Recent content by Rippetherocker

4. Trying to learn spanish.

Well... My apologies for lacking common sense. I bow to you O Great Desalinator... Just out of curiosity though what are your qualifications and field of "expertise"? Below is a standard desalinator btw

Haha no I don't believe that. Of course its the regeneration of used O². It is largest forest in the world and does contain almost a 3rd of the world's trees.

I'm talking about scrubbing with amines or metal hydroxides. Though they get degraded really fast. I read somewhere that were trying to create new scrubbers with what else- carbon nanotubes.

Hahaha I surrender! :-p

Haha is this a perpetual motion machine we are talking about?

The max. power being generated by your alternator is constant. You can play with the voltage at the expense of current. So charging time will be quite high.

Man I remember that quote verbatim from BBC's Planet Earth. i would assume that they do not lie.

This post is incredibly vague.

Step up transformer? Turn ratio about 16.

As you have probably read in the wiki you need several freezing and thawing cycles for it to be drinkable. 1)You will need the machine to work continously not in batches. 2) At such a great vacuum a huge amount of salt will contaminate the vapour i.e. unusable. 3) The remaining sea water in the...

And btw berkeman your a great mod. Also is that you on the bike?

Look man I'll tell you as simply as I can. Forget the heat source. For you to get pure ice you need pure water vapour. You CAN get pure water vapour from sea water but it will be miniscule. So you increase the rate of evaporation by increasing the vacuum, at the cost of purity. I've detailed the...

By Merlin's Beard! What an answer!

ASSUMING that these blocks are free floating in space. Power is the RATE of doing work. Since the first block moves faster it requires more power. Work done = force x distance Now distance is the same but did you give the same force to both blocks?