"chasw" <chasw88@comcast.net> wrote in message news:fui1s8$ie5$1@grapevine.wam.umd.edu... # FYI: In the book "Conquest", an excellent account of Cortez's 1521-23 # invasion of Mexico, the author describes how the Spaniards made their own # gunpowder from local materials. Not sure where they got the nitrates but # the sulphur came from the summit of "Popo", a nearby volcano. He mentions
On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 23:53:57 -0600, "Jolly Rogers" <jollyrogers@nospam.com> wrote: Here is an interesting article from 1994, which seems ahead of its time. Surely there is substantial improvement in conversion and methodology by now. http://www.dangerouslaboratories.org/h2homesystem.pdf ...and the site itself... http://www.homepower.com/home/ Noted, and please don't call
On Nov 18, 10:46 am, Bender <l...@sea.com> wrote: "jrs_14...@yahoo.com" <jrs_14...@yahoo.com> wrote: Every time I see one of your home game it never ceases to amaze me of the fervent blind unquestioning devotion, support and pride you people of Buffalo bestow on your precious Buffalo Bills. I have been trying to explain this to you out of towner for years. The Bills link
On Apr 22, 1:57?am, Pat Flannery <flan...@daktel.com> wrote: Rob Arndt wrote: RE: AEG Plasma Physics and the Bell Device (Die Glocke) Most information available about the "Bell" project comes from the research of Polish investigator Igor Witkowski and is based on the partially declassified depositions in the case of State of Poland vs ex-SS Obergruppenfuehrer Jakob Sporrenberg
In article <457de722.326969375@news.supernews.com>, Derek Lyons <fairwater@gmail.com> wrote: henry@spsystems.net (Henry Spencer) wrote: The Moon is ideally suited for nuclear power. http://www.nss.org/settlement/moon/LUNOX.html To quote an old comment by Geoff Landis: "it's easy -- we get the French to build it and the Russians to launch it". The Moon may be well suited