Happy or Terrible?

Thanks for the Rickards links. Running around today. Check back with them later.

I seem to remember getting these huge London close dips and immediate bounces back when silver was heading for 50.

You guys post more fear than strength.  It's starting to sound less responsible and more like chicken little.

Here's some strength

For all you guys younger than 40, notice that the geopolitical instability that is a constant.

It is domestic tranquility that is wealth creating.

Gold is back up in both euros and us dollars - so even though the euro is up on the usd, gold is still up relative to both the euro and the usd.  I try to watch gold in usd and another currency, to remind me that the whole thing is like pools of water.

It appears that the DNC does not want Obama to appear on national TV at Bank of America Stadium:

National Democrats have repeatedly touted their stand against taking corporate money for their convention in September, and so it was striking to see two emails from the DNC host committee referring to the Charlotte venue where President Obama will speak as "Panthers Stadium."

It's the place where the Panthers play, but it's actually called Bank of America stadium.

Rest of story - http://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2012/07/welcome-to-panthers-stadium-129146.html

It is appropriate for Obama to appear at Panthers stadium since it is guarded by large black panthers:

I'm with you. Now we are designing the future after the collapse of the current false paradigm. tmosley outlined many viable and suppressed technologies that will help free humanity:

http://www.tfmetalsreport.com/comment/190183#comment-190183

On that topic, I was in Reno a few years ago and went to the National Auto Museum. There was an old carburetor that claimed to allow a car 100 miles / gallon. Guess who held the patent? Shell Oil. Hmmm......why could this be? Let's see: efficient use of oil = less oil to be pumped = less money for shell oil et al. = less money for middle east oil wars = less money for the MIC = less money lent by/interest paid to the Fed/banks = good for the common productive man = bad

If people only knew.....

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wow, :shakes head:....

If it was an "old" carburetor, any patent would be expired and anyone could use the technology.  Patents are good for 17 or 20 years depending on what date they were filed.  So if this thing really works sounds like a great business opportunity for someone.

http://finance.uncommonwisdomdaily.com/reports/RWR/DEC-VSP/dec-vsp-alt.php

i checked out this video.  this whole tie between china and washington d.c. makes alot of sense.

keep stacking

Maybe it's still there. Any mechanical engineers, take a road trip. See if you can visibly tell why it is so efficient. I'm not qualified. Maybe someone can get lucky and find the blueprints. Hopefully the inventor hasn't been suicided.

Wish I would have understood the gravity of exactly what I was looking at at the time.

If you calculate the heat energy in a gallon of gasoline, and use realistic values for Otto cycle (or Diesel for that matter) engine efficiency, you'll find that 200 MPG is impossible.  It requires about 1 kW to move a car at 50 MPH, and the energy expended goes up with the square of the speed.  The most efficient 50 cc scooters get maybe 125 MPG, but they usually top out at 35 MPH.  If you had a smooth tear-drop running on 120 psi bicycle tires, the aerodynamics might allow you to get 200 MPG at highway speeds (provided you didn't use the A/C). 

There are a coupld of good explanations on the web.

For the last several days, instead of dives down and clawing up, I see rockets up and skidding down. Good buying happening.

Opticsguy:

You can get higher efficiencies than that, you just need the correct operating conditions.  Reduce the air friction and you will find that maintaining 50MPH costs less than 1kw (or whatever the actual figure is) because almost all of the energy drain is coming from fighting air resistance, as you noted.  It is entirely possible that someone will come up with a metamaterial that works on air, reducing effective air resistance to zero.  Such designs already exist for making islands invisible to ocean waves and even light (at certain wavelengths, they are working on the out and out invisibility cloak too).

Edit:  late night last night.  Didn't realize he was talking about a carburetor.  Nevermind.

I never did believe those conspiracies of the 100 mph carburetor being shelved !  We still haven't seen good fotos of UFOs .... even though millions have digital cameras at the ready .... and I still haven't seen Consumer Reports road test one of the enigmatic vaporizers ! No money in it now .... everything is fuel injection .... maybe they could use the technology to make a better bong or huka ? If something really works .... there's money to be made !              Monedas       1929         Comedy Jihad I'm In A Show Me State Of Mind        

Your sense of outrage towards Obama's recent discussion re: businesses needing public infrastructure to thrive seems to be misplaced, imo.  In my view, there is absolutely nothing wrong with anything he said, and

Here’s the full context of what he said:

We’ve already made a trillion dollars’ worth of cuts.  We can make some more cuts in programs that don’t work, and make government work more efficiently…We can make another trillion or trillion-two, and what we then do is ask for the wealthy to pay a little bit more …

There are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with me, because they want to give something back.  They know they didn’t -look, if you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own.  You didn’t get there on your own.  I’m always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart.  There are a lot of smart people out there.  It must be because I worked harder than everybody else.  Let me tell you something – there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help.  There was a great teacher somewhere in your life.  Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive.  Somebody invested in roads and bridges.  If you’ve got a business. you didn’t build that.  Somebody else made that happen.  The Internet didn’t get invented on its own.  Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet.

The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.  There are some things, just like fighting fires, we don’t do on our own.  I mean, imagine if everybody had their own fire service.  That would be a hard way to organize fighting fires.

So we say to ourselves, ever since the founding of this country, you know what, there are some things we do better together.  That’s how we funded the GI Bill.  That’s how we created the middle class.  That’s how we built the Golden Gate Bridge or the Hoover Dam.  That’s how we invented the Internet.  That’s how we sent a man to the moon.  We rise or fall together as one nation and as one people, and that’s the reason I’m running for president – because I still believe in that idea.  You’re not on your own, we’re in this together.”