Cortese's Corner - The Off-Topic Chat Thread

Governments do cover up a lot of **** tho.

 

Where? I can't see anything suggesting the level of funding you would expect for a humanity changing technology. I have only ever seen one published experiment showing a working model, which demonstrated a power output of 2034W for an input of 360W. The experiment though gave no indication of what was actually inside the mystical grey tube. It was the scientific equivalent of me building a giant box, telling everyone there was a dinosaur inside it, and expecting everyone to believe it. I understand the "commercially sensitive info" argument, but you've got to give some information on what you are up to if you expect to be taken seriously.

 

SOLAR PANELS ON THE MOON.

Let's just cut the crap and do it.

 

I can't get an iPhone charger to my bedside table, therefore we are in trouble here.

 

I suppose it also depends on who is doing the experimentation. NASA, for example, have yielded decent results in LENR, yet they don't tell you what's inside the box either. If it were me, I would tell as few people as I could until I was ready, because there would be plenty of people around to take it away from me once I spilled some crucial beans and history has shown us many times that people disappear when sensitive information is on the point of being available.

Let me put it this way. In the second part of the 18th century a man invented a clock which kept time so accurately that you could take it on board ship for months and it would only lose or gain the odd second, and therefore sea captains could know the longitude position of their ships extremely accurately too. He'd been developing his technology for over 40 years, and now it was into its fourth generation. The British Parliament had offered £20,000 to anyone who could solve the problem, and he'd done it. But they didn't believe him. Even after extensive tests they said it was a trick. They wanted to know the guts inside the machine before they handed over the money, and he said, no, hand over the money and then you might have access to the guts. So they didn't give him the money and it took an appeal to the King to right the situation.

Basically, scientifically educated people couldn't believe that machinery, based on sound principles, was capable of being so accurate, right in front of their own eyes. Some actually thought it was magic. H4 proved beyond all doubt that it was possible, and John Harrison eventually got most of his money.

 

Microwave/laser transmitters beaming to international recieving stations. Jeez, just put me in charge of this shiz.

 

I use an extension for my Galaxy S2. It allows me to watch the odd full length film if I'm wide awake before sleep. Plus I wake up in the morning and the phone is ready to go. There is a slight problem if the film is too interesting though.

 

Talking about new energy sources etc, will tidal energy ever be used?

 

The difference is though is that NASA are not claiming a net production in energy. They are doing what has been known for years, that you can produce a clean reaction by piling many more times the energy into the front end than what you are getting out the back end. I haven't seen anything suggesting that they are managing to overcome this, although I would be more than happy to be proved wrong.

 

I'm doing that thing where you know you should go to sleep but don't. I've an interview tomorrow and have to get up at 04:45.

Lovely.

 

Sounds like New York and Swansea are both getting some in the next couple of years.

 

Err.. the French use it every day on the River Seine, and have been for what must be a decade of more. Only their's isn't that fantastically efficient because it only works in one direction. There are plenty of other examples. Did you mean wave power, as in Salter's Ducks..? If memory serves, the Portuguese [and Spanish] are using a Scottish wave power invention.

 

What's the best way to get to Fawley, in Southampton, by public transport?

According to Google Maps, there's a railway line that runs through it, but no stations.

 

Anyone got a boat you can borrow? Absolute pain in the arse place to get to, bus from the city centre is pretty much the best bet I'd have thought.

Bluestar 8 is the bus line you are after.

 

That train is just industrial. Bluestar no.8.

 

Gosh, Portsmouth Ladies don't make it easy to support them.

I did see it's right on the shoreline, was hoping there's a ferry that runs from the habour front to there!

 

That must be Gang Warily. You'll need a car.

 

You could get the Hythe ferry, but you'd still have to get a bus the other side.

 

Yeah ment wave and also ment in this country.

 

Ah, well now you're talking. GB doesn't end to spend money on alternative technologies. We tend to invent them and other countries make money out of them.

Mind you, we are very big on wind turbines.