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kttopdad wrote:I am just pointing out an interesting logical fallacy I've noticed in any discussion of global warming. I love spotting such things in any discussion because the participants rarely realize they're doing such things. Thank you, college logic 101!

Exactly what I was trying to point out.

You have what everyone else has -- a proxy. True 'dat. Data from a proxy that matches very well to well established math about how the earth spins and circles and tilts and wobbles. My proxy seems to be working very well thank you. Regardless. MSimon attacks data about modern day temperatures when ...

Do YOU have thermometer readings going back a half million years? Yes I do. It's not your classical thermometer, but... anyway - here are my readings. http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/icecore/antarctica/vostok/vostok_isotope.html Here is a chart. http://www.seed.slb.com/en/scictr/watch/climate_change...

First, auditing the data that "supports" global warming is useless. The temperature data is pointless for this problem. The numbers are in the noise. Numbers in the noise don't matter for these kinds of problems. Just ask Lorenz. The idea that global warming enthusiasts are using temperature as "pro...

Let me add that the CO2 hysteria is bunk. It didn't cause the warming spell we have had and it will not protect us from the little ice age we currently appear to be headed for. Hold on. You don't know that. Just as those claiming that global warming will destroy the world don't know either. The Ear...

It is such a mechanical kluge. There is no way they are going to get 200+ mechanical plungers synchronized to the required phase difference. And suppose they could. What happens when the system starts to wear? Then again a couple of their concepts still need some work. Like the rotating lithium bla...

Most of the folks with grandiose propositions for making great changes are totally ignorant of economics and logistics. For the sake of my own sanity, I will assume you weren't talking about me in the statement above. Anyway. Back to the topic. Surely the idea that Polywells will be abundantly avai...

I have no idea how General Fusion's tin-can fusion could ever work. It looks to me like the plasma would cool long before they got any kind of collisions going. The "elegant solution" comment refers to the idea which is brilliant whether it works or not. Use the fusion reactor blanket to actually c...

hydrogen still doesn't have a good delivery system. It's damaging to pipelines, and it doesn't store well. It doesn't exist in nature, and currently would have to be synthesized by steam reformation of natural gas. A Polywell fusion device could certainly give you a lot of hydrogen by electrolysis,...

The coolest thing about this post is that it pointed me at General Fusion and what they are doing. The patent is a great read and a great idea. An elegant solution that solves several problems with one idea. I love elegant solutions.

It doesn't make sense to take an intermediate step using any other reaction other than pB11 for break even power production if WB7/WB8 shows good results and suggests Bussard's predicted scaling is correct. Be bold. Make the right machine. Don't make a machine that has flaws and can be associated wi...

What was Bussard thinking? Create the worlds most environmentally friendly abundant energy producing machine in history and then use is to make ethonol from sugar cane? Cut down the rain forests, plant sugar cane, use a Polywell to convert it to ethonol and then BURN IT! Sorry, he is a very smart ma...