energy

In my programme for the Cardiff v Newport this afternoon I saw an advert for Canterbury rugby equipment manufacturers' new "Ionised Energy Fabric". They say that "CCC BaseLayer IonX is revolutionary in apparel technology as it delivers ionic energy to the body through a negatively charged...

One for a patient physicist - coming from an electronics background I basically understand the emission of EM radiation/photons by oscillating charges, electron transition through a bandgap, nuclear decay and spontaneous emission, but can't seem to recall a conceptual mechanism for thermal, or...

The automated forum host keeps nagging me to post something, so here goes. Fire away. It involves an interesting little puzzle I thought you guys might like to take a stab at. The other day our local television station in one of those promotions designed to show how "green" the station is...

I was recently re-reading David Bodanis' "E=mc squared". He explained somewhat vaguely how Einstein had discovered the link between matter and energy, and said that if you wanted to know more, you could go to Bodanis' web site and the full rationale for Einstein's conclusions would be explained...

First, watch this... Now, let's discuss. I say no. Moonlight is simply reflected sunlight, polarized by reflection IIRC (and I may very well be mistaken on that one), and according to that paragon of information Wikipedia, about 1/400 000 (or .00025%) as intense as sunlight. Of course...

I just found this interesting article on Cnet's news.com (copy&paste begins here since I can't post links) "Ethanol from coal? If it works, it could solve three major problems for the energy industry. Researchers at Louisiana State University, along with colleagues from Clemson University and...

You thought you'd heard every bird-brained theory about 9/11? Well, this guy has a new one for you. The Pentagon was designed to channel energy. It extends 4,000 feet below the surface. Don't be fooled by what the Man has told you. http://www.youtube.com/v/Y9cyYZixW54

I briefly considered posting this under the Conspiracy forum, but the core of my question is pure science, so here it stays. One of the CT theories about the destruction of the WTC involves the use of an antimatter weapon. I didn't know too much about antimatter, but the Wikipedia article is...

Hey guys Anyone on this board involved with national level energy data or modelling in your respective countries? My PhD is in this area and on the off chance there are some experts floating around on this board, I'd be interested in chatting to you! Cheers

http://www.energytower.org/index.html#calculations Looks quite complex. Can it work?

Hey. I had a discussion with a friend about matter and energy. I was under the impression that: - that matter and energy are fundamentally made out of the same stuff. - atoms are made of certain particles (electrons, protons, neutrons) which are actually exactly the same just in different...

Now I found this offer a bit dubious. But what say you, a genuinely working product or example of weird woo? I'm particularly wondering about that Energy Bar thing and am left wondering about their definition of "energy" Maybe Randi should invite Philips to apply for the million dollar price...

Hello I have a couple theories for perpetual motion. What would be good software for testing them. Free software would be better. Thank you for your time.

Can someone PLEEEEASE sit down with the believers and explain to them what ENERGY is???? This is from the Evil Skeptoid Debunkatron podcast (http://skeptoid.com): ======= The Evil Skeptoid Debunkatron is feeling a little low today, so he's going to tap into a source of energy from a...

I have a flashlight and a radio where it's sole source of power is my muscles turning a little lever on the radio and recharging it. Somehow the kinetic energy of my muscles is transferred into electricity and stored inside of the radio or flashlight. It only takes a few turns of the wheel to...

Hi, I've been a long time lurker here on the boards and when i ran across this link here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060818/bs_afp/irelandscienceenergy on the very front page of Yahoo! News I thought to myself "well better fire up the JREF forums and see what the evidence really indicates"...

Once again we have claims of free energy. They say they want the scientific community to have a look before they commercialize the product. Hey, why bother with the science, if you really have a magical device that makes energy why not just sell them. I'm sure the free market will respond well...

Hi I havent been around for a bit but like that bad penny :-) But I gots a serious question and Im hoping for some ideas. I come back cause I need some help on this, and this is a great place to get some creative thought. My friend who (I brought this up last time I was here) Im happy to say...

A couple of friends are thinking about taking a course in some kind of energy healing. I think they are interested in doing something fun and useful, possibly also searching for some meaning and purpose to what can seem an empty life. I’d like to nip this course of action in the bud, in hope of...

...so after hours and hours of debate between myself and local land owners, we arrived at a single conclusion; that there is really no way to tell how much electricity from any specific source costs. For example, a wind industry official claims that wind energy is cheaper than say solar energy...

In biology classes I attended the lessons on food and how we use it to move around was glossed over. It went something like: we break down the carbohydrates into glucose which feeds the ATP cycle and muscles use the ATP as an energy currency. Hence we can move. I'm wondering exactly how this...

In response to the article appearing in most major newspapers across the country concerning the $8.4 billion profit reported by Exxon. Concern over profits by this oil company has brought about accusations of gouging the American consumer. According to the article, "CEOs from Exxon and its...

Here is "Theories of Everything" TV show from a few years ago. Ian Bryce from Australian Skeptics talks about Free Energy, including Lutec. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2273648530729908279 Also see : http://www.lutec.com.au/ (coming soon, video about Benny Hinn in Sydney)

Watch the (translated) sample 'lessons' of his 'technique' on the Bronnikov web site. The hand motions that he uses to manipulate 'energy' are simply amazing. I truly feel sorry for people who can/have to/want to/will believe something as absurd as this and send this mountebank money. It's...

In the thread about hydrogen powered cars use of nuclear power to generate electricity (and then hydrogen) has been mentioned briefly. Here are my thoughts. Nuclear power will be an important source of energy over the next 100 years or so. However, early attempts to tap nuclear power were...

Just read this article from New Scientist: http://www.newscientist.com/channel/fundamentals/mg18925423.600.html Amazing stuff, really - in a few years the idea of Black Holes may turn out to have been no more substantial than canals on Mars. Essentially, the idea is that there is no such thing...

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=1644581 Aleternative energy lab jobs restored just prior to President's speech. Well, at least they got their jobs back for the moment, even if there isn't enough money for them to do their work. While I've been hoping for some broader thinking on...

Me & t'other half were enjoying a Saturday morning lie-in discussing the various methods of alternative energy production. And he posed me a couple of questions: 1) If we found a foolproof, cheap way of extracting hydrogen from water and started using it for all of our energy needs, what would...

Alright lets see this is my first post and I'm gonna make it good, or at least try. Has anyone heard of any known hypothetical ways to extract energy from gravity without resorting to fusion and massive bodies of matter. It should be possible but I haven't heard anything.

Dennis Lee is back on tour promoting products like "Magnetic Laundry Balls" that replace detergent and insulating paint, flat-proof tires, etc. Now Dennis is promoting a Multi Level Marketing Plan to let "dealers" or "recruiters" get rich selling products. Dennis also claims he can make a...