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"habshi" |
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10 Oct 2005 06:20:25 PM |
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What if ? |
These are the two words that make the west so rich.
A small innovation spreads quickly as the people are rewarded with
patents etc.
A hundred years ago one guy thought what would happen if he
passed an electric current through a vacuum tube and invented TV!
A car park has numbered bays . You note your number say 803 ,
go the machine and punch it in and the time you want to stay and the
computer gives you a receipt . Just one guy manages the whole car
park. Computer sensors tell him which bays are occupied and which ones
havent paid . There are no barriers at entry or exit so its fast and
efficient . Of course it wouldnt work in capitalist america but in
socialist europe where people on welfare have enough to live on , they
are very honest .
Another person I know couldnt swim. Took many lessons but they
didnt work . So one day he thought why not learn to first float and
then swim on your back ? And within a week he was swimming whole
lengths. Then he thought of Newton's laws and when in deep water
started kicking the water down and of course the water's reaction
propels you upwards out of the water and one can breathe and stay in
deep water for ever.
In another case an American firm thought what if the smears
that are done for women , instead of smearing them on slides and
waiting for them to dry , why not put the whole thing in a solution
and do it at a central point and hey presto the whole country is
changing over to the new system this year saving countless hours of
work .
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| User: "habshi" |
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| Title: Re: What if ? |
15 Oct 2005 05:03:30 AM |
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A new mouse pad has been invented which charges anything left
on it eg mobile phones by cordless electrmagnetic induction, the same
way electric toothbrushes are charged.
Why cant we use that to charge car batteries or on the road?
What if we lubricated the fault lines so the tectonic plates slide
past each other? How much oil would we need?
The quake is not the plates slipping but the shock waves in
the ground which spread from it , similar to the shock waves in the
tsunami
excerpt economist
The subcontinent continues to shove in a north-easterly direction, at
a rate of about 5cm a year, every so often leading to a catastrophic
release of the tension that builds up at the edges where the two
plates meet.
Such a cataclysmic unleashing of destructive power took place on
Saturday October 8th, when a magnitude 7.6 earthquake shook Pakistan,
India and the province of Kashmir, which is, in effect, divided
between the two South
Across the Himalayas there is what seismologists call a “slip
deficit”—a lack of earthquakes to release the stress that is known to
be accumulating. The Kashmir quake was in just such a region, where a
great earthquake was overdue. Nevertheless, Roger Bilham, of the
University of Colorado, says it is doubtful that the Kashmir quake
released more than one tenth of the cumulative energy stored there.
Furthermore, in the past half-century the Himalayan region has seen
fewer powerful earthquakes than might be predicted from historical
records. The most notable area of concern is the central Himalayan
Gap, a 600km-long central arc of the Himalayas. Mr Bilham believes
this area has the potential to generate several earthquakes of
magnitude 8 or more, and is the most vulnerable (in terms of potential
loss of life and damage) of the regions that could produce a great
earthquake. The whole of Nepal is also a worry.
In India, to build more suitable housing would add only 2-4% to
construction costs. But in the poorest regions, such as Kashmir, most
houses are built of local materials by the people who then live in
them. In fact, in India, 80% of housing is owner-built. Architects and
engineers, who might improve building and design, are in short supply.
It is lack of knowledge and skills that is the main problem, rather
than the cost of the work.
...
Their average tariff has risen by 20% since 2000, compared with a rise
in the cost of their supplies of just 4%. But still, tariffs, on
average, are just three-quarters of supply costs. Some estimates
suggest that the SEBs lost 10 trillion rupees ($215 billion) over the
past decade. This has damaged their ability to add distribution
capacity, and even to carry out basic maintenance. The Planning
Commission has pointed out that more than 90% of the investment in the
power sector goes into generation and transmission rather than
distribution, akin, it argues, “to building a superstructure without a
foundation”. Still, the money needed for new generating capacity is
huge—estimates range between $10 billion and $15 billion a year.
Efforts to attract private investment, including from abroad, into
power generation have been largely unsuccessful. The most spectacular
failure was the impressively modern 2,200MW Dabhol power project in
Maharashtra, which started operation in 1999, only to shut in 2001
after a row between its promoter, Enron, a collapsed American energy
giant, and the SEB. Years of legal wrangling have ensued, with
damaging effects all round. Many Indian observers drew the lesson that
privatisation and foreign investment in power did not work and meant
high prices. Foreign firms wondered whether power-purchase commitments
signed by bankrupt SEBs were worth anything. Only now is the project
restarting, having, in effect, been nationalised. It will be at least
a year before it is producing electricity.
Despite Dabhol and a huge gas-fired plant that Reliance is building in
Uttar Pradesh, a northern state, coal is expected to remain India's
“mainstay” fuel for decades to come. Its proven reserves, of 92.4
billion tonnes, are just over 10% of the global total. But it is of
low quality, with a high ash content and low calorific value. It is
also, by international standards, expensive (perhaps twice the cost of
South African coal), and production is not growing fast enough. Rajiv
Sharma, a senior official in the Ministry of Coal, blames this on
underinvestment in the 1990s, when coal became a “condemned fuel”,
because of its polluting effects and contribution to global warming.
Coal India, the state's near-monopoly, was unprepared when demand took
off in 2003. So India has been importing more coal—nearly 11m tonnes
last year. Vipul Tuli, of McKinsey's, a consultancy, predicts a
“massive” shortage of 100m tonnes by 2011-12. Domestic coal usage is
constrained and made more costly by an inadequate rail network.
Imports are hampered by a lack of capacity at the ports.
Recent months have seen a scramble by India to secure fuel supplies.
There is talk of pipelines to bring gas from countries such as
Turkmenistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar and, most controversially, Iran.
Meanwhile ONGC, a state-owned oil exploration and production company,
has teamed up with Lakshmi Mittal, a steel tycoon, to bid for foreign
oil assets.
India's nuclear industry, which at present supplies about 2% of
electricity, received a big boost in July, when Mr Singh went to
Washington, DC, and secured an American offer of help for it. Despite
having nuclear weapons, which it tested in 1998, India has never
signed the international non-proliferation treaty. So this was a
diplomatic coup. Mr Singh has suggested India could have 30,000 to
40,000MW of nuclear capacity for the next 20-30 years. But that
optimistic figure is still a fraction of requirements.
There may be more potential in hydro-electricity, which already
produces a quarter of India's needs, in renewable forms of energy, and
in moderating demand by enhancing energy-efficiency. India has an
estimated 120,000MW of untapped hydro-electric potential. Big dams are
controversial, but much of this could be realised through small,
run-of-the-river projects. It is hoped to increase hydro's share in
production to 40%. The “most significant” strategic goal set by Mr
Kalam in his Independence Day speech, however, was to increase the
share of renewable energy in generation from around 5% now to 20-25%.
Wind power already accounts for about 2%. Solar power is negligible
now, partly because of the high capital cost of solar plants, but the
president was optimistic that new technology would soon bring the cost
down. He estimated, moreover, that 30m hectares of wasteland in India
are available for the cultivation of “bio-fuels”, such as Jatropha, an
oil-producing shrub.
An obsession with “energy security” may not be wise in a world wh
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| User: "Twittering One" |
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| Title: Re: What if ? |
15 Oct 2005 03:14:08 PM |
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"Of junk enough,
Have I been fed.
Nourish, love, feed
Both soul, hungry
Body. Heal both mind
And body, too, aches
And tears, a havoc
Wracking mind, body,
Derails soul's sole
Golden goal and laurel.
Nourish, hold, heal,
Of junk enough
Have I been overfed.
Give me warm, clean bed,
Pillow for my head,
Good food for supper,
Home cooked.
Fix my broken teeth,
Sooth my aching feet."
~ Fobby
"Heck, yeah ~ !"
Mum
"Go, Knock ~ Knock,
My cradle rocks.
Giddy ~ up ~ !
A lesson old ~
Soul barefoot, bold,
Bears love's gifts,
Nifty, spiffy me, adrift."
~ Twittering
"Heck, yeah ~ !"
~ Capsicum
"The more often snow snows (Noyz of Tiddely), the more often knowing
knows (Noyz of Tiddely), the more my knowing snows.
And nobody knows (Noyz of Tiddely) how cold my toes
(Noyz of Tiddely), how old my toes (Noyz of Tiddely), tip toe
without you (Noyz of Tiddely), tip toe boldly toward you
(Noyz of Tiddely), gallop gallantly, Noyz of Tiddely winks
right back at you, shamelessly, gallantly gallops, right up to you,
says, Knock Knock ~ ! Open me ~ !"
~ Twittering
"Golden links eternal symmetry loops, your middle
Finger, philosopher's stone, gold mount cradles,
You, I cradle, lullaby, sung Twiddle Dee, Twiddle
Dumb. (The hour is calm, the night babbles
Of The Forest of Or ~ !), bears heat of The Creator,
No rare enigma, by passion's persona
Given form. Gauntly Sounds ~ ! Knot more ~ !
The hour breathes form,
Bears The Heart of The Creator ~ !"
~ Mum
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| User: "Twittering One" |
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| Title: Re: What if ? |
15 Oct 2005 03:15:57 PM |
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"Hear Zounds ~ ! Not more ~ ! Forest floor,
A door, a rare enigma, a hook translates gauntly
Zounds ~ ! Not more ~ !
Therefore, Exorcise the I, restore fine stones,
Meld, weld, amalgamate, alchemize as One roams
Rooms of I, of Thee, of Therefore,
A Door.
Zounds ~ ! Knot more ~ ! Rare enigma, a Book,
The Hour, I pray ..."
~ Twittering
~ * ~
~ * The Leaves Blow Cradle Fine
Giddy & Golden, Rocking to & fro, in Autumn Thyme ...
Blew Windy Ginger Chimes
Ring a Giddy Golden Treasury of Rhyme * ~
"The windy forest harbors an arboretum,
Love, an arbor fine, where leaves blow
Cradle fine, by cradled limbs, giddy, golden,
Rocking gently, to & fro, in Autumn Thyme,
Where blew blown windy ginger chimes
Ring a Giddy Golden Treasury of Rhyme."
~ Tyche
"And Calvin quickly hollers ~
It's soon suppertime
Hurry up, scurry over,
Come on over for supper here in Sleep Hollow ~ !"
~ Laika
"The World's Again Orb Blew
Of The Sights of Inn Blows of Know's
Snow, Letters Too ~ !
Thee ~ Of Prancers
Of DANCER of BUTTERFLY TO SHINE
Of ~ Light equipped light
Luminary of Paris Parisian Party,
Very Prettily Dressed
Reports to us ..."
~ Charlotte
"A rightful flight expressed flight's envoy
The word in Nouveau Ork ...
The Star of Sensational Spectacle,
Of Effervescent, Transparent,
Of oneself beautifully busy, bumble bee bestirs
A divine garden
Dapples the mirage of a butterfly,
A monarch, flight angelica of wings,
A on Thee ~ Light of Flutter appears
For the admiration of crowds, her patron, Ms.
~ Of ~ Of God
It Is Miss. ~ Of Lotty
Flown in from Far Flung's Faire ~ !
Who, that howling owl, says
She fills your wonder of the assistances
Placed on summits of tree, the assembly lines,
Opacified ~ The Floatable Canopy,
The English Gardens of Sevens, The 4 Seasons,
Your pleasure."
~ The Lust International Herald
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| User: "MorituriMax" |
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11 Oct 2005 04:52:18 AM |
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"habshi" <habshi@anony.com> wrote in message
news:434af4c9.1520866@news.clara.net...
These are the two words that make the west so rich.
Non muslim?
Or perhaps just because we took away the power from the religious
fundamentalists so they can't keep us in the dark ages like the muslim
clerics.
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| User: "Calife" |
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11 Oct 2005 05:05:21 AM |
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MorituriMax wrote:
Or perhaps just because we took away the power from the religious
fundamentalists so they can't keep us in the dark ages ....
er... you been to amerika lately???? Notice anything??? ;-)
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| User: "Devils Advocate" |
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11 Oct 2005 04:50:03 AM |
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"habshi" <habshi@anony.com> wrote:
These are the two words that make the west so rich.
A small innovation spreads quickly as the people are rewarded with
patents etc.
A hundred years ago one guy thought what would happen if he
passed an electric current through a vacuum tube and invented TV!
< snipped >
That's not how TV was first invented!
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| User: "" |
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10 Oct 2005 06:32:27 PM |
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In sci.physics habshi <habshi@anony.com> wrote:
These are the two words that make the west so rich.
Nope the two words are "indoor plumbing"; everything just occurs
naturally after that.
<snip 25 lines of crap>
--
Jim Pennino
Remove .spam.sux to reply.
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| User: "Uncle Al" |
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10 Oct 2005 08:16:49 PM |
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habshi wrote:
These are the two words that make the west so rich.
That's right, idiot wog, and the West has banned those words from all
of Asia. No wog dare even think them. Wogs are in the hands of 360
million gods. Curiously, that sums to more than 720 million hands -
none of them washed after crapping.
A small innovation spreads quickly as the people are rewarded with
patents etc.
Totally clueless. Wealth is about violence, lies, and bribes.
A hundred years ago one guy thought what would happen if he
passed an electric current through a vacuum tube and invented TV!
[snip crap]
Jesus H Fucking Christ, what an idiot wog. Edison invented the
phonograph so people would stay up late and use his lightbulbs.
Armstrong's first transmitted scanned picture was a dollar sign. Look
it up, idiot wog. That's "dollar sign," not Rupes toilet paper.
--
Uncle Al
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/
(Toxic URL! Unsafe for children and most mammals)
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/qz.pdf
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