On 5 May 2011 22:15, erich wittstock <[email protected]> wrote: > ...some say oxygen is produced and carbon is "sinked" by trees. Little do > they know that most of that cycle is done by our oceans and the little > critters within. Thus most of our fossil fuels originate from our oceans. > Let's blame continental drift for it ending up under our land masses. > Feasible theory. Same for Titan. > > But how about the inefficiency of using a turbo-jet engine compared to > turbo-fan and turbo-prop engines at low speeds? Let alone extracting and > refining vast amounts of higher chain hydrocarbons. Why not use solar light? > The nit-ti grit-ties of accumulating electron differentials are being > improved as we type. > > Political monkey dance aside: the Prius is now in the third generation > (Cameron Diaz even likes it...)
Perhaps it allies her conscience given the copious energy she is likely using jetting around the globe. > and the panels on the roofs of those that installed them seem to work as > well. > Well they work, when the sun shines and not so well when it does not. I guess the good part is that Ergon has agreed to pay me 50 cents per kWh at a time when they actually do not need it. That is somewhere between 2.5 and 3 times the cost of the dearest power I buy. License to exploit the poor and unit dwellers. Will it save the Earth? Not likely. > > The steam engine, micro processor and electric vario were once labelled > "useless projects" as well. But they did help us along the way. > Admit it, Mike, you are spending more time flying electric pushers and > impeller types than flying jet powered models. I just witnessed one of these > "oh so dangerous" LiPo's being crunched to mush induced by an aerobatic > "standing 9" figure. It didn't explode nor ignite (very disappointing...) > > Voyager was another one of those "useless projects". But it did fly around > the world in a single flight. What if Solar-impulse can do the same? > > Why didn't you listen to those that were of the opinion that electric > varios are never going to be useful? Where is your spirit gone? Fossilised, > waiting to be refined and burned? > Erich > > > Paul
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