Author: Dave

I especially liked the Bo Diddley Beat about 4 1/2 minutes in. Cross Posted at Power and Control

Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 I especially liked Part 5 where one engineer describes what it is like to commit other people’s lives to one of your designs. I had that feeling a lot working in aerospace on jet aircraft. I still get that feeling when a plane goes down. Was it…

I’m visiting here and there on the ‘net and find many conservatives shocked and awed by our new President. They believed it would take Obama six months to show his level of incompetence. But two weeks? Outside the realm of calculation. Only three Years 11 months and 6 days to go. He has exceeded his…

Yes. It is true. They are hooking up their electrical grids. AREVA’s Transmission and Distribution (T&D) division has signed a multi-million Euro contract to supply H400 High-Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) thyristor valves to interconnect the Chinese and Russian power grids. The contract, the first of its kind awarded to AREVA T&D in China, is signed…

Obama has a plan for herding his cattle (or should that be sheeple) into cities where they will be more amenable to Democrat machine politics. That’s why I’d like to see high speed rail where it can be constructed. That’s why I would like to invest in mass transit because potentially that’s energy efficient and…

Since there is so much Green Money coming out of Washington it looks like a lot of people want in on the act. There is a lot of wind in the upper Mid-West but not many power lines. So a company is proposing that the government get behind building some new power lines. ITC Holdings…

Dave Price at Dean Esmay has done a post that I should have done. He is discussing Physicist Rick Nebel’s report on the latest Polywell Fusion experiments. Dean goes into the technical nitty gritty of the report (and has a link to where the discussion took place) and if that interests you by all means…

It looks like the Obama administration has found the perfect cure for our medical crisis and our Social Security crisis. Kill off old people. Republican Senators are questioning whether President Barack Obama’s stimulus bill contains the right mix of tax breaks and cash infusions to jump-start the economy. Tragically, no one from either party is…

Keeping an eye on the supply and demand of basic commodities can tell a lot about the direction the economy is headed in. Cross Posted at Power and Control

Lucky she didn’t try “bong head”. Although lighting it would probably have been more fun than torching the pot. Cross Posted at Power and Control

For those of you who haven’t been keeping up, Michael Phelps who won 14 Olympic Gold Medals in Swimming has also been caught smoking a bong. Graphic evidence has been provided. Naturally his sponsors are not happy. But the sponsor’s customers are unhappy that the sponsors are unhappy. As part of its damage control efforts…

It looks like the Obama administration has accidentally given the economy a boost. Due to the overwhelming increase in orders, it has become increasingly difficult to predict deliveries for all Rock River Arms’ products. Because of this, we are no longer quoting estimated delivery dates. We are continuing to increase production, build, and ship products…

Sgt. Mom, blogging under the pseudonym Celia Hayes, left this comment at Althouse about the Obama Administration. “I knew it was gonna be a train wreck, but I thought it would have pulled out of the station, first!” Sgt. Mom writes books. You should read some. H/T Instapundit Cross Posted at Power and Control

So I’m Googling around type “Obama” into Google and the #2 item on the list with over 8 million references is “Obama jokes”. Well I got to get me some of those. My favorite so far is “Barack Obama is President of the United States”. I’m sure he will get funnier as time goes on.…

Yes. When I first learned of this practice I was shocked. What kind of mother would do such a thing? Cannabinoids, whether plant-derived, synthetic or endogenous, have been shown to stimulate appetite in the adult organism. We have reported previously that cannabinoid receptors play a critical role during the early suckling period: Then comes a…

It seems as if we have a new kind of economic privilege in America. The Senate voted Tuesday to give a tax break to new car buyers, setting aside bipartisan concerns over the size of an economic stimulus bill with a price tag approaching $900 billion. The 71-26 vote came as President Barack Obama said…

India has a lot of people to educate. It is trying to work out ways of automating the process. One of those ways is the design of a $20 (US) laptop called the Sakshat. The Sakshat is planned to boost distance learning so as to allow India to meet its vast educational requirements: It has…

India thinks it needs a $20 laptop to educate its population. India is planning to produce a laptop computer for the knockdown price of about $20, having come up with the Tata Nano, the world’s cheapest car at about $2,000. The project, backed by New Delhi, would considerably undercut the so-called “$100 laptop”, otherwise known…

President Present is running into resistance from the Pentagon over has troop withdrawal plans. The Times reported that Odierno had “developed a plan that would move slower than Mr. Obama’s campaign timetable” and had suggested in an interview “it might take the rest of the year to determine exactly when United States forces could be…

Commenter windmill at Talk Polywell has brought to my attention an interesting power supply company Diversified Technologies Inc. Here are a couple of short (under 10 pages) papers that explain the technology. Solid State High Voltage DC Power Distribution & Control [pdf] Here is the key point from the above [pdf]. The largest cost components…