Search found 171 matches

I think not, nor am I asking a lot of modern medicine. In the US today a third of the population will get cancer and die of it or its complications. Heart attack and stroke will get most of the rest. ...

I wonder if having the panels on a flat roof would significantly impair their efficiency. Maybe there needs to be a pop-up solar panel on the roof that can be tilted towards the South Smile

Currnently ...

€50 breached today, after the Euro fell to new lows against the dollar combined with a rise in US$ cost of crude.

I found this highly interesting web- site where an outlay of a ZPE generator is very neatly explained: http://evert.de/eft723e.htm

LOL. nice find. It's a shame that the English is so difficult to ...

While it is certainly true that hydrogen has the highest energy to mass ratio for any chemical fuel. This doesn't hold when the mass of the storage container is taken into account.

Storing liquid h ...

Can you redo your calculation with sensible numbers?

$6000/MWh is an absurdity - a one day (8 May 2000) result of grid mismanagement and corporate corruption. To give an example - at that price it ...

Does anyone actually know the EROEI of this whole process--from liquifying the gas, loading it into the tanker, transporting it across the ocean, then re-expanding (do you need energy for this, or wil ...

[q]I find it hard to believe that this topic made two pages let alone that ZPE actually exists. [/q]

There are a number of scientific theories that predict ZPE, or theories that are very neatly exp ...

Lanthanum is already a key part of NiMH batteries, and has been for years.

A NiMH battery consists of 2 metal electrodes - one made of nickel, and one made of an special alloy of metals. The alloy ...

I await the cost and reliability of these vehicles with interest.

Of note, is the use of Li-polymer battery technology which has historically had a poor cycle life and a very high monetary cost. Th ...

There are 2 main types of CFL, at least in the UK.

Conventional: which use a transformer and an spark-gap starter, just like conventional fluorescent lamps.

Electronic: These use an electronic c ...

Was there a problem with Super-Phenix?

There were a number of accidents, of many different sorts.

Multiple minor sodium leaks
Multiple emergency depressurisations which upset nearby residents b ...

[q]We'll see, Drive. New designs haven't yet been tested in the real world.[/q]

The full designs, no. However, there is substantial experience with similar designs.

The AP1000 mentioned earlier, ...

[q]US statistics show approximately 100 million computer in use during 2001.

The same data table shows only 6-7% of these are left on 24 hours a day.
Even in hyper efficient energy save mode, that ...

As far as I'm aware the only practical method proposed for extracting uranium from seawater is a process of ion-exchange.

A synthetic polymer fibre is woven into fabric, and then rolled into large ...