Can You Fix Your Car?

Posted on August 4, 2008 by Bruce A. Kershaw

When NASA cannot fix it, they have to call a car scientist. And that is all so very true. My educated guess is most NASA engineers cannot fix their own cars. Why do I think that? Because when NASA cannot fix something at NASA they do in fact call upon car scientists. How’s that for a service call, I wonder if NASA has AAA towing?

Cars had indoor pluming and heating and electricity in the late 1890s, that is about thirty to fifty years before most people had that luxury in their homes. In the 1920s a luxury in most homes was a wood stove. Even today most car technologies are still twenty to thirty years ahead of the rest of the world. My computer has over two hundred processors in it to diagnose car problems, most twenty year old cars have seven or more processors in a eight inch by ten inch metal box controlling your car’s engine along with many other modules and processors all wired and talking to another 30+ sensors and 30+ actuators on board just to run the engine.

Now add the computer for the anti-lock brake system and the computer for the air bag system and the computer to aim the head lights around corners the computer for the heating and air-conditioning system and the computer for the satellite communication and voice recognition system a computer for the suspension and ride control and nitrogen tire pressure and the computer for the remote start and the computer for security and the Body computer and forty miles of wire to monitor all on-board computers.

My 1984 Buick has a fiber-optic communication system. As simple as it is, all it does is tell the driver if any of the running lights are not working. When Hewlett-Packard comes out with something new, it is probably something they bought from General Motors and was in a Cadillac or Buick years ago. When I was going to school at the G.M. training center in 1977 in Burbank, California, we were learning about a satellite communication system that would have been on a 1978 or later Cadillac and maybe on a Buick. But the U.S. Government said no way. I guess the U.S. Military did not want Russia or China buying a new Cadillac and having better technology than our own Military. Here we are thirty or so years later and now you can have it in your car today.

It is always the Government that holds back science and technology. Your home computer has one processor in it and is very slow compared to the computers in your car. The oldest car I have worked on with an on-board computer was built in 1967, two years before we landed on the Moon. The computers that would have put man on the Moon failed and the Astronauts would have died — thank goodness the Astronauts were smarter than the computers.

There are at lest seven different kinds of pluming on most cars, with computers wired to all of them and the same goes for the dozens of electrical systems ranging from a milli-volt to 48,000 volts and everything in between. Most people cannot fix a car built back in the 1950s before emission controls and on-board computers and I am not talking about changing your own engine oil or air filter which is a class C level ability. Today it takes better than a degree in NASA engineering to diagnose and repair most newer cars. The satellite communication system intended for a new 1978 Cadillac would have sent you a postcard in the mail telling you your car is polluting the air and you only have twenty starts left on your car and if you did not fix your car it would not start until it was fixed.

My diagnostic computer was fiber-optic ready in 1982 , But it was about 2004 before we had any fiber optic cable in the ground here in Helena, Montana, to plug into and I still cannot plug into it where I live. So it only took about twenty-eight years for the rest of the world to catch up to my car or my diagnostic computer. Can you fix your computer?

Understanding Global Warming, is a piece of cake.

Fixing a new Cadillac, is a pain in the butt.

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The Cost of Carbon is the Se-question?

Posted on July 21, 2008 by Bruce A. Kershaw

The amount of energy that will be needed for carbon capture and the sequestration regardless of the overwhelming cost and the poisoning of underground drinking water, will have to be supplied by green or renewable energy. Otherwise, if you use carbon-based energy you will put  more carbon back in to the air than you can possibly remove. Maybe we should just capture the CO2 and freeze it and sell it to people who can no longer afford electricity for their refrigerator to keep what little food they can still grow from the Air with little or no CO2 in it. And by then we should be running low on oxygen, because now plants and trees have nothing to turn back into oxygen for us to breathe and because we are so good at removing CO2 from the air. We can remove it faster than it can evaporate with the water from the ocean from underwater volcanoes into the air on a very hot day along with all the other chemicals in the ocean we really truly do not want in the air.

And for all of you, who think you are saving the world, buying a new hybrid car, you will have to drive it for about five years just to offset the carbon produced just to build it.

If we add CO2 to the greenhouse in your backyard, the more CO2 we add the healthier and stronger your plants and vegetables will be, and then the healthier your food will be and then the healthier you will be. we know that after many  years of experimentation, research and study. CO2 is the cause of all carbon-based life on this planet.

CO2 is one one-hundredth of one percent of the air over land. So if we could add more CO2 into the air, it would be much healthier for plants and trees. So why don’t we just let plants and trees absorb the carbon from CO2 so they can live and make oxygen and food so all of us creatures will have something to breathe and eat too?  So, if you really need to capture something from the air, try the ozone produced at ground level that is causing severe respiratory illness all around the planet and put it in the hole in the ozone which is contributing to Global Warming.

The first air on this planet was all CO2, causing all plant life to begin on our planet.

I guess we will just be the cause of ending all life on this planet.

CO2 causes extreme cooling, that is why we call it Dry Ice.

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The Definition of Dry Ice, for the last 80 years

Posted on July 21, 2008 by Bruce A. Kershaw

From Webster’s Concise Encyclopedia

Dry ice: solid carbon dioxide (CO2), used as a refrigerant.

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Governments’ religion — CO2 causing Global Warming

Posted on June 7, 2008 by Bruce A. Kershaw

CO2 causing Global Warming is a religion, it is a bad Hypothesis with no scientific proof or evidence of any kind. I have been searching for any proof from anywhere for over two years, and all I can prove is CO2 is with certainty with overwhelming evidence causes extreme cooling and that Global Warming causes CO2 levels to rise from the Ocean through the evaporation process and that CO2 is one of the causes of all life on this planet. And if we get rid of all the CO2 on this planet every living thing on this planet will die. And with forty thousand people dying of hunger every day, we can go one step further and do something real stupid and start turning Food in to Fuel. And why not go all the way, and while pumping CO2 in to the ground we poison the under ground drinking water, and make natural gas wells unflammable, well that should do it, we killed ourselves trying to save our selves, once again.

The United Nations Panel on climate change (UN IPCC) released a report in February 2007 stating with over 90 percent certainty that climate change is caused by human action but with zero percent proof. So we have over 90 percent certainty and zero percent proof.

Let’s see what Noah Webster has to say about the word certain.

CERTAIN: Sure; true; undoubted; unquestionable; that cannot be denied; existing in fact and truth;

So what exactly is over 90 percent certainty with zero percent proof? I guess the Political Scientists have their own dictionary. In the real world of science, zero percent proof means zero percent certainty. In science there is no 99 percent to 1 percent certainty its all or nothing with words like certainty and you cannot even say maybe over 90 percent with zero percent proof.

So we have a scientific consensus of over 90 percent certainty with zero percent proof? Only Political Scientists could make that scientific statement, to a real scientist, it is the words of fools.

Religion is 100 percent certainty with zero percent proof. That is very good Faith and very bad Science.

CO2 causing extreme cooling is not a theory, it is a proven fact for over 100 years.

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As The World Turns

Posted on May 23, 2008 by Bruce A. Kershaw

The rotation of the Earth has been slowing down for billions of years. As the Moon moves further away from the Earth, it causes the Earth’s rotation to slow. When the Moon was at its closest point to the Earth, a full day and night only took somewhere between as little as two hours, some say and as much as six hours others say. I wonder if they used different numbers or different Math or both, I will use no Math and just go down the middle and say as little as four hours for the Earth to make a full rotation, two hours of Day and two hours of Night.

So a full Day then was twenty hours shorter than a full Day today and with the earth turning many times faster than today, the gravity would have been so great that a person dropped off here back then would be instantly turned into a pancake. And don’t get me wrong, I like pancakes. I have never met one I did not like, very much, but can you imagine being a pancake living on our planet over four billion years ago, looking up into the sky and seeing a moon fifteen times closer and bigger than it is today, it would eclipse the sun every day.

Today the sun and the moon are exactly the same size in the sky and before long the moon will be smaller than the Sun in the sky and will no longer cover the Sun during an Eclipse. Along with a much slower rotation of the earth, and just about the time the Sun is ready to vaporize the Earth a day and night will last almost twice as long as today. How would you like twenty hours of day and twenty hours of night every day? Well, don’t worry that won’t happen for billions of years. And I can not be Certain but I believe we will all be long gone and forgotten by then, we will probably be long gone before a billion years from now, when the average daily temperature will exceed 160 degrees.

Our time on this planet is just a blink of an eye in all of time, we are very lucky to be living during the gentlest weather cycles of our planets history, thanks to moon slowly moving further away. The moon does far more than just affect our ocean tides. It affects all of Life. After billions and billions of years of time there has only been life here for millions of those years. Life is just a drop in the bucket of time. I hope life is a cycle throughout the universe through all of time.

We live in a very special moment in time. Life is ever changing as the cause of life is ever changing. We are a very fragile balance of carbon energy and spent carbon energy, the by product of fuel burning efficiently and the cleaner the burn the higher the level of spent carbon energy produced to make and support all of plant life. Hydrocarbons carry the energy fuel and CO2 is the spent fuel carbon absorbed by plants and trees and once again the CO2 is changed back into carbon with energy for food or fuel.

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When Stars Collide

Posted on May 21, 2008 by Bruce A. Kershaw

Our Star will not become a supernova as some dying stars will. Our star, the Sun, will grow as it is dying, it will grow to or past the orbit of our planet. We call it our star and our planet because we live here, and of course we belong to the Sun and Earth and Moon. We might as well claim everything — nothing else has, at least, not that I know of. So from this point forward the universe is ours, but only until our star vaporizes us. I think stars are like people, so many different kinds and no two alike. A sun dying going supernova would be trillions of times the energy of our star dying.

Our star is far from dying. The Sun is just warming up. Every day our star is getting brighter and warmer and someday the average daily temperature on earth will be about 160 degrees or so. Just give it a billion or so years to get there. And just like water evaporates, the earth will vaporize into the energy of our dying sun and then never again a trace of life from here, ever again. Now take two healthy stars moving toward each other very rapidly and then sit back and enjoy the light show, it will definitely be the last thing you will ever see. When two stars collide the energy is trillions times the energy of a dying star going supper nova and the surface of every planet in that entire galaxy will be vaporized in to the energy. Maybe that is how neutrinos are made and where they come from, intense energy too small to measure or see, traveling through time and space, through everything. We can detect neutrinos going through heavy water after they have been through seven miles of earth. They are pure energy from a Plasma Burst billions of years ago.

CO2 in its purest form is Dry Ice.

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Where did all the Montana Camels go?

Posted on May 13, 2008 by Bruce A. Kershaw

That’s right, Camels in Montana 14,000 years ago. Hard for most to believe but true. We had all kinds of strange creatures running around Montana back then. Like the Lion, much larger than the African Lion along with the Sloth and Mastodon wondering around, I am trying to picture a Camel much larger than the Arabian Camel in my garden eating away at my carbon intake, or maybe the Bear that stood 14 to 15 feet tall.

And sadly they all disappeared about fourteen thousand years ago. For years we have believed man hunted them all out of existence but after close examination we now know from the Iridium lodged in their bones that a asteroid must have wiped them all out, and with no evidence of a Asteroid hitting the ground because the asteroid would of hit thick Ice or Glaciers back then and so the evidence would have all melted away.

Most of mankind back then lived close to the ocean shore which would have been many miles further away, with the ocean being hundreds of feet lower than it is today. Like Atlantis most of the evidence of mankind 14,000 years ago would be under hundreds of feet of water today. On the East Coast the floor of the gulf stream was 200 feet above sea level and the gulf of Mexico was all a giant land mass, so going to Africa from South America would have been a very easy and short trip on the water.

Which would help explain pyramids on both continents with similar design.

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Thank Goodness for Volcanoes — most of the time

Posted on May 11, 2008 by Bruce A. Kershaw

All life on this planet has a carbon base. Volcanoes are responsible for all of life as we know it and if we had no active Volcanoes on this planet ever, there would be no life as we know it today. All of the life giving CO2 on this planet is from Volcanoes and even today most of the CO2 we need for life to exist on this planet comes from volcanoes.

Life began as we know it about six hundred million years ago after about one hundred million years of Ice Age. And trapped under that ice for a hundred million years, CO2 from very active volcanoes, so when the ice broke the air was filled with lots of CO2. The first life on this planet began with plants and later trees, they are carbon-based life from CO2 and much later creatures came to life to eat the plants and like the plants they too are carbon-based life No Green House gases no life, no volcanoes no CO2, no carbon-based plant life no carbon-based creatures to eat the plants and no carbon-based life of any kind.

No volcanoes — no CO2 — no life as we know it.

Volcanoes can also end life on this planet, as we know from a DNA funnel going back seventy-four thousand years ago and as few as thirty breeding women may be all that were left after twenty feet of ash covered much of the planet with as much ash in the air blocking the Sun. How would you like to live through a Super Volcano and then a Ice Age caused by the Volcano. So when Yellowstone Park blows again I think we are all in very BIG trouble, and it is over due to blow.

Oh well, I guess we all need something to worry about, so, it might as well be something we have no control over, like Global Warming or Global Cooling or Asteroids hitting our planet or rain or sunshine.

 

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Global Warming, Again

Posted on May 11, 2008 by Bruce A. Kershaw

This cycle of Global Warming began fourteen thousand years ago, not forty years ago.

During the last fourteen thousand years we have had many Little Ice Ages and many Mini Ice Ages. A Little Ice Age can be hundreds of years and a Mini Ice Age is more than one year without a growing season.

Major Ice Ages last for tens of thousands of years and we have had Mega Ice Ages that last over a Hundred Million years. Life as we know it began after the last Mega Ice Age Six Hundred Million years ago. The Earth has been through thousands if not millions of Global Warming and cooling periods. Why stop now? Prior to World War I a worldwide pandemic killed about fifty million people. Years prior to the pandemic thousands died on the east coast of the U.S. from a Mini Ice Age, they had no growing season for more then a year and starved to death. And even in today’s world more people die from cold weather than hot weather. CO2 in its purest form is Dry Ice.

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The Carbon Circle Cycle of Life

Posted on May 8, 2008 by Bruce A. Kershaw

No carbon, no carbon based life.

Life is a carbon-based circle cycle and everything living has a carbon base, from plants and trees to human beings and everything in between. We Human carbon-based life get our daily intake of carbon from all those vegetables your mother was always telling you to eat. Plant and tree carbon-based life get their daily intake of carbon from soil and the part of the air they absorb otherwise known as CO2, which is only one thousandth of the air, with the carbon being one third of one thousandth of the air. So for every thousand parts of the air only one part is CO2 and that one part CO2 is one part carbon and two parts oxygen. Not much carbon for plants to breathe. So plants absorb carbon from the air so we humans have a carbon-based food to eat and oxygen to breathe for our carbon-based bodies.

If there was no carbon in the air, there will be no carbon-based food to eat and our carbon-based bodies would die. So from this carbon-based life, to all the carbon-based life out there in this carbon-based world, My advice to all of you, do not pump what very little life giving carbon-based air we still have into the ground only to contaminate what little clean life giving under ground drinking water we still have. We eat plants then exhale CO2 and then plants and trees absorb the carbon part of the CO2 making oxygen while growing. so we have carbon-based food to eat, so we can exhale CO2 again, so plants and trees can absorb it again, so we can eat again, so they can absorb it again, so we can eat again and hopefully that circle cycle continues forever.

We eat and burn carbon energy and turn it in to carbon with no energy CO and CO2 and now the carbon with no energy can absorb heat for extreme cooling or can be absorbed by plants to be turned back in to fuel or food energy once again. CO2 is the by product of heat so it can not produce heat but will absorb heat ten times faster than frozen water and stay cold up to twenty times longer. CO2 can not cause warming — it is carbon with zero energy. CO2 in its purest form is Dry Ice.

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