Micro CoGen.

If it was in a high enough gear it should be pretty easy.

Just that first one put out a carbon foot print it would take my F250 burning bio ten years to equal.

Tough=true diesel engines= ZERO electronics, no computer controls, nothing, run an American diesel through those spots and it would die almost immediately, not because of the engine but the electronics would short out and kill the engine, I have two old tractors that would run under water though.

Yep, that's why he kept wiggling it back and forth, I came damn close to laying a big articulating loader on it's side one time doing that.

YEEEE HAAAWWWW!!!! He's lucky he was driving a diesel!, and he never lost the trailer, I'll bet it was a BIG surprise when he first went over the edge, "Yeah this looks like a nice shallow spot, awww #hit!"

Quote from: AdeV on August 20, 2012, 04:29:27 AM
LOL - someone doesn't understand physics.... despite his earlier claim to be a "World class engineer/scientist" - whatever one of those is...

Dangerous is what one of those is.

No doubt about that, all that power at you finger tips, would be an awesome feeling.

Especially on that new Boeing dream liner, it's only got two about 12 feet in diameter, flying something that weighs several million pounds on one engine has got to be an adventure.

We were 300 yards away from the thing in the parking lot with the windows rolled up and you could feel it in your bones, and they strap these things to aeroplanes and fly around in the sky on em, how can they possibly make a motor mount strong enough to hold one to an aluminum or carbon fiber wing?

Quite frankly that thing scared the hell out of me.

I had to install some roof ventilators on what the power company called a peaker turbine, this thing would start up if the load on the grid got to a certain point, the thing was huge, there were automatic louvers in the walls, we had to wear double hearing protection (foam plugs and muffs) the entire time we worked there, they told us if the buzzer went off and the red lights flashed we had 60 seconds to get off the roof before the thing started up.
It started up once while we were there, luckily at lunch time so we were in the parking lot, but it was extremely loud 300 yards away, the LOUD buzzer goes off and the red lights flash then all the motorized louvers open and the pony engine winds up then the turbine spools up and drown's everything else out, pretty awesome.
It only ran for about an hour, we took a long break till it shut down.

If you did I don't remember it Bob, hat do you think about it? 

suspend it on a sheet of plexiglass in the middle of the room with the one cord to start it up, with Mobile Bob there.

And guess what, there are lots of people who are astounded and amazed, like the man said there is a fool born every minute.

Quote from: BruceM on July 26, 2012, 05:40:21 PM
Lithium Bromide looks most appealing for absorption cooling. I'm furious that we aren't doing more to promote it's use, as the majority of AZ's peak loads are AC, and it would solve that problem beautifully, since it will operate on relatively low hot water temperatures from hot water solar panels.  Way more efficient than PV.

Instead our plan is the oxymoron-ic "smart meters", so that we can have "smart brownouts". 

Arg.

And your bill will be noticeably higher, the old eddie current disc meters were not fast enough the get every bit of the spike when a big load starts up like your AC, the new smart meters count every electron.