energy

I had a conversation with a woman on another board that was saying that a ceramic leg wrap blocked the chi energy from escaping her injured knee and would therefore speed healing. I questioned her, asking for her supporting evidence for the existence of chi. She asked why she should have to...

What are all the currenly/near term technically possible ways to generate electricity? I have solar: PV cells Mirrors that reflect heat to boil water into steam Mirrors that reflect light onto PV cells Solar wind towers(haven't been built yet; the prototype is supposed to be built soon I...

I posted this on the book club forum, under Michael Scheuer's Imperial Hubris, but thought it was worth a discussion on its own merits. You need not have read the book to have something to contribute to this. Scheuer maintains that if we want to win the global jihad, one of the things we need...

I think we can all agree that 'energy' is a word with a precise meaning in physics, and a much different meaning in common use. Perhaps we can also agree that the identification of these two meanings leads directly to many of the misconceptions of woo^2 physics. How can 'energy' in the physics...

Here's another curious question I've had for a while now and it may have a very solid scientific explanation. Where does the animal body get it's power from? I imagine it is from nutrition. However, I also understand a human being can go for 60+ days without eating and 3-5 days without...

Let's say we have a 5lb metal ball. Traveling at 500mph. K = ½mv2 How would i do that? K=1/2 of 2500 2 K=1250 2 K=1 953 125 000 ??? Would the answer be 1953125000 joules? I would get a different answer using Kilometers per hour though,So that can't be right. What is the correct way of...

Hello all, All or none law :- 1. the principle that the heart muscle, under whatever stimulus, will contract to the fullest extent or not at all; stimulation of any single atrial or ventricular muscle fiber causes the action potential to travel over the entire atrial or ventricular mass, or...

I have been a pilot for a couple of years and although there are aviation versions of "religous" arguments related to flying: high wing versus low wing, Lycoming engines versus Continental engine, etc; this is the first outright psuedoscience I can remember. Life Wave energy patches I am...

French President Jacques Chirac said Monday he believed the EU would soon reach agreement with Japan over the site of a proposed experimental nuclear fusion reactor. Progress on the $13 billion international project known as ITER (Latin for "the way") has stalled as Japan and the EU vie to host...

I heard someone say this weekend that Humans are pure electromagnetic energy. Is this statement true? Something about it doesn’t sound right to me. He also went on to say that when humans think positively their molecules align like magnets and attract other positive things into their...

Germany's ambitious plan to phase out nuclear power by 2020 while also reducing its reliance on fossil fuels has made it a leader in efforts to fulfill the Kyoto protocol. But critics are now predicting an energy crisis. Germany's government is hoping that abandoning its reliance on coal -...

Holding on to hopes of an America that will one day be free from reliance on oil from the Middle East and self-sufficient in its energy needs? Well, stop dreaming and wake up to reality, say top oil executives, who dismiss the idea of US energy independence as mere political fluff. Instead...

From the same magazine who brought the magnetic healing tripe, an earlier archived article you might enjoy, on the zero-point energy field. Again, the readers' comments are as interesting as the article itself. An excerpt (hee hee!):

Does energy contain mass? If it does not, why E=mc&sup2?:confused:

I have got a new idea for an invention. It is a cyclical gravity greenhouse liquid capillary action energy generator. The idea is that the device uses the same ammount of liquid over and over again due to evaporaton, condensation and capillary acton to generate electricity. It works like an oil...

This is a hypothetical topic , since none of us can definitely prove none of the above exist, it is worthy of at least hypothetical consideration, surely? :) What do antigravity, zero point/alternative energy, PSI (or several other paranormal claims) all have in common? These all would...

Why do telekinetics like Nina Kulagina and Julius Krmessky appear to give off abnormally high levels of electrical activity in experiments ? http://www.fpc.edu/pages/Academics/behave/psych/web93-3.htm

i'm not very sure why it's impossible to build a free energy machine. Isn't the gravitational forces an infinite amount of energy? Force is energy or it is not? and gravity seems to be applying forces to every object all the time wich seems as infinite energy. Same with magnets. It isn't...

I think of E85 as a possible short term solution. Hydrogen might be a decent long term solution, but that's at least a decade away from beginning to be practical for mass consumption in the US. Electric cars have sort of died as a solution. Until the US treats trucks and SUVs the same as cars...

Hello everybody I am new to this forum so help me out. A good friend of mine has recently become very interested in the possibilities of among other things "Orgonomy" "the JoeCell" cold fusion and the meanderings of Viktor Schauberger and Olof Andersson on living water etc. I have searched these...

How would one respond to this argument. 1. Sceptic lists the history of the free energy debacle and how free energy idiots leech on to every kind of science that comes up (eg. electricity, magnetism, atomic energy, fusion etc.). 2. Sceptic notes that the machines have been universally derided...

What chemical reaction releases the most energy in terms of jules/mol, or jules/gram? I had read that thermite burning was one of the most violent exothermic reactions in existence, but Surely explosive have more energy? Anyway, iquiring inds want to know, and, no, I'm not making a bomb.

Dunno if this belongs in Politics or Science.... Just listened to Paul Roberts, author of The End of Oil, on the Fresh Air show this afternoon. (Have not yet read the book) Having been with the local County Police back in the 70s and the Oil Embargo, I'd have thought that that particular...

I'm constantly hearing the argument from those who believe in an afterlife that since the body contains energy, when the body dies energy is released. Since this energy doesn't die, what becomes of it. To them, this is possible evidence that a "soul" or "spirit" survives the death of the...

Hello, I am at the start of an email debate about "Free Energy" and my opponent has brought up some nouns that I want to beg extra information about. I have very limited online time, so I will list them and then hope for some replies and links! 1. Nicola Tesla and transmitting electricity. 2...

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/SC0401/S00065.htm Note especially this gem: Just brilliant! :rolleyes:

The mysterious "dark energy" that is pushing apart the universe appears to be the constant force that Albert Einstein once predicted, according to measurements made by the Hubble Space Telescope... Link:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59353-2004Feb20.html

I read in a popular science magazine (norwegian: Illustret Vitenskap) that a study from Standford had found that wind power from Texas, Kansas and North Dakota could provide enough energy for the entire US. It didn't say anything more about it. Does anyone know anything more about this study?

Did I mention that I really like a good Chinese green tea? :p (I suspect, though, that the water in question is back to body temperature by now, and some of it's even below that.)

Perhaps homeopathy is right afterall? Maybe water *really* does have a memory. From this website, http://www.geocities.com/undergsci/pyramidenergy.html _____________________________________________ Water Alteration Water is not "purified" under a pyramid, as the claims say, however it is...