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OCEANIA ORACLE - ISSUE #1 - 11/01/94
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CREDIT CARD BREAKTHROUGH!
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A three year quest has come to an end. I have been trying to be able
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to process credit cards for the past three years. The closest I came
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to success on this matter was that I was able to process credit cards
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for Tamara Clark's campaign for a limited time through the National
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Libertarian Party. But they eventually cut this off and I was
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completely unable to find a way to process credit cards. I even
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offered to give a bank $5000 in collateral so we could process
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approximately $5000 in credit card orders for Tamara with no success.
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Thanks to Randy Dumse, I am finally able to process credit cards.
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All credit cards orders (for Mastercard or Visa) should include card
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number, expiration date, name as it appears on the card, and billing
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address. Besides an easy way to make donations and then pay for them
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later, you can order things as well. I have decided to extend my
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passport offer for credit card users only for three more days until
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Nov. 4th so that those who could only pay by credit card will now get
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a chance to get passports at the special price of $50/passport.
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In addition, you can order The Atlantis Papers this way as well. The
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price per copy is $28 per copy plus $2.90 shipping in the U.S. and
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Canada, $3.50 shipping for Mexico, $8.00 in Central/South America,
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and $12 elsewhere.
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NEW STILLS ARE ALMOST HERE
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Jim Albea has almost completed the stills of Oceania. As soon as they
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are done I will add them to our listserver and ftp site and then Jim
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will start work on updating the animations.
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NAME CHANGE
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This electronic "newsletter" has been renamed to Oceania Oracle. This
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will be issue one.
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LUNAR POWER
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Bob Crawford has submitted the following article for Oceania Oracle:
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LUNAR POWER
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By Bob Crawford
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In the sea, build a cylinder with an open bottom that is below the
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surface at low tide. Build it so the top is above the surface at
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high tide. Cap the top and install a wind turbine in it.
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As the sea rises and falls with the tide, the perfect wind turbine
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generates 1.7 billion foot pounds of energy each tidal cycle for each
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foot of tide and each square mile of its circular cross section.
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This equates to 630.65 kilowatt hours of energy.
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The value is roughly $63.05 per tidal cycle. At two tidal cycles per
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day of 10 foot average in our square mile cylinder, we can generate
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$1,261.30 per day or $460,375 per year.
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If we built our cylinder large enough, and bent it so that it was the
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shape and size of New York City (325 square miles), we could generate
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electricity worth $149,621,940 annually.
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Why did we build it the shape of New York City? So that we could put
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New York City directly on top of the 3.25 billion tons of seawater
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that would be exchanged twice a day. Heat exchangers could then tap
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into the thermal characteristics of the ocean for further energy
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exploitation.
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A city has to sit on top of something. Why not make the foundation
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useful in providing clean energy?
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That's all for today,
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Eric Klien
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