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Yeah, that is how a lot of people in Washington got elected.
We need engineers in Congress, not lawyers, if we want problems solved.
The only thing I can help with is your mortality. I teach Qigong as one of the things I now do to earn a living. My oldest master is 100 years old and still practices as an acupuncture physician, and still goes to the park every Sunday AM to spar wi…
"Find me a field and full propane tank, a full gas tank and permission to blow them up and I will bring the CNG any day.". Sounds like something we need to send to Mythbusters.
Not full tanks. Not enough air. Tanks 5% to 10% full.
$20-$30K a year fo…
Evidently you are 20 years from retirement. Put yourself in my place. I'm 61. My technical support engineer job was off-shored two years ago. I got a good fixed mortgage at a low rate 5 years ago and now my house is worth less than I owe. No equity…
How much does that 1" think tank cost over the tank used for propane?
How much does it weigh?
NG to diesel, no, but NG to propane or other gas that is easily compresses to a liquid would be better. I can see CNG being used to run generators rather t…
What I want to know is why gasoline is now going up in price and iol is down by the barrel. Yesterday I saw something really strange: Premium gas at $2.36 a gallon and diesel at $2.29. Why is this strange? Well, if you search through earlier post on…
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- Are you interested in becoming an organizer in your area?
- Maybe--But Not Sure What to Organize
- Tell us about your experience with alternative energy:
- I am inventor and have had a few ideas to better use alternative energy. I have a simple to make home solar water heater for warmer climates;
Trombe wall systems, Solar/Photovoltaic combinations; in ground. inexpensive solar pool heaters; the next generation hybrid vehicles.
- What excites you about this campaign?
- Wind is a good long term solution, especially if it can be more widely distributed. CNG, I'm not so sure of, propane seems to be a better fuel.
- What do you want to do to help?
- Anyone need somebody who can think out of the box? My job was off shored two years ago.
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- At 2:23pm on September 12, 2008,
Dr, Randall S. Currie said… - am helping Ken get the word out to the folks on his list.
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- At 4:01pm on August 9, 2008,
Robert Wagner said… - an alternative is to build an adiabatic diesel using high temperature solid lubricants. I did my masters work at NASA in Cleveland and we had a contract with Cummins diesel to desing such an engine. It ran at high temperatures (that actual number i forget) to get the Carnot effiency up. It also had no need for oil or a radiator which combined take about 30% of the effiency out of the engine. This was in 1983 and i thought by now we would have these on the road. The estimated mpg was 90 for a 3000 lb car which at the time was like a Nova (gee that dates me, huh). Anyway a simpler engine with fewer parts.
Rob
- At 10:19pm on August 2, 2008,
Dale Galliart said… - You might contact Bruce Boardman at the Deere & Co Technical Center. Sorry, I don't have his phone number since they changed buildings several years ago.
Dale Galliart
- At 9:38am on July 28, 2008,
James Tracy said… - Heya, what are you skill sets, what areas have you researched.
Look at what I am working on, let me know what you think. see my profile.
- At 12:52pm on July 26, 2008,
Luis Garcia VA District 9 Leader said… - Thanks for adding me as your friend Jeff!
It seems like everyone is getting their feet wet with their new website.. I’m excited about the member count because I know from experience that together we will have a strong voice. In the future my hopes will be to create groups and discussions but more importantly to mobilize our members. Just let me know if you have any ideas or new information. I’m here to help you and everyone else.
- At 1:29pm on July 25, 2008,
Kurt Stiffel said… - yes, i have been hunting high and low for used fleet vehicles, i found a site in Az. i'll repost the link when i find it again, few cars on ebay - type in ebay cng cars... I'll keep digging and let you know what else I find, Peace and power to the sheeples. Kurt
- At 5:23am on July 25, 2008,
Jeff Smoley said… - Take a look at this:
http://www.popularmechanics.com/automotive/new_cars/4251491.html?series=19
Someone has been thinking.
- At 10:17am on July 18, 2008,
Jeff Smoley said…
- Many years ago, I had a need to generate some hot water in a rural area of NE PA. I started with a 4' X 8' sheet of plywood. I then took 2" X 4" and built a frame. I put a thin layer of foam insulation on the plywood, then put a copper sheeting layer on the insulation. I took copper pipe and s-curved it (3" radius) back and forth from the top to the bottom. I soldered it to the copper base. I painted all the copper with a dull black paint. I think I used radiator paint. Then I covered the top with clear plastic sheeting (acrylic). Water came in the top (4' side) snaked down to the bottom and on a sunny day, got quite warm. I later built another one and put them in series so the water was warm enough to take a shower. An upgrade would be to put a second piece of plastic or other sheeting with an air gap for more insulation and less heat loss.
Another system I though up was installed by a friend. He was replacing the patio around his pool. We took the water that would enter the pool from the filter, hooked up a splitter, and one end went to the regular inlet. The other end went to a plenum pipe that had four sections of hose attached. These hoses were put in the form for the concrete patio, over the reinforcing wire and lead back to another plenum, then to the splitter. When the sun was out, and the concrete would normally get so hot you could barely walk on it, the water from the pool was run through the pipes, cooling the patio and heating the pool. Today you could probable have a computer controlled system to regulate electronic valves.
- At 1:11pm on July 17, 2008,
Brennan D McCarthy said… - Please tell me more about your water heater
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