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[novapsyche]

Prenatal testosterone linked to autism

Can saltwater be burned as fuel? (thanks, atdt1991)

Exercise unleashes a bounce bras can't handle -- You've got to love an article that plainly states that "a pair of D-cup breasts weighs about 15 to 23 pounds."

Blacks likelier to live in poor-quality rest homes: Midwest facilities have greatest racial disparities in care, study finds -- not surprising

Judge strikes down NYC calorie-posting rule

Study ties hyperactivity in kids to food additives: Drinks spiked with coloring and preservatives led to behavior changes

Scientists discover 'skinny' gene: Certain flies, mice and people are just born lucky (except in time of famine) -- And famine can happen at any time.

Eye exam may spot dementia risk in elderly: Retinal damage could also point to increased stroke risk, study says

Higher gasoline price seen trimming down Americans -- Ha. Someone made this their dissertation. I'm putting this into practice every week.

Comments

[ytterbius.livejournal.com]

Can saltwater be burned as fuel?

No.

Hydrogen can be burned, but it takes just as much energy to split the Hydrogen from the water as is returned when it burns, so there is no net energy there. All the energy comes from the EM waves given off by the transmitter and absorbed by the water. Plus, the energy from the transmitter is not going to be perfectly absorbed by the water, so there will be loss here, too.

[blackwinterbyrd.livejournal.com]

15-23 pounds? I'm off the hook for BMI charts telling me I'm overweight.
'and famine can happen at any time.' right-o

[aiela.livejournal.com]

The additives thing has been floating around for a while, but it's good to see studies confirming it. My sister cut red dye out of my niece's diet in 1989 or so, and suddenly the schools stopped pressuring my sister to medicate her for ADHD.

Another friend is bipolar, unmedicated, and doing wonderfully after cutting out red dye and some other stuff.

[bonerici.livejournal.com]

Can saltwater be burned as fuel

LOL.

The discovery spawned interest from the scientific community, mostly concerned with whether or not the water could be used as a fuel

Interest as in laughing at it that's about it.

So let's start at the beginning. You have some salt water. You add a little bit of energy to this in the form of radio waves, this loosens the energy bonds in the atom. So this generates energy, if you extract all the energy from a liter of water this way burning up all the hydrogen, this means you'll get about 2.8 wh/l from it, and let's say .1 wh/l for the radio waves.

Now after this burns you'll be left with some pure salt, some pure H2O (this H2O is formed when you burn hydrogen of course). Now you dump the salt back into the water, let's say the act of pouring the salt back into the container takes .1 wh/l, now you do it again.

Each cycle produces 2.6 wh/l.

If you can burn water, salt water, plain water, any kind of water, if you can burn water, you have just invented a perpetual motion machine. They are one and the same.

Think about it. You start with H2O + any random thing, then you split it into H and into O. Then you combine them back again. In real life it takes exatly 2.8 wh/l to split hydrogen and oxygen apart. And when you put them back together again you get exactly 2.8 wh/l (minus of course a little bit from the force of friction/entropy).

If it weren't chemistry and instead it were a ball that you roll up and down a hill people will see this fakery right away. To say you can burn water is the same as saying, "There's a hill I found where I can roll balls and they go up the hill. I put a windmill on this hill and now I have infinite energy!"

But since it's chemistry fakers get away with saying all sorts of ridiculous things.

[dionysus1999.livejournal.com]

Entropy is a bitch.

[sarahmichigan.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the bra/breast bounce article. I think I'm going to post that to some of my fitness/size acceptance communities.

[dionysus1999.livejournal.com]

I don't think businesses should have first amendment rights. Corporate entities are not citizens, and many times they are hemmoroids on the ass of America.

And I call bullshit on the food additives article. New agers have a irrational fear of all things "not natural". They have been trying to prove artifical anything is bad, bad, BAD for you. I want to see this research verified by some independent scientists. I think it's a case of observer bias. But if its true, its important info.

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

The study was published in the Lancet. A peer-reviewed scientific journal doesn't satisfy your skepticism?

[brendand.livejournal.com]

You think it's not surprising that Blacks are likelier to live in poor-quality rest homes, or that Midwest facilities have greatest racial disparities?

Just curious.

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

Both. Having had a relative with Alzheimer's placed in a nursing home and seeing the level of care she received (after being transferred from a much better staffed facility) and having worked in a side of the medical community that is chiefly focused on how much money they can get from Medicare/Medicaid, I can see quite easily how lower-income blacks are seen as federal funds and that's all.

At the home health agency, my executive director was always aware of how much money she could make from each case, and when Medicare stopped paying for services, whether or not the patient had improved enough to not need care anymore, they were cut off. Keep in mind that home health agencies are there to catch those who can't find aid elsewhere; it's supposed to be part of the state's safety net.

As for my great aunt, I wasn't aware of her finances (that fell to my dad), but I know that she had a good deal of savings (she had always been savings-minded and strove to instill that mindset into me as a young child). I believe it was when the savings ran out that my dad was forced to find a facility that would take her based solely on her Medicaid. I remember shopping around with him for nursing homes; I know he would have rathered not place her in the place where we eventually had her, but it was the place that was nearest us that was affordable. It was terribly understaffed and had poor equipment. At the end, they dropped my great aunt while trying to transfer her to or from her wheelchair; she suffered a stroke and eventually lost her ability to swallow. It was a horrible way to go. My dad struggled with the decision whether it was worth it to sue the facility. I wanted him to, but in the end I guess he didn't need that type of emotional strain. (The fall had happened in the dead of night, and somehow the notes recorded by the CENA were incomplete, so proving that they were negligent would have been very difficult.)

Anyway, the facility in question is Willow Creek in Belleville. I highly recommend no one place their loved ones there.