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The Democratic Party.
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Wouldnt it just make more sense to make everything Solar Powered...
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It is expensive though.
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and ofcourse the republican party has a lot of stupidity too, as it consists of politicians...
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Why are we not on Natural Gas? It gets renewed faster than we use it, it burns cleanly, and it already works for cars. So why not? It's the gas companies. They have an Iron Triangle Bureaucracy which has such strong roots in the government that it would take decades for us to up root them, but the gas companies pay the polititians so laws are passed to help them thrive and to stop natural gas from getting too large, so it isn't going anywhere right now.
Now, a nuclear power plant runs on Nuclear FISSION, which takes Uranium and slams neutrons into it to break it into smaller atoms. It can break apart a few different ways, depending on the conditions. neutron + Uranium(235) ---> ________________________ Te + Zr + 3 neutrons ________________________ Ba + Kr + 2 neurtons ________________________ Many more ways for fission. This produces 26 million times more energy than the combustion of methane. Nuclear FUSION, on the other hand, is what the sun makes. It gives off WAY more energy than Fission. The main problem is that it takes very high temperatures to start the reaction. The attraction of the Nuclear Force has to be very high to make the atoms bond. It gives off enough energy to get the rest of the atoms going, and more. (Enough extra energy to keep us warm and happy) Fusion takes a temperature of about 40,000,000 degrees celcius, or you could double that for farenheit. Now I remember why I love FFR. |
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Fact is, racers don't want their hot rods running on carrot juice or the stench radiating natural gas from the lesser parts of the planet.
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Natural Gas has no smell. That bad smell is actually added by the company so you can tell if you break a gas line. If that wasn't there, it could go unnoticed, someone lights a cigarette, and....
FOOOOMMM!!!! That bad smell is a safety measure. |
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Yes. They add sulfur to it to make it smell bad.
Actually, natural gas (at least the methane) is pretty clean. It's a hydrocarbon with a lot of hydrogen and a little carbon. I think it's like, CH4. Obviously it is not as squeaky clean as hydrogen, but it sure is cheaper and easier to find... |
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Hmm... that 4 didn't turn out right. It was supposed to be smaller. Sorry.
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OK, starting off with the temperature in space:
In general, temperature in space lies around minus 271 degrees celsius (don't ask me about Fahrenheit), which is a few degrees higher than the absolute zero (0 degrees Kelvin). Now, since the sun radiates huge amounts of energy in all directions, any surface facing it will be heated up a lot, which is one reason why space travel is so difficult, not only must you be able to withstand vacuum and intense cold, you have to be able to take care of a lot of heat too. That about heat in space. Quote:
You get an awful lot of waste from nuclear fission, first when mining the uranium, then during the production of the fuel (enrichment), then the byproducts from the actual fission, then finally the reactor itself, which after x number of years in large parts has become highly radioactve. The first two problems are mostly problems in Russia and other countries "far away", where the mining and enrichment takes place, so most people wouldn't know about it. As for the others, we simply aren't there yet. Mostly, anyway. Another possibility for a renewable energy source are wave-power plants. There are several possible ways to harness the energy created by waves, but I don't think it's being done anywhere on a very large scale, maybe because the technology hasn't existed for very long. *points up* Kinda long for a first post, don't you think? Oh well, I got a little carried away... |
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amen to that. i personally think that a motor created using rare earth magnets would be an excelent way to produce energy. if built on a large enough scale it would be creat a very large amount of energy. plus it wouldn't require any resources to keep it running.
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I suppose that the energy you are counting in those figures is the thermal energy. Because, as you probably know, there is no "change" in energy, but rather just energy going from one form to another. In the methane combustion, it's the bonding energy in oxygen and methane that gets converted into thermal energy (a lot of it is used up moments later forming the new bonds incarbon dioxide and hydrogen gas though), and in the uranium fission, a small bit of the mass of the uranium atom gets converted to thermal energy (using E=mc^2). The total energy is always constant, though. Anyways, nuclear fusion would be a really good idea, if we could get it to work properly, and safely. But until we can make fusion powerplants ourselves, why not used the natural one we orbit? (the sun, that is) |
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There are 2 problems with using the sun as an energy source. The first problem is the expense of putting up solar panels to get the energy. But if we needed energy THAT badly, money really wouldnt matter that much. Secondly, it is actually a very inefficent way of gathering energy, the main problem is the earth's atmosphere. Orbital power stations could solve that problem; but then how would you get the energy to the ground, drop a line?
Right now, I think the best thing to do is to put more money into fusion power research here on Earth. You don't have to worry about getting the power where it needs to go, and it could also help stimulate research in other areas. Also, does anyone know the current progress on developing a room temperature superconductor? That alone would make almost all of the world's energy problems disappear... |
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dont get mad if someone put this
ok, get this recently scientists have discovered anti-matter while testing the big bang thory( the product of there test was matter and ant-matter ) and when anti-matter touches any kind of matter it annihalates making a huge amount of energy if scientists could find a way to stabalize anti-matter better and control the annihalations it could create so much energy like 1 gram of anti-matter is enough to run a small city for something like a week, so tell me what u think of that idea^^^ |
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I couldn't read it. You have atrocious grammar. Write it out again but speak normally and don't tell us not to get mad - why would anyone get mad? Just state the facts.
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The anti-matter sounds like a good idea, if all that you said is true.
Also, I have heard of places running off of lightening energy. Some where out in some desert on this huge plateau they have a lot of rods sticking in to the sky (I'm assuming it storms alot there). Tidal energy is also a major form of energy in France. |
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