My Cartier “Tank LC” runs 45 hours, if I fully wind it. That’s fairly typical, but there has been one upsmanship to see who can make the longest-running model. Patek Philippe’s “5100′ took the lead in 2000 by running 240 hours=10 days. In 2003, Patek added the $240,000 “5101″ tourbillon to its line. It also runs 10 days. Do these two models still hold the record for power reserve? Serious answers only, please!
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Tagged Cartier, cartier tank, lead, line, model, models, Patek, Philippe, power, record, tank, tourbillon, upsmanship, wristwatches
My Hydro Bill is unusually high, Im great with lights and I dont leave alot of things running, as I really cant afford to!! My question is, My hot water tank alllows me all of a 10 minute shower if Im lucky!! Can a burnt out burner cause more hydro to be used then nessesary??? And if so……..I rent, is it out of my power to ask my landlord to replace my hot water tank even though it does work a little??? Please remember I live in BC Canada!! thanks a million!!
No, Im talking about Hydro BC, thats electricity!! thats what the bill is called in BC, Canada……Im not talking about water use!! Im talking the heating of the water!!
i have an acura legend, and i have found it to at time bog it self down ( and not go over 40 mph ). now i just got the car and it did set for awhile, i have put some of the stuff that goes in your tank to get the water out ( cus i thought that maybe there was some water in the tank ) but that didnt really help any i was thinking about doing it again but i dont really know if its going to help or not. so i said maybe you guys can help me. thanks for your time
We recently had a terrible wind storm and shut off power everywhere. I ran out of gas and someone loaned me gasoline, I poured it into my tank, come to find out it was mixed with oil. I have since filled my tank with premium gas and a product to boost the engine. What else can I do or is this normal?
10 to 15 years ago there was alot of discussion about cold fusion powering everything. It was said you would fill a tank up in your car with water and that would be the fuel. It also was supposed to be pollution free. Why don’t we hear about it anymore? Was it proven to be impossible? Was if found to actually cause pollution? Was it found to be too unstable?
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Tagged alot, Car, cold fusion, discussion, energy, everything, Fusion, IDEA, pollution, tank, water
Here is a little comparison of the energy inputs in producing ethanol and in producing gasoline. Obviously, you expend some energy. You don’t get all the energy from the oil in your gas tank. You expend some of that in drilling it, in pumping it, transporting it, refining it and hauling it to the service station, and so forth. So you use 1.23 million Btu’s to get 1 million Btu’s.
Well, what is the story with corn? Now, you have a lot of free energy with corn. You have the solar energy, the photosynthesis that makes the corn grow. And this is about as good as it is going to get. To get 1 million Btu’s of energy out of corn, you are going to have to spend about three-fourths of a million Btus in growing the corn, harvesting it, processing the ethanol, and so forth.
Down at the bottom here is a very interesting pie chart, and it shows something that very few people know, and that is that almost half the energy that goes into producing corn comes from nitrogen fertilizer, which is now made from natural gas. So this is a fossil fuel input. This is all fossil fuel input, by the way.
You just go around this little pie here and you are talking about mining the potash, and mining the phosphate, and mining the lime that makes the soil sweeter so that the nutrients can be absorbed. The diesel fuel in the tractor, the gasoline, the liquid propane gas, the electricity you use is produced by
fossil fuels. The natural gas you use for drying your crops, for instance, the custom work, the guy you hire to come.
And then all of the chemicals, something that we rarely, rarely reflect on. Gas and oil are huge feedstocks for a very important petrochemical industry. Most of our insecticides, most of our herbicides and so forth are made from gas and oil. And this is the contribution they make to growing corn. It is really, really quite large there, isn’t it?
I have been told that 13 percent of our corn crop would displace 2 percent of our gasoline. But the only fair way to look at the contribution ethanol can make is to grow corn with energy from corn, and you can do that. But if you grow corn with energy from corn, to get a bushel of corn to use here, you have to use three bushels of corn. Remember, the 750,000 Btu inputs to get a million? You need three bushels going in to get one out, which means that it is one to four. You only get a fourth of it out, which means that you are going to have to use 52 percent of your corn crop to displace just 2 percent of our gasoline.
So when you are hearing the euphemistic projections of how much of our gasoline we are going to displace with ethanol, just remember these numbers.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/F?r110:103:./temp/~r110AeNr4Y:e20222:
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I am about to begin construction on a house and I am going well out of my way to make sure the entire house will be as energy efficient and independent as possible. All appliacnes will be able to run off of solar electric system EXCEPT air conditioning and no matter how much i search, this issue is a problem. The only alternative solution I might have found is a natural gas air conditioner. BUT I only have propane available from a 1000gallon tank (planned, I guess I could go bigger). I know that almost anything natural gas can be converted to propane, but would rather not void any warantee’s and I don’t know if those systems are economical. Please help with any information you can provide? Low power evaportaive a/c’s they have out West don’t work in Florida, too much humidity.
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Tagged air, air condition, air conditioner, air conditioning, alternative solution, condition, construction, energy, Florida, gas, HOUSE, humidity, natural gas, offgrid, propane, solar electric system, sqft, tank, warantee, way, west don