Yeah, ammonia is not that bad. It's used in the liquid form and injected directly into the ground as fertilizer, by farmers from a tractor with a syringe. If they can stand the smell and not die from the toxic effects of releasing it directly into the soil, the general population should be able to handle leak tight cars with smoke alarm detectors, and even without detectors, the odor threshold of 5 ppm is safe, well under the 50 ppm 8-hr TWA OSHA PEL.
That's a great idea, stainless steel clad high thermal conductivity aluminum or copper. I'm guessing the expense of the cladding process, good adhesion issues, and uneven thermal expansion coefficients may make it unideal.
I have a gas furnace inside the apartment for winter heating. It's the top floor of a house split into three, not a dorm, but city fire codes don't allow cooking on the top floor, or something like that. Sometimes the city is hostile in the way they modify tax calculations codes, not picking up all the garbage unless it's packaged a certain way, but they pick up unpackaged old crap like furniture, so they are not uniform in their rules, same with parking on the street overnight, sometimes I had to do it, and got ticketed instantly, other times no, and every night the street is full of cars that are still there at 5 am or 9 am, without tickets, so they are picking on me when they can without picking on others the same, sometimes they don't really know what they want, etc. The furnaces for the other two floors are in the basement, but I like mine in here, because in the very previous place I lived, I constantly got sick from the forced air heating air, like it carried a disease and toxic dust, and I had no way to turn it off, the upstairs neighbor controlled the thermostat, and he was away for like 3 months in the winter after a car crash, and he came back with crutches. By the way you can burn down a house if you're an idiot by cooking on the first floor too, or you can safely cook in a house made of all wood and combustible tapestry, upholstery and furniture,(like most places in the world) if you're careful. Most cities in the US have a fire dept, because housing is made of wood. Were it made of straw earth, or ytong (aka. autoclaved cellular concrete), without wood and carpet inside, you would almost not need a fire dept.
This is how you do it except the car does not have to be 60 grand in cost, and most importantly hydrogen as fuel, liquid or compressed, is bullshit, you need something to carry it on a molecular scale, as a hydride compound. The simplest of these that is carbon free, i.e. nonhydrocarbon, is ammonia, or nitrogen trihydride, but there is also toxic hydrazine, or dinitrogen tetrahydride, and even the magnesium-titanium metal hydrides might stand a chance, or borohydrides like lithium borohydride (which is above in energy density in volume and mass to gasoline, the top chemical material(everything else higher in mass energy density is lower in volume energy density, or vice versa, gasoline has that magic balance, plus all gaseous effluents, unlike borohydrides, that have solid or solution effluents, but recyclable.)) Liquid ammonia stores at room temperature under mild pressure, compared to liquid hydrogen requiring constant venting, or constant cryogenic refrigeration, which is very retarded and senseless to do. Or huge compression containers (or cryogenic refrigerator malfunction or boil off hole plugging accident) ready for a classic steam boiler explosion scenario. Hydrogen stored by itself is not safe nor economical. It has to be combined with something, and if you don't like carbon, there is nitrogen (awesome), metals (maybe), boron (big maybe, and then even silicon or aluminum instead of boron might be better.)
And by the same token, chemical engineers needs jobs as small business drug makers, so that doesn't fly very far. I'd be a millionaire if they legalized drugs, because then I could be making them as a chemist in my own small business startup or basement, and the social workers could still keep their jobs just like they do with legalized alcohol abusers. It's not the alcohol being legal that's the problem, but people not being able to maintain balance in consumption.
But even if legalized, I'd have mental and ethical objections to addictive recreational drugs (btw it is always the person that's addictive, never the substance, be it sex, alcohol, nicotine, heroin, it is the feeling and urge that's addictive, and if you're weak to resist its addictive effects, then don't mess with it in the first place, except sex of course, and even with sex there is this thing called "balance"), and I would be reluctant to poison the minds of thousands, but it'd be like eating meat while you're a half ass vegetarian - if it's legal, everybody is doing it, then why not? Meat does indeed taste very good, at some ethical cost, but we shrug it off easily. Ethics gets complicated, dealing with ethics is a great way to get a headache, and I don't envy supreme court judges stuck with deciding ethical dilemmas because there are often no good answers, so we get mile long opinions written by the judges, and haphazard court decisions, but they always split on the 3 vs 4 or 5 vs 6 or 42 vs 43, always very close to half and half, to illustrate that it's an ethical dilemma that made it to the supreme court, and both sides were right but one side was just a bit more right than the other, in a haphazard way. Ethical issues can come up with things such as driving 65 mph on a road and smacking mosquitoes and flies dead on the windshield requiring special "bugwash", vs. driving 35 or 25 mph where they get a chance to escape or bounce off the windshield, but even 10 mph on a bicycle you sometimes end up swallowing flies that get into your mouth and they taste crappy, and all these beings have eyeballs (or more like compound eyes), they collect data through light sensors, form a picture/image and model the world in a mind, they want to live, so they have conscience and sentience, just like meat substance animals with eyeballs looking at you, the eyeballs staring back in the symbol of sentience sensing you back. Not even talking about walking and stepping on bugs. So not only feeding, but simply transportation, moving around can make you hurt other living beings in the world, and in that living beings with minds, feelings and emotions. This is unlike grass and trees without minds that have natural reactions such as exuding defensive resins when cut, just like the live skin cells I shed when cut tough skin near the toes do not belong to me in the sense of organism, they still have natural reactions or cellular function, and defense, but I don't feel bad stepping on my ex-cells that used to be part of this organism called me, because these cells don't have a mind, feelings, emotions just like vegetables and grass and trees don't have minds, even if they do have a lot of sensory equipment, or it's more like I'm not aware that they'd have a mind, which they may still do anyway, such as fungi penetrating the forest floor for miles, lacking eyeballs, but having other kinds of sensors, might have some highly distributed decision making apparatus akin to a mind, like the octopus, which has an eyeball very similar to a human eyeball, yet its nervous system is much more distributed than the human nervous system, and individual octopus arms can "think", as opposed to human limbs don't move around and think if severed from the brain and spine, and even chickens move around without the head and just with a spine, and spider legs when separated from the body (when I was 4 yrs old a friend of mine got off on catching spiders and pulling their legs off and watch them spin on the ground, how entertaining, I was sick to the gut), so a central nervous system may be rep
Give up? Get used to it. The future is organic, the voices tell me, not silicon. There is so much friggin silicon around that you'd wonder if intelligent design put it there to be turned into one supermassive superparallel 25 nm feature size gigantio chip. I mean all the silicon as far as the eye can see, all the silicon on Earth, all the silicon on the Moon, Mars, Venus, Mercury, all the asteroids, converted into a bigger and bigger silicon chip. That's what you'd call the megabrain. However the future is not silicon based life, for one of two reasons: 1. organic life will be smart enough not to fuck with it. 2. organic life will be dumb enough not to be able to create it. Only in the present do we have these smart enough naive idiots who can make a chip, yet they don't recognize the dangers of artificial intelligence, and they think it's a great idea, artificial intelligence can help us think, artificial intelligent weapons can win wars, more power more power, til you get the latest and greatest wonder of technology: an artificial intelligent robot weapon that eats humans for breakfast, or in fact, all organic life for breakfast. Aren''t the wonders of technology amazing?
The future is organic life, not silicon life, at least in the solar system, and probably in 99.99% of galaxies out there (there may be some galaxies where silicon based life was created by organic life and then it survives on its own.) But this organic future is nowhere near as fun as things are today. Expect never before seen diseases, Predators you've never met, smarter than you, eating you. I mean what do you expect in another 3 billion years? It took about that long to go from a single celled bacterium to a tiger, polar bear and an ape (like humans are apes), and all these lifeforms do one thing: they eat each other, and kill each other. What do you think silicon based lifeforms would do? Not consume the carbon and what not in you to build their own structure (be it carbon for plastic parts or even additive for metallurgical carbides like tungsten carbide/cobalt matrix tools), and convert all matter they can find into enlarging themselves? So anyway, saying we're fucked, oh no, get used to it, it's gonna be we're fucked squared, and everyone will be taking it as a matter of fact, and life will still go on. With half your face chewed off by some new parasite. With one of your arm and your little sister lost to some predator that has higher tech weapons than you, but it's not stupid to use nukes and pollute his environment with it, nor big bombs, but smart weapons that disable you, maybe cook you or fry you just right, ready to eat. Kind of like in the movie Predator. That kind of stuff. In another 3 billion years. For skull collectin, if nothing else, sense of art, sense of beauty. Your skull gonna be on display at some Predator's home entrance like some hunters have stuffed animals and dear skulls on display in their homes. Cuz these face chewing gangrene diseases are nothing compared to smarter predators than you, organized, multicellular, thinking diseases out to get you, so to speak, called predators.
Yes, but compared to most other metals like steel, aluminum and copper, it's a bitch to mold/form/machine titanium. All high temperature processing steps have to be done in an argon atmosphere, because it's very sensitive to oxygen, and it can also react with nitrogen. Usually it's melted via an electric arc in an argon atmosphere. This makes welding/melting/processing very expensive, besides the metal itself, which is expensive, because of the slow speed Kroll process (carbochlorination and magnesium reduction) by which it's obtained.
Immersion heaters are mostly high voltage, and it's not safe, unless the insulation stays intact. Let it glow red hot in open air when you forget to stick it into the water, and watch the insulation get damaged, and the whole pot of water become hazardous high voltage. I was talking about a 2 V immersion heater. It's not that complicated, and 2 V is safe, but the 2500 Volts in the microwave arc youtube video up there, that is not safe.
As far as cooking dogs goes, I'm halfass vegetarian, I haven't prepared meat for home consumption since like 2009, and then too it was like boloni sandwiches. I did buy chinese takeout chicken twice this year, and ate it at home, and maybe some pepperoni pizza I ate at home, but I haven't made anything out of meat ingredients at home. I eat a lot of eggs though, in fact 15 minutes ago I just ate an egg salad I made from 7 boiled eggs, half a stick of butter, half an onion, and spices.
You must have a large family, or you save up a lot of dishes to justify using a dishwasher. Dishwashers make sense in a restaurant, or at a public gathering, to save time and mass-process things, but for yourself at home, come on, the few dishes that you use you can hand clean just fine.
The low melting point of aluminum is why I stay away from aluminum kitchenware. Also acids can attack aluminum, and solubilized aluminum, staying at low pH in the stomach and in solution, has been linked to some Alzheimer type things, weakly, in a highly statistically uncertain way. Aluminum is everywhere, in pottery, dirt, but it does not dissolve at biological pH's, and once it's dissolved, even if it's precipitated back into a fine flocc, it will redissolve much easier in that fine, uncrystallized/amorphous, high energy state, than in its original, low energy stable state. If the flocc has time to age and crystallize - say weeks or months, then it's safer again. By the way pay attention to Dill Pickle jar list of ingredients, as some have "alum" in it (usually the non-kosher ones), and alum, or KAl(SO4)2, potassium aluminum sulfate, is a form of dissolved aluminum. Alum is good for neutral pH water treatment where it floccs out and carries particulates and hangs up on a filter, leather tanning, and even as an after shave stone to close shaving cuts, but it's not a good idea to ingest it. Aluminum is extremely insoluble at pH 7, neutral, but becomes soluble at acidic pH 5 or lower, or caustic pH 9-10 or higher.
I use stainless steel as my favorite for everything, but cast iron is ok for certain things, such as skillets, the heavy gauge maintains uniform slow frying temperature, next enameled regular iron, next copper pots (that hopefully don't have too much green patina on them, but they are too expensive, otherwise they'd e more favorite.)
A pressure cooker cooks faster by boiling slower. If water boils at 90C instead of 100C, (say 190F instead of 212F) it boils faster, but keeps whatever you're trying to cook at a lower temperature, and because of that, the cooking time lengthens. This is an issue at high altitudes where air pressure is low, say 700 mmHg instead of 760 mmHg (or 12 psi instead of 14 psi at sea level) and the boiling bubbling equalizing pressure is reached at 90C instead of 100C at sea level. A pressure cooker is like taking a pot up high on the mountain, and carrying it deeper to sea level, or even below: it increases the boiling temperature by increasing the pressure inside the pot. The end result is 110C (230 F) boiling water, and in the higher temperature everything cooks faster, including eggs, pasta, veggies, etc. That is how a pressure cooker is more efficient in cooking, not by better heat transfer, but by creating a higher temperature, faster cooking environment inside itself. That's a lot of energy savings. However, ever since the Boston marathon bombing manhunt, the authorities don't like people buying pressure cookers.
It's me again, the other idea to avoid overheating is just to use two microwave transformers each with their own heating coil going at half rated capacity, or hook them up parallel to the same heating coil, but then one might go unbalanced from the other, sharing, say 40%/60% of the amp load, instead of 50/50.
By the way the above video is not for 2 V modding, but using the microwave transformer as is, in its high voltage state. However it highlights a major issue, that is the transformer itself overheating, and the fan in the microwave cools both the transformer and the microwave generating magnetron. So at the very least you'd have to have a fan blowing on your transformer connected to some metal heatsink, or, better, have a bulkier, more heavy duty transformer that's rated up by, say a safety factor of 5, to 10,000 watts and use that at the low 1800 W.
I live in the US and open flame cooking is not allowed where I live, in fact some are trying to say that no cooking is allowed to make me go out and blow all my dough on restaurants, but I use electric cooking.
I use a microwave for potatoes, a hotplate for frying then cooking rice, and for eggs either a microwave to make omelets in like 2.5 minutes babysitting it, or I have a Crofton egg-cooker that cooks slowly while I eat and makes a batch of 7 boiled eggs I keep in the fridge for next time. http://www.amazon.com/Kalorik-... I bought mine for a lot less on sale a few years back. The nice thing is that an alarm goes off when it's done, so you don't have to babysit it like the microwave or hotplate, which, if you go on the internet and leave them running, will fill your place with smoke and set off the smoke alarms. Never ever leave the hotplate, unplug the hotplate when done. The microwave at least has a timer that cuts off even if it turns on by accident, plus it makes a lot of noise and the lights are on, but a hotplate can be very stealthy and sly, so keep it unplugged as soon as you're done.
I was trying to boil some city tap water the other day in this 5 gallon pot, to see if it can be made drinkable - btw George Carlin says that he's amused how everywhere he goes, people don't trust their public utility supply water for drinking. It took forever to get it to boil, and I assume it was mostly due thermal conduction resistance and contact between the hotplate and the pot. The hotplate sounds like it keeps self-regulating the temperature, and it cuts off if the heating elements overheat, then turns back on, then cuts off, etc., you can hear it click as it rubs under the pot as it suddenly thermally expands and gets glowing red hot, then it cools back to black, then goes red again. So against this on/off bullshit I was thinking about doctoring a microwave transformer like it shows on this page, http://www.instructables.com/i... and just dipping the about to melt red-hot copper wire directly inside the pot - that should get a lot of heat transfer. The transformer is kind of an impedance-matching device between the 2V / 800A heating section and the 110V / 16A wall socket. 2 volts on a #2 AWG gauge copper wire is kind of safe against electric shocks, just be careful what you touch it against, not to melt it or instantly vaporize it. In fact 0.25 volts and really fat copper or silver bars might be even better. Unfortunately boiling coffee and soup might be difficult with this, as the suspended solid stuff might cake and char onto the heating element if dipped directly into the soup, so you'd need some kind of large fin setup that covers the whole volume of the pot with fins for large surface area direct heat transfer, and an incandescent bulb light dimmer variable resistor on the wall socket side of the transformer to regulate power input slowed down to whatever still works. But for clean water going with 2V and 800 Amps through a #2 gauge of #0 or #00 copper wire coil is probably as fast as you can get that 1800 watts of power into the water at full wattage, instead of cutting on and off. By the way 1800 watts is your maximum allowed energy out of the wall socket, the transformer doesn't magically change that, it only makes the heat transfer more efficient by lowering the voltage to 2 volts or less and direct conduit contact with the water. You can't really stick a 110 V heating element into the water, because the pot will shock you, plus the electricity will bypass the high resistance heating element and go directly through the water, causing a short and blowing your fuse on the whole house or more like throwing your circuit breakers that need to be reset.
By the way no -40 F rated sleeping bag from Walmart is gonna keep you comfortable even at +30 F, that rating is all just bullshit. However, if you can get XXL size ones, and you can fit two -40F rated ones inside each other, that will keep you very comfortable and sleeping like a baby even at +20F. Just remember to cover your head, and have like a foot of narrow air passage, that functions like a Stirling engine copper gauze heat recuperator, just by the walls of the narrow air passage, and the CO2 you exhale goes out more by diffusion than flow, and oxygen the opposite direction, exchanging heat and temperature on their pass by each other and the walls. This way you don't inhale chilling air that, regardless how well insulated and even sweating you are, will still make you sick and frost bite your nostrils and air passages. That's how eskimos chill, naked with their soft women under fur blankets, with their heads covered, and breathing through a small opening. Also, use 3 of these -40F rated sleeping bags stacked inside each other, and you'll be sweating your balls off even in -40F weather.
Who wants to live in a mini-house? Every time you want to turn around to put on your pajama coat, you have to back out the front door, extend your arm, put on pj, then move back inside. That'd be kinda like them NY apartments made for singles, and not for roomates, as roommating is pretty much mandatory in NY, that "only" cost 900/mo, at like 117.35 square feet, where your mini couch doubles as your bed, and the biggest area is taken up by the shower stall and toilet. It's like your own prison cell in the outside world, and you get all the stress out of it, so you'd be better off doing something stupid, like smashing shopwindows in with bricks, and beg the judge to send you to jail - free food (even if crappy), free housing, and a lot less stress than trying to come up with the $900 rent each month for your mouse hole, in this unemployment competition economy.
Or you can get a 14x70 used mobile home (which was the minimum size my land contract specified, before I was forcibly made sick, by getting xrayed, gassed and infected, so I couldn't make payments) that's not completely rotten for like 2000 bux, from someone who has moved out of a mobile home park and doesn't like to keep getting ass raped on the lot rent, so he has to get rid of it somehow, before he can stop paying for lot rent, and nobody wants it, so the price is ultra cheap. Heck, buy 3 of them, at 980 sq ft each, that's 2700 sq ft of living space. At $2000 replacement cost, and $50 property tax each per annum, as the termites and carpenter ants keep chewing them up for you, and the wood eating fungi digest it, it's cheaper to keep buying a new one out of the three you got every 3 years, so in 9 years you'd replace all 3, than invest any effort into any kind of upkeep, other than throw a tarp over it if the roof leaks (and you can only do tarps if the neighbors are not nauseated by it because the trees cover the view). And why is all tarp blue? Can't they make them camouflage color for St. Pete's sake? Also I've seen some shiny travel trailers made out of stainless or nickel plate that's not peeled, but those are small, expensive, and they are meant for more like a desert area to reflect the heat of the Sun.
How about the other way around. I'm not even sure the story is real, and the Chinese aren't just framed by someone infiltrated designing these scanners for them, and they diligently and mindlessly make it, like they make so many other things, and they end up looking like idiots. I got called paranoid above, well, hey, you have no friggin idea how paranoid I can get. In fact Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" says everything you see in reality may be fake. And Rene Descartes came up with one truth that he was certain about, and did not doubt that it might be fake, by just closing his eyes, and thinking hard, and that's "Cogito ergo sum", or "I think therefore I am," which is awesome, but he got stuck there, he couldn't really go much further. Even all of math (that you can supposedly do without opening your eyes or using your senses, just pure closed eyed thought) can be fake, as you can flip any axiom it's based on, and there you go, it's a different math with a different set of rules, but no better or worse than the one based on original axioms. So don't believe everything you read, take everything you read with a grain of salt, and if you wanna fly off on a paranoid tangent, there are various degrees of paranoia and distrust, including total everything in the world is fake and you're just in suspended animation in Alien's spaceship, dreaming everything, and she's just using you to think for her, reading your mind, because the human brain is pretty good at stuff, while she's also growing offsprings in your chest. As external eggs, and in that eggs that don't require an energy packet in them, are much faster and fecund ways to reproduce than the mammalian female taking weeks(bunnies) to months(humans) to pop 1(human) to 20(pigs) offsprings at a time. For instance a good queen bee without a mammalian womb might lay 3000 external eggs individually, into individual hex cells, per day.
For the cost of a new car you can get a few acres of woodland not too far from here, and that solves the grass mowing problem, plus the "public nuisance" code violation thing, because whatever contraption you got, if the public can't see it because it's covered by trees, they shouldn't be vexed by it. A tent is pretty cheap, but they won't let you build a house from self made sun-dried mud bricks with straws (btw I've seen a house ice cold (free air conditioned like a basement) in summer heat made of 5 foot thick earth walls, walls that have been standing for 400 years), because of building codes probably requiring some stupid compression testing of bricks, plus some professional engineer sign-off. So you cannot use the woodland lot as an official residence, and you have to be officially homeless, but you can camp on your lot. The law should allow that, but if you keep camping on it year round, you may get a visit by an ambulance from the local mental health institution bringing you a straitjacket, and take you away for a few month of therapy, in hopes of rehabilitating you, and reforming your distorted way of seeing reality. Camping out in a nonresidence tent on your lot in the middle of winter to save a few bucks? There is a pill for that too!
No other place on Earth has had a steady congregation of nerds since the 90's, like Slashdot. Those in power who don't like the truth spoken out loud, especially when it goes against their very expensive private media campaign of trying to set a trend and brainwash everyone into something, they will want to demolish slashdot. So the first step in that is divide and conquer, send one off the Stormfront, another one to Soylentnews (what a crappy name that is, almost as bad as a herbivore head with GNU is not Unix.)
Hey, it's me again..So, one way to prevent such a thing from happening is to exterminate every insect in existence, and every flowering plant. Just fill the whole world up with some insecticide more potent than DDT but not harmful to bird eggshells, and also herbicides that target flowering plants and fruit trees, and we'll go back to having only green grass lawns, pine trees with cones without fruits that need a bug to pollinate, and ferns. Unless you create non-artificial-intelligence flying mini-robots, to replace bugs, they would seek out flowers, and shake shake shake, pick up pollen and pollinate at the same time. Then you could keep flowering trees like apples, pears, peaches, nut trees, etc, while still exterminating all bugs in existence, to make sure they don't surpass us in evolution 3 billion years from now. In fact, why stop there, do it to all other life form species except the ones you eat as food, and you should also exterminate every other human too that's not your family, to make sure they don't surpass and dominate your off springs after millennia from now. How about that wonderful idea? We already did the first steps, by mowing lawns, and spraying insecticides and herbicides everywhere.
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Yeah, ammonia is not that bad. It's used in the liquid form and injected directly into the ground as fertilizer, by farmers from a tractor with a syringe. If they can stand the smell and not die from the toxic effects of releasing it directly into the soil, the general population should be able to handle leak tight cars with smoke alarm detectors, and even without detectors, the odor threshold of 5 ppm is safe, well under the 50 ppm 8-hr TWA OSHA PEL.
That's a great idea, stainless steel clad high thermal conductivity aluminum or copper. I'm guessing the expense of the cladding process, good adhesion issues, and uneven thermal expansion coefficients may make it unideal.
I have a gas furnace inside the apartment for winter heating. It's the top floor of a house split into three, not a dorm, but city fire codes don't allow cooking on the top floor, or something like that. Sometimes the city is hostile in the way they modify tax calculations codes, not picking up all the garbage unless it's packaged a certain way, but they pick up unpackaged old crap like furniture, so they are not uniform in their rules, same with parking on the street overnight, sometimes I had to do it, and got ticketed instantly, other times no, and every night the street is full of cars that are still there at 5 am or 9 am, without tickets, so they are picking on me when they can without picking on others the same, sometimes they don't really know what they want, etc. The furnaces for the other two floors are in the basement, but I like mine in here, because in the very previous place I lived, I constantly got sick from the forced air heating air, like it carried a disease and toxic dust, and I had no way to turn it off, the upstairs neighbor controlled the thermostat, and he was away for like 3 months in the winter after a car crash, and he came back with crutches. By the way you can burn down a house if you're an idiot by cooking on the first floor too, or you can safely cook in a house made of all wood and combustible tapestry, upholstery and furniture,(like most places in the world) if you're careful. Most cities in the US have a fire dept, because housing is made of wood. Were it made of straw earth, or ytong (aka. autoclaved cellular concrete), without wood and carpet inside, you would almost not need a fire dept.
This is how you do it except the car does not have to be 60 grand in cost, and most importantly hydrogen as fuel, liquid or compressed, is bullshit, you need something to carry it on a molecular scale, as a hydride compound. The simplest of these that is carbon free, i.e. nonhydrocarbon, is ammonia, or nitrogen trihydride, but there is also toxic hydrazine, or dinitrogen tetrahydride, and even the magnesium-titanium metal hydrides might stand a chance, or borohydrides like lithium borohydride (which is above in energy density in volume and mass to gasoline, the top chemical material(everything else higher in mass energy density is lower in volume energy density, or vice versa, gasoline has that magic balance, plus all gaseous effluents, unlike borohydrides, that have solid or solution effluents, but recyclable.)) Liquid ammonia stores at room temperature under mild pressure, compared to liquid hydrogen requiring constant venting, or constant cryogenic refrigeration, which is very retarded and senseless to do. Or huge compression containers (or cryogenic refrigerator malfunction or boil off hole plugging accident) ready for a classic steam boiler explosion scenario. Hydrogen stored by itself is not safe nor economical. It has to be combined with something, and if you don't like carbon, there is nitrogen (awesome), metals (maybe), boron (big maybe, and then even silicon or aluminum instead of boron might be better.)
I think they should dump porn instead of drugs into a real war zone.
And by the same token, chemical engineers needs jobs as small business drug makers, so that doesn't fly very far. I'd be a millionaire if they legalized drugs, because then I could be making them as a chemist in my own small business startup or basement, and the social workers could still keep their jobs just like they do with legalized alcohol abusers. It's not the alcohol being legal that's the problem, but people not being able to maintain balance in consumption.
But even if legalized, I'd have mental and ethical objections to addictive recreational drugs (btw it is always the person that's addictive, never the substance, be it sex, alcohol, nicotine, heroin, it is the feeling and urge that's addictive, and if you're weak to resist its addictive effects, then don't mess with it in the first place, except sex of course, and even with sex there is this thing called "balance"), and I would be reluctant to poison the minds of thousands, but it'd be like eating meat while you're a half ass vegetarian - if it's legal, everybody is doing it, then why not? Meat does indeed taste very good, at some ethical cost, but we shrug it off easily. Ethics gets complicated, dealing with ethics is a great way to get a headache, and I don't envy supreme court judges stuck with deciding ethical dilemmas because there are often no good answers, so we get mile long opinions written by the judges, and haphazard court decisions, but they always split on the 3 vs 4 or 5 vs 6 or 42 vs 43, always very close to half and half, to illustrate that it's an ethical dilemma that made it to the supreme court, and both sides were right but one side was just a bit more right than the other, in a haphazard way. Ethical issues can come up with things such as driving 65 mph on a road and smacking mosquitoes and flies dead on the windshield requiring special "bugwash", vs. driving 35 or 25 mph where they get a chance to escape or bounce off the windshield, but even 10 mph on a bicycle you sometimes end up swallowing flies that get into your mouth and they taste crappy, and all these beings have eyeballs (or more like compound eyes), they collect data through light sensors, form a picture/image and model the world in a mind, they want to live, so they have conscience and sentience, just like meat substance animals with eyeballs looking at you, the eyeballs staring back in the symbol of sentience sensing you back. Not even talking about walking and stepping on bugs. So not only feeding, but simply transportation, moving around can make you hurt other living beings in the world, and in that living beings with minds, feelings and emotions. This is unlike grass and trees without minds that have natural reactions such as exuding defensive resins when cut, just like the live skin cells I shed when cut tough skin near the toes do not belong to me in the sense of organism, they still have natural reactions or cellular function, and defense, but I don't feel bad stepping on my ex-cells that used to be part of this organism called me, because these cells don't have a mind, feelings, emotions just like vegetables and grass and trees don't have minds, even if they do have a lot of sensory equipment, or it's more like I'm not aware that they'd have a mind, which they may still do anyway, such as fungi penetrating the forest floor for miles, lacking eyeballs, but having other kinds of sensors, might have some highly distributed decision making apparatus akin to a mind, like the octopus, which has an eyeball very similar to a human eyeball, yet its nervous system is much more distributed than the human nervous system, and individual octopus arms can "think", as opposed to human limbs don't move around and think if severed from the brain and spine, and even chickens move around without the head and just with a spine, and spider legs when separated from the body (when I was 4 yrs old a friend of mine got off on catching spiders and pulling their legs off and watch them spin on the ground, how entertaining, I was sick to the gut), so a central nervous system may be rep
Give up? Get used to it. The future is organic, the voices tell me, not silicon. There is so much friggin silicon around that you'd wonder if intelligent design put it there to be turned into one supermassive superparallel 25 nm feature size gigantio chip. I mean all the silicon as far as the eye can see, all the silicon on Earth, all the silicon on the Moon, Mars, Venus, Mercury, all the asteroids, converted into a bigger and bigger silicon chip. That's what you'd call the megabrain. However the future is not silicon based life, for one of two reasons: 1. organic life will be smart enough not to fuck with it. 2. organic life will be dumb enough not to be able to create it. Only in the present do we have these smart enough naive idiots who can make a chip, yet they don't recognize the dangers of artificial intelligence, and they think it's a great idea, artificial intelligence can help us think, artificial intelligent weapons can win wars, more power more power, til you get the latest and greatest wonder of technology: an artificial intelligent robot weapon that eats humans for breakfast, or in fact, all organic life for breakfast. Aren''t the wonders of technology amazing?
The future is organic life, not silicon life, at least in the solar system, and probably in 99.99% of galaxies out there (there may be some galaxies where silicon based life was created by organic life and then it survives on its own.) But this organic future is nowhere near as fun as things are today. Expect never before seen diseases, Predators you've never met, smarter than you, eating you. I mean what do you expect in another 3 billion years? It took about that long to go from a single celled bacterium to a tiger, polar bear and an ape (like humans are apes), and all these lifeforms do one thing: they eat each other, and kill each other. What do you think silicon based lifeforms would do? Not consume the carbon and what not in you to build their own structure (be it carbon for plastic parts or even additive for metallurgical carbides like tungsten carbide/cobalt matrix tools), and convert all matter they can find into enlarging themselves? So anyway, saying we're fucked, oh no, get used to it, it's gonna be we're fucked squared, and everyone will be taking it as a matter of fact, and life will still go on. With half your face chewed off by some new parasite. With one of your arm and your little sister lost to some predator that has higher tech weapons than you, but it's not stupid to use nukes and pollute his environment with it, nor big bombs, but smart weapons that disable you, maybe cook you or fry you just right, ready to eat. Kind of like in the movie Predator. That kind of stuff. In another 3 billion years. For skull collectin, if nothing else, sense of art, sense of beauty. Your skull gonna be on display at some Predator's home entrance like some hunters have stuffed animals and dear skulls on display in their homes. Cuz these face chewing gangrene diseases are nothing compared to smarter predators than you, organized, multicellular, thinking diseases out to get you, so to speak, called predators.
He says: "When I was working with your mother, her ass meant a lot to me."
Yeah, that's a good point, steam sauna, sterilization, I hadn't thought of that.
Yes, but compared to most other metals like steel, aluminum and copper, it's a bitch to mold/form/machine titanium. All high temperature processing steps have to be done in an argon atmosphere, because it's very sensitive to oxygen, and it can also react with nitrogen. Usually it's melted via an electric arc in an argon atmosphere. This makes welding/melting/processing very expensive, besides the metal itself, which is expensive, because of the slow speed Kroll process (carbochlorination and magnesium reduction) by which it's obtained.
Immersion heaters are mostly high voltage, and it's not safe, unless the insulation stays intact. Let it glow red hot in open air when you forget to stick it into the water, and watch the insulation get damaged, and the whole pot of water become hazardous high voltage. I was talking about a 2 V immersion heater. It's not that complicated, and 2 V is safe, but the 2500 Volts in the microwave arc youtube video up there, that is not safe.
As far as cooking dogs goes, I'm halfass vegetarian, I haven't prepared meat for home consumption since like 2009, and then too it was like boloni sandwiches. I did buy chinese takeout chicken twice this year, and ate it at home, and maybe some pepperoni pizza I ate at home, but I haven't made anything out of meat ingredients at home. I eat a lot of eggs though, in fact 15 minutes ago I just ate an egg salad I made from 7 boiled eggs, half a stick of butter, half an onion, and spices.
You must have a large family, or you save up a lot of dishes to justify using a dishwasher. Dishwashers make sense in a restaurant, or at a public gathering, to save time and mass-process things, but for yourself at home, come on, the few dishes that you use you can hand clean just fine.
The low melting point of aluminum is why I stay away from aluminum kitchenware. Also acids can attack aluminum, and solubilized aluminum, staying at low pH in the stomach and in solution, has been linked to some Alzheimer type things, weakly, in a highly statistically uncertain way. Aluminum is everywhere, in pottery, dirt, but it does not dissolve at biological pH's, and once it's dissolved, even if it's precipitated back into a fine flocc, it will redissolve much easier in that fine, uncrystallized/amorphous, high energy state, than in its original, low energy stable state. If the flocc has time to age and crystallize - say weeks or months, then it's safer again. By the way pay attention to Dill Pickle jar list of ingredients, as some have "alum" in it (usually the non-kosher ones), and alum, or KAl(SO4)2, potassium aluminum sulfate, is a form of dissolved aluminum. Alum is good for neutral pH water treatment where it floccs out and carries particulates and hangs up on a filter, leather tanning, and even as an after shave stone to close shaving cuts, but it's not a good idea to ingest it. Aluminum is extremely insoluble at pH 7, neutral, but becomes soluble at acidic pH 5 or lower, or caustic pH 9-10 or higher.
I use stainless steel as my favorite for everything, but cast iron is ok for certain things, such as skillets, the heavy gauge maintains uniform slow frying temperature, next enameled regular iron, next copper pots (that hopefully don't have too much green patina on them, but they are too expensive, otherwise they'd e more favorite.)
A pressure cooker cooks faster by boiling slower. If water boils at 90C instead of 100C, (say 190F instead of 212F) it boils faster, but keeps whatever you're trying to cook at a lower temperature, and because of that, the cooking time lengthens. This is an issue at high altitudes where air pressure is low, say 700 mmHg instead of 760 mmHg (or 12 psi instead of 14 psi at sea level) and the boiling bubbling equalizing pressure is reached at 90C instead of 100C at sea level. A pressure cooker is like taking a pot up high on the mountain, and carrying it deeper to sea level, or even below: it increases the boiling temperature by increasing the pressure inside the pot. The end result is 110C (230 F) boiling water, and in the higher temperature everything cooks faster, including eggs, pasta, veggies, etc. That is how a pressure cooker is more efficient in cooking, not by better heat transfer, but by creating a higher temperature, faster cooking environment inside itself. That's a lot of energy savings. However, ever since the Boston marathon bombing manhunt, the authorities don't like people buying pressure cookers.
It's me again, the other idea to avoid overheating is just to use two microwave transformers each with their own heating coil going at half rated capacity, or hook them up parallel to the same heating coil, but then one might go unbalanced from the other, sharing, say 40%/60% of the amp load, instead of 50/50.
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By the way the above video is not for 2 V modding, but using the microwave transformer as is, in its high voltage state. However it highlights a major issue, that is the transformer itself overheating, and the fan in the microwave cools both the transformer and the microwave generating magnetron. So at the very least you'd have to have a fan blowing on your transformer connected to some metal heatsink, or, better, have a bulkier, more heavy duty transformer that's rated up by, say a safety factor of 5, to 10,000 watts and use that at the low 1800 W.
I live in the US and open flame cooking is not allowed where I live, in fact some are trying to say that no cooking is allowed to make me go out and blow all my dough on restaurants, but I use electric cooking.
I use a microwave for potatoes, a hotplate for frying then cooking rice, and for eggs either a microwave to make omelets in like 2.5 minutes babysitting it, or I have a Crofton egg-cooker that cooks slowly while I eat and makes a batch of 7 boiled eggs I keep in the fridge for next time. http://www.amazon.com/Kalorik-... I bought mine for a lot less on sale a few years back. The nice thing is that an alarm goes off when it's done, so you don't have to babysit it like the microwave or hotplate, which, if you go on the internet and leave them running, will fill your place with smoke and set off the smoke alarms. Never ever leave the hotplate, unplug the hotplate when done. The microwave at least has a timer that cuts off even if it turns on by accident, plus it makes a lot of noise and the lights are on, but a hotplate can be very stealthy and sly, so keep it unplugged as soon as you're done.
I was trying to boil some city tap water the other day in this 5 gallon pot, to see if it can be made drinkable - btw George Carlin says that he's amused how everywhere he goes, people don't trust their public utility supply water for drinking. It took forever to get it to boil, and I assume it was mostly due thermal conduction resistance and contact between the hotplate and the pot. The hotplate sounds like it keeps self-regulating the temperature, and it cuts off if the heating elements overheat, then turns back on, then cuts off, etc., you can hear it click as it rubs under the pot as it suddenly thermally expands and gets glowing red hot, then it cools back to black, then goes red again. So against this on/off bullshit I was thinking about doctoring a microwave transformer like it shows on this page, http://www.instructables.com/i... and just dipping the about to melt red-hot copper wire directly inside the pot - that should get a lot of heat transfer. The transformer is kind of an impedance-matching device between the 2V / 800A heating section and the 110V / 16A wall socket. 2 volts on a #2 AWG gauge copper wire is kind of safe against electric shocks, just be careful what you touch it against, not to melt it or instantly vaporize it. In fact 0.25 volts and really fat copper or silver bars might be even better. Unfortunately boiling coffee and soup might be difficult with this, as the suspended solid stuff might cake and char onto the heating element if dipped directly into the soup, so you'd need some kind of large fin setup that covers the whole volume of the pot with fins for large surface area direct heat transfer, and an incandescent bulb light dimmer variable resistor on the wall socket side of the transformer to regulate power input slowed down to whatever still works. But for clean water going with 2V and 800 Amps through a #2 gauge of #0 or #00 copper wire coil is probably as fast as you can get that 1800 watts of power into the water at full wattage, instead of cutting on and off. By the way 1800 watts is your maximum allowed energy out of the wall socket, the transformer doesn't magically change that, it only makes the heat transfer more efficient by lowering the voltage to 2 volts or less and direct conduit contact with the water. You can't really stick a 110 V heating element into the water, because the pot will shock you, plus the electricity will bypass the high resistance heating element and go directly through the water, causing a short and blowing your fuse on the whole house or more like throwing your circuit breakers that need to be reset.
By the way no -40 F rated sleeping bag from Walmart is gonna keep you comfortable even at +30 F, that rating is all just bullshit. However, if you can get XXL size ones, and you can fit two -40F rated ones inside each other, that will keep you very comfortable and sleeping like a baby even at +20F. Just remember to cover your head, and have like a foot of narrow air passage, that functions like a Stirling engine copper gauze heat recuperator, just by the walls of the narrow air passage, and the CO2 you exhale goes out more by diffusion than flow, and oxygen the opposite direction, exchanging heat and temperature on their pass by each other and the walls. This way you don't inhale chilling air that, regardless how well insulated and even sweating you are, will still make you sick and frost bite your nostrils and air passages. That's how eskimos chill, naked with their soft women under fur blankets, with their heads covered, and breathing through a small opening. Also, use 3 of these -40F rated sleeping bags stacked inside each other, and you'll be sweating your balls off even in -40F weather.
Who wants to live in a mini-house? Every time you want to turn around to put on your pajama coat, you have to back out the front door, extend your arm, put on pj, then move back inside. That'd be kinda like them NY apartments made for singles, and not for roomates, as roommating is pretty much mandatory in NY, that "only" cost 900/mo, at like 117.35 square feet, where your mini couch doubles as your bed, and the biggest area is taken up by the shower stall and toilet. It's like your own prison cell in the outside world, and you get all the stress out of it, so you'd be better off doing something stupid, like smashing shopwindows in with bricks, and beg the judge to send you to jail - free food (even if crappy), free housing, and a lot less stress than trying to come up with the $900 rent each month for your mouse hole, in this unemployment competition economy.
Or you can get a 14x70 used mobile home (which was the minimum size my land contract specified, before I was forcibly made sick, by getting xrayed, gassed and infected, so I couldn't make payments) that's not completely rotten for like 2000 bux, from someone who has moved out of a mobile home park and doesn't like to keep getting ass raped on the lot rent, so he has to get rid of it somehow, before he can stop paying for lot rent, and nobody wants it, so the price is ultra cheap. Heck, buy 3 of them, at 980 sq ft each, that's 2700 sq ft of living space. At $2000 replacement cost, and $50 property tax each per annum, as the termites and carpenter ants keep chewing them up for you, and the wood eating fungi digest it, it's cheaper to keep buying a new one out of the three you got every 3 years, so in 9 years you'd replace all 3, than invest any effort into any kind of upkeep, other than throw a tarp over it if the roof leaks (and you can only do tarps if the neighbors are not nauseated by it because the trees cover the view). And why is all tarp blue? Can't they make them camouflage color for St. Pete's sake? Also I've seen some shiny travel trailers made out of stainless or nickel plate that's not peeled, but those are small, expensive, and they are meant for more like a desert area to reflect the heat of the Sun.
How about the other way around. I'm not even sure the story is real, and the Chinese aren't just framed by someone infiltrated designing these scanners for them, and they diligently and mindlessly make it, like they make so many other things, and they end up looking like idiots. I got called paranoid above, well, hey, you have no friggin idea how paranoid I can get. In fact Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" says everything you see in reality may be fake. And Rene Descartes came up with one truth that he was certain about, and did not doubt that it might be fake, by just closing his eyes, and thinking hard, and that's "Cogito ergo sum", or "I think therefore I am," which is awesome, but he got stuck there, he couldn't really go much further. Even all of math (that you can supposedly do without opening your eyes or using your senses, just pure closed eyed thought) can be fake, as you can flip any axiom it's based on, and there you go, it's a different math with a different set of rules, but no better or worse than the one based on original axioms. So don't believe everything you read, take everything you read with a grain of salt, and if you wanna fly off on a paranoid tangent, there are various degrees of paranoia and distrust, including total everything in the world is fake and you're just in suspended animation in Alien's spaceship, dreaming everything, and she's just using you to think for her, reading your mind, because the human brain is pretty good at stuff, while she's also growing offsprings in your chest. As external eggs, and in that eggs that don't require an energy packet in them, are much faster and fecund ways to reproduce than the mammalian female taking weeks(bunnies) to months(humans) to pop 1(human) to 20(pigs) offsprings at a time. For instance a good queen bee without a mammalian womb might lay 3000 external eggs individually, into individual hex cells, per day.
For the cost of a new car you can get a few acres of woodland not too far from here, and that solves the grass mowing problem, plus the "public nuisance" code violation thing, because whatever contraption you got, if the public can't see it because it's covered by trees, they shouldn't be vexed by it. A tent is pretty cheap, but they won't let you build a house from self made sun-dried mud bricks with straws (btw I've seen a house ice cold (free air conditioned like a basement) in summer heat made of 5 foot thick earth walls, walls that have been standing for 400 years), because of building codes probably requiring some stupid compression testing of bricks, plus some professional engineer sign-off. So you cannot use the woodland lot as an official residence, and you have to be officially homeless, but you can camp on your lot. The law should allow that, but if you keep camping on it year round, you may get a visit by an ambulance from the local mental health institution bringing you a straitjacket, and take you away for a few month of therapy, in hopes of rehabilitating you, and reforming your distorted way of seeing reality. Camping out in a nonresidence tent on your lot in the middle of winter to save a few bucks? There is a pill for that too!
No other place on Earth has had a steady congregation of nerds since the 90's, like Slashdot. Those in power who don't like the truth spoken out loud, especially when it goes against their very expensive private media campaign of trying to set a trend and brainwash everyone into something, they will want to demolish slashdot. So the first step in that is divide and conquer, send one off the Stormfront, another one to Soylentnews (what a crappy name that is, almost as bad as a herbivore head with GNU is not Unix.)
Hey, it's me again..So, one way to prevent such a thing from happening is to exterminate every insect in existence, and every flowering plant. Just fill the whole world up with some insecticide more potent than DDT but not harmful to bird eggshells, and also herbicides that target flowering plants and fruit trees, and we'll go back to having only green grass lawns, pine trees with cones without fruits that need a bug to pollinate, and ferns. Unless you create non-artificial-intelligence flying mini-robots, to replace bugs, they would seek out flowers, and shake shake shake, pick up pollen and pollinate at the same time. Then you could keep flowering trees like apples, pears, peaches, nut trees, etc, while still exterminating all bugs in existence, to make sure they don't surpass us in evolution 3 billion years from now. In fact, why stop there, do it to all other life form species except the ones you eat as food, and you should also exterminate every other human too that's not your family, to make sure they don't surpass and dominate your off springs after millennia from now. How about that wonderful idea? We already did the first steps, by mowing lawns, and spraying insecticides and herbicides everywhere.