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Baluncore replied to the thread Induction heating of aluminum strip possible?. -
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?
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Baluncore replied to the thread High School Is it safe to fly in a spinning hollow asteroid?.If you threw a ball to a person ahead of you, would the ball plunge towards their feet. If you threw the ball to someone behind you...
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Baluncore replied to the thread High School Is it safe to fly in a spinning hollow asteroid?.There will be an unstable Lagrangian point line along the rotational axis. How does someone who is flying stay on that line? The rate...
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Baluncore replied to the thread Undergrad Measured Spectrum of Stopped Wood Organ Pipe Shows ALL Overtones.Compressed air flows to the foot of a pipe while the key is pressed. Each pipe generates a different note, with harmonics, called...
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Baluncore replied to the thread Undergrad Measured Spectrum of Stopped Wood Organ Pipe Shows ALL Overtones.True, as that would require an instant step change in pressure. But there are filtered forms of square wave that have attenuated odd...