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  5. Moonlapse

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    I've realized that Christianity can be a very positive thing for some people, but not for everyone.

     

    Finally someone agrees with me. It has done nothing for me... only ruins things for me.

     

    I find out she likes me too. I ask her out. She "can't" because I'm going to hell. :P

    Now that's a slap in the face.

  14. Antiochus of Seleucia

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    Actually, MacCarthur's idea of "winning the war" instead of containment was the best strategy. Apparently, Truman listened to Dulles and Kennan too much.

     

    We talked about all those guys today.

     

    Marshall came up with the brilliant concept of donating money to the poor teetering countries, on the grounds they buy our products. Stopped communism, boosted their economy, boosted our economy.

     

    Dulles was an idiot that wanted to get us all killed. He got the Korean conflict started for blabbing his mouth.

  17. Antiochus of Seleucia

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    You're correct... in 'standard' terms. Did you discuss supercritical and ultracritical coal power plants? BTW, I'm also talking about gasoline and the continued improvements to fuel efficiency.

     

    We didn't discuss those yet, but we did also discuss gasoline and ethanol additions. So far it isn't economical since it takes as much energy to raise the grain as the grain gives off. Also, ethanol burns nowhere near as hot as gasoline.

     

    I may look into the supercritical coal plants, I want to see how they employ that technology.

  18. Antiochus of Seleucia

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    Ahh but the current craze is not to improve efficiency of fossil fuel use, but to switch to new and unproven alternatives.

     

    The problem is that it is physically impossible to improve fossil fuel use, the laws of thermodynamics prevent us from being any more efficient than we already have it.

     

    Efficiency = Work(output) / Q(heat) --- Deriving this equation to fit the problem would make it Eff = 1 - (Qc(output temp) / Qh(input temp))

     

    The wider the temp gap, the more efficient the system. (Thermal Engines are abhorrently innefficient)

     

    Standard steam to turbine temp is around 561*k-- any hotter and water becomes corrosive

    Standard steam output temp is around 373*k --100*F, the water must stay in a vapor state.

     

    Therefore eff= 1 - (373 / 561) = .335

     

    eff @ ideal = 33.5% (this of course doesn't include all the shortcomings listed above.

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