Endless Sphere

I thought I had copied this post over here from another thread I am on but I guess I forgot. Just so everyone can get a sense of the scale of rebuildables required to replace all energy in the USA. Good info, but keep in mind that the goal is not "to replace all energy in the USA." It is to reduce ...

Factory construction is key to making Nuclear cost competitive. Small sizes are usually much more costly but the cost over runs and graft involved in companies getting filthey rich from halfway building a new PWR make a sealed, factory delivered option very attractive. But only if it is truly walk ...

Some good news for a change: =========================================== Closing coal and oil power plants leads to healthier babies being born, finds study ‘Perhaps it's time for the health of our children to be the impetus behind reducing the common sources of ambient air pollution. Their lives de...

Dauntless wrote: ↑

May 23, 2018 5:56 pm

Sounds like CNN is betting against Elon. They've slanted away from him.

Yep. A lot of people are. Even more are betting on him.

Hmm... like if you put a Vestas V164 on a Mobile Launcher Platform? Now there's a party truck if I've ever seen one! You could get a band and a full bar on that thing. (And a few jacuzzis, too) But I was thinking more along the lines of: https://www.kvaser.com/kvaser-sponsors-chinook-ets-wind-power...

yes, but not the way you are thinking... you know with that pesky "conservation of energy" rule and all. option A) you would compress air into a big super-scuba tank and blast the air into a piston kinda like a gasoline explosion. option B) you would make a land sail and wind-surf your way around o...

Would I be able to use an AC 100-240V DC power adapter to 12 volts? Usually. If you want to be on the safe side, some of the smaller Meanwell supplies are actually rated to work with DC input. The LRS-35, for example, works from 120-373VDC. You can even get the 15V version and dial it back to 13.8 ...

Hillhater wrote: ↑

May 17, 2018 9:59 pm

Two things wrong with that bill...
1). It assumes the warming is anthropogenic ..

That's because it is a list of anthropogenic sources of warming and cooling.

2)... Its missing the word " theoretical".

Correct. They are not theoretical. They are measured. It has error bars and everything.

Completely incorrect just as I originally guessed. Just took a clamp meter and tested the car under various load conditions. It draws 25A upon startup (when some pump is running, presumably some hydraulic pump for breaks/power steering). Then settles down to around 20A with headlights on. This is c...

Which part of ..."i didnt add or remove any data, ...i posted an existing chart" .. dont you understand.? Oh, I understand your claim. I think you searched high and low for a chart that had that data cherrypicked - and then you used that one without any second thought because it supported your agen...

rocwandrer wrote: ↑

May 17, 2018 5:18 pm

Quick, hopefully easy question... What is the 3rd wire for? I'm building an electric boat for my daughter and planning to use a trolling motor lower unit for assembly expedience.

Is it just the motor you are talking about here? In that case it's probably the third phase.

That's better. Trackers? I have a feeling they are not trackers. Solar is cheap enough now that it's cheaper than to just get more panels than get a tracker installed. There are still a fair number of tracking plants out there, but they really only make sense when you have a very large, flat ground...

I didnt add or remove any data. You used a chart with years that disproved your theory removed. Funny, I used exactly the same site and got those years. You'd have had to edit the year range to exclude those two years. The NASA paper clearly explained the influence of el nino in 20'15/16, detailing...

Construction on Gigafactory 1 seems to have stalled since August. And why is there not a single solar panel in sight yet? Because you are using old photos. These are pictures from March showing the first segment installed: https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-gigafactory-1-solar-rooftop-array/#jp-carous...

Hillhater wrote: ↑

May 17, 2018 7:34 am

?? Cherrypicking, what???
All you have done is added the 2015/2016 data..

Right - which you removed because you thought it made the data "look bad."

When you intentionally remove data to try to make your point look better - that's cherrypicking.

amberwolf wrote: ↑

May 16, 2018 2:24 pm

are there nonmotroized tracknig arrays?

http://www.zomeworks.com/photovoltaic-tracking-racks/

A solar panel takes 25+ years to produce the equivalent amount of power to that which it took to manufacture the panel initially. It takes 1-10 years, depending on where it's used and how it is manufactured. $1/W is possible in places where labour rates allow. Those levels of cost have never been a...

.. As i said above, you have to be blind to not see the change in trend since 2000. It might have helped them get a better handle on it if they had used up to date data over a longer time period .. https://imageshack.com/a/img924/4972/MKbMro.png BTW I replotted your graph with the HADCRUT4 temp dat...

:shock: That is some pretty creative (deceptive?) trend lines overlaid on there. ! you would have to be "blind Harry" not to accept that the observed results show a leveling off in the slope of the temperature graph after 2000...as clearly demonstrated through to current date on multiple data sets ...

It would be really cool if they could track but that would probably be a LOT harder. (And take up a lot more room.)

So you do acknowledge that an EXTRA increase in surface temperature CAUSES a corresponding EXTRA increase in CO2 emissions ? Sometimes - at least until all the forests burn. Then you won't see much additional CO2. (But you will see a lot of methane from melting permafrost - again, until all that is...

^^^ still having problems with reading comprehension ?? Or simply refusing to accept any facts that do not fit with your preconcieved views ? "the trend of CO2 growth appears to have returned to its long-term average. " So now it's back to increasing as we emit CO2, after a pulse of CO2 from a lot ...

Sorry, you are not making sense, and I believe you are incorrect. DC/DC converter literally dumps power to the 12V + and - terminals of the battery. These same 12v battery + and - connections have cables to the cars chassis which then powers accessories. Right. So if you measure power to/from the b...

I am not aware of anyone seriously disputing the level of airborne CO2 , ( other than some of the historical records) , but the cause and source of the increase is still very much in debate, as are its possible consequences. No, they're not. That's like an anti-vaxxer saying "no one denies that vac...

There are numerous studies showing the usefulness of supercapacitor banks to recover brake power in automotive transport. The idea is pretty simple: brake power come in short bursts which cannot be stored in batteries, but supercaps can. In general, I think resizing batteries and/or choosing the ri...