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For germanforestgump and anyone interested in the comet mission: Begin Quotation from The Space Show newsletter: 3. Friday, August 28, 2015, 9:30-11 AM PDT (12:30-2 PM EDT, 11:30 AM - 1 PM CDT): We welcome DR. JENS BIELE of the German Space Agency to the show. Among the topics we will be discussing ...

For germanforestgump and anyone interested in the comet mission: Begin Quotation from The Space Show newsletter: 3. Friday, August 28, 2015, 9:30-11 AM PDT (12:30-2 PM EDT, 11:30 AM - 1 PM CDT): We welcome DR. JENS BIELE of the German Space Agency to the show. Among the topics we will be discussing ...

As a follow up to the theme of continent scale energy collection and storage, hydrogen is an attractive alternative to high capacity transmission lines for a variety of reasons. The "long awaited" "Hydrogen Economy" depends upon a continental scale supply of hydrogen. The gas can...

For maurice goldsmith and germanforestgump ... Thank you both for adding Africa and Chile as locations suitable for salt water energy storage. The Northern Africa location has the advantage of (relative) proximity to Europe. Combining solar power energy collection with water storage would yield a ca...

As a follow up to the idea that salt water could serve as a working fluid for energy storage, I asked Mr. Google to show me mountains next to oceans The first citation was for the Northwest part of the North American continent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coast_Mountains As it happens, the mountai...

An article by Ivan Penn recently appeared in the online space. The topic is a fresh water hydraulic storage system built late last century in California, to serve as a backup for the statewide energy supplier. The storage system worked well, but it's value is now in question because of the sustained...

Dr. David Livingston posts a blog entry in his Wordpress blog for each show he broadcasts on The Space Show. Here is a link to the one for Dr. Dartnell: https://thespaceshow.wordpress.com/2015/08/22/dr-lewis-dartnell-friday-8-21-15/ The show itself is archived as an mp3 file which may be retrieved f...

For Keithd21 ... germanforestgump and I are considering security services over the global Internet as a possible employment opportunity for displaced populations. By any chance, do you have a feel for the cost of crime around the world vs the cost of security measures? Crime is a loss to the economy...

The prohibition against earning interest from loans which is part of the Islamic tradition was something of which I was aware but did not consider important enough to investigate until now. However, a recent post by germanforestgump, showing the many challenges that must be faced by developers of a ...

As we learn about the quirky software selected for discuss.the.knowledge forum, we will have to adapt. The software refuses to search for the word "money" because (it says) the word is too "common". Instead, if you want to find the discussion of Money, you can search for "ki...