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Baluncore replied to the thread Induction heating of aluminum strip possible?.900°F is too hot. It is over the maximum 410°C specified. We are not cooking, please use SI units. -
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Baluncore replied to the thread VFD for powering a car lift.Without a wider range of experimental capacitors, I would use 20uF in that application. It is a case of balancing the inductive...
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Baluncore replied to the thread Method of storing energy on the Moon.'Fade' is one of the parameters that will play a part in the selection of future lunar energy-storage technologies. Fade may become...
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Baluncore replied to the thread Induction heating of aluminum strip possible?.
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Baluncore replied to the thread Method of storing energy on the Moon.That is not your decision to make. Once a solar furnace is operating on the Moon, it will be possible to extract chemical elements...
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Baluncore replied to the thread Method of storing energy on the Moon.Yes. Carbon based fibres will be expensive and hard to find. If there is a manufacturing plant on the Moon, with a solar furnace...
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Baluncore replied to the thread Induction heating of aluminum strip possible?.Yes, it would be my first choice for an 0.032" thick, 1" strip, that was 7 ft long. But what is the resistance of that strip? Room...
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Baluncore replied to the thread Undergrad Measured Spectrum of Stopped Wood Organ Pipe Shows ALL Overtones.Those are for the closed or stopped pipe. Organ pipes are mostly open at the upper end, so acoustic radiation is from that open end...
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Baluncore replied to the thread Induction heating of aluminum strip possible?.The problem with aluminium is the electrical and thermal conductivity. I expect you could induction heat the surface of aluminium...
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Baluncore replied to the thread History of the trompe on French Wikipedia (very detailed).A high siphon will "cold boil" the dissolved CO2 out of the water at the crest. That can block the liquid flow through the siphon...
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My "pulser pump" was considered by many people to be "fake" in the early 2000's and they would routinely get quite upset and call me a... -
Baluncore replied to the thread High School Is it safe to fly in a spinning hollow asteroid?.Not needed if you take an anabolic steroid = a-steroid.
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Baluncore replied to the thread High School Is it safe to fly in a spinning hollow asteroid?.A spherical asteroid, or the hemispherical ends of a cylindrical asteroid, would make for an interesting walk. Walking along the inside...
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Baluncore replied to the thread High School Is it safe to fly in a spinning hollow asteroid?.Have you never done a gravity survey from a moving submarine?