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(R) Trisha Calvarese
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(R) Donald Trump
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(R) Deborah Flora
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(R) Gabe Evans
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August 29, 2011 10:47 AM UTC
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If your candidate has the IQ of a field mouse, do not put him/her on a stage with a band called “White People Funk Band” and tell him/her to cheer for them.
White People + Funk ≠ Band … it’s just a musical abomination.
Now having said that, I would pay dearly to see homobarbarian-fearing Marcus struggle against some funk.
“Put a glide in your stride, a dip in yo’ hip and come on up to the mothership”
– George Clinton
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo…
I didn’t think it was worth a diary of its own, but I thought a chuckle could start off the day.
It’s more pertinent than many of the videos posted here. Hell, it’s more pertinent than some of the diaries.
Is there an electrical engineer in the house that can comment on this?
if there’s a remote chance for inexpensive, small load electrical charges with this device. As to David’s comments, I don’t recognize the component parts, either.
I’d love to try and duplicate it.
My son has a friend who is an electrical engineer. If he can shed light (no pun intended)on what’s going on here, I’ll share.
Not really sure what’s going on as they don’t show exactly what they did. But when it comes to energy the Libertarians are right – TANSTAAFL. Somewhere in all of that a chemical reaction is occurring to produce an electrical charge.
The square things are mylar capacitors, the little black things are diodes, and the tubular black things are electrolytic capacitors. In other versions of this circuit that I have seen, they use ceramic disk capacitors instead of the mylars, but any nonpolarized capacitors will work.
Think of an old-fashioned crystal radio without a tuner.
The antenna pulls radio waves out of the air and the nonpolarized capacitors and diodes act as a detector. The tiny amount of current charges up the electrolytic capacitors, which store electricity like a battery.
If he had left the light bulb on it much longer, it would have gone out as the electolytics discharged.
If you don’t mind stringing a couple hundred feet of antenna in your backyard, yes, you can charge your cell phone. But the energy used to produce the copper in the antenna wire far exceeds any energy saved by this circuit.
for nothing.
Maybe Ardy or someone smarter than me can tell me if that’s right.
that the 2nd law of thermodynamics says that evolution could not have happened. I never would have imagined it applied to charging a battery. 😉
(Or … there ain’t no way that I’m smarter than Ralphie – just differently informed.)
but if this thing is claiming to have constantly increasing energy it would violate the first law of thermodynamics (conservation of energy). The second law is that entropy must stay the same or increase, which prevents waste heat (like from a resistor) from being converted into useful energy. I have only a pretty shallow understanding of this stuff though.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P…
up to the point at which the capacitors are charged, because it is not producing its own energy. It’s sucking energy that a bunch of powerful radio stations put into the air. In the absence of radio stations, I suppose it could suck energy from the radio waves produced by the sun.
The laws of thermodynamics just say that it can’t be more than 100 percent efficient, that’s all.
In looking at the circuit, the diodes are also acting as a rectifier to convert the AC detected at the front end to DC that can charge the capacitors.
That was very helpful.
Both from Fareed Zakaria
I’m guessing the “hang on, recovery is coming” will work as well for Obama as it did for Bush I. Washington argues while the country sinks into the morass.
had it not been for Perot, reocovery or no. Daddy bush also had to face one of the most skilled politicians of the 20th century in Clinton, whereas Obama has . . . lesser competition.
If Perot had not been in the race both Bush and Clinton would have campaigned differently. So there’s no way of knowing who would win.
As to Obama vs Romney – if we’re still stuck in a recession with no improvement, I think Romney will have a damn good chance.
the point is, to this point, there’s no Perot-like figure on the left to gum up the works.
Obama is a skilled campaigner. You’re right that it might no matter given his crappy performance on the economy, but at this point, he’s hardly H.W. Bush.
largely because Perot took so many votes from Bush I, who probably would have won despite low enthusiasm for him without Perot. Enthusiasm for Clinton not exactly sky high either as evidenced by his failure to capture more than a 43% plurality of the popular vote in that election.
Of course no one can know for sure what would have happened in alternate universes with different variables but the fact that Clinton managed to take Colorado the first time but not the second is pretty illustrative of likelihoods. Of course it’s also possible that in the universe where Perot doesn’t run, Bush I is found to be having a torrid affair with a nephew. The alternate universe possibilities are always endless and lots of fun but probably a good deal less germane than probabilities based on factors in our own space time continuum.
based on exit polls.
http://www.salon.com/news/poli…
Looks like I stand corrected.
If the facts presented about Bush carry over into that article, Obama might be as screwed as Thi808 is saying.
I recall several notable elections in which they were less than reliable but I’ll concede the possibility. In any case I wouldn’t recommend anybody bet the ranch on the outcome of the 2012 election at this juncture.
Kudos to President Obama and east coast Governors and emergency personnel for the way they got ahead of Hurricane Irene. Despite substantial flooding, many people were evacuated and death counts are (so far) relatively very low. The over-coverage may have been annoying, but it saved lives. A lot was learned from the terrible tragedy of the Hurricane Katrina. PREPARATION IS EVERYTHING.
Just curious.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H…
But it’s served me well.
11: The age my dad told me I would be allowed to buy a horse.
12: The age I actually did.
Also, like sxp said, it’s heptagonal. It’s also the age I would be if I lived to the year 2100, and I’ve always wanted to see the turn of the century twice before I die. And it showed up in a prominent spot in the paperwork for my mortgage last year, which I took as a good omen that I’d found the right house — knock wood, this appears to be the case.
horse explanation probably takes precedence here, though, right?
In my family we’re all 12 years apart — my parents are 12 years apart, my brother is 12 years older, my niece is 12 years younger than me, and my new nephew/niece is expected next February and will also be in the Year of the Dragon and 12 years younger than my eldest niece. So it was interesting to me as a curious kid that I’d be 12 in the year 2000 and 112 in 2100.
The horse thing happening in 2000 at age 12 clinched it 🙂 And she was the most wonderful horse in the world.
steam out Of Ron Paul’s comments on FEMA. Apparently when you have a competent administration, officials, governors and mayors working for and with FEMA, it does a pretty good job.
Are You A Pirate?
But, I’m also on my first and last marriage, because she’s a Pirate, too:-)
Some Republicans are advocating increasing emergency management funding. See article: http://www.salon.com/news/poli…
If Republicans want to reduce the size the government-if not outright eliminate it-why would they be for more government? It is highly probably that Republicans fear a repeat of Hurricane Katrina: they don’t want to take the fall for doing nothing during a natural disaster, especially one which was exacerbated by cuts in disaster funding. They also specify that increased funding will neutralized by cuts elsewhere (see above article from Salon).
saw the first part of that on TV yesterday without any mention of people actually being inside the trucks after they were afloat. That was a long time that those folks were under the water in the compartment.
But sometimes it works out for the best. During the height of the hurricane, a house caught fire and the Manasquan (NJ) fire department had to use old army deuce-and-a-halfs because the roads were too flooded to get their trucks in.
http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.d…
And one of the fatalities in New Jersey was a first responder who drowned during a swift-water rescue.
http://www.nj.com/mercer/index…
They do what they have to do.
And endanger first responders
http://www.app.com/videonetwor…
those who can’t, video!
I watched the video and listened to the commentary from the photographer, and all I could think is how much I would enjoy slowly feeding that helpful asshole his own video camera.