One of the big failures of modern science is
failing to confront the existing and coming Energy crisis.
for instance:
the failure to produce cheap fusion
or the failure to reproduce photosynthesis (or even better than the
natural photosynthesis)
This should have been confronted decades ago
and the sooner the better
TIA
Y.Porat
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GR_GR - 03 Apr 2005 08:41 GMT
> One of the big failures of modern science is
Your parents birth control.
Y.Porat - 03 Apr 2005 09:43 GMT
here is a reply of a serious scientist
ok we know long ago what is your real worth.
Y.Porat
ps please bypass the clown idiot!
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Schoenfeld - 03 Apr 2005 09:53 GMT
> One of the big failures of modern science is
Politics, not science.
> failing to confront the existing and coming Energy crisis.
It will become known to the mob that oil is in much larger abundance
than currently told. Not only that, but planetary bodies will be filled
with the stuff. Perhaps even the Sun.
> for instance:
> the failure to produce cheap fusion
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> Y.Porat
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Robert Finch - 03 Apr 2005 10:42 GMT
> It will become known to the mob that oil is in much larger abundance
> than currently told. Not only that, but planetary bodies will be filled
> with the stuff. Perhaps even the Sun.
Those silicon based lifeforms that live on oil instead of water really love
the stuff.
Mark Martin - 03 Apr 2005 16:47 GMT
> It will become known to the mob that oil is in much larger abundance
> than currently told. Not only that, but planetary bodies will be filled
> with the stuff. Perhaps even the Sun.
So tell me, What is the temperature of the Sun? What's that you say?
You say, "It's too hot to allow molecular bonds."? Ohhh, bummer. I had
my hopes way up for some of that solar crude.
-Mark Martin
Joshua Halpern - 03 Apr 2005 16:50 GMT
>>It will become known to the mob that oil is in much larger abundance
>>than currently told. Not only that, but planetary bodies will be
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> -Mark Martin
There are some small, strongly bound molecules which exist in the sun
and are seen in solar spectra.
josh halpern
Mark Martin - 03 Apr 2005 16:55 GMT
> There are some small, strongly bound molecules which exist in the sun
> and are seen in solar spectra.
They can only exist in the tenuous solar atmosphere. There's no
crude oil in the solar spectrum. It would be of no use to us if there
was.
-Mark Martin
CWatters - 03 Apr 2005 10:37 GMT
> One of the big failures of modern science is
>
> failing to confront the existing and coming Energy crisis.
>
> for instance:
> the failure to produce cheap fusion
Perhaps I'll just knock together a fusion reactor in my lunch break.
Y.Porat - 03 Apr 2005 12:02 GMT
i didnt say it is an easy job
it may be take decades!
yet it is rather from that reason that ....... need i go on
explaining??
yet i have a feeling that not enough people
are aware about the gravity of that situation.
2 it seems to me that the problem is more a *motivation problem*
rather than ability problem.
all the best
Y.Porat
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dedanoe@yahoo.com - 03 Apr 2005 14:51 GMT
www.geocities.com/dedanoe/etg.html
www.geocities.com/dedanoe/etg.pdf
Ain't that solution enough
Marvin - 03 Apr 2005 15:54 GMT
> www.geocities.com/dedanoe/etg.html
> www.geocities.com/dedanoe/etg.pdf
>
> Ain't that solution enough
If it could work, which it can't. It is another perpetual motion machine.
CWatters - 03 Apr 2005 23:11 GMT
> it seems to me that the problem is more a *motivation problem*
> rather than ability problem.
It's both. Politicians have short lives and this is a hard problem. Nuclear
(eg fission) power is a possible solution while we wait for fusion but it's
politically tricky.
Mark Martin - 03 Apr 2005 16:09 GMT
> One of the big failures of modern science is
>
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> This should have been confronted decades ago
> and the sooner the better
What is the critical need for artificial photosynthesis? As for
nuclear fusion, this has been worked on for, yes, you guessed it,
DECADES.
There's a world of difference between our wishing for cheap, endless
energy, and it being possible to deliver.
But let's say that next week the nut gets cracked, and everyone on
Earth has all the disposable energy they can possibly make waste to.
What happens then? What happens is that several billion people start
pumping heat into Earth's atmosphere which peviously had been dormant
within atomic nuclei for eons. It'd throw the whole system way out of
thermal equilibrium in a big hurry, and it would be a CATASTROPHE.
Please, be mindful of what you wish for...
-Mark Martin
Y.Porat - 03 Apr 2005 17:01 GMT
Energy will never be free!!
even if the prodiction is for nothing (just a thought experiment)
then the delivery and other overhead will never make it for nothing
now you took it to the other extreem
just immagin e 'my extreem:
even just the price of oil will climb up to 100$per barel
(some people actually see it just round th e corner
there is a sound probability that the whole world economy is going to
collaps
now just think a bout the possible consequenses
hunger unemploiment internatuinalk chaos
do you remember why second world started?
it was because of the terrible ecomomic situatiion that started with
the
big crisis in the US
now that was just a tiny sample of about is threatenes to be
we are not talking about turning our world into a paradise
we have to see that it does not turn to be another hell.
that will be good enough an acheivement.
so there is something *between* ie on the midd way between what i
visualise
and what you visualise.
all the best
Y.Porat
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Ron Jones - 03 Apr 2005 19:40 GMT
>> One of the big failures of modern science is
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> -Mark Martin
Whatever you do, someone won't want it / like it, so votes will be lost and
policies will be changed back again. The majority of general public do not
want change, and do not want anything that might be potentially unsafe,
however well controlled. e.g. the French had (IIRC) about 70% of their
power from nuclear, but because of public opinion, they are being wound down
and back to oil/gas. Here in UK was similar (not so large percentage) but
nuclear stations not being built and old ones being decommissioned. Now
they are proposing an enormous wind farm down the outer edge of the Scottish
Western Isles (mainly because there hardly ever no wind there!!), but it has
to be a *big* farm as there is no cable from the isles to the mainland, so
unless the wind farm is really large (hundreds and hundreds of turbines),
then the cost of laying a cable will not be profitable.

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Y.Porat - 04 Apr 2005 05:42 GMT
it is not ocational that i mentioned fusion and photosynthesis
fusion is not *fission * th e alpha particle is not radioactive
photosynthesis should be the most 'enviromental friendly' that is
possioble
and i brough t just two examples there are a lot more
hydroelectricity and other more
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The Ghost In The Machine - 03 Apr 2005 19:00 GMT
In sci.physics, Y.Porat
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on 2 Apr 2005 22:53:27 -0800
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> One of the big failures of modern science is
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> Y.Porat
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I'm not sure if it's basic research's job to produce cheap electric
or motive power. Of course, IINM were fusion easy it would have been
done by now, on at least a prototype scale.

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Steve Turner - 04 Apr 2005 02:53 GMT
>One of the big failures of modern science is
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>This should have been confronted decades ago
>and the sooner the better
Yes, we scientists are a bunch of lazy slackers.
So why don't YOU get cracking and show us how it's done? What's
stopping YOU?
Steve Turner
Y.Porat - 04 Apr 2005 05:35 GMT
1 get into my site :
http://www.geocities.com/porat_y/mypage.html
see there the alpha particle
it is a clue about how to produce it
i was working on that model about 10 years
and you sir
instead of sitting like aparasite and mumbling about
quarks and virtual particles and W bosons
my model tells you you are waisting your time
so instead comon and earn your bread and butter by doing something
to earn it!!
2 the enery problem solution is not a one mans job
it is a global team job !! got it ??
and the sooner you get it - the better. (unlerss you are working for
some oil company and having a good time with it)
not noticing that the ground under your feet starts to shake and burn.
all the best
Y.Porat
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