Truth Man

There is no need to build a hydrogen gas or liquid hydrogen transportation infrastructure, populated areas already have the materials to produce their own hydrogen. Most populated areas have ready access to electricity and water, so all that is needed is a machine like the one in this youtube video: People would plug this machine into an electrical outlet or "mains", then attach a garden hose from a water tap to the machine. The machine would fill with water and then would begin splitting the water into hydrogen and oxygen. The machine would then compress the hydrogen and store it in an onboard tank. The machine would operate all night and in the morning people would fill up their vehicle with hydrogen produced by the machine. This machine could be the size of a refrigerator and could be purchased just like any other appliance. People won't have to necessarily purchase a new automobile, they would simply need to retrofit their existing vehicle with ...

Energy Lecture for the Week: Energy Needs for Transportation https://upload.cat/a6a14cbc28b044f4 (I found a different website to host the video. There are several seconds of advertisement before the video.) Things are getting better by the minute: Actually you don't have to wait for the energy industry to change over to hydrogen to run an internal combustion engine on hydrogen. It is possible to generate your own hydrogen gas, compress it and then burn it in an engine, like this: https://youtu.be/REV739pRNcw?list=PLTYlUGKLEk-GZfbXewpyRNn2iJ8RNepBd Though the car may need a compressor and a system to keep the hydrogen pressurized. I was thinking about the Tesla battery powered automobiles, if people carry around a couple of solar panels in their Tesla vehicle and they run out of charge while driving during the daytime, all they have to do is set up the solar panels, wait a couple of hours, let their vehicle charge up again and boom they're off! People can...

Many of us who experienced the first versions of the internet back in the mid to late 90s, remember a different experience, a different world, and just like the old internet, there are those few who can not only recognize that difference but, can articulate the differences. Here is a series of forum postings that explain what has changed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17334552 and another from "The Intelligencer" http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/05/i-dont-know-how-to-waste-time-on-the-internet-anymore.html What I found most telling was the following paragraph: " And then, one day, I think in 2013, Twitter and Facebook were not really very fun anymore. And worse, the fun things they had supplanted were never coming back. Forums were depopulated; blogs were shut down. Twitter, one agent of their death, became completely worthless: a water-drop-torture feed of performative outrage, self-promotion, and discussion of Twitter itself. Facebook had bec...

Energy Lecture for the Week: Energy Storage Technologies https://upload.cat/a6a14cbc28b044f4 (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. The water/steam mix expelled from steam turbine power generation is often at a temperature higher than the surroundings. Instead of expelling this steam/water mix into the environment or cooling this steam/water mix and reusing it, it is far more efficient to pass this steam water mix through a heat exchang...

I was thinking about a couple of ideas that could help increase the fuel efficiency of automobiles and the ability of atmospheric water generators to extract water from the atmosphere. The first idea is to use an oxygen concentrator on the intake manifold of a typical internal combustion engine. Here is what an oxygen concentrator is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_concentrator The composition of a typical parcel of atmospheric air is about 78% nitrogen and 21% molecular oxygen O2, with smaller percentages of other gases: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_chemistry#Atmospheric_composition In a typical otto cycle internal combustion engine using gasoline, it is only the oxygen that takes part (or should take part) in the combustion process. Though, there is some combustion of nitrogen as well, most engines are tuned so as to reduce this combustion product since it is a pollutant (other than the CO2). In any case, most of the air drawn into the engine is not us...

Energy Lecture for the Week: Energy Storage Technologies https://upload.cat/49cd98a53521df65 (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. The water/steam mix expelled from steam turbine power generation is often at a temperature higher than the surroundings. Instead of expelling this steam/water mix into the environment or cooling this steam/water mix and reusing it, it is far more efficient to pass this steam water mix through a heat exchanger. T...