They were foolish!! And what they did seems pointless as these two girls were never ever going to break into the top echelon of their respective events. I think most drug cheats come nowhere near winning a medal. Perhaps Kenyan athletes need to be better informed as to the consequences of taking substances. There's Seb Coe's first mission, educating the Kenyans about performance enhancing substances.
Years ago I learned that you must steal yourself to drive as the drivers of the city you're in do. The first time I drove in London it frightened the living daylights out of me. The next time, having learned the lesson, it was a breeze and I actually began to enjoy it. I've driven in many cities with a fearsome traffic reputation, including Paris, Rome, Naples, London, Southampton [oh yes it does] and several others here and overseas that I can't remember offhand. The attitude one must adopt is to dare the other driver to trade paint, otherwise you get eaten up by the traffic. It's a question of car body language, but never to get dangerous about it. You can actually do something similar with a motorbike, but obviously you can only so far with that. Daring to trade paint is one thing. Daring to visit the local hospital is another.
Huge respect for people who can do that. My brain just doesn't work in those areas. I have ok-ish French and almost zero Italian, to my shame. I have cousins who speaka da lingo as natives because in their house their parents spoke English and Italian. Italian was banned from our house by my Mum. I really do regret that.
Dear god, just playing FM15 managing Woking. Ronald took Saints to 7th twice in a row and has just left to take over the Arsenal job. Saints have hired Brendan Rodgers. Clearly the black box has broken...
It's finally happened. Andrea Rossi has finally been granted a patent by the US Office for his Cold Fusion heater, the E-Cat. It'll the first of a strategy to protect his research and products. After all the work he's put in it would be a shame if anyone else benefited primarily from it: https://www.reddit.com/r/Everything...rea_rossi_granted_patent_by_us_patent_office/ What does it mean.? Essentially it recognises the technology as a provider of energy. Which means it recognises Cold Fusion. Which means it realises Cold Fusion exists. Which means that the late Martin Fleischmann of Southampton University, whose career was effectively ruined by the charlatan calls, is owed an apology. That's where we're upto as of this moment. Cold Fusion or as it is called today Low Energy Nuclear Reaction [LENR] is going to be the energy provider of the future. We will not need dirty, expensive and dangerous nuclear fission power stations [yes, turn a deaf ear Mr Cameron] because there is more than sufficent energy output from first and second working prototype designs. And they will be cheap and one will go in every house where the heater or boiler goes,, and they will produce enough to sell back to the grid. Much, much cheaper to run than energy production of today. Pollution and radiation free and the raw materials are plentiful, which are consumed at a tiny rate and even then can be restored to be used again. Typically, it is topped up every 6 months and only a handful of fuel is needed. Incidentally, Airbus scientists and engineers are submitting a favourable paper on it in October and NASA already have an early working model to go in the International Space Station [ISS] because they have been able to throw many dollars indeed at it. In comparison, Rossi and investors have been very small fry. Until now. However, they are the leaders in the technology. So wake up people. The above link is the most important thing you'll read on this page even though you probably don't know it yet. It's actually a bit historic, it's that game changing.
Incidentally, one of the, shall we say, disadvantages of LENR is a complete non-dependence on gasoline, kerosine, diesel, etc, as a fuel. Why is that a disadvantage.? Well, the biggest oil producing countries tend to come from the Middle-East and, although they are trying to diversify as fast as they bloody well can, oil producing is pretty much all they do in terms of keeping them in the wealth they are accustomed to. Yes, there is the huge plastics market [stand up FLT], but fuel oil is something that eventually isn't going to be worth a lot, and probably sooner rather than later. That means where do they get their vast income from, and where does our Government [in particular] get a major part of its taxes from, as we and the world shift into a post petroleum, post nuclear fission economy. It won't be all plain sailing, but at least we'll solve the environmental problems pretty damn quick, and they'll stop wasting time, effort and millions on trying to make hot fusion work.
We've had torrential rain in Orlando, for an hour. And the temperature dropped 10°C...to 24°C so I reckon she stayed here. It was 37°C yesterday in Key West.
Which way will it go? They push price up of the oil used for polymer to try and regain profits or there's too great a supply for the demand and prices crash. I think it'll lead to more advanced performing polymer development.
1982 was my first long trip on my new Triumph Bonnie to Cambridge. I decided to go via central London. After several hours of politely giving way, indicating my intentions clearly, keeping to all speed limits and exercising good lane discipline I emerged a quivering wreck. The return trip a week later was done with a rather more selfish, even aggressive attitude and more rapid progress. Oh and an oil leak.
Does this mean we know that the technology actually works? Or does it just mean he has been granted a patent for a product, I'm not familiar with the patent laws so not sure if this is the case.
Patents are not granted if the principle of the science and/or the technology is not accepted. Independent of that, yes the technology works. The experimentation has been to make it work better, ie yield yet more energy and even more reliably. Pie says it will be ages yet. I don't know. It could be as little as a year, or it could be as long as 5 years. It's a technology whose time has come, so there won't be any delay once it is ready.
Dunno mate. Whatever happens it'll be bloody interesting. I've thought about it more along the lines of possible instability in the Middle-East, which is worrying. As far as the plastics industry is concerned, off the top of my head I can only see prices rising. Tbf, you'd be the one with the best idea about that.
I made noises about this before on this forum and mentioned as little as a couple of years. I'm not an expert on the time it takes to bring products to market, so I can only guess. But based on previous inventions and technologies, 5 years doesn't seem too outlandish a figure. Bearing in mind that if this was 30 years ago the inventor would have been bundled into the back of a car and quietly dealt with. These days the political will is with the technology, so I don't see vested interests standing in its way. Besides, way too many people know about it now.
5 years is long if you're in the UK. Here we have the Conservative PM announcing a deal with EDF [my power supplier ironically] to build nuclear fission power stations which are going to produce the most expensive electricity yet. The British Government appears to have no idea that this technology exists, yet it is receiving backing from the USA, Germany, Japan, and several other countries. The science was discovered here [in Southampton], yet once again we won't be in the vanguard of taking advantage of it. Makes you want to weep.
I hope you're right, however.... The patent being issued doesn't acknowledge LENR as a source of energy. It merely mentions various fuels that need energy applying to them, at which point there's a reaction that becomes self-sustaining. You could say the same about, say, an internal combustion engine. A patent doesn't accept that a device will work - you don't even need to have a prototype in order to patent it. It (as far as I can see) avoids rejection for perpetual motion but that'll be because it requires a fuel. The original work by Fleischmann et al was non reproducible, hence its rejection by the scientific establishment. It's the basis of science; you say how you did something and if other people can do it, it takes over as accepted science. While the history of science is peopled my mavericks who tilted at established wisdom, being a maverick tilting against the established wisdom does not make you correct. FInally, the jump from "possibly does work after all" to a power station in my house is a very, very long trip. As I say, I hope you're right but it all seems like a long shot. Vin
