http://www.ch-iv.com/lng/cc9408.htm
NITROGEN (-320°F)
" Nitrogen is probably the most common cryogen handled. Liquid nitrogen is commonly produced by "distilling" it from liquid air. This distillation process also produces liquid oxygen and sometimes liquid argon. Once liquefied the nitrogen
Ten years ago I owned an Avid Flyer, it's like a Kit Fox. I suffered a
catastrophic engine failure 400 feet in the air during a takeoff. The
motality rate for that kind of incident is really high, but I managed to
bring it back to the runway and land it without causing further damage.
A few
Jones Beene wrote:
We are 15-25 years away from a run-away greenhouse
effect now.
Horace wrote:
Is this just a guess?
It seems to me entirely possible we may be in a runaway
mode right now. Measurements of the tundra surface show
methane release is increasing and the area of thawing
regions
This is part 2 of a ongoing speculation about how a liquidair-powered
automobile engine might be improved over current schemes, which is simply to
expand the liquid through a turbine or reciprocating engine using ambient heat
to get the 800 to one expansion ratio. But there is potential
Wonderful! See:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/10/technology/circuits/10apol.html
http://starfish.osfn.org/AGCreplica/
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At 11:28 AM 2/10/5, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How much energy is expended producing liquid N2, and how would this
potential resource compare to equivalent alternative fuel source energy
carriers.
Liquifaction is the main problem. It occurs at less than 50 percent Carnot
efficiency. See:
An interesting treatise on the future war with China:
http://www.321energy.com/editorials/winston/winston020905.html__Do You Yahoo!?Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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An interesting treatise on the future war with China:
http://www.321energy.com/editorials/winston/winston020905.html
There is probably a better adjective... maybe terrifying,
alarming, etc. but is it really accurate? Are there any
economists on Vortex?
As China's Master Plan to
Jones Beene wrote:
As China's Master Plan to
Destroy America manifesto
outlines, the multifaceted battle plan recommended by the
Chinese military has taken shape...Financially: Using
Currency as the Primary Weapon...[snip]
I think that is ridiculous. No one is more conservative than stable
$1.93 T is the *total* outstanding T-Note debt of which 10% is held by China:
http://www.treas.gov/tic/mfh.txt
Jones Beene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snippage
The Government of China is holding U.S. currency andTreasury notes in a $1.9 trillion Treasury bond trap. Whenthey pull the trigger on
I'm not an economist, but I have been doing considerable reading about
the problem. The Chinese can do the following:
1. They can use dollars obtained from providing products to Wal-Mart et
al. to buy oil and other commodities that are sold in dollars. This
will drive up the prices of these
From: What's New [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Akira Kawasaki [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2/11/2005 11:51:13 AM
Subject: WHAT'S NEW Friday, February 11, 2005
WHAT'S NEW Robert L. Park Friday, 11 Feb 05 Washington, DC
1. D. ALLAN BROMLEY: FORMER APS PRESIDENT DIED YESTERDAY AT 78.
Moshe
Jed Rothwell wrote:
Jones Beene wrote:
As China's Master Plan to Destroy America manifesto
outlines, the multifaceted battle plan recommended by the
Chinese military has taken shape...Financially: Using
Currency as the Primary Weapon...[snip]
I think that is ridiculous. No one is more
Edmund Storms wrote:
As you have probably noticed,
policy is based on what a country CAN do not on what we think it WILL
do. Not only is it not possible to know how a country will behave,
we have found that a country usually does what it CAN
do.
The Soviet Union might have started a nuclear war
From a N. Y. Times editorial today:
Hewlett's board says it isn't considering retreating from Ms.
Fiorina's goal of offering a smorgasbord of high-tech goodies to
businesses and consumers. Let's hope that's just machismo. The best thing
Hewlett could do would be to get rid of the bells and
Title: Re: OFF TOPIC N.Y. Times offers bad advice to HP
The Ink jet concept is not going to disappear because of e-books.
The ink jet concept is now used to print 3-D models.
Engineers are thinking about scaling up the technology to make houses
using quick drying cement as the 'ink'.
Some day
Nice one, Jed
If several hundred researchers could all make large mistakes using 100
and 200-year-old techniques, science would never work in the first place.
That is like asserting that you can select 200 carpenters at random, have
each of them build a wooden house, and when they finish every
In reply to Mark Goldes's message of Fri, 11 Feb 2005 15:01:39 -0800:
Hi,
[snip]
the scientists hope to exploit. Since, as atmospheric scientist John
Latham says, clouds become more reflective if you increase the
number of droplets in them, the eggheads propose spraying seawater
high into the
It's already a great day in the professional graphics world...
http://www.mwave.com/mwave/viewspec.hmx?scriteria=3505972
-john
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Subject: Re: OFF TOPIC N.Y.
Jed wrote:
snip. . .
Most people throughout most history have been rational and reasonable. Not
ideal, but good enough. If that were not true our species would have gone
extinct long ago. We are social animals -- pack hunting carnivores, like
wolves. Such animals must to cooperate and protect
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