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Daily Camera.com: : Boulder fire training deaths remembered on 30th anniversary - Boulder Daily Camera

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:06:44 +0000

Gilbert was a young fireman when he was injured in a motorcycle accident that put him out of work for several months. I remember that each of the men of his department stepped up to work his shift so he did not miss work or a pay check. For many years Gilbert volunteered to work holidays, and shifts for others to pay back the debt he felt he owed to the firemen on the line. Boulder has done well to advance Gilbert through the ranks. God bless you brother for the care you have for your men, may he look over you all. I know your sister is watching over you.

Breitbart.com : Pelosi hospitalised in Rome after feeling unwell

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 10:58:35 +0000

Ding Dong the Witch is Dea..... Oh wait.....

Breitbart.com : Scientists find sea sponges share human genes

Fri, 6 Aug 2010 15:59:16 +0000

a couple more billion in sponge research "MIGHT" find the find the answer to inter-galactic travel too. Truly this is the Holy Grail.........

Breitbart.com : Taiwanese woman catches 4 million mosquitoes

Mon, 2 Aug 2010 12:36:29 +0000

Question to the company: Could they PLEASE design a trap large enough for the blood suckers in Washington D.C.?

Breitbart.com : Govt curbs stop-and-search terrorism powers

Thu, 8 Jul 2010 23:52:38 +0000

shoot then search.....

Breitbart.com : Solar plane cruises to historic flight

Wed, 7 Jul 2010 23:09:44 +0000

The SR was the last aircraft designed with a slide rule, was first drawn on a door laid between two desks in a door way and after 50 years still holds every air speed and altitude record for an operational aircraft. Runs on hydrocarbons 8,000gl/hr. Grin

Breitbart.com : Solar plane cruises to historic flight

Wed, 7 Jul 2010 23:05:25 +0000

Speed Over a Closed Course (1000km): 2,092.294 mph SR-71A. World Absolute Closed Circuit Speed Record over a 1000 Kilometer Course (The SR-71 is a Class C-1 Group III jet engine aircraft, same as the Mig-25 Foxbat) - 2116 MPH, surpassing the previous Absolute Speed Record of 1853 MPH and the World Class Speed Record of 1815 MPH set by a Russian Mig-25 Foxbat in October, 1967. SR-71 flown by Major Adolphus H. Bledsoe, Jr., Pilot and Major John T. Fuller, RSO. Go to this web page for complete information and images of the World Record Flights set in 1976: http://www.wvi.com/~sr71webmaster/spd_run001.html rule13.gif March 06, 1990 SR-71A #61-17972 West Coast to East Coast of USA (National Record-Speed Over a Recognized Course): Coast to Coast Distance: 2,404.05 statute miles...Time: 1 hr 07 min 53.69 secs...Average Speed: 2,124.51 mph Los Angeles To Washington D.C. (World Record): Distance: 2,299.67 statute miles...Time: 1 hr 04 min 19.89 secs...Average Speed: 2,144.83 mph St Louis To Cincinnati (World Record): Distance: 311.44 statute miles...Time: 8 mins 31.97 secs...Average Speed: 2,189.94 mph Kansas City To Washington D.C. (World Record): Distance: 942.08 statute miles...Time: 25 mins 58.53 secs...Average Speed: 2176.08 mph Crew for above four records: Ed Yeilding and J.T. Vida (Above data verified by Ed Yeilding on November 22, 2002) Go to this web page for complete information of the above Record Flights set in March of 1990: http://www.wvi.com/~sr71webmaster/972record1.htm rule13.gif Recap of Destination and Records Set # New York to London 1 hr 54 min 56.4 sec. # London to Los Angeles 3 hrs 47 min 39 sec. # West Coast to East Coast USA 1 hr 7 min 53.6 sec. # Los Angeles To Washington D.C. 1 hr 4 min 19.8 sec. # St Louis To Cincinnati 8 min 31.9 sec. # Kansas City to Washington D.C. 25 min 58.5 sec. rule13.gif

Breitbart.com : Solar plane cruises to historic flight

Wed, 7 Jul 2010 23:05:10 +0000

Now lets look at a real achievement in air travel: The SR-71 (Habu) SR-71 Blackbird Speed and Altitude Records The SR-71 Blackbird cruises above Mach 3 (three times the speed of sound). It has set numerous speed and altitude records including the following in chronological order rule13.gif May 01, 1965 Absolute Altitude: 80,257.86 ft (24,390 meters)... YF-12A # 60-6934 Absolute Speed Over a Straight Course: 2,070.101 mph...YF-12A #60-6936 Absolute Speed Over a 500km Closed Course: 1,688.889 mph...YF-12A #60-6936 Absolute Speed Over a 1,000km Closed Course: 1,643.041 mph... YF-12A #60-6936 Go to this web page for complete information and photos of the YF-12A Record Flights: http://www.wvi.com/~sr71webmaster/yf12~1.htm rule13.gif September 01, 1974 SR-71A #61-17972 New York to London (World Record-Speed Over a Recognized Course): Distance: 3,461.53 statute miles...Time: 1hr 54 min 56.4 secs. Average Speed 1,806.95 statute mph. Crew: Major's James V. Sullivan, Pilot and Noel F. Widdifield, Reconnaissance Systems Operator Go to this web page for complete information and photos of the New York to London Record Flight: http://www.wvi.com/~sr71webmaster/srspee~1.htm rule13.gif September 13, 1974 SR-71A #61-17972 London to Los Angeles (World Record-Speed Over a Recognized Course): Distance: 5,446.87 statute miles...Time: 3hrs 47min 39secs. Average Speed: 1,435.59 mph Crew: Capt. Harold B. (Buck) Adams, Pilot, with Maj. William C. Machorek, Reconnaissance Systems Operator Go to this web page for complete information and photos of the London to LA Record Flight: http://www.wvi.com/~sr71webmaster/la001.html rule13.gif July 27-28 1976 Altitude in Horizontal Flight: 85,068.997 ft (25,929.031 meters) SR-71A. World Absolute and World Class Altitude Record for Horizontal Flight - 85,068 feet, surpassing the previous record of 80,257 feet set by a Lockheed YF12A in June of 1965. SR-71 flown by Capt Robert C. Helt, Pilot and Major Larry A. Elliott, RSO. Speed Over a Straight Course (15-25km): 2,193.167 mph SR-71A. World Absolute and World Class Speed Record over a 15/25 Kilometer Straight Course - 2,193.167 MPH surpassing the previous record set by a Lockheed YF12A Interceptor prototype in June 1965. SR-71 Flown by Capt. Eldon W. Joersz. Pilot and Major George T. Morgan Jr., RSO

Breitbart.com : Solar plane cruises to historic flight

Wed, 7 Jul 2010 19:31:54 +0000

The true father of electricity,the radio, and the electric car is Nikola Tesla. In 1930 he drove a car with a motor and receiver of his own design at speeds to 90 miles an hour over several days with no batteries, charging, or power supply other than radio waves. Westinghouse determined that there is no profit in Free energy and cut his funding. keelynet.com/energy/teslcar.htm

Breitbart.com : Solar plane cruises to historic flight

Wed, 7 Jul 2010 17:01:07 +0000

It’s been used experimentally. Yes, it has triple the energy per pound and it’s clean-burning, but it’s bulky. A gallon of diesel weighs 6 pounds. A gallon of LH weighs about 1/3 of a pound, so to get 6 pounds, you have to have 18 gallons. Heck, to get the same energy as one gallon of diesel, you have to have 6 gallons of LH. Add to that the fact that its a cryogenic liquid and requires high-pressure heavy steel tanks, and it’s a losing proposition quickly. Besides, LH is made from natural gas so it won’t solve the carbon footprint problem.

Breitbart.com : Solar plane cruises to historic flight

Wed, 7 Jul 2010 15:29:36 +0000

We will now magically exchange our gasoline engine and transmission with an electric motor and batteries for the trip back home. We want to put solar panels on our Toyota so that, while sitting in the sun all day, the solar panels recharge the batteries so we can drive home on battery power alone. The question becomes: “Can the solar panels charge the batteries enough to make up for the 7.54 kW-hr we used getting to work?” If you are having trouble at this point understanding what I've done here, let me clarify. I calculated that, using gasoline, you used 7.54 kW-hrs energy to move the Toyota Echo (with you as the driver) from your home to work, a distance of 20 miles. (I eliminated the energy you wasted in conversion of gasoline to heat and friction). What you need to understand is that regardless of WHAT you had for power, be it gasoline engine, electricity, charcoal, nuclear, whatever, you would have used 7.54 kW-hrs doing this job, that is, moving the car 20 miles. So, if you had already converted your Toyota Echo to electricity by replacing all the power drive with an electric motor and batteries, you would have used 7.54 kW-hrs getting to work. What you need to do now is replace that energy you used so you can drive home. Our exercise here is to see how much energy we can replace using solar power alone. A typical solar panel is a series of monocrystalline or polycrystalline silicon solar cells, supplying about 130 Watts when the sun is shining fully on the panel. We will assume our solar panels will always face the sun, even though this is completely impractical in reality. Solar panels are roughly 18 inches wide by 36 inches long, so we are unlikely to get more than 5 panels on our car. The whole thing would be quite unwieldy, and would add considerable weight to the vehicle, but this is just a thought exercise so it can be excused. Five solar panels therefore, in bright, direct sun, supplies 650 watts, total. Assuming you have 6* good hours of sunlight, this means you are producing 650 x 6 or 3900 W-Hrs, which is 3.9 kW-Hrs. Thus, after all day in the sun, you have generated 3.9 kW-hrs, with 5 solar panels, toward replacing the 7.54 kW-hrs you used getting to work. You fell short. How short? Well, using the energy you produced you could drive just under 10.4 miles and you would have used up all the energy you generated! There you have it. Five large solar panels, generating 650 Watts every hour is inadequate by 50% - (remember we needed to go 20 miles!). At this point, I think it's necessary to point out that the above calculations do not take into account a number of other losses, and fact-of-life restrictions. First, I have not taken into account the amount of energy produced by the solar cells lost in the charging process. (All the 3.9 kw-hrs produced by the solar panels is not converted to stored energy in the batteries, you will always get some percentage lost in the charging process.) As mentioned above, I have not taken into account other losses in the vehicle - braking, aerodynamic, accessories (running the radio and lights), etc., because all these ordinary losses included in the average miles per gallon estimate, and no further complexity in the computations is required to account for them. I have not considered the actual energy production of the solar cells from the fact that the panels are not going to be pointed directly at the sun all day, and the power output falls off by the cosine of the angle when the panels are not directly pointed at the sun. So the total power generated, suggested above, of 3.9 kw-hrs, is very optimistic. Thus you see why there are no solar powered cars on the road today. The state of solar power technology is such that solar panels only supply, at best, half (actually significantly less) of that needed to move a common, light weight automobile any appreciable distance. If you are to see solar power work at all in a vehicle there will need to be a giant paradigm shift in the transportation world. Large has to go. Heavy has to go. Fast has to go. Air Conditioning has to go. It is completely possible to build a solar powered vehicle today, and with engineering improvements and changes, a very practical vehicle can be built which would be useful for a short commute, albeit at low speeds. But until the efficiency of solar photovoltaic cells greatly improves, an unlikely event, no vehicle the size and weight even of a small Toyota Echo, can be solar powered. And, it should be pointed out that solar cells convert sunlight to electricity with an efficiency of only about 15%, (meaning only 15% of the solar energy falling on the cell is converted to electricity), and the maximum theoretical efficiency is only around 21%. It is not possible to produce more efficient solar cells, with the current materials/technology! The same can be said for aircraft in spades... Takeoff's are optional, landings are mandatory

Breitbart.com : Solar plane cruises to historic flight

Wed, 7 Jul 2010 15:29:18 +0000

The Toyota Echo runs on ordinary gasoline, has about a 12 gallon tank, but for practical purposes we will consider the tank to be 10 gallons and one usually will fill up with around 2 gallons left in the tank. At 34 MPG, that makes the range 350 miles between fill ups. 408 miles if you want to stretch it to an empty tank. One gallon of gasoline has 125,000 BTU (British Thermal Units, yet another measure of energy) which we need to convert to Watts. But, 125,000 BTU is total energy content of the entire gallon, and the "Watt" is a measure of instantaneous power. When measuring Watts over time, we have the equivalent total energy as a BTU so we introduce the "Watt-hours", or W-hrs for short. If you turn on a 100 Watt light bulb, you are "burning 100 Watts" continuously. If you turn off the light after 60 minutes, you have burned "100 Watt-hours." That's 100 Watts times time, in hours. 1000 W-hrs is the same as "1 kilowatt-hour" or 1 kW-hrs. Since 1 BTU is the same as 0.293 W-hrs, or 0.000293 kW-hrs we can determine the number of kW-hrs in a gallon of gasoline by doing a simple conversion. 125,000 BTU x 0.000293 kW-hrs/BTU = 36.625 kW-hrs. Therefore, one gallon of gasoline contains 36.625 kW-hrs of energy. This means if you could convert gasoline directly to electricity without loss, you could run a 100 Watt light bulb for 366.25 hours, or 15.26 days. Now here is something we have to understand and accept. As much as 65% of the energy in gasoline is lost in the generation of heat, and making the mechanical parts of the engine work (friction). (If you don't think there is much friction in an internal combustion engine and transmission, remove the spark plugs and try cranking the engine by hand sometime!) This means that, including other losses, you are only getting 12.82 kw-hrs of energy use out of every gallon of gasoline you burn! (That's 35% of the 36.625 kw-hrs available energy in a gallon of gasoline). Eliminating the wasteful internal combustion engine eliminates this waste - heat and engine parts friction, so we are correct in our calculations to eliminate this energy loss from our computations. So for our conversion to solar power, we will use 12.82 kw-hrs per gallon of gasoline instead of the actual energy capacity in gasoline. Since I mentioned the subject of "loses" above, let me expound on that a bit. Losses could be added to the computations to cover such things as aerodynamic drag, power for accessories (e.g. radio, lights, etc.), rolling resistance, and so on. But these losses are already factored into the average MPG, so in the calculations above on how much energy we need to replenish, in using the average MPG, we have already taken these loses into account providing, of course, these loss conditions in an internal combustion engine vehicle are essentially the same as the loses we will experience in our electric vehicle. So, back to the issue at hand. Let's say you have a relatively long commute to work each day, say 20 miles. And, due to traffic lights and general traffic slow downs, this trip takes you 30 minutes of stop and go. In other words, you are not really using the engine's entire 108 horsepower, you are averaging less. But, since our Toyota Echo averages 34 miles per gallon, this average already takes into account this stop-and-go driving, we can simply use that average in our problem and calculate that we have used 20 miles worth of gas, or 0.588 gallons for the 30 minute trip. Thus we have used 0.588 x 12.82 kW-hrs = 7.54 kW-hrs of energy to get to work. (0.377 kw-hr/mile). 7.54 kW-hrs is not much huh? Let's press on.

Breitbart.com : Solar plane cruises to historic flight

Wed, 7 Jul 2010 14:36:03 +0000

For comparison the spec sheet for a Cessna 152, off the shelf.. AIRCRAFT SPECIFICATION SHEET Cessna 152 The Cessna 152 is an all-metal high-wing two seat aircraft widely used as a trainer. It was introduced in 1978 as a successor of the popular 150. The 152 strongly resembles its predecessor but has some significant changes. The Continental 80 octane engine was replaced by a 100 octane Lycoming O-235-L2C and the propeller was replaced by a McCauley-design. This gives the 152 a bit more power than the 150. Parameter English Metric Dimensions Overall Height (max) 8' 6" Overall Length 24' 1" Wing Span (overall) 33' 4" Area 159.5 sq ft Wing Loading 10.5 lb/sq.in 51 kg/msq Baggage Allowance 120 lbs 54kg Capacities Total Fuel Capacity (standard tanks) 26.0 US gal 98 litres Fuel Capacity (standard tanks, useable) 24.5 US gal 92.3 l Total Fuel Capacity (long range tanks) 39.0 US gal 147 l Fuel Capacity (long range tanks, useable) 37.5 US gal 141.3 l Oil Capacity 7 qts Weights Maximum Weight 1670 lbs 757 kg Standard Empty Weight 1081 lbs 490 kg Max. Useful Load 589 lbs 267 kg Range Cruise: 75% power at 8,000ft Time (standard tanks) 3.4 hrs Range (standard tanks) 350nm 648 km Cruise: 75% power at 8,000ft Time (long range tanks) 5.5 hrs Range (long range tanks) 415nm 769 km Service Ceiling 14,700ft 4480 m Engine Avco Lycoming O-235-L2C 110BHP at 2,550 Power Loading 15.2 lbs/hp 6.88 kg/hp Propellor: Fixed Pitch, diameter 69" (max) Take Off Performance Ground Roll 725ft 221m Total distance over 50' obstacle 1340ft 408m Landing Performance Ground Roll 475ft 145m Total distance over 50' obstacle 1200ft 366m Speeds Maximum at sea level 110 kts 204 km/hr Cruise, 75% power at 8,000ft 107 kts 198 km/hr Climb Rate Rate of Climb at Sea Level 715 fpm 218 m/min Best Rate of Climb Speed 67 kts 124 kph Stall Speed Flaps up, power off 48 kts 89 kph Flaps down, power off 43 kts 80 kph Max. Demonstrated Crosswind 12 kts 22 kph These figures have been collated from various sources and are not guaranteed accurate. This information - or any information found on the web - should not be used for flight planning and should never be used as a substitute for the information in the Pilot's Operating Handbook for the particular aircraft. Performance for a specific aircraft may vary from published figures depending on the equipment installed, engine condition, aircraft and equipment, atmospheric conditions and piloting technique.

Breitbart.com : Solar plane cruises to historic flight

Wed, 7 Jul 2010 13:56:19 +0000

12000 solar cells 1000 lbs of batteries, the wing span of an air bus, 25 mile an hour air speed, 13000 ft ceiling, structural strength of a tooth pick, to produce the power of a scooter and carry one pilot, never mind a passenger. THE INFERNAL-COMBUSTION ENGINE IS DOOMED. HAHAHAHA

Breitbart.com : Obama awards $2B for solar power, hails new jobs

Sat, 3 Jul 2010 13:48:42 +0000

on the jobs, recovery,and solar, let me be the first to say, Bull Pucky.

Breitbart.com : Emanuel links fall elections to GOP support of BP

Sun, 20 Jun 2010 15:59:31 +0000

Yes it is dangerous.....for all in congress that support the corruption the time has come to make changes a good read: Term Limits Product Details * Pub. Date: July 1999 * Publisher: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group * Format: Mass Market Paperback, 656pp * ISBN-13: 9780671023188 * ISBN: 0671023187 * Edition Description: Reprint Synopsis What if America's leaders were held accountable for their broken promises -- and made to pay for their corruption? Vince Flynn brings to life a chilling scenario of Washington under siege -- in the provocative, edge-of-your-seat political thriller that stormed onto national bestseller lists.

Breitbart.com : Obama to high school grads: \'Don\'t make excuses\'

Tue, 8 Jun 2010 12:21:33 +0000

There is only one way to correct the direction we are going as a country. Don't Re-nig

Breitbart.com : Obama to high school grads: \'Don\'t make excuses\'

Tue, 8 Jun 2010 12:14:16 +0000

This from the man who won't show his school records. But he wants to train the next generation not t o blame him for the mess we are now in. It's the Spending Stupid.

Breitbart.com : Oil tax increase would help pay to clean up spills

Tue, 25 May 2010 12:14:39 +0000

There is only one solution..... quit working and let the other guy pay for everything. Buy bullets you will need them.

Big Journalism : D.C. Metro Police Escorted SEIU Protesters to Bank Of America Executive's Home

Fri, 21 May 2010 23:04:12 +0000

the time has come to exercise our GOD Given Right to the Second Amendment. Time for sedition is near.