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OTWhy not? Look at what has been accomplished over the same time with the internal combustion engine.
Indeed, that is the reason I am still "engaged" on the topic in a casual sort of way. .the inventors stated he has done something(I know what it is)to improve usability of the technology. The fact I have not actively been following the Tesla development is the easing I asked the question on this forum. There is one difference in regards to IC-Engines development: this technology has been pursued by many developers in completion and there is not a comparable fundamental split between significant different technologies in which one option had has lagged behind already for close to 80 years or so. This is why the current attention is focussed on as yet small scale niche markets. For the future it could become applicable to wind and water energy applications.
There is still some Hope for the technology.
http://www.worldfutureenergysummit.com/en/wfes-exhibitors/exhibitor-list.aspx?id=278
Pretty interesting stuff, but way out of my normal comprehension zone
Thanks Grabber! This reference is often the first that most people get to see when they start looking into it. In spite of the stated drawbacks the Tesla Design continues to Grab attention and believers in the technology keep thinking of improving on the design.
[OT Tesla Turbine]
. . . Until such a breakout niche becomes commercially viable, I think it more of a scientific curiosity - for now.
I tend to agree, although this Canadian Chap seems to feel the he has found that "niche" you are talking about. . .and wants to force that breakthrough you refer to. . .so I keep sitting on the fence, hoping to find people that have "hands-on" experience on Tesla Turbine technology to fill me in a bit more.
Regards,
[OT^0,3 . . . .Anyone?]
I have a question in regards to investing in new technologies. . . so, indirectly related to the substance on this Forum.
I have contact with a Tesla Turbine Believer in Canada and he seeks investments for his ideas. Although I have followed the Tesla Turbine Technology for many years as serious technological issue. . .I know that the principle of its operation is sound fundamental fluid dynamics. . . I have never seen any convincing evidence that the Tesla Design is a real competitor for the energy production market and for the use as Prime Drivers for other applications. In spite of this my Canadian friend remains certain his Tesla Turbine Design is next to "sliced bread" the best invention ever created. . .a bit of pun here is mine!.
My question: Has any of your savvy people in your experience or in your readings discovered any real development evidence that Tesla Turbines could well become a commercial technology in the near future that could compete with current turbine technologies that use bladed impellors and operate in the turbulent flow regime?
It is not all my intention to discuss the details and pro's and con's of the Tesla Disc Turbine Technology. . .I am very well aware how it works. I just have a small hope that some of you have more faith in it's future commercial viability than I do. I would personally not invest in it yet.
Any of you would?. . .And if so, why are you convinced that it is a smart thing to do?
PS:
For more detailed responses that focus on technology rather than on investment potential it would perhaps be better to use the private message option.
2010 was good for me.
I am still getting younger every year!
Hi Grabber,
I am always here. . .that is "there" for you, over there!
I haven't been to the market lately. . it's too cold to go there.
Only 44 hours 57 seconds left in 2010 on my clock!
Happy New Year!
Hi Grabber
Is that out of your back window?
No Grabber, in Holland I have never seen Northern Lights and in Canada only once.
I took this picture 35 years ago in Grande Prairie, Alberta, at a bout 1 AM on road not far from the town. It must have been a year in which there was a lot of Sun Spot activity.
It is an amazing spectacle to witness.
Propsperous X-Christmass everyone!
Then the next question is: "do I use the cash to buy something . . .
Yes, buy someone a present. . .could turn out to be a good investment!
Did your grandschild pee on you?
Don't worry. .it is harmless!
Reading how to make Tom's Christmas Pudding already makes my mouth water from the ingredients alone!
Oh My God, I thought I could keep all these vortex activities of mine a secret but now it is all over the internets! My book was actually a red herring so people did not have to worry about the real thing I was up to.
Now everybody will know what my Vortex Method actually means!
Damn Wikkie Leaks!
That is terrific Art you send me Clive!
The propagating waves look like the starting point of my attempts to draw a picture of 3-D EM-waves when I was studying Electrodynamics in 1973. I knew by then that some how I was supposed to understand that instead of waves there it was a manifestation of photons doing "their thing" but a picture of a photon did not exist so I tried to visualise a photon. Eventually I took the advice of Richard Feynman and just let it be: he said essentially. . .
It is a waste of time try to understand the behaviour and the essence of quantum manifestations. All we can do is to record the global effects that are recordable, with some measure of accuracy, and try to make rules that fit that that behaviour. . .
The famous Feynman Diagrams of particle collisions are an example of that. The essence of his point of view was. . .as I was able to "capture" it, is that his collision diagrams were no closer to representing the reality of the collission process than a matrix full of numerical data of the collisions were.
So, your beautiful pictures are just that: Works of Art and I let them be that.
The message of the Dow Jones behaviour reminds me of technical analysis. . .The brainwaves if the TA-analists that predict the plunge makes the Dow Jones plunge, as if it was a Law carved in stone!
I wanted to go to bed an hour or more ago but your ArtWorks caused me to stay up. . .you Devil!
I have turned into a Zombie.
Hi Clive,
This graph you showed. . .is it a new art form?
It would look great if made as an oil painting!
OT Grabber, this OT business grows exponentially, I may I figure out an equation for it's growth rate since the start, of this forum. I did that once for how many people would live on earth if we did not have World War II. . .instead of 6 Billion at the time I came to 7,3 Billion. . .give or take a few people.
I did not compensate for new death rates factors due to malnutrition, chicken pox, terrorist attacks, Mad Cow Disease, The Azian Pig & Chicken Flue, Mexican Cholera, The 2004 Tsunami in Indonesia and Thailand etc, Desert Storm and Pol Pot, so my calculation, I suspect, is a bit off from what reality ended up to be.
I better not tackle the OTGRE. . .it wont be accurate anyway.
OT Adam, on toxic metals
The new one looks like it's made of aluminium or other Chinese toxic metals.
Would you imply that Chinese Aluminium is toxic? . . .could be! Their Milk powder contained fine ground melamine some time ago and I heard about a case that some food stuffs there contained a dangerous ethylene glycol. . the stuff we used as antifreeze. Maybe I an mistaken by the case that the antifreeze was in the German Wine. We in Holland are cooking in aluminium pans since aluminium was discovered(Some rich folks here use stainless steel)and we are getting older all the time. . I don’t think our aluminium is toxic.
Maybe the Chinese dope their Al with neodymium. . .they have loads of this stuff and they also make NeFeB super magnets with it. . maybe that is the toxic part, now that they use it to make aluminium more expensive?
My red earthenware(1) crock pot is now black on the inside from the hot cooking I do in it. . .possibly soaked full of carcinogenic from overheated butter in which I fry my meats!
Living is dangerous to one's health
(1) I do not mean “rare earthware”.
IT: Sounds great Grabber, for the invite & Pirogue Feast!
Also I know now what a Crock Pot is. I have an red earthenware dish with a lid on it but I have to shove it in the oven to make it cook! Would that also be called a Crock pot?
While I am in Texas when I visit you I'll drill me an oil well and get rich quick! I hope you will know the right place for me to drill, so I do not end up with a dry hole.
Do you know a cheap place there to crash for a few days too?
Say "Hi" to "Larry Hagman from Dallas" from me OK?
Nice shots Tom! I like the trees in the snow a lot.
On suppressing background light: here are two examples. The light one is uncorrected and the scanner balances the light automatically, trying to show everything;
"Showing" everything is not always a wise thing to do!
This is one version with brightness suppression:
This one is not necessarily optimised yet but the tree branches in the back light look a lot better, plus the fact that the fallen tree shows a lot of detail that is simply present in the file.
Notice in the darker picture the details of the fine lila bushes or whatever it is in the background. . in the light version these "plants" are simply not even noticed.
Just my two bits worth of it on the OT-thing.
OT: Steve, sorry I missed your wedding!
Than might have bee a chance to eat pirogues. . .(isc ????)
I never did taste these snack. . .or are the main dinner elements
It would only have cost you a crock pot (got 7 of those that night).
I could consult Google on what a “crock pot” is but it is more fun to hear it from an expert. . .are you the expert on this or is your wife the one? Is it a bit like a “crack pot” ?
If I come to Wisconsin next year. . .not in the planning as yet. . .would I still get a pirogue to sample if I knock on your door?
Regards,
OT: Tom: Your Picture and your post #33260
Great colour and detail!. . .I hesitate to comment on one thing. . . but I will, at the risk of getting shot by you. . .
I have noticed that the standard light/brightness balancing for pictures that have no backlight sources do not suppress the backlight enough when that is present, like in your picture. . . based on the assumption that the dark details should also be lit up. This causes in most of my pictures a washout in the light parts.
In this case I am sure there is plenty of detail of tree branches in the bright sunlight. If you suppress the brightness these details come out in glorious contrast and the other colours will deepen considerably. I would love to see this one with high light suppression.
Hope to see it some time Tom.
The Wisconsin area was beautiful when I was there. . .1976 I think it was . . the food was cheap too and delicious, I remember. I arrived in the fall and left at end of December
OT: Grabber Picture:
Beautiful texture on your picture! So perfect!
I am beginning to realise that the Pentax ESII I bought in the early 1970-ties is no match for the mega-pixel digitals that are available now-days. . .or it is just that 30+ years ago I had trouble getting focussed on the nano-details I see nowadays on the pictures that I see. . . also maybe the lens and the UV filter I used were of much lesser quality than what is available now.
I am orientating on getting the most put of my slides. The picture of the Port Edwards Paper Mill I edited with the simplest Paint program that exists. . .lot of work and mediocre results.
For example getting dust spec out of the yellow grey cloud reflections is a bitch with simple Paint(can not enlarge the view to zero in on the spec only and one easily gets little editing squares in the clouds. Oh well. . .I am experimenting and getting my feel wet in this subject!
Thanks for you suggestions.
Just a remark on the pictures I showed in the previous post.
I have copied these myself from slides with low a quality scanner. Some slides like the spillway picture still had the dust on them when I scanned them. Terribly annoying!
On the high resolution files there will of course be no hairs and dust on them, as the scans for them will be contracted out to an imaging laboratory.
Tom,
I understand you area Wisconsin man, so you might be familiar with the Wisconsin River and possibly the Paper Mill at Port Edwards. When I worked there in the mid-1970-ties as Assistant to the Field Engineer during a part of the construction phase building a waste water treatment plant across the river from the mill. I took a lot of slides then of the scenery and the construction activities. Recently I started to dig out these slides that have been sitting in boxes for more than 20 years now. They are becoming Historical Gems now. Here is one of the Paper Mill I like to share:
At the mill there was a dam with a flood gate and one day there was a lot of excess water:
I hope you like them. I have a lot more and will make up an album which I could let you see.
Maybe the pictures are too big for thsi forum if they do not automatically scale to the available space. I do not yet know how to make them smaller.
Regards,
PS. . .I noticed they are indeed a tid-bit to large
You have to scroll a lot to see it all!
Take a coffee break and watch the Mill scrolling through the window!
But I also noticed just now you can click with the mouse right-button on the picture and select "viewing" so that you can see the picture in one window!
This picture size = 80 cm wide. This is a rather low resolution file as you can already see the pixels. I can deliver high resolution large reproductions. Should anyone be interested just let me know. On my website is more information on picture sales.
Adam,you mean these computers are reading all the garbage that comes out of my brain and flows via the keybord and Inernet system and e-m waves that are beng emitted?
Poor guys that are reaing my brain waves!
Thanks Larry,
I done all that, plus more, except the matrix functions. . .(never used any yet).
Tip When you are editing a cell that contains a formula, you can press F9 to permanently replace the formula with its calculated value.
But you can undo that, so it is not permanent until the change is saved.
Well, in any case, this appears that F9 would do the same then as the manual Copy & Paste Special. If it does do for one cell it might also work for a block of cells after selection a block of Cells and pressing F9. . . .trying. . . . NO! This F9 works only on a single cell that one has activated!
Regards,
Interesting Clive,
This coding you posted, I asseme this the Excel Macro coding?
Suppose I try to implement that on a current spread, would this automatically freeze all the columns A to Z above the current date, like the blue section I had in the example?
In an actual test I have the dates like this:
1-2-10
2-2-10
3-2-10. . .This is the last date that was actively "treated"(Trade or no Trade). Every row above this must “freeze” as during this day I could still change my mind before executing the order. Then I have to wait till the order is executed before I freeze the executed Trade. Only when the next row has a later date should 3-2-10 ( or whatever higher date I change it too) be frozen.
Does your code example do that?
3-2-10 . . . these are dummy dates which are changed to real dates as they arrive.
3-2-10
3-2-10
3-2-10
3-2-10
Etc.
I could avoid this by entering a new row every time I enter a new date but that is time consuming as I have to alter various cell numbers when I add rows. So I have a set of Dummy Rows that carry all the same data.. . saves me time that way.
When I change to using the Excel Macro I would have arrange it so that every time I needed a new data row this would occur automatically and the changes in other cells as well. . . .this is a complete redesign. . .not for today!
I might have to hire a professional Excel Programmer to do all that.
Thanks Clive,I got the message.
I have enough info to chew on for a while and to think about it if I am going to do all this. At the moment this is a bridge to far. . I want to freeze only a set of selected rows and leave the rest of the rows with past dates up to the resent active for parameter optimisation.
For a while I do not need new suggestions.
Adam, I did obvious not know that, but deleting a message... I thought that is only possible for the Moderator. Assuming this being true then could I get it back via the NSA without asking the Moderator?
In any case, none of my messages were a threat to the USA, so there is no need for Wikkie Leaks to ask me to recover any of them
I have analysed its content and come to the conclusion that you can not possibly be right! The secret information there will make you hate it, if you knew what it is!
Larry, as you can see in the post directly below this one, I have done it! I was doing the adaptations in an Experimental spread with the Lichello Price Table
10 8 5 4 5 8 10 8 5. . . . Test Series
when you posted the additional explanations.
Thanks for your efforts!
When you come to visit Holland I invite you to a Dinner @ Goucho's.
Also I have protected the same set of rows so that I can not accidentally change the cell content. . .if accidentally would change the contents then I would no longer know what the value was.
This is also a process of No Return: Frozen=Frozen for good but that is no problem. . I could always copy the formulas that are not frozen.
The irony of all this is that on a previous occasion I had already discovered that process by pasting the cells in Word and copying & pasting then back in Excel, but I failed to find that it could be done in Excel simply by using the Special Paste function!
Now if you want to hide them you can also do that but that's another story.
Yes, in the meantime I have discovered various other possibilities too. In 5 years time I will be an Excel Expert
It's a piece of cake!
Its done!
All the formulas in every cell are changes to values.
Now my trade is listed as
-$25,674.4542991405
in the American decimal expression
End of Search.
Larry I have found it in my Dutch Excel!
The the problem was dat I was using the wrong search words when I was looking for it.
The Freeze function does exactly what I want: It replaces the function with the value that is shown in the cell!
Problem solved!
Larry, my Hero!
OH That's what you want to do. You want those rows to stay put while you scrol down. In Excel you go to View and then choose freeze panes then choose freeze top row. I don't know off hand how to freeze the top two rows.
Maybe that is IT. I will add a fe remarks to clarify my AIM:
I want those Rows to stay put even if I do not scroll down I want those Rows to stay put even if Obama turns White to morrow!
All the rows are part of a Portfolio! Specifically when I want to optimise the operational parameters(simulation) I want the part of the Portfolio that is history to remain frozen, as one can not undo that which is done.
From what you wrote it sure looks like that is what I am looking for.
Its only 02:40 so I have plenty of time this morning!
That’s a good lead, Grabber!
I will look at it.
I have agreed with everybody that conditional functions will work!
I once made this one
=IF(AND(ABS(G16)>=F15*$H$4;G16>0);G16*$O$5;IF(AND(ABS(G16)>=F15*$H$7;G16<0);G16*$O$7;0))
and it works fine. I am still amazed that I could do that. I have trouble fathoming the wisdom I had back then!
So, after I got the hint from Clive to use conditionals the problem was essentially solved, but I would have to rewrite all the statements in the spread that I need to freeze.
Thanks for the link!
Hi Grubber. . .the replies and suggestions on my question multiply at exponential rate
Certainly your method will work.
Hope this helps.
It has also been already been provided by Clive, and from that I made a similar solution like that for myself, with such conditional functions, That solution which I showed is essentially the same generic IF-THEN approach.
Also: Copy-->Past-in-Word---Copy---->past in Excel. . .that works!
I had already discovered before I addressed the question here. Still, I am seeking en Excel management function to do this. All the other functions are not up-to what I want.
I can hardly believe that the Freezing Function I seek is not built into Excel already!
Thanks for contributing.
That's as Fuzzy as it gets!
I's so cute & hilarious. . .you good people keep trying to solve a problem that is already no longer a problem. This vicious circle has no gap in it to stop the viciousness
I do not want to SAVE the rows "above" a certain date! I want to FREEZE the functions on a certain date. . . Now this need a clarification in order to prevent more confusion:
above a certain date does not mean a higher or later date but an earlier date! It refers to the dates in the line above a certain date. . .could be any date in the future. . .BUT of course I can not go to the future to freeze the functions I want to freeze. . .I am not Michel Fox. . .all I can say now that certain date is quite uncertain as yet!
So after that uncertain date has become certain, all the functions in the rows above are to be frozen. . .made inactive. . . carved in stone if you will, but all the values must remain accessible as they are part of the Portfolio make-up, because many columns contain amounts that are added-up from the first date on the spread sheet to the current date.
Here is an example for you:
The light blue section in the spread is to be frozen. In principle not all cells in the blue are sensitive to the date, price and operational parameters. But if I can freeze all these cells in one simple statement in the Excel Management Files then I have what I want. All the values in the blue section are to be treated as fixed numbers that are part of the Portfolio history, and of course they should remain there were they are.
In principle once I have this process of freezing the way I want it I could freeze the old lines every day or after a week if I had not looked at the stock market for 1 week. The essence of this objective is that I would operate my Excel as if it were a DataBase program.
In my Windows Vortex Program these blue values are automatically frozen in the DataBase, so I can change all the operational parameters any time I want to and only the future DataSets are calculated on the basis of the new parameters.
I have not used Excel Macro’s for about 10 years or more, so I had completely forgotten about that possibility. Maybe it will work in an Excel Macro.
Regards,
TF, I already knew that!
I have sold all my stock last June so I could beat the Oktober 2011 Dip
Hi Toofuzzy,
Ref.
Post # 32201
This is one of those times that make one run on part of a circle. . . and at the end where the circle stops you fall off the circle and you don't know hit you if it didn't kill you
Post # 33201 was at that time was a double post which had been emptied. My suggestion to remove it to eliminate such double entries was “heard”. I had just done the same thing and made the suggestion that these empty posts should be deleted. . .and clearly it WAS deleted, and # 32201 became the post that was just above it.
That’s the way I figured it happened
So now post # 32201 should NOT be deleted!
Some times "fixes" create new problems:
This is like the case of the woman driver that called the Road Service to change the flat tire on her car. As it was a busy day the woman had to wait quite long and still no one came, so she got angry as hell. . so angry in fact that she rolled up her sleeves, took out the @$*^$@! jack out of the boot and changed the tire herself and drove away bloody mad that she had broken her nails, got dirt on her skirt and a tear in her panty hose. A few days later she received a Bill for $45 from the Road Service for a car-search in the neighbourhood in which she got the flat tire.
So the woman had to pay for the work she herself had done!
Larry, you are right in what you are saying on using the date in a single cell. Thanks. The same option I have by entering a 1 or a 0 in an extra column. With the date it would even be better as I have already have a date column!
Also modifying de spread is necessary for the cells that are sensitive to the date, share price and operational parameters. Could be done easily. . that is not the issue.
I would still prefer to use a Excel Function that is especially made for "freezing" cells, if that function exist. I am not really in a hurry to have the answer right now!.
Time will tel.
Cio.