Engineers have performed their magic once again. The world is not going to run short of energy as soon as feared.

http://tinyurl.com/yg9p4yg

Why am I not surprised? Time for all the Malthusians to once again crawl back under their rocks

was, just saying you may confusing http://www.thefreedictionary.com/infinity with the theory of asymptotes..NBD~

past that, this http://www.analyzemath.com/Trigonometry.html is, prob, better than that ‘next’ Math class..
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Machine Tools Sales Down 67.7% Through August
AM Staff
10/13/2009
The monthly U.S. Manufacturing Technology Consumption report indicates that sales of machine tools and related technologies totaled $129.16 million during August, a decline of -14.8% from the July figure and -63.3% from August 2008.
Year-to-date U.S. manufacturing technology sales now total $1,041.57 million, indicating that 2009 is down -67.7% versus the first eight months of 2008.
The monthly report is compiled by AMT – the Association For Manufacturing Technology and the American Machine Tool Distributors’ Assn. The report is based on actual data reported by participating companies.
http://www.americanmachinist.com/Classes/Article/ArticleDraw.aspx?CID=84877&Refresh=1
that there are some of the green shootiest ‘green shoots’ I’ve done seen in a coon’s age..

do your wife a favor, show her this, from the comments:
“Marketing company reinventing the wheel!
justwent wrote:

Tuesday, 13 October 2009 at 10:10 am (UTC)

The “air amplifier” has been around years. The use of high pressure streams to create low pressure flows is the same basic principle as what makes steam engines chuff up their stack.

The basic central injector was used to fire sand onto the track in difficult climbs. When we used to have the wrong type of leaves on the track! A solution that was lost in time.

This was developed to the air amplifiers and the air transport equipment used to move around light plastic parts and remove waste from machine tools.

You can even buy 40mm Air amplifiers from RS components. Then again, the other product referred to above, to dry hands is the ubiquitous “knife edge”. This has been removing liquids from products for years.

There are water flow equivalents that are used to dredge the sea floor of light silt. Even some propulsion methods use this amplifying technique.

This is NOT inventing it is application and marketing of current technology to the home by use of modern plastic engineering advances.

(What is missing is the purification needed to remove the “lumps” from the air so that the unit does not block up. It also needs a compressed air stream to be created. This of course would need a turbine or piston pump which would also have to be protected from particle clogging. It turns out the direct drive of a large fan, in a hole, is quite efficient in both energy and maintenance costs. BUT then Dyson is trying to sell maintenance, and filters, not long lasting products.)”

other comments point out that Dyson is a great Salesman, little more, as well..O, and btw, they’re correct..

for further, see: http://www.rexresearch.com/teslatur/teslatur.htm#1061142 “The Tesla Turbine” as another ex. of ‘old’ Tech capable of , current, ‘state-of-the-art’ performances..

BofA to charge annual fees on some credit cards:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091013/ap_on_bi_ge/us_bank_of_america_annual_fees