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| 7/18/06
Posted on 07/18/2006 12:05:31 PM PDT by LouAvul
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To: Bikers4Bush
"LISA! In this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!"
To: wbill
It's interesting, they're not really storing water, they're storing electricity -- the electricity they used to pump it up, until they convert it back to electricity to sell for more. I never knew about this, I don't think. Probably something that's gotten more profitable as the water supply out west has gotten squeezed.
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posted on
07/18/2006 1:54:41 PM PDT
by
ichabod1
(I have to take a shower.)
To: RobRoy
I am ALWAYS prepared for it. So far, knock on wood.
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posted on
07/18/2006 1:55:51 PM PDT
by
ichabod1
(I have to take a shower.)
To: eraser2005; Bikers4Bush
What they may be doing is using the mine shafts for peak demand periods to supplement conventional generating and then using the excess capacity of the conventional power station (at night) to pump the water back out. Thus excess power can be stored.
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posted on
07/18/2006 1:56:03 PM PDT
by
OSHA
(Lose money FAST playing penny stocks. Ask me how!)
To: Some hope remaining.
So, since obviously energy is wasted when we eat between what we eat, and what we can produce, there is no reason for us at all. We should all starve.
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posted on
07/18/2006 1:56:54 PM PDT
by
ichabod1
(I have to take a shower.)
To: CedarDave
But, but, but what about the salmon and other fishI read a piece a while back about the Snake River, IIRC, out west where they TRUCK the fish up above the dams.
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posted on
07/18/2006 1:58:50 PM PDT
by
ichabod1
(I have to take a shower.)
To: Bigh4u2
Don't you know how his theory works? Just pray to the Energy Fairy, click your solenoid and think of cruise control.
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posted on
07/18/2006 2:01:48 PM PDT
by
Zman
To: Sax
Why am I getting an image of Lee Ermey's character, Sgt. Hartman, from Full Metal Jacket? I'm getting the same idea. He shouts "JUMP!"
..and we're supposed to yell: "HOW HIGH?"
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posted on
07/18/2006 2:02:10 PM PDT
by
capt. norm
(W.C. Fields: "The time has come to take the bull by the tail and face the situation".)
To: -YYZ-
Desktop Fusion: Been there, done that.
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posted on
07/18/2006 2:02:43 PM PDT
by
ichabod1
(I have to take a shower.)
To: eraser2005
SOmeday, someone will find a way! :)
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posted on
07/18/2006 2:04:56 PM PDT
by
ichabod1
(I have to take a shower.)
To: RobRoy
Not for commuting. Especially for trips to the park-and-ride, or the local grocery storeSo, you'd pay 15 or 20k for trips to the store?
Any way...it's just MY opinion...I'm not saying it's eveyones
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posted on
07/18/2006 2:05:08 PM PDT
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
To: Sax
I hate a b@stard that cracks you up and then yells at you even more for laughing. That's low down.
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posted on
07/18/2006 2:06:22 PM PDT
by
ichabod1
(I have to take a shower.)
To: ichabod1
Wipe that disgusting grin off your face.
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posted on
07/18/2006 2:07:41 PM PDT
by
Sax
To: PeterPrinciple
I am moving toward the crotchety stage and want to do it with excellence....... My life's goal.... Curmudgeonry!
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posted on
07/18/2006 2:12:06 PM PDT
by
OSHA
(Lose money FAST playing penny stocks. Ask me how!)
To: Puppage
>>So, you'd pay 15 or 20k for trips to the store?<<
Nope.
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posted on
07/18/2006 2:12:48 PM PDT
by
RobRoy
(Islam is mor dangerous to the world now that Naziism was in 1937.)
To: soccer_maniac
Yeah, but where does the energy comes from at the power station? Advocates of electric cars fail to realize this. Of course they probably think there's a farm full of hamsters continuously running on wheels that supply power.
To: Living Free in NH
Now I'm no engineer (but I did stay in a Holiday Inn Express last night), but it seems to me that if a car is cruising down the road at 60 MPH, that it could somehow generate the power to charge the batteries that run the thing. You suggest an electric powered car could pull energy from the battery to turn the motor to turn the wheels to propel the vehicle and at the same time turn a generator to generate voltage and current at a rate equal to what is being drawn from the same battery?
It would be like a spring that winds itself back up while moving the car. You don't magically create energy from nothing.
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posted on
07/18/2006 2:21:49 PM PDT
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
To: Bikers4Bush
"They line the shafts with smaller turbines and then run water down the sides generating power from top to bottom using gravity. They then use some of the electricity they create to pump the water back up continuing the process."They have a name for this. It's called Perpetual Motion Machine. I can obtain shares in the company. Please send money.
To: Bikers4Bush
Believe what you'd like, it's
NOT happening
You should call your friend and explain what you claim here. If he is really in the business, he will enjoy the laugh.
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posted on
07/18/2006 2:29:38 PM PDT
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
To: capt. norm
"Where do you get those efficient machines you describe?" Only in the minds of the liberal media, never in the garages of real people. Your friend with 220v X 30Amps X 6 hours consumes 135,000 BTU, about the same as a gallon of gas (and about $5 bucks worth of electricity per night). The one described in the article (110v X 15 Amps X 1 hour) is only a tiny fraction of a gallon of gasoline in equivalent energy. It exists only in a liberals dreams.
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