I talked to a CEO of an oil and gas exploration company. Under the best of circumstances this is wildcatting, the most speculative type of activity. Now the business environment is so unstable that business continuity of small businesses are imperiled. These businesses are totally essential to a functioning economy. ...
I talked to a CEO of an oil and gas exploration company. Under the best of circumstances this is wildcatting, the most speculative type of activity. Now the business environment is so unstable that business continuity of small businesses are imperiled. These businesses are totally essential to a functioning economy. I go on to talk about the landscape for US Oil and Gas production. The Gulf of Mexico disaster will be a major impact point for US oil production going forward. Natural gas looks plentiful but it may become a crutch in any energy shortage. Liability and government regulation and lack of regulation are in the setting of a lack of policy.
@gerrilea1 Sometimes it’s better to waste. Your refrigerators might have astronomical costs and could even be more wasteful even with a lower running energy usage (depending on energy used to make it). I’ve never heard of it, could you post a link? About your motor, start selling it, take it to a local college, hire an engineer to verify it’s over-unity and become rich and famous. So many people seem to have heard of one, yet none exist in the marketplace.
@gerrilea1 You are correct, you did say that. I thought about it before I posted it, but you seem to believe in most cases we talked about, that less than perfect knowledge in an area renders it useless or at least shouldn’t be taught until it is perfectly understood.
Electricity is a flow of electrons on a conductor. Semiconductors illustrate this principle quite well.
@ytgv3fc7 cool find.
@christo930 I never said the lack of understanding was useless, in fact, I did say, with our limited understandings we’ve built an entire civilization based on electricity.
Since you’ve now stated you are trained in electricity, may I ask. What is it specifically?
@christo930 Not true and not what I even said. To waste resources is illogical, whether plentiful or not. We have refrigerators that run on sound amplification at 1/10% the power currently used by the masses. And can’t get rich if you can’t get a patent or you are killed trying.
See Australian inventors who developed a magnetic motor, more sophisticated than mine that was running at 440% above unity. They have all died since they went public, in just 2 short yrs!
@gerrilea1 YES there is. The drag is the magnetic drag. Take a small DC motor and spin it and it will spin freely. Take the pos and neg lead and cross them and then try to spin the motor. If you run coils of wire through a magnetic field (or vice versa) it creates a drag. The bigger the load, the stronger the drag. I’m not trying to be smart here, but you really lack knowledge of electricity.
@gerrilea1 So just because something could happen to wipe us out no matter what we do, we should just be careless with the environment? That is like saying since someone might hit you in your car and kill you, you may as well drive like a nut. Reducing energy consumption through efficiency is 1 thing and I agree, but alternatives are sorely needed. Your camp claims to have it, so go to it! You will get rich and save the planet while making everyone’s life better!
@gerrilea1 I have training in electricity and I can assure you that it’s more than difference in potential (which is called voltage), furthermore, as I said, just because we don’t know something perfectly in every detail, doesn’t mean it’s useless or wrong. Atomic theory is what we don’t know well, electricity, as I stated before, is VERY well understood. We KNOW that parts of our knowledge of atomic theory are wrong, but they work “well enough” for what we are using them for.
@christo930 Agreed, but reality is that life changes and so does our planet, with or without man’s influence. We could be wiped out tomorrow with another asteroid impact or thrown into a volcanic winter, or as Nasa has warned recently, burnt alive by a CME, I don’t fear what “could be” or beyond my control. I do believe man can and must create renewable energy sources, that’s simply logical. And I believe man has already done so, we could cut our consumption by 50% just by correct insulation.
@christo930 Then change your definitions, that’s the conundrum. We label and define things and then are forced into one way of thinking and believing, get beyond those limitations. There is no drag/friction if the parts are not touching.
@christo930 Electricity is not understood, take 10 minutes and see if you can come up with a google search of what it is exactly. Best answer is “difference in potential”. You’ll be surprised to find that there is no agreed upon definition. How does it actually work, since we cannot actually see inside an atom, we only have supposition and theory. I will grant those theories have built our current civilization, but it’s not the complete answer and I’d dare say alot of it is misinformation.
@christo930 Re Coral Castle, we do have eyewitness testimony that he had no electricity or man-made machines helping him. Personally I question everything, including the dogma that has arisen around the Pyramids. Human slave labor could not move stones that are 1000 tons over 100 miles (as claimed) and place them so perfectly in position that light can’t get through. The milled surfaces are beyond man’s abilities today. We’ve either lost the technology or it’s been hidden from us.
@gerrilea1 We don’t know how Coral Castle was built (it could have been a hoax for all we know), therefor everything we know is useless. Do you realize that is what you are saying? We have pretty good ideas of how the pyramids were built, it’s called slavery.
@gerrilea1 Physics we KNOW are right. That fact that our knowledge is incomplete in certain areas doesn’t mean what we know is worthless. You don’t know every word in the English language, but that doesn’t mean you can’t talk. Electricity is very well understood, btw.
@gerrilea1 How would perpetual motion create electricity. That would put additional drag on the system. Perpetual motion, even if it worked is useless because it performs no work (by definition).
@gerrilea1 BUt it doesn’t do it in <150 years, it does it in 10′s of thousands, or even millions of years and gives life forms time to evolve with the changing conditions. Quick changes (like the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs) ends up in mass extinctions. IF you HONESTLY believe that the only effect of higher co2 would be more plants, you need to read some more. We and our fellow life forms have evolved to live in THIS environment, not some other one. What if we end up killing the algae?
news I heard on the radio is that BP is now lobbying against proposed legislation: this legislation would ban drilling in the Gulf for 7 years to any company that has had fines in excess of $10 mil OR fatalities in accidents on site of 10 or more employees. Gee, I wonder who fits that bill.
@christo930 With perpetual motion one just needs to have magnets do it while wrapped inside coiled copper wire, presto, electricity.
@gerrilea1 What is stopping you from taking your design to the local college and having them check it out? At worst you might have to pay someone to evaluate it, but it would be very little. I also fail to understand the gigantic significance of a perpetual motion machine, it’s just 100% efficient. It couldn’t generate any power, it just keeps itself going forever.
@christo930 Agreed, I truly don’t know what it is like to barely survive. I do know that millions of Americans are finding out how “wonderful” our system is and it’s only going to get worse. And yes oil does effect everyone on this planet. The suppression of “free energy” devices or generators that use antifreeze to create electricity. Things that could raise every human’s standards of living but aren’t allowed all because some corporation has more influence than you or I.
@gerrilea1 You don’t know what it is like to “work just to survive”. There are people, TODAY, RIGHT NOW, who walk MILES to pick up a bucket of water, who cook on dung or wood, who perform back breaking labor from dawn to dusk for the extreme basics of life. They can’t even stay up after dark because of lack of light. People like you and I don’t know what it’s like to work to survive and OIL plays a big part in that.
@gerrilea1 In REAL terms, the price of gas has dropped since you started driving because of inflation (up until about 9 years ago when chinese demand started driving prices up).
@gerrilea1 How many of them knew anything of use?
@christo930 continued. Man’s feeble explanations through “physics” is not complete. I could point out the flaws for years, giving example after example of the theories and misinformation that is taught to our children. How was the great pyramid built? There are stones in it that are over 1000 tons, man today couldn’t build them with our current theories. How did Edward Leedskalnin build his “corral castle”, by himself without power or electricity?
The answers are there for you to discover.
@christo930 I missed part of this reply, the “violations of physics” part. Who’s physics, might I ask? The lies taught to our school children? What is electricity? What is matter? How does an electron move around the nucleus of an atom without power overcoming the repulsive force of the proton? Why is it that when man “split” the atom, massive amounts of energy is released? Where does that energy come from? If all that energy is wrapped into an atom, how did it become that way? continued.