Common Sense 4 Common People

Infinite Energy

This is a very important issue that I would like to inform you about today.

There is a branch of physics that deals with the concept of "New Energy". This branch of physics is not recognized by the "scientific establishment" as anything serious, but this is always the case with science. Various madmen start on various types of crazy research and the establishment calls them madmen and fools. Then some of these madmen actually produce new and valid science, so they are not madmen any more and become part of the scientific establishment.

This is the case with "New Energy". You can visit the Infinite Energy Magazine for the gory details.

Here I will give you a brief outline of one of their research branches, the one I find most fascinating. This is the so called Zero Point Energy, or more popularly Vacuum Energy.

These guys, based on quanum physics, claim that you can draw infinite energy out of the vacuum. This is a shocking idea. Disruptive innovation. If this ever becomes a reality, then the energy problem will be solved once and for all, for all ages to come.

I am not in the position to judge the physics behind these theories, or how long it may be before they make it a reality, but what I know is that there is HOPE for humanity.
The additional reason why there is hope, is that today's world CAN be saved if such an innovation appears. Thank the almighty for the Internet. If the solution is found, then hopefully it will be made public on the Internet. Noone can prevent that. Then everyone will have the infinite energy technology, it will not be one country's top secret technology so that it can dominate over the others. Everyone will have free energy. The world can be a better place then.

Enjoy!

re: My Desktop

My good friend George Adamopoulos extended this invitation to me, so here is an overview of my desktop at work:

So what can we see here?

On the right is my main workstation, with two monitors of course. The monitors are raised higher, using a dead UPS and a bunch of books, so as to reduce neck strain. On the left monitor you can see the video stream from where the capture came from. A recursive photo really, since it contains itself.
I used a Point Grey Grashoper 1394 camera and set our application to grab a frame every 5 seconds, then I picked one that was clear enough.

On the left is my laptop and in the middle is my private test PC, the one I first debug my drivers on. It's the one underneath the table, opened up of course so I can add/remove 1394 adapters easily. Please pay special attention to the light blue rubber keyboard that I bought for 4 euros (!!!) from Taipei. You can just roll it up and put it in your bag to carry along! Very convenient in that aspect, but really hard to type ultra fast with it as you get lots and lots of missed keystrokes.

At the far end you can also see my great collection of cups :-) Yeap, I am a proud cup collector!

Have fun!