I'm all for this, if it includes research into IFR technology. If you haven't read this article, please do. I know it's biased toward IFR technology, but even if 10% of what the scientist says is true, we should be researching the hell out of it! Here's Wikipedia's take on the IFR.
The current reactor design is antiquated and hobbled by President Carter's decree that we will not reprocess nuclear fuel. So instead of extracting 90+% of the energy in the fuel and having 100 year nuclear waste, we extract 2% and have 10,000 year waste with the once-thru fuel cycle. Real smart, Jimmy. And he was a 'Nucular Engineer'!
You don't reverse the polarity (the classic definition of polarity loses its neaing with AC, anyway) - you reverse the direction of phase rotation.
3 phase consists of 3 power leads each 120 degrees out of phase with each other. By switching any two leads, you will reverse the direction of the phase rotation, which will make the motor turn the other way.
Thank you, too. I wish I had more teachers like you. I don't mind the stratification of the intellectual classes - it's one of those obviously true situations that's treated as the elephant in the room that no one sees.
Thank you! I've seen the exact same situation at an accredited College. Professors were 'persuaded' to pass the whiny, entitlement-brained idiots who actually said, "My parents paid for my degree - give it to me!" A friend of mine tried your approach, that being standing up for academic standards, and was treated very badly by the administration.
One addition to your comment: it takes fewer teachers to handle students that are eager to learn and are self motivated than students that need intense, individual assistance. That makes it more compelling to help the smart ones since the incremental cost is so much less.
I doubt the "platitude-dealing pollyanna" in question was a Maple tree in a previous life. A Denebian Slime Devil, perhaps, but not a Maple tree. That's an insult to the whole Acer genus.
Not too difficult at all, actually. I do a fair amount of work with UHF RFID tags, and their processors are doing some fairly involved work while being powered by an electric field up to a couple of meters away. This article mentions an RFID chip that requires 3.15 microWatts to operate. This paper describes the constraints in an RFID system fairly well.
The real issue in the US, beyond that of the landowner's wishes, is that of liability. I forbid trespassing solely based on the fear of litigation by the trespasser. Those necking teens can sue the landowner if one of them twists an ankle.
I'm currently using these critters in that very application: http://www.digi.com/products/wireless/zigbee-mesh/xbee-series2-module.jsp
A ZigBee module that can wake up, take a few sensor readings, transmit them to the 'mother ship', and go back to sleep. To me that's the cat's meow in distributed sensor technology - a fully meshed sensor array that can react to external interrupts and transmit data wirelessly and run on batteries for years.
Their dev kit contains 5 modules, RS232 and USB dev boards, antennas, etc. Very complete and very sexy indeed.
This paper outlines using a Gd148 source to power medical implants. Fascinating.
A solid sphere of pure Gd148 (~7900 kg/m3) of radius r = 95 microns surrounded by a 5-micron thick platinum shield (total device radius R = 100 microns) and a thin polished silver coating of emissivity er = 0.02 suspended in vacuo would initially maintain a constant temperature... [of 600K]... with a 75-year half-life, initially generating 17 microwatts of thermal power which can be converted to 8 microwatts of mechanical power by a Stirling engine operating at ~50% efficiency. My thought would be to skip the Stirling engine and go RTG.
Funny. [Mental picture of a bacterium giving very painful birth to a plastic chair.]
It would be better, IMHO, to have the nasty little bugs excrete a diesel analog, a kerosene analog, a gasoline analog, etc, than have to use huge amounts of energy to crack the crude aliphatic hydrocarbons and catalytically reform them into the highly branched alkanes that we like for fuel.
Wow! Interesting figures there. 7 trillion barrels of oil, according to google (I LOVE google's math interpreter) "7 trillion barrels of oil in cubic miles" yields 267 cubic MILES of oil!!!
That sounds like a lot, but spread out evenly over the Earth's 57,268,900 square miles of surface area, that's a layer only 1/3 of an inch thick.
My family owns 13.64e-6 % of the Earth's surface. That means we're 'entitled' to 9550 barrels (401068 gallons) of oil, if you look at it that way. If that could be converted 100% to gasoline, at the consumption figures for gasoline (1.3 gal/day/person) that's 84.5 years of consumption for each of the 10 of us.
For the math checkers: My family (my parents, their children and associated spouses/children), owns 50 acres and 10 of the 11 family members live on 'the compound'.
That's only about 1.3 gallons/person/day on average. It sounds much more reasonable couched in those terms, doesn't it?
I think your estimates for production are low - I doubt it would take 3 months for 100 gallons of bugs to excrete a gallon of oil. Even using your figures, my wife and I could easily put in a reactor large enough to generate that much fuel. Toss in the odd orange peel, and voila! Fuel for the family.
Doing the math:
1.3 gal/person/day = 2.6 gal/day for us. Using your figures that's approximately 9000 gal of bugs per gallon-day of fuel. That's 23400 gallons (or 3128 ft^3) of bugs. A pit 20x20x8 would comfortably hold them.
My concern with that many critters would be the disposal of the dead ones. That in itself is a lot of biomass - wait, maybe they can 'eat' their own dead! Soylent oil for real!
I agree wholeheartedly. I used to be a Republican until they started taking away rights not 'for the babies' as the left does, but in the name of 'the war on terror'. My own government is the only organization terrorizing me.
They're turning me into a real conspiracy theorist, let me tell you.
Oceania at war with East Asia, no Eurasia, anyone?
Curiously, there's a triple point very near the mean the surface conditions on Mars shown on that diagram. It's almost as if water were intended to be useful on Earth _and_ Mars....hummm.
Vandals can already do a significant amount of damage to a painted metal car body with a knife or even a coin.
My favorite: Brake fluid. Very passive-agressive. Spray it on, and after a couple of days, the paint just sloughs off. I've never done it on purpose, but I did do it accidentally once 8-(.
Good old Jack Nance (aka Nefud in Dune). From Twin Peaks: "She's day-ud. Wrapped in plastic."
From Dune: "Yes, You're alive."
From wild at heart: "My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have not told you the type of dog which I have. Perhaps you even picture Toto, from "The Wizard of Oz." But I warn you, my dog is always with me. WOOF!"
He delivered some classic lines in his life. David Lynch used him often, it seems.
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The current reactor design is antiquated and hobbled by President Carter's decree that we will not reprocess nuclear fuel. So instead of extracting 90+% of the energy in the fuel and having 100 year nuclear waste, we extract 2% and have 10,000 year waste with the once-thru fuel cycle. Real smart, Jimmy. And he was a 'Nucular Engineer'!
Seeing how cheap those women look, I'd say you'll be needing the very best, most expensive meds.
Dang it! s/meaning/neaing/
3 phase consists of 3 power leads each 120 degrees out of phase with each other. By switching any two leads, you will reverse the direction of the phase rotation, which will make the motor turn the other way.
Thank you, too. I wish I had more teachers like you. I don't mind the stratification of the intellectual classes - it's one of those obviously true situations that's treated as the elephant in the room that no one sees.
Thank you! I've seen the exact same situation at an accredited College. Professors were 'persuaded' to pass the whiny, entitlement-brained idiots who actually said, "My parents paid for my degree - give it to me!" A friend of mine tried your approach, that being standing up for academic standards, and was treated very badly by the administration.
One addition to your comment: it takes fewer teachers to handle students that are eager to learn and are self motivated than students that need intense, individual assistance. That makes it more compelling to help the smart ones since the incremental cost is so much less.
I doubt the "platitude-dealing pollyanna" in question was a Maple tree in a previous life. A Denebian Slime Devil, perhaps, but not a Maple tree. That's an insult to the whole Acer genus.
Not too difficult at all, actually. I do a fair amount of work with UHF RFID tags, and their processors are doing some fairly involved work while being powered by an electric field up to a couple of meters away. This article mentions an RFID chip that requires 3.15 microWatts to operate. This paper describes the constraints in an RFID system fairly well.
The real issue in the US, beyond that of the landowner's wishes, is that of liability. I forbid trespassing solely based on the fear of litigation by the trespasser. Those necking teens can sue the landowner if one of them twists an ankle.
So I could embed these in my skin or lungs (wherever there's a temperature differential) and power them via body heat? Cool idea.
I'm currently using these critters in that very application: http://www.digi.com/products/wireless/zigbee-mesh/xbee-series2-module.jsp A ZigBee module that can wake up, take a few sensor readings, transmit them to the 'mother ship', and go back to sleep. To me that's the cat's meow in distributed sensor technology - a fully meshed sensor array that can react to external interrupts and transmit data wirelessly and run on batteries for years. Their dev kit contains 5 modules, RS232 and USB dev boards, antennas, etc. Very complete and very sexy indeed.
This paper outlines using a Gd148 source to power medical implants. Fascinating.
A solid sphere of pure Gd148 (~7900 kg/m3) of radius r = 95 microns surrounded by a 5-micron thick platinum shield (total device radius R = 100 microns) and a thin polished silver coating of emissivity er = 0.02 suspended in vacuo would initially maintain a constant temperatureThanks for the additional information. It's all interesting.
For the bacteria involved, it would be an impressive movement.
It would be better, IMHO, to have the nasty little bugs excrete a diesel analog, a kerosene analog, a gasoline analog, etc, than have to use huge amounts of energy to crack the crude aliphatic hydrocarbons and catalytically reform them into the highly branched alkanes that we like for fuel.
That sounds like a lot, but spread out evenly over the Earth's 57,268,900 square miles of surface area, that's a layer only 1/3 of an inch thick.
My family owns 13.64e-6 % of the Earth's surface. That means we're 'entitled' to 9550 barrels (401068 gallons) of oil, if you look at it that way. If that could be converted 100% to gasoline, at the consumption figures for gasoline (1.3 gal/day/person) that's 84.5 years of consumption for each of the 10 of us.
For the math checkers: My family (my parents, their children and associated spouses/children), owns 50 acres and 10 of the 11 family members live on 'the compound'.
I think your estimates for production are low - I doubt it would take 3 months for 100 gallons of bugs to excrete a gallon of oil. Even using your figures, my wife and I could easily put in a reactor large enough to generate that much fuel. Toss in the odd orange peel, and voila! Fuel for the family.
Doing the math:
1.3 gal/person/day = 2.6 gal/day for us. Using your figures that's approximately 9000 gal of bugs per gallon-day of fuel. That's 23400 gallons (or 3128 ft^3) of bugs. A pit 20x20x8 would comfortably hold them.
My concern with that many critters would be the disposal of the dead ones. That in itself is a lot of biomass - wait, maybe they can 'eat' their own dead! Soylent oil for real!
They're turning me into a real conspiracy theorist, let me tell you.
Oceania at war with East Asia, no Eurasia, anyone?
Dude, this was AN AMERICAN CITIZEN. They treat us like Bin Laden's favorite, too.
Yeah, but the minute you open the oven door, your roast flies out!
Curiously, there's a triple point very near the mean the surface conditions on Mars shown on that diagram. It's almost as if water were intended to be useful on Earth _and_ Mars....hummm.
I think you performed the rare Triple Entendre with Double Toe Loop. Nicely done!
My favorite: Brake fluid. Very passive-agressive. Spray it on, and after a couple of days, the paint just sloughs off. I've never done it on purpose, but I did do it accidentally once 8-(.
Good old Jack Nance (aka Nefud in Dune). From Twin Peaks: "She's day-ud. Wrapped in plastic."
From Dune: "Yes, You're alive."
From wild at heart: "My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have not told you the type of dog which I have. Perhaps you even picture Toto, from "The Wizard of Oz." But I warn you, my dog is always with me. WOOF!"
He delivered some classic lines in his life. David Lynch used him often, it seems.