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Post by catlover on Jul 30, 2021 18:44:19 GMT -5
What I learned today: great word for an internet troll, "a. Twatopotamus" 😁😁
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Post by Handy on Aug 23, 2021 21:22:48 GMT -5
The woman that helped or discovered how to split atoms that lead to the atomic bomb. She had several gender issues to overcome.
A shorter version.
PBS The Path to Nuclear Fission, The Story of Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn 2006 TVRip SoS
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Post by Handy on Aug 25, 2021 22:37:55 GMT -5
I watched lots of videos about AC electrical power transmission (Westinghouse-Tesla AC vs Edison's DC electricity.) and thought AC was the only way to go. Recently I learned ultra high voltage direct current DC has some advantages. This Youtube guy is a comedian but I like his videos Why HIGH VOLTAGE DC power Transmission by ElectroBOOM
Something more serious:
China's MILLION VOLT Energy Superhighway
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Post by worksforme2 on Sept 21, 2021 13:50:48 GMT -5
CO2 ain't so bad.....
I read some of the UK version of The Guardian today and was quite taken aback. Here all this time I have been reading about how bad CO2 is how co2 was bringing on climate change. Now I learn the UK has a plant that manufactures co2 for the food processing industries there. It's used to stun animals(mostly chickens) before they are killed. Also used in vacuum packaging and other helpful packaging applications. Maybe the same thing is going on in the US, don't know. Time for some research on this.
But it poses a dilemma. What's it to be, fried chicken or fried planet?
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Post by isthisit on Sept 21, 2021 14:10:58 GMT -5
CO2 ain't so bad..... I read some of the UK version of The Guardian today and was quite taken aback. Here all this time I have been reading about how bad CO2 is how co2 was bringing on climate change. Now I learn the UK has a plant that manufactures co2 for the food processing industries there. It's used to stun animals(mostly chickens) before they are killed. Also used in vacuum packaging and other helpful packaging applications. Maybe the same thing is going on in the US, don't know. Time for some research on this. But it poses a dilemma. What's it to be, fried chicken or fried planet? It’s a by-product of fertiliser production apparently. There are two plants in the U.K., one of which is around the corner from me in the NW of England in Cheshire. I wondered if it was a cunning plan to improve our dismal weather via a spot of global warming. If it is, it’s not bloody working. And why are you reading that lefty rag anyway? The Times is much better. Independent, impartial and with correct spelling. |
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Post by northstarmom on Sept 21, 2021 15:17:14 GMT -5
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Post by worksforme2 on Sept 21, 2021 17:57:04 GMT -5
It’s a by-product of fertiliser production apparently. There are two plants in the U.K., one of which is around the corner from me in the NW of England in Cheshire. I wondered if it was a cunning plan to improve our dismal weather via a spot of global warming. If it is, it’s not bloody working. And why are you reading that lefty rag anyway? The Times is much better. Independent, impartial and with correct spelling. I decided on The Guardian for a couple reasons. I wanted to get a feel for how GB/UK viewed the US from a liberal perspective. And the Guardian proclaimed itself to be the leading liberal voice in the world. But I was pretty disappointed in how dry and void of content the articles I read were, only the CO2 article had any merit. The Guardian also claimed to be independent. Maybe I will give The Times a look. |
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Post by Handy on Sept 21, 2021 22:21:58 GMT -5
Geothermal steam powered carbon capture in Iceland? The Earth's core is hot and spins, which creates our protective magnetic field. If the Earth's core cooled enough so the molten core did not spin, then we would lose our protective magnetic shield and the Earth would not be inhabitable. I am not an expert but I would like all of the heat to stay in Earth's core so our protective magnetic shield lasts for a long time.
What is more important? Sequestering carbon or maintaining the magnetic shield?
OTH, I read some place something else is going to run out some time in the distant future so we are screwed anyway. Elon Musk's idea of inhabiting the galaxy makes sense on paper but doesn't sound doable.
I reviewed: Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation, written as:
F=Gxm1xm2, divided by R squared but it looks better on the following website. There are also Youtube videos that explain things in detail and they are worth watching.
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Post by worksforme2 on Oct 26, 2021 10:08:37 GMT -5
I am going to dummy down this theme but hopefully in a good way. .....Bounce dryer sheets are for more than clothes...
Putting a Bounce sheet in your pocket before going outside will keep mosquitos, bees and other flying insects from landing on you.
They also repel ants and mice.
Helps eliminate static electricity,...wipe your TV and computer screen so they won't attract dust.
To freshen air place a sheet on a hanger in the closet, under the seats in your car, inside suitcases, etc.
When traveling wipe the bed linen to keep bed bugs away and keep some in you suitcases.
And you don't need to know Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation
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Post by Handy on Oct 30, 2021 3:30:59 GMT -5
I have watched several hours of a local news paper interviewing veterans of the Vietnam war. some were captured and spent time in N Vietnam prisons where there was a no talking rule. The guys talked about the "tap code" to communicate on the sly. I thought the tap code was like Morse code. Mayb learning all of the dots and dashes for Morse code isn't that difficult but the men in the video stated they communicated a lot of information to other POW's. Well the tap code is simpler than Morse code. The code consists of 5 rows and 5 columns. The first tap indicates the row and the second tal indicates the column. An "A" would be 1 tap followed by one tap. W A T E R W 5, 2 A 1, 1 T 4, 4 E 1, 5 R 4, 2
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Post by Handy on Nov 2, 2021 21:02:44 GMT -5
Nothing particularly new just some more concrete numbers and why it is happening, the biggest contributors to additional CO2. Methane is more problematic when added to the atmosphere so in the short term cutting back on animal wastes and methane escapes from the oil drilling industry would do more short term than reducing CO2. China seems to be the top emission producer.
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Post by Handy on Nov 3, 2021 4:23:33 GMT -5
TSMC’s $100 Billion Plan To Fix The Chip Shortage 3,5,7 and 10 manometer chip manufacturing, only TSMS and Samsung do the job. A thumb size chip can have 50+ billion of transistors. When circuits are smaller and closer together, they use less electricity, do the job faster and more circuits can be put in a chip.. Not really new news to me but the 3, 5, and 7 nano meter part sounds incredible small.
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Post by Handy on Nov 16, 2021 10:53:54 GMT -5
What is the Mass of the Earth? How a Scottish mountain weighed the planet (1774)
Gravity, bases on mass of objects. The Cavendish experiment, performed in 1797–1798 by English scientist Henry Cavendish,
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Post by catlover on Nov 16, 2021 16:04:52 GMT -5
Nothing particularly new just some more concrete numbers and why it is happening, the biggest contributors to additional CO2. Methane is more problematic when added to the atmosphere so in the short term cutting back on animal wastes and methane escapes from the oil drilling industry would do more short term than reducing CO2. China seems to be the top emission producer.
In my (not very learned) opinion, we, the western countries, are spinning our wheels regarding greenhouse gas emissions, if China doesn't pull their weight. We are totally wasting our time and effort trying to reduce our emissions. From what I have read their emissions are more than the rest of us combined. They can say what we want to hear but they don't really give a shit. |
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Post by Handy on Nov 16, 2021 18:34:01 GMT -5
Yes, China is a big emitter of of greenhouse gasses. In my opinion, they are on the lookout for more and more resources in the South China sea and they are already fortifying the area.
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