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| Thread ID: 86949 | 2008-02-02 19:36:00 | Nuclear Power Documentary on TV One last night | somebody (208) | PC World Chat |
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| 636791 | 2008-02-13 01:16:00 | Good idea. :thumbs: Another simple thing to do is throw a few coils of black polythene pipe on the roof...works a charm if you have a dark roof. |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 636792 | 2008-02-13 01:17:00 | However, as a means of heating water and thus reducing demand on other sources it's terribly underutilised! 100% and well yes of course solar "power" right now is kinda useless, but this all started simply when i suggested that in 10 years time the technology may have advanced far enough to resolve that issue enough to make it viable likewise nuclear waste may be an invaluable fuel in the near future and we may find ways to extract otherwise unreachable oil left in old wells and we may find a way to fix all the environmental damage we have caused this last century |
motorbyclist (188) | ||
| 636793 | 2008-02-13 01:18:00 | Good post your 1337ness. | wratterus (105) | ||
| 636794 | 2008-02-13 01:31:00 | Good idea. :thumbs: Another simple thing to do is throw a few coils of black polythene pipe on the roof...works a charm if you have a dark roof. There's a guy up the road from me who has a kind of boarding house who does exactly that, and has done for years. I assume it makes a difference if the water coming into the holding tank is already warm. Given that his holding tank is in the ceiling, he's likely doing what i did as well to some extent. Good on him. I might add that my system was first done by accident. I put the system togather with the idea of having the holding tank as high as possible for pressure purposes, and discovered that i could get an almost warm shower dsirect from that if there was little use of the water that day, so i got a second holding tank and placed it by the first, purely to harvest the warmth of the day. If you ever go into an tall attick withing a dark iron roof on a hot day, you'll see how much heat there is to harvest. I've nearly passed out in my old attick while rewiring the place. |
personthingy (1670) | ||
| 636795 | 2008-02-13 01:42:00 | Perhaps 'can't' install now means there has been some law passed against it, wouldn't surprise me, for 'safety' reasons or something. I know when parents put theirs in they had the option to go high pressure, but opted against it, for water and power saving. Please do listen to the plumber though...don't refer them to me. Sorry I have referred them on to you, E Can should be in touch soon. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 636796 | 2008-02-13 01:44:00 | Sorry I have referred them on to you, E Can should be in touch soon. Fair call, I'll let 'em know whats what. :badpc: |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 636797 | 2008-02-13 01:49:00 | If you ever go into an tall attick withing a dark iron roof on a hot day, you'll see how much heat there is to harvest. I've nearly passed out in my old attick while rewiring the place. according to my home ventilation system, my attic is currently at 37 degrees, 10 degrees higher than the room temperature some day's i've seen 50 degrees up there, a good 20 degrees difference. shallow roof, small flat, steel painted light green i should hook up a few stirling engines around the house and see how much power i can generate:lol: maybe we could get cheap solar energy using existing road surfaces to heat water to drive generators of some sort? on a side note, i hear if every rooftop in the world was painted white, it would reflect enough solar energy back into space to cool the world by more than a degree celcius.... |
motorbyclist (188) | ||
| 636798 | 2008-03-14 07:49:00 | A bottleneck in the production of Nuclear Reactors that nobody seems to have realized and if that is the case do you trust them with making the decision to build more of them in the first place, 'I find it just amazing that so many people jumped on the bandwagon of this renaissance without ever looking at the industrial side of it,'' Schneider said.' bloomberg.com Don't miss the last bit on the process itself. |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 636799 | 2008-03-14 08:56:00 | A bottleneck in the production of Nuclear Reactors that nobody seems to have realized and if that is the case do you trust them with making the decision to build more of them in the first place, 'I find it just amazing that so many people jumped on the bandwagon of this renaissance without ever looking at the industrial side of it,'' Schneider said.' bloomberg.com Don't miss the last bit on the process itself. Theres also a bottleneck in producing LCD anything right now. So are people stupid to buy LCD products or order them? |
beeswax34 (63) | ||
| 636800 | 2008-03-14 09:48:00 | You seemed to have missed my point altogether, I can't figure out whether it's deliberate obtuseness or just plain stupidity and ignorance. | zqwerty (97) | ||
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