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General Category => 3DHS => Topic started by: Plane on March 13, 2007, 06:59:27 PM
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http://www.oooms.nl/usb/
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I think I could hide one in a rock too.
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and the purpsoe being????
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and the purpose being????
(http://www.oooms.nl/usb/in-use.jpg)
The incongruous visual effect.
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I`d of made a amulet
like the eye of amagato or something comic book related
if only they made a pda look like a motherbox
that would be coool!!!!!!!!!
I think I should cut back on the comicbooks alittle.
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I`d of made a amulet
like the eye of amagato or something comic book related
if only they made a pda look like a motherbox
that would be coool!!!!!!!!!
I think I should cut back on the comicbooks alittle.
The working parts are so small that hideing it in an earring would be no problem.
If you know a jeweler that does custom work ,and a geek, you could get them together on the project.
But if you want ti to look like a motherbox and call it something like "Motherbox" you will need a lawyer to be involved too.
Once you have a royalty agreement you can sell them , I think that haveing just one or two made for yourself would not be a problem.
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how about a mp3 ear-ring?
tri-corder pda would be nice also
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how about a mp3 ear-ring?
tri-corder pda would be nice also
I bet something like that is already being made , if not ,could be a money maker.
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ear-ring most likely
tri-corder would most likely not due to extreme copy-rights protection from paramount.
note soo many star wars products than star trek products.
just another nail on the star trek coffin
lets hope matt damon does a great kirk
if he gets the job.
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how about a mp3 ear-ring?
tri-corder pda would be nice also
I bet something like that is already being made , if not ,could be a money maker.
I understand that you are something of an "ideas man." Why not try to market a unique version of this? See if it would work. Seriously. You never know.
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how about a mp3 ear-ring?
tri-corder pda would be nice also
I bet something like that is already being made , if not ,could be a money maker.
I understand that you are something of an "ideas man." Why not try to market a unique version of this? See if it would work. Seriously. You never know.
Measureing instruments that resemble a tricorder are already serious tools.
http://www.pyrometer.com/PyroLaser.html
A pyrometer is just for tempreture , but sensors for many other measrements are being miniturised and combined.
Bone's medical equipment is showing up in reality too.
http://scitation.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=APPLAB000041000010000915000001&idtype=cvips&gifs=yes
It is true that I have always been interested in invention but I have comitments that prevent me from makeing an unlikely investment.
I and my brother would like to work on alternative fuels , but we can't invest too much time or money , so I don't expect to win in such a competition.
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plane
have you seen american inventor?
The cool thing for me about the show there is more than one winner
the 2nd and 3rd people get backers anyway
by getting a public veiwing of their product backer may show up and help them anyway
like the kid who literally on the show redesign a whole type of bike.
since we`re talk alt fuels
what do you think is the most viable alt energy source?
so far solar seems to be it for me
but plasma is starting to look good now(wierd)
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what do you think is the most viable alt energy source?
so far solar seems to be it for me
but plasma is starting to look good now(wierd)
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The best alternative energy source depends on where you are and what's available.
If you are in the desert where the Sun is always shining, solar makes sense.
If you are in Patagonia, where the wind blows all the time, wind turbines are a better choice.
If you are in Iceland, where there are geysers and volcanic activity near the surface, then geothermal is a good choice.
Tidal energy is a possibility, as is placing turbines in the gulf stream.
Energy can be extracted from the different temperatures at different levels in the ocean.
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The Powers that Be do not actually give a damn at the moment.
Juniorbush went to Brazil, which has become energy self-sufficient, supposedly to discuss alternative fuels, such as ethanol distilled from sugar cane.
Sugar cane is a much better source of ethanol than corn, because corn must be turned into a sugar before it can be turned into alcohol. Archer-Daniels Midland does NOT want to compete with cheap Brazilian alcohol.
The President of ADM sold ex-presidential candidate Bob Dole a really nifty condo in Bal Harbour at less than half the going rate several years ago. AFDM is really tight with politicians.
But when he was asked if this meant that he was in favor of ending the huge import tax on ethanol inot the US, he went into a caniption fit and said that nothing could be done until 2010.
Supposedly this was because that is when the tariff law ran out (of course, any law can be changed at any time).
In reality, Olebush, the Carlysle Group, Halliburton, Exxon Mobil, and Prince Bandar Bush all would prefer that they sell us gasoline at today's inflated prices.
Their wealth is vastly more important than the welfare of the USA or its people.
Chopping up Bushes into small bits, fermenting them and turning them into biofuel would probably not be terribly efficient from a scientific perspective, but if it were done publically, it might be quite efficient politically.
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not sure we can grow sugarcane in areas other than where they are now.
but I don`t recall anyone talking about sugar beet as a sugar source.
also corn as a alt.fuel we would serriously need to vastly increase corn production .
I`m not sure the U.S. is even able to do that.
it`s not like we had a corn surplus to begin with
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but I don`t recall anyone talking about sugar beet as a sugar source.
also corn as a alt.fuel we would serriously need to vastly increase corn production .
I`m not sure the U.S. is even able to do that.
it`s not like we had a corn surplus to begin with
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Sugar beets are a GREAT source of sugar, and are almost as efficient a source of ethanol as cane. A whole lot of Colorado, Montana and the Dakotas could easily produce more sugar beets.
There has been a HUGE surplus of corn in the US for decades. Hence the immense increase in soft drinks and soft drionk ads. The sweeteners in that stuff are made from corn. 10 teaspoonsful per 12 oz soda.
The trouble is that most of a corn plant is waste: there are only one to four ears on the stalk, and then thaey have to be converted into a sugar before thay can be fermented and distilled. Producing corn requires a lot of gasoline and Diesel. Ethanol from corn is very heavily subsidized in the US. If it weren't, there would be none, and the corn for fuel program would die.
Switchgrass and rapeseed (canola) oil are much better to be turned into methanol and biodiesel.
Biodiesel is every bit as efficient as dino Diesel. Diesel engines go farther on a gallon than any gas engine.
Ethanol is only 80% as efficient and can only be used in a gas engine.
Don't you ever watch ADM commercials and read between the lines?
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ADM??
I don`t think I`ve ever seen one or noticed then
I have no cable
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ADM??
I don`t think I`ve ever seen one or noticed then
I have no cable
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I don't have cable, either.
ADM is Archer-Daniels-Midland Corp., which is the largest publically traded grain broker in the world.
They advertise in particular on those Sunday Morning Gasbag shows, (Meet the Press, Face the Nation, ABC news) where they discuss politics. There are lots of ADM ads on PBS these days.
One where thay talk about how a farmer in Nebraska is working all day to bring in the crop so a truck driver can deliver it, so it can be processed so some kid in Gwangjong Province or somewhere in China can get his noodles or something. Very slick, very professionally done.
The other two big grain compaines are Cargill, which is private, and advertises a lot less, and Bunge-Born, which is also private and pretty much invisible to the public.
ADM makes out like a bandit on corn to ethanol subsidies. They spend a LOT on political campaigns and lobbying in DC and all the farm states in the Midwest.
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There is a presumption that there will be one big winner.
I think XO is right about this , that wind is the answer where it is windy , thermocline is the answer where there is deep water, Geothermal where the Moho is shallow , Nuclear where there is small danger of earthquake , the appropriate answer is a lot of diffrent answers, each one chosen for its appropriateness in the partcular place , we have had all of our eggs together in too few baskets for about a century .
If there is a tecnology I think is really set to the be bigest winner , in my opinion it is electric cars and cars that can use multiple fuels.
The energy in the electric car could ave been from any energy sorce before it became electricity , in an advanced diesel engine you might be able to pour a wide range of oils into the tank where sensors would tell the engines' computer what sort of volitility to expect and the computer would change settings on the valves and meters of the engine , Volvo is bragging about its research program .
http://autos.msn.com/as/minishow/article.aspx?contentID=4024035&s=bibendum2006