Truth Man

In regards to the lifespan and reliability of solar steam, solar Stirling engine, or wind turbines, I believe we could learn something from some of the better practices of car, TV, and other product manufactuers. Like this: https://youtu.be/GO-v2yxvQ6U?t=161 Also, many automobiles are subjected to extensive, rigorous testing, to simulate the effects of aging due to a variety of factors, like fast driving, rough roads, acceleration, low maintenance, going over bumps quickly, heat, cold, etc. After this extensive testing the entire car is taken apart and every piece, no matter how small, is inspected for wear. This is what should be done with solar steam, solar Stirling engines, and wind turbines. Older solar steam plants, Solar Stirling engines, and wind turbines could be completely taken apart and every piece, no matter how small should be inspected to see if they wear, how much they wear, which components wear down more quickly, which less quickly. This can greatly improve t

Some solar skeptics like to point out the amount of mined materials it would take to build a massive solar power array would be "staggering", implying that it would be close to "impossible". For skeptics anything other than what we have today is just impossible, completely utterly beyond all human comprehension level of impossible, even God would have trouble it is so impossible. Yet, the impossible, becomes possible: As I stated before the total surface area required to provide for all the energy needs of the U.S., using solar power, is approximately: 100,000 square miles at a 20% conversion efficiency, 39,000 square miles at 50% conversion efficiency, 28,000 square miles at 70% conversion efficiency (the maximum theoretical conversion efficiency for multi-junction solar panels is 87%) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rNDphXZugeXoz3Kt5iogpPPNv3gZftiNTTKQbo4gZM0/edit?usp=sharing I used actual measured data of the amount of energy per square me

While listening to this weeks lecture on Energy resources: https://upload.cat/b9c5ee0e1e3b4699 At 24min 06seconds Dr. Wysession mentioned that it is possible to combine steam turbine power generation with isobutane power generation, in geothermal power generation. This could be applied to solar steam power production to extract additional energy from the water/steam mixture in the exhaust. After the steam passes through the power generation turbine what is left is a mixture of steam and water. This steam/water mixture is usually at a higher temperature than its surroundings, which implies that it is possible to extract additional energy from this exhaust. One way would be to employ smaller power generation turbines that can operate at the lower pressures and temperatures of the steam/water mix. There may be some engineering issues since both steam and water are present. Another option is to pass this steam/water mix through a heat exchanger where the heat is transferred to a

Energy Lecture for the Week: Geothermal Energy https://upload.cat/b9c5ee0e1e3b4699 (I had difficulties uploading the above video to youtube, I found a different website to host the video. There are several seconds of advertisement before the video.) Cloud cover can now be controlled by using geoengineering. Moisture laden air masses can be dried up by over spraying them with condensation forming particulates. Hence, intermittent solar energy production due to passing clouds isn't as big a problem as we thought. In regards to passive house design. Vacuum panel insulation could be used in the construction of houses, thereby bringing down the amount of heat loss to or heat entry from the environment. This isn't as difficult as it appears, many modern homes already make extensive use of vacuum panels in the form of double pane windows: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulated_glazing Vacuum panels are already used as insulation. They have a much lower therm

Sometimes, when discussing the availability of energy resources, especially with the British, though it could anyone, the response to the notion of supplying all the energy needs with solar power is often: "do you want us to live in huts" or "we would all have to live big round houses, (like a kiva )" or something to that effect. This response is quite irrational and emotional because it is NOT true that we would all have to live in huts or structures like kivas , all that would change would be the energy source, solar or renewable power instead of fossil fuel power. Order of magnitude calculations have already been made if we look at the following video at the time 18 minutes 16 seconds : https://upload.cat/88c540674dbe828d We see that only about half the surface area of New Mexico or Arizona would need to be covered with solar panels to provide all the energy needs for the U.S. We wouldn't have to live in huts, become peasant farmers, or live in Kiva l

Energy Lecture for the Week: Biofuels Biodiesel And Ethanol https://upload.cat/6a5128242d5f8e7f (I had difficulties uploading the above video to youtube, I found a different website to host the video. There is about 15 seconds of advertisements before the video.) Cloud cover can now be controlled by using geoengineering. Moisture laden air masses can be dried up by over spraying them with condensation forming particulates. Hence, intermittent solar energy production due to passing clouds isn't as big a problem as we thought. In regards to passive house design. Vacuum panel insulation could be used in the construction of houses, thereby bringing down the amount of heat loss to or heat entry from the environment. This isn't as difficult as it appears, many modern homes already make extensive use of vacuum panels in the form of double pane windows: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulated_glazing Vacuum panels are already used as insulation. They have a much lower ther

Energy Lecture for the Week: Wind Power And Electricity https://upload.cat/a6f5a004d41c4a12 (I had difficulties uploading the above video to youtube, I found a different website to host the video. There is about 15 seconds of advertisements before the video.) Due to the naturally occurring high pressure systems in Arizona and New Mexico there is less cloud cover. I wonder why Arizona wasn't mentioned, the region in and around Yuma Arizona receives the most amount of sunlight hours compared to anywhere else in the U.S. Too much "influence" from Mormon Uranium Interests? Or what is the problem, oil companies, SRP, APS, did you eat too much of the "real" baby back ribs in a secret ritual? What's the problem? Cloud cover can now be controlled by using geoengineering. Moisture laden air masses can be dried up by over spraying them with condensation forming particulates. Hence, intermittent solar energy production due to passing clouds isn't as big a p

Energy Lecture for the Week: Wind Power And Electricity Near the end of the video Dr. Wysession made a good point in regards to wind turbines and their affect on birds. We often hear that wind turbines kill birds, and it is often used as an excuse not to use wind power and/or as a contradiction between the supposed environmentalist policies implied by support of wind power and it's negative effect on animals in their habitat. Well, very rarely do we hear of the number of birds that cats kill every year and about the number of birds killed by cell phone towers every year. So, those who point out the number of bird deaths due to wind turbines and yet ignore bird deaths by cats and cell towers could be indicating that what is most important isn't bird deaths but, rather, something else, possibly their support for the current fossil fuel energy industry. Not to mention how many birds die from smokestack pollution, heavy metal toxicity due to geoengineering stratospheric aer