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Comment on So many Doomsdays by Chuck

Chuck — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:35:28 +0000

Perhaps a single “generator” (strictly speaking, they’re alternators) might be pushed into runaway, assuming all of the automatic safety features were disabled, but more than one “lock onto” the grid, owing to a “motor effect”.

Basically, when you bring a new generator online, you match its phase to that of the grid and then connect it to the grid. The result is that all generators on the grid share the same inertial mass. If one wants to “tweak” the grid frequency, it’s a slow time-consuming process:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droop_speed_control

I don’t buy the “runaway generator” scenario–at least as it pertains to the grid.

Comment on So many Doomsdays by George Smith

George Smith — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:21:31 +0000

If you read the article you’ll see another regular invocation, Project Aurora. It was a “milestone in cybersecurity because of the actual damage caused, government staff hacked into the software controlling a power generator, causing it to accelerate and destroy itself.” This was years ago and the date is now always omitted and the single instance, with no explanation of methods, ever provided. No one ever answered the question “what happens if there’s a person there and they notice the generator was running too fast?” Many of the problems associated with these types of stories stem from an unwillingness to acknowledge that no one just stands around doing nothing and that risk is managed and mitigated everyday. There’s just the multiple assumptions that everyone is “easy” or “not difficult” to do, whether it be making ricin, or bio-weapons, or electromagnetic pulse bombs, or cyberattacks on the grid, and that when it comes it will be a final blow which no one will recover from. Thousands, ten of thousands, hundreds of thousands will die.

Comment on Free music and art by Anton Roetz

Anton Roetz — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:23:06 +0000

Thanks!

Comment on So many Doomsdays by Chuck

Chuck — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:45:14 +0000

George, it’s good to see that you’re back on a roll.

Isn’t it time to call the bluff of these people? Take an about-to-be decommissioned power plant and invite the doomsday prophets to sit at their laptops and make the generators “spin wildly out of control”. Where did they learn their engineering? From “The Outer Limits”?

And keep them at their laptops, day after day, until they succeed. At least they’d have something useful to occupy themselves.

Comment on Free music and art by George Smith

George Smith — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:29:47 +0000

The pdf downloads OK for me right now. But here’s the songlist anyway:

1] Don’t Let Your Daddy Know
2] La Puta
3] Needle & Spoon
4] Hump Blues
5] The Pennsy Redneck
6] Ace of Spades
7] The China Shuffle
8] Had No Pills
9] DeCulo
10] That’s Logistics
11] Act Naturally
12] Let’s Lynch Lloyd Blankfein
13] Highway Patrol
14] Central Park Boogie
15] Excerpt from ‘Brown Shoes’
16] Fiscal Discipline Rock
17] Heevahava Boogie

Comment on Free music and art by Anton Roetz

Anton Roetz — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:27:03 +0000

Nice one, enjoyed it.
The pdf file with songlist is damaged.
Can you help with songlist?
Thank You

Comment on Reviving the castor industry in the US by Chuck

Chuck — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:29:40 +0000

What we really need is for someone to work out a cheap synthesis for ricin from Viagra and chicken soup.

I wonder if Congress would move to ban both?

Comment on Reviving the castor industry in the US by George Smith

George Smith — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:07:14 +0000

You’ll need to get a little more up to date on the US ricin recipe. Let me help you out:

http://www.globalsecurity.org/org/nsn/nsn-040723.htm

OWS, huh? You can tell your family doctor you no longer need renewal on that prescription for stupid pills.

Comment on Reviving the castor industry in the US by Maud

Maud — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:45:54 +0000

Early in the terror affair they removed from the us patent database the patent for extracting ricin. the European patent database retained it. I am not so sanguine as the author – I think it is a dangerous material and there’s a danger that some people will use this extracted material. However the people doing terror have all the stuff they need – ask Saddam, or Moo-im-ar…or OWS…

Comment on Reviving the castor industry in the US by Chuck

Chuck — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:32:50 +0000

The “war on drugs” has similar effects.

Sometimes, when you have a geriatric horse or dog, a little MSM (methylsulfonylmethane) in the feed can help the arthritic animal feel a bit better. Used to be available widely at farm and feed stores in 3 or 5 gallon buckets in crystal form.

The last time (a couple of years ago) I went to buy some, I had to show ID, sign a book and pay an inflated price for a half-pound container. The clerk explained to me that it was put on the meth “precursor” list of controlled chemicals. What the heck? You can’t make meth from MSM–and least not easily.

Turns out that, according to some consultant to the legislature, crystalline MSM looks “just like” meth and is sometimes used to cut crystal meth. So the legislature figured that they’d control that too–because it LOOKS LIKE meth.

I ordered a gallon container from out-of-state–even with shipping, cheaper than the half-pound that I had to sign for.

I guess that powdered sugar is next, because it’s used to cut cocaine.

We’ve gone whacko, pure and simple.