What Irks You the Most?

Yeap Definetly I know the filling. The technology are there but the transfer swicthing burocratics mechanisms take too long to move on. These are where the troubles are Buddies. The lag may create some uneccessaraly sparks and arcing conditions which are harmful to the swictching features inside panels and consequencial damages to the circuits connected to it. You Got the Point! The trouble is that by the time the juice reach components they'll be belly up already adding to the final results downstream.

With the proper amount of juice on time things will stay cooler and avoiding further complications to the whole components, I Guess.

Show me the Money,

MC

Fusion power plants. We should have them by now.

I believe that most engineers and mechanics prefer to design and build things of high quality, but the way the marketplace works makes this hard to do.

So many consumers are only interested in price, so you have to design/build so you can compete.

It frustrates me to have to put out a product that I'd rather put more quality into but can't afford to.

Economics not politics is the primary impediment to solutions to major problems.

It is the politics of economics .... when even the simplest most cost effective solution is politically unpopular it will almost never occur until (a) the powers that be are clubbed into submission or (b) it becomes immediately profitable,first financially, then politically to those in charge thus allowing them to take credit for everyone else's work. And now days it is even more popular to run ruffshod over everyone and their money then expect those so trampled to bail you out!!

I've been reading science fiction for over 50 years now. Quite a lot of technology speculated on in 1930's-1940's SF has been realized but there is just so much more that is practically possible, but politically difficult, if not impossible.

For example, Heinlein wrote of "waldo's", a power assisted remote manipulator invented by a fellow named, of all things, Waldo. Waldo was a genius with a muscle strength disability who lived in orbit to minimize the effects of gravity. In his home he had little to do with his genius and consulting riches except play remote chess and come up with toys that helped him survive; ie, "waldo's". Waldo's, today, see relatively limited use as remote manipulators and, programmatically, as robots.

Of course, those stories were written in different times. Times with MUCH less gov't interference in the creative process. I've read back into a lot of those stories in recent times and realized how nearly unattainble many of those ideas and thoughts are today. If not for purely legislative discouragement reasons (read, evironmental political correctness), then simply for the costs involved in satisfying the myriad of federal regulations.

I guess I miss the early rowdy days of the "race to space".

Hooker

I'm bummed out that nuclear power is worse off today in America than it was fifty years ago. Too much shouting about the boogie-man of proliferation and dirty bombs. Ooooh, scary! The first privately financed nuclear power plant in the US was built in under 3 years, with 50 year old construction technology. That sort of speed is impossible today, mostly due to bureaucracy.

Also, I'm still waiting for my flying car. NASA has had over 60 years to work on this thing, and what have they brought us? Two space shuttle disasters? The last I heard of work on a flying car was some grainy black and white footage of three Detroit engineers in white lab coats and ties puttering down an abandoned midwestern runway in a Nash with wings. Where's my flying car? Do that first, and then I'll worry about getting it to fold up into a brief case, a la George Jetson.

Finally, I'm waiting for gasoline-electric hybrid vehicles to completely divorce the engine from the wheels. Having the engine only power the generator can yield multiple benefits, from freedom of placement to increased efficiency by running at a single speed. All tractive effort could be provided by wheel (or slightly inboard) mounted motors. If you don't want to burn fuel, replace the power source with a battery pack for short commutes. Don't like gasoline or diesel? Get a gas engine or hydrogen fuel cell. Want 4 wheel drive? Just add two more motors, and upgrade the vehicle's motor controller software.

-Sully

nuclear power has been sued to a stop by a bunch of narrowed minded, well funded (in a back door way by the fossil fuel folks....though i don't even think they realize it) imbeciles masquerading as enviromentalists. or come to think of it maybe it is just fossil fuel folks,and their good freinds the rail industry who could concieveably lose their death grip on the US power market..... naaaa that couldn't possibly be the case..... the other technology for cars that you speak of has been in use for quite a while on a rather large scale by the rail industry for years in locomotives, traction motors!! so all that has to be done is a little scaling down and off we go!! Oh wait i forgot we'll have to have a bake sale for the oil industry when we are not using as much oil..... how inconsiderate of me to suggest such a simple solution....

Hi, Ladies (if any) and Gentelmans!

Being Ecconomist, Systems Engineer and Inventor at same time, and from poor country where great(est) Engineer Nikola(Nicolas) Tesla was born, perhaps what irks me most is that his dream of free energy has cost him life and in the end was lost, or he understood (it was in time right after Great Depression) what troubles would introducing such free energy make for ecconomy of the world...... But in a way I suspect that whole oil crysis was fabricated, and also production crysis which starts in (o wonder!) exactly in automobile industry, and first Tesla application of his free energy was in powering a car..........

So, realy we cannot make >>hard right turn<< with ecconomy based on fosil fuels, specially on oil, as so many people work in this branches of industry and factories that produce products using it have not returned their building costs nor earned planned profit. For any mayor change in technology, lot of professions would become obsolete and new profesions would take time to evolute to point where there would be enough experts to teach next generations of engineers......

But, with some planning and lot of common sense, things could be gradually introduced into society, and I think that is what Mr. Obama would do. He start from clean energy and cleaning up the air would come out of it. Once there would be lot of cheap electricity, most of processes would use this kind of energy, and regardless the fact that it would still have to be sold for another 50 years (because all Power Plants should pay themself back and bring profit to owners, who would in turn spend this profit to buy other products and so keep money, that is lifeblood of civilization, keep circulating), would prepare time when free energy could be introduced painlesly.

Right now, I invented Windpower stations that have not single fault (or practicall problem) that contemporary windpower plants have, and are cheap to produce, and have much higher efficiency for same volume of wind used, which means electricity produced would also be cheap..... Imagine what I have to listen: >>It is so simple solution, so someone MUST have invented it before, and since it is not in use, that MUST have been a failure for some reason!<< :-((

Before this I have idea how to make artificiall tornado that would be chained to its source and produce cheap electricity day and night. I was unfortunately unable to find money to patent idea, and few days ago I have found that someone has patented it and first instalations are being built in India allready........ I even wrote about it on CR4, but nobody seemed interested.... I also gave solution to kilometer high tower they want to build in Australia, where materiall could not stand its own weight, but also nobody reacted to this..........

Beside Windpower stations I have ideas how to make much more effective Solarpower stations that would work 24 hours per day, and even last trough few rainy days as well.......

All my ideas fit present needs of the World, and I cannot find anyone that would give me support and finance production, short of trying to openly steal my invention before it is protected by patent (and I must conclude this is the case, since they dont want to sign >>Non Disclosure Agreement<< about it)........

Somebody is asking for flying car, and there is one engineer who si CR4 member from Australia who is building such cars........

But stand back and think what changes would such car bring in ecconomy of the world, starting with roads that would become unnecesary....

Also, imagine what would it mean to have a box 60x40x10cm with 12 radio lamps that could give 200Hp of electricity, anywhere, day and night?

Picture cars that can keep on going, airoplanes that could fly all day long (using propelers, so not so fast as jets, true, but much safer as each motor would be independent) carrying much more usefull weight (because no fuel tanks), ships....... That all would be possible with Tesla's free energy device!

Can anyone tell me why instead of closing roboticized automobile factories for lack of sales volume, they could not be reprogramed to make electric cars of the future, or if not this, then start mass production of Solarpower and Windpower plants? At least, they could produce some other industriall robots, that could be then used to produce individualized products, or small serials of designer models of cars could be produced on order! That would bring more jobs to creative engineers and inventors, no?

What irks me most of all is when most inteligent people like engineers make devices that are hard to install and maintain properly, and how they consent to make products that are programmed to fail after guarantee period expires, fearing they would be left without jobs, together with factory workers (which is exactly what is happening right now) if they make lasting and good quality product!

Last of all, as ecconomist, I see no reason why factory owners dont consider giving such factory in hands of workers, under condition that 25% of profit earned in future should be paid to them, even if they forbid workers to produce same products as before (cars, for instance), but solution to this dilema should be simply to hand over all factories owner have to workers (without right to sell it to somebody else) and enyoy profit they would make! Surely workers would not throw themself on the street, and would work still harder to earn profit that they would also share in part!

I dont see how shareholders vote for closing of factories that have brought them dividends before, thinking only on costs of production and finding greatest cost is in pays of workers? With no production surely there is no profit, and people without work surely would not buy neither products of same company nor products of other factories (which would then also start throwing out workers) and would not be able to pay mortgage on their homes so would be thrown on the street by Banks and become social problems, and since more and more people would be without money, Banks would not be able to sell sequestered (or foreclosured) homes, so would find lot of useless property on their hands and no liquid assets and therefore colapsed, but not before bringing down insurance companies, which is all happening right now....

Among other inventions, I invented financing system where with little money lot of instalations or factories could be built, and where contemporary systems produce ONE instalation in 10 years, my could produce at least 7 and up to 30 (depending on profit made by instalation or factory per year), with much greater total profit for investors...... For this also I am asked to name companies that use such system, as they cannot support anything that was not used before :-(( !!!!!

I told them that by such logic we would still be even outside of caves, as taking shelter there must have been idea that come to someone first of all, and then others followed, no? But that could be just syndrom of >>Not Invented Here<<, as usuall.

So, lack of support for inventors, buying out inventions that would jeopardize some monopoly and burrying them forever, to outright killing of such inventors by staging >>accidents<< is biggest problem as I see it, and it would be so as long asl good of individuall would have precedence ower good for society in generall......... Geniuses should be found out at as early age as possible and then given education equall to their abilities, not left to live in their sociall conditions which may even preclude them to get any education, as they are greatest treasury of our small World.....

Government of any country should do their best to enable people in creating new ideas and should have organized support for this, (like free patents approwal, as surely this would promote progress, bring profit or savings or cheaper products and open new jobs for people) together with stricter enforcing protection and better evidence of patents granted before and applied for, for faster patent approwal.

Governments should also be consistent in economic system they choose and instead of trying to save Banks and big companies, they should create new jobs for people, then economy would right itself out in balance again. That should have been done instead forcing Banks to give loans to people who apparently was enable to return them in first place...........

So, somebody should systematically read postings on forums such as CR4 and single out people like me, (if there is merits for doing this) then contact them and help them in realization of their ideas by funding their projects trough some organization that would spread worldwide, even suggest hiring such people to companies or organizations that would be most interested in their ideas, including governments or presidents like Mr. Obama, regardless where they are born and to which country they are citizens.........

That would be sort of >>Brain Drainage<<, but of best possible kind, specially if country adopting such persons would have obligation to implement all ideas in native country as well, if at all possible, or create similar progresive conditions there if at all applicable with sucess, or give other kind of support in exchange.

In addition to >>Carbon Credits<<, there should be >>Brainpower Credits<< that would ample refund expenses of education given to brightest minds, in addition to before mentioned rules of conduct when one country colect such out of another....

But, inventors should be most prized of all, as they tend to make things practicall that would help al mankind.........

Regards from Zagreb, the capitol of Croatia, Europe

Marijan Pollak, IT SA/SE 1st. Class, Instructor & Team Leader

Director and owner of company OBERON d.o.o. Zagreb

founded 1993

Buildings failing to lighter gravity-weight winds and killing innocent People irks me the most!! This is 2008, we (mankind) have walked on the moon, have a liveable orbiting space station, a robot on Mars sending photos and videos, can talk to someone on the other side of the planet with a 3"x5" handheld cellphone indoors or outdoors!! Why is building frame technology so far behind the others?

This problem is MAJOR, expounded on by hurricane Katrina (300,000 destroyed entrenched foundationed buildings, 1.4 million destroyed free-standing storage structures), and where did the Building Engineers, Architects, and Contractors run to? Green Lightbulbs!! Greensburgh, Kansas, was completely wiped off the map, and they are rebuilding "Green", without a single building structural improvement, in preparation for another tornado!!

Disaster Amnesia, someone called it.

When did this Industry give up and quit on improving their product?

Structural Frames and Bodies are the "Meat" of a building, and Green Products, Paint, Cabinets, Floor Coverings, Sinks, Showers, Doors, Windows, etc; are the "Gravy" of the buildings!! If the meat is spoiled, the gravy only hides the TASTE, not the POISONS, of the meat!

Since after Katrina, the consesus "solution" was to elevate the rebuilt houses. Why didn't Greensburgh follow this line of trendy thinking? Are they smarter? Do they know an elevated house is more dangerous in high windforces?

This unsolved engineering challenge has been met with Continuous Connector-Reinforcing Structural Strap-Nets and Extensions, a continuous structural steel strapping reinforcing method that adds strength, flexibility, and resilience to any installed-with rigid building/structure frame/body.

This building/structure reinforcing improvement technology is very affordable, in the design and construction phase through the lifespan of the building!!

Since Lives are at stake when buildings fail, and not at stake when buildings survive tornados, hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, fires, and other destructive forces, the longer a building lasts, and the more times it can withstand a tornado, etc; the BETTER!! Investors and Lenders lower their Risks and raise their Credit-Worthiness. Stronger and better resisting frames and bodies can be reduced in widths or use lighter gravity-weight alternative materials to wood, masonry, concrete, and steel. Better stabilized frames can have lighter frame coverings and add water, thermal, and fire proofing materials affordably. The plusses and advantages go on and on.

You can view some samples of continuous reinforcing systems at website Tor-Eggs-Tor Design Solutions.com, or by link at http://www.dubephnx@tor-eggs-torclosed-nets.org

Happy New Year, God Bless and Speed; Randy.