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Question/note on the new Tao material

I also read Tao's paper, titled "Suppressing turbulence and enhancing liquid suspension flow in pipelines with electrorheology." (Note, someone put it on Scribd here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/257562536/Suppressing-Turbulence-and-Enhancing-Liquid-Suspension-Flow-in-Pipelines-With-Electrorheology)

It has some very fascinating and new information in it. I'm confused about why it's only being published now — anyone got any ideas? The basic point that it shows, that the AOT works to suppress turbulence perpendicular to flow, seems to me simply amazing and incredible. It would add a whole other aspect to the revolutionary nature of this technology and make the AOT that much more significant.

However, my question or remark is simply this: the discussion in that paper is entirely in reference to the tests on RMOTC and at Daqing in China. I don't believe either of those was at the scale of the 36'' Keystone that TCPL recently finished testing. Will the behavior be the same in that kind of extremely high pressure large scale environment, where there are hundreds of barrels of oil being pumped every minute? I have no clue. I don't know if we can draw a straight line extrapolation from this data and real world tests.

It seems that Tao was able to get some insight and knowledge into the Keystone test, however, so perhaps the technical results there will be forthcoming.

Anyway, if the stuff in that paper applies to large scale deployments, then this technology is more of a game changer than I thought. The significance would be quite breathtaking actually.