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All articles in category: "Bullshit and Excuses!"
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Solar power and electric cars and pipe dreams
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My U.S. visitors won’t give 2 shits about this
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So was the moon landing fake or not?
So there’s a 500MB photo of the moon. http://www.skyandtelescope.com/news/116932598.html
The NASA site says you can see the lunar equipment and tracks in this article…
“Although the Apollo 14 mission to the moon was filled with incredible sights and was completely successful — it met all its science goals — the crew experienced a bit of a disappointment at missing the spectacular view from the rim of a 1,000-foot-wide crater. They might have gazed into its depths if they had the high-resolution maps now available from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft.”
So was it faked or not?
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iPad 2!
Nah just kidding!
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Snake Oil, for your car…
I see 2 or 3 of these a year (cold fusion, super fuel efficiency ect.) and they always fade away… and here’s another one.
http://www.gizmag.com/air-hybrid-vehicles-could-cut-fuel-consumption-in-half/17810/
Air hybrid vehicles could halve fuel consumption
The most commonly used form of regenerative braking is where a vehicle’s electric motor is used as an electric generator to capture the vehicle’s kinetic energy, which is otherwise lost as heat when braking. The generator converts the kinetic energy into electricity that is then fed back into the vehicle’s battery pack where it is stored for later use. New research suggests that pneumatic or air hybrids that instead store the energy as compressed air would be much cheaper to produce than the current crop of EVs and battery-electric hybrids and could halve the fuel consumption of ICE powered vehicles.
Although converting kinetic energy to electricity is the system found in the majority of EV’s and hybrids on our roads, such as the Toyota Prius, there are also systems that allow the kinetic energy to be stored in other forms. Mechanical systems use a flywheel to store it as rotational energy, while hydraulic systems store the energy as pressurized fluid.
Pneumatic systems that store the energy as compressed air are yet another option and it is pneumatic or air hybrid systems that Sasa Trajkovic believes can be used to produce more fuel efficient vehicles. Trajkovic, a doctoral student in Combustion Engines at Lund University in Sweden, did his doctoral thesis on pneumatic hybrid vehicles and he says that compressed air could be used to provide extra power to the engine when starting up and save fuel by avoiding idle operation when the car is at standstill.
For the study the researchers converted heavy duty Scania engines converted to operate as pneumatic hybrid engines. During pneumatic hybrid operation the engine can be used as a 2-stroke compressor for generation of compressed air during vehicle deceleration (compressor mode) and during vehicle acceleration the engine can be operated as an air-motor driven by the previously stored pressurized air (air-motor mode).
The compressed air is stored in a pressure tank connected to one of the inlet ports. One of the engine inlet valves has been modified to work as a tank valve in order to control the pressurized air flow to and from the pressure tank.
The air hybrid engine, which would work with gasoline, natural gas and diesel fuel-powered engines, doesn’t require any expensive materials such as those used in battery packs, so they would be cheaper to manufacture. They would also take up much less space than an electric hybrid engine.
Trajkovic calculated that 48 percent of the brake energy, which is compressed and saved in a small air tank connected to the engine, could be reused later. This matches the degree of reuse of today’s electric hybrids and, like current electric hybrids, Trajkovic says the technology would be even more attractive for slow and jerky driving, like that found on a bus in urban traffic. His simulations showed that buses in cities could reduce their fuel consumption by 60 per cent.
Although pneumatic motors have been around for over a century and there have been some (so far unsuccessful) attempts to bring a compressed air car to the market, the idea of air hybrids has only been around for a couple of decades. With most of the previous research into the technology theoretical, the Lund researchers say theirs is the first time anyone has done experiments on an actual air hybrid engine.
The Lund University researchers studied a single cylinder air hybrid engine but hope to conduct further research into a complete, multi-cylinder engine with the aim of bringing the concept another step closer to a real air hybrid vehicle.
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Again with the cold fusion…
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-01-italian-scientists-cold-fusion-video.html
A preview…
Rossi and Focardi say that, when the atomic nuclei of nickel and hydrogen are fused in their reactor, the reaction produces copper and a large amount of energy. The reactor uses less than 1 gram of hydrogen and starts with about 1,000 W of electricity, which is reduced to 400 W after a few minutes. Every minute, the reaction can convert 292 grams of 20°C water into dry steam at about 101°C. Since raising the temperature of water by 80°C and converting it to steam requires about 12,400 W of power, the experiment provides a power gain of 12,400/400 = 31. As for costs, the scientists estimate that electricity can be generated at a cost of less than 1 cent/kWh, which is significantly less than coal or natural gas plants.
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I call Bullshit!
But I will try to make one to see if it works…
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More finds from Tristan
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WTF?
Some folks have asked us (me)…
“why do you only post 1 comic per week?”
“why is there so much crap on your site? I thought this was a web comic?”
“this site fuckin’ sucks, it’s not a web comic it’s a link dump!”
“Would you like to have a larger penis?” (wait! I think that one is just more spam posting)Well here’s the deal kids. I, unfortunately, have a rather hectic “day job”. One that is not this website/comic. I wish I could pump out 3 to 5 episodes of Kelly per week (complete with better spelling and grammar) but time just doesn’t permit. So until I live in a magical utopia (PvP, Penny Arcade, C.A.D. ect…). One where money magically shoots forth into my bank account from the aether. Well, y’all get 1 Kelly a week and all the filler I find funny, interesting or amusing.
I love you all, and if it’s not mutual then as my wife says…
“SuCk MaH BALLZ!”
Yours with sprinkles,
Tom-Ass
(Aka in Kelly comic land: “The Creator”)