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Re:It can be a very dangerous sport.
I'm late. but I run the website for the UMO/MMA coaster car. We design these cars to crash. They often hit things. Very often they spin out (many cars have the driver sitting on the rear axle with no weight on the front tyres). Our car is perfectly safe with a great roll cage, 4 point harness, the frame has multiple redundant load paths, and the bumper is designed to collapse nicely and dissipate the energy. I only wish they had provisions for keeping the crowd a little safer.
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NOXNitrogen Oxides are created by industrial power generation plants (read: power plants) as a product of incomplete combustion. You can have scrubbers, and filters, and electrostatic precipitators, but some inevitably gets out (1-2% of stack gasses). I believe it is a greenhouse gas. 1-2% does not seem like much, but a tremendous amount of gas is created by the combustion processes. It adds up fast when you have a few LM2500 gas turbines that drain an 18-wheeler of natural gas in around 20 minutes.... at idle.
Getting the NOX out of the air is a good thing. Hopefully the plants can be used for some other purpose (shade? power production? General catalytic conversion?) but unfortunately the article is now the goatse guy.
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Re:zaaaaap
You can build a device that gives people static-electricity-like shocks if you are lacking a supply of flannel, sweaters, and shag carpet. The article and circuit diagram I wrote is here
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Re:The Bad
I assume this is the story behind that picture?
Aren't you worried about calling the boss an idiot reflecting on future job opportunities? [even if you were right...] -
Re:Alternate energy source
no not really. Peat bogs are big. Really big. this one is a rather small one at an old power plant that used to burn peat. The owners never wanted to take the time to dry the fuel though and it never really burned. In Ireland, however, peat-to-power is big business and they harvest peat years in advance to allow time to dry it out. To capture the methane, though, would be ridiculous. You would spend a lot more energy extracting it from the huge bogs than you ever got out.
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The Bad
I'm studying ME and did an internship in a Power station. I think this picture about sums it up. A co-worker held the hopper hatch door shut with a broomhandle whilst I carefully opened it and got the hell out of there. My advice- check out your employer before you get into anything. If they have a history of not treating employees right, stay away.
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The Bad
I'm studying ME and did an internship in a Power station. I think this picture about sums it up. A co-worker held the hopper hatch door shut with a broomhandle whilst I carefully opened it and got the hell out of there. My advice- check out your employer before you get into anything. If they have a history of not treating employees right, stay away.
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Re:Solar powered hotspot, eh?
mines a bit more powerful. My hotspot can melt your hotspot into a small puddle of plastic slag!
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Hopefully not possesion
Visitors to Shrubbery Porn may be in for a rude awakening when their bosses fire them for possesion of shrubbery porn on company computers.
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Re:Whoa
I do not support this musical. It has gotten me no financial gains, and I am as economically depressed as ever.
Thanks,
-Roger, http://rogertheshrubber.net/ -
Tis already happened!The networking industry, it seems, is expected to always play a big part in detecting and thwarting such threats, as 9/11-scale economic disruption is a likely bad-guy objective."
Sadly my website http://www.rogertheshrubber.net/ has already fallen victim to the hordes of the digital pearl harbour. There is a pestilence upon this land. Nothing is sacred. Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress at this period in history.
