Stuff & Stuff ( March 2016 ) Sci-Techy News & Olds & Miscellaneous Odds, Ends, Evens & Beginnings

UPDATED 20 March

Just-Do-It-Yourself Nike Shoes Sold Separately --

http://www.educatinghumanity.com/2016/03/aliens-tells-mexican-build-pyramid.html

Mexican farmer builds pyramid after being 'ordered by ALIEN

Raymundo Corona built the pyramid in Coahila near the Mexico-US border

He told me to build the temple in the form of a pyramid said Raymundo Corona.

Mr Corona, 33 when he claims the alien visited him in 1984, said: "He told me to build the temple in the form of a pyramid.

"When I asked him why it had to be in the form of a pyramid, he said it was because it should be like my faith, something that winds and storms couldn't move and was always pointing upwards."

Mr. Coriba saw the alien in his dreams before he visited in person, he built to pyramid to the aliens specifications.

Recalling the moment he asked his mysterious visitor his name, Mr Corona told Mexican daily La Vanguardia that Herulayka had warned him: "Many people will laugh at you, defame you and say it was an act of insanity or something he did during a bender, it was an act of a madman or a drug addict.

"He told me he came from the constellation of Orion, from a place called Nefilin which is a place 20 times larger than Earth where people are similar to human beings.

"He was a tall man with honey-coloured eyes and white hair down to the ground. He was barefoot and wore a tunic tied with a rope."

Mr Corona, whose wife was less than a day away from giving birth to his daughter at the time, says he had seen the alien in dreams before their meeting in person. He said the extraterrestrial had claimed humans were destroying their own planet and should wake up to the fact they must look after it like a child because it gave them what they needed for their own survival.

Monclova is less than 600 miles from Roswell in New Mexico where a US Air Force surveillance balloon crashed in 1947, sparking rumors it was actually an alien spacecraft.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryUrWkYBbec

Mar 6, 2016 WSO UPDATES - CLEAR SHOTS OF WORMWOOD?

A well-done summary-review :

http://beforeitsnews.com/space/2016/03/planetx-causing-massive-destruction-as-it-approaches-from-global-strange-sounds-to-earths-moon-polar-shift-a-jaw-dropping-amount-of-compiled-evidence-never-seen-before-2496768.html

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Planet X Causing Massive Destruction as it Approaches: From Global Strange Sounds to Earths Moon Polar Shift. A Jaw-Dropping Amount of Compiled Evidence Never Seen Before !

We've got nothing else to do, so : Let's Dump on Dutch Sinse --

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5mNpkg2iEI

3/05/2016 -- Dutchsinse calls media ! Smeared by CBS News / PNSN + USGS over Mt. Saint Helens EQ

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160307105529.htm
March 7, 2016

The properties of light can be controlled by means of nanostructures

A theoretical study based on computational simulations has shown that the intensity of ultraviolet light that is made to pass through a graphene nano-ribbon is modulated with a terahertz frequency. So we are seeing the opening up of a new field of research into obtaining terahertz radiation that has a whole host of applications.

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2015/NR/C5NR05889A
Nanoscale, 2015; 7 (45): 19012
DOI: 10.1039/C5NR05889A

Optical field terahertz amplitude modulation by graphene nanoribbons.

Hong Zhang, Yoshiyuki Miyamoto, Xinlu Cheng, Angel Rubio.

In this study, first-principles time-dependent density functional theory calculations were used to demonstrate the possibility to modulate the amplitude of the optical electric field (E-field) near a semiconducting graphene nanoribbon. A significant enhancement of the optical E-field was observed 3.34 Å above the graphene nanoribbon sheet, with an amplitude modulation of approximately 100 fs, which corresponds to a frequency of 10 THz. In general, a six-fold E-field enhancement could be obtained, which means that the power of the obtained THz is about 36 times that of incident UV light. We suggest the use of semiconducting graphene nanoribbons for converting visible and UV light into a THz signal.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/08/150804142949.htm
August 4, 2015

New device converts DC electric field to terahertz radiation

Tunable radiation source that reaches coveted THz region of spectrum could be used for medical imaging or security applications

..Researchers have designed a new device that can convert a DC electric field into a tunable source of terahertz radiation….

This device exploits the instabilities in the oscillation of conducting electrons at the device's surface, a phenomenon known as surface plasmon resonance. To address the terahertz gap, the team created a hybrid semiconductor: a layer of thick conducting material paired with two thin, two-dimensional crystalline layers made from graphene, silicene (a graphene-like material made from silicon instead of carbon), or a two-dimensional electron gas. When a direct current is passed through the hybrid semiconductor, it creates a plasmon instability at a particular wavenumber. This instability induces the emission of terahertz radiation, which can be harnessed with the help of a surface grating that splits the radiation.

By adjusting various parameters -- such as the density of conduction electrons in the material or the strength of the DC electric field -- it is possible to tune the cutoff wavenumber and, consequently, the frequency of the resulting terahertz radiation…

http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/jap/118/5/10.1063/1.4927101
Journal of Applied Physics, 2015; 118 (5): 054303
DOI: 10.1063/1.4927101

Tunable surface plasmon instability leading to emission of radiation.

Godfrey Gumbs, Andrii Iurov, Danhong Huang, Wei Pan.

We propose a new approach for energy conversion from a dc electric field to tunable terahertz emission based on hybrid semiconductors by combining two-dimensional (2D) crystalline layers and a thick conducting material with possible applications for chemical analysis, security scanning, medical (single-molecule) imaging, and telecommunications. The hybrid nano-structure may consist of a single or pair of sheets of graphene, silicene, or a 2D electron gas. When an electric current is passed through a 2D layer, we discover that two low-energy plasmon branches exhibit a characteristic loop in their dispersion before they merge into an unstable region beyond a critical wave vector qc . This finite qc gives rise to a wavenumber cutoff in the emission dispersion of the surface plasmon induced instability and emission of radiation (spiler). However, there is no instability for a single driven layer far from the conductor, and the instability of an isolated pair of 2D layers occurs without a wavenumber cutoff. The wavenumber cutoff is found to depend on the conductor electron density, layer separation, distances of layers from the conductor surface, and the driving-current strength.

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-02-brain-oscillations-teleportation.html
February 25, 2016

How brain oscillations respond to teleportation

Technology may not have caught up to the teleportation devices of science fiction, but now we have some idea of how the brain handles "beaming up" from one location to another, thanks to research by neuroscientists at the University of California, Davis, involving some specially wired volunteers.

The work is published online Feb. 25, 2016 in the journal Neuron.

Arne Ekstrom, associate professor at the UC Davis Center for Neuroscience, wants to know how we memorize places and routes, and learn to find our way around. It's long been known that as a rat navigates a maze, its brain gives off a rhythmic oscillation, Ekstrom said. This also happens when humans travel around a virtual landscape on a computer screen. Most models of brain function assume that the oscillations, emanating from the hippocampus deep inside the brain, are at least partly driven by external inputs.

"There is this rhythmic firing in the brain during navigation and while remembering things, but we don't know if it is triggered by sensory input or by the learning process," Ekstrom said.

Ekstrom, postdoc Lindsay Vass and graduate student Milagros Copara were able to solve this problem by working with a group of patients being treated at UC Davis' Department of Neurological Surgery. These patients have a severe form of epilepsy, and surgeon and study coauthor Kia Shahlaie implanted electrodes on their brains, inside the skull, to find out where seizure activity begins and identify treatment options.

In between seizures, the electrodes recorded normal brain activity, and three patients volunteered to take part in the experiment. They were asked to navigate through a streetscape on a computer screen. At some points, they entered a teleporter and jumped to a different, known location in the map. During teleportation, the screen went black for a random period of time.

Teleportation did not interrupt the oscillations at all, but the rhythm did change with the distance travelled during teleportation, Ekstrom said.

The results show that these oscillations are driven entirely by memory and learning processes in the brain, and do not depend on external senses. They also show that the oscillation carries information about speed and distance travelled, even when that travel is virtual teleportation.

https://animpossibleinvention.com/2016/02/18/historic-event-one-year-1-megawatt-e-cat-trial-completed/
February 18, 2016

Historic event: One-year 1 megawatt E-Cat trial completed

On February 17, 2016, a 350-day commercial test of a one megawatt heat plant based on Andrea Rossi’s E-Cat was completed. The event must be considered historic since it’s the first time an industrially useful amount of energy is produced over such a long time from this kind of yet unexplained radiation-free nuclear reaction—LENR or Low Energy Nuclear Reactions.

To be clear, the report from the one-year trial, which has been controlled by a major independent third party certification institute, will be released only in about a month, and until then no official information is provided on the test result. However, multiple sources have told me that the test has been successful.

Earlier, some sources having visited the test plant told me that the COP, Coefficient of Performance, i.e. the ratio between output power and input power for control, was in the range 20—80, meaning that the heat plant was consuming 12—50 kW while producing 1 MW—the average consumption of about 300 Western households, including electricity, space heating, water heating and air conditioning.

I have also been told that the total amount of fuel—mostly harmless elements such as lithium, hydrogen and nickel, according to Andrea Rossi’s granted patent on the technology—was in the range of tenths of grams. And supposedly the charge has never been changed during the year. On the other hand, after one year’s run, the reactors are now being recharged for further operation.

All this might be confirmed by the third party institute, that has been controlling the heat plant 24/7 with video cameras.

The test has been undertaken by Andrea Rossi and his US industrial partner Industrial Heat, and according to Rossi, commercialisation of similar industrial heat plants will be initiated as soon as possible, provided that the result is positive. Industrial Heat has acquired the right to produce and sell E-Cat based technology in, as far as I have been told, North, Central and South America, China, Russia, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

Needless to say, the consequences of such an energy source for the world will be huge. And the consequences for industry, finance and society is also the focus of the New Energy World Symposium or NewS, which will be held in Stockholm, Sweden, on June 21, 2016, provided that the report from the test is clearly positive.

So, now we all wait for the report. Personally, however, I will put the champagne on ice. Now.

Comments --

First, Rossi never suggested that the radiation from the hot cat is anything other than heat — he specifically denied EM and gamma radiation. But if you’re concerned about the radiation spectrum of an LENR reaction (whatever the heck that is), simply measure it with appropriate spectroscopy.

But my main point is that an estimate of the energy produced by use of a thermal camera is a ruse by Rossi to begin with and is intended only to complicate, obfuscate and mislead. First, if you want a proof of concept of Rossi’s “effect”, then the device tested by Levi and reported by Lewan in 2011 is vastly better. At least 10 times as much power from about the same volume and a power out to power in ration also at least ten times better. Problem is, that measurement, just like ALL the measurements, publicly reported, in which Lewan/or and Levi were involved, lacked calibration and thus were worthless. In the case of the 2011 experiment, a simple (but deliberate by Rossi) misplacement of the output thermocouple, too close to the huge heater in the device, would be enough to get the results without any LENR.

http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/energi_miljo/energi/article3108242.ece

One of the strangest aspects of this whole story is the decreasing output per volume of the ecats with time, a hallmark of energy scams, and the failure to repeat what seems like immensely successful and potentially probative experiments like Levi’s fluid/mass flow calorimetry run. Most of you know my conclusion about why those things are the way they are, so I won’t bother to repeat it again.

I can hardly wait for the big reveal– who the “independent” referee of Rossi’s will be this time, what the company is which allowed the test and was the “customer” and which agency has been trying without success to certify a domestic/home ecat for going on five years. And people think this is all real? And they really believe Rossi can spend 16 hours a day for a year inside the container with the machine and STILL not be able to say conclusively whether it works or not (F9 !!!!) Yah shoore.

“The most egregious error is the emissivity one, where the total and normal emissivity values used are the same in the report, but have been shown to be quite different in several skeptical analyses. This is important in that the power calculated by the report authors is directly a result of the emissivity values used. The reported COP is therefore directly connected to this conflation of emissivity values.”

Actually the most basic, fundamental and crucial error in every one of the tests, demos and experiments, reported publicly by and for Rossi has been the same identical and unforgivable mistake — failure to calibrate the output power measurement coupled with failure to insure the integrity of the input power source and measurement.

Mats Lewan, the late Dr. Kullander and Dr. Essen were criticized for this failure in early 2011 (the wet steam/dry steam debacle) and again in later experiments (the thermocouple placement debacle) and had every opportunity to get it right in the hot cat experiments. But they failed dismally to do so. It is completely incomprehensible that a device which incorporates a *built in* large electrical heater was not calibrated over the full operating temperature range, using that heater.

There are innumerable other inconsistencies, lies, deceptions and evasions in Rossi’s stories (he’s currently recycling the nonsense about having a huge (robotic?) factory ready to make millions of ecats). But the failure to hold Rossi’s feet to the performance of a proper calibration has happened every time and the only possible explanation is negligence and incompetence on the part of those assisting and participating in these tests.

That someone should take a discovery purported to be a tabletop multi kilowatt reactor and not work with a large company (think GE, GM, Tesla or any large Chinese or European company) is incomprehensible since this ridiculous farce has now gone 5 years!

The decrement in performance from a power output of 135kW peak and 20kW steady state reported in 2011 in Mats own magazine under *his authorship!* …

( http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/energi_miljo/energi/article3108242.ece )

… to the current arguable 3 kW of the hotcat is equally inexplicable. And the so-called COP went from better than 30 to the current claim of 3! This performance loss with time, when improvement would be expected, is the hallmark of an energy scam.

The lack of response of the Swedish scientists responsible for the Lugano report to responsible critiques by people like Thomas Clarke is also very telling.

The topping on the cake is Rossi claim to certification based on a worthless self-reported safety document and Rossi’s joy over a patent which simply describes a heater configuration wherein the source of heat could be anything — for example, the electric heater the device prominently contains. These claims are reminiscent of the time Rossi purchased a PhD diploma from a now state-closed fake university (Kensington). He is now claiming it was honorary which is pure nonsense. Rossi just makes stuff up as he goes along and the believers all swallow it.

http://www.businessinsider.com/stratfor-predictions-for-the-world-in-10-years-2015-6?r=UK&IR=T
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/11-chilling-predictions-for-what-the-world-will-look-like-in-10-years-a6851221.htm

11 chilling predictions for what the world will look like in 10 years

Private intelligence firm Stratfor predicts many countries will experience chaos and decline in the coming decade

In 2015, private-intelligence firm Strategic Forecasting, or Stratfor, published its Decade Forecast, in which it projects the next 10 years of global political and economic developments. :

https://www.stratfor.com/sample/forecast/decade-forecast-2015-2025

Russia will collapse ...
.. and the US will have to use its military to secure the country's nukes.
Germany is going to have problems ...
... and Poland will be one of Europe's leaders.
There will be four Europes.
Turkey and the US will have to be close allies, but for an unexpected reason.
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China will face one huge problem.
Japan will be Asia's rising naval power.
The South China Sea islands won't start a war, but there's a catch.
There will be 16 mini-Chinas.
US power will decline.

http://www.naturalhealth365.com/aged-garlic-extract-coenzyme-q10-1765.html

Garlic Extract vs Plaque

...As reported in the Journal of Nutrition, aged garlic extract shows significant promise in its ability to reverse deadly buildup of plaque in arteries. The study was found to both reduce the amount of accumulated “soft plaque” in the arteries as well as prevent new plaque from forming.

Reduction of plaque in arteries after a year of aged garlic extract

The study, conducted at the independent biomedical research facility LA BioMed, Torrance, Calif., showed that adding the supplement aged garlic extract resulted in a reduction in the amount of soft plaque, also known as low-attenuation plaque, that had built up in the arteries of patients. Participants in the study were already known to be suffering from metabolic syndrome, which carries with it a number of cardiac disease risk factors, including hypertension and obesity.

.This isn’t the first time aged garlic extract has been associated with a reduction in plaque build-up of coronary arteries or heart disease. A study published in the July 2012 issue of Journal of Cardiovascular Disease Research found that average coronary artery calcium progression was significantly less one year after the start of the study among subjects receiving a combination of coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) and aged garlic extract...

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/01/160121122158.htm

New study shows aged garlic extract can reduce dangerous plaque buildup in arteries

Supplement can help prevent progression of heart disease

The supplement Aged Garlic Extract can reverse the buildup of deadly plaque in arteries and help prevent the progression of heart disease, according to a new study scheduled for publication in the Journal of Nutrition.

The research, conducted at LA BioMed, found a reduction in the amount of low-attenuation plaque, or "soft plaque," in the arteries of patients with metabolic syndrome who took Aged Garlic Extract. Metabolic syndrome is characterized by obesity, hypertension and other cardiac risk factors.

"This study is another demonstration of the benefits of this supplement in reducing the accumulation of soft plaque and preventing the formation of new plaque in the arteries, which can cause heart disease," said Matthew J. Budoff, MD, an LA BioMed lead researcher. "We have completed four randomized studies, and they have led us to conclude that Aged Garlic Extract can help slow the progression of atherosclerosis and reverse the early stages of heart disease."

The study involved 55 patients, aged 40 to 75 years, who had been diagnosed with metabolic syndrome. All the participants underwent screening at the beginning of the study to measure the total coronary plaque volume as well as dense calcium, non-calcified plaque and low-attenuation plaque. The screening was conducted using Cardiac Computed Tomography Angiography (CCTA), a noninvasive imaging technology that accurately measures calcium deposits and plaque buildup in the arteries.

Following evaluation, the participants were given either a placebo or a dose of 2,400 milligrams of Aged Garlic Extract every day. A follow-up screening conducted a year after the initial screening found those who had taken Aged Garlic Extract had slowed total plaque accumulation by 80%, reduced soft plaque and demonstrated regression (less plaque on follow-up) for low-attenuation plaque.

http://jn.nutrition.org/content/146/2/416S

Garlic and Heart Disease

Ravi Varshney, Matthew J Budoff

Abstract

Background: Thousands of studies have been published based on animal and human studies evaluating garlic's effects and safety.

Objective: We reviewed the available literature investigating the effects of garlic supplements on hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, C-reactive protein (CRP), pulse wave velocity (PWV), and coronary artery calcium (CAC), as well as available data on side effects.

Methods: We searched PubMed for all human studies using medical subject heading words through 30 May 2013 and assessed relevant review articles and original studies. Only double-blind, randomized, controlled trials and meta-analyses of double-blind, randomized, controlled trials were included. The review of articles and data extraction were performed by 2 independent authors, with any disagreements resolved by consensus.

Results: Garlic supplementation reduced blood pressure by 7–16 mm Hg (systolic) and 5–9 mm Hg (diastolic) (4 meta-analyses and 2 original studies). It reduced total cholesterol by 7.4–29.8 mg/dL (8 meta-analyses). The most consistent benefits were shown in studies that used aged garlic extract (AGE). A few small studies that used AGE also showed favorable effects on CAC, CRP, and PWV. Although garlic is generally safe, rare adverse reactions have been documented with limited causality established.

Conclusion: We conclude that garlic supplementation has the potential for cardiovascular protection based on risk factor reduction (hypertension and total cholesterol) and surrogate markers (CRP, PWV, and CAC) of atherosclerosis. Larger studies are warranted to evaluate these effects further.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk1yfASqlPU

Soviet scientists against illuminati - Fukushima (Sovjetski naučnici protiv iluminata)

(* Google translation) Independent analyst Sergei Albertovich Sallj, doctor of physico-mathematical sciences, professor, secretary of the St. Peterburg part "of the Russian Physical Society," and assistant to the president of "the Russian Physical Society" shared unique information about the achievements of Soviet science and global monopoly over knowledge.

Why was science in the USSR actively developing for only 15 years? Why cold nuclear fusion, finding physicians Ivana Filimonenko, wasn't allowed for use by Korolev, Kurchatov and Gluškov? What's behind mysterious deaths of these great scientists? Why is the program of cold nuclear fusion in the Soviet Union declared pseudo-scientific? Why are being killed an associate scientist all over the world, including the United States? What happened to the chief designer of St.Peters-burg company that was involved in the manufacture engines based on cold nuclear fusion? Which actually deals with the "Commission combating pseudoscience"? Why the Japanese are not able to implement in their industry alternative technology? What is the truth discovered by the former Minister of Economy of Japan - Heizi Takenaka? What is behind the tragedy of Fukushima? Is there such a thing as a geo-physical weapon?
...

http://pesn.com/2011/07/21/9501873_Transcription_of_Russian_Cold_Fusion_Video_Documenting_1957_Start/

Transcription of Russian Cold Fusion Video Documenting 1957 Start

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtsUEHnSA9g

Ivan Filimonenko - Cold fusion, Part 2

A soviet documentary about the work of Ivan Filimonenko, a Russian scientist, who invented ways of producing energy through cold fusion, neutralize radiation, achieve reactionless thrust for propulsion system and discovered a way to significantly slow the aging process of the human body.

http://www.science-bbs.com/161-physics/2a8a0ff11978ef48.htm

The invention of Hammond "Godsite" glasses

George Hammond

Traditional theory has it that eyeglass correction in middle age is necessitated by the decreasing flexibility of the lens in the eye requiring the assistance of a lens to acquire proper focus accomodation. Recent discoveries however cast some questions on this theory... particularly since it is the "resting curvature" of the lens, not the "accommodation curvature" of the lens which seems to be the most widespread problem.. and there is little reason to believe that the ambient "resting curvature" of the lens would be under any (aging) pressure to change.

Rather, HAMMOND'S research seems to indicate that it is brain development (e.g. perceptual development) during one's lifetime toward "better true size perception" that simply requires an unobtainable change in ambient curvature... which produces "blurred vision" in older people and requires glasses.

The PROBLEM with glasses is that they change the focus location of the image by MAGNIFYING the object. For instance My glasses (I am farsighted, hence positive lenses) cause a measurable 5%-Magnification of everything I am seeing, in order to move the focal plane to the retina (focus correction).

My question is this. If we suppose, according to HAMMOND'S THEORY that this change in apparent size of the World with age is a "natural design of God"... isn't there an (optical) way that we could move the plane of focus so that we wouldn't have blurred vision, WITHOUT introducing any "changed magnification" into the system.

This then, would produce "True Godsite" without blurring or manmade magnification... according to Hammond's new theory.

Is it optically-possible to make a pair of glasses which will do this... or are we up against some kind of optical law which says it is impossible.

If it IS POSSIBLE, then according to Hammond's discovery, the present design of glasses is actually quite psychologically harmful, sort of the optical equivalent of "bleeding someone with leeches" used to be in the olden days of medicine.

As scened by John @ Revelation [ # ] :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x9Ni9zWlZM

Fukushima/Unstoppable/1/3 Worlds Oceans Dying.

http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2016/03/harmbenefit-analysis.html#more
March 08, 2016

Harm/Benefit Analysis

According to Kaczynski, we need to reject organization-dependent technologies that tie us into the technosphere, and cultivate organization-independent ones:

Small-scale technology is technology that can be used by small-scale communities without outside assistance. Organization-dependent technology is technology that depends on large-scale social organization. We are aware of no significant cases of regression in small-scale technology. But organization-dependent technology does regress when the social organization on which it depends breaks down.

Easier said than done! It implies eliminating just about everything that makes it possible for people to survive. It implies living without electricity—not even off-grid systems that use batteries, photovoltaic cells and small-scale wind generators. It means living without pumped water, because demand pumps, pipes and valves are all manufactured products. It means living without electronics of any kind, since the electronics industry is globally integrated. No internet; no vaccinations; no cosmetic dentistry; no eyeglasses; no antibiotics or painkillers... Nothing that's mass-produced... It means living off the land using crude tools you can fashion yourself in a primitive smithy using salvaged metal. Very few people would ever settle for that!

Sorry, Ted, but we need a better metric on which to base our decisions than simply sorting technologies into organization-dependent and organization-independent, and depriving ourselves of all the organization-dependent ones. So how about we do this instead: define a reasonably complete list of positive and negative aspects of technology, and then select which technologies we do use in order to maximize the benefit while minimizing the harm?
Calculating the harm/benefit ratio
Unlike the primitivist, extremist approach outlined above, this is a perfectly copacetic, constructive initiative, but I believe that the end result will be exactly the same, although achieved more gradually. You see, the harm/benefit analysis maximizes technology's benefit to us while minimizing technology's harm to us—not the technosphere. And I would conjecture that, based on which aspects of technology we regard as positive or negative, we can structure the process so that whatever helps us also shrinks the technosphere, and vice versa.

Here are 30 aspects of technology, in no particular order, which, for each technology, take a value somewhere between harmful and beneficial:

Harmful / Beneficial

1. toxic/radioactive / inert/biodegradable/edible

2. disposable / maintainable

3. mandatory / optional

4. limited useful life / unlimited useful life

5. fosters dependence / fosters autonomy

6. standardized / custom

7. expensive /free

8. obsolescent / perpetual

9. single-purpose / multiple-purpose

10. depletes resources / conserves resources

11. artificial / natural

12. synthetic / organic

13. industrial / artisanal

14. limits options / opens up possibilities

15. transnational / local

16. requires specialists / requires generalists

17. classifiable / unclassifiable

18. analytical / intuitive

19. individual use / community use

20. new / (re)used

21. consumer grade / commercial grade

22. rarely used / frequently used

23. networked / standalone

24. powered / unpowered

25. automatic / manual

26. branded / generic

27. proprietary / open-source

28. registered / anonymous

29. requires access / requires skill

30. individual effort / team effort

To analyze a particular technology, add up its harm h and its benefit b. To determine its Harm/Benefit Ratio (HBR) divide one by the other:

HBR = h / b

Click here to download a Harm/Benefit Calculator in spreadsheet format :

https://www.dropbox.com/s/51a53esswo5qhkf/HarmBenefitRatioCalculator.xlsx?dl=0

Note that there is nothing magical about the 30 aspects of technology listed above, and you can modify this list or come up with one entirely your own. It is just a way of evaluating the pros and cons of technology, but with a particular view in mind: what is considered beneficial is that which is beneficial to you, within your local environment, human or natural, which makes you autonomous, self-sufficient and free. And what is considered harmful is what disrupts the natural environment while depriving you of autonomy, self-sufficiency and freedom, forcing you to relinquish control to impersonal, remote, nonhuman entities.

Technology is neither good nor bad, and it is essential for survival. Our job is to pick and choose carefully, to embrace technologies that liberate and empower us, and to look for ways to avoid or eliminate the ones that weaken us, make us dependent on outside interests and forces, and can even result in our extinction as a species along with all the rest (yes, there are a few such technologies).

If we do this job well, then we will shrink the technosphere — the oppressive, totalitarian, malignant, global entity into which technology has been allowed to coalesce. The mechanism by which the technosphere will shrink is a simple one to describe but rather difficult to evaluate in a quantifiable fashion. But sometimes such quantifiable evaluation isn't necessary; all that's needed is the ability to predict with confidence that the required result will be obtained through some finite, physically possible amount of effort. For example, there is no need for precise mathematical models to estimate how many whacks with a stick it will take to break a piñata; it sufficient to know that some reasonable number of whacks is enough to get at the candy inside it. And so it is here: some amount of effort, of which we humans, being adaptable and resourceful, are most certainly capable, provided we are sufficiently incentivized and motivated, will produce the result we are looking for.

The technosphere expands when it gains efficiency. The efficiency in question is not some relative measure of the amount of useful output for a certain amount of input. Rather, it is the systemic efficiency of the technosphere as a whole: does it, all other things being equal, gain a greater measure of control over us? If we select technologies that cause us to relinquish control to the technosphere, then we are doing its work for it, making it more efficient. Conversely, if we select technologies that specifically deprive the technosphere of control or make the exercise of control more expensive in terms of time, resources and energy, then we reduce its efficiency and its scope.

And this will cause it to shrink. This effect is automatic. The technosphere's emergent intelligence is the intelligence of a machine. Its internal programming is such that it always acts rationally in its own internal self-interest. For the technosphere, the ends always justify the means, to the exclusion of every other consideration. These ends are: limitless growth and expansion; complete domination of the biosphere; and complete control over us humans. If we succeed in thwarting it to a point where increased effort leads to decreased results, then, being rational, it will have no choice but to decrease effort... and shrink. This process, if taken far enough, will reduce it to a set of mere instrumentalities, from which we can choose à la carte — no longer able to pursue its own agenda but pressed into service if needed and allowed to dwindle and disappear if not.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/51a53esswo5qhkf/HarmBenefitRatioCalculator.xlsx?dl=0

Harm/Benefit Ratio Calculator

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3483251/Is-Alzheimer-s-spread-cold-sore-virus-Controversial-theory-fuels-fears-disease-infectious.html

Is Alzheimer's being spread by cold sore virus? Controversial theory fuels fears disease could be infectious

by Fiona Macrae

The cold sore virus and other common bugs are major causes of Alzheimer’s disease, it was claimed last night.

The controversial theory will fuel fears that Alzheimer’s is infectious – and raise fresh concerns about whether it could be linked to blood transfusions.

However, it also suggests that antibiotic and antiviral medicines already on pharmacy shelves could be used to treat the memory-robbing disease.

An international team of researchers, including experts from Cambridge, Edinburgh and Manchester universities, said evidence that bugs are behind Alzheimer’s is ‘incontrovertible’ and can no longer be ignored.

In a powerful editorial in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Research, the 31 doctors and scientists say the idea that microbes cause Alzheimer’s has been long neglected.

Yet there are more than 100 studies linking the cold sore bug – herpes simplex virus 1, or HSV-1 – to it.

Other suspects include a bacterium that causes pneumonia. The researchers argue that after working their way into the brain the microbes lie dormant, only to be awakened by ageing or illness.

They can then kill vital brain cells, triggering the symptoms of Alzheimer’s. The theory also states that beta-amyloid, the toxic protein often thought to be a cause of the disease, is actually made by the brain to fight off the bugs.

Last autumn, UK research raised fears the disease could be spread through blood transfusions, operations and even dental work.

Conventional wisdom states that Alzheimer’s is either caused by faulty genes or a combination of bad luck and ageing.

Evidence for the latest theory includes Manchester University research on human brain cells, which found that infection with the cold sore virus caused a dramatic increase in levels of beta-amyloid.

Other research shows that viruses and other bugs are present in the brains of most elderly people – and that the cold sore virus hides in regions key to memory and mood.

Professor Douglas Kell, a Manchester University biologist and one of the report’s authors, said that dormant bacteria have been found in blood. And while he doesn’t want to cause alarm, it is possible they could be passed on through blood transfusions. The editorial concludes that with tests of hundreds of other drugs coming to nothing, the time is ripe to look at alternatives.

It states: ‘Given the failure of 413 trials of other types of therapy carried out between 2002 and 2012, anti-viral or anti-microbial treatment could rectify the “no drug works” impasse.’

Others cautioned that while more research is justified, there no firm evidence that the disease is contagious.

Dr James Pickett, head of research at the Alzheimer’s Society, said: ‘A large number of different microbes including viruses, bacteria and fungi have been found in the brains of older people – but there do appear to be more of them in the brains of people who have died with Alzheimer’s disease.

‘While these observations are interesting and warrant further research, there is currently insufficient evidence to tell us that microbes are responsible for causing Alzheimer’s disease in the vast majority of cases. We would like to reassure people that there remains no convincing evidence that Alzheimer’s is contagious or can be passed from person to person like a virus.’

https://www.rt.com/news/335726-terminal-cancer-mice-study/
15 Mar, 2016

Nano-sized particles cure final-stage breast cancer in mice – breakthrough study

Nanotechnology has helped scientists cure mice which have breast cancer in its terminal stage. The study could be a turning point in treating the disease with clinical trials on human patients expected to be conducted as early as next year.

"I would never want to over-promise to the thousands of patients looking for a cure but the data is astounding," Mauro Ferrari, president of the Houston Methodist Research Institute in Texas and a co-senior author of the paper said in the press release published by the Houston Methodist leading medicine website. The study, conducted by a team of researchers from Houston Methodist Research Institute, was published in the journal Nature Biotechnology.

A radiologist examines breast X-rays after a regular cancer prevention medical check-up at a radiology center in Nice. © Eric Gaillard 'Mind-boggling' breast cancer therapy can make tumors ‘disappear’ in 11 days, doctors say

The new treatment for breast cancer, which used the so-called “nanoparticle generator” proved to be effective in mice and, therefore, has colossal potential to be transformed in order to treat the disease in humans, scientists said. The generator successfully interferes with the tumor cell’s ability to develop drug resistance.

“This may sound like science fiction, like we’ve penetrated and destroyed the Death Star, but what we discovered is transformational. We invented a method that actually makes the nanoparticles inside the cancer and releases the drug particles at the site of the cellular nucleus. With this injectable nanoparticle generator, we were able to do what standard chemotherapy drugs, vaccines, radiation, and other nanoparticles have all failed to do,” said Ferrari.

During their research Ferrari and his colleagues used a chemotherapy drug called doxorubicin but hid it inside microscopic silicon discs. This way the cancer cells lost their ability to resist the treatment. When the disc was inside a tumor cell, it broke down and the anti-cancer doxorubicin was released.

The study showed that half of the mice that had been injected with the new drug had no traces of cancer for eight months. This is tantamount to 24 years in humans, the scientists explained.

"If this research bears out in humans and we see even a fraction of the survival time, we are still talking about dramatically extending life for many years.

"That’s essentially a providing a cure in a patient population that is now being told there is none," Ferrari said.

Although the new method was only tested for curing breast cancer, Ferrari expressed a strong hope that it could be also used in fighting other cancer types.

According to the scientist, the discovery could completely turn the current cancer treatment head over hills.

"We are talking about changing the landscape of metastatic disease, so it’s no longer a death sentence," he said.

“Lung and liver metastases are the two main reasons why we lose cancer patients. The results we have proven with this paper is that we can provide a functional cure; we can essentially cure long-term, [giving] disease-free survival for about 50 per cent of the animals that we provided this therapy to."

The scientists plan to obtain approval from the Federal Drug Administration and begin clinical trials in humans in 2017.

US2016051481
MULTISTAGE DELIVERY OF ACTIVE AGENTS
Inventor(s): FERRARI MAURO // TASCIOTTI ENNIO// SAKAMOTO JASON
Also published as: WO2008021908 // US2008311182 // MX2009001461 // JP2010500375
Multistage delivery vehicles are disclosed which include a first stage particle and a second stage particle. The first stage particle is a micro or nanoparticle that contains the second stage particle. The second stage particle includes an active agent, such as a therapeutic agent or an imaging agent. The multistage delivery vehicle allows sequential overcoming or bypassing of biological barriers. The multistage delivery vehicle is administered as a part of a composition that includes a plurality of the vehicles. Methods of making the multistage delivery vehicles are also provided.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2080613-mathematicians-shocked-to-find-pattern-in-random-prime-numbers/
14 March 2016

Mathematicians shocked to find pattern in ‘random’ prime numbers

…Although whether a number is prime or not is pre-determined, mathematicians don’t have a way to predict which numbers are prime, and so tend to treat them as if they occur randomly. Now Kannan Soundararajan and Robert Lemke Oliver of Stanford University in California have discovered that isn’t quite right….

The pair found that in the first hundred million primes, a prime ending in 1 is followed by another ending in 1 just 18.5 per cent of the time. If the primes were distributed randomly, you’d expect to see two 1s next to each other 25 per cent of the time. Primes ending in 3 and 7 take up the slack, each following a 1 in 30 per cent of primes, while a 9 follows a 1 in around 22 per cent of occurrences.

Similar patterns showed up for the other combinations of endings, all deviating from the expected random values. The pair also found them in other bases, where numbers are counted in units other than 10s. That means the patterns aren’t a result of our base-10 numbering system, but something inherent to the primes themselves. The patterns become more in line with randomness as you count higher – the pair have checked up to a few trillion – but still persists...

http://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/business/the-complete-history-of-monsanto-the-worlds-most-evil-corporation/
15 Mar 2016

The Complete History Of Monsanto, “The World’s Most Evil Corporation”

by

Ryan Cristian

Of all the mega-corps running amok, Monsanto has consistently outperformed its rivals, earning the crown as “most evil corporation on Earth!” Not content to simply rest upon its throne of destruction, it remains focused on newer, more scientifically innovative ways to harm the planet and its people.

As true champions of evil, they won’t stop until…well, until they’re stopped! But what is Monsanto and how did they get to be so obscenely evil in the first place? I think that’s the best place to start this journey, so grab a few non-GMO snacks or beverages and let’s go for a ride into the deep, murky sewers of their dark past….

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160317151138.htm

New technique for rapidly killing bacteria using tiny gold disks and light

Light-activated gold nanoparticles destroy potentially deadly bacterial cells in seconds

Researchers have developed a new technique for killing bacteria in seconds using highly porous gold nanodisks and light, according to a study published today in Optical Materials Express, a journal published by The Optical Society. The method could one day help hospitals treat some common infections without using antibiotics, which could help reduce the risk of spreading antibiotics resistance.

"We showed that all of the bacteria were killed pretty quickly . . . within 5 to 25 seconds. That's a very fast process," said corresponding author Wei-Chuan Shih, a professor in the electrical and computer engineering department, University of Houston, Texas.

Scientists create gold nanoparticles in the lab by dissolving gold, reducing the metal into smaller and smaller disconnected pieces until the size must be measured in nanometers. One nanometer equals a billionth of a meter. A human hair is between 50,000 to 100,000 nanometers in diameter. Once miniaturized, the particles can be crafted into various shapes including rods, triangles or disks.

Previous research shows that gold nanoparticles absorb light strongly, converting the photons quickly into heat and reaching temperatures hot enough to destroy various types of nearby cells -- including cancer and bacterial cells.

In 2013, Shih and his colleagues from the University of Houston created a new type of gold disk-like nanoparticle that measures to a few hundred nanometers in diameter. The disks are riddled with pores, lending the particles a sponge-like look that helps increase their heating efficiency while maintaining their stability, said Shih.

In the new work, the researchers set out to test the antimicrobial properties of their new nanoparticles when activated by light. They grew bacteria in the lab including E. coli and two types of heat-resistant bacteria that thrive in even the most scorching environments such as the hot springs of Yellowstone National Park.

Then, they placed the bacteria cells on surface of a single-layer coating of the tiny disks and shone near infrared light from a laser on them. Afterward, they used cell viability tests and SEM imaging to see what percentage of cells survived the procedure.

Using a thermal imaging camera, the research team showed that the surface temperature of the particles reached temperatures up to 180 degrees Celsius nearly instantaneously, "delivering thermal shocks" into the surrounding array. As a result, all of the bacterial cells were killed within 25 seconds, the researchers report.

E. coli proved most vulnerable to the treatment; all of its cells were dead after only five seconds of laser exposure. The other two types of bacteria required the full 25 seconds, but that's still much quicker than traditional sterilization methods such as boiling water or using dry-heat ovens, which can take minutes to an hour to work, said Shih. And it's "considerably shorter" than what other nanoparticle arrays have demonstrated in recent studies, the researchers write. The time needed to achieve similar levels of cell death in those studies ranges from 1 to 20 minutes.

In control trials, the researchers found that neither the gold disks nor light from the laser alone killed nearly as many cells.

The technique has important potential biomedical applications, said Shih. Currently, the researchers are investigating using the particles as a simple coating for catheters to help reduce the number of urinary tract infections in hospitals.

"Any sort of light activated procedure would be much easier to implement at the bedside of a patient," instead of removing and potentially replacing the catheter every time it needs to be cleaned, he said.

Another potential application they're exploring is integrating the nanoparticles with filter membranes in small water filters, he said, to help improve water quality.

https://www.osapublishing.org/ome/abstract.cfm?uri=ome-6-4-1217
Optical Materials Express, 2016; 6 (4): 1217
DOI: 10.1364/OME.6.001217

Photothermal inactivation of heat-resistant bacteria on nanoporous gold disk arrays.

Greggy M. Santos, Felipe Ibañez de Santi Ferrara, Fusheng Zhao, Debora F. Rodrigues, Wei-Chuan Shih.

Abstract

A rapid photothermal bacterial inactivation technique has been developed by irradiating near-infrared (NIR) light onto bacterial cells (Escherichia coli, Bacillus subtilis, Exiguobacterium sp. AT1B) deposited on surfaces coated with a dense, random array of nanoporous gold disks (NPGDs). With the use of cell viability tests and SEM imaging results, the complete inactivation of the pathogenic and heat-resistant bacterial model strains is confirmed within ~25 s of irradiation of the NPGD substrate. In addition to irradiation control experiments to prove the efficacy of the bacterial inactivation, thermographic imaging showed an immediate averaged temperature rise above 200 °C within the irradiation spot of the NPGD substrate. The light-gated photothermal effects on the NPGD substrate offers potential applications for antimicrobial and nanotherapeutic devices due to strong light absorption in the tissue optical window, i.e., the NIR wavelengths, and robust morphological structure that can withstand high instantaneous thermal shocks.

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-sleep-better-2016-3
Mar. 18, 2016

12 science-backed habits to get a better night's sleep

by

Lydia Ramsey and Jessica Orwig

The endless opportunities that technology offers come with an unexpected side effect: There never seem to be enough hours in the day to get things done and rest, too.

And our bodies might be suffering for it.

Whether it is because we're staying up late watching the latest show or lying awake in bed, unable to sleep, about 20% of Americans are sleep-deprived, experts estimate.

Rather than suffer through the day feeling groggy, here are 12 science-backed habits that can help you get a good night's sleep — tonight.

Avoid "social jet lag" by keeping consistent sleeping hours.

As much fun as sleeping in on the weekends is, it's not doing your body any favors. You can blame something called "social jet lag."

Unlike regular jet lag, this one only happens when our body clocks get thrown off by the gap between our weekend and weekday sleep schedules. You can avoid it by waking up at the same time each day.

Steer clear of computer/phone screens right before bed.

Do not attempt.

You might think that scrolling through your Instagram feed before bed might be a good way to wind down, but it's not helping you fall asleep.

Studies suggest that the light from cellphones and other electronic devices may interfere with our brain's production of melatonin, the chemical that tells our bodies it's time to sleep.

To combat this, researchers suggest powering down your devices an hour before heading to bed. Plus, you'll also have more time to read that book you keep neglecting.

Exercise regularly.

The relationship between sleep and exercise is a little complicated. A small study of women with insomnia found a connection between better sleep and exercise. The better night's sleep you get, the more likely you'll work out.

But it's a beneficial cycle. The study found that four months down the road of exercising consistently, the women were sleeping at least 45 minutes more a night.

Sleep well. Work out well. Repeat.

Eat a diverse diet.

In an analysis of the 2007-2008 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania found that the amount of time people slept was linked to the types of foods they ate.

And "normal sleepers" — those who got seven to eight hours of shut-eye each night — tended to eat a more diverse diet.

Obviously, the researchers can't say whether spicing up your plate will necessarily help you sleep, but it likely won't do any harm!

Stay away from caffeine starting six hours before bed.

Caffeine is one of the best ways to get an energy boost in the morning, but if you consume it too close to bed, it could cause some sleep problems.

A small study of 12 healthy normal sleepers who took caffeine pills zero, three, or six hours before bed found that the participants had the best night's sleep if they didn't have caffeine within at least six hours of sleeping. Big surprise.

Cuddle up in a bedroom that's cool.

Bonus: Cooler temperatures make for better blanket forts.

Studies suggest there's an optimal temperature for sleeping: Sixty to 66 degrees Fahrenheit if you're wearing pajamas and have a blanket, and 86 to 89 degrees if you prefer to sleep with a little less on. Scientists think that when our bodies cool down, it helps jump-start the sleep process.

Know how much sleep you need. It changes with age.

Sleep training helped me sleep like a baby more of the time.

As you grow, your body changes and so do your sleeping needs. Here's the recommended number of hours of sleep you need depending on your age group, according to the National Sleep Foundation:

0 to 3 months: 14 to 17 hours
4 to 11 months: 12 to 15 hours
1 to 2 years: 11 to 14 hours
3 to 5 years: 10 to 13 hours
6 to 13 years: 9 to 11 hours
14 to 17 years: 8 to 10 hours
18 to 64 years: 7 to 9 hours
Over 65 years: 7 to 8 hours

Skip the snooze button. Your body will thank you.

That glorious snooze button sure seems inviting in the morning, but it could be messing up your sleep cycle and making you feel more tired throughout the day. Here are two reasons you should skip the snooze.

The quality of sleep you get after hitting snooze is less than if you just continued sleeping for those extra 10 minutes. And by falling back to sleep, you're setting yourself up for another sleep cycle that you have no chance of finishing, according to Robert S. Rosenberg, the medical director of the Sleep Disorders Center of Prescott Valley and Flagstaff, Arizona.

Avoid a nightcap.

Anyone who's ever had one too many knows that alcohol sometimes seems to put you to sleep.

But according to the National Institute of Health, alcohol toys with signals in your brain that affect your quality of sleep. More specifically, it robs you of the deeper, restorative stages of sleep, which is why you may feel tired and unrested the morning after.

Don't sleep like this.

If you're having a hard time sleeping and wake up with aches and pains the next morning, you might want to reassess your sleeping position.

A large telephone survey of Australian residents revealed that people who favored sleeping on their side were less likely to report aches and pains and sleepless nights compared to people who sleep in any other position.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKDS0Cvgz5s

Holy Crap! They Hid MARS From Us -- Covering Over Whole Cities!

David Voss

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLKlGXMux3E

Life on Mars, water, trees, ancient cities.

Evidence of life on Mars and the Moon, Actual nasa pictures. proof life existed on Mars. cities on the Moon.Actual Nasa pictures the truth revealed. inca like cities on mars, skulls found on mars surface.Transport networks discovered all over mars that lead underground, evidence of ancient farming on mars. evidence of beach shores on mars and oceans, actual pictures of water found in lakes on mars, actual structures found on the moon and more. you must see it to beleive it ! also vegetation found on mars ! we are being lied to find out the real truth !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G02rYAXtJHY

10 Times The Simpsons Predicted The Future

From predicting Donald Trumps run for presidency to the massive outbreak of the Ebola virus, we count down 10 Times The Simpsons Predicted The Future.

Update re: Sterling Allen / PESWiki.com :

http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=42870
18-Mar-2016

Reader responds to a thread about the Scalia death, an international pedophile ring, and Sterling Allan

In Response To: Why does VT spell his name as "Stirling David Allen" when his name is apparently "Sterling David Allan"? (MrFusion)

This email from a reader is being posted in response to a thread from Feb. 27. See the thread links toward the bottom of this page. The posts in that thread will give some context to what the reader is saying. Also note that the link given in the first post in that thread for the VT story no longer works. The story has been updated and the new link is here:

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2016/03/01/scalia-murdered-after-obama-meeting/

The email from reader R.:

Mar 18th: VT lies are being reprinted everywhere even by bloggers that ought to know better

Hope you can post updates..Did anybody cared to try to contact his father ?

His website is here: http://www.itsabouttimebook.com and

http://www.allanstime.com

I was under the impression that Utah state decided NOT to charge him in regards to his affair with a young teen (between 16-18 yrs old I believe)

Also apparently it was Keshe (a CIA tool-asset with a messianic complex) that made the grandiose charges vs Allan at the US consulate at the FBI desk (!).. some say that his angel investor (a rich ?! Indian guy) kept him out of jail and Allan agreed to work with the powers to be to eke out free energy tinkerers ?

In any event I do smell a set up-before his arrest Sterling as per his website was supposed to fly to Russia and meet inventors of a working on free energy devices..

Funny but the many websites of S. Allan are no longer being updated etc..becoming like zombie websites(live on forever)
And those in the free energy movement(I am just an enquirer,not an inventor etc) suddenly all have total amnesia ?

The angel investor Allan was partnering with - I do suspect foul play here

I do know that Geoffrey Smith of Energy labs http://www.energybat.com did not get a good impression when Allan and his angel investor visited him for over a week..Note-Allan sort of $$$ oriented-this is how he is perceived for better or worse by free energy tinkerers- many are paranoid beyond reason but unfortunately many for good reasons too

Look what happened to the late Paul Pantone (died on Dec 15)-was it foul play- well he shortly died after his 1st GEET book-his websites are now zombie websites..

In any event the only one seeming to be doing okay is the infamous Eric P Dollard

http://www.ericpdollard.com

thanks to Aaron Murakami of the

http://www.energeticforum.com

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2016/03/19/survival-and-disclosure-among-the-fallen/

Sterlng Allen / PESWiki & Judge Scalia & The Order of Saint Hubertus & Keshe & You :

Back to Keshe

Keshe came to us with solid proof that Sterling Allan, working directly with an elite group in Belgium, was operating inside the “Free Energy Community” online recruiting children through sex trafficking.

He presented a wealth of solid evidence, videos, email, more, that a network existed that tied “new age” types to not only online recruiting but to NGO’s working in South and Central America, in Africa and the Middle East, were involved as well.

We found organizations that were running schools and orphanages, “Palestinian scholarships,” help for abused or displaced mothers, from Lebanon, to Morocco, to Mexico and Brazil, all involved in stealing children.

These groups plant themselves near the camps in the Middle East, preying on the Palestinians or working with ISIS to traffick Syrian and Iraqi Christians and Shiites, with full support of Turkish organized crime and suspected complicity with their intelligence services and political leadership as well…

In August 2015, we arranged for Keshe to meet with the FBI in Rome to hand over his evidence. As many know by now, the computers seized on January 15, 2016 by FBI agent Jeff Ross in Salt Lake City, Utah contained files that listed high level clients, details of their preferences and enough to secure the kind of protection we had been seeing in Lebanon, Syria, Nigeria, Morocco, Turkey, Belgium, Britain, Ireland and the United States.

Our information that it was Justice Scalia of the US Supreme Court who was protecting, Sterling Allan, despite nearly 2 years of him doing everything imaginable to be arrested, was confirmed.

Our report on Scalia’s murder at the hands of a secret society tied to the Bohemian Grove “satanic cult” was also confirmed, as was our information that only after Scalia’s death could Sterling Allan be arrested.

We also have seen the “spin” that has tried to move what is solid evidence into conspiracy theory through wild misrepresentations of the Scalia-Obama meeting, or even blaming Obama personally for a “pillow over the face” suffocation killing partial confirmation as well, particularly when we follow the sources of these fabrications into the midst of Washington’s pedophile sewer...

Let’s take a look at Scalia and the St. Hubertus group, a subset we are all informed, of the “Bohemian Grove” secret society. We know those involved are selected, not just money and power but for their history of moral flexibility, love of power combined with mediocre intellect, physical cowardice and delusions of being “special.”..

https://www.academia.edu/21828389/A_New_Method_of_Preparing_Highly_Conductive_Ultra-Thin_Indium_Tin_Oxide_for_Plasmonic-Enhanced_Thin_Film_Solar_Photovoltaic_Devices

A New Method of Preparing Highly Conductive Ultra-Thin Indium Tin Oxide for Plasmonic-Enhanced Thin Film Solar Photovoltaic Devices

Joshua Pearce
Michigan Technological University, Materials Science and Engineering, Faculty Member

A new method of preparing highly conductive ultra-thin indium tin oxide for plasmonic-enhanced thin film solar photovoltaic devices. Abstract Recent numerical modeling of plasmonic metallic nanostructures have shown great potential as a method of light management in thin-film nanodisc-patterned hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) solar photovoltaic (PV) cells. A significant design challenge for such plasmonic-enhanced PV devices is the requirement for ultra-thin transparent conducting oxides (TCOs) with high transmittance (low loss) and low enough resistivity to be used

http://www.sciencedaily.com

Smaller, cheaper microbial fuel cells turn urine into electricity

A new design could help produce sustainable energy in developing countries

A new design of microbial fuel cell uses urine and overcomes two limitations of standard microbial fuel cells: their cost and low power production. (

A new kind of fuel cell that can turn urine into electricity could revolutionize the way we produce bioenergy, particularly in developing countries. The research, published in Electrochimica Acta, describes a new design of microbial fuel cell that's smaller, cheaper and more powerful than traditional ones.

The world's supply of fossil fuels is being depleted, and there is increasing pressure to develop new renewable sources of energy. Bioenergy is one such source, and microbial fuel cells can produce it.

In their study, researchers from University of Bath, Queen Mary University of London and the Bristol Robotics Laboratory describe a new design of microbial fuel cell that overcomes two limitations of standard microbial fuel cells: their cost and low power production.

"Microbial fuel cells have real potential to produce renewable bioenergy out of waste matter like urine," said Dr. Mirella Di Lorenzo, corresponding author of the study from the University of Bath. "The world produces huge volumes of urine and if we can harness the potential power of that waste using microbial fuel cells, we could revolutionize the way we make electricity."

Microbial fuel cells are devices that use the natural processes of certain bacteria to turn organic matter into electricity. There are other ways of producing bioenergy, including anaerobic digestion, fermentation and gasification. But microbial fuel cells have the advantage of working at room temperature and pressure. They're efficient, relatively cheap to run and produce less waste than the other methods.

There are, however, some limitations. Microbial fuel cells can be quite expensive to manufacture. The electrodes are usually made of cost-effective materials, but the cathode often contains platinum to speed up the reactions that create the electricity. Also, microbial fuel cells tend to produce less power than the other methods of bioenergy production.

The new miniature microbial fuel cell uses no expensive materials for the cathode; instead it's made of carbon cloth and titanium wire. To speed up the reaction and create more power, it uses a catalyst that's made of glucose and ovalbumin, a protein found in egg white. These are typical constituents of food waste.

"We aim to test and prove the use of carbon catalysts derived from various food wastes as a renewable and low-cost alternative to platinum at the cathode," said corresponding author Dr. Mirella Di Lorenzo from the University of Bath.

They then tweaked the design to see what would produce more power. Doubling the length of the electrodes, from 4mm to 8mm, increased the power output tenfold. By stacking up three of the miniature microbial fuel cells, the researchers were able to increase the power tenfold compared to the output of individual cells.

"Microbial fuel cells could be a great source of energy in developing countries, particularly in impoverished and rural areas," said Jon Chouler, lead author of the study from the University of Bath. "Our new design is cheaper and more powerful than traditional models. Devices like this that can produce electricity from urine could make a real difference by producing sustainable energy from waste."

"We have shown that the cell design has an incidence on performance and we want to further investigate the relevance of electrode surface area to volume ratio on performance. Our aim is to be able to effectively miniaturize the MFC and scale-up power production by generating compact batteries of multiple miniature units," added Dr. Di Lorenzo.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0013468616301141
Electrochimica Acta, 2016; 192: 89
DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2016.01.112

Towards effective small scale microbial fuel cells for energy generation from urine

Jon Choulera, b, George A. Padgetta, Petra J. Cameronc, Kathrin Preussd, e, Maria-Magdalena Titiricid, e, Ioannis Ieropoulosf, Mirella Di Lorenzoa, ,

Abstract

To resolve an increasing global demand in energy, a source of sustainable and environmentally friendly energy is needed. Microbial fuel cells (MFC) hold great potential as a sustainable and green bioenergy conversion technology that uses waste as the feedstock. This work pursues the development of an effective small-scale MFC for energy generation from urine. An innovative air-cathode miniature MFC was developed, and the effect of electrode length was investigated. Two different biomass derived catalysts were also studied. Doubling the electrode length resulted in the power density increasing by one order of magnitude (from 0.053 to 0.580 W m−3). When three devices were electrically connected in parallel, the power output was over 10 times higher compared to individual units. The use of biomass-derived oxygen reduction reaction catalysts at the cathode increased the power density generated by the MFC up to 1.95 W m−3, thus demonstrating the value of sustainable catalysts for cathodic reactions in MFCs.

1. Introduction

In the face of the growing problem of fossil fuel depletion, there is global interest in developing sustainable and environmentally friendly forms of energy. One form of alternative energy that may be viable in addressing this problem is bioenergy [1] and [2]. In this context, Microbial fuel cells (MFC) hold great potential as green and carbon-neutral technology that directly converts biomass into electricity [3].

MFCs are electrochemical devices that take advantage of the metabolic processes of microorganisms to directly convert organic matter into electricity with high efficiencies for long periods of time [4]. Compared to other bioenergy conversion processes (i.e. anaerobic digestion, gasification, fermentation), MFCs have the advantage of reduced amounts of sludge production [5], as well as cost-effective operation, since they operate under ambient environmental conditions (temperature, pressure) [6]. Moreover, MFCs require no energy input for aeration so long as the cathode is passively aerated, for example via the use of a single-chamber device [7]. Lastly, MFCs have the ability to generate energy remotely by using a range of feed stocks, and can thus be used in areas of poor energy infrastructure. Organic waste used as a feed stock in particular offers attractive prospects from its cost-effectiveness and abundance. Urine has been demonstrated to be an effective feed stock for MFC operation with the additional benefit of nitrogen, phosphate and potassium recovery from the fuel [8]. In particular, according to Ieropoulos et al [9]. urea is enzymatically hydrolysed to ammonia and carbon dioxide. Ammonia is then oxidised at the anode of the MFC to generate mainly nitrite and in smaller amounts nitrate [10].

Despite the breadth of applications and the growing interest in MFC technology over the past two decades, commercialisation of MFCs for energy generation has not yet been realised.

The major limiting factors that hinder the practical implementation of MFCs at large scale, are the cost of materials used and the difficulties in the scale-up process [11].

Typically the electrodes are made from highly cost-effective materials such as carbon cloth, carbon paper, and graphite based rods, plates and granules. Recently, even some metals, such as copper and silver, have been shown to be effective anode materials [12]. However, expensive metals, such as platinum, are usually used at the cathode to enhance the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) [13], [14] and [15]. Recently, the use of biomass-derived catalysts recovered from waste has been proposed as an effective alternative to expensive metal ORR catalysts. In particular, biomass-derived materials from wood [16], sewage sludge [17] and bananas [18] have been shown to function as ORR catalysts to boost MFC performance whilst reducing the device cost and its carbon footprint. Doping these materials with heteroatoms such as nitrogen and sulphur [19], also in combination with nanoparticles like iron [20], has been shown to enhance the catalytic activity towards the ORR even further.

Another limitation towards practical implementations of MFCs, is their poor performance due to high internal resistances and ohmic losses experienced upon scale-up [21]. Consequently, the power performance of MFCs is low compared to other renewable energy technologies [8] and [22]. Considering the thermodynamic limit of an MFC (1.14 V open circuit), the most feasible approach to scale-up the power generated by this technology is to create a collection of multiple MFCs connected together as a stack. By miniaturising individual MFC units, stacks of large numbers of constituent MFCs could be developed, within a compact footprint. This approach has been referred as the ‘miniaturisation and multiplication’ strategy [9].

MFC miniaturisation offers other advantages as well. The large surface area-to-volume ratio and short electrode distances - typical characteristics of miniature MFCs- provide a pathway to reducing ohmic losses, improving the mass transport processes between bulk liquid, biofilm and electrode and therefore enhancing power performance [23]. The consolidation of microfabrication techniques has led to the first prototypes of micro-sized MFCs, which have been discussed in a recent review [11]. Nonetheless, the process of miniaturisation of the MFC technology is still in its infancy. The two-chamber configuration is typically adopted for the miniature MFCs reported thus far, and, usually, a ferricyanide solution is used as the catholyte [24]. Given the greater operational simplicity and cost-effectiveness of oxygen diffusion systems, air-cathode MFC designs should be considered instead. Moreover, a more in-depth analysis on how to effectively miniaturise the system for better performance would be beneficial.

With the aim of guiding the development of efficient small-scale MFCs, this study reports the development of an innovative air-cathode small-scale MFC and analyses the effect that the chamber length (and therefore the electrodes length) have on its performance either when operated as a single unit or when assembled in a stack. No expensive metals have been employed at the cathode, and the use of two types of innovative and highly sustainable biomass-derived ORR catalysts are compared with a catalyst-free device…

4. Conclusions

Microbial fuel cells are an extremely attractive technology for the generation of clean electricity from a range of waste streams. The most viable route to boosting power density generated by MFCs is to develop small scale devices and arrange multiple units in stacks.

In this context, our study aims to guide towards the development of effective miniature MFCs. For this purpose we have developed an innovative miniature MFC, which can easily be further miniaturised. We have used an air-cathode configuration since it has the advantage of greater operational simplicity and cost-effectiveness. While fixing the electrodes spacing to 4 mm, we have investigated the effect of the electrodes length, when the system was continuously fed with artificial urine at a fixed flow rate of 0.36 mL min−1.

The doubling of the electrode length of the miniature MFC, and so the hydraulic retention time as well, increased the power density more than tenfold due to enhanced mass transfer properties and substrate consumption at the electrode surface.

By electrically stacking three individual units in parallel, the power output reached the peak value of 1.2 W m−3. Moreover, the use of two different types of biomass-derived ORR catalysts at the cathode increased the power density up to threefold. These renewable and cost-effective cathode catalysts are of particular interest for applications in remote or impoverished regions where MFCs could be used for remote and sustainable energy generation from waste…