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how to create an adiabatic environment
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Discussion Overview
The discussion revolves around creating an adiabatic environment, exploring methods and materials that can achieve this state. Participants share tips, ideas, and references related to insulation techniques and specific examples.
Discussion Character
- Exploratory, Technical explanation, Debate/contested
Main Points Raised
- Some participants suggest vacuum insulation as a method for creating an adiabatic environment.
- There are mentions of keeping surfaces polished for high reflectivity to enhance insulation.
- One participant proposes raising the surroundings to the same temperature as a strategy.
- Another suggests using an infinite layer of high-quality insulation.
- Some argue that providing the same heat input as output is essential.
- There is a caution against generating excess heat in the system.
- A participant references Smokey Yunick's adiabatic engine and an experimental vehicle from 1959 as examples of adiabatic principles in practice.
- Additional comments include playful exchanges about personal items, such as a Dyson vacuum cleaner, which some participants mention in relation to insulation.
Areas of Agreement / Disagreement
Participants present multiple competing views and suggestions regarding the methods to create an adiabatic environment, with no consensus reached on a single approach.
Contextual Notes
Some claims depend on specific definitions of adiabatic systems and may involve assumptions about materials and conditions that are not fully explored.
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Q_Goest
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vacuum insulation
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FredGarvin
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My Dyson has some of that...Q_Goest said:
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FredGarvin said:
You have a Dyson vacuum cleaner ??
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FredGarvin said:
Rules: Six words or less thread.
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Q_Goest said:
Keep the surfaces polished (high reflectivity).
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siranram said:
Might be my next door neighbor.
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Q_Goest
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RonL said:Might be my next door neighbor.
Extra points for exactly 6 words.Redbelly98 said:
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FredGarvin
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Raise the surroundings to same temp.
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Q_Goest
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Infinite layer of REALLY GOOD insulation.
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Q_Goest
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Provide same heat input as output.
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FredGarvin
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Don't generate excess heat.
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FredGarvin
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We can keep going...
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RonL
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Pull that vacuum, hold that vacuum.
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See: Smokey Yunicks adiabatic engine, if you want to know the secret come and ask me via pm.
You should also check out the 1959 opel p1 experimental, built and engineered by the brilliant engineers at shell oil corporation in 1962, weighed 2500 pounds and got 376 miles per gallon. Enjoy
You should also check out the 1959 opel p1 experimental, built and engineered by the brilliant engineers at shell oil corporation in 1962, weighed 2500 pounds and got 376 miles per gallon. Enjoy
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NintendoKD said:
Smokey understood the magic Vortex Chamber.
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