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Over-unity systems produce more energy than is put into them by artificial means. Yet they are not perpetual motion machines (which are closed systems claiming, somehow, perpetual motion). In contrast, they are open systems in the sense of actively claiming various forms of external environmental energy flows into, within, and through themselves. Examples include windmills, water wheels, solar energy, cold fusion, various types of magnetic and electromagnetic energy field systems, zero point (quantum fluctuation) energy systems, and others (this is not meant to be a comprehensive list). The US government, via its patent office (on application) and via various government technology offices for pre-emptive action (before publication) is known to have suppressed or sequestered (stamped classified as in, therefore, not known to exist on pain of imprisonment in unfriendly places for long periods of time) at least some 3,500 interesting and breakthrough energy generation patents and proposals. And this in an age where, supposedly, the cost of energy (to you and I) keeps climbing, and national economies are periodically held 'hostage' to soaring oil prices. Along with that, too many so-called 'oddball' inventors claiming lightning in their hands and/or heads have vanished, been accidentally killed, and/or have had their labs ransacked and smashed for the invention profession to ever again bear its once easy moniker of being safe but eccentric. Now it's ever more frequently paradigm shattering, power threatening, and suppressed. A few seconds of accounting married with a brief contemplation of present human nature reflects the obvious: that today's vested and special interests have absolutely no incentives at all to stop the lucrative blood-sucking that occurs every time you and I buy gas, oil, and any other energy products. Consider their view for a moment, in that there are estimated - in rounded-down numbers - to be over a trillion barrels of recoverable oil somewhere just south of where your feet are. I.E. In the ground. At $100 a barrel (still coming at ya as soon as is feasible) that means there's over $100 trillion worth of business still to be done. As turkeys don't vote for christmas, Big Oil is therefore not going to sit idly by and watch a breakthrough your-car-doesn't-need-gas-anymore technology naturally emerge. Not if they can help it. What happened in California from the 90's to circa 2004, with that states Zero Emissions Vehicle program (the "you as a car manufacturer selling cars in California must sell x% a year of those cars as ZEV's a, percentages to increase each year" program) is instructive. The thus pressured in-response production by GM of of their then and still amazing EV1 electric car (amongst many), and its subsequent lease by thousands of excited California individuals, EV1's growing waiting lists, and YET, paradoxically, it seems only at first blush, GM's (& a cast including Big Oil and Big [as in the Federal "Reagan-to-Bush" government]) eventually led to the murder of little EV1 and the ZEV program in their side by side cribs. This was only the tip of the smack-down firestorm a threat to $100 trillion dollars of future business incites. That breakthrough energy technologies will emerge is inevitable - and in dozens of variants - testament to the now global, irrepressible, competitive, and restless nature of human imagination - and the run away technologies that make it easier and easier for the often lone inventor, or a small team, to amplify their reach and intellectual leverage. The only way out now (for Big Oil, Big Auto & Co. et al) is to join the coming party (as Japanese manufacturers appear to be doing to a degree), succumb to technical obsolescence (GM's fate swings back and forth as one week they are reported reluctantly negotiating with Renault-Nissan, and the next they are alleged to be plundering pension programs in preparation for what exactly?), or, bomb us back to the stone age. At which point our usefulness as consumers purchasing their product will abruptly cease. As will their way of life. Which kind of brings me back round to Big Medicine and the National Institutes of Health in the US. I'm not getting into that subject right here and now. I am just kind of thinking out loud as to what happens when some idiot comes along and threatens a trillion dollar a year business with a bloody CURE. Careers, credentials, reputations, professional and social status, and a whole slew of little empires stand in danger of being rapidly vapourized the way many an industry of the 18th and 19th century were by rapid technical breakthroughs in the early twentieth. Does the s/he with the Cure make it through the military-medical-security-industrial maze? Or, about 18 months from now, or sooner, when his/her big breakthrough ought to be breaking out, is there a slow wind down and a news release of how, publicly, clinical trials just didn't pan out? And maybe they didn't. But, perhaps, elsewhere, as has already occurred with hundreds of "interesting" substances and approaches, this too is a success that is classified, securitized, and goes 'black' - while we stay poor, unhealthy (compared to what's possible), and seemingly stuck on that trillion-buck treadmill, all the while keeping our place in the scheme of things as those engaged in continued social engineering desire. Just thinking out loud. === Cyspace There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it. Always. - Be the change you want to see in the world. - What's focused on expands, what's denied remains unhealed. Only Love heals.
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| Wednesday 18th October 2006 | Journal of the National Cancer Institute Original article entitled "Relaxin Expression From Tumor-Targeting Adenoviruses and Its Intratumoral Spread, Apoptosis Induction, and Efficacy" | link | |
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The adenovirus was implanted with a human gene that is related to the production of relaxin, a hormone associated with pregnancy. When injected into cancerous tumors, the virus quickly multiplies in the cancer cells and kills them, the team said. The new adenovirus can target only cancer cells and does not harm normal cells, the team said. Existing viral treatments fail to kill off all the cancerous cells. "I believe we have found a way to overcome one of the great obstacles to finding a genetically altered viral cure for cancer," Yun Chae-Ok, one of the researchers, told AFP on Thursday. Following three rounds of injections, more than 90 percent of cancer cells in the brains, liver, lungs and womb of mice disappeared within 60 days, the team said. Clinical tests will be carried out early next year and last 18 months, Yun said. The research results were published in the October 18 edition of the prestigious bimonthly Journal of the National Cancer Institute in the United States. |
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