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Well, they are crooks.
Just one more phony gasoline mileage booster.
This has been going on from the very beginning of the automobile.
Popular Mechanics has revealed the truth about water powered cars:
The Truth About Water-Powered Cars: Mechanic's Diary
The Truth About Water-Powered Cars: Mechanic's Diary
Have astronomers detected an exoplanet in another galaxy?
Astronomers have found what may be the first exoplanet in another galaxy ever detected | Space
Astronomers have found what may be the first exoplanet in another galaxy ever detected | Space
The Whirlpool galaxy is 28 million light-years away so, if confirmed, this discovery is incredible! 😎
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Most of the detected exoplanets are no more than 400 light years away, in our galaxy, the milky way, which is 52 850 light years.
Here is a claim about a planet 28 millions light years away. This is hard to believe.
Here is a claim about a planet 28 millions light years away. This is hard to believe.
Easy Pete......it's only arithmetic. You(or your calculator) can multiply, can't you?
This is nothing to bother Steve with, he can do fourier transforms and other esoteric stuff.
Look up the efficiencies, they will be expressed as percentages. Key them in as decimals(88%=.88). Round up if you like, to save wear on your fingertip.
It's best to keep track on paper, so you don't miss one or do one twice. The order does not matter.
Your total efficiency will have to be greater than one to have extra energy to move the car,
one to keep the unloaded cycle going.
I'm even giving you the battery's initial charge for 'free' to make your first hydrogen.
This is nothing to bother Steve with, he can do fourier transforms and other esoteric stuff.
Look up the efficiencies, they will be expressed as percentages. Key them in as decimals(88%=.88). Round up if you like, to save wear on your fingertip.
It's best to keep track on paper, so you don't miss one or do one twice. The order does not matter.
Your total efficiency will have to be greater than one to have extra energy to move the car,
one to keep the unloaded cycle going.
I'm even giving you the battery's initial charge for 'free' to make your first hydrogen.
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I remember from chemistry studies in the 60s:
H2 + 1/2 O2 ----> H2O + 68 kilo calories.
Nowdays, from internet one can find 285.2 kJ/mole. (/mole means we are dealing with 2g of hydrogen, 16g of oxygen ).
These two figures agree because 1 Calorie is equivalent to 4.18 Joule.
From Galu's figure ( 237kJ), electrolysis needs less energy ( 285kJ ) than we get while recombinig gazes to water.
Hence we are on the way to save the planet with an engine creating energy from nowhere.
On the way to share a Nobel price.
New puzzle: What is going on, in here ??? What's wrong with thermodynamics laws ?
I think you may be placing too much credence on my figure, which is the first one I plucked from the internet! 😉
Our Nobel prize is not in the post! 😀
Our Nobel prize is not in the post! 😀
Anything is better than pumping 40 gigatons of CO2 into the atmosphere every year.
Unfortunately, to get around this little inconvenience we are going to have learn to deal with uncooperative things like hydrogen and nuclear fuels. Wind turbines are nice, so long as they are out to sea and over the horizon where we cant see or hear them.
Pity the Severn Estuary scheme was scrapped - apparently that had the potential to supply up to 10% of the UK's electricity. However, the plummeting cost of wind and solar probably killed it off.
Unfortunately, to get around this little inconvenience we are going to have learn to deal with uncooperative things like hydrogen and nuclear fuels. Wind turbines are nice, so long as they are out to sea and over the horizon where we cant see or hear them.
Pity the Severn Estuary scheme was scrapped - apparently that had the potential to supply up to 10% of the UK's electricity. However, the plummeting cost of wind and solar probably killed it off.
And if it would be the noise only... Have a friend working for a govt. agency regulating, among others, wind turbines. The bottom line, such turbines (other than exhibition demos, of course) could be installed only north of the polar circle, or out in the ocean. Otherwise, any soil under a wind turbine farm transforms, over the years, in a desert. Even grass and weeds will stop growing under. The impact on the ecosystem is huge.
I am curious to know:
_Why only North of the Artic circle ?
_Why the soil becomes bad, under ?
_Why only North of the Artic circle ?
_Why the soil becomes bad, under ?
Perhaps the soil becomes bad because the vibrations drive the earthworms away?
Unproven Galu hypothesis by the way!
Unproven Galu hypothesis by the way!
There has not been a response to the idea of using ocean currents/tide to generate electricity.
Tidal energy is the best renewable - it's always there, 24/7 and not weather dependant like solar and wind. Of course, it needed some investment to do, unlike easy to implement solar and wind, so it never gets done.
Have you any info on practical schemes to extract energy from ocean currents, Pete?
I'll try to examine the possibility later.
I'll try to examine the possibility later.
It got done in France, in Normandy over the estuary of La Rance.
Usine maremotrice de la Rance — Wikipedia
( Use, the Wikipedia english version, when I do, the link doesn't work correctly.).
At that time there has been projects for more, but abandoned.
Yes, I had a look at the Severn Estuary projects to harvest tidal energy.
The English channel has world record class on tidal currents and tides height amplitudes.
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