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Thing abou LENR/coldFusion

Alain — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:26:10 -0800

@Sean
Just to say you that your dream to put nuclear energy
in a car is now possible with working Cold Fusion, as
implemented by Defkalion Green Tech, and Andrea Rosssi Ecat...

http://www.defkalion-energy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=926

... thanks for the comments on Stirling... instructives.
bytheway cold fusion is not pathologic science, it could even probably respect standard quantum mechanic (if Widom-Larsen theory is right)
keep tuned.

Alternative to SodaStream and other solutions here

Anonymous — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 09:55:41 -0700

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a bottle cap with a valve http://s947.photobucket.com/albums/ad318/MikeSpiker/CustomCaps/?action=v...
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You can make this yourself, if you're feelin' froggy.

Wow, we can stop the wind?

Willy Like Wow — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 07:23:11 -0700

Take energy out of the wind? Wow. Actually, if we want to talk green here, there used to be far more "wind-dampers" than there are now - they were called "Trees". Unfortunately, the energy they took from the wind was wasted in the form of heat as the wood fibers expanded and contracted as the tree and it's branches and leaves were flexed by the very abundant wind. The cool thing about wind is that it is renewable (should be BLATENTLY obvious, but at this point I'm taking no chances), and as long as there are temperature differences in the atmosphere (ie., as long as the sun shines and is absorbed differently by different substances - you know, like continental crust and ocean water), we will have wind. And as we are currently experiencing the environmental impact of the REMOVAL of these pre-existing wind-dampers, I sincerely doubt there is a legitimate issue with putting a few BACK - lol!!

Stopping the wind

Richard Darling — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 06:53:08 -0700

You said "And as far as wind energy goes...what do you think happens to the environment when the wind is STOPPED at a certain point? "

You are wrong with this line of reasoning. Wind turbines will never stop the wind. The wind is constantly generated by a combination of the rotation of the earth and the heat produced by the sun's radiation. So, the windspeed just downwind of a turbine will be slightly slower than it would otherwise be, just like the wind downwind of a tree or building would be. We could never stop the wind, even if the whole planet was covered in wind turbines.

I have parts and machines as well

broparks — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 05:37:47 -0700

Call 214-251-3152 for repairs

Use the battery to power AC startup surge in an RV

bob — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 13:18:55 -0700

did you make any progress on this subject?

Servit machine

Larry Parks — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 05:37:06 -0700

I can replace or repair your SerVit machine. Email broparks@gmail.com or call 214-251-3152. I am in Carrollton, Tx and very close to where Booth Manufacturing actually made the original machines. I have the inventory and parts that Jakes Refrigeration had.
Larry

Then quit talking and pay

Anonymous — Fri, 27 May 2011 11:48:35 -0700

Then quit talking and pay for it.

RV water

Jim Worden — Sun, 08 May 2011 04:12:22 -0700

I manufacture RV/marine potable water systems, so I have a few things to say relative to all the posts about using UVC. There are several important issues when talking UVC. Proximity and dwell or contact time are critical. Water clarity is also very important. Pathogens can hide behind any particles in the water and never get dosed. UVC does NOT remove anything. Properly used UVC will neutralize most pathogens but you are still going to consume their little bodies unless filtered out. If you can filter them out then you do not need UVC. UVC light tubes are fragile. The bouncing and sometimes violent movement of the RV is more than the normal Tube can sustain.
My advise is never to drink the water in the storage tank, no matter how clean you may think it is. Every time water is drawn from the tank, the tank 'breathes in' ambient, unfiltered air. This air may contain all kinds of organisms and they will take up residence in the tank.
I can tell you that after many years in the business and investing a lot of money to lab test different strategies and technologies, the one and only way to stay safe while using RV water is mechanical filtration. Cysts, such as cryptosporidium, average about 3-5 microns. Bacteria size varies from around 0.3 to 2 microns. Virus is around 0.03 to 0.8 microns. Other contaminants fall in these size ranges.
There is a way to filter water to remove these contaminants and control what is going on in the fresh water holding tank. If you have an interest, I would be happy to provide further information. We are a manufacturer, so I don't want to turn this blog into a commercial message. But the information and methods are here if you want to know more. Thanks. Jim

Stirling power

AnonymousStock — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 10:21:09 -0700

I believe it would be cost effective and environmenally sound to apply solar stirling engines to residential electrical power. Along with powering your home, I believe you could also charge a battery for an automobile for short trips.

geothermal energy

Phillip Helbig — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 00:52:44 -0700

No, that's not the case. One can calculate how long it would take the Earth to cool from a molten state to its present temperature, and the timescale is much too short compared to that which geology and paleontology require. Before the discovery of radioactivity, this was a real problem. Check out Lord Kelvin's estimate of the age of the Earth.

really

Anonymous — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 03:32:32 -0700

i thought geothermal energy was a relic of when our planet was a molten hot ball as a result of asteroid bombardment. my understanding was that the friction caused when an asteroid hit the surface caused this heat, and the sheer mass of our planet had kept it from cooling.

objections

Anonymous — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 03:19:51 -0700

nuclear power is a very long-duration project. when one considers the resources and power required to keep nuclear power plants in good condition and to keep nuclear wastes in safe storage, one can easily see that there is little energy gained from investing in a nuclear power plant.

other alternative power sources, like wind power, wave power, etc will theoretically have big impacts on the climate if used in large numbers. when people use turbines or other machinery to take energy out of wind, for example, the wind is slowed down because the energy was taken from it to move the electrons. consider, then, what would happen if alot of energy was taken from the wind. it may slow down so much that current weather cycles may be no more. perhaps cloud formations wouldn't move where they were supposed to go, and one place flooded while the other experienced droughts. certainly not good.

the thing is, we simply need to conserve our resources and take as little as possible

Chemistry? you mean physics?

Anonymous — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 00:29:53 -0800

Are the first mistake you main was in the first sentence, do you actually know what nuclear energy is and how it works.

Number 1: nuclear energy is Physics not chemistry.

Number 2: nuclear energy is not a chemical reaction with reactants. It is a process that involves high energy particles such as beta particles, alpha particles or neutrons colliding and splitting the nucleus of an atom, resulting in a loss of mass which using the equation by Einstein E=mc^2 gives you the amount of energy produced. It is in no way a process that involves substance in instead involves fuel rods that are usually uranium which will undergo a controllable nuclear reaction to for smaller radioactive elements.

Number 3: Yes you are correct there is a cleaner and better for of nuclear energy, it is called fusion. Problem is that it is hast actually been successfully done yet for a long duration or produce a usable power output. and this is not from a lack of trying. it is a far more complicated process. Look up the refit and current use of the Z machine and you will know what I mean.

easy, but there's a betterway to get stuff greengridded

davea0511 — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 04:27:36 -0800

This is what ... over 6 years old ... but it's a great ideal and such a controller still doesn't exist. There are similar things, but none of them are designed to tap 100% of the power of the panel live, and store none of it, which is as Brad says is the most economical use of solar power. In fact, the most efficient way would be to feed into the DC voltage of the computer. What you're looking at then is a solar computer PSU, just a PSU with a 12V input, which is how this should be designed. There are 12V panels that can be daisy chained.

Or a 12V to variable output DV to DC transformer, which you should be able to plug into any laptop.

Sadly, the bulk of Americans are a bad fit (and always will be) for onsite solar because they're either apartment dwellers, up north, back east, have poorly placed roofs and trees, etc

Besides, it's unlikely that the average 1m^3 of onsite panels will ever provide much more than 100Watts.

Like with Brad here, I've racked my brain for solutions and this one even crossed my mind, but ultimately concluded *fair* power-offsetting as the only solution.

I say *fair* because the problem is that all the power-offset solutions (and there are 100's of companies that will take your money to "offset your power") are total ripoffs because they don't give you ownership of the panels that they purchase with your money - and instead keep the generated power to line their pockets - it's a pock mark on the green industry that has yet to be fixed.

So I did something about it when I founded net0power. Make your PC greengridded, and then have net0power send you a check for the power + incentives (minus space rent and maintenance) earned in the southwest where they'll go. Check out greenthepower.com for more info. It's not live yet ... we're still in the startup phase.