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OT: Blast From The Past

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Bush Signs Energy Bill, Measure Includes Billions in Tax Breaks for Industry By Jim VandeHei and Justin Blum (Washington Post) Tuesday, August 9, 2005 ALBUQUERQUE, Aug. 8 — President Bush signed the first national energy legislation in more than a decade on Monday, hailing the measure as a [...]

OT: The Real Reason For War!

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Here it is folks…..this is why our sons and daughters are dying in a far off land.  Quite simply, so that we can have access to a fuel that will very likely run out in their own lifetimes, and maybe some of ours. I know that makes me feel all warm and [...]

Thin film SOFC fuel cells

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> >However, there seem to be a lot of manipulative press releases in this area, >exceeded only by the flurry of claims for cold fusion. > Speaking of which, we’re overdue for a "breakthrough in solar cell > technology", aren’t we?  It’s been nearly a month…  8*)
There you go: "Kyocera [...]

Looking to Buy Low-Speed Alternator

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I would like to buy a low-speed alternator (~60 rpm). I believe there is a company that manufactures wind turbines that makes them, but I don’t think they will sell the alternator alone. Is there a source where I can buy an alternator by itself?

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What output voltage, frequency, current are [...]

economics of oil when it depletes

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> We produce hydrogen very cheaply from air and sunlight. > We obtain water by cryogenic distillation of it from the air.  We > break out the Hydrogen and use it to scrub the atmosphere of > CO2 and produce synthetic natural as a by product – at a cost of [...]

Comparative costs

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How are true costs for different energy sources produced? I see that some simple costs per energy unit are given out freely, but these is useless when looking for a new energy source. What way are the costs for say the building of an energy supplying unit, plus the costs for [...]

Why not tap the energy in volcanoes

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Great job Randy. But melting is not the only way to dissolve the pipe. I know a lot of metals, if hot enough anyway, can be attacked by the kind of mixture of super heated scud in the lava. The same sort of reason that glasses melt at temperatures way below the [...]

Analyses of the California electricity crisis

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> The river/water control agency is not doing its job…..happened here in > Texas. > By proper management the regulatory agency can stage rain/snow runoff.
Ah…. respectfully… NO. Considering the amount of increase due to spring runoff and the limited storage behind these dams on small rivers around here, [...]

Detailed info required on Biodiesel

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>I must admit that given how bloody annoying usenet vegetarians can be it >rather pleases me that biodiesel can in no way be regarded as "suitable for >vegetarians".
Subject to origin I guess… Will we see a green ‘V’ on fuel pumps soon ? >I wonder if biodiesel exhaust contains [...]

America worships her SUVs

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<Is it selfish to choose a vehicle based upon safety, if that vehicle ends up fitting someone’s definition of "large vehicle"? > Yes, of course. This idea is simple: the greater mass of the material object, the more resources used to manufacture that object, the more energy is require to [...]