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Olympic Cherry Blossom Festival





One of the springtime pleasures of living in Vancouver is that for some reason back in the twenties even or there abouts, the city decided that one of the preferred street plantings would be the Japanese cherry tree which erupts the moment the temperature warms slightly in the spring into a huge mass of pink flowers.  As a result this town becomes flooded with pink blossoms about the same time as the crocuses burst out.

Most years, a late snow and a cold snap ensure that this occurs sometime in March.  However, as anyone following the Olympics must know be now, Vancouver has been experiencing pleasant spring like weather.  The crocuses are out all over and the first of the cherry trees have begun to blossom.

That suggests that the last week of the Olympics will see the bulk of the trees reach full blossom.  It is one of the most gorgeous trees we have and it is no surprise it is esteemed in Japan.  I have never seen it make any fruit, but that is certainly not why they are planted.

Vancouver is almost cut off from the weather of the rest of the continent which is controlled here by incoming systems from the Pacific.  This gives us a sometimes awful rainy season that usually hit hard before Christmas and peters out into February.  However, like California and the rest of the Pacific Northwest we have a oceanic coastal regime that is moderate temperate for the most and does not reach very far inland.

The actual average for February snowfall is an unremarkable 21 centimeters, usually delivered every four years or so in one big dump.

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Printing Lithium Batteries




For the present of course, researchers are discovering how far they can go with this.  We know that solar cells can be printed and doing the same with battery tech is an obvious fit.  This also suggests that folding can produce larger batteries. Again it is early days for the art itself.

 

The objective most attractive is to store solar energy without moving it at all.  That way we avoid unnecessary movement and storage and the related wastage.  Having the energy stored for example on the back of a solar panel is clearly most efficient and convenient.

 

That is the promise anyway.

 

I wonder if the ultra capacitor powder can be also printed.  This is much more promising and in time it will be more useful if it can be done.

 

As I described in my article on the reverse engineering of an UFO, several layers needed to be laminated together to produce the necessary working shell.  One layer been energy storage made good sense but was not necessary.

 

We are presently mastering the necessary arts.

 

 

Japanese Researchers Seeking to Print Out Li-polymer Battery

 

Jan 7, 2010 15:57Satoshi Okubo, Nikkei Electronics


A Japanese research group developed a lithium polymer battery that can be manufactured by printing technology.
The group is led by Advanced Materials Innovation Center (AMIC) of Mie Industry and Enterprise Support Center (MIESC), a Japan-based incorporated foundation.
The sheet-shaped battery is expected to be used with a flexible solar battery or display and to be attached to a curved surface. If the battery is integrated with a solar battery formed on a flexible substrate, it is possible to realize a sheet that can be used both as a power generator and a power storage, AMIC said.
Because the battery is made by using printing technology, it can be reduced in thickness, increased in area and laminated. Furthermore, when combined with a roll-to-roll production method, its costs can be reduced, AMIC said.
The lithium polymer battery was developed in a research project participated by MIESC, Toppan Printing Co Ltd, Shin-Kobe Electric Machinery Co Ltd, Kureha Elastomer Co Ltd, Kinsei Matec Co Ltd, Meisei Chemical Works Ltd, Mie University, Suzuka National College of Technology and Mie Prefecture Industrial Research Institute.
They prototyped two types of batteries. One has an output voltage of about 4V at a room temperature while the other has an output voltage of about 2V. The thickness of the battery is about 500μm, but the battery capacity was not disclosed. Its negative and positive electrodes were formed on a flexible substrate by using printing technology.
This time, the research group used a normal sheet-shaped flexible substrate but employed a printing technology that can be applied to roll-to-roll production, it said. When a roll-to-roll production method is used, the thickness of the flexible substrate can be reduced, enabling to manufacture thin batteries.
The group did not use a printing technology to package polymer electrolyte this time. It did not disclose the details of the polymer electrolyte or the negative or positive electrode materials.
The research project is a three-year project that will end in March 2011. In the final year, the research group plans to improve manufacturing technologies for commercial production, seek appropriate applications of the battery and set numerical targets such as of battery capacity.

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Indian Ocean Subsidence


As yesterday’s item made clear, the cultural information provided by Prithvi is showing us that a lot was going on in the Indian Ocean when the crust shifted eleven and a half thousands of years ago or so. So I cranked up Google Ocean to see what we now know about the subsea of this ocean. Most of this is fairly recent and was not available before.

I quickly discovered that I did not need any subsidence in the theory at all. We have a submerged mountain and island chain comparable to Japan in scale and extending along the Western coast of India and south into the Indian Ocean. The key larger islands begin just south of India and run several hundreds of miles. That part also is closely sub parallel to an apparent oceanic trench like Japan. The Maldives are part of this chain.

Merely lowering the sea level back to Ice age levels would reveal this land mass. It is also noteworthy that massive coral structures have also grown that appear to be miles wide and extending the full length of the chain. Subsidence added into this mix would certainly create the initial conditions and a rising sea would keep up the building process.

Put another way, Japan would notice a rise of three hundred feet, but the bulk of the topography would still appear intact. A subsidence of two to three thousand feet which also induced any volcanic stacks to also collapse would produce a wreckage pile mostly close to the surface. A rising sea would then encourage a huge build out of corals.

Therefore, we can state that mere sea level rise is insufficient to reduce an obvious mountain chain and that a violent subsidence surely can.

This chain bears the same relationship to India as does Japan to China. That means that it is impossible for appropriate cultural information to not exist even long after a disappearance. Prithvi has shaken it out for us.

I am also aware of legends covering the Gobi and the Himalayas that will now need to be sourced and revisited. This was a very busy part of the world for the several days in which the crustal movement took place.

It is also obvious that the crustal movement would have activated the contact and faults associated with the apparent trench along its entire length. This would certainly explain the reports of mountains visibly moving and also appearing to fall over into the ocean. This would have been quite visible from the mainland as there are many apparent submerged volcanoes close along the coast.

In short, we have found ample and surprising evidence supporting the plausibility of the reported observations. The evidence is much better than expectation. It also begins to answer the question of Mt Meru.

This was a huge mountain that was unique to this region and a center of religious veneration. For huge, we only need to think of Mt Fuji and its many sisters. Like Fuji, it is no trick to collapse these very weak stacks. Its image and idea has passed down to us over millennia. The only remaining question is exact location on the chain and whether is also blew up during the primary event. I think it likely should have blown up. So we should be looking for an active crater underwater.

We have three clear nearby population centers prior to the Pleistocene Nonconformity. There is the Indian subcontinent, there is the Japan like Maldives island belt, and we also have the huge Indonesian plains. All were positioned in the tropics where habitable land existed. The ice age made organized habitation impossible outside this fairly narrow belt.

There are plenty more things to run down in the cultural records of India and plausible explanations to follow up from this. We have already learned a lot about the imparted velocity of the crustal movement and we have discovered a true submerged and significant land mass. We did this by simply looking with eyes informed by understanding the significance of the crustal shift.