TBD - To Be Done or Work-in-hand

A recurring pre-occupation in my web and blog approaches, has been and is, concerned with of the concept of limitations and their positive (or negative or equilibrating-neutralising) power and their definitions. This is becoming more and more apparent to me! I do hope readers share this perception, if not I trust you will send your feed-back for improvement or contribute via your own web-logs and links.

To start this "conversation," and hopefully help understanding, let me developpe this as follows:

""Many of you will know of the idea of the “weakest link” as in a chain, or in a team or human system, and again in chemical kinetics, “the slowest reaction in a series of reactions may determine its overall rate or speed” or upon further analysis may depend on in what is known in chemical or mechanical engineering –as fluid dynamics and heat and mass transfer as opposed to purely chemical reaction rate. In a few of words “Holistic Systems Approach.” These notion appear throughout. ""

Current up dates to blogger with AdSense are:

· "Toe the line" or "The Prefects Prayer"
Already posted here-in.
. It is based upon the very clear short book "Les Constantes Universelles" (Universal Constants in english) by the Physics Nobel Prize winner Gilles Cohen Tannoudji. I warmly recommend both C.Cohen Tannoudji's book for the concise,insightful account of the universal constants; G, c, k & h the gravitational constant,the speed of light,Boltzmann and Planck'constants respectively and my,hopefully mind stimulating, verses on LIMITS in

· "Newton is Dead"
Already posted here-in
ENTROPY,Chemical-Thermodynamics; Gibbs, Helmholtz, J.C.Maxwell et al. in

· "From Entropy to Poetry," (Work completed)
or
LASER Light-beams in
· "Jaggy Stuff" (Done cf next post above)
or again on WORK & JOBS

· "Le travail c'est la santé-a damned good job too",
Alreadt posted herein
or
even on Neutrinos in
· "Not so Shy" (TDB follow-up from John Updike's poem The Shy Particle)

. These and other subjects are treated in a light-hearted but fairly sound fashion. As suggested in my original weblog post “”, despite such exponential increase in knowlege,(that non-trivial “hockey stick” crops-up again) it is trivial, still,to say that infinitely more is unknown than is known, even excluding the outer space & extraterrestrial exploration often involked in such statements, and less explicitly as in Nuclear Fusion.

An Innovative Energy Network Brings Carbon-Credit Hope-Highlighted by my poem "THE DC NETWORK" High Voltage Direct Current -Also Sound Advice on HIV

This militant poem, "The DC NETWORK!" was posted earlier as an add-on to

"Letter in the Scottish Tradition-"LE TRAVAIL C’EST LA SANTE…"
(a damned good job too!)

Due to the value of the Innovation's refered to,(1)HVDC[link] & Materials Science's Role (rubber)[via IOM3 Link] in Battle against HIV, I appeared highly desireable to give my poem & links (TBD)higher visibility.

Source of Inspiration:
Footnote Sus Dev: ref. "Material Matters" & Letters to the Editor Materials World & our following debate on HVDC:

"The DC NETWORK!"

HVDC should in no-way be confused with HIV.

Both refer to distributed energy, waste to flee!

HIV needs no explanation for today's generation,

-Remember...!

HVDC means High Voltage Direct Current, premption

Notice here that, "mean" takes an "s", giving "means"!
Both relie on the Materials Sci. Scot, rubber(s) for insulation.
Let worldly saints see,

Lack of protection is Devil's temptation.

Soon the world solar energy links,
May end the current energy jinks,

Wind in Scotland powering Poland & Germany!

Can you just imagine, more than one man thinks

A 6million kilted, bagpipe nation starts to dream a link

Fossile energy sources may end some day - happily,
Spreading, comfort instead of dire, wild-fire
The latter is a climate change hard trier.

Trust the solar-nuclear; Wind & water
Marine-Hydro, Fuel Cells & Geothermal
Decide on Solar source, dash...
Not just all that,trash and hash.

Scottish Mettle!

copyright JA (080328)

It is particularily fitting to dedicate this post to the Pylon Poets.

[& again thanks Jack -Material Matters, Materials World -IOM3, Sept. 2002, p70. ]
The so-called "Pylon poets" of the 1930s were mocked for writing poetry that seemed to praise the scourge of the National Grid spreading itself across the hills and valleys; Stephen Spender, W.H. Auden and Louis MacNeice all got tainted with the brush (even though Spender's original Pylon poem doesn't seem all that straight-forwardly enthusiastic if you read it now).
But it reminds me of our current national debate about wind farms. I absolutely love the idea of a landscape which combines respect for our architectural heritage, with a delight in what is to come - and for me, wind farms and pylons are exciting: a gorgeous, exhilarating sight. But to listen to some Radio 4 phone-ins, you'd think I was completely alone. Now I've got Brian Hayes, though, I know there must be other people out there who like pylons. courtesy of The Independent, Emma Townshend.

Footnote: The excellent "Leonardo Energy" web site, is managed by The European Copper Institute

MORE on RUBBER - Roadmap for Rubber & Polymers, please Comment

My Poem on Mechanical Limits-"NEWTON IS DEAD."

LIMITS TO A PHYSICAL & MECHANICAL APPROACH.

NEWTON is DEAD.

(Inspired by -“Newton is dead” by Peter M. Allen, Prof. of Physical Chemistry,MIT

ref: “La Mort d'Newton”

Ed. Maisonneuve & Larose(in French translated from Italian under the direction of Augusto Forti-Bureau Européen de l’UNESCO, Paris).

"NEWTON is DEAD".
Newtonian physics and thermodynamics have succeeded.

In economy, biology, and ecology, problems have receded.

Based upon some false sense of equilibrium,

We have reduced the complex sys. Triumvirum

To some potential function; utility, convenience, efficiency,

Vital to human condition if only one could wait and see.

The blind watchmaker has had his say.

Old man time has cast his arrows way,

Breaking the egg timers universal symmetry.

Please don’t get me wrong, there is no gimmickry.

Even in evolution, which is where it’s at,

Darwin is in essence a view of the past.

The mechanical world is in a right damned panic,

Dissipative processes have sapped dynamics.

In breaking systems into constitutive parts,

Atoms and molecules have lost life’s spark.

Could it be that my own equilibrium is fleeting

From balanced short time to long* my life eating?

Because all is not of equal possibility,

We simply seek the average probability.

But this machine, I may tell you, can only function.

It’s job is not to compete, co-operate, disposition.

To grow, evolve, and even innovate.

Continuous learning, conscience create!

Only as a mainly mortiferrous linear decision,

Can physics keep its present power of prevision;

Entropy, Free Energy potential associates imposes relaxation,

Inevitably deterministic, predetermined, equilibrium variation.

This last word is to-days reality,

Far from all known bounds of reversibility,

Instabilities three wicked witches, turn, twist, and flirt

**“Out of line” modern body of physics & chemistry comforts it.

Do you get the picture of the human system devotion?

Individual components immerged in a potential ocean,

Whose evolving contours are hills and valley postures,

Hyphens for present and possible (potential) futures,

And each of them as in some fog or smog vaguely visible.

Choose carefully here, the dreams of some brave individual!

For awaits devilish dilemmas fork, requiring doctor’s care,

Or on average smooth, sooth, through fear of life’s dare,

For history moves equally to individuals and to systems rhythm

At least this is Peter’s hope;DASHED & DROWNED?

[**& NSF below ]

Here I must stop least language becomes the new barrierOf our species,

much worse than any animal carrier.

*(Long & short time economic model-pendulum?/eqm.)

**Non-linear

Jas. Alexander © (written about 12/12/1999 .This edition 20 Sept. 2001 & 11Oct.)

Please quote the author in any communication/transmission, written or verbal… copyright © J.A
More on Entropy [Link] or

[Link]

Practical Applications of Thermodynamics &

Communities-Families:[Link]

Why I Chose Red-Pourquoi j’ai choisi le rouge

POURQUOI J’AI CHOISI LE ROUGE.

H.Macdiarmid. Ed. Penguin Vol.1. Complete Works (trad. J.Alexander).

Je me bats en rouge pour la même raison
Que Garibaldi a choisi la chemise rouge
-Parce que quelques hommes dans un champ portant le rouge
Semble être très nombreuses - s’il y a dix vous diriez
qu'il y a cent ; s’il y a cent vous les croiriez mille
Et la couleur rouge danse devant le viseur de l’ennemi
Et son visé sera mauvaise-Mais la meilleure raison de tout
Un homme dans une chemise rouge ne peut ni se cacher ni fuir.

Trad. J.A.© (1 /06/2001)
(m. j. a. m.)

Why I Chose Red

I FIGHT in red for the same reasons
That Garibaldi chose the red shirt
- Because a few men in a field wearing red
Look like many men – if there are ten you will think
There are a hundred; if a hundred
You will believe them a thousand.
And the colour of red dances in the enemy's rifle sights
And his aim will be bad – But, best reason of all,
A man in a red shirt can neither hide nor retreat.

© H.Macdiarmid. Ed. Penguin Vol.1. Complete Works

permission was requested.

Conversations on Innovations: One Innovation most are awaiting - Longevity

Conversations on Innovations: One Innovation most are awaiting - Longevity