It's not a big effect, but there are no "small effects" when we're talking about gigawatts of kinetic energy:)
You just need to align the axis of rotation of the flywheel with the axis of rotation of the Earth. As a bonus you get a way to avoid adding leap seconds to UTC.
Yeah and with enough of them and plenty of energy we could eventually have a year with exactly 12 months, each exactly 30 days long. Just don't ask me how long the day would be....Then somebody decided base 10 was nicer than base 12, and future generations liked base 2, and before we knew it, the earth was tidal locked to the sun...
From TFA
This expand/shrink cycle typically causes the silicon (often in the form of particles or a thin film) to pulverize, degrading the performance of the battery. and
The nanowires inflate four times their normal size as they soak up lithium. But, unlike other silicon shapes, they do not fracture. This implies that this design can not only pack more energy into the volume but may not have the charge/discharge life cycles that normal lithium batteries have because of said fracturing.
I would not recommend any reader that fully implemented the pdf spec. The following information was found in:
Adobe's PDF Reference Second Edition version 1.3
Addison-Wesley
ISBN 0-201-61588-6
First Printing July 2000
On pages 426-427 in Chapter 7 Interactive Features/Actions,
summary of scary info as follows:
Launch Application Windows-specific launch parameters
KEYRequired Value
Fyes name of application to be launched or document to open
Dno dos syntax of the default directory
Ono print or open(default) (only valid for F=document)
Pno parameter string to be passed to application (only valid for F=application
Note at the time of publication Adobe had not finished defining the UNIX and Macintosh dictionaries for this pdf instruction, but it is supposed to be a cross platform action with different dictionary sets for the same pdf on different platforms. I always thought this was a design flaw in the pdf language specification/structure to allow a document to arbitrarily execute any executable with parameters on the system. I always thought it would be neat to test this action, and figure out how to use it to create an exploit. Alas I was always to busy coding for work to investigate this action any further. I have not kept up with the pdf spec since 1.3. For all I know Adobe may or may not have finished designing the dictionary definitions for other platforms. Adobe may have also gotten wise and either deprecated/removed this action or added some sort of sandbox for this action.
Would not be benificial to the average joe, however for the military I am guesing that it is a much better solution. We do not actually know how much more it weighs over a standard military generator and all the fuel that would be lugged around. In addition it reduces a units "signature" by removing the trash that would otherwise have to be hauled back out or destroyed in some other way. Also once it had been primed with several hours worth of diesel, it would be self supporting untill you either ran out of trash, or moved the unit somewhere and had to reprime it. I can see it reducing the logistics for diesel fuel and trash hauling for a military unit setting up a temporary base of operations.
RTFA they say the generator has to run off diesel oil for several hours to power the bioreactor/reformer. Once the components have had time to break the waste material down into ethanol, methane, and propane that gets funneled back into the generator that the net result is 90% additional output. If it was to take 10 liters of diesel to start the process, after using those 10 liters, and also burning the resultant fuels from the bioreactor/reformer it would be approximatly equal in electric output to having only used a plain old generator with 19 liters of diesel. In addition it reduces the trash input to aproximatly 1/30th of the volume in ash. It is bascially a mobile trash incenerator/generator that can be jumped started with diesel. Electrical plants that burn trash to produce electricty has been around for a long time. This sounds only slightly more efficent/environmentally friendly in that they use a bioreactor to produce ethonal from the biowastes, and use gasification techniques on the other types of trash instead of just plain burning all the trash together with a steam generator.
No matter is 'converted' to energy, it is only a chemical process to rearrange the the energy in the chemical bonds of the existant trash into a more useful form of energy(ie. electricity). Same as burning coal or any other fuel, the energy is released in the form of heat to provide work.
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It's not a big effect, but there are no "small effects" when we're talking about gigawatts of kinetic energy :)
You just need to align the axis of rotation of the flywheel with the axis of rotation of the Earth. As a bonus you get a way to avoid adding leap seconds to UTC.
Yeah and with enough of them and plenty of energy we could eventually have a year with exactly 12 months, each exactly 30 days long. Just don't ask me how long the day would be. ...Then somebody decided base 10 was nicer than base 12, and future generations liked base 2, and before we knew it, the earth was tidal locked to the sun...
Hey thats not true, my 386 16mhz router is still running true protected mode x86 instructions right on the hardware.
Adobe's PDF Reference Second Edition version 1.3
On pages 426-427 in Chapter 7 Interactive Features/Actions, summary of scary info as follows:Addison-Wesley
ISBN 0-201-61588-6
First Printing July 2000
Launch Application Windows-specific launch parameters
- KEY Required Value
- F yes name of application to be launched or document to open
- D no dos syntax of the default directory
- O no print or open(default) (only valid for F=document)
- P no parameter string to be passed to application (only valid for F=application
Note at the time of publication Adobe had not finished defining the UNIX and Macintosh dictionaries for this pdf instruction, but it is supposed to be a cross platform action with different dictionary sets for the same pdf on different platforms. I always thought this was a design flaw in the pdf language specification/structure to allow a document to arbitrarily execute any executable with parameters on the system. I always thought it would be neat to test this action, and figure out how to use it to create an exploit. Alas I was always to busy coding for work to investigate this action any further. I have not kept up with the pdf spec since 1.3. For all I know Adobe may or may not have finished designing the dictionary definitions for other platforms. Adobe may have also gotten wise and either deprecated/removed this action or added some sort of sandbox for this action.Would not be benificial to the average joe, however for the military I am guesing that it is a much better solution. We do not actually know how much more it weighs over a standard military generator and all the fuel that would be lugged around. In addition it reduces a units "signature" by removing the trash that would otherwise have to be hauled back out or destroyed in some other way. Also once it had been primed with several hours worth of diesel, it would be self supporting untill you either ran out of trash, or moved the unit somewhere and had to reprime it. I can see it reducing the logistics for diesel fuel and trash hauling for a military unit setting up a temporary base of operations.
RTFA they say the generator has to run off diesel oil for several hours to power the bioreactor/reformer. Once the components have had time to break the waste material down into ethanol, methane, and propane that gets funneled back into the generator that the net result is 90% additional output. If it was to take 10 liters of diesel to start the process, after using those 10 liters, and also burning the resultant fuels from the bioreactor/reformer it would be approximatly equal in electric output to having only used a plain old generator with 19 liters of diesel. In addition it reduces the trash input to aproximatly 1/30th of the volume in ash. It is bascially a mobile trash incenerator/generator that can be jumped started with diesel. Electrical plants that burn trash to produce electricty has been around for a long time. This sounds only slightly more efficent/environmentally friendly in that they use a bioreactor to produce ethonal from the biowastes, and use gasification techniques on the other types of trash instead of just plain burning all the trash together with a steam generator.
No matter is 'converted' to energy, it is only a chemical process to rearrange the the energy in the chemical bonds of the existant trash into a more useful form of energy(ie. electricity). Same as burning coal or any other fuel, the energy is released in the form of heat to provide work.