Dune

1 minute ago, zapatos said:

So you think that everyone who kills multiple people, say during a drug deal gone wrong or in a terrorist attack, is insane?

I think that any person capable of cold blooded murder is insane.

On 2/22/2018 at 3:15 PM, Raider5678 said:

Would you be opposed to universal background checks and mental fitness checks for anyone buying a gun?

Would you be opposed to greatly increasing the mental health system of this country? As far as I know, sane people do not commit mass murder.

3 hours ago, CharonY said:

How? Or more specifically, what should they have done to avoid that situation? To explore this question further, how do you think has manufacturing output in the USA changed between say, the 80s and today? What should the trend look like and what political/policy measures could be implemented to change the actual outcome from the desired one?

There was a conscious decision to move capital out of this country. 

Everything that has happened since has worked to that effect. 

The government has been complicit from beginning to end.

How many factories did Mitt Romney buy and shutter and move to China?

Not out of need, but out of greed and that is just one man eliminating hundreds of thousands/ millions of jobs.

To stop it would have required the desire to stop it, rather than encourage it.

Since GovCo allows it's legislators to not just own stocks but trade inside as well, legally, unlike all other humans, how could they be expected to refrain from passing laws favorable to companies they own? Have you ever heard of the revolving door between Government and industry?

1 hour ago, StringJunky said:

I think we'd go with it in the long-term but I'm not sure at the moment due to Brexit making us rather insular atm.

 

 

The reality is, the US is losing the game of capitalism... ironic really.

No. Our politicians sold us out.

Purposely

1 hour ago, Phi for All said:

No, but you blamed the restructuring on cheap Chinese goods, which were more of a reaction to the engineered business models. As swansont points out, that's a post hoc ergo propter hoc argument.

This is a big part of the problem, imo, treating ownership as if it's a lifestyle. Too much private ownership should scare the hell out of us, every bit as much as too much public or state ownership.

The US citizen is the real loser, since the extremist capitalists have already bought us out and marginalized us with our own political system (the one the founding fathers wanted us to guard from corporations at all costs). Billionaires know we don't judge them by their actions, only by what they pay to have us told.

If I was wanting to push the world to war, I'd get the US and the UK to squabble amongst themselves, and spin it like half the population wants one thing, and the other half wants the opposite. I'd make it all look like shouting across a fence, because that might inspire some to lash out across the line.

I'd also sour the relationship between the US and the UK, and do everything to make them all forget we've been allies for a loooooong time. I'd criticize all our allies, and I'd praise our enemies for their strength, and how they prosper BECAUSE they're oppressive and dominant. 

No, I clearly said Nixon opened trade with China.

26 minutes ago, Phi for All said:

This is what I remember. The "Made in Japan" label was a joke for a while, synonymous with "junk" and "cheap crap" (and oh boy, it really was). Then they turned a corner. Their cars and electronics became sought after. They perfected miniaturization while the US was still making things huge and clunky. 

China didn't do this, Chinese goods were a response to markets that had already been influenced by the new "extremist capitalism" being practised. Multinational monopolistic companies have been moving their operations towards a flat, generic worker that needs little money or training, and they've simply ceased worrying about customer service since they've been able to merge into bigger and bigger companies with fewer competitors. It's like Lily Tomlin's Bell System Operator character used to say, "We're the phone company. We don't care because we don't have to." 

China didn't restructure most of our largest megacorporations to exploit this model. Deregulation is at the heart of this fiasco. 

I didn't say China enginéred the changes. 

On 3/25/2019 at 3:48 PM, Ten oz said:

The U.S. needs goods produced in China. Without them consumer prices would be several times higher and our own production would be stifled. 

Horse feathers!

The US Golden age was BEFORE Nixon opened the door to China Trade.

We were fine economically until Chinese crap flooded the market and obliterated American manufacturing. 

Before China, only one parent had to work to raise a family, afford a house and a new Chevy and was only a high school graduate at that.

We "need" cheap Chinese goods because minimum wage service jobs don't pay like manufacturing did.

So Das Energy...have you built a working model?

I said some people think that a huge release of methane hydarate from the sea bed could result in SHIPS sinking. I don't know who has suggested it could cause AIRSHIPS to disappear!

Umm, the guy in post 8 above. Along with about 4730 google responses http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4ACAW_en___US399&q=methane+causes+planes+to+crash+bermuda+triangle

yep, methane hydrate only formed under high pressure + low temperature.. not only on ocean floor, it could also formed under frozen lake. So be careful when you smoking while walking on those frozen lake ^^,. Usually they used to store those burning ice in liquid nitrogen to preserve its form. But i really don't understand how methane hydrate cause the airships disappear at Bermuda triangle??

The theory is that methane bursts from the surface of the ocean, and being lighter than air, floats into the atmosphere. A plane flying through a cloud of methane stalls due to lack of oxygen, needed for combustion in the propulsion system.

I am not understanding the problem here. Are you using the bag as a form? Or is the distortion of the bag distorting your form? The vacum/bag asembly should do little more than allow full atmospheric pressure to come to bear against your lamination, essentialy giving the densest cast possible combined with as little air inclusion as possible. Am I misunderstanding your process? http://www.westsystem.com/ss/use-guides/ Scroll down this page, to a downloadable vacum bag guide. If you have further questions, contact the manufacturer directly. They are very helpful.

i have a timber bussiness with an almost unlimited supply of woodchips. and was looking at converting it to electricity. with the aid of a steam powered generator.

I suggest you research wood gasification. Using readily available existing technology, you can run a diesel engine from wood gas. You can in fact buy a gassifier matched in output to the size of your existing diesel. Your diesel engine may need slight modification, but much simpler than the process you have described so far.

As an aside, the vast majority of electricity created world wide is generated by steam turbines, however, they must be run by licensed engineers. A wood gasification plant can be run by mechanics rather than engineers. Further, a gasification plant requires much less capital.

Dune, I too am interested in your external heat engine. Have you made any progress?

Neal Van Milligen

cavm@aol.com

Thankyou for your interest Sir. E-mail sent.

 

 

what is different about deep cycle batteries is that the lead plates are thicker and sturdier. if you deep cycle a car battery you run the risk of degrading the plates to the point where they break up and the broken offareas are no longer functional as an electrode.

 

a deep cycle battery will never get to the point where it breaks up.

 

Exactly. Thats why it wouldn't be an issue.

 

sulfation is the precipitation of lead sulphate within the battery and occurs when the batter is cole to being fully discharged as there is more lead sulphate around.

 

there isn't really any way to combat this as its an intrinsic property of a lead acid battery.

 

 

Sulfation increases as voltage declines.

Any action which icreases voltage reduces sulfation

I would asume that they are not deep-cycle, or it wouldn't be a big issue.

So if the algae is grown in deserts... that means it's getting its energy from the sun, right? Why is that more practical than direct solar power?

Only because a liquid fuel is produced, easier to intergate into our present transportation options.

Apparently sulfasion is a process that damages batteries when they are not used.

 

But the whole idea of a battery is that you can store energy and use it later... so I am still a bit lost.

The damage is caused during periods of discharge...beyond a certain point, say 80%. A trickle charge from solar panel would address this, as would a deep-cycle lead acid battery, designed to be deeply discharged during use. The bike salesman should have informed you of this.

Another option would be to use the petals some, and or not cruise at full speed, thereby keeping the bank's voltage above 80% of full charge. You could keep track of the battery voltage with a very inexpensive voltmeter, mounted on your handlebars.

As to which solar panel, the smallest, lightest one possible. Additonaly, inquire of the bike kit's manufacturer about regenerative braking, which would also help with your problem.

Is it possible to build a machine to convert 18-8 stainless steel (18% chrome 8% nickel remainder iron) into it's constituent elements using electricity?

Not sure you could call it fragile, except in thin sections, which the decorated surface is not. Brittle, yes. While there are very hard cast irons, grey cast iron is relatively soft. There is no problem carving a thick section of grey cast iron with a sharp cold chisel or graver. If you consider the action of a common twist drill bit, this can be readily imagined, as cast iron (grey) is exceptionaly easy to drill. Most cast iron objects of antiquity are grey cast iron.

cast iron.

 

 

 

difficult or impossible to do in cast iron. it has been modelled in one piece.

Why is it difficult or impossible in cast iron? I agree it was likely molded in one piece.

Where are the rules for the political forum? I read them once but can't find them since.

Indeed, it does appear so. I will have to have memory checked.

The O.P. may find this link helpful. I beleive the thin film tech is more effective than the solid panels, and cheaper to manufacture.

http://www2.dupont.com/Apollo/en_HK/index.html

I don't like the idea of something that only poor countries might like. However, wow :¬) that looks fantastic.

 

http://www.containercity.com/

 

I bet containers are really cheep and they could look like nice, upmarket expensive houses inside, you could even buy a room at a time to expand your home! but it's all probbably dirt cheap. Rain could be quite noisy but it should be ok. You could combine thease with easy pipes and the such as well. Would rust be a problem?

Rust would potentialy not be a problem , depending upon the extremity of the enviroment, since containers are made from corten steel.

http://en.wikipedia....eathering_steel

The plumbing issue has already been addressed with this product; http://www.pexsupply.com/PEX-Plumbing-515000

Certainly, as we move towards greater population density the need for housing creation efficiency will become acute.

I beleive China is addressing this issue with modular plastic housing. (no link)

I see that you possibly have a valid point. Thankyou for the lesson.

Firstly, I'm not a "scientist".

 

Secondly, would you care to expand on your comment? You suggested that the shadows be compared and I showed that this is actually impossible, which made your "fake" claim a simple knee jerk reaction and without basis in fact. Personally, I don't give two hoots whether the woman is a time traveller or not, but I do care about the quality of arguments used.

 

Put another way. You made the claim that the footage was faked. I showed that your "proof" was false. Any claims based on that proof are therefore wrong.

You only showed that it was false in your opinion, since you asumed I could not measure the difference.

In fact, rather than ten seconds in, at 3:27 the veiw of the animal and it's shadow are readily compared to that of the human and it's shadow.

Since this is, aparently, not clear to the naked eye, I endeavered to calculate the ratio; specimen height to shadow length. Using a Brown and Sharp 6" dial indicator calibrated in thousanths/inch, I arive at heigth human, 1.57", length of shadow, .6" or roughly 2.66 to 1.

Utilizing the photo of a zebra at this link http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.shoarns.com/Hartmanns%2520Zebra%2520web%2520ma_Aug_20052099-08-03_14-02-03.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.shoarns.com/ZebraGallery.html&h=347&w=519&sz=80&tbnid=4lejT2aCeX5f5M:&tbnh=88&tbnw=131&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dzebra&zoom=1&q=zebra&usg=__4y8uPkFp4K9l8S0Zd_BjV8Wip4U=&sa=X&ei=0EXXTLujD4H68Aas67SjCg&ved=0CCsQ9QEwAw

I determined that the length of a zebra's hoof, including ancle is aproximately 1/8 of the body height. Measuring the visible amount of the animal's height in the film I arrived at 1.4" top of back to top of ancle (visible in the film). I then added .175" to 1.4" to arrive at an estimated height of 1.575" The zebra's shadow measures 1.71" for an aproximate ratio of .9 to 1

That these ratios could co-exist in a legitimate photo is far enough out of the realm of posibilty as to readily compensate for any estimations I had to make.