feedback (was: TURMEL: Money, Interest and Prosperity)

On Sun, 09 Nov 2003 00:28:36 GMT, "Dan Parker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

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>"Bill Ryan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>> Where do the looney toons get these ridiculous ideas?
>> How do they dream them up?  Now Turmel et al. tell us
>> there is something inherently "exponential" about
>> "positive" feedback.
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>Umm, I would invite all readers of this thread to
>google 'positive feedback', and find *one* credible source
>(university, whatever) that does not make the *obvious*
>connection that positive feedback, in a mathematical
>or engineering sense, is of course an exponential formula.
///

Maybe I can help with the concept.

In a system which shows some losses, supplying positive feedback
sufficient to make good the losses can provide increased gain without
destabilizing the system.

Brian W
p.s. I trimmed out the fringe groups.