World Abalone Farming

Worldwide there are over sixty species of abalone, half of which are harvested commercially. Countries with a larger abalone fishery include Japan, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Korea, Taiwan and China. Reductions in the world catch have been reduced from 50 to 95 percent over the past twenty five years.

Typical Problems For Abalone Farmers/Corporations

• A technology is developed to farm an abalone species. Changes in technology over time are more provincial rather than on a world scale. Farmers often unnecessarily torment themselves through many years of losing money and endless cuts and bruises.
  
• Once the species is considered commercially viable to produce and production rises, a series of market questions begin, such as, "Why isn't the product accepted as quickly as we anticipated in the marketplace? Why is our price lower than our projections?" Often there is no marketing program in place with a worldwide prospective.
  
• Long after commercial production of a particular species is in the upswing cycle regrettably, the serious marketing strategy begins. The species is almost never market driven for long periods of time while the production escalates.

The future of world abalone prices will be affected by factors on both the supply and demand sides of the market - -but within a limited range, remaining highly profitable for abalone farms taking advantage of changing world wide technology and developing experienced marketing programs.

Abalone aquaculture, even at its growing pace will take many years to fill the declining supply of the world' wild abalone fisheries. (see charts above) With quickly expanding world abalone farming production, we will see some profitability decline for those operations not utilizing appropriate technology and not developing worldwide marketing programs.

2007 Worldwide Abalone Farming Production

• California, USA: There are currently 13 abalone farms on the coast of California The farmed size is normally 75 to 100mm and they are available live or processed. The largest farm produces over 100 tons and the smaller less than 10tons.
  
• Japan: Japan has many major seed farming operations, most of which are involved in ocean enhancement, totals of which are included under Fisheries. 30 to 40 million seeds are planted annually. Almost all Japanese farming consists of ocean bottom growing from farmed seeds.
  
• China: China is the worlds largest producer with over 300 abalone farms with production expected to produce over 26,000mt in 2007, excluding lower value species. Most production is consumed within China.
  
• Korea: Total production in 2007 is anticipated at over 4,000mt.
  
• Taiwan: Taiwan currently has over 400 farms (many are small family run operations). Total production in 2007 is anticipated at over 4,000 tons, including lower value species. Most Production is consumed in Taiwan.
  
• Thailand: Newest and fastest growing farming nation. Mostly H.diversicolor supertexta .
  
• Australia/New Zealand: Farmed production is estimated at 600mt in 2007 This total reflects the current virus problems in Australia.
  
• Chile and South Africa: Combined production should exceed 1,000 metric tons in 2007 mostly H.rufescens and H.midae.
  
• Miscellaneous Countries: In combination, all of Europe, Iceland and Pacific Rim countries should have a farm production of over 300 metric tons in 2007.

http://www.fishtech.com/farming.html

Sony BRAVIA KDL-40V3000 40" LCD TV

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The security camera features an adjustable lens and works great in low light. Get Hi-Tech audio and video security at an affordable price with this black and white security camera! Order today!

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Introducing The International Tesla Electric Company

ITEC's Free Electricity Program

Utility Company of Better World Technologies
	Nikola Tesla

Please Note The Facts:

Better World Technologies (BWT) believes they have the ability to produce an electric generator that will produce more electricity than it will consume, thus Free Electricity. BWT conducted a nationwide tour in 1999 to demonstrate one half of this technology the Hummingbird Motor (the driver) proven to be 100% efficient. In 2001 BWT conducted another nationwide tour to demonstrate the second half of this technology, the Sundance Generator, proven to produce five units of mechanical energy for each unit consumed (1 in 5 out). Both tours were heavily advertised and invited anyone to bring their own test equipment to disprove the above technologies - Many experts came and NOT ONE disproved either technology (all demonstrations were video taped). Better World Technologies further believes they can combine the Hummingbird Motor with the Sundance Generator to produce "Free Electricity". BWT does not claim to have a Free Electricity generator and have not, to date, combined the Hummingbird to the Sundance. Due to the suppression of technology by Corporate America, BWT will not come forward until a critical mass of public awareness is achieved. Once 1.6 million people of North America has been registered for this program and agreed to be a witness at our demonstrations, BWT will produce 100 units to be demonstrated nationwide. These demonstrations will be held at the same time across America in sports stadiums and large public meeting places. In appreciation to these first 1.6 million witnesses, the International Tesla Electric Company (BWT's utility company) will provide up to 26,000 kWh of free electricity per year for as long as ITEC is able to sell the excess electricity on the open market. This is our way of rewarding these witnesses for their faith in God, His technology and us. After the technology has been publicly demonstrated and proven to the world the remaining 14.4 million units planned for distribution to North America will be made available to the public at a projected cost of $2,000.00 per registrant. The unit is not now for sale and will never be made available for sale but will remain the property of BWT and ITEC. Those fortunate enough to be registered with ITEC will receive the 26,000 kWh per year absolutely free for as long as ITEC is able to sell the excess electricity on the open market. There are three options to register now as a witness, this offer will be withdrawn without prior notice once BWT announces it has achieved the initial 1.6 million witness goal and the initial demonstrations will be scheduled. All registrants will be notified by mail of the time and date of the demonstration closest to their location. We thank you for your patience, your faith and your support, there is a periodic update you may subscribe to here authored by this UCSA dealer. There is also a periodic updated phone recording by Dennis Lee you may listen to at 212-461-8738. The details of our current offer follows...

UPDATE: Yes the "Free Electricity" program is still very much alive and all registrants The International Tesla Electric Corporation (ITEC) has current contact information for will be taken care of. The public demonstrations will happen on July 10th of 2009! If not yet registered for ITEC's Free Electricity Program now is the time to do so...

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LHC MACHINE OUTREACH

LHC - the aim of the exercise:

To smash protons moving at 99.999999% of the speed of light into each other and so recreate conditions a fraction of a second after the big bang. The LHC experiments try and work out what happened.

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is being built in a circular tunnel 27 km in circumference. The tunnel is buried around 50 to 175 m. underground. It straddles the Swiss and French borders on the outskirts of Geneva.

It planned to circulate the first beams in May 2008. First collisions at high energy are expected mid-2008 with the first results from the experiments soon after.

The LHC is designed to collide two counter rotating beams of protons or heavy ions. Proton-proton collisions are foreseen at an energy of 7 TeV per beam.

• The beams move around the LHC ring inside a continuous vacuum guided by magnets.

• The magnets are superconducting and are cooled by a huge cryogenics system. The cables conduct current without resistance in their superconducting state.

• The beams will be stored at high energy for hours. During this time collisions take place inside the four main LHC experiments.

http://lhc-machine-outreach.web.cern.ch/lhc-machine-outreach/

Large Hadron Collider

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a particle accelerator of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) that lies under the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, Switzerland. The LHC is in the final stages of construction and commissioning, with some sections already being cooled down to their final operating temperature of approximately 2K. The first beams were due for injection mid June 2008 with the first collisions planned to take place 2 months later.^[1] The LHC will become the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator.^[2] The LHC is being funded and built in collaboration with over two thousand physicists from thirty-four countries as well as hundreds of universities and laboratories.

When activated, it is theorized that the collider will produce the elusive Higgs boson, the observation of which could confirm the predictions and "missing links" in the Standard Model of physics and could explain how other elementary particles acquire properties such as mass.^[3][2] The verification of the existence of the Higgs boson would be a significant step in the search for a Grand Unified Theory, which seeks to unify three of the four known fundamental forces: electromagnetism, the strong nuclear force and the weak nuclear force, leaving out only gravity. The Higgs boson may also help to explain why gravitation is so weak compared to the other three forces. In addition to the Higgs boson, other theorized novel particles that might be produced, and for which searches^[4] are planned, include strangelets, micro black holes, magnetic monopoles and supersymmetric particles.^[5]

Technical design

Superconducting quadrupole electromagnets are used to direct the beams to four intersection points where interactions between protons will take place.

The collider is contained in a circular tunnel with a circumference of 27 kilometres (17 mi) at a depth ranging from 50 to 175 metres underground.^[6] The tunnel, constructed between 1983 and 1988,^[7] was formerly used to house the LEP, an electron-positron collider.

The 3.8 metre diameter, concrete-lined tunnel crosses the border between Switzerland and France at four points, although most of its length is inside France. The collider itself is underground, with surface buildings holding ancillary equipment such as compressors, ventilation equipment, control electronics and refrigeration plants.

The collider tunnel contains two pipes, each pipe containing a beam. The two beams travel in opposite directions around the ring. 1232 dipole magnets keep the beams on their circular path, while additional 392 quadrupole magnets are used to keep the beams focused, in order to maximize the chances of interaction between the particles in the four intersection points, where the two beams will cross. In total, over 1600 superconducting magnets are installed, with most weighing over 27 tonnes. 96 tonnes of liquid helium is needed to keep the magnets at the operating temperature.^[8]

The protons will each have an energy of 7 TeV, giving a total collision energy of 14 TeV. It will take less than 90 microseconds for an individual proton to travel once around the collider. Rather than continuous beams, the protons will be "bunched" together, into 2,808 bunches, so that interactions between the two beams will take place at discrete intervals never shorter than 25 ns apart. When the collider is first commissioned, it will be operated with fewer bunches, to give a bunch crossing interval of 75 ns. The number of bunches will later be increased to give a final bunch crossing interval of 25 ns.^[9]

LHC Accelerators

Prior to being injected into the main accelerator, the particles are prepared through a series of systems that successively increase the particle energy levels. The first system is the linear accelerator Linac 2 generating 50 MeV protons which feeds the Proton Synchrotron Booster (PSB). Protons are then injected at 1.4 GeV into the Proton Synchrotron (PS) at 26 GeV. Finally the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) is used to increase the energy of protons up to 450 GeV.

The LHC will also be used to collide lead (Pb) heavy ions with a collision energy of 1,150 TeV. The ions will be first accelerated by the linear accelerator Linac 3, and the Low-Energy Injector Ring (LEIR) will be used as an ion storage and cooler unit. The ions then will be further accelerated by the Proton Synchrotron (PS) and Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) before being injected into LHC ring, where they will reach an energy of 2.76 TeV per nucleon.

Six detectors are being constructed at the LHC, located underground in large caverns excavated at the LHC's intersection points. Two of them, ATLAS and CMS, are large, "general purpose" particle detectors.^[2] ALICE is a large detector designed to study the properties of quark-gluon plasma looking at the debris of heavy ion collisions. The other three (LHCb, TOTEM, and LHCf) are relatively smaller and more specialized. A seventh experiment, FP420 (Forward Physics at 420m), has been proposed which would add detectors to four available spaces located 420m on either side of the ATLAS and CMS detectors.^[10]

The size of the LHC constitutes an exceptional engineering challenge with unique safety issues. While running, the total energy stored in the magnets is 10 GJ, while each of the two beams carries an overall energy of 362 MJ. For comparison, 362 MJ is the kinetic energy of a TGV running at 157 km/h (98 mph), while 724 MJ, the total energy of the two beams, is equivalent to the detonation energy of approximately 173 kilograms (380 lb) of TNT, and 10 GJ is about 2.4 tons of TNT. Loss of only 10⁻⁷ of the beam is sufficient to quench a superconducting magnet, while the beam dump must absorb an energy equivalent to a typical air-dropped bomb.

These immense kinetic energies become far more spectacular when you consider how little matter is carrying it. At its maximum energy rating (2.76TeV per particle with a total of 362MJ), there is just 1.15E-9 grams of hydrogen in the system (or 0.026 of one cubic millimeter).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider

Large Hadron Collider Countdown

Welcome to LHCountdown.com, this site is primarily a countdown site to the activation of the Large Hadron Collider (for more information on the LHC click here) but is also a hub collecting all articles relating to and about the LHC.

http://www.lhcountdown.com/