Nature Recycles.

Yes nature recycles. Did you ever stop to think about it? Food is made from matter. Most of this matter is absorbed from the soil by the activities of any kind of living plant but a good deal of it is also absorbed from the air. This has interesting details especially to one who has biological interests in improving the food production process.

Carbon dioxide is absorbed from the air by plants then the carbon is extracted and then oxygen is released. This carbon is then combined with nutrient matter from the soil in a solar powered endothermic process to create carbohydrates. The basic building block of plants and food. A simplified description of a complicated process to be sure.

But this extraction from the soil will eventually deplete it. When this happens then plants can no longer live in it. This condition is usually remedied with fertilizer. Fertilizer is usually made up of dead cellulose and/or defecation by products that of course will break down in the soil into basic plant nutrient matter. Nature recycles. All of this will reenter the process all over again and become food. This has been a scientifically established process for a very long time and some of America's founding fathers contributed to this knowledge.

This may come as a shock but their is no such thing as "virgin" food. You may be eating it but it has been eaten before. This is the way it works and it cannot be changed. If this were not so the Earth's nutrients would have been depleted long ago and all life would have since starved to death. The possibility of crop death from depleted soil is something that farmers are always working to prevent because many have seen it.

Now here is an issue that gets more serious. Many cities dump their sewage into rivers thus into the oceans. This will eventually cause some balance in nature problems. In the extreme this would mean an overly enriched ocean with red tide plagues and an otherwise difficult environment for marine life and also a dead depleted barren landscape unable to support life. This sewage fertilizer should be dumped back on the fields were it belongs but that doesn't always happen. But this is the thing with money/capitalistic systems and that is it always goes with what is cheap and not always with what is best.

Year In Review

It actually has been a good year for research and development here at the Atlantis Tech Center. I full well expect for this to continue.

Today I began beta testing a new PC based data recorder system and software that I intend to use with my new Pico detector technology. I intend for this to be a data acquisition and analysis system suitable to research any pico scale electrical activity.

 I have also began considerations into the acquisition of an electron beam lithograph. These are fascinating machines whose precision allows the manufacture of semiconductor devices down to the nano scale. I think it would best suit my purposes to make my own and I already possess a suitable vacuum shell. All that remains to be done is some simple electronics design and PC software. Such machines have a market value from US$4,000,000.00 to $6,000,000.00.

I intend to spend the rest of the winter writing software. A current fascination is the concept of docking multiple applications together thus fusing their operational characteristics and data streams. Such a concept should prove useful in research and instrumentation software.

The O3S Operating System

O3S, The operating system of the Atlantian Citadel.
Description: A highly efficient computer operating system designed to overcome deficiencies of currently available OSi that makes them unusable for artificial intelligence work among other things and is indeed a bold departure from current OS philosophy. Simpler and better thought out and of course reliable. It is designed to have mil-spec security but the full capabilities of such won't be available until the development of @aton hardware.

Status:

July 16, 2011

Currently I'm experimenting in the boot sector of a flash stick storage device. Apparently it is quite a trick to discover if a pc is fully UEFI compliant which is what I'm trying to do now. I downloaded some code from Tianocore.org as complete UEFI development packages. The code is open source and free and good for education but it is not plug 'n play and as soon as you get it your work is only beginning.

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July 2, 2011

Previously suspended because of un-manageable developmental snags brought to bear by mis-guided security constraints of MS Windows, a time verses productive results ratio problem caused the original cancellation, the development of this OS for the Intel x86 platform is being re-explored and the better suited Linux platform for this kind of work is being set up.

Of course a driving factor in this project is that my current MS software is becoming quite dated and it is clear that it must be replaced. By making extensive use of the UEFI the amount of coding required should become quite manageable. But first a Linux software suit must be made operational. Most of the structural and file system design of O3S is already complete and needs only coding.

The saga continues....

The situation of development at this point is very fluid. My Linux project hit, well it just hit and it won't be back. I'm not entirely sure what happened but it appears to be spaghetti code and the meatballs who wrote it. Instead I've come up with a plan that should be able to keep my 32bit MS software viable for another ten years if need be. What really appears to be good here is the UEFI code kit I downloaded. Take this and the automated driver writing software I have and the O3S project should be a go.