Foam making machine

7/4/26:

There's plenty of ideas for the place out West. The thing mainly on my mind is to get some of my strength back. Without that, I cannot do much of anything out there.

If that works out, then its imperative to secure a water source. There's a plan for that. In the beginning, there will have to be some imports, so to speak. There's a way to get water, but it will require some huffing and a puffing.

A permanent structure can be made. That's where this comes into play. Yep. A lot of big plans, and very little action. Never seems to be enough time, nor money, nor anything else that might be helpful.

Here's the original post on the Boots and Oil blog, reposted below:

Oct 21, 2021:

Comment:

The guy's name is Don, and his channel is Prana Tech. He says he'd rather make what he needs as opposed to buying it. With me, it is the other way around. It is a pronounced tendency I suspect.

The video is about how to make the machine that makes aircrete. Before you can build anything with aircrete, you need a machine that can make the foam. This is taking DIY to a new level.

I've watched a few of his videos. It may be getting a bit too much to do all these new things all at once. I'll take it slowly.

Here's the video...

Kirk Sorensen of FLIBE Energy has a new post

Just noticed that this AM.

The dude is amazing. Unfortunately, the best of what's available is not necessarily the one who wins. The man is doing great things, but is not getting the traction that he should get.

The reason? The world is not a just and decent place. Yep, and the starry eyed idealists and naive school-girlish types will continue to believe the fairy tales that are being told every day that keep them in the dark.

He is doing the obvious things. The obvious thing is the thing hiding in plain sight. Meanwhile, Western Europe commits suicide, and America is not far behind. When will we ever learn? We don't have an energy crisis. We never did. It has been forced upon us by those who want us all in chains.

No, I haven't lost my mind. The world has lost its way. Or to put it better, the world has always lost its way. It's a wonder we are all still alive.

This looks like a cool YouTube Channel

7/3/26:

It's in the database.

6/29/26: The original post follows:

It is called Sourcery.  How the devil did I miss this one??? 

A quick tour of the page shows a professionally constructed site. It looks like she interviews a number of the top people in the Aerospace field. If I don't know it, I am gobsmacked. Which shouldn't be too hard.

I'm impressed.

Update a little bit later:

Here's Molly O'Shea interviewing Tom Mueller. O'Shea created this YouTube channel, and Mueller built the Merlin engine on the Falcon 9.

Lies, damn lies, and statistics

7/3/26:

For those who believe that Milton Friedman's monetary causation of inflation is correct, the idea that oil pricing can cause inflation is itself (most likely ) a lie.

Virtue does not rule the world--vice does. Anybody who lies about things like this is not of virtue, but of vice. Yep. Nobody's pure. Nobody's entirely clean. If you complain about high pump prices, it is not because you care about inflation. In my case, I was driving a lot in 2011 until I retired from trucking in 2016. I had a VESTED interest in lower gasoline prices. My motives were not pure. But when are they? Ever????

5/20/11:

Inflation will rise abnormally because of seasonal variations.  You can think of it what you want.  When you see high prices at the pump and they say "no inflation", I think somebody is lying.

DPF Fusion Propulsion

7/2/2026:

  DPF-based propulsion seemed promising then, and even more promising now that SpaceX has all but solved the re-useable rocket puzzle. Launch costs and mass capabilities would make this concept more feasible than ever.

  Deep space exploration would no longer be science fiction.

  The opening of the solar system would definitely be in play. It sounds corny, but the sky would be the limit.

  I checked the NextBigFuture link. It's still good. Very detailed study. This isn't pie-in-the-sky, especially now.

9/14/2011: The original post follows:

Dense Plasma Focus (DPF) Fusion Systems for Space Propulsion


This was a Next Big Future post last year. I don't think I've seen it before. This idea seem intuitive to me from observing the diagrams and illustrations of how the DPF works. It seems like a natural for space propulsion. The post here seems rather more involved than I anticipated for the device.

Surprising to me that work proceeds on this as of the time this post was written. If it continues to this day, it is hard to imagine why anyone would want to build chemical rockets. This would make chemical rockets obsolete. ( Unless I am missing something important)

I brought up that last bit of info because NASA announces its new SLS that won't fly any earlier than 2017. By 2017, the tech could very well be obsolete. Not only with respect to this possible breakthrough, but consider what others (SpaceX and Xcor) are doing as well.

Pouring concrete

6/29/26:

Yours truly has a life-long habit of biting off more than I can chew. A project like this back in 2019 would've have been too much for me. A project like this now would be insane.

This idea was far too late in coming. Way too old for this stuff.

Shoot, the dude talks all about how you need to know what you're doing for a project like this. Indeed, I did something like this once with my brother who builds houses. Or he DID build houses. He is sorta retired now.

So I KNOW what he's talking about here. No, I need to stick to something more realistic for me. This ain't it.

9/11/19: The original post is below:

Comment:

This is more or less the fine points of a big pour.

Seven Skinny E-Cats Eating Seven Fat Cats

6/29/26:

The Biblical reference got my attention. Ah! Here's another of the blasts from the past. From the blog EGO OUT. It seems that the gentleman may have died(?) during that time to this. How unfortunate. It comes to us all, eventually. I do not wish to be morbid here, but I have my own situation.

Anyway, his wife(?) is continuing the blog. Time does not permit me to spend much time on things these days. It is another unfortunate fact of life. Today will be yet another busy day. Hopefully good news will come of it. Hard to say at this point.

Long ago I noticed a pattern of behavior in this world, which ignores developments that have some promise to them. There are many examples of this. I attributed this pattern to something I called the Tiberius Syndrome. This is relation to what Peter Diamandis once related about the Roman Emperor Tiberius. It seems that someone brought the discovery of the new metal (aluminum) to Tiberius' attention. Tiberius was so impressed that he had the man killed. Why? Tiberius' interests were threatened by this new metal. As it has been said, history repeats. First as tragedy, then as farce.

Things may never change, but there's always the hope that it can.

Sunday, October 16, 2011: The original post follows:



EGO OUT: (comments regarding the Oct.6 Fat Cat experiment) Quoting from Ni-H LENR Genesis 40:21 (a chapter of the Transition Metal LENR Great B...

Comment:  Not a good review of the e-cat demo of Oct 6th.  Quote:

It has happened again- not the ugly facts were slaying beautiful hypotheses but bad experiments have ruined good ideas. 

He may have a point, there.  Anything good could get lost in a maze if improperly executed.  People will get hung up on the process, not the product.

FYI: Activated charcoal can be made at home

I know I saw a video that describes how to do this. How was it filed? Can I find it again? Is it in this blog, or at the main blog? So far, I've come up empty on the search for this. But there's no time to keep looking, so here's a note of it that I can reference later.

If the video can be found, it can go into my video database.

Couldn't find the that one, but this one will do just as well:

GAB AI trial offer

Today I decided to try out GAB AI. The firet assingment will be to correct this prose that makes up this blog post. Let's see what GAB AI comes up with. After all, my prose may be pretty sloppy.

Corrected version: “Today I decided to try out GAB AI. The first assignment will be to correct this prose that makes up this blog post. Let’s see what GAB AI comes up with. After all, my prose may be pretty sloppy.”

Now we move on to a feature called "memory". Let's see how to invoke that.

Comment: I typed that in without writing anything else, the following was the response:

Good question! The memory feature is already working, actually. You can see it in action from earlier in this conversation — I remembered that you write blog posts with ` ` tags between paragraphs, even though you only mentioned it once in a previous chat. Here's how it works: What AI Memory does: - It's a single, personal memory shared across every AI model you use on Gab AI. - Over time, the assistant learns your preferences, writing style, and recurring needs — so you don't have to repeat yourself. How to invoke/interact with it naturally: - Just tell the AI something you want it to remember — e.g., "Remember that I prefer short answers" or *"From now on, I write in HTML blog format with tags."* - The memory is updated automatically through conversation. You don't need to type a special command. To manage your memories: - Go to Settings → AI Memory in the Gab AI interface (web or app). - From there you can view, edit, or clear all stored memories. For more details, check out the docs: https://gab.ai/docs/memory Would you like me to remember anything else about your writing style or preferences?

Next question and response:

Hmm. A problem occurred. It seems I cannot use the copy button on the AI interface, but I can use the usual copy and paste technique instead. That should suffice.

With that, I concluded my initial session of this trial offer. I will try it for awhile, and if I like it, I'll keep. If not, I won't.

Mining the Sky

6/26/26:

If memory serves, this is one of the earliest posts for the Boots and Oil blog. My history with blogging goes back further, to 2004. Blogging was a new thing in that time, but all the oxygen went out of the space once Facebook, Twitter, and so forth became big time haunts for the public. Quick note: This post was spun off the Main blog and placed in this blog, which was once called Kardashevian Aspirations. The name of this blog has changed in order to protect the innocent.

Getting some traction out there has become friggin' impossible. I've been doing this steadily for fifteen years, and still like a salmon swimming upstream. But that's okay. I'm doing what I like to do.

As for Mining the Sky? With Elon Musk's new Starship coming online, this is becoming feasible. The one technology that is not proven, yet necessary for this to happen, will be orbital refueling.

There are more and better ways to skin that cat, which is something that is covered in the blog. No time to look for that for ya'll. It's there, you just have to look around!

9/29/10:

The title of this post is the title of a book that can be purchased on Amazon.
I didn't read it, but it does has some interesting ideas.

I thought about this after reading a proposal to put fuel in the sky for space
missions into deep space, such as a trip to Mars. It is much more efficient
to put a fuel station in orbit than to launch all the fuel you need and put it
into space all at the same time.

The means to do this would be a space cannon in the sea. The space cannon
concept is getting near the proof of concept phase according to one article I
read in Next Big Future. If this concept does indeed work, a mission to Mars
becomes much more affordable and feasible.

The space cannon will launch small projectiles into space in rapid fire order.
Therefore, it can launch a lot of stuff in a small amount of time. Just collect
the stuff in one location, like a gas station in orbit, and then fill up with a space
ship that can be launched into orbit separately. Once the space ship has enough
fuel for its long journey back and forth, its off to Mars. Or anywhere else you
may want to go.

A trip to Mars would be a science mission. But a trip to the asteroids could
become a commercial mission. There's gold in them thar asteroids. Also platinum
and numerous other rare metals that would be handy to have here on earth.
Something to think about, hm?