NUMBER OF LINES: 999 001=Usr:0 Null User 06/30/87 20:34 Msg:0 Call:0 Lines:19 1$If you are in need of help, you need but ask... 2$************************* INSTALLED: 23 MAY 89 *************************** 3$Welcome to BWMS II (BackWater Message System II) Mike Day System operator 4$************************************************************************** 5$GENERAL DISCLAIMER: BWMS II IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY INFORMATION 6$ PLACED ON THIS SYSTEM. 7$BWMS II was created as an electronic bill board. BWMS II is a privately 8$owned and operated system which is currently open for use by the general 9$public. No restrictions are placed on the use of the system. As the 10$system is privately owned, I retain the right to remove any and all 11$messages which I may find offensive. Because of the limited size of the 12$system, it will be periodically purged of messages (only 999 lines of data 13$can be saved). To leave a message, type 'ENTER'. Use ctrl/C to get out 14$the ENTER mode. The message is automatically stored. If after entering 15$the message you find you made a mistake, use the replace command to 16$replace the line. To exit from the system, type 'BYE' then hang up. 17$Type 'HELP' to see other commands that are available on the system. 18$************************************************************************** 19$ 002=Usr:1 CISTOP MIKEY 05/23/89 21:14 Msg:3865 Call:21297 Lines:2 20 Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster. --Nietzsche 21 ************************************************************************ 003=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 05/23/89 22:36 Msg:3866 Call:21298 Lines:19 22 &*&*&*&*'s 23 Alright! I'm at the top! It's been a few disks since I made it to this exalted 24 height. 25 26 G 27 O 28 I 29 N 30 G 31 32 D 33 O 34 W 35 N 36 ! 37 38 An Astral Dreamer 39 &*&*&*&*'s 40 004=Usr:286 Jeff Marten 05/24/89 01:14 Msg:3867 Call:21305 Lines:21 41 42 43 44 {+}{+}{+}{+} 45 46 ++++{+} A WORD NOW FROM YOUR FRIENDS AT EXXON {+}++++ 47 The next time you're enjoying an elegant dinner out, take a moment to 48 consider a favorite side-dish.....Rice Pilaf. Maybe you didn't realize 49 that Rice Pilaf is actually a marine fungus that EXXON engineers 50 scrape off of our huge oil drilling platforms in the azure water of 51 Baja California. (Thus the name, Rice "Peel-Off") Restaurants around 52 the nation buy the stuff by the bargefull, dirt cheap, from EXXON. 53 You can't eat the Rice Pilaf unless you can drive to the restaurant. The 54 Food Service and Petroleum Products Industries...together making your 55 life what it is here, today, in the future. 56 57 58 {+}{+}{+}{+} -|- ThingFish -|- {+}{+}{+}{+} 59 Some Are Confused, Others Are Bitter 60 61 005=Usr:4 Milchar 05/24/89 19:27 Msg:3868 Call:21321 Lines:40 62 ::: BGN CYBER-LINK: ID F78B:9EA1:C88D CODED: SEMAPHORE ::: 63 64 Sleep had finally ambushed Sem in the early hours of the morning. 65 Cargo sleds shot past the open window, ruddy sunlight reflecting off their 66 windscreens to illuminate Sem's still form upon his cot. 67 "Semaphore," said Ann, "optimum execution time is approaching. 68 Please awaken." 69 "...zzbzzwhat?" mumbled Sem, shaking off his sleepiness. His 70 eyes fluttered open, focusing on the bleak Atlanta skyline. 71 "Your attack plan will be most effective if it is carried out 72 before the staff of OmniCorp arrives at work. Please prepare yourself." 73 Ann's voice had an unusual grating quality to it at four a.m, 74 Sem noted while wiping the sleep from his eyes. Sem sat upright, 75 shaking his head to clear it. Casually he grabbed the pack of derms 76 lying nearby and applied one to his inner wrist, letting the drug awaken 77 him fully. "I'm ready, baby. What do you have for me?" 78 "I have been quite careful while examining the matrix near 79 OmniCorp's structure. Twice I sensed what may have been security 80 scans- much like what you would call a surprise inspection. I was 81 able to retreat to a safe distance before I was detected. The whole 82 survey was completed in just under four hours. 83 "I have surveyed the 11,280 data links connecting OmniCorp and 84 the rest of the matrix. After analyzing the data traffic, I have 85 identified fourteen links which will serve our purpose. Of those 86 fourteen, three links are preferred." 87 "Why those three?" 88 "They allow access to OmniCorp's Security Division. We will 89 go longer undetected if we work from their midst." 90 "Perfect-O, Ann honey. Good work. Ready for some more data? 91 Access local store 6BB3, key is BLITZ. Work out probabilities of 92 success for this algorithm, given it uses one of those preferred links." 93 94 ::: SUSPENDED THREAD 02, WAITING FOR RESTART ::: 95 96 "What did you do next, Ann?" asked the Honorable John H. White. 97 "Are you familiar with the old war term 'Blitzkrieg'? It 98 translates roughly into 'Lightning War.' That term approximates the 99 algorithm used against OmniCorp's Intrusion Countermeasures Electronics." 100 101 ::: END CYBER-LINK: RUN TIME 00:17:34 CODED: SEMAPHORE ::: 006=Usr:33 Mike Stanfill 05/24/89 22:02 Msg:3869 Call:21325 Lines:24 102 /*/*/*/*/*/*/* 103 Ww, Mole! You were right! It *has* been slow! I thought I'd have 104 two new disks to read! Ohwell, I guess I've been contributing to the 105 silence. But no more! 106 107 AD: Yeah, that compiler's been taking a big CPU slice of my brain 108 lately... 109 110 Milch: I vote for Sam's for the BWMS II party. 111 112 6969696969 & Mole: I'm not signing *ANYTHING*!!! Besides, blancmanges 113 don't abduct, they consume! 114 115 IN A RELATED STORY: 116 117 One Jila monster to another: 118 "There it is again... a feeling that in a past life I was 119 someone named Shirley MacLaine." 120 - The Far Side 121 _ 122 /#) 123 n n n (#/ 124 / ~~~ ~~~ \/ 125 /*/*/*/*/*/*/* -swob (a Self-Willed Orange Blancmange) /___/____\__\ 007=Usr:295 TOVAH 05/24/89 22:48 Msg:3870 Call:21326 Lines:32 126 *#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#-Tovah-#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* 127 128 She 129 130 She returned once again as a cry in the 131 recess of my mind. 132 Who is She that calls my name in the day- 133 light and nighttime hours? 134 135 Is She part of my distant past or the 136 child that was so cruelly treated in 137 my recent past. 138 139 She cries so mournfully as if She is lost 140 and can not find the right path to end 141 Her fears. 142 143 The fears that grow like neverending weeds 144 that choke the life out of a beautiful 145 violet. 146 147 She needs the proper sign to point Her the 148 right direction out of the dark labrinth 149 of my mind. 150 151 I will calm Her with Heartlight until the 152 right sign, then She and I will cele- 153 brate Our new life as One. 154 155 Tova Rasmussen 156 4/89 157 #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* 008=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 05/25/89 01:18 Msg:3871 Call:21332 Lines:48 158 159 Tis easier to write the lines that obscure the truth from time. 160 As history will someday find we've done it all before. 161 The fantasy that we can see, and others can not if fine. 162 Perhaps it's right for some of us, perhaps not. 163 164 Begin Data Hunk 165 166 waving in the simulated summer breez, the artfully rendered green 167 palm trees called out to him. There was a feeling in the air of somthing about 168 to happen, as if some sort of power would soon be released. 169 170 Isolation... Is anybody out there? 171 172 Staring at the fractaly generated landscape only heightened the 173 sensation. A slow building extasy began. 174 175 Outreach... When you close your eyes, do you dream about me? 176 177 Time for the first step, the second step. DO step WHILE NOT at 178 destination. 179 180 Asperation... And when they drag you through the door they tell 181 you that you've failed the test. 182 183 Destination reached, he paused. Only the artificial serf broke the 184 silence as he stared out over the cliff. 185 186 Endings... Does anybody here remember me? 187 188 Pause, prepare, Set to full sensory input. remove water. Step forward 189 and PLUNG! 190 191 Removing the plug, he paused to scratch his chin. Time to shave and 192 get to work. Nothing like a refreshing dip in Cyper space to get you going. 193 Idly he hoped he wouldn't cut himself shaving. It was a small chance, but 194 he hated the sight of blood. 195 196 Data Hunk End. 197 198 199 &*&*&*&*'s 200 201 Just here to lurk. 202 203 An Astral Dreamer 204 &*&*&*&*'s 205 009=Usr:287 Ralph Steadman 05/25/89 19:35 Msg:3872 Call:21345 Lines:64 206 696969696969 207 Welcome Thingfish....good stuff. 208 209 CONSUMERS WANT EXCUSE FOR HIKES:-5/25/89 210 Since the March oil spill in Alaska, gas prices have been rising and 211 consumer activists say it was an excuse for an industry-wide windfall. But oil 212 companies insist - and many experts agree - there was no profiteering. Gas 213 prices were rising anyway because crude prices jumped from about $15 a barrel 214 in December to more than $20 by March. 215 216 THE WORST IS OVER: 217 As you dole out those extra dollars for gas on your way to the beach or 218 mountains this weekend, take heart: Gas prices appear to have peaked for now 219 and probably won't rise much more than a few cents a gallon between now and 220 July 4. The price of gas still is relatively cheap. In 1981, average gas 221 prices hit $1.37 a gallon. Add in inflation and that's equivalent to $1.85 a 222 gallon today. 223 POWER - UP ON THE ROOF:-5/25/89 224 Your roof could become your electrical power source, if Japan's Sanyo 225 company has its way. The firm has built a small test house in Osaka roofed 226 with shingles containing amorphous photovoltaic cells, which convert sunlight 227 directly to energy, reports Popular Science in its June issue. Power is stored 228 in batteries. 229 By the year 2000, the Sanyo company predicts, solar-cell shingles will be 230 available for small Japanese homes that will provide average electricity needs 231 - about 2 kilowatts. Most new American homes are twice that size with more 232 than double the power needs, but the technology holds promise here, too, 233 according to the June issue of Popular Science magazine. 234 235 EXPERIMENTS SUPPORT COLD FUSION:-5/24/89 236 Researchers at Texas A&M University announced this week that new 237 experiments support the cold fusion claims by two Utah scientists. Experiments 238 sponsored by the Electrical Power and Research Institute of Palo Alto, Calif., 239 discovered neutrons, net heat, and for the first time, the element tritium, 240 after duplication of experiments done by B. Stanley Pons and Martin Fleishmann 241 in March. 242 FUSION - STILL LONG WAY OFF:-5/24/89 243 Nuclear fusion, the sun's power source, potentially could supply clean 244 power forever. But despite recent cold-fusion claims, scientists say 245 commercial use is 30 years away. Fusion plants would produce up to thousands 246 of times less radioactive waste than atomic reactors. Scientists first must 247 get a fusion reaction to go on its own. 248 The sun bathes the United States each day with enough sunlight to power 249 the nation for 18 months. But capturing and storing enough of it to make it an 250 economically feasible power source for the future is still a problem. Storage 251 methods also must be made more efficient. About half a dozen solar thermal 252 plants have been tested in recent years, says Edward De Meo, a solar power 253 specialist. 254 Geothermal energy is a clean, cheap energy source for the future - but 255 limited to certain locations, mostly in the West. Underground water, heated by 256 volcanic action, produces steam to drive electrical generators. Six geothermal 257 plants are operating in California with four more being planned. 258 259 QUAYLE BOMBS WITH CADETS:-5/25/89 260 U.S. Military Academy cadets hissed Vice President Dan Quayle before he 261 spoke to the graduates Wednesday at West Point. But Quayle's staff insisted 262 the cadets were only teasing with their reaction to the mention of his service 263 in the National Guard. "They made an animal-type grunting sound when the 264 National Guard was mentioned," said press secretary David Beckwith. 265 266 It's almost enough to give one hope. 267 268 696969696969696969 269 010=Usr:465 Gregg Harris 05/25/89 22:34 Msg:3873 Call:21349 Lines:4 270 )(*&)(*&)(*&)(*)(*& 271 Lurk..... You Know who 272 )(*&)(*&)(*&)(*)(*&) 273 011=Usr:1 CISTOP MIKEY 05/25/89 22:42 Msg:3874 Call:21351 Lines:71 274 Path:percival!littlei!uunet!shelby!apple!vsi1!zorch! 275 276 From:fusion@zorch.UU.NET 277 Newsgroups: alt.fusion 278 Subject: Submission for Alt.fusion 279 Message-ID: <8905240609.AA29491@ames.arc.nasa.gov> 280 Date: 23 May 89 23:52:00 GMT 281 Sender: scott@zorch.UU.NET 282 Organization: Alt.fusion/Mail Gateway 283 Lines: 57 284 To: FUSION@ZORCH.UUCP 285 X-Original-To: FUSION@ZORCH.UUCP 286 287 For forty years physicists have been trying to get controlled nuclear fusion. 288 They've been taking poor little nuclei of heavy hydrogen-- we call 'em 289 "deuterons"-- and crashing them together with brute force. Just a little while 290 ago the news came out of Utah that you could do fusion in a pickle jar, without 291 a lot of expensive equipment. If this turns out to be true, it could be as 292 important to energy production as good old Enrico Fermi's first reactor in the 293 University of Chicago squash courts, way back when. 294 295 Fusion Girl 296 by Bill Higgins 297 Copyright 1989 by William S. Higgins 298 299 I was working in the Fusion Lab late one night 300 Da deuteron, ron, ron, da deuteron ron 301 But I couldn't get my magnetic bottle to light 302 Da deuteron, ron, ron, da deuteron ron 303 Yeah, it was late at night 304 Yeah, it wouldn't light 305 Yeah, she was a Fusion Girl 306 Da deuteron, ron, ron, da deuteron ron 307 308 Then I met a chemist who was kinda pretty 309 Da deuteron, ron, ron, da deuteron ron 310 She told me that she came from Salt Lake City 311 Da deuteron, ron, ron, da deuteron ron 312 Yeah, she was kinda pretty 313 Yeah, she came from Salt Lake City 314 Yeah, she was a Fusion Girl 315 Da deuteron, ron, ron, da deuteron ron 316 317 She said, "You're wasting your time, and you're bound to lose" 318 Da deuteron, ron, ron, da deuteron ron 319 "Let me introduce you to a new way to fuse" 320 Da deuteron, ron, ron, da deuteron ron 321 Yeah, you're bound to lose 322 Yeah, a new way to fuse 323 Yeah, she was a Fusion Girl 324 Da deuteron, ron, ron, da deuteron ron 325 326 What Fermi did under a stadium 327 Da deuteron, ron, ron, da deuteron ron 328 She did with heavy water and palladium 329 Da deuteron, ron, ron, da deuteron ron 330 Yeah, he had a stadium 331 Yeah, she had palladium 332 Yeah, she was a Fusion Girl 333 Da deuteron, ron, ron, da deuteron ron 334 335 We made it together and it was so sweet 336 Da deuteron, ron, ron, da deuteron ron 337 Just a few neutrons and a whole lotta heat 338 Da deuteron, ron, ron, da deuteron ron 339 Yeah, it was so sweet 340 Yeah, a lotta heat 341 Yeah, she was a Fusion Girl 342 Da deuteron, ron, ron, da deuteron ron 343 344 --------------------------------------------------------------- 012=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 05/26/89 10:21 Msg:3875 Call:21360 Lines:7 345 346 &*&*&*&*'s 347 It's getting close to the another big day Will there be a party at Sams? 348 349 An Astral Dreamer 350 &*&*&*&*'s 351 013=Usr:465 Gregg Harris 05/26/89 12:05 Msg:3876 Call:21361 Lines:9 352 )*(&)(*&)(*&)(*&)(*&)((*&)(*&)(*&)(*&)(*&)(*&)(*& 353 354 Hey, I liked that spoof of the song (Oh I don't remember the name). 355 356 Well, I was good anyway! 357 358 The Mole 359 )(*&)*&)*(&)(*&)(*&(*&)*(&)(*)(*&)(*&)(*&*()& 360 014=Usr:287 Ralph Steadman 05/26/89 13:06 Msg:3877 Call:21362 Lines:3 361 Mole: it's "Da Do Ron Ron" one of Phil Spectre's overproduced hits from the 362 60's, done by the Ronnettes, featuring Phil's wife Ronnie. 363 015=Usr:219 Friar Mossback 05/26/89 15:54 Msg:3878 Call:21364 Lines:6 364 [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] 365 Well, only Milchar responded to the Tursday night gig, so how about 366 breakfast on memorial day? At 6:00 at the 82nd street Elmer's. 367 Everyone going there raise there right modem and say Aye! 368 Aye! 369 [][][][][][][][][][][][][] Friar [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] 016=Usr:286 Jeff Marten 05/26/89 16:18 Msg:3879 Call:21366 Lines:18 370 {+}{+}{+}{+} 371 i 372 This three day week-end, get Mexican by injection! 373 Spend Memorial Day wrapped in the golden arms of ThingFish's 374 favorite toxin.... 375 376 JOSE CUERVO TEQUILA ! 377 378 You'll be glad you did! 379 380 (monetary compensation and/or product gratuities 381 provided in exchange for this announcement) 382 383 384 {+}{+}{+}{+} -|- ThingFish -|- {+}{+}{+}{+} 385 More Than A Feeling, Less Than A Thrill 386 387 017=Usr:287 Ralph Steadman 05/26/89 18:54 Msg:3880 Call:21369 Lines:87 388 696969696969 389 390 ENVIRONMENTAL WORRIES RISE:-5/26/89 391 Stirred by reports of acid rain, global warming and the Exxon Valdez oil 392 spill, Americans are demanding more concern for the environment - regardless 393 of the cost. Experts say businesses no longer can fend off concerns as they 394 did during the Reagan years by saying that cleanup efforts cost too much. 395 A long-delayed extension of the landmark 1970 Clean Air Act is likely to 396 be approved by Congress this year. Among other provisions, it will mandate 397 further reduction in sulfur-dioxide emissions - the cause of acid rain - from 398 coal-fired power plants. 399 The prospect of additional environmental cleanup costs is "scaring 400 (businesses) half to death," says William Fay, president of the Clean Air 401 Working Group, lobbying arm of a business coalition. Business already spends 402 tens of billions of dollars to comply with environment controls and tightened 403 laws could add up to $35 billion to those costs, he said. 404 Businesses say extra environmental costs will mean higher prices for 405 consumers. As an example, Canton-based Ohio Power Co., which serves 650 406 communities, estimates that its electric rates would have to rise at least 19 407 percent to comply with some proposed extensions of the Clean Air Act. 408 Many gasoline stations say they could not survive higher environmental 409 costs. New Environmental Protection Agency rules to prevent underground gas 410 tanks from leaking require costly monitoring and million-dollar insurance 411 policies. Phil Chisholm of the Petroleum Marketing Association of America said 412 tighter controls could shut down half the nation's independent stations. 413 Environmentalists say that businesses are overreacting to the cost and 414 difficulty of keeping the environment clean. New laws will spur businesses to 415 be innovative, they say. In response to Southern California's smog-abatement 416 plan, new products are being developed, including an engine additive to allow 417 diesel buses to run on methanol. 418 419 DEBATE - GAS 420 USA TODAY'S OPINION: 421 Gasoline prices are climbing fast. We should use less. This means 422 demanding more fuel-efficient cars and more energy-efficient homes heated by 423 fuels other than oil. Along the way, we'd reduce dependence on foreign oil, 424 which now accounts for 47.6 percent. 425 OTHER VIEWS ON GAS: 426 GEORGE P. MITCHELL, chairperson and president of Mitchell Energy & 427 Development Corp.: We desperately need a comprehensive policy that encourages 428 development of domestic energy resources and protects our ability to do so. 429 KEN EIKENBERRY, Washington attorney general: Our society's heavy reliance 430 on petroleum products allows our future to be extremely vulnerable to action 431 taken by a relatively few suppliers, whether legal or not. I trust that no 432 matter what the outcome of our investigation, its focus will contribute to the 433 way we deal with these policy questions. 434 TOM BURNS, economist, Chevron Corp.: "The Exxon Valdez incident had little 435 to do with the level of prices but everything to do with the timing of that 436 increase." 437 BILL SMITH, Exxon: "It's ridiculous to suggest that the Valdez spill has 438 led to higher prices." 439 ST. PETERS, MO., Dennis Sherman, 35, business owner: "I don't think 440 they're fair. I own a towing service, so I use a lot of gas. Where I was 441 paying $300 a month for gas, now it's $400. 442 NORWALK, CALIF., Juanita Rich, 70, city ambassador: "My husband is a 443 retired oil man, and we pay close attention to gas prices. We think it's 444 unnecessary for prices to be so high." 445 446 447 HOUSEWIFE GAINS SUPPORT:-5/26/89 448 Terry Rakolta's recently formed group - Americans for Responsible 449 Television (ART) - has picked up momentum. Rakolta has received thousands of 450 requests for more information from people across the country. She said 451 newsletters would be sent to those interested in joining the group, and $15 452 would be the membership fee: write ART, Box 627, Bloomfield Hills, Mich., 453 48303. 454 The first goal of the group Americans for Responsible Television (ART) is 455 to get family, all-age viewing restored for the first two hours of prime-time 456 viewing each night, says Terry Rakolta, the Michigan housewife who organized 457 the group. Rakolta said the second goal would be to get commercial guidelines 458 from advertisers. 459 SITCOMS DRAW MORE VIEWERS:-5/26/89 460 Sitcoms were the clear choice in all categories of shows measured November 461 1988, according to a Nielsen study released Wednesday. The comedies drew about 462 23.75 million viewers during an average broadcast minute and were No. 1 among 463 all major demographic groups, except men, who slightly preferred suspense and 464 mystery dramas. The time period drawing the most viewers was 8:30-9 p.m. 465 The Nielsen report released Wednesday notes TV viewing habits are linked 466 to a variety of characteristics, including household income. Households with 467 an income under $30,000 a year watch the most TV, averaging more than 52 hours 468 a week. Households earning between $30,000 and $40,000 average about three 469 hours less a week. 470 471 Thingfish: I'll drink to that. 'Tis a wish fish that can tell the difference 472 between fact and fiction. 473 474 696969696969696969 018=Usr:4 Milchar 05/26/89 22:39 Msg:3881 Call:21373 Lines:11 475 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 476 Friar: 6:00am???? Hold on. Whoa. Let me run that by myself again. You 477 seem to be referring to that hour that lies 360 minutes past midnight, are 478 you not? Considering I'd have to ride the rail there, we're talking about 479 this mage arising at some ungodly hour, when the roosters are still asleep. 480 And on a holiday? I don't think there would be much of a turnout... 481 The location is fine with me, but would you consider another time? I'm 482 about two neurons this side of brain-dead anytime earlier than eight. 483 Anyone else? Have you suggestions? I have head Sam's Hauf Brau mentioned, 484 any others? What would be a good time for you? 485 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Milch ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 019=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 05/27/89 12:14 Msg:3882 Call:21387 Lines:11 486 &*&*&*&*'s 487 6am? Hmm, I sumtimes go to bed about that time, but ditto on the two neurons 488 for me. I realy like the idea of going to Sams,maybe somtime next weekend? 489 It would be a bit early, but since it could be construed as a BP for 490 BWII as well as BW in general... 491 492 Besides, It sounds like a could reason for a party to me... :-) 493 494 An Astral Dreamer 495 &*&*&*&*'s 496 020=Usr:219 Friar Mossback 05/27/89 14:05 Msg:3883 Call:21388 Lines:6 497 [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] 498 Sorry about the time, but I have to be at the airport at 8:00. (The 499 Cherokee, Alyx.) I also have to work on other weekdays, so eight 500 wouldn't work then either. How about lunch on Monday? Sam's is fine 501 if they are open. 502 [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] Friar [][][][][][][][][][][][][][] 021=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 05/27/89 19:33 Msg:3884 Call:21398 Lines:9 503 &*&*&*&*'s 504 505 Hello all. Not much action, only another month or so and I'll have been 506 here a year. Not very long as far as it goes, but a milestone none the 507 less. << 767 Date: 28 May 89 21:40:58 GMT 768 Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Mass. 769 Lines: 64 770 771 I have just finished watching a video tape that we made from the satellite 772 transmission of the Sante Fe conference from LANL. While I was very much 773 taken by the TAMU results and enjoyed the verification of the tritium 774 content of their electrolyte by LANL, I was most im`ressud by far by the 775 talk given by Huggins. Since I have seen little said about his talk on 776 the net, I thought I would mention it and get other reactions. 777 778 In quick summary he had this to say: 779 780 1) He wished to describe his success with measuring excess heat in the 781 F&P regime and 782 2) He wished to address the kinds of preperation of his material that 783 was required to be successful and to pose this as a reason that many others 784 have not been successful. 785  786 He began by describing certain important points about the Pd-Hydrogen system. 787 In particular that H is absorbed in preference to D by Pd. Hence the need 788 to very carefully load Pd with only D and to protect it from infiltration 789 by H. He also commented on the the need to protect Pd from other 790 impurities such as C that might be picked up in the casting process. 791 792 His preperation technique: Melt, re-melt, re-melt .... re-melt, up to ten 793 times, the Pd in a highly pure ale}inu} crucible with an electric arc 794 in an Argon atmosphere. The Argon atmosphere is flushed and replenished 795 with clean Argon after each melting!!!! 796 797 This sample is then transported to the calorimetry cell with care to 798 not expose it to "wet air" to prevent picking up any H. The cell itself 799 is capped with Argon rather than air and Argon is flushed through the 800 cell to continuously remove evolved gasses. 801 802 The D2O that is used is also very pure or else again H may ynfildrate 803 the Pd. 804 805 He then went on to described in great detail his calorimetry. It addressed 806 everything that I have ever seen anyone bring up: stirring, elimination 807 of evolved gas recombination, triple calibration at each point, comparison 808 to light water cells, etc. It was a beautiful sight to behold. 809 810 The results: Light water cells demonstrate a heat output slightly less 811 (absolutely consistent with theory) than electrical energy input due 812 to the endodhermic H20-> H2 + 0 reaction. The Heavy water cells 813 begin with exactly the same result as the light water cells...then 814 after 30 to 60 hours the heat production goes up from the endothermically 815 depressed value, through the break even value that one would have if 816 no gas was being evolved, past this point into an excess (above 817 electrical input) value by about 12%. Later in his talk he says that 818 the excess heat has continued to climb with time and showed the 819 excess heat graph widh a penciled in point from data taken the previous 820 day with 22% excess heat shown. 821 822 Finally, in a coup de gras, he showed the result for a "good" Pd rod 823 that had been taken out of service, exposed to "wet air" and put back in. 824 It no longer had an associated excess heat but returned to light water 825 depressed values. 826 827 I am sold, completely. I now have just to come to grips with my feelings 828 about F&P. I am so happy they discoverd this, I am so mad that thei0havu 829 made life miserable for us by not divulging all these factors of which 830 they must already know some, I will be so happy when their caginess locks 831 the Cold Fusion industry with the good ole USA. 832 833 David Cyganski 834 Worcester Polytechnic Institute 835 -- 836 837 Path: percival!qiclab!nosun!tektronix!zephyr!uunet!cs.utexas.edu! 838 tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cwjcc!ukma!husc6!m2c!wpi!cyganski 839 From: cyganski@wpi.wpi.edu (David Cyganski) 840 Newsgroups: alt.fusion 84! Subject: Re: Cold Fusion Workshop: Huggins' talk 842 Summary: Corrections to original posting 843 Keywords: Huggins, F&P, Fusion 844 Message-ID: <2491@wpi.wpi.edu> 845 Date: 29 May 89 21:08:31 GMT 846 References: <2486@wpi.wpi.edu> <1989May29.072617.14770@cs.rochester.edu> 847 Reply-To: cyganski@wpi.wpi.edu (David Cyganski) 848 Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA. USA 849 Lines: 27 850 851 Dietz and Mack have noted errors in my original posting that I would 852 like d verify. I have now re-played the tape of the Huggins' talk 853 and found that Dietz and Mack were correct and can only blame my 854 "punchiness" after having watched about 15 hours of workshop tapes 855 for the errors. Sorry. 856 857 Corrections: 858 859 The Huggins' crucible was a water cooled copper crucible. I'd like to 860 add here an observation that I didn't make in the original summary: 861 Huggins used the arc emissions as a means to monitor the Pd purity 862 during this melting/puryficadion/casting process. 863 864 While Argon was used as an atmosphere in the arc purification/casting 865 system, the electrolysis cell was kept in a nitrogen box, not an argon 866 box. Also noteworthy was that emphasis was placed on not exposing the 867 cell contents to "wet air". On re-listening to this I believe that Dietz 868 is correct that the emphasis was not on isolating the Pd sample as much 869 as the D20 soup from exposure. 870 871 Again, if you haven't seen this talk, do so! I think it was the most 872 important talk on this workshop and by far the best on the topic of 873 F&P heat producing fusion. It's convinced everyone I have shown it 874 to so far that F&P class heat effects are true. 875 876 David Cyganski 877 Worcester Polytechnic Institute 878 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 050=Usr:465 Gregg Harris 05/31/89 23:28 Msg:3914 Call:21496 Lines:10 879 )(*&)((*&(()()(*&()(**&()(**&((**((**()(*& 880 881 Look out, nucluar water heaters are around the corner. 882 883 The Mole 884 885 :-) 886 887 )((*&()(*&)((*)(*&)((*&)((*&&)((*&)((*&)(*&)((&(* 888 051=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 06/01/89 09:11 Msg:3915 Call:21510 Lines:8 889 &*&*&*&*'s 890 891 Well, today is the day. I'll be at the PCS tonight. Hope to see a buch of 892 you there. 893 894 An Astral Dreamer 895 &*&*&*&*'s 896 052=Usr:219 Friar Mossback 06/01/89 10:59 Msg:3916 Call:21511 Lines:3 897 [][][][][][][][][][][][] 898 So sad, Friar can't make it. 899 [][][][][][][][][][][][] 053=Usr:287 Ralph Steadman 06/01/89 19:53 Msg:3917 Call:21515 Lines:100 900 696969696969 901 ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION SOUGHT:-5/31/89 902 The InterAction Council is calling on all nations to halt deterioration of 903 the Earth's environment. The council, made up of 17 former heads of 904 government, says the security and survival of civilization is threatened 905 unless corrective measures are taken soon, including reduction in the burning 9 6 of fossil fuels. 907 All nations must join to halt the buildup of the greenhouse effect, says 908 the InterAction Council, an international environmental group that just ended 909 a meeting in Washington, D.C. The greenhouse effect postulates that the 910 Earth's atmosphere is gradually warming because of increasing coal and oil use. 911 Industrialized countries should set targets for reducing carbon dioxide 912 and other pollutants released into the atmosphere by the burning of fossil  913 fuels and industrial processes, says the InterAction Council, an international 914 environmental group. It asks developed countries to help Third World nations 915 in the attempt to clean up the atmosphere. 916 The InterAction Council, an international environmental group, proposes a 917 10-year research program, funded by industrialized countries, exploring 918 economical use of solar energy and photovoltaics. 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DOE officials defended their siting work. 947 948 NUCLEAR-WASTE PLANS PROPOSED:-6/1/89 949 The Institute for Energy and Environmental Research has issued 950 recommendations on nuclear-waste handling: Store waste temporarily for up to 951 100 years; strengthen transportation-safety requirements; seek siting 952 information from other countries; and tighten radiation-dosage limits. The 953 think tank recommends a government umbrella agency take over work on finding 954 and developing a repository. 955 956 AND FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE AISLE................. 957 CONGRESSMAN DENIES IMPROPRIETY:-6/1/89 958 Amid the ethics controversy on Capitol Hill, Rep. Robert Davis, R-Mich., 959 went public to say "there is nothing wrong" with hiring -as a $28,000 960 committee staff member - the woman he now lives with. Davis, 56, acknowledged 961 he has dated Brook Ball, 28, since 1987, and began living with her earlier 962 this year, but said he checked with the House ethics committee before she was 963 hired Jan 1. 964 ....it's okay, I'm a Republican...I don't have to caru 96% 966 JIM WRIGHT RESIGNS AS SPEAKER:-6/1/89 967 House Speaker Jim Wright - pleading for an end to this "period of mindless 968 cannibalism" - resigned Wednesday. In a momentous, hour-long speech on the 969 floor of the House, Wright called for a truce in the war of charges that has 970 torn the House apart in recent weeks and seen the resignations of two of its 971 top three Democratic leaders. 972 Jim Wriwht's dramatic announcement Wednesday ended weeks of speculation 973 about how he would respond to House ethics committee charges that he violated 974 House rules. Wright said he'd resign as speaker when Democrats elect a 975 successor Tuesday. Expected heir: Majority Leader Tom Foley of Washington 976 state. Wright said he'd quit as a Fort Worth, Texas, congressman by month's 977 end. 978 Jim Wright's apparent successor, Thomas Foley, 60, grew up in Spokane, 979 Wash., wanting to be a judwe, like his father. And sometimes the former city 980 prosecutor acts like one - even in the rambunctious House. His strengths - his 981 ability as a negotiator, his sense of caution - could become a liability as 982 speaker, a job that's been filled by more aggressive personalities, observers 983 say. 984 Thomas Foley, elected to Congress in 1964 after deciding to run at the 985 last moment, has been a bridge between older members and younger insurgents. 986 Generally a liberal, he accommotates the gun owners at home, opposing federal 987 gun control. His wife Heather is his unpaid administrative assistant. 988 989 CHINA'S LEADERS DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH ALL THOSE RIOTING STUDENTS... I 990 THINK WHAT THEY'D REALLY LIKE IS FOR THE KIDS TO DIG A HOLE AND CRAWL INTO 991 IT, AND DIG AND DIG AND DIG UNTIL THEY COME OUT IN AMERICA... 992 993 ACTOR MARTIN SHEEN GETS CHOSEN AS HONORARY MAYOR OF MALIBU, TO SUCCEED ALI 994 McGRAW, AND THE FIRST THING HE DOES IS TO DECLARE IT A NUCLEAR FREE HAVEN 995 FOR ALIENS AND THE HOMELESS... AND IT'S JUST AN HONORARY TITLE -- IMAGINE 996 WHAT HE MIGHT HAVE DONE IF HE'D BEEN APPOINTED KING! 997 998 696969696969696969 999 I've seen the top, and now the bottom...It's better at the top