On Fusion Power Space Exploration And The Human Future
Fowler, T. Kenneth. The Fusion Quest. Baltimore, MD Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. A mostly nontechnical account of the fusion effort by a thirty-year veteran program leader. Gross, Robert A. Fusion Energy. New York Wiley, 1984. A technical book, heavy on the math and theory, but with some nontechnical and semitechnical parts accessible to the more general reader. Heppenheimer, T. A. The Man-Made Sun The Quest for Fusion Power. New York Little, Brown, 1984. Dated, but still worth...
Hitlers Last Gamble
The Ardennes offensive known to Americans as the Battle of the Bulge was Hitler's last throw of the dice. Every drop of fuel left in the Reich was scavenged to give the remaining Nazi Panzer divisions a final chance to engage in blitzkrieg mobile warfare. According to the plan, they would depend upon overcast December skies to negate Allied air superiority, and, with the advantage of surprise, break through the weak American infantry forces guarding the Ardennes forest to make a run for...
The Alcohol Economy Versus Narcoterrorism
We are making these drugs for Satan America and the Jews. If we cannot kill them with guns, we will kill them with drugs. Brazil is not known as a major center for narcoterrorism. However, nearly all of its neighbors including Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Uruguay are. While most of the money supporting the spread of Islamofascist terrorism comes from the Saudi royal family, Iran, and other OPEC sources, a significant amount is derived from trade in narcotics. If we are to...
Acknowledgments
I wish to acknowledge the help of my colleagues at Pioneer Astronautics Mark Berggren, Nick Jameson, Dan Harber, James Kil-gore, Heather Rose, Tony Muscatello, Cherie Wilson, Stacey Carrera, Douwe Bruinsma, and Emily Bostwick-White for many useful technical discussions that have helped to sharpen the contents of this book. Thanks also to Professor Louis Putterman of Brown University for providing advice on economic aspects of the matter, and to the very knowledgeable international trade writer...
On World Wars I And Ii
Churchill, Winston. The Second World War. New York Houghton Mifflin, 1948. A titanic five-volume history of the war by the greatest of the war leaders. -. The World Crisis, 1911-1918. New York Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931. Reprint, New York Free Press, 2005. Eisenhower, John S. D. The Bitter Woods The Battle of the Bulge. New York G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1969. Well written, but I prefer Toland's earlier and more GI-centered account, cited below. Ferguson, Niall. The War of the World...
Methanol And Automobile Safety
When discussing vehicle fuels, a key issue is safety. Fuels are, by definition, flammable, and thus, to a certain degree, intrinsically hazardous. However, alcohols in general are safer than gasoline, with methanol being the safest fuel of all. Ethanol and methanol both have a much lower vapor pressure than gasoline, which means they produce much less combustible fumes. Not only that, but methanol fumes must be four times as concentrated as gasoline fumes in air for ignition to take place. As...
How Opec Works
In order to wreck OPEC, it is first necessary to understand how it works. OPEC is an open conspiracy, in which representatives of the rulers of eleven kleptocracies Algeria, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, and Venezuela get together at periodic meetings and decide what the world price for oil should be, and then assign production quotas to each so as to force the price to that level. This is very different from the way business is...
Focus Section Alcohol Alchemy
OPEC currently holds the world in a stranglehold because it controls the source of our liquid fuels. As we have seen, we can break this critical dependence by moving to the alcohol economy. However, petrochemicals are currently used not just to make fuel, but to produce plastics, synthetic fibers, and many other materials that, since their advent in the mid-twentieth century, have become vital to our civilization. If we are to truly destroy the financial power of the terror bankers, we must...
Crops For The Alcohol Harvest
In the United States a strong young ethanol industry is rapidly growing based upon ethanol produced from corn. In Brazil sugarcane is already serving as the base for an ethanol fuel industry so large that it has made the country energy independent. But these are by no means the only crops that could serve as ethanol resources. Other attractive ethanol crops include sweet sorghum, sugar beets, fodder beets, wheat, barley, rye, rice, sorghum, Irish potatoes, cassava, sweet potatoes, yams, taro,...
Http Www.gcrio.org Consequences Vol4nol Carbcycle.html
1. Based on the 1 4 power law, Venus's absolute temperature should be 1.19 times as great as Earth's. Multiplying this factor by a typical Earth temperature of 283 K 10 C or 50 F , we get an absolute temperature of 337 K for Venus, which is equal to 64 C or 147 F. 2. The Impact Team, The Weather Conspiracy The Coming of the New Ice Age New York Ballantine Books, 1977 . 3. Stephen Schneider and Randi Londer, The Coevolution of Climate and Life San Francisco, CA Sierra Club Books, 1984 . 4....
Muslim World League
Headquartered in the Saudi capital city of Riyadh, the Muslim World League MWL was founded in 1962 as the semiofficial organization for the global dissemination of Wahhabism. The head of the MWL is a Saudi government minister, its board is composed largely of the Saudi ulama recognized religious leadership , and it is funded directly by the Saudi state. According to the Supreme Islamic Council for the United States, it functions as the world headquarters for extremist Islamic networks.12 The...
Defeating Global Warming
We have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we may have. Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest. Dr. Stephen Schneider, leading proponent of global warming theory, Discover magazine, October 1989 No matter if the science is all phony, there are collateral environmental benefits Climate change provides the greatest chance to bring about justice and equality in the world....
CHAPTER Qaz
1. George Olah, Alain Goeppert, and G. K. Surya Prakash, The Methanol Economy Weinheim, Germany Wiley-VCH, 2006 , pp. 3, 100, 121. See also EIA statistics at accessed April 5, 2007 . 2. William Sweet, Kicking the Carbon Habit Global Warming and the Case for Renewable and Nuclear Energy New York Columbia University Press, 2006 . 3. H. Keith Florig, China's Air Pollution Risks, Environmental Science and Technology 32, no. 6 1997 274-79. 4. World Coal Institute, Clean Coal Building a Future...
The Brazilian Experience
In many ways, Brazil is a microcosm of the world. Its diverse, multiracial society includes wealthy sophisticates with educations, ideas, and living styles mirroring those of New York or Paris unionized blue-collar industrial workers not too different from those of Detroit or the German Ruhr Valley and urban slum dwellers, rural peasants, and downtrodden aborigines whose poverty and desperation fully match their counterparts throughout the third world. The nation's annual gross domestic product...
Is Global Warming Real
It's hard to know the global temperature, since the actual temperature is always different from place to place, and the average temperature derived from a large number of stations can be severely skewed by the choice of location of the measuring stations. Nevertheless, serious efforts to assign an average global temperature through sys tematic worldwide thermometer readings have been made since about 1858. The data from this century-and-a-half-long global research program initiated by the...
Empowering The Future
There are no ends, limits or walls that can bar us or ban us from the infinite multitude of things. Giordano Bruno, On the Infinite Universe and Worlds, 1584 We believe that free labor, that free thought, have enslaved the forces of nature, and made them work for man. We make the old attraction of gravitation work for us we make the lightning do our errands we make steam hammer and fashion what we need The wand of progress touches the auction-block, the slave-pen, the whipping post, and we see...