Nuclear can and has been used directly for heating. There are plenty of urban areas which already have centralized steam plants for heat, where this could be implemented easily. If it bothers you to think that the steam heating your building passed through a steam generator attached to a reactor, then, use heat pumps powered by nuclear generated electricity. You will be warm.
You are correct though, about petroleum use in transportation -- it's going to be around for a looong time. And I admit that, though there is a nuclear plant 12 miles from where I'm sitting, my house is heated with gas.
They leave the boilers running and the turbines spinning with no output from the attached generators... That way all they have to do to bring them online is add the already spinning and synchronized generator to the grid and ramp up the boiler output.
Not true. We have all our machines on SP3. We can't move to Win7 yet for various reasons (only 3 of us are on Win7 -- and we're either IT or developers)
Yep, what I describe is a pretty typical post WWII house and what you describe is fairly common for turn of the century (although the wiring to two parallel fuses is interesting...). In your case, if you didn't have bare conductor on ceramic insulator, you were lucky.
Switching neutrals in near turn of the century wiring wouldn't surprise me. Some of what you found were updates done by people who didn't know what they were doing -- the polarized plugs, for example, aren't original. Previous owners of my house did some electrical upgrades to add window airconditioners, baseboard heat in an addition, and, even later, a central air system was added... The service was upgraded from 60A to 150A feed. Along the way, the older wiring, which is still in use, saw the outlets replaced with 3 prong outlets (despite having no ground) and the 15A fuses on the original 14ga branch circuits were replaced with 20A breakers... I guess the 15A fuses blew too often.
I'm living in one of those houses, built in 1950. I still need to do a bit of upgrading. Two ungrounded outlets in each room on opposite walls. Contains the following branch circuits in original fuse box:
stove
a small water heater
kitchen (refrigerator + appliances like coffee maker)
front half house
back half house
The house was heated with an oil burner that circulated hot air by convection. The power usage expectations are so low that basically the whole house is powered off of two 15Amp circuits and the utility feed to the house is (was) 60Amp maximum.
What I can't find, and might be somewhat useful for a debate on the matter, is a table of the various isotopes of the elements and the decay heat of each.
this book you seek is published by CRC. It is a big thick book which you will find in many larger university libraries.
Learn the derivation of the material, so in a pinch you could re-derive it
Take the test
Get grade range of A to high B
And, if you see someone cheating, turn them in accordance with the Honor Code, because, damn it, you studied and you don't want to fall in the middle of the curve just because everyone else cheated (This did happen to me once -- a copy of the answers to the test for the prior year got circulated among a group of students and the prof. was too lazy to change it; so, anyone who had seen the old test already knew the answers and received an A. I studied my ass off and only got a C-.)
Number comes from my old Dish Network receiver. Since I'm not a Comcast customer, I honestly wouldn't know what they're foisting off on their customers these days. I expect that 5 1/3 W is about the minimum achievable, which is pretty good.
Because it's universally supported by workstations and handheld computers. Because the cameras all support it. Because the stand alone printers all support it. Because it is universally supported -- maybe that's why.
(4) was included in (3). Any vehicle powered by the stuff would be carrying around considerable quantity... enough to make the vehicle "self disassemble", in effect, if something went wrong. As to mass fuel transport and storage, Semtex is already transported in fairly substantial quantities with some regularity.
Besides, didn't say it would be efficient. just said it's possible. You could use almost anything for fuel in an automobile -- including firewood burning in an external combustion chamber. Liquid hydrocarbon fuels, ranging from propane to diesel, and simple alcohols up to butanol, are probably the best way to go...
While I agree that the assertions made by the article are unreasonable... You could have a molecular compound created in a diamond anvil that is held together at STP by the bonds, which, when heated, decomposes into some other compound, isomer, or structure with the release of stored potential energy.
Inside your automobile is a fuel that is vaporized inside a chamber, in small quantities, and ignited. It burns vigorously, creating pressure that pushes on a piston and rotates a crankshaft. Should you wish to substitute the fuel with Semtex, well this is just an engineering problem... Using a sufficiently small quantity, pumped into the chamber in a controlled fashion, you could run an engine on Semtex. Three problems come to mind: (1) Is there any byproduct that would build up on the internal engine components (doesn't look like it) (2) building an engine sufficiently strong to handle the impulse (easy enough) (3) safety of the vehicle.
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Antenna is key. Bluetooth Class 1 allows 100mW power. I've done several miles at 100mW using amateur radio in the 2m and 70cm band.
Nuclear can and has been used directly for heating. There are plenty of urban areas which already have centralized steam plants for heat, where this could be implemented easily. If it bothers you to think that the steam heating your building passed through a steam generator attached to a reactor, then, use heat pumps powered by nuclear generated electricity. You will be warm.
You are correct though, about petroleum use in transportation -- it's going to be around for a looong time. And I admit that, though there is a nuclear plant 12 miles from where I'm sitting, my house is heated with gas.
Does this mean an accomplice has to hang around within 3m of the pump?
No, a Class 1 Bluetooth device has a range of up to 100m.
They leave the boilers running and the turbines spinning with no output from the attached generators... That way all they have to do to bring them online is add the already spinning and synchronized generator to the grid and ramp up the boiler output.
I guess I better hurry and upgrade our Win98SE machines then...
Not true. We have all our machines on SP3. We can't move to Win7 yet for various reasons (only 3 of us are on Win7 -- and we're either IT or developers)
What a BS! I tried SP3, but it messed up my website. For some strange reason all the text I entered got posted twice :(
Then you didn't try very hard. Type faster
Yep, what I describe is a pretty typical post WWII house and what you describe is fairly common for turn of the century (although the wiring to two parallel fuses is interesting...). In your case, if you didn't have bare conductor on ceramic insulator, you were lucky.
Switching neutrals in near turn of the century wiring wouldn't surprise me. Some of what you found were updates done by people who didn't know what they were doing -- the polarized plugs, for example, aren't original. Previous owners of my house did some electrical upgrades to add window airconditioners, baseboard heat in an addition, and, even later, a central air system was added... The service was upgraded from 60A to 150A feed. Along the way, the older wiring, which is still in use, saw the outlets replaced with 3 prong outlets (despite having no ground) and the 15A fuses on the original 14ga branch circuits were replaced with 20A breakers... I guess the 15A fuses blew too often.
I'm living in one of those houses, built in 1950. I still need to do a bit of upgrading. Two ungrounded outlets in each room on opposite walls. Contains the following branch circuits in original fuse box:
The house was heated with an oil burner that circulated hot air by convection. The power usage expectations are so low that basically the whole house is powered off of two 15Amp circuits and the utility feed to the house is (was) 60Amp maximum.
What I can't find, and might be somewhat useful for a debate on the matter, is a table of the various isotopes of the elements and the decay heat of each.
this book you seek is published by CRC. It is a big thick book which you will find in many larger university libraries.
The house might bite back...
I am both intrigued and disgusted at the same time.
Here was my plan:
And, if you see someone cheating, turn them in accordance with the Honor Code, because, damn it, you studied and you don't want to fall in the middle of the curve just because everyone else cheated (This did happen to me once -- a copy of the answers to the test for the prior year got circulated among a group of students and the prof. was too lazy to change it; so, anyone who had seen the old test already knew the answers and received an A. I studied my ass off and only got a C-.)
It goes back far enough that what you suggest is entirely possible. A few generations of electronics have passed since then.
Number comes from my old Dish Network receiver. Since I'm not a Comcast customer, I honestly wouldn't know what they're foisting off on their customers these days. I expect that 5 1/3 W is about the minimum achievable, which is pretty good.
I dunno, maybe they want some insight as to what's going on in the community. Or do you prefer your government to operate blind and in the dark?
One of the poster's complaints was the 3.2 kW of extra power usage (assuming about 100W per box). This doesn't solve that.
I'm sure some lawyer at Paramount has considered it...
That article says nothing about standardization. It indicates the power supplies have to meet certain efficiency standards. That's all.
Music and math are related... So, filling your head with music is bad for you?
Because it's universally supported by workstations and handheld computers. Because the cameras all support it. Because the stand alone printers all support it. Because it is universally supported -- maybe that's why.
(4) was included in (3). Any vehicle powered by the stuff would be carrying around considerable quantity... enough to make the vehicle "self disassemble", in effect, if something went wrong. As to mass fuel transport and storage, Semtex is already transported in fairly substantial quantities with some regularity.
Besides, didn't say it would be efficient. just said it's possible. You could use almost anything for fuel in an automobile -- including firewood burning in an external combustion chamber. Liquid hydrocarbon fuels, ranging from propane to diesel, and simple alcohols up to butanol, are probably the best way to go...
While I agree that the assertions made by the article are unreasonable... You could have a molecular compound created in a diamond anvil that is held together at STP by the bonds, which, when heated, decomposes into some other compound, isomer, or structure with the release of stored potential energy.
Inside your automobile is a fuel that is vaporized inside a chamber, in small quantities, and ignited. It burns vigorously, creating pressure that pushes on a piston and rotates a crankshaft. Should you wish to substitute the fuel with Semtex, well this is just an engineering problem... Using a sufficiently small quantity, pumped into the chamber in a controlled fashion, you could run an engine on Semtex. Three problems come to mind: (1) Is there any byproduct that would build up on the internal engine components (doesn't look like it) (2) building an engine sufficiently strong to handle the impulse (easy enough) (3) safety of the vehicle.
molecular bonds can keep it from decompressing.