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Thanks for your reply. I would like to make a simulation where you can input required heating loads and heat pump type, and the simulation calculates the necessary borehole depth. I would also like to investigate horizontal ground loop heat exchangers as well f I can figure out a way of doing...

That's a good point I forgot to mention. Which is odd considering I'm in the middle of writing my MSc thesis.

Hello kind people of PF, I'm working on a project and attempting to simulate a ground source heat pump system in simulink. I have no experience what so ever with MATLAB or simulink, which isn't helping. Does anybody here have any experience of modelling such systems in this environment...

I think it makes little difference to employers if that's what you're concerned about. An MSc may be beneficial if the area it is in is related to the job you are applying for. The fee's dilema must be a pain, I couldn't advise you either way. Maybe, I would say to do the MEng unless you find...

The magnox and thermal oxide reprocessing plant are still active. With THORP planning on continuing for the foreseeable future.

I personally advocate reprocessing, however I was wondering why UK and European companies do it even though it is admittedly not cost-effective. Am I mistaken in believing that its not cost effective or do these companies reprocess for other reasons? Like a concern over the depletion of...

Tension is normally talked of in terms of stress. Tensile force is, well, a force. If you hang a 10N weight on the end of a metal bar, you've applied a 10N tensile force but the stress depends on the cross sectional area of the bar.

Thanks for your reply. I'll take a look at some of the ingredients you mentioned

Hi there, I've been interested in this medicine for stress and irritability however I'm always sceptical about herbal remedies. Does anybody have any input as to whether there is any reason to believe these actually work? Thanks

It doesn't - that was my point

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The question doesn't make sense to me unles you take "light" as an adjective. So the only two answers it could be is dark or heavy. I don't think you can have an opposite of an object?

I know, didn't suggest it did.

Me and a friend were talking in the pub the other day about evolution, and how some people hold the view that, because of modern engineering and medicine, human evolution by the process of natural selection has stopped. What do you think? Has evolution stopped? If not, how are "good" or "bad"...

But as a thought experiment it is just that, thought. So the length of the strip will be exactly pi. However, in the real world the length won't be pi, as the strip will be made up of a finite number of particles, which, at some point, become non divisible. This isn't really a thought...