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   by VBprogrammer 8y ago

   I think you are wrong. This gives more details about how it works. They are using gasification both as power and as an additional source of water. I think that's pretty clever and I'm confident that the x-price people wouldn'
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   by VBprogrammer 8y ago

   Yup. I think this confirms it. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mbddw8/artificial... They are able to use the waste head and humidity in the exhaust to increase the amount of water extracted.
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   by VBprogrammer 8y ago

   Photo for reference: https://goo.gl/images/33dpUM > In rural conditions Bio- Gasification has proved to be very productive and efficient in creating a micro-grid. That from the FAQ here http://www.skysour
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   by VBprogrammer 8y ago

   I might be way off base here but is that Jim Mason - Founder of All Power Labs? In that case it hints that gasification could be part of the solution.
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   by VBprogrammer 8y ago

   Interesting. I've always thought of variable pitch propellers as being more efficient by allowing the engine to stay at it's peak horse power. For a piston engine this is obviously at the peak of the nice curve you'll see on
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   by VBprogrammer 8y ago

   Very view piston powered planes have reverse as it stands. But wouldn't running the prop backwards work?
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   by VBprogrammer 8y ago

   I think, if I'm conceiving of this properly in my head, that electrically powered props would alleviate the need for variable pitch propellers; a complicated affair involving oil pressure and governors. Since the torque curve of an ele
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   by VBprogrammer 8y ago

   > where does their carbon come from? Eating plants For Betty the cow on a small homestead sure. Unfortunately modern agriculture is so fubar that it's hard to claim that as true. There are huge fossil fuel energy inputs from everyth
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   by VBprogrammer 8y ago

   Anyone who studied CS at Edinburgh University grew fond of Brutalist Architecture through repeated exposure to this monstrosity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appleton_Tower
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    by VBprogrammer 8y ago

    Interestingly the rocket stoves I mentioned are probably much better in that regard. They use an insulated firebox which means the gas is burned at higher temperatures which causes cracking of the longer chain organic compounds. The output
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    by VBprogrammer 8y ago

    I found a series of videos on youtube a while back, a set of training videos for people working in steam turbine plans, which really cemented in my head the reasons why this is the case. For example: the final stages of a steam condensing t
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    by VBprogrammer 8y ago

    These are a fore-bearer of the masonry heater. Very similar to what some off-grid types have built and called a rocket mass heater. Very interesting principle but unfortunately (or fortunately if you are so inclined) they will never compete
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    by VBprogrammer 8y ago

    The new Copyright Directive may have that effect though.
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    by VBprogrammer 8y ago

    Yeah, I'm sure that's the correct way to drive with an auto in general. The problem was a v8 E350 is horrifically noisy when it's revving hard. Moving from a steep down grade onto a flat it would often refuse to change up. Si
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    by VBprogrammer 8y ago

    Probably somewhere between that and me not trusting it do it's own thing.
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    by VBprogrammer 8y ago

    In the UK most cars are still manual. Less so for the more expensive you go but I'd guess more than 90%. I have driven automatics a handful of times. The longest I spent was 2 weeks in a motor home touring the Rockies. While I can see
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    by VBprogrammer 8y ago

    I noticed this much more in Canada than I did in New York. I would absent absentmindedly order a large (heck, I'm on holiday) and be faced with more food than I could possibly eat. I suspect the less cosmopolitan areas of the US are ve
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    by VBprogrammer 8y ago

    I'm fairly certain they don't do it because there technical solutions are provided by the company I used to work for.
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    by VBprogrammer 8y ago

    Funny enough, in the last couple of days I've been wondering whether you could use computer vision in combination with sports betting to generate more accurate odds given the current state of the game. Of course the problem with that i
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    by VBprogrammer 8y ago

    I find the market for knowledge which others do not have but which aren't actually illegal to be quite fascinating. There is a company who will break down a brand new car into its component parts and by knowledge of materials and produ
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    by VBprogrammer 8y ago

    If I ever have to survive a post apocalypse type event I'm sure my (theoretical) knowledge of blacksmithing, gasification, woodworking, permaculture and micro-hydro will come in useful. Until that time I've no idea why these thing
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    by VBprogrammer 8y ago

    I think my biggest problem with the idea of pricing in end to end cost of products is that unless it starts meaningfully impacting the quality of peoples lives then it is not nearly doing enough. I don't think there is a way forward ag
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    by VBprogrammer 8y ago

    People have this idea that air on an airplane is constantly being recycled. I'm guessing that is where your objection comes from. In reality the engines are constantly producing a stream of hot compressed air which is bleed off for var
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    by VBprogrammer 8y ago

    Can you elaborate on what you'd consider fair? Or do you think it would be acceptable to allow trading on inside information in the current system? The only fair system I can imagine (fairer than the status quo by my estimation) would
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    by VBprogrammer 8y ago

    Im surprised no one had mentioned the CO2 cost of producing concrete.
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    by VBprogrammer 8y ago

    I'd wager that when that standard was established the divisivility of those metric measurements would not have been a consideration. Most likely it's also close to some even fraction of feet and inches.
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    by VBprogrammer 8y ago

    While I whole heatedly applaud your efforts; reducing this down to carbon emissions alone is so completely ridiculous as far as logical arguments go. There are a whole host of negative externalities involved in driving a car that riding a b
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    by VBprogrammer 8y ago

    Ah yes! That would do it. So they have more officers (though not drastically more) and quite a bit smaller area to cover. That probably goes some way to explaining what I observed.
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    by VBprogrammer 8y ago

    Your comment got me wondering about the NYPD. Specifically, when I visited New York last March I was struck by the number of police vehicles visible on the street. It felt like there was barely a block which didn't have one or two poli
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    by VBprogrammer 8y ago

    I'm not an expert but I'd tend to agree. There are simply too many things which can't easily be inspected without causing damage. We paid over £1000 in two different inspections when we purchased our house. Since moving in I&