In reply to Horace Heffner's message of Thu, 14 Apr 2005 09:04:33
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Hi,
[snip]
The rise column (or draft tube as you call it) should be cheaper to
implement as a single flat cross section than as multiple tubes. The sides
not against the mountain must be insulated to preserve the
(Let's ignore for the moment the fact that the USA isn't in Kyoto
and that it's arguably pointless from the get-go as a result -- this
question pertains only the countries which _are_ in it.)
If it weren't for our efforts to stop this nonsense, we would be part of
it.
I recently ran across an
Title: electrical grounding
A friend sent me this URL.
http://www.groundingforhealth.com/grounding_information_understanding_emfs.html
I've always figured that since I work with
power tools, and hang out in an office full of electronic equipment,
there was no point in worrying about it. However
Stephen A. Lawrence writes:
http://www.ledevoir.com/2005/04/16/79517.html
Now, if Canada can do this, presumably other industrialized nations can
do it too -- in which case the whole treaty seems like a pointless
exercise.
This would not work because the number of pollution credits
Stephen writes:
Or is the Canada plan predicated on the assumption that
nobody else is going to try the same thing, since if everybody wants to
be a net buyer the price of a credit could be expected to head for the moon?
You sort of answer your own question. I can only add that the current
Robin writes,
BTW there are some low mountains in central Australia, in themiddle
of the desert, that run more or less east-west, and havesteep sides. Perhaps
not as high as one might like, but it wouldmake a good start.
The combination of solar and wind energy can be harnessed for the wind
Keith Nagel writes:
BTW, if you've been reading the news, the Chinese aren't only rioting
over Japan.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/13/international/asia/13cnd-riot.html
In fact, it throws the whole rioting over Japan thing into a new light,
doesn't it???
The Japanese news has been
Uh oh, I feel another song parody comin' on, with TAB even!
Apologies and white light/white heat to fellow NY'er Lou Reed.
Tune to E, and follow me, all barr chords,
heavy on the distortion please...
---
Waitin' for the (Oil)Man.
D G D G
Im
RC Macaulay writes:
There have wind farms in west Texas in droves. The tax benefits and the
Federal money involved has
caused a feeding frenzy across the US for large array wind generators.
The tax benefits are small (2 cents per KWH I think), they last only a few
years, and they nowhere
At 5:25 PM 4/18/5, Robin van Spaandonk wrote:
...one could make the outside of transparent material,
and the mountainside black, so that the whole chimney collects
extra solar energy over its whole height (vertical greenhouse).
Yes. The main problem then is insulating the chimney at night.
Windfarms
The cost of construction of a windfarmis partially offset by tax
incentives. The cost of maintenance is high. Notice how many towers are out of
service at any time. The stress of the windshear as the prop passes the pylon
isa cause of blade fatigue.
Jed mentioned there is no
Wow! I just happend to notice the diameter of the proposed solar tower is
167 meters! See: http://tinyurl.com/6ow84. It says: The fact the
tower would be only six times higher than its diameter is the key to its
strength and stability, says davey.
Not too much worry about insulation with that
I just wrote: The 20 km^2 (2x10^7 m^2) greenhouse proposed at the base can
at 100 percent efficiency provide only 20 MW of solar power. Wow, was I
wrong, by a factor of 1000. The solar insolation factor is 1 kW/m^2, not 1
W/m^2. A 100 percent effecient solar collector with 2x10^7 m^2 operating
RC Macaulay writes:
The cost of [wind tower] maintenance is high.
Not according to EPRI. They say that wind now has the lowest maintenance cost
of any conventional power source, per KWH. The Danish Wind Industry Association
says: For newer machines the estimates range around 1.5 to 2 per cent
Horace Heffner wrote:
The vast majority of the hoped for 200 MW power then has to be from the
bouyancy due to the difference in ambient temperature (and thus column
bouyancy) between the base and the exit of the flue. This sounds like it
needs some checking. [ ... ] The use of base
solar
Hmmm.. the link Pliliplaven link that Grimer posted showing the graphs has
me intrigued.
http://www.philiplaven.com/p20.html
In my mind's eye, I keep seeing a spiral, perhaps a helix pattern in lieu of
a seeming random of the imaginary shown in graph 6.
Look carefully at graph 5 again, do I
Not just Canada...
http://www.science.org.au/nova/054/054key.htm
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From: Stephen A. Lawrence [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2005 9:58 PM
To: Vortex
Subject: Is Kyoto really this flimsy?
(Let's ignore for the moment the fact that the USA isn't in
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