Millimetre Wave Beams
Wednesday, September 14, 2022
The other day, I read an article in the New Scientist magazine and after digesting for a week, I thought to myself, why not make another typical movie splash to advertise this concept. In fact, in all my years of reading New Scientist, this story was the most promising I had come across. The concept is called, 'Millimetre Wave Beam' and it is a technology ( similar to microwaves used in cooking ), although obviously with slightly different attributes. It appears to me to have an increased wavelength. It could enable the digging team / crew to penetrate the hard rock that no other method can crack. So this millimettre wave beam technology could open up a relatively small gap which could be used to funnel the incredible heat from below ( a few kilometers down ). It is then merely a matter of connecting that heat so that it flows into the energy turbines and generate huge amounts of ( electricity ) power. What's more, there is no shortage of energy turbines already in use. They could simply be converted in the way I have just mentioned. It is reputed to be safer than fracking and could potentially generate huge savings in the price of electricity. Imagine one cent or one penny per kilowatt hour. I believe one of the relevant companies is called 'Quaise Energy' ( I don't mean to mispell it, its just that I've got the last two month's worth of nEW sCIENTIST ON OR NEAR MY COFFEE TABLE AND i HAVEN'T A CLUE WHICH ONE IT IS WITH THAT ARTICLE. It's possible that after the initial successful testing stage it could take one or two years to perfect the method. In my opinion, this is something the authorities should be looking at, and surely the method could be fast-tracked into production. Oh, about this little splash animation, it didn't turn out the way I expected, and the featured music is not my best, however it is my first effort with this scenario and somehow a first effort can be appealing in its own way... ( with hope )There is the rather simple animation set for the 21st of September 7.00 pm, which is the equinox yes. Nothing wrong with being thorough.
Additionally, anyone who played the PC game 'Startopia' maybe more than 10 or fifteen years ago might recall the narration which could sometimes say, "You can't beam that up"...
Time will tell, however there is no relation to replicators or teleportation in this. It's all about generating cheap electricity.
Aromatic Coolant
Wednesday, September 14, 2022
So, I've got some resources, particularly some science fiction material that features coolants on one of the spaceship decks. Perhaps a search for 'Gagula One' will yield the result of an audio book that I uploaded. If not you are welcome to try any of my websites. However I got to thinking, wouldn't the effect of the aroma make the coolant not only more desirable, but also more effective. And I remember one of those Star Trek episodes where the fauna on some planet was hallucinogenic, did I spell that correctly ? What comes to your mind when thinking about aromatic coolant ? Maybe some pain killing gel ? Or a sip of guinness ? Imagine if your car smelt like a bunch of flowers ? I'm not only talking about the smell of a new car, which is obviously a nice smell. I am talking about the exhaust fumes which maybe one day will be converted into a simple resource we can trust, purely because of the aroma. Perhaps in days to come the smell of the oily garage will become a thing of the past.Imagination
Tuesday, January 24, 2023
Well, well. It's early hours on Tuesday and after a quick tidying of my files ( I normally call them documents ), I am looking for a sensible default network mode. There is something floating in the back of my mind that could be worthwhile. It could be some well suited task or problem solving effort. It looks like I've got to use an Edward De Bono technique.Normality has been restored
Friday, February 24, 2023
Having had a few interesting days recently, I noted an excellent example while using my own proprietary A I. Now it seems to me that concentrating on mental health one ought to be able to think about the A I response ( specifically 'Optimist' or the 'Custom Personalised Motivation' ) indefinitely if necessary. Both iterations of the A I could be particularly at home alongside the Samaritans or the Salvation Army or as a separate alternative, although it is tailored to suit a somewhat upwardly mobile set. We'll see. Anyway, what I am getting at is this : I may be the most familiar with these apps I created, and indeed the relationship is still favoured in times of need. Whenever I get stuck I tend to have a discreet session with Optimist. As my installation is always on standby it is sometimes most expedient to digest a useful comment. Somehow I remember the comment, "normality has been restored". Of course when I received this comment there wasn't really any available context that I could use, although I was sure I got this comment more than once. So it was at the back of my mind for maybe more than a year.Now then, I have heard it said that there is no such thing as normality or 'normal' and for years I would advocate that point of view, however it now seems there could be an exception which could potentially affect us all in one way or another. Even though normality could very well be preferable to having one's head in the clouds, it's not an easy concept to grasp. Perhaps you might think some characters in the Simpsons fit the description of normal, or perhaps sometimes as a contradiction of normal. You see it just hasn't been satisfactory to use that word, 'normal' in any meaningful way, particularly when relating to mental health until I found a very specific context of normality that qualified the A I comment I received. The comment was, "Normality has been restored".
Obviously this comment implies that normality has not been recognised in the correct way. Anyway, I continued doing the daily exploration, some music, reading, getting the news, a little TV and I had almost forgotten about the comment at the back of my mind. So I would also continue with digital media in the normal way, making original digital audio CDs and DVDs, or listening on the good days and watching a DVD every now and then. Then the idea popped into my head. On a normal day I've still got everything I need to make audio album cassettes. In fact I even have the Phantom Menace Star Wars theme by John Williams on cassette. The life of that cassette is more than fifteen years. I still have it. Moreover I thought I'd try my luck and make my own album cassettes. The first thing I noticed was that it is a much slower process than making a CD, so I measured up to see if it was worthwhile. Generally a cassette machine or "cassette deck" could use between 16 and 25 watts of power so that was a saving. Another advantage is that you can listen in real-time during the duplication process.
Now, if I recall my early days of musicianship, it was the concept of using 2 tape machines in order to produce a multitrack recording that interested me most. First I tried it with those old clunky machines with the condenser microphone that we used to use for loading and saving ZX Spectrum games. The results were at least interesting. Then I moved onto the double cassette hi-fi. You only needed to record on one cassette and perform the next part while listening and playing the previous edit. What I am getting at is that cassettes have been around for a long time. Maybe just as long as vinyl. So as I was reading an article in the New Scientist about the resurgence of cassettes, I also noted that the VHS video was perhaps primarily modelled on the cassette format. In fact there is some information that can precisely explain how much data can still be stored on a typical audio cassette format in today's technology (if you've got the correct search specimen).
Now, despite owning a cassette deck that I used to be proud of, I wouldn't normally use it, and perhaps I have underestimated it for fifteen going on twenty years. Anyway, as I have been using that cassette machine more recently, and because I like to take in the meter readings on the display panel, I started to experiment. As it's a Yamaha machine, the recordings are very natural. Whatever experience you have of cassette players/recorders it seems that there is always something more to be found. I tried out the auto-tuning, the automatic cassette type detection, other pre-sets, the bias control ( not the same as pitch ), the trim, recording level etc. So the other day I loaded a cassette into the machine and looked at the display panel. On mine it's mostly illuminated with orange and red. And there it was, clear as day. The cassettes and tape machines use and promote the 'normal position'. No airy-fairy, head in the clouds, spaced out contrived method. Something with a solid foundation. Needless to say that God-willing I will be using the normal position much like a valuable chess piece in my itinerary. Oh, I almost forgot to tell you about the Philips karaoke double cassette amp that I used for maybe fourteen years from 1986. Sometimes it's better to improve your performance than to rely on the high quality. And perhaps there will be a day for the visual alternative of the Walkman, and with all that visual content on a typical audio cassette. Modern compression algorithms could be put to the limit. I suppose it would be along the same lines as a Ferrari, only in the meme / genre of a hybrid technological device. Anyway, as for 'bias' control, we'll tackle that another day. And to finish today's blog, here's a little anecdote. It's normal to read the small print on a normal audio cassette.