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Hello, JdH, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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[edit] Wind farms article

You made a contribution to wind farms which I have deleted. This is not a comment on the content contributed, simply a matter of keeping the articles focussed. The articles on wind energy and intermittent power sources have a lot of information on these and, as the discussion pages for all three articles shows, the latter two are probably the most appropriate place for contributions, and particularly the intermittency article which is primarily about variability. I look forward to seeing your contributions there! I have not tried to re-contribute your text in those places, since I suspect you may want to integrate the ideas into those articles yourself. Best regards.--Gregalton 10:03, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vince and Deletion

Wikipedian's often think that if Encyclopedia Britanica would not have an article then Wikipedia should not have it. I don't agree. Also, people here think a reference to a paper (which people probably can not check) is better than a URL. Again I don't agree. Anyway, I would not delete the article that you are talking about, and in general I would not delete as much as most people. Vincecate 22:44, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bishop Alfred

Speaking of Solar updraft tower stuff... Did you notice my exchange with Essene at User_talk:Chriswaterguy#Please_post_link_to_changes? A web search reveals him to be Bishop Goolsbee of the Essene church - an email address given on a web site is the same as the email he gave to me (though it has since died, it seems... pity, I was curious about what possible legal argument he might try to come up with.

Anyway, I should not speak unkindly of the mentally ill (as I suspect might be the case, at least in some sense... though if it's defined broadly enough, we're probably all mentally ill). I wouldn't like to be inside that head, with all that resentment and anger. --Chriswaterguy talk 15:04, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Interesting. No I didn't see it until I just saw your notice. I take that you changed the words "Essentially, what Goolsbee was trying to do..." in my edit of 17 July 2006 into "My opinion of what Goolsbee was trying to do...". You shouldn't have done that without asking me first :-), but I happily forgive you for that transgression. Anyway: you are in no way liable for what I wrote, and if Goolsbee wants to sue me instead it wouldn't worry me one little bit. btw, did you see what Flexme thinks of me?
You may have noticed that I abandoned Wikipedia shortly after the confrontation with Flexme, and several other confrontations like it. I have come to the conclusion that the basic premise of Wikipedia, which is: everybody can edit, is a dismal failure. It turns Wikipedia into a prime playing field for spammers and nuts. JdH 16:13, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
I meant to mention that edit... the threats of legal action were making me uncomfortable and I wanted to feel completely safe, without giving in and actually removing your comments.
I have a much more positive view of Wikipedia (and Appropedia, where I spend most of my time now. It's sometimes a difficult road, but there are good results in the end. I know that if someone looks up Appropriate technology here they'll find a good resource and launching pad, unlike Britannica where they get nothing, or just googling, where the results are unstructured. I had someone rave to me about the appropriate technology article recently and ask if I'd edited it - it was nice to be able to say I'd written a lot of it; even nicer to know that many hours of work on that article contributed to something which is actually being used. --Chriswaterguy talk 14:25, 22 March 2007 (UTC)


You wrote on my page:

Actually, there is a Wiki policy against Forbidden uses of sock puppets, and what Essene is doing here may qualify as such. JdH 17:01, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
A little surfing surfaced the following Talk:Hargrave Jennings and User talk:Catherineyronwode. That in turn leads to "ORMUS~What Is It? The Myth, Magic & Murder of ORMUS", ORMUS University Online and ORMUS™-Our Product. In my opinion Mr Goolsbee is doing better with ORMUS Marine Manna™ than with the Solar Tower™ JdH 14:03, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Even more disturbing. Still, he seems to have gone. I sent him a couple of emails (I had been trying to give him the chance to be reasonable) and my last email bounced, so perhaps ORMUS isn't doing well enough to pay his ISP bills... --Chriswaterguy talk 14:25, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Good addition; Appropedia

Good addition of info at Appropriate technology#Ventilation and air conditioning. Good to see you're still contributing here.

Btw, have you checked Appropedia recently? There's some exciting partnerships and the community of contributors and supporters is growing. --Chriswaterguy talk 07:55, 26 March 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Concerning Leonard Salomon Ornstein

Dear JdH, thank you for your kind message. As for 1941, it had to be 1940, which I have now corrected; it was just a typing error — thank you for pointing out the error. Further, you may be very well right concerning Lorentz being the thesis advisor of Ornstein, rather than Ehrenfest, as my only source for Ornstein's biography has been the short article by Herman de Lang, which you may wish to consult: [1] (in a footnote I have acknowledged this article as my sole source). Incidentally, I have discovered that Ornstein's PhD thesis has been digitised and made available by Igitur (a new service provided by the Central Library of University of Utrecht); when the last time I attempted to download this thesis, for some reason I did not succeed in doing so (the pertinent server appeared to be working extremely slowly, if at all). I believe that the biographical information contained in this thesis will establish who Ornstein's thesis advisor has been, Lorentz or Ehrenfest. For the event that you may wish to consult this thesis, here is the address: [2]. I hope to extend Ornstein's biography in the future, adding to it more details concerning his scientific work; for instance, it is not widely known, but the Ornstein-Zernike theory has been vital for the molecular-dynamics simulations of various phases of He, one of the biggest technical problems being the 1 / r6 divergence of the Lennard-Jones potential for the inter-atomic distance r approaching zero; this strong divergence renders many of the underlying integrals non-existent. Hartelijke groet, --BF 18:11, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

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