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General Science / Thermal to Electricity Generator?
« on: 20/07/2009 12:24:42 »
The obvious method would be some sort of stirling engine. Lots of nice diagrams etc on wikipedia...
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Mazurka,Absolutely - it is the difference between engines using the Diesel (compression igntion) (rather than Otto(spark ignition)) cycle and engines using diesel fuel.
Surely you know that not all diesels run on fuel oil?
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Dunno, but the contents of (half of) the Channel Tunnel makes up a pretty convincing new hill near Folkestone. You can see it from the approach road.They also disposed of 5million m^3 of it to create Samphire Hoe nature reserve/ white cliffs viewing platform
People actually study carbonate petrology?Youd love it...LOTS of chemistry!
Only if you have an aberrant personality and decide to study non-carbonate petrology.
1. You judge a restaurant by the type of decorative building stone they use rather than their food.Building stone is the sole redeeming features to "shopping" trips. I have been tempted to write a short guide to the floor of a local shopping centre.
2. You manage to turn any conversation into a discussion of geology, as in: "What did you think of that Superbowl game last night?" "I must have missed that conference. Who sponsored it? Geological Society of America?"note to self: must try harder.
3. You refuse to let nightfall stop your field excursions and continue looking at the outcrops using the headlights of your field vehicle."It will save me having to come back tomorrow"
4. You like rock music only because it's called "rock" music.This is right in principle (although deeply wrong in practice)
absolutely
5. You will try to claw through the water flowing in a stream to get a better look at the bedrock at the base of the channel.
6. You will walk across eight lanes of freeway traffic to see if the outcrop on the other side of the highway is the same type of rock as the side you're parked on.Not yet - although I have had a policeman stop and ask me what is was doing at a roadside exposure
7. You name your children after rocks and minerals.tick
8. You're not sure if you have children.
9. You view non-geologists as subhuman.Not so much subhuman, as ill educated ignoramuses
Nothing in geology is ever quite complete is it?
If you wonder why there are only 9 questions you are NOT a geologist.