Free energy or hoax?

[ewmayer]

Originally Posted by Xyzzy

Nobody reads Asimov?

I was more of an Arthur C. Clarke fan ... and book-form SciFi and fantasy lost their appeal to me after my teen years. Since the human stories in most SciFi are rather weak or secondary to the plot, I consider it mostly a visual medium these days.

[cheesehead]

Originally Posted by Xyzzy

Nobody reads Asimov?

I'd never read this one. The title put me off.

http://www.epubbud.com/read.php?g=F7PFK6CJ

But now ...

[only_human]

Originally Posted by cheesehead

I'd never read this one. The title put me off.

http://www.epubbud.com/read.php?g=F7PFK6CJ

But now ...

Thank's, I'd been meaning to see if I could find an an electronic copy that I could look at but hadn't got around to it. Hmmm, both a Hugo and Nebula award winning story. As a kid, I didn't set much store by that kind of thing but nowadays find good awards or the like that lifts something up for special consideration to be quite helpful.

I did find that Project Gutenberg has organized a decent Science Fiction bookshelf http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Scienc...ion_(Bookshelf)
Among the digital resources that I have enjoyed also stands Baen Books.

I wonder if a book reading club +ish thread could gain traction around here.

[garo]

Originally Posted by retina

If anyone here happens to be at the Docklands Innovation Park (in Ireland) this Saturday then you might want to take the chance to see for yourself the nonsense "Orbo effect". Or not. Might just be a waste of your time.

http://www.innovationdublin.ie/index...demonstration/

And as we might expect "This is an application only event". So all you have to do is pretend you are a diehard believer in the Steorn OU and you'll be in.

I'm very likely nearest to this event on this board. But I have better things to do with my time on a Saturday morning. Like a 100k bike ride

[Carl Fischbach]

Here's a working perpetual motion machine check it out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHVBu77jz4w

[ewmayer]

Originally Posted by garo

I'm very likely nearest to this event on this board. But I have better things to do with my time on a Saturday morning. Like a 100k bike ride

That sounds very expensive - 100k, what, are you sponsoring a whole team? The "Sean Kelly tribute squad" rides again...

[retina]

Cold Fusion getting hot with 10kw heater prepping for market

... Professor Sergio Focardi and Eng. Andrea A. Rossi, both of the University of Bologna, announced to the world that they have a cold fusion device capable of producing more than 10 kilowatts of heat power, while only consuming a fraction of that. This is the first public demonstration of a nickel-hydrogen fusion reactor capable of producing a few kilowatts of thermal energy. At its peak, it is capable of generating 15,000 watts with just 400 watts input required.

[R.D. Silverman]

Originally Posted by retina

Cold Fusion getting hot with 10kw heater prepping for market

Yeah. Right.

[davar55]

Originally Posted by R.D. Silverman

Yeah. Right.

That's just sarcasm, Dr. Silverman, not logic.

[ewmayer]

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-01-...ion-video.html

If your first reaction was to blurt out, "Oh, baloney" - you'd be right.

So the question is: Is this for real, or another Steorn-style startup?

But hey, at least the Bolognese-boys published something ... Journal of Nuclear Physics, sounds impressive.

[retina]

Originally Posted by ewmayer

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-01-...ion-video.html

If your first reaction was to blurt out, "Oh, baloney" - you'd be right.

So the question is: Is this for real, or another Steorn-style startup?

But hey, at least the Bolognese-boys published something ... Journal of Nuclear Physics, sounds impressive.

I posted a slightly better link for that same story just 5 posts ago.

http://pesn.com/2011/01/17/9501746_F...ng_for_market/