matthew said:

Doc,

I was reading a while back about some work using sterlings to replace thermocouples in RTG to boost efficiency. Any other thoughts on where they might be useful?

Yeah, I read about that too. It seems like a pretty good idea. The one disadvantage as far as I can see is the whole issue of reliability. The thing about thermocouplers is that they’re free of moving parts and can do their thing for a long long time. The ones on the Voyagers are still in pretty good shape.

A reciprocating piston in a little engine just does not seem like the kind of thing you can reasonably expect to keep chugging in deep space for 30+ years with nobody to lube it or service it in any other way.

I don’t really know if that matters though. If it’s just for a mission of a few months or a year to deep space it might work out just as well.

It definitely could boost efficiency that is for sure.

        drbuzz0 said:

Sterling engines work very well in a few narrow circumstances, but their thermal efficiency is nothing amazing. They may work better than steam in circumstances where the temperature difference is relatively low, but like all thermal engines they max out at the Carnot Limit.

In practice they don’t really get anywhere close.

The thermal efficiency for a small to medium sterling engine is about 15%-30%.

Doc,

I was reading a while back about some work using sterlings to replace thermocouples in RTG to boost efficiency. Any other thoughts on where they might be useful?

        Alexis1111 said:

Alexis1111 is male not female as implied by the depleted cranium contributor that cant help to jumping to conclusions without the slightest substantiation. Trying to prop the female uprising hoax on my back, lol. Have you no shame?

I never said I knew you were female, only that I thought it was a distinct possibility given the name. It doesn’t matter one way or another. Are you saying it would be an insult to be believed to be a female?

Oh well, you’re an crazy guy and not a crazy girl. doesn’t matter too much in the end.

You disipoint me. Really? That stupid an error?

sure, you can make hydrogen peroxide from water using energy and you can use it to generate energy, but you can’t do it all in a closed system.

it’s like saying a motor turns an generator to power the motor. Okay – I get you won’t understand that because it’s not a perfect comparison..

A system that produces a chemical using energy and generates energy by consuming the same chemical can never work. There is an energy deficit.

You need energy to make the hydrogen peroxide. Where does this energy come from? It can’t come from the hydrogen peroxide engines!

I know how a sterling engine works, but you’re wrong about them being the most pollution-free super efficient engines ever known. They are thermal engines and require heat to run, so “pollution free” depends entirely on where that heat comes from. They’re just like a steam turbine or a reciprocating steam engine or any other thermal engine except they have a closed gas-phase working fluid.

Sterling engines work very well in a few narrow circumstances, but their thermal efficiency is nothing amazing. They may work better than steam in circumstances where the temperature difference is relatively low, but like all thermal engines they max out at the Carnot Limit. In practice they don’t really get anywhere close.

The thermal efficiency for a small to medium sterling engine is about 15%-30%. That’s roughly the same as a gasoline engine of the same size but less than a high efficiency diesel engine. At larger sizes, turbines just work a lot better.

You’re really boring me. Really.

The running of the Stirling cycle engine is what will charge the battery banks that turn the screws. The Hydrogen peroxide is manufactured onboard the submarine and serves to feed the “hot” portion of the “hot-cold” thermal piston action. The air sealed inside the cylinders expands and contracts based on the thermal disparities at its extremities. The hydrogen peroxide is not turning the screws, it is feeding one of the most pollution-free, silent, super efficient engines known to man. It does not need air to function and the hydrogen peroxide fuel made onbaod by electrical process is consumed leaving fresh water and oxygen that can be exhausted back to the showers and life support systems.

Your grim views of the engines potential are not founded on reality. The nuclear navy=Sirling/battery array concepts. Nothing more exotic than that. The rest is taken care by big piles of national secrecy gag rules. The hoaxster’s paradise in other words.

You claim that it is absurd that that hoaxes of that magnitude would be kept from you when in fact my online debunks at LF started in 2004 and that was when the world was informed that earth is a nuclear-free zone now. Just because you have no clue where to get quality information does not mean it was not out there right under your nose if you had put your preconceptions aside and your personal bias aside and explore this new reality with an open mind and a wideband curiosity. Not the type of curiosity hobbled by personal interests of a monetary nature or other. The world is growing aware of the atom bomb hoax cluster exponentially meaning the idea is getting around faster than a pandemic. They are having trouble kick-starting the Iran illusions of failed diplomacy because its very fioundation and justification is coming under serious scrutiny for the first time. People worldwide are becoming aware of these multi-billion dollar jew-driven rackets. The jews have the means, the motives, and the opportunity to pull off large scale robberies like those. Most jews know this also.

It’s absurd that this would not just be kept from me, but that such a program could be kept from the word;

        Finrod said:

My view now reflects that of DV82XL. Ignore this pathetic, deluded neo-nazi wannabe. It can be amusing for a little while to play with a loony, but this nutbar’s racism and race hatred eliminates any amusement factor.

I’m with you Finrod. I’m done.

Usually when the best arguments coming from the affirmers are concerning the gender of the messenger instead of the substance that makes up the hoax debunk that means the bag of misdirections has finally bottomed-out, empty.

Now that the craniums here are a little less depleted maybe I should get back to my work and let you good folk sort this out or I dont mind chatting some more if a few quality questions start cropping up. Quality questions are those that leave one perplexe even after a reasonable effort at finding the truth of the matter failed to bear fruit. I like those questions that show the person has made a minimal effort at discovering how deep the rabbit hole really goes.

Thank you to my host that gratiously let me express myself and inform the readers. The world needs more like you.

So, in your opinion 5000 orbiting satellites, many in line of sight LEO positions with respect to one another cannot be arranged in a configuation that simulates GEOstationary orbit? I need to hear your most compelling argument in support of that impossible idea. Especially the part where you claim that approximately 500 of the 8000 manmade objects in orbit around the earth are satellites after claiming you have no idea how many are up there. A bit contradictory if you ask me.

Also, are you claiming you observed 500+ satellite sun reflections per day on the horizon where you are located?

Assuming I made a claim that only 50 well positioned satellites are all that is required to simulate GEOstationary using a LEO trickery of highly synchronized propritary software configurations to meet domestic needs. I imagine rotating dishes were no party to maintain. Better to organize LEO birds to eliminate that chaos.

Btw, Japan endured on of the most complete, draconian, nation-wide censorship campaigns known to journalists worldwide. Approach all testimonials with great caution. Let reason prevail instead. McArthur had Japan all “zipped-up” if you will pardon the expression. At least 165 B-29 were required after the Tokyo area numbers were adjusted to the Hiroshima damage model. One half the bombers that raided Tokyo March 9-10 1945 in the evening of friday to saturday afternoon. Swarm after swarm dropping firesticks on the most flammable cities of the epoch. Firestorms are sure to ensue on very short notice.

The Richter estimates represent tremors arising from shockwaves. Elementary physics eludes you. A blast they say uprooted a big camphor tree in Hiroshima is not the burning of autumn leaves.