Thanks Keith, for looking at this again.
I will have to pull out another supply - one that can
take me up into the voltage range you speak of. But I
know just the puppy - its lurking in my junk boxes
right now.
You ask if there is anything else I would like you to
try for now - just one other
Please ignore.
- Jed
Please ignore
Jed wrote.
There has been some discussion in the electric power industry lately about
retrofitting plants with additional, low-pressure, low temperature
turbines
to scavenge more waste heat. They would be driven by a fluid other than
water, with a low boiling point. Periodically you hear
Michael Foster asks.
"Anyway, I've always wondered if an internal combustion engine could be devised based on thisprinciple, using some sort of cellulose flour made from garbage and agricultural waste. Notlikely, I guess."
Based on catastrophic grain elevator dust explosions a "biomass
Kidding aside, Jed, those are good links.
Note that the energy produced (1999) was ~ 73 Quad, and Consumed was ~98 Quad.
In the 1980's DOE funded 5,000 horsepower (3.0 Megawatt) gas turbine biomass-fuel electric power systems
using the engines off the C-130 turboprop cargo planes, and the
Jed,
Just wanted to add my two cents here and let you know that those were some
of the best links on U.S. energy consumption I've ever seen. Thanks for
bringing them to my attention.
I tried without success to locate and download a larger version of the main
graphic showing all the myriad ways
Johnson, Steven writes:
I tried without success to locate and download a larger version of the main
graphic showing all the myriad ways energy is being harvested and consumed,
but to no avail. Any suggestions?
I wrote a message to the woman in charge of the page, saying it is great
but could
On Mon, 2 Aug 2004 16:53:02 -0700 (PDT), Nick Reiter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
5. OOHH PRETTY! Tried replacing the cathode wires
and thin rods with the .3mm graphite lead out of a
mechanical pencil. Pencil lead erodes rapidly to a
wicked micro-point, but the color of the sparkling
plasma as it
Ney Nick.
Before mounting my assault on the aforementioned hair clog,
I thought to try something else...
I reversed the polarity of the supply, making the wire
whisker the anode. Cranking the supply up around 75 volts
or so produced a weak plasma discharge. This time the
discharge did not seem
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