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Comment Re:Dementia will get'm long before 120 (Score 4, Informative) 441

Dementia cured in 20 years, I wouldn't bet on that. The blood brain barrier is not an easy thing to get around. The most likely thing that will slow down brain impairment is a diet rich in the appropriate short and medium chain fatty acids and mental exercises. I.E. not the Paleolithic diet.

He is also missed two other significant factors that contribute to significant life extension, A calorie restricted diet and fair amount of exercise(which lengthens Telomeres). A large early death factor centers around people not taking care of their kidney's.

And then there is are number of man made environmental factors. Poorly tested chemical additives.. GMO crops and the ever increasing amounts of glyphosates that goes with them. Other classes of Pesticides, Modern artificial sweeteners, etc Ingestion /inhalation of man made radioactive isotopes. Any one of which can sink his life extension plans before he knows it.

Next on the hit list is family history of long lived relatives(genetics) or just being a bit too tall or fat. A Large body mass has a tendency to were out organs, and shorten lifespan.

My bet he'll be dead by 75, maybe 80. Most rich persons aren't willing to make the appropriate life style changes to really slow down the aging process.

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Comment Re:here we go again (Score 1) 652

two words.. LOAD MANAGEMENT can solve a majority of this problem..

My house doesn't winter space heating, daily management of insulated window shades and capturing the morning sun takes care of most of those needs.

Summer A/C is when I use the most, but that matches nicely with solar flux. Just program it stay ahead by cooling down a few extra degrees during peak solar production. (Treat the house as a big thermal battery). It's not hard, one just needs to get use to a bit more in thermal swings. And when it's cloudy, a/c doesn't need as much. anyway.. P.S. Clouds only reduce PV output typically 30 to 65%,

Likewise my hot water heater, freezer and frig can all be used as thermal batteries.. Let the freezer and frig cool down a few extra degrees during peak solar output.. those compressors will remain shut off for most of the evening/night. Same goes for my heat pump WH, let it fire up during peak solar output hours.

That takes care of the big items..A few kWh of energy stored in batteries can take care of most of the other night time loads., LCD TV, LED lights,Microwave, etc.

Comment Clinton SA removal.. I helped push it along.. (Score 1) 236

Some background.. around the Clinton era thingy... I think it was three plane crashes that convinced President Clinton to remove SA.

I wrote an E-mail to President Clinton(1997) pointing out, that three recent crashes had a common factor, which was Controlled flight into terrain because the pilots did not know their position. CFiT crashes were "1995, American Airlines Flight 965", "1996, Ron Brown, US commerce secretary", "1997, Guam".

I pointed in my emails that SA induced errors had prevented the Airline industry from widely adopting GPS as a navigation aid. And that a Cd-rom sized database, coupled with accurate unscrambled GPS signals could have prevent these crashes. I also pointed out that non-SA'd GPS signals had many other useful civilian purposes. (car nav, marine nav, etc.)

Imagine to my surprise, when I received a written reply letter (Sept, 1997), from the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense(Space). Outlining DOD and FAA plans to integrate GPS into the aviation industry and President Clinton's pending consideration, (starting in 2000), to remove SA scrambling from the GPS signal. The rest is history

Comment Re:A few things... (Score 4, Insightful) 324

Looks like "The power to tax is the power to destroy" is going to be demonstrated once again.

If Hungary the want's to jump back into the stone age, so be it. P.S. This is just Draft legislation.. If the proposal is made into law, I see Google, Yahoo, and every major ISP abandoning that country in short order. Same goes for any web hosting providers. Backbone providers will route their traffic around that tiny country. I expect the transition to be relatively dramatic.

One can only hope the voters recall their conservative stone age representatives and put in socialists in charge, with an eye to the future. I can also see the EU court stepping in an declaring this tax to be invalid/moot as a violation of human rights.

Comment Re:The Conservative Option (Score 1) 487

.. Ebola survivors suffer from many post illness conditions.. link

Dr. Amar Safdar, associate professor of infectious diseases and immunology at NYU Langone Medical Center, told CBS News these chronic conditions are a result of the body's immune response.
He said Ebola survivors are at risk for arthralgia, a type of joint and bone pain that can feel similar to arthritis. Ebola survivors also frequently report complications with eyes and vision, an inflammatory condition known as uveitis which can cause excess tearing, eye sensitivity, eye inflammation and even blindness. .

It''s only a matter of time before the extremists in society deploy bio-weapons.. (natural or man-made).. Be prepared to deal with it..

Comment Re:Anonymity == being a schmuck for a good number. (Score 3, Interesting) 728

Agreed, I had to deal with these types on the Usenet forums. It seams no insult was too low for these types. They used 100's of aliases, I kept track of them and posted a list periodically.

When they started posting criminal confessions in my name.. I called the FBI office near the perp, that only slowed them down.. Even a threat of legal action didn't seam to phase them. Eventually they stopped when they could no longer get a response from me.

Comment Re:I have a Supra, and it's true (Score 1) 261

The last model year for the 3000 GT was 1999.. 14 years ago.. For enough of them(~151,000, 1991-1999, 3000GT+Stealth) to still be on the road and make this list is quite impressive..

The 3000 GT VR4 and it's companion Dodge Stealth Twin turbo were impressive cars. Stock 300HP, 4 Wheel drive, Active Suspension+4 Wheel Steering(1991-1993), and were well ahead of it's time. Thank you, Mitsubishi for these awesome automobiles. P.S.. My 1991 DSTT is still on the road(no tickets, 15 years+).

Comment Re:Gas - problem solved (Score 1) 245

You made some mistakes(mixing up units).. the lowest possible temp is -273.15C or -459F, or 0 kelvin. (absolute zero). Increase in flame temp when combusted with air will be approx +10.4C.. (0.04 * 2483K) + (0.96 * 2223K) - 2223K = +10.4K.

+10.4K/(2223K-290K(or 323C)) = 0.53%(17C) to 0.55%(50C) increase in efficiency to help offset 4% H2's 2.71% reduction in energy content. Since most applications are direct thermal usage(water/hot air/etc) no additional losses will be incurred.

As for losing ~2.2% of heat energy, in exchange for cleaner burning fuel. It's a tossup.

Comment Re:Gas - problem solved (Score 1) 245

Err. The 4% H2 portion burns hotter than other 96% ch4 & c2h6, so the hotter flame temperature is going to help make up for some of the 2.8% loss in energy density for any given volume of gas.

Beyond 4%, I expect we'll build a separate underground H2 storage network, were surplus Electricity delivered to site nearby a Combined cycle CH4/H2 power plant.. Electricity converted to H2,stored underground, and piped in separately to CCPP as needed/available.

As renewable energy percentage increases, within a few decades those CCPP's will be powered by solely stored H2, and CH4 will be conserved for other usage. Eventually, to help nature along, we'll extract carbon from either the ocean and/or atmosphere, and then combine it with H2 to make CH4 and pump it back into the ground.

Comment Re:Summary factually incorrect (Score 2) 120

This is not about a defective boiler pump.. It's about a reoccurring problem with broken boiler re-enforcing wires

They found a broken boiler spine in 2007, and spent 150 million pounds investigating fixes.. from what I've read they found more corroded/broken per-stressed re-enforcing spines.

excerpt from report dated Sept 2010,

"3.4. Leaking pressure vessel cooling water was also found to have entered a chamber containing BCU pre-stressing wires and as a consequence of this, a programme of radiography to reveal corrosion degradation was initiated. During inspections on Reactor 1 at Hartlepool in late 2007, the tendon wires were found to have unexpectedly high levels of corrosion, which led to one tendon wire having broken near to its anchor. Subsequent inspection of the BCUs on these other reactors found similar evidence of corrosion, indicating that this was a generic issue, not confined to Reactor 1 at Hartlepool."

Comment Re:and linux aswell (Score 1) 267

That's just the tip of iceberg.. M$ cutoff access to my Win 7 version of skype 6.6,0.106.. last updated 6/13/2013 !

I don't appreciate relativity simple applications requiring a constant stream of updates. It makes me think it's some sort of NSA/Gov spyware. It's better to just remove it and forget about them, too much hassle for little return value. Write them off and move on..

P.S. Oracle Java is quickly approaching negative return threshold and may soon join skype in my list of unstable/unreliable applications/addons.

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