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Post by wordweaver3 on Feb 20, 2015 10:08:20 GMT
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Post by Canuovea on Apr 7, 2015 18:55:04 GMT
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Post by wordweaver3 on Apr 7, 2015 20:32:19 GMT
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Post by wordweaver3 on Apr 7, 2015 20:40:22 GMT
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Post by Horsie on Apr 7, 2015 21:45:10 GMT
I assume the finished product will look like this; I wonder how effective it would be against rifles though, they only mentioned how it performed against a bullet travelling at 1400fps, and that's something pistol-calibre for sure.
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Post by wordweaver3 on Apr 8, 2015 5:06:53 GMT
I assume the finished product will look like this; Well, they are Polish. I'd like to see how it performs against rifles as well. 1 centimeter of indention from a 1400 fps projectile is very impressive, but they left a lot of information out. What size bullet? FMJ, solid lead or hollow point? I'd also like to know what it's working temperature range is since liquids tend to act differently due to how hot or cold they are.
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Post by wordweaver3 on Oct 19, 2016 2:46:04 GMT
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Post by Canuovea on Oct 19, 2016 4:29:16 GMT
I doubt it.
You're going to have problems with the burning, and almost no reaction we know of is 100% self sufficient. That being said, it could perhaps have a very effective engine.
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Post by wordweaver3 on Oct 19, 2016 4:57:00 GMT
Yeah, I know.
Conservation of Energy basically states that no matter what you do energy is lost every time you convert it. Through friction or some other form of loss. A perpetual motion machine that creates as much or more energy than it consumes is impossible.
However, being able to reroute the exhaust of a machine back into itself could result in an engine that may not be particularly efficient (at least in terms of horsepower) but would have extremely low emissions and fuel requirements.
Also, being able to produce ethanol directly from carbon dioxide eliminates the wasteful, environmentally destructive, and possible amoral nature of creating it through biomass.
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Post by Canuovea on Oct 19, 2016 5:01:50 GMT
It certainly has some wonderful implications.
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Post by wordweaver3 on Oct 19, 2016 5:44:43 GMT
I'm just worried that this might be another "cold fusion" thing. Cuz transforming carbon dioxide directly into ethanol seems almost sci-fi.
Isn't that similar to what Keanu Reeves was doing in Chain Reaction?
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Post by Canuovea on Oct 19, 2016 5:57:01 GMT
No idea about Chain Reaction, but yeah, this is pretty much too good sounding to be true. It must now be reproduced by other scientists and stuff.
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Post by wordweaver3 on Oct 19, 2016 19:37:23 GMT
Chain Reaction was about a hydrogen generator if I remember correctly. The oil companies were trying to kill off everyone involved because it meant free energy or something. Even though the device they made was self sustaining and could explode like a nuke.
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Post by Canuovea on Oct 19, 2016 19:43:43 GMT
Huh. Well, they did buy the designs for an electric car some time back to prevent it getting popular... not that it lasted too long.
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Post by wordweaver3 on Mar 29, 2017 15:59:08 GMT
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