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[June 19, 2008]

Sound Walls on Freeways as Energy Collectors

Filed under: Technology Stuff — @ 2:55 pm

Cruising down our Freeways, Highways and Toll Ways we often see large walls to block the sound to residential neighborhoods on the other side. This is to insure they are able to live in peace and quiet, indeed these sound walls work quiet well, however ask any tow truck driver what he thinks? The noise is kept on the freeway and the wind blows like a venturi down in between, making his job a living hell. These sound walls should be dual purpose instead of merely a wall for keeping peace. We all know walls do not keep the peace of mankind alone.

Wind blowing down and sped up between these walls gives you the perfect scenario to collect wind energy with wind turbines. Large walls like this could also be used to collect sunlight at different times of the day. The vibrational energy is also quite significant and it too can be collected and used for lighting of road signs, streetlights and warning displays. How so you ask; how can we use this so-called vibrational energy to benefit us? Quite simply actually, using some old technology, which is being revived today.

By placing large sandwich sheets with a taunt film on the vibrational side and small copper lined tubes, hundreds of them running perpendicular to the sheets, with magnets inside bouncing back and forth. These magnets will charge a capacitor and be hooked up to an LED lighting system using fiber optics or reflectors, each one hooked up to a .2 to .5 watt light. With hundreds of thousands of lights hooked up in a composite format it will light up the roadway and since the lights can shine down on the road in the direction of traffic it would be like daylight without the light pollution associated with street lights in large cities.

Currently this technology is being used in those little flashlights you see advertised on television that you shake and they light, but you never need batteries. This idea of lighting up the freeways is using that technology on a larger scale with miniaturized parts making up the guts between the sandwich sheets. Let there be light, thru vibrational energy and there was. Think on it.

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[May 13, 2008]

How Do Reverse Osmosis Water Filters Work?

Filed under: Technology Stuff — @ 4:29 pm

When trying to understand the concept of reverse osmosis water filtration, it is important that one first understands what ordinary osmosis is. Osmosis is the diffusion of a solvent through a selectively permeable membrane. The solvent passes from low solute concentration through the membrane to solution with the higher solute concentration. The process sounds complex although like many scientific processes, it can be easier to understand when it is in practice.

The human body is the perfect place to begin looking at the process of osmosis and thus take our first step toward understanding reverse osmosis. Osmosis is the primary means by which water is transported for use in the human body. The process of osmosis is the way that water is able to enter and exit cells. Effectively, equilibrium is reached between the concentration of water within the cell and in the blood. This application of osmosis is extremely functional although the process of reverse osmosis has become attractive for the purpose of water filtration.

Essentially the most significant difference between normal osmosis and reverse osmosis lies in pressure. To enable reverse osmosis, artificial pressure is applied to a quantity of polluted water. The pressure that is applied must be in excess of that which allows regular osmosis. This pressure forces the dirty water to pass through a semi-permeable membrane which traps undesired pollutants and allows only pure water to pass through. The successful application of reverse osmosis has realized new levels of water purity and more importantly, the technology is applicable to a variety of scales for use. In fact, http://www.osmosis1.com reports that reverse osmosis systems are now packaged for use in everything from city water supplies to in home water coolers. Furthermore, such home coolers have shown to be competitive in cost comparisons with their conventional water filtration counterparts.

So far industry has proven that reverse osmosis can be used in desalination and also for the purification of effluent, grey and brackish water. These applications appear to be a bastion of hope for a world that is clearly struggling to match the demand for water from a growing population.

The author is a regular contributor to http://www.osmosis1.com and permission to reproduce this article is given only on the basis that all links remain active and intact.

[May 4, 2008]

Ark of The Covenant - explained

Filed under: Technology Stuff — @ 5:55 pm

Hold on to your hat! Here comes one of the most, incredible stories of ancient technology, which ranks alongside the use of atomic forces and the ‘Lost Chord’. Needless to say the editors of Scientific American who denied the Wright brothers had achieved airborne flight for months after Kitty Hawk won’t or wouldn’t believe this ‘doozy’. I think it is a very good explanation that is part of something even more fantastic which explains the existence of accurate maps from over ten thousand years ago. But I also think these maps might have been the work of Mungo Man or the De Danaan they worked with.

The other possibility that would explain their existence relates to Lhasa and a spacecraft which Churchward as well as Brugger’s The Chronicles of Akakor recounts from such things as the Lhasa Record which may only exist in the Akashic. If you have a better explanation I’d like to hear from you. Is it not important to explain such proven anomalies? Especially when they integrate with things we don’t want to admit about man’s far more advanced nature in ancient times. If we have blown each other apart before or created hyperviruses such as what killed the Mammoth (A current research underway by the American Museum of Natural History thinks it can be proven such a virus killed many large animals and that humans were the carrier.); does it warrant asking our leaders if they knew these things or why they didn’t tell us? We are certain that our knowledge is not exclusive or even complete in these matters. Yet perhaps few people know how many disciplines and areas of how lives are under such oppressive control.

The maps themselves are dealt with under the Portolan Maps entry in greater detail and at this point we think it relevant to our discussion of the ARK to bring the Pyramid into the possibility of advanced prior civilizations on earth. Michael Bradley is a map expert and a good scholar whose work we have quoted before.

“Centre of the Earth’s Land Mass, etc.

This is an important concept and I will explain to the best of my ability. It will be easier to appreciate somewhat better the truly significant placement of the Giza complex.

First let’s consider two squares. One is 100 square units (miles, kilometres, or whatever) in area, the other twice as large, 200 square units in area.

{He illustrates two squares with pyramids on top from an overhead perspective with a line connecting the centre points or apex of the pyramids. Under the smaller square are 10 units and under the larger square is the figure 14.85 units. The 100 and 200 unit figures as mentioned are further repeated further under these two squares.}

We will find their respective centres by drawing diagonals. Where the diagonals intersect is the centre of each square. Together, these squares represent three units of the largest common denominator–100 square miles. So we’ll draw a line, divided equally into three parts, between the centres of the two squares. Since one square is twice the size of the other, we will mark off two of the equal parts towards the larger square. This is the centre of their combined areas, given their distance apart. If they were closer together, or further apart, the point would fall elsewhere. Please note that this point is above the centre of the small square but below the centre of the larger one. It is a true geometric centre of the two areas that are separated by this given and arbitrary distance.

It is possible to ascertain the area of an irregular shape, although it is much more difficult to do than using squares.

The largest continent, Eurasia, happens to be about twice the land area of the American continents. These continents are separated by oceans. One can divide the separation into three equal parts, just as above, and find the ‘centre of these two land masses.’

Taking this point, we can calculate Africa into the picture the same way. Africa is about 25% the area of Eurasia and the Americas combined. Therefore, the distance from Africa’s geographic centre to the Eurasia-Americas’ centre will be divided into five equal parts (i.e. the ‘4′ represented by Eurasia-Americas, and the ‘1′(25%) represented by Africa’s area). Marking off four of these five divisions towards the Eurasia-Americas’ centre, since this centre represents a combined land mass four times as large as Africa, will yield a new point, which is geometric, in this case ‘geographic’, centre of Eurasia-Americas-Africa combined. If we continue this process with the remaining large and small land masses–Antarctica, Australia, Greenland, New Guinea, Java, Sumatra, etc. –we will eventually arrive at a ‘centre of the earth’s land masses.’ It will be as accurate as our method, plus the arbitrary inclusion of ever smaller islands, will make it.

A meticulous calculation of such a ‘centre’ will result in a point directly on the meridian (longitude) of the Great Pyramid but 6′ (minutes) south of the Great Pyramid–but there’s only sand in that location. The Giza Plateau is the first solid bedrock on the correct meridian {And Archaeology Magazine had the temerity to suggest the builders were merely imitating natural landforms with the Sphinx and Pyramid in last months issue.}. It is 6′ in error from the true centre.

Sixty seconds of 101.3 English feet = l’ (minute) of arc, 6080 feet on the equator = 1 nautical mile, whereas one ‘common’ or ‘highway’ (’statute’) mile equals 5280 English feet. A nautical ‘knot’ is one nautical mile (6080 English feet) per hour of time; it is a unit of speed measurement, not of static distance.

Sixty minutes = 1 degree of arc, or 60 nautical miles at the equator. The Earth’s equatorial circumference contains 360 degrees or 21,600 nautical miles = 24,872.73 common or statute miles.

All this sounds deceptively precise! In fact, of course, standardization of the length of the English foot, and therefore of seconds, minutes and degrees of arc, was not accomplished until the 1750s–and the size of the Earth was not measured correctly at that time. Just as the French Academy made an error in fixing the length of the metre, which was supposed to be one ten-millionth part of the surface distance from the Earth’s equator to either pole, because they couldn’t measure the Earth accurately, so also the British Admiralty made inaccurate geographic measures. Nonetheless, these measures remain accurate enough for most practical purposes. Nowadays, units of measure are fixed by correlation to electromagnetic wave-lengths {Could the ancients have been able to attune with Gaia’s earth energy grid and send signals along it to record the time taken for a bounce back or echo?}. Since 1966, for example, the metre has been fixed as a division of the wave-length of Krypton 86.

A glance at the U. S. A. F. ‘Azimuthal Equidistant Projection’ Map of the world {see illustration in our section} will show that it is centred ‘near Cairo’–i.e., at the centre of the earth’s land masses, as calculated above, and precisely on the meridian of the Great Pyramid– but 36,480 English feet south of the Great Pyramid at the true centre, which falls in an area of sand. A property of Azimuthal Equidistant Projection is that a circle drawn around any given point will have a circumference incorporating points of geography that are truly equidistant from the centre of the circle–the airplane or ship. This is not the case with large-scale maps drawn on the common Mercator projection {John Dee studied with Mercator and achieved high status in this field.}, which gives accurate longitudes and latitudes of all geography but must distort the polar regions in order to do so. It is also not the case with the Phillips projection, used by the UN, which shows the land area of countries in true proportion to each other but must distort the longitudes and latitudes near the equator in order to do so. These distortions arise from the problem of transferring the curved surface of a spherical Earth onto a flat piece of paper–the best that can be done is to know, and to choose, the kind of distortion that best serves any given need.

The location of the Great Pyramid at the centre of the Earth’s land masses, unless it is truly a coincidence, implies the following. First, its builders knew the geography and size of the Earth quite accurately because they could not otherwise calculate the correct centre of land - masses. Second, they chose Egypt because the centre is there {It would be quite coincidental that they were Egyptian as well.}, and this means that Ancient Egyptian civilization may have arisen because of lingering cultural influences as well as because of the supposed advantages conferred by the Nile. Third, the three pyramids of the Giza complex, including the Sphinx, were built by someone other than the Ancient Egyptians–unless we are willing to grant them advanced knowledge as well–but then we must contend with the various correlations at Giza that all point to 10,500 B.C. as the origin of the Giza complex {I’ll grant this date or 2,000 years later for the Sphinx, as well as the whole complex being designed at this time. I believe the capstones were used before the final Pyramids were constructed. It would appear there were other pyramids built to imitate this ‘GREAT’ pyramid. The issue of the Brazilian pyramids is yet to be determined, and it is possible they are even more ‘fantastic’.}. Either the three pyramids and the Sphinx were built by an unknown culture long before the beginnings of Ancient Egypt, now dated as about 3200 B.C., or the Egyptians themselves have a much longer history than we think.” (13)

Clearly there are many entries this impinges upon that we continue to develop. Before making another brief quote from his notes and then moving on to the ARK (An arc-transmitter that allowed large ships to send information back to the Pyramid for the mapping purposes.), I should address some other correlations with the Phoenician Pythagoras and his studies of the Pyramid. Some authors note the nautilus sea creature has a natural configuration of the mathematical concept or construct known as ‘phi’. This is encapsulated in the Great Pyramid with its two complete tetrahedra. (Read Bucky Fuller’s COSMOGONY or SYNERGISTICS for further insight.). Thales also had a Phoenician parent and he is credited by the Hellenizing Empire as the father of all sciences, but he studied the Pyramid and learned much about his limited knowledge from it. We have (and continue) shown the DNN of Homer and the Dana worshipping Scythians, Kelts and Iberian/Basque and Berbers are part of the Phoenician ‘Brotherhood’ that greatly pre-dates Pythagoras’ ‘brother- hood’ or any Therapeutae and Great White Brotherhood. We are sure Churchward’s Mu and the Mungo Man are connected with this conglomerate which will lead to Harappan and Easter Island connections to Kelts and many other enterprises from the Grand Canyon to the Great Wall.

“Pi is the ratio of a circle’s diameter to its circumference, 1:3.14 or 7:22. Phi is the ratio of a line divided so that the length of the shorter segment bears the same relationship to the length of the longer segment as the longer segment bears to the whole undivided line, 1:1.618. This ‘Phi’ is sometimes called ‘The Golden Section’ {Key Masonic concept attributed to Pythagoras.} because there’s something inaffably pleasing about the ratio. It was used by many Renaissance artists such as Poussin {Bradley shows how his art incorporated scenes and people of import and coded to give knowledge of when the family of Jesus or Merovingians were safely settled in places like Montreal and one might think another artist did the same when they were in America long before Columbus at Kingston where he has geologic core samples to show European influence.}, Michelangelo and da Vinci {An alchemist like his mentor - check ‘The Dictionary of Alchemy’ by Mark Haeffner.}; it occurs in abstract mathematics, as in the Fibonacci Series of numerical progression; it occurs frequently in nature, for example in the successive length of segments of the chambered nautilus.” (14)

When I made my brief interruption earlier in reference to attunement with the earth energy grid and ‘echoes’ I was not being facetious. The vision Napoleon saw in the King’s Chamber may relate to this through a time portal not unlike the ‘Stone’ that Michel de Nostradamus (who grew up near Rennes le Chateau) was able to glimpse the confusing potentials of the unsubstantial future we can change through creative, purposeful and FREE WILL. The king’s chamber and the delta wave forms that a pyramid creates are part of the time structure and helical nature thereof (according to Al Bielek who has a time machine which a friend of mine has seen - more later). The possibility of what Bradley is about to say may have seemed even more likely than what I just wrote until the NEC labs at Princeton demonstrated 300X light speed last year (2001).

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[April 3, 2008]

Internet Addiction Disorder: a Review (Part 2)

Filed under: Technology Stuff — @ 1:30 pm

MODELS OF IAD

Clinical research on behavioral addictions has focused on compulsive gambling (8), overeating (11), and compulsive sexual behavior (12). Similar addiction models have been applied to technological overuse (24), computer dependency (25) and obsessive video game playing. These theories include psychodynamic and personality explanations, socio-cultural explanations, behavioral explanations, and biomedical explanations (26). Not all explain any addiction perfectly and some are better than others at explaining Internet addiction.

Diathesis-stress model

A dispositional model or diathesis-stress model of addiction might help in understanding IAD. Certain people, due to a variety of factors, may be predisposed (diathesis) to developing an addiction to something, be it alcohol, heroin, gambling, sex, shopping, or on-line computer services. If the right stressor, or combination of stressors, affects the person at a critical time, the person may be more inclined to develop an addiction.

Behavioral explanations

These explanations are based on B.F. Skinner’s studies on operant conditioning (27). The person performs a behavior and gets either rewarded or punished for the behavior. Behaviour that is rewarded is reinforced and the person intends to indulge in that behaviour more frequently. This again becomes reinforcing, and the cycle continues.

Biomedical explanations

According to this perspective, this would make someone susceptible to addiction (27). There is definitive research that shows that some drugs act to fill in the synaptic gaps of the neurons in the brain, fooling the brain into sending out faulty information. This, it is thought, is one reason for the “high” one gets from engaging in activities such as running, drug use, and gambling. This might apply to Internet addiction, since many opportunities on the Internet are fun and exciting.

What To Do If Addicted To The ‘Net?

Dealing with Internet Addiction is no different than dealing with any other type of addiction. All people who are addicted (to anything) have some degree of denial. Without denial, most addictions would not have become established in the first place. First, acknowledge the problem instead of denying when pointed by others around you or yourself. Don’t panic if established.

Second, just because there is a debate about the validity of this diagnostic category amongst professionals doesn’t mean there isn’t help for it. Don’t hesitate to ask for help. Addiction should never be viewed as a problem in and of itself. Addictions are much better viewed as a symptom of other underlying problems and deficiencies. One must look beyond the addiction itself and deal with underlying deficiencies in coping and life management skills that have given rise to it. If you have a life problem, or are grappling with a disorder such as depression, seek professional treatment for it. Once you admit and address the problem, other pieces of your life will fall back into place. Psychologists have studied compulsive behaviors and their treatments for years now, and nearly any well-trained mental health professional will be able to help you learn to slowly curve the time spent online, and address the problems or concerns in your life that may have contributed to your online overuse, or were caused by it.

It’s not the technology that is important or addicting — it’s the behavior. And behaviors are easily treatable by traditional cognitive-behavior techniques in psychotherapy (28).

Once you take on the challenge of dealing with any addiction, you will need to marshal your ability to successfully deal with temptation. If you don’t have a sense that you have this power to succeed, you can use your addiction as an opportunity to discover that you really do have this important capability.

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About the Author

Ms. Aditi Singh, M.A. (Psychology), M. Phil. (Medical & Social Psychology) is a Ph. D. Scholar at Central Institute of Psychiatry, Ranchi, India. She is an editor of www.mind.in and a contributor to www.psyplexus.com .


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