Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Re: Crazy world

I saw this already.   I saw the video with Bill Gates at the TED conference and realized he misspoke.  He was trying to say that better health services in general can prevent pregnancy.   Not a big deal.  

Best wishes,

John Coffey

On Oct 6, 2010, at 10:32 AM, 
 <larry wrote:

'Bill Gates says vaccines can help reduce world population

"In a recent TED conference presentation, Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates, who has donated hundreds of millions of dollars to new vaccine efforts, speaks on the issue of CO2 emissions and its effects on climate change. He presents a formula for tracking CO2 emissions as follows: CO2 = P x S x E x C.

P = People
S = Services per person
E = Energy per service
C = CO2 per energy unit

Then he adds that in order to get CO2 to zero, "probably one of these numbers is going to have to get pretty close to zero."

Following that,
Bill Gates begins to describe how the first number -- P (for People) -- might be reduced. He says:

"The world today has 6.8 billion people... that's headed up to about 9 billion. Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent."…

So what does it mean when Bill Gates says "if we do a really great job on new vaccines... we could lower [world population] by 10 or 15 percent?"

Clearly, this statement implies that
vaccines are a method of population reduction. So is "health care," which all NaturalNews readers already know to be more of a "sick care" system that actually harms more people than it helps.'

http://www.naturalnews.com/029911_vaccines_Bill_Gates.html

The people who wrote this article are nuts.

 

Saturday, October 2, 2010

Aubrey de Grey: Why we age and how we can avoid it

The Origin of Life - Abiogenesis - Dr. Jack Szostak

Creation 'Science' Made Easy

Human Evolution Made Easy

The Theory of Evolution Made Easy

Natural Selection Made Easy

Amino acids from space?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cosMs5EtktY&sns=em

Did life originate from Mars?

I am not sure this can be proven...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wj4Q1hPRoDs&sns=em

Carl Sagan on Origins of Life

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7ivTdcHYvI&sns=em

Abiogenesis

An alternative but related hypothesis, proposed to explain the presence of life on Earth so soon after the planet had cooled down, with apparently very little time for prebiotic evolution, is that life formed first on early Mars. Due to its smaller size Mars cooled before Earth (a difference of hundreds of millions of years), allowing prebiotic processes there while Earth was still too hot. Life was then transported to the cooled Earth when crustal material was blasted off Mars by asteroid and comet impacts. Mars continued to cool faster and eventually became hostile to the continued evolution or even existence of life (it lost its atmosphere due to low volcanism); Earth is following the same fate as Mars, but at a slower rate.

Sunday, September 19, 2010

Printed Lithium Ion Batteries

'Planar Energy has developed a roll-to-roll process for making larger
solid lithium-ion batteries. The company, which received $4 million in
funding from the Advanced Research Projects Agency Energy program this
spring, says it can print solid batteries that offer three times more
storage than liquid lithium-ion batteries of the same size. This boost
in energy storage is possible primarily because the company's
all-solid batteries don't require many of the support structures and
materials that take up space in conventional batteries, making more
space for energy storage.

Planar Energy expects to reduce capital costs by half compared with
solid-state battery manufacturing using high-vacuum machinery. And the
company says its processes can be used to make cells big enough to
power electric vehicles.'

http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/25825/

AutoblogGreen Q&A with Transonic Combustion: Can supercritical fluids give a 30% mpg boost? - Autoblog Green

http://i.green.autoblog.com/2010/08/26/autobloggreen-qanda-with-transonic-combustion-can-supercritical-f/

The comments at the end of the article are interesting.

I should point out that the Mythbusters created a car covered in golf
ball dents, and despite being heavier, got better gas mileage.


Thursday, September 16, 2010

Fwd: iPSCs



From: larry.r.trout
Date: September 16, 2010 8:48:38 AM MDT
Subject:
iPSCs

'Human embryonic stem cell research is the $10,000 toilet seat of the 21st century. Years ago, science created a cell that appears to be, in the words of an MIT study published last month, "virtually identical" to an embryonic stem cell but is cheaper, promises better compatibility to patients and kills no embryos.

These new induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) "do all the things embryonic stem cells do," explains the father of human embryonic stem cells James Thomson. Harvard's David Scadden agrees that iPSC technology "is absolutely changing the field." IPSCs "perhaps even eliminate the need for human embryos as a source of stem cells," says Keisuke Kaji of the University of Edinburgh. IPSCs even caused the man who cloned Dolly the sheep to abandon cloning three years ago because "changing cells from a patient directly into stem cells has got so much more potential."

"The world has changed," Thomson told The Boston Globe in 2007. "Human embryo stem cell research will be abandoned by more and more labs." …

As CBS News reported on August 2, adult stem cells appear to have the ability to stimulate tissue repair and to suppress the immune system.

"That gives adult stem cells really a very interesting and potent quality that embryonic stem cells don't have," said Rocky Tuan, director of a cellular engineering institute at the University of Pittsburgh. '

http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/09/16/bowman.stem.cell.research/index.html?hpt=C2