Recent content by russ_watters

Yeah, I guess they were hoping to re-task them to AI and it didn't pan out.

The missing piece here is how much pressure you can exhert or hold from inhaling. Without a hard seal around your face and forcing air in, humans can exert an inhalation pressure of up to about 74 mm hg (0.1 ATM / 10 kPa). Any more than that and the air forces itself out.

What widespread integration into society? I haven't seen that. My expectation is that the bursting of the AI bubble will be similar to the bursting of the tech bubble in 2000. It will be a major stock market crash for indices heavily invested in it, but will have very little impact beyond...

By my read, they didn't do that and aren't claiming they did. They converted electricity from plasma - the plasma was not created/sustained by fusion (there was no fusion claimed).

Did you actually measure the density of the ice in the plastic bottle to rule out an unusual deformation?

Sorry for the late reply. I'm not sure I see a relationship between them. Did you have something in mind?

Isn't it always the math? :nb)

That's what I was going to say, and to add; convection(and heat transfer in general) might be a fairly simple concept, but it gets pretty complex pretty quickly.

Yesterday, yes - thanks!

From my wedding.

I know this thread is locked, but I'll answer this anyway: The link @pinball1970 posted answers you fine. It says: "Methane (CH4) is estimated to have a GWP of 27 to 30 over 100 years." This doesn't contradict the 84-87 over 20 years: Since CO2 does not decay and methane does, yes, the GWP...

So, are these the processes? I really don't like guessing, but.... Gas in the cylinder starts at atmospheric pressure and room temperature. 1. Gas is adiabatically expanded and cooled. That part you at least made clear. 2. Gas absorbs heat from the room, heating it to room temperature, but...

It wasn't a complaint specific to your post, it was just a disclaimer for the conversation. Whether that's something in your head or not it is something that I see a lot and would expect to see in this thread.

I get your overall goal, but you are not fully describing your cycles. Are you saying it's closed, not open? Did I miss where you described a phase change? Be clear in describing the processes involved. For the first scenario, is the high pressure side of the piston open to outdoors, as in...

Usually thermodynamic cycles are described with simple statements of the involved processes. @T C you are leaving out steps in your cycles, leaving us to guess what they are. Based on what you've said, it sounds like you intend your second cycle to be an open, compressed-air refrigeration...