But the temperature rise on the hot side is much higher that the temperature drop on the cold side.
Generally it is silly to use Peltiers for cooling; if you use the hot part for heating while the cold part pumps heat from the outside, you will get >100% heating efficiency (read: the hot part will generate more heat than all the energy you put into electric circuit).
The motivation of people sending money to scammers is questionable.
Few years ago some doctor in Czech republic did got berserk and shot Nigerian ambassador dead. The good doctor invested a lot of money into Nigerian scammers (the "business offer" came by snail mail) and he ran into debts badly.
I wonder he never stopped to believe that he can get the fictive transaction finished. Poor idiot.
She is not an American, she is Pakistanian. RTFA, she's a muslim, that means that as soon as she has period she is considered to be a woman and her life will change brutally.
She can then be married (her family arranges this), she starts to wear headscarfhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headscarf and her career burns in hell. Or for a whole lotta bucks she will become Bill Gates's wife...
Well the project seems a little bit 'trollish' to me. Antimatter is nice subject to attract investors, however the Pratt&Whitney TRITON project http://www.nuclearspace.com/A_PWrussview_FINX.htm seems to be more realistic. What a pity it uses the nasty, vicious, filthy uranium.
The antimatter must be one a hell of a job to handle safely. I don't see the future of antimatter fuel in a little light spaceships. Because of all the risks, only the large and heavy space vessels can be include all the necessary technology.
Anyway, Iran of today is a totalitarian regime, quite similar to former communistic countries with the exception that communistic doctrine is replaced by islamic doctrine, which is quite harder.
Iran is in this crap since islamic revolution in 1977, before that Iran was one of the most west-oriented asian states.
I was there, I saw pictures of Khomeini (and some other guy with glasses), they're everywhere. So does army and religious policemen.
leave your fridge door open and set a fan in front of it
This could never work as real AC unit just because of the size of fridge compressor. House AC unit compressor power can be about 600 W and the heat pumped out of the room could be 2000 W. However, your fridge compressor power can be about 100-150 W. Modern fridges have smaller compressors ~60 W, this is sufficient because of improved insulation.
And I must mention another AC feature: it actually dries air by undercooling it, removing condensate and warm up a little (heat is used from the hot part of AC).
Yes, by all means, lets prevent people from communicating because they might say something stupid!
Just think about saving face of mankind - I really wouldn't like to meet aliens who would consider idiotic phone calls as "historical documents" (as in Galaxy Quest)... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_Quest
Name three liquids besides water that you can get cheaper?
Great Scott, that's easy!
No.1 - Spring water. In my supermarket I can get cca 1 gallon of spring water (3 bottles each 1.5 litres) for about 1.2$.
No.2 - Cheap beer. Cheaper than CocaCola or Pepsi. Cca 1 gallon of cheap beer (9 bottles each 0.5 liter) costs about 1.4$, excluding glass bottles. That explains lot of drunk tourists.
No.3 - Normal beer. 1 gallon (9 bottles each 0.5 liter) costs about 1.9$, excluding glass bottles. That explains lot of drunk natives.
And where? In homeland of Dr. Zelenka (Stargate Atlantis).
Obviously the business model is targeted to people who wouldn't normally decide buy camcorder because of the price.
However, to make decent shots, one has to learn how to do it, and it takes hours, not just 20 minutes. It also pays to read some guide on How Not To Shoot Bad Video.
Mostly the video quality depends on the person behind the camera.
It is possible to shoot terrible video with high-end equipment, and it is also possible to shoot very nice video with mediocre camcorder.
Is this the New Economics, the lost dream of IT visioneers?
BTW this Monday my company network was badly infected with yet unknown worm. It created about 15 registry values named 'Microsoft System Backup' to make itself start at lot of occasions. Still can't find anything about it on the internet.
Despite our admins, I've installed personal firewall...
This wouldn't be such a terrible thing if there was some sort of actual science involved, but by brute-forcing results, they are doing nothing more complicated than running a counting program with an infinite number of bits.
This way of genome decoding is much more spectacular. It attracts investors. And doing it the hard way will definitely bring some results.
But bunch of boring sciencists, writing boring equations, can also result in zero success. On the other hand it could save whole lotta money for power, hardware and time. But it's bit risky.
And when the job is finished, this cluster will become national monument.
Just by changing one or two letters by and adding one dot we can achieve more friendly names:
'Mr. Computer', 'Mrs. Documents', 'Mr. Pictures (Mrs.)' etc.
Ugh, I forgot the dot separator separates that evil file extension....
I once renamed icon of "My Computer" to "My Precious" , "Network Neighbourhood" to "Marshlands" and "Windows Explorer" to "Sneak". Guess under what impression...
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But the temperature rise on the hot side is much higher that the temperature drop on the cold side.
Generally it is silly to use Peltiers for cooling; if you use the hot part for heating while the cold part pumps heat from the outside, you will get >100% heating efficiency (read: the hot part will generate more heat than all the energy you put into electric circuit).
In that case you are good candidate for Karel Certified Professional. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_programming_lan guage
It was there, but it went back into 1985 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_to_the_future
In Soviet Russia nobody cares for what is going on in Soviet Russia and mainly everybody's framed there.
Few years ago some doctor in Czech republic did got berserk and shot Nigerian ambassador dead. The good doctor invested a lot of money into Nigerian scammers (the "business offer" came by snail mail) and he ran into debts badly.
I wonder he never stopped to believe that he can get the fictive transaction finished. Poor idiot.
She can then be married (her family arranges this), she starts to wear headscarf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headscarf and her career burns in hell. Or for a whole lotta bucks she will become Bill Gates's wife...
This is the Microsoft Youngling!
It's about responsibility. No one wants to be responsible for dead astronauts, especially when there is no true time-critical mission. Safety first.
I'd recommend to Recycle Bin Laden.
At least you can talk to your horse without strange looks of others. Try talking to your car...
I can imagine... horde of horse-riding nerds goes to the job.. and they smell more than ever!
The antimatter must be one a hell of a job to handle safely. I don't see the future of antimatter fuel in a little light spaceships. Because of all the risks, only the large and heavy space vessels can be include all the necessary technology.
Hard to say.. but she can make nice bulletproof vest from old hard disks...
(Monty Python's Meaning of life reference).
Anyway, Iran of today is a totalitarian regime, quite similar to former communistic countries with the exception that communistic doctrine is replaced by islamic doctrine, which is quite harder.
Iran is in this crap since islamic revolution in 1977, before that Iran was one of the most west-oriented asian states.
I was there, I saw pictures of Khomeini (and some other guy with glasses), they're everywhere. So does army and religious policemen.
This could never work as real AC unit just because of the size of fridge compressor. House AC unit compressor power can be about 600 W and the heat pumped out of the room could be 2000 W. However, your fridge compressor power can be about 100-150 W. Modern fridges have smaller compressors ~60 W, this is sufficient because of improved insulation.
And I must mention another AC feature: it actually dries air by undercooling it, removing condensate and warm up a little (heat is used from the hot part of AC).
Just think about saving face of mankind - I really wouldn't like to meet aliens who would consider idiotic phone calls as "historical documents" (as in Galaxy Quest)... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_Quest
Great Scott, that's easy!
No.1 - Spring water. In my supermarket I can get cca 1 gallon of spring water (3 bottles each 1.5 litres) for about 1.2$.
No.2 - Cheap beer. Cheaper than CocaCola or Pepsi. Cca 1 gallon of cheap beer (9 bottles each 0.5 liter) costs about 1.4$, excluding glass bottles. That explains lot of drunk tourists.
No.3 - Normal beer. 1 gallon (9 bottles each 0.5 liter) costs about 1.9$, excluding glass bottles. That explains lot of drunk natives.
And where? In homeland of Dr. Zelenka (Stargate Atlantis).
However, to make decent shots, one has to learn how to do it, and it takes hours, not just 20 minutes. It also pays to read some guide on How Not To Shoot Bad Video.
Mostly the video quality depends on the person behind the camera.
It is possible to shoot terrible video with high-end equipment, and it is also possible to shoot very nice video with mediocre camcorder.
Is this the New Economics, the lost dream of IT visioneers?
BTW this Monday my company network was badly infected with yet unknown worm. It created about 15 registry values named 'Microsoft System Backup' to make itself start at lot of occasions. Still can't find anything about it on the internet.
Despite our admins, I've installed personal firewall...
This way of genome decoding is much more spectacular. It attracts investors. And doing it the hard way will definitely bring some results.
But bunch of boring sciencists, writing boring equations, can also result in zero success. On the other hand it could save whole lotta money for power, hardware and time. But it's bit risky.
And when the job is finished, this cluster will become national monument.
Therefore, olivine must be not only green, but also brown. And I have no idea how it sounds.
Just by changing one or two letters by and adding one dot we can achieve more friendly names:
'Mr. Computer', 'Mrs. Documents', 'Mr. Pictures (Mrs.)' etc.
Ugh, I forgot the dot separator separates that evil file extension....
I once renamed icon of "My Computer" to "My Precious" , "Network Neighbourhood" to "Marshlands" and "Windows Explorer" to "Sneak". Guess under what impression...
Czech localization of WinXP show 'Tento Poèítaè' which translates as 'This Computer'. Less personal but better description.
Therefore clueless people are afraid of it and are also trying to classify it somehow, however they haven't got mental cathegories for such phenomena.
Thereupon the names the Open Source folk is called are absolutely unappropriate.
While looking at that article, I'm quite concerned what will happen if human kind would meet some real extra-terrestrial inteligent life form.