Taxohol is only as cheap as it is because energy from other sources is cheap.
A 1.3 to 1.5 energy gain is miserable compared to other sources. It can never be more than solar power, because quite literally, the energy comes from the sun. Slowly!
You'll notice that the farmers aren't using alcohol to produce the crop or the pesticides and fetilizers.
How many of the dryers and stills use the alcohol or byproducts to get their heat?
And just forget about making steel or aluminum with energy from alcohol. There is energy used in every step of the process for everything that gets produced.
Force a low-density energy source on the economy, and watch it go back to pre-1900 levels. Because that's what they had then. They broke out of their condition and created an industrial revolution that raised the standard of living of mankind beyond anything before in history, mainly by lowering the cost of energy. The society that resulted from an industrial economy then raised a generation of brats who figure they can destroy the basis of their civilization without it affecting them.
Watch as the exodus of manufacturing from the U.S. continues....
The BS detector is ringing -- fact free news article, company website with no information, and no products to buy. Sounds like a stock swindle, to be blatantly impolite about it.
A few questions that come to mind, that aren't addressed anywhere;
1) As mentioned, proton conduction, instead of electrons? Huh? Is there some electrolysis going on? If so, why is it not mentioned?
2) This talk of ice being a semiconductor -- OK perhaps, but then if you put a film on a surface, then cover it with ice, then 'pulse' it, how exactly to you get current flow through the ice which is supposed to conduct current through its protons? In other words, you need something to complete a circuit. I could postulate that it is electrostatics, but shouldn't the claimant explain this? (Ice doesn't fly off transmitting antennae.)
3) It is mentioned that you need to bring the surface to very close to freezing temperature for it to work. This implies heating of the surface with these pulses, not heating of the ice. So obviously the energy density required will depend on a lot of external factors. This rather sounds like a method for rapidly heating the surface, rather than something to do with ice being a semiconductor.
4) A solar cell that costs pennies per square mile? And we are not getting free electricity from it because ?......
5) Any conductor that is pulsed with high enough current jumps because of the magnetic field. If it is coated with ice at a temperature near freezing, it seems likely that it could shed the ice. How much is really new here?
The BS detector is on high alert. Real information, products with price tags will be required to silence it.
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The foam was several inches think, waterlogged and frozen solid. The vehicle was traveling at great speed. The heavy, solid, ice-laden foam had a relatively long distance to decelerate before the leading edge of the wing hit it. And the damage was to the heat resistant tile; it was the failure of the tile that brought the aircraft to its end.
In atmosphere - bound aircraft, the systems that shed ice are designed to shed it in small pieces at intervals that preclude it from building up too thick. Also, the speeds and distances are a lot smaller.
In short, they do think of these things.
What's fun is to be sitting in the seat that is in line with the propeller on a turboprop plane when the prop sheds its ice.
I never sit in the seat that's in line with the prop on those planes.
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A 1.3 to 1.5 energy gain is miserable compared to other sources. It can never be more than solar power, because quite literally, the energy comes from the sun. Slowly!
You'll notice that the farmers aren't using alcohol to produce the crop or the pesticides and fetilizers.
How many of the dryers and stills use the alcohol or byproducts to get their heat?
And just forget about making steel or aluminum with energy from alcohol. There is energy used in every step of the process for everything that gets produced.
Force a low-density energy source on the economy, and watch it go back to pre-1900 levels. Because that's what they had then. They broke out of their condition and created an industrial revolution that raised the standard of living of mankind beyond anything before in history, mainly by lowering the cost of energy. The society that resulted from an industrial economy then raised a generation of brats who figure they can destroy the basis of their civilization without it affecting them.
Watch as the exodus of manufacturing from the U.S. continues ....
The BS detector is ringing -- fact free news article, company website with no information, and no products to buy. Sounds like a stock swindle, to be blatantly impolite about it. A few questions that come to mind, that aren't addressed anywhere; 1) As mentioned, proton conduction, instead of electrons? Huh? Is there some electrolysis going on? If so, why is it not mentioned? 2) This talk of ice being a semiconductor -- OK perhaps, but then if you put a film on a surface, then cover it with ice, then 'pulse' it, how exactly to you get current flow through the ice which is supposed to conduct current through its protons? In other words, you need something to complete a circuit. I could postulate that it is electrostatics, but shouldn't the claimant explain this? (Ice doesn't fly off transmitting antennae.) 3) It is mentioned that you need to bring the surface to very close to freezing temperature for it to work. This implies heating of the surface with these pulses, not heating of the ice. So obviously the energy density required will depend on a lot of external factors. This rather sounds like a method for rapidly heating the surface, rather than something to do with ice being a semiconductor. 4) A solar cell that costs pennies per square mile? And we are not getting free electricity from it because ? ......
5) Any conductor that is pulsed with high enough current jumps because of the magnetic field. If it is coated with ice at a temperature near freezing, it seems likely that it could shed the ice. How much is really new here?
The BS detector is on high alert. Real information, products with price tags will be required to silence it.
--97T--
The foam was several inches think, waterlogged and frozen solid. The vehicle was traveling at great speed. The heavy, solid, ice-laden foam had a relatively long distance to decelerate before the leading edge of the wing hit it. And the damage was to the heat resistant tile; it was the failure of the tile that brought the aircraft to its end.
In atmosphere - bound aircraft, the systems that shed ice are designed to shed it in small pieces at intervals that preclude it from building up too thick. Also, the speeds and distances are a lot smaller.
In short, they do think of these things.
What's fun is to be sitting in the seat that is in line with the propeller on a turboprop plane when the prop sheds its ice.
I never sit in the seat that's in line with the prop on those planes.
--97T--