it isn't going to happen.


Are you one of those dihydrogen monoxide extremists?

Take that to the dihydrogen monoxide conspiracy newsgroup.

Leave the space business stuff to the industry experts, like those
two who have already pontificated aplenty on How To Do Space
without having any space biz experience. :-)


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