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- Wed Aug 20, 2008 2:32 pm
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: Any silent 80mm low noise slim fan?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4422
- Fri Aug 15, 2008 3:33 am
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: Dust Filter questions
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3845
- Thu Aug 14, 2008 3:32 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Al Gore & Guy Dauncey's Energy Challenge to the World
- Replies: 133
- Views: 69773
Neil, you're still ignoring the real cause of all our problems.....too many people competing for too few resources (energy and otherwise). The band-aid patches you suggest are a short-term fix.....and will do nothing for the future problems we will face when the world population increases past the d...
- Wed Aug 13, 2008 3:40 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Al Gore & Guy Dauncey's Energy Challenge to the World
- Replies: 133
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Neil...you have yet to address unchecked population growth, which obviously would over-whelm our limited resources, even if we managed to solve our energy crisis. What will happen when we start tripping over each other? Mass starvation, followed by the thing you hate worse....wars. Gore wants to fix...
- Wed Aug 13, 2008 3:09 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Al Gore & Guy Dauncey's Energy Challenge to the World
- Replies: 133
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Neil...it's quite obvious the entire earth will run out of all resources in the future, if population growth continues almost un-checked. Hoping that an increased standard of living will limit growth is a stretch. Hell...a big part of our population won't even use birth control of any sort, due to t...
- Tue Aug 12, 2008 3:53 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Al Gore & Guy Dauncey's Energy Challenge to the World
- Replies: 133
- Views: 69773
"The solutions to our problems are all pretty obvious"....... not true at all. China's solution to this problem has been to limit population growth by law. That certainly works. We could implement such programs right here...... mandatory abortion, sterilization, birth control, sex education. All wou...
- Mon Aug 11, 2008 3:55 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Al Gore & Guy Dauncey's Energy Challenge to the World
- Replies: 133
- Views: 69773
- Mon Aug 11, 2008 3:05 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Al Gore & Guy Dauncey's Energy Challenge to the World
- Replies: 133
- Views: 69773
Neil....I won't ignore anyone who has political opinions. But when that person advocates a policy (like Gore's green policies), that he, himself can't/won't follow, he deserves to be ignored. You listen to someone's opinions on the subject who wastes energy like mad? I won't. Gore has a heated outdo...
- Sun Aug 10, 2008 2:09 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Al Gore & Guy Dauncey's Energy Challenge to the World
- Replies: 133
- Views: 69773
- Tue Aug 05, 2008 2:28 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Al Gore & Guy Dauncey's Energy Challenge to the World
- Replies: 133
- Views: 69773
brainykid.......nuclear reactors can be built almost anywhere. They are on ships and submarines, some are on space-craft. Obviously the technical problems can be over-come. But the political problems with the "not-in-my-backyard" people, and the tree-hugger people pose a different problem. But I thi...
- Sat Aug 02, 2008 3:18 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Al Gore & Guy Dauncey's Energy Challenge to the World
- Replies: 133
- Views: 69773
It sure is easy to dream up all sorts of ways to store energy, when using an intermittent source for your power. Some ways work well and have been used successfully for years. Batteries are probably the most common, and the most portable......which is a major concern. Just how does Gore and company ...
- Thu Jul 31, 2008 3:26 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Al Gore & Guy Dauncey's Energy Challenge to the World
- Replies: 133
- Views: 69773
I'm always amused by discussions of this sort....and many of the proposals. There are radio talk shows around here frequently on this very subject. One amusing energy solution I heard the other day......dam the Mississippi, turning that river into a massive hydro-electric plant. Similar to what Chin...
- Wed Jul 30, 2008 2:31 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Al Gore & Guy Dauncey's Energy Challenge to the World
- Replies: 133
- Views: 69773
Neil.....you keep forgetting that the USA is sitting on vast amounts of untapped oil, and known amounts of coal that could last a thousand years. It's simply a matter of having the political will to change the regulations that keep us energy-starved. And you're now admitting that Gore's 10-year plan...
- Tue Jul 29, 2008 3:44 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Al Gore & Guy Dauncey's Energy Challenge to the World
- Replies: 133
- Views: 69773
Neil...there's a town in Northern Missouri of a thousand people and a few small industries, that supposedly gets all it's electricity from wind generators. What they don't mention.....they have no energy storage at all. When the winds are high they pump energy into the grid. When the winds are down ...
- Tue Jul 29, 2008 3:26 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Why a convicted murderer shouldn't die.....
- Replies: 120
- Views: 66037
Neil....it's an apple/orange comparison, when to attempt compare anything about the death penalty used in China, to the capital punishment used here. Same with all the other countries you list...... In the old days before the bleeding hearts took over, the USA actually used capital punishment as a d...
- Mon Jul 28, 2008 2:49 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Why a convicted murderer shouldn't die.....
- Replies: 120
- Views: 66037
Neil.....in effect, we have no capital punishment at all in the USA. Last I heard, the odds of a murderer receiving capital punishment are < 1-100. What sort of a deterrent is that? Make the odds 50-50 and watch the murder rate drop...... fat chance of that happening in this bleeding heart country. :x
- Mon Jul 28, 2008 11:43 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Al Gore & Guy Dauncey's Energy Challenge to the World
- Replies: 133
- Views: 69773
Neil....all of the energy solutions you mention are conceivable in the future. But Gore is talking about replacing all our present energy sources with these new solutions.....in ten years. Ridiculous. Just today, Ameren/UE (owner of the Missouri Calaway nuclear), filed the necessary paper-work to co...
- Mon Jul 28, 2008 4:15 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Why a convicted murderer shouldn't die.....
- Replies: 120
- Views: 66037
- Mon Jul 28, 2008 4:02 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Al Gore & Guy Dauncey's Energy Challenge to the World
- Replies: 133
- Views: 69773
Neil...I think many people are tricked into this solar/wind thing because on the surface it looks attractive. Free renewable energy from the sun and wind, etc. But neither is a 24/7 solution, unlike nuclear. I use a car battery to store my little solar energy for use at night. Not the best solution....
- Sat Jul 26, 2008 12:15 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Al Gore & Guy Dauncey's Energy Challenge to the World
- Replies: 133
- Views: 69773
Neil the ones I've heard I can describe as noisy.....a thump. thump, sound you can hear from a long way off, a deep sound you can hear through walls. Hawks and eagles for some reason seem to be killed more often than other birds....perhaps they're attracted to the noise. These things have to be loca...
- Sat Jul 26, 2008 12:03 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Why a convicted murderer shouldn't die.....
- Replies: 120
- Views: 66037
Yeah but the murders continue. This week St Louis County buried a poor 22 year old fireman. He was responding to a vehicle fire.....when he got out of his fire-truck, the murderer killed him with a shotgun. For no reason.... And you wanted this murderer to live? Why? Luckily for all of us, he commit...
- Thu Jul 24, 2008 11:23 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Al Gore & Guy Dauncey's Energy Challenge to the World
- Replies: 133
- Views: 69773
And the problems with those wind machines besides being expensive..... Noisy.....very noisy. Kills birds.....not a many as cats do, but a lot. Expensive to maintain, hard to work on. The one I know about in northern Missouri has blades 40 yards long, and stands higher than a football field. Those wi...
- Mon Jul 21, 2008 2:33 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Al Gore & Guy Dauncey's Energy Challenge to the World
- Replies: 133
- Views: 69773
Neil....listening to Gore on any subject, is like reading a book by Brittany Spears' mother on "How to raise children". You know going in, the man cares about one thing.....making money, and nothing about the truth. The fact that he sprinkles a few realities among the many lies he tells.....means no...
- Sun Jul 20, 2008 1:28 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Al Gore & Guy Dauncey's Energy Challenge to the World
- Replies: 133
- Views: 69773
Dear Mr Gore, If I were you, I'd solve the energy crisis in my own back-yard with my miracle devices, long before I told everyone else how to do things. Your own energy usage off the grid has been raising rapidly these last few years, even after the installation of your solar panels, wind machine, e...
- Sat Jul 05, 2008 12:44 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Hot....Firefox 3.0 Final.
- Replies: 45
- Views: 22078
- Sat Jul 05, 2008 2:10 am
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Scythe announces "Ninja 2"
- Replies: 43
- Views: 30249
- Thu Jul 03, 2008 1:51 am
- Forum: SPCR Announcements
- Topic: Hal W. Hardenbergh (Felger Carbon) died - RIP
- Replies: 35
- Views: 112098
A few years ago when the 220mm fans were coming out, you could only get one with a case. Apparently F.C. bought a bunch of these setups. One day I got a PM from him, offering to give me one of these new fans to see what I could do with it. I accepted the offer....a few days later I got a box with tw...
- Tue Jul 01, 2008 9:46 am
- Forum: SPCR Announcements
- Topic: Hal W. Hardenbergh (Felger Carbon) died - RIP
- Replies: 35
- Views: 112098
- Mon Jun 30, 2008 2:19 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: 12V DIY UPS for PicoPSU?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7050
My setup is nothing fancy.....a car battery in a plastic battery box, and a solar panel attached to my car port. Two wires routed into the house through the attic, and routed around to the battery location. The panel is hooked up and charging all the time when the sun is out. It's output is too low ...
- Mon Jun 30, 2008 1:55 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Global climate change *is* a security threat.
- Replies: 28
- Views: 10667
Avalanche..... farmers in the USA are not in business to solve the world's food shortage problem. Like almost everyone else, they're in business to make money, to survive. If they own marginal land that cannot grow crops like edible corn, they'll grow whatever they think will bring the highest monit...