PeterC
-
Posts
1,252 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Blogs
Gallery
Events
Posts posted by PeterC
-
-
23 minutes ago, Escadrille Ecosse said:
Peter
'Widely reported' is a subjective statement, the where being as important as the what.My Dad was in the RAF and I was in the UAS. There was a rule in the Officers Mess that controversial topics were not discussed as they were likely to lead to dissent.I would politely suggest that these sort of 'alternative' views of reality fall into the category of parked.If TRR has pages of this stuff then that would be a good place too keep this discussion and keep Sideways clear of it.You are obviously not aware of the UAPs that are being reported almsot daily by US Navy fighter pilots. Their UAP reports are now taken seriusoly by Congress and the Pentagon has been instructed to deliver annual reports. Google 'go-fast', 'tic-tac' and 'gimbal' for videos from US Navy fighters released by the Pentagon. Tis-tac was reported to the press by Cmdr Favor, in the top 20 most senior officers on USS Nimitz, the nuclear powered caarier.
-
16 minutes ago, Escadrille Ecosse said:
Sorry Peter but please not on Sideways
Colin,
What I am working on, and have been for 5years, IS falsifiable. The first step is to identify the 'that's odd ' observations, then to formulate a working hypothesis, then to test it with measurements. I have around 15 possible tests to date. The paralysis phenomenon is widely reported and is at the 'that's odd' stage.
Peter
-
16 hours ago, Nick Jones said:
Oh man...... what are you plotting?!
It's more trying to fathom how 'they' can do it. There are plenty of reports of witnesses being paralysed like that in close encounters eg https://www.thinkaboutitdocs.com/valensole-france-landing-maurice-masse-case/
Some brain neurones involved in movement control exhibit oscillatory calcium signals and ufo phenomena seem to be able to modify 'time'. In some ways Masse's paralysis resembles a Parkinson's 'off' state. Hooweverthe calcium oscillations in that pathway can be blocked by a drug without causing paralysis.
On TRR forum theres a long running thread 'when you have 90 minutes' where I have been posting this paranormal stuff.
-
John, Do you know of a drug that paralyses voluntary musculature (apart from the eyes) that leaves the patient aware, able to stand balanced, and breathing OK ? Is there a central pathway whose blockade could do that? Peter
-
23 minutes ago, RedRooster said:
It's all bollocks, I did some work in Germany a while back and the main windfarm sub station was powered by diesel generators as wind generated power couldn't be relied on, they kept that quiet.
A farmer in Wales with his own w/t did just that, and of course was discovered breaking the law - his wind turbine was impossible productive ! The subsidy he got from wind power easily covered the generator and fuel costs.
-
If this engineer has got the numbers right then battery electric is not the panacea to CO2 we are being lead to think:
-
Have dodged it also, or had it but did not notice any symptoms. But I have been taking 4000 IU D3 daily for 6 years, and have a serum level of 125 nmol/L ..so I expect to be protected from severe covid. Lay summary by a D3-expert retired clinician here:
http://www.drdavidgrimes.com/2022/02/covid-19-how-much-vitamin-d-do-we-need.html
Peter
-
Have you considered building a supercharger onto to existing engine? For road driving the extra torque across the rpm range transforms the feel of the engine, rather like having a couple of extra cylinders.
My talk for TR Register on supercharging TRs is here: https://supertrarged.wordpress.com/2015/08/10/iwe-tech-seminar-supercharging-trs-for-the-road/
Peter
-
It is possible to fall asleep at the wheel with eyes open. I speak from experience. I was in my 30s returning home at 3am after a full day in the lab the previous day. So I had only been only awake for ca 20 hours. I woke up when the Citroen Dyane had crossed the white line and was heading for an open gate into a field.
-
I am reading John Hasted's 'The metal benders' (1981). He was a physics prof at QMC, London. He studied the Enfield poltergeist and several children who could bend metal, like Geller. The book is scholarly and describes many expts of his and other european and japanese academics. He describes french metallurgy work on samples that show localised changes in paranormally bent stainless steel that would require 600C to induce, yet temperature probes show no changes. His conclusion is new physics is required. If your sole exposure to metal bending is from Randi and sceptic journalists, Hasted's work is science that reads as if fiction A couple of children could bend specimens without touching them.....
Peter
-
Herpes/nEvri have lost a package on 4 Jan sent from an on-line supplier in Hull. Seller claims to have sent another, but tracking still says 'package lost'. I have claimed a refund. Is there a way to tell which carrier on-line sellers use, I cant find that on Amazon.
Peter
-
1 hour ago, Escadrille Ecosse said:
Diesel/paraffin is a hydrocarbon. Molecules made up primarily of carbon and hydrogen. Combustion with oxygen breaks down the hydrocarbon. The oxygen reacts with the carbon to produce CO2 (ideally) and the hydrogen to produce H2O, water. There is no free hydrogen released.
It is true that there is a higher proportion of hydrogen atoms in LPG than diesel/paraffin and hence a higher proportion of H2O produced. It's why gas is less polluting than coal for power stations. But the basic chemistry remains the same. Any hydrocarbon combustion produces water.
And the combustion is never perfect, especially for high mollecular weight hydrocarbons, so even the best setup heater will produce some CO and unburned carbon (soot). You might not be able to smell or taste it but is is there.
Yes, diesel does produce water. C12 H24 is the average hydrocarbon chain in diesel so 24 water molecules for every 12 CO or CO2. Methane is CH4 so 4 waters per C burned, roughly double the water/ carbon ratio of diesel. Coke or charcoal anyone?
-
There are on-line prescribing services supposedly run by GMC-accredited doctors. Not cheap. eg Dokteronline.
-
Cant be long before the NHS offers subsidised trips to Dignitas.
-
7 hours ago, JohnD said:
Peter,
I know that arguing with true believers is useless, but your intervention distracts from a discussion of the real causes of the destruction of the NHS.
The daily requirement of Vit D is 400-600 International Units (about 20 MICROgrams). This may be found in 100g of an oily fish, such as salmon or mackerel, OR by spending 15 minutes with the arms and legs exposed to summer sunshine, if you are light-skinned, much longer if dark-skinned. The vitamin is synthesised by UV in the skin.
It's a valid argument that we evolved to live naked in a sunny climate and have developed to wear clothes in cold places. We have also evolved a paler skin, so that the first, or moderate supplements by tablet are adequate, in summer time. But the VitD lobby has chosen to go the MegaDose route, advocating ten times the requirement every day, and arguing that it has a multiple role in physiology so will protect us against multiple threats and illnesses. Why would evolution have gone that route, when dark-skinned people in our original African home would need to find a kilogram of fish, or more of other foods, to eat every day? Such an evolution would have left us as vulnerable as the Dodo, which clearly we are not.
Sad to say, this is reminiscent of the fallacy of so much modern 'wellness' advocacy, and the work of Linus Pauling. "If something is good for you, then more is better." Pauling was a genius who won TWO Nobel prizes, but he became convinced that MegaDose Vit C would cure the 'common' cold. He said that a daily GRAM or more of VitC, ten times the accepted daily requirement, a 'hammer' as you have described megadose VitD, would prevent or cure a cold, although in both cases the excess vitamin would be excreted, unused, un-metabolised and unchanged, in the urine that same day.
No one now accepts Pauling's theory, and I fear that the Megadose Vit D is a Dodo too.
John
John, I am beyond discussing the science of D3 with medical professors: it bores me. Unfortunately you are being mislead by those professors in their "expert committees". The extensive science literature gives chapter and verse as to why 400-600 IU daily is ten fold too low (except for bone health). I am chasing more exciting science now that all my family , friends and wider aquaintances are D3-aware. My duty re D3 as a scientist is done. Time will tell who is right. Peter
-
20 hours ago, JohnD said:
Easily found, Peter. This is from Birmingham, as an example. See: https://www.uhb.nhs.uk/news-and-events/news/410-people-now-in-hospital-with-flu/625267
Tks John. The Beeb said 15% of A&E admissions this week were for flu + covid in England. D3 supplementation would have an effect, maybe reducing that to 2% judging by Israeli data, but it still leaves NHS in crisis. However if we examine the many known beneficial effects of D3 on non-infectiuos disease , even longevity, I suspect the burden on NHS could be geatly reduced, long term, given nation-wide supplementation to restore 25(OH)D to physiological levels. I live in hope but have moved on to a much more interesting area of science so will no longer labour the point. Peter
-
Much of the blame for winter-time pressures on NHS caused by severe infections such as 'flu and recently C-19 must be put upon professors in medical schools who still disregard D3 supplementation. Its action upon innate immunity is established beyond scientific doubt. Yet we see intelligent medical professors abiding by their self-generated dictat that the RCT is the 'gold standard' evidence, and then failing to ask why the RCTs for flu and C-19 have failed. They then amass all the failed RCTs and do a 'meta-analysis' thereby digging an even bigger hole for themselves. "Following the science"...my a***.
Has anyone got data on this winter's hospital admission load that is due to 'flu and C-19?
Peter
-
-
41 minutes ago, Sprint95m said:
would require tracking the birds........
Ian, Thats one of the long term aims of ringing them in winter....next week I expect when grandson visits. Peter
-
Here in winter, 600 feet asl in north Wales, we get ca30 tits mostly great and blue with 3 coals, blackbirds, nuthatches and chaffinches. But in spring tit numbers plummet. We suspect our trees come into leaf too late, so the birds migrate to find leafy trees with grubs. We are a BTO ringing site and the birds weigh ca 20% more than average, thanks to ad-lib peanuts, poultry corn and mealworms.
Peter
-
My suggestion: Registered-delivery snail-mail letter to HMRC, stating copied to your MP.
-
6 hours ago, RogerH said:
I would have thought that when the liquid fuel (at 7000psi) comes out of the injector nozzle and into the combustion chamber (@ atmos pressure)
it would chill down. A liquid/gas when subject to losing pressure will get colder - as per your humble Refrigerator
Roger
Roger, Yes....and No.
Complete evaporation of fuel to give a 13:1 AFR cools the gas by 20C.
But unlike a gas reducing the pressure on liquid fuel that remains liquid does not cool it. The reason is fuel is incompressible so pressure changes do not involve change in the motion of molecules, aka temperature. Peter
-
5 minutes ago, JohnD said:
beenCertainly, modern direct injection petrol engines, that use lean burn technology with extreme tumble and swirl achieve not only high power but low consumption. Some versions of the Ford Economist achieved 50% efficiency, a first for an ICE.
Thank you, Peter, for explaining the physics. I supposed that a gaseous fuel will encounter oxygen molecules more easily, so making combustion more likely. But if it's a gas it would need to be very cold indeed not to be above flash point.
The flash point becomes important in the final stages of flame-spread where temperatures are high. High octane fuel auto-ignites at ca 50C higher temperatures than lower RON, and this is why it reduces detonation. (and how water injection 'adds RON') I think its in Heywoods textbook.
Peter
-
Higher psi will deliver a higher particle velocity through the injector nozzle and much better atomisation. The effect is highly non-linear: as velocity rises the droplet size plummets. The smaller the droplets the closer the mixture comes to a gas. That ensures combustion is uniform, avoiding the need for droplets to evaporate. Expts with engines fed pre-evaporated fuel showed that very lean operation with stable combustion is feasible. Power also benefits as cycle-by-cycle irregularities are minimised. And I expect fuel consumption benefits, along with reduced tail-pipe HCs.
I wrote a blog post on combustion; https://supertrarged.wordpress.com/2015/02/25/combustion-basics/
and gave a talk: (ppt file): https://supertrarged.wordpress.com/2016/07/21/iwe-2016-technical-seminar/
My analysis of the formation and evaporation of water droplets might be of interest, although fuel will evaporate more rapidly the processes will be qualitatively similar:
https://supertrarged.files.wordpress.com/2016/01/tr6se-35-water-injection-revisited.pdf
Peter
Is this risk aversion too far?
in General Discussions on anything
Posted
Ask yourselves: "How fast does time flow?"
And then ask if the Nimitz tic-tac was manipulating 'time' in ways that science does not understand.
But I'll not trouble you with any ideas, I'm away from here, too many closed minds.