[MailonLine] As news helicopters swarmed over Dallas' Love Field this evening to watch the second U.S. nurse to contract Ebola board a private plane bound for Atlanta, one lone man stood out from the pack.
Holding a clipboard and directing the transfer, the unidentified man seemed to be the only person on the tarmac without protective clothing, wearing just a button down shirt and trousers.
While Ebola is not an airborne disease, his presence so close to patient Amber Vinson's medical team sparked fears after he was seen grabbing a container and hazmat trash bag from one of the workers' in full-protective gear and later boarding the flight.
Last night it was unclear whether the man stayed on board the flight and traveled with Ms Vinson and the medical team to Atlanta or stepped off and remained in Dallas
'He needs to be put on watch the second the plane lands so he does not infect anyone in Atlanta. This needs to be contained and I one will be ticked of I hear a report next week that he is the next victim!' Dean Pitts wrote on NBC Dallas' website.
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He is fine. The nurse is wearing the suit to keep the virus in. The others are going to be with her in the aircraft. Whats the big deal?
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Where are you at, 49 Pan?
Right here in Dallas, the media is stoking the fires of panic.
Excuse me, out of an abundance of caution.
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Apparently he's their "spotter", nor wearing the gear to maintain his field of vision.
Seems spotting could be done by multiple people at a distance, with radios if necessary.
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Correct, Rob. The spotter needs to be close enough to talk with the people in the haz-mat suits, point out issues, etc. He's considered "clean" and can hand things to the personnel, take things back that are known or cleared to be clean, etc. Out in the open like that radio and video isn't going to get the job done.
I've been in a haz-mat suit a couple times: you can't hardly see squat.
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UPDATE 6:30pm: Officials at BSA tell Pronews 7 the Emergency Room is no longer on lock down. And, they tell us the person the patient came in contact with had not traveled to an affected country in the last 21 days.
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Baptist St. Anthony Hospital in Amarillo is currently on lock down. A patient is exhibiting Ebola-like symptoms.
A patient came in with flu-like symptoms. Answered questions revealing that he came into contact with someone who had traveled to Africa, according to BSA spokesperson. That put the ER into high risk protocol measures.
Have you got your flu shot yet, dear Reader? You don't want to be locked down while they wait for the Ebola test results, which of course you won't have.
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BSA health staff say the patient does not have the disease. The healthcare worker who was also in isolation has been allowed to leave as well.
An Ebola screening revealed that the patient had come in contact with someone who had apparently been to Africa. But, after tracking down this person, it became clear that the trip had not been within the last 21 days, making it impossible to spread Ebola.
The emergency room is no longer on lock-down, but spokeswoman Mary Barlow with BSA says this is something staff has been training for.
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According to my in-house medic, getting a flu shot doesn't make you immune to the flu, only (allegedly) lessens the symptoms. Also it appears this year's strain is more apt to cause anaphalptic (sic) shock. Sleepy NHOH has already had 4 instances of this and far exceeds any that the collective staff memory can put together.
I was considering the shot, but now I am back to fence straddling.
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The second Dallas nurse had a low grade fever. Called the CDC several times to get advice and to reconfirm the approval gave her to board a plane for a flight from Cleveland back to Dallas.
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Ahhh, but now the head of the CDC has second-guessed again, saying his agency should not have allowed her to travel with the low-grade (below the 100.4 'benchmark').
I think the CDC boss has the Champ syndrome - he is the only one smart enough to make all the decisions!
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Top Men are on it
Top.Men.
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Hasn't been to an affected country in the last 21 days?
Not in Dallas or Cleveland?
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Got my flu shot a couple of weeks ago. No issues.
[WAPO] This ad is simply a more extreme version of a new Democratic talking point — that GOP budget cuts have harmed the nation’s ability to handle the Ebola outbreak. It mixes statistics — the budget for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) “cut” $585 million (the ad offers no date range) — with disturbing images of the outbreak and various Republican leaders saying variations of the word “cut.”
A slightly more nuanced version of this theme was launched by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which in online advertising began to equate a congressional budget vote in 2011 with a vote for the House GOP budget in 2014 that supposedly protected special interests. Take note of the dozens of evil old white men budget cutters, and of course Sarah Palin. Note also the deader Ebola victims at the end of the vid [helpful tip, they're the one's with blood dripping from their mouths]. Could this intriguing add be directed at a particular segment of society ?
OP MEN WOMEN: President Obama Already Has An Ebola Czar. Where Is She? “What’s particularly interesting about this discussion, then, is that nobody has even discussed the fact that the federal government not ten years ago created and funded a brand new office in the Health and Human Services Department specifically to coordinate preparation for and response to public health threats like Ebola. The woman who heads that office, and reports directly to the HHS secretary, has been mysteriously invisible from the public handling of this threat. And she’s still on the job even though three years ago she was embroiled in a huge scandal of funneling a major stream of funding to a company with ties to a Democratic donor—and away from a company that was developing a treatment now being used on Ebola patients.”
ASHLAND, Va. — Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) took aim Wednesday at the National Institutes of Health for blaming the agency's slow response to the Ebola outbreak on budget cuts.
"We have people who go blithely on TV and say we don't have enough money to study Ebola. Have you seen what the NIH spends money on?" Paul, a prospective 2016 presidential candidate, said at a campaign rally for Republican congressional candidates Dave Brat and Ed Gillespie.
"Nine-hundred thirty-nine thousand dollars spent to discover whether or not male fruit flies would like to consort with younger female fruit flies," the senator said to laughter. "One hundred seventeen thousand dollars spent to determine if most monkeys are right handed and like to throw poop with their right hands.”
And the NIH spent $2.4 million for an "Origami condom," said Paul, who said he spared folks in the room an explanation because it was a family audience.
Paul appeared to be referring to a project to "radically" redesign the condom for the 21st century, according to the Origami website, in part to reduce HIV transmission.
The NIH, Paul said, now spends about $30 billion a year, up from $17 billion in 2000.
"When they say they don't have enough money with their big cuts, look at the bottom line," Paul said. "No money has been cut in Washington, but it's about time we do cut money in Washington."
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Twitchy: Glenn Kessler in today’s Washington Post has a must-read fact check where he awards 4 Pinocchios to Dems and their ads claiming “that only Republicans are to blame for cuts to Ebola research.” Here’s his conclusion:
"On many levels, this line of attack is absurd.
Obama’s Republican predecessor oversaw big increases in public-health sector spending, and both Democrats and Republicans in recent years have broadly supported efforts to rein in federal spending. Sequestration resulted from a bipartisan agreement. In some years, Congress has allocated more money for NIH and CDC than the Obama administration requested. Meanwhile, contrary to the suggestion of the DCCC ad, there never was a specific vote on funding to prevent Ebola.
There’s no doubt that spending has been cut, or at least failed to keep pace with inflation, but the fingerprints of both parties are on the knives. This blame game earns Four Pinocchios".
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[JEMS] International aid organization Doctors Without Borders said that 16 of its staff members have been infected with Ebola and nine of them have died.
Speaking at a presser in Johannesburg Tuesday, the head of Doctors Without Borders in South Africa Sharon Ekambaram said medical workers have received inadequate assistance from the international community.
"Where is WHO Africa? Where is the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... ?" said Ekambaram who worked in Sierra Leone from August to September. "We've all heard their promises in the media but have seen very little on the ground."
Four of the organization's medical workers who had just returned from Sierra Leone and Liberia said they were frustrated, "chasing after the curve of the outbreak," according to Jens Pederson, the aid organization's humanitarian affairs adviser.
"To manage Ebola is not rocket science. It's very basic infection control and very basic protection of staff," said Pederson who said clean water, chlorine and soap were enough to disinfect an affected area.
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"To manage Ebola is not rocket science. It's very basic infection control and very basic protection of staff," said Pederson who said clean water, chlorine and soap were enough to disinfect an affected area.
Right, that's why over 400 healthcare workers have contracted this harmless little bug that cannot be transmitted through the air.
That's why it spreads like wildfire and is impossible to contain.
Whatta maroon.
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"Disinfect an affected area" > a statement which strongly infers that that even rudimentary infection control + sanitation, hygiene, etc. are NOT being followed either by local Govt or Society at large.
War, Terror, or Ebola, etc. it still comes to
"Better Over There than Over Here" for any World Govt-Nation.
Given Liberia's importance to US "Diamond/Diadem Strategy" vee US AFRICOM + OWG AFRICAN UNION, hence a de facto National Security interest to the USA, what POTUS Bammer needs to do is send in not less than 5000-10000 US Troops + Mil/Combat Engineers + Civie Expert teams from the US Nationwide Medical-Pharmaceutical Industries, + build massive, temporary, but also secure, Medical/Ebola Treatment Camps-Barracks in or near affected areas to properly treat infected Liberian locals + border refugees.
Use the US Civie Perts to test any new, experimental anti-Ebola drugs on these same infected Liberian locals + border refugees, wid their consent of course.
The US Army wiped out Yellow Fever + Malaria while building the Panama Canal + in Cuba - it can do the same wid Ebola.
Anyone whom criticizes the US as once again trying to be the malicious imperialistic
"World's Policeman" for this effort vee Ebola can go to hell.
[Breitbart] The highly respected Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) at the University of Minnesota just advised the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and World Health Organization (WHO) that “there is scientific and epidemiologic evidence that Ebola virus has the potential to be transmitted via infectious aerosol particles,” including exhaled breath. As many have suspected.
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The executive summary, from the source article:
We believe there is scientific and epidemiologic evidence that Ebola virus has the potential to be transmitted via infectious aerosol particles both near and at a distance from infected patients, which means that healthcare workers should be wearing respirators, not facemasks.1
The minimum level of protection in high-risk settings should be a respirator with an assigned protection factor greater than 10. A powered air-purifying respirator (PAPR) with a hood or helmet offers many advantages over an N95 filtering facepiece or similar respirator, being more protective, comfortable, and cost-effective in the long run.
We strongly urge the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) to seek funds for the purchase and transport of PAPRs to all healthcare workers currently fighting the battle against Ebola throughout Africa—and beyond.
We don't know what level of natural immunity exists in West African populations.
Ebola isn't a new disease and may be a old disease, with many epidemics in the past. In which case, there will be natural immunity in some people, perhaps a lot of people.
Let's further assume ebola never made it out of Africa before, which means there is no natural immunity in non-African populations.
What this means, if true, is it will spread much more easily outside of Africa.
What led me to this, is the ease with which foreign healthcare workers get infected despite precautions, indicates the transmission rate should be higher than it is in Africa.
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Interesting and scary point, phil. And a nice explanation of why so many medical personnel are getting sick.
Historically, the virus would burn thru an isolated village leaving a bunch of dead and survivors with varying degrees of immunity. It would be back again, thanks to local vectors, but now people would have some resistance.
Nowadays, thanks to our modern social/transportation networks, the virus has a brand new playground of never-exposed people.
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With the election coming - folks everywhere in the US might be better off skipping the electronic ballot and doing paper with their own markers... like a touch screen just doesn't make sense in a contagious way.
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Watching this hearing with Fauci'd Up excuses and no answers:
Hasn't this very scenario been gamed on account of Bird Flu? Also, the last major Ebola outbreak had doctors raising semaphore that this is nasty stuff which if it found to way to be more transmissive we will have problems.
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I grabbed this tidbit from somewhere this morning. Hat tip to someone.
The U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRID) published a book titled “USAMRID’s Medical Management of Biological Casualties Handbook,” is now in its seventh edition.
The most recent edition was published in 2011, with more than 100,000 copies distributed to military and civilian health-care providers around the world.
On page 117 of the handbook, in a chapter discussing “Viral Hemorrhagic Fever” (VHF), a category of viruses that includes Ebola, USAMRID says: “In several instances, secondary infections among contacts and medical personnel without direct body fluid exposure have been documented. These instances have prompted concern of a rare phenomenon of aerosol transmission of infection.”
Page 117 continues to specify: “Therefore, when VHF is suspected, additional infection control measures are indicated.”
Which got me digging and I found this 2012 study: From Pigs to Monkeys, Ebola Goes Airborne
The BBC parsed the study like this, "In experiments, they demonstrated that the virus was transmitted from pigs to monkeys without any direct contact between them."
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And found this digging yesterday. It's frustrating as it's posted on the WHO website, so the "experts" should know better.
Recent studies conducted in West Africa have demonstrated that 95% of confirmed cases have an incubation period in the range of 1 to 21 days; 98% have an incubation period that falls within the 1 to 42 day interval.
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"It is not a danger. We're not concerned," Schaffner told CNN's State of the Union with Candy Crowley.
Empirical data tends to suggest that a significant percentage of a dog population can be immunologically confronted with Ebola without triggering an epidemic and mass-death.
Apparently there are no studies concerning the progress of Ebola in dogs, the modes and probabilities of Ebola transmission dog->dog, dog->human, human-> dog, etc.
'Top men' making bold statements in the near total absence of empirical data is a reason to be concerned.
"We know that this virus can circulate in animals, but pets have not been a feature of Ebola spread, whether in Africa and certainly not here in the developed world," he said.
Ebola is not endemic in the human population, so logically the first patient was infected by some non-human organism, most likely a mammal.
How then do we 'know' that pets have not been a factor?
The City of Dallas said Tuesday the dog would be monitored for the next 21 days.
"The problem is we haven't really studied the progress of Ebola in dogs," Sanders said.
Why then this totally arbitrary 21 days quarantine? The worst reasonable assumption is that dogs can be a reservoir species for Ebola.
Ebola in dogs could very well be generally asymptomatic and persistent. A dog infected with Ebola would then be contagious for the rest of its life while being apparently healthy.
The dog should be kept under observation in a bio safety level 4 facility for the time being. His bodily fluids should be checked regularly for the presence of Ebola proteins and RNA.
[Iran Press TV] Tbilisi has warned Moscow against taking further steps towards the integration of the Georgian breakaway region of Abkhazia.
The Georgian Foreign Ministry issued a statement on Wednesday, calling on Moscow not to sign a draft Russia-Abkhazia treaty on alliance and integration.
"We hope that the Russian authorities will refrain from signing this so-called agreement, otherwise it will be considered as a step towards annexation of Abkhazia with subsequent legal consequences," the statement read.
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Georgia can break away from Russia, but Abkhazia can't break away from Georgia?
[Business Insider] What is going on in Vladimir Putin's mind?
That's the question a panel of Russia experts was trying to answer Tuesday morning. Attention on Russia and the crisis in Ukraine has dwindled as the press has focused more on the West's fight against the extremist group calling itself the Islamic State.
US Secretary of State John Kerry also announced Tuesday increased intelligence-gathering cooperation with Russia on the group - also known as ISIS - a particularly significant development given the recent thaw in US-Russian relations.
But this panel, which was moderated by Reuters, took a much more alarmist tone when speaking about America's relations with Moscow and speculating about Putin. All the experts in attendance warned Putin's recent moves in Ukraine might only be the start of new territorial ambitions.
Three of the four panelists - New Yorker editor David Remnick, journalist and author Masha Gessen, Russian political activist and former grand chessmaster Garry Kasparov, and former Treasury Department official Roger Altman - agreed Putin could soon try to stretch his influence into the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
"They already are under pressure," Gessen, the author of a 2012 unauthorized biography of Putin, said of the Baltics. "That's very much where he's doing his nuclear saber-rattling, and that's where he's planning to call NATO's bluff."
Unlike Ukraine, all three Baltic states are NATO members. NATO's Article 5 requires all members of the alliance come to the defense of any member that is attacked or targeted.
Putin last month made casual mention of his country's nuclear arsenal, around the same time NATO accused Russian forces of an "incursion" in Ukraine. Many analysts have speculated Putin's next move could come in the Baltic states, something that would be a clear challenge to NATO.
Amid the bluster from Putin - who also reportedly said in a private conversation he could invade Poland, Romania, and the Baltic states if he really wanted to - NATO states made a point of countering with strong rhetoric of their own.
President Barack Obama traveled to Estonia last month on the way to a meeting in Wales with other NATO states, in a trip the White House said was aimed at reassuring NATO allies in the Baltics that felt threatened by Putin's moves in Ukraine. The message, a White House adviser said, was for Putin to "not even think about messing around" with the region. Excellent map and link at the site.
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Three of the four panelists - New Yorker editor David Remnick, journalist and author Masha Gessen, Russian political activist and former grand chessmaster Garry Kasparov, and former Treasury Department official Roger Altman
[Iran Press TV] American economist Mark Thornton has said that the new report by investment bank Credit Suisse truly depicts that new recessions have begun in the United States.
The report shows wealth inequality has topped its highest level since the Great Depression of 1929 in the US, saying nearly 50 percent of the world's assets are owned by just 0.7 percent of the world's population.
"In a sense wealth disparities do indicate recessions because they have the same cause as the boom and bust cycle in the economy, that is when the central bank or the Federal Reserve of the United States reduces interest rate to very low level because of boom in the economy which leads to an inevitable bust in the economy," Thornton of Mises Institute told Press TV on Wednesday.
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Expect US sanctions against Switzerland? Probably not, they (US rulers) have to keep their own money somewhere.
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Expect Goldman Sachs to act hostile to Credit Suisse now.
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The report shows wealth inequality has topped its highest level since the Great Depression of 1929
Ignore the fact that the 'bottom' in 2014 looks a lot like the 'upper' in 1929. If food, housing, clothing, heat, and access to reasonable medical care (circa 2014) at any emergency room, is the floor, WTF are you whining about? /rhet question.
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the "bottom" can't afford an HDTV larger than 50".
Oh, the humanity!
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They'll just find an excuse for another riot and loot one...and have the pols justify the theft by the next day (though a bit disgruntled because they couldn't beat the street thugs getting it first and then turning it over to them for the cred. Middlemen are like that when you take away their bread and butter hustle).
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As a Ludwig von Mises guy, what he is whining about is inflation of the currency supply by central banks and fractional reserve banking - a stealth tax which transfers wealth from the working and middle classes to the banking and political class. Grinding down a country's labor force while enriching its parasites is not a sustainable trend; hence, further recession/depression can be expected. Of the deflationary sort, which would be good news for anyone who drives a car, eats food, or needs heat to stay warm.
From CNBC two days ago but relevant to WOT and economy
Get used to paying less at the gas pump. Oil prices are expected to stay at their currently low levels, and possibly even drop further, due to a "perfect storm" of risk factors, analysts say.
Oil prices continued to flirt with yearlong lows Monday. November Brent crude futures were down about 1.7 percent to trade near $88.50. WTI crude oil also dropped, albeit by a less dramatic amount, to near $85.49.
Those decreases may only be the beginning though, according to analysts. Dan Stobler, a managing director and partner at HighTower Bellevue, said the market could see oil prices come as low as the mid-70s in the next few months. Oil at under $80 would, if it remained that way for a half year or so, be devastating for the economy of IRAN which also has other problems and would decrease the ability of various private and public donors to such entities as Hezbollah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, etc. It would also decrease the value of Israel's new resources in the Med. US automobile users would benefit as would US trucking.Europe would benefit. So would China, Japan and Turkey.
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Think what low oil prices do for terror organizations that are using the oil as the funding source for their activities.....
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While this may reduce the trade value of Israel's resources, it doesn't change the BTU content. Having gas & oil makes them less dependent on...certain other parties.
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Having gas and also allows Israel to supply neighbours Egypt and Jordan, giving Israel greater influence and if necessary some control in those quarters. Russia -- and Egypt -- has demonstrated the value of controlling the stopcock.
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Just in time for the election! The Dems will take credit for "Drill, Baby, Drill" - and with a straight face, too. Remember Champ tried to pass that off at the debate - "Oil production is up, on my watch."
Which was mathematically true, but in spite of Champ's hope 'n' change.
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For your consideration - this is just a blip/dip, high priced oil will be back in 3 months...
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No one can really predict what the f... will happen.
Ebola, Terror, Islamists, Baghadad take over, Russia , China-Taiwan-Japan etc. etc... Too many ???????
[DAWN] Ten coppers suspended in recent months for cheating on the fuel their official vehicles consumed in performing their duties, were 'temporarily' reinstated before Eidul Azha. But departmental investigations are continuing.
CIA Superintendent of Police Haroon Joiya, who is conducting the investigations, was not available for comments. But the Motor Transport Officer of the department, Raja Aftab Ahmed, confirmed the information.
"They allegedly profited from faulty speedometers. Everybody knows what beaten down cars and cycle of violences are in use in the police department," the officer said.
A source close to the investigations, however, claimed that one of the alleged-corrupt police drivers, who used to pilot the convoys of Punjab's chief minister and police chief and other VIPs during their visits to Rawalpindi and Islamabad, confessed he stole fuel but was "helpless to share the reason why".
Another accused police driver admitted to using a device that made the digital speedometer of his vehicle run faster. That allowed him to claim more fuel which he sold for profit.
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Until I read the article, I wondered which US city this was about. And how much influence the police union had.
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Although the company released limited information on the CFR in 2013, Lockheed is now providing new details of its invention. Aviation Week was given exclusive access to view the Skunk Works experiment, dubbed "T4," first hand. Led by Thomas McGuire, an aeronautical engineer in the Skunk Work's aptly named Revolutionary Technology Programs unit, the current experiments are focused on a containment vessel roughly the size of a business-jet engine. Connected to sensors, injectors, a turbopump to generate an internal vacuum and a huge array of batteries, the stainless steel container seems an unlikely first step toward solving a conundrum that has defeated generations of nuclear physicists—namely finding an effective way to control the fusion reaction.
Instead of constraining the plasma within tubular rings, a series of superconducting coils will generate a new magnetic-field geometry in which the plasma is held within the broader confines of the entire reaction chamber. Superconducting magnets within the coils will generate a magnetic field around the outer border of the chamber. "So for us, instead of a bike tire expanding into air, we have something more like a tube that expands into an ever-stronger wall," McGuire says. The system is therefore regulated by a self-tuning feedback mechanism, whereby the farther out the plasma goes, the stronger the magnetic field pushes back to contain it. The CFR is expected to have a beta limit ratio of one. "We should be able to go to 100% or beyond," he adds.
The 100-MW unit would provide sufficient power for up to 80,000 homes in a power-hungry U.S. city and is also "enough to run a ship," he notes.
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If, A BIG IF, this pans out to be true, decades from now it will be what everybody remembers and Ebola will be long forgotten. But you won't see this news in the MSM. This is the first fusion promise I recall ever seeing with an expiration date of less than 20 years. Wow.
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I've been trying to post this, but can't get it by the filters! Trying first graf:
McGuire may be a wizard MIT engineer, but he's also an accomplished snake oil specialist. The video has very high production values (and a damsel for window dressing), but is essentially content free.
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For people familiar with hot fusion, the article is also thin on information. It appears the main development is to turn the magnetic design inside out compared to a Tokomak, with perhaps an extra containing field generated by coils outside the reaction chamber. If I understand correctly, they are also using end mirrors, which have not worked well in the past and have been pretty much abandoned in favor of toroids.
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A hundred times smaller refers apparently to the reaction volume, so that would be around five times smaller in scale. That would be a big advance, since combined with the skunk works organization (as opposed to ITER bureaucracy) it allows a much shorter prototype cycle.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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