Energy Matters Global and Domestic

[mickthemaverick]

I ran my Mitsubishi Delica 2800 Turbo on 100% untreated but filtered used cooking oil from a supplier in Suffolk. I set up the car with a changeover so I could start on diesel and, after 5 minutes running, switch over to the pre-heated oil for the duration of my journey, switching back to diesel for the last couple of miles to ensure the oil didn't cool in the injection system. Worked brilliantly for three years including trips to Monza and Spa and calculating price for price gave me the equivalent of 60 -70mpg ! It is documented somewhere on the forum but I can't remember where!!
Edit: Some info at: viewtopic.php?p=719672#p719672

[myglaren]

I bet that smelled Deliciaous!



My coat? Why, thank you.


Actually, I ran my C5 on biodiesel made on the industrial estate where I worked, exceptionally cheap and it smelled quite nice, rather like alcohol.

[Peter.N.]

Paraffin is 28 sec heating oil - like what we use. About 90p per litre at the moment, was about half that. So if you know anyone who uses it scrounge some - or even offer to buy it! If you want some delivered its minimum of 1000 litres so you need a big tank!

Peter

[mickthemaverick]

This will generate some head scratching!!



So now you know!!!

[Peter.N.]

Looks impressive but does it work?

Peter

[Gibbo2286]

Looks impressive but does it work?

Peter

That's my question also Peter, remember the old saying 'Bullshit baffles brains.'

[Peter.N.]

They reckoned it was imminent in the '50s Gibbo, electricity so cheap it wouldn't need metering.

Peter

[NewcastleFalcon]

Ad Gefrin Distillery under construction Wooler Northumberland.
Partially powered by nuclear fusion in a remote reactor 93 million miles or so away.

Here's the perennial straw to clutch at. By far the best fusion reaction so far is the one at a safe-ish distance about 93 million miles away, which is doing a decent enough job of warming the planet and has done for a few years now. A surprisingly relatively cheap method has been devised to harness that energy and turn it into electricity. "ladies and gentlemen we have the technology" to paraphrase the boffins from the Six Million Dollar Man.

So how are the Boffins getting on with fusion, none of that inconvenient nuclear waste to store....surely Helen knows the score. Spoiler alert...nothing new apart from the straw clutching of investors putting money into the research.

Helen Czerski doing her best to explain the stuff

Nuclear fusion energy absorber for home, schools, churches, libraries, bridges, offices, supermarkets, businesses and industry of all kinds. Here's a few panels on a new distillery roof.

Ad Gefrin Distillery under construction Wooler Northumberland.
Partially powered by nuclear fusion in a remote reactor 93 million miles or so away.

No compulsion to secure a bit of independent energy supply for the business, just you would be mad not to. I think businesses get it, but it would appear property developers/house constructors don't on the evidence round here.
Plenty of developments in the last 3 or 4 years, but hardly any have solar panels installed as part of the build.

REgards Neil

[bobins]

I saw fields of those solar panels the other week on a drive across country. Completely useless - thwarted by a bit of snow lying on them. Fantastic when they're working, not when they aren't.

[Peter.N.]

We have hundreds if not thousands acres of them down here on the Dorset/Devon border. There is a big 400kv sub station just on the border so most of the farms have far more panels than animals. Now the leaves have fallen there are miles of panels along the B3165 Crewkerne - Lyme Regis road. Some farms have been turned over completely to solar. Must be earning a fortune I would think.

They have benefited some people, my son who is a window cleaner particularly, he has one job a few miles down the road that takes two days. There have been a few of window cleaners electrocuted doing them! They run at several hundred volts if there are a lot of them What used to be the farm below us is now vineyards. The farm has changed hands five or six times since we lived here, the previous owner to the current one had 50kw worth of solar installed on the roof of the covered yard. We have supposedly 4kw worth but rarely see more than 2.5kw but that is well worth having now.

Peter

[NewcastleFalcon]

This will generate some head scratching!!
So now you know!!!

Got round to watching the whole thing. Well presented and the chap from Helion David Kirtley was calm confident obviously very knowledgeable and with a clear vision of of the path to progressing the innovative process from where it is now to scaling up and harnessing the energy output, identifying the problems still to be solved.

Probably no need to spoil an innovative demonstration of fusion in a very informative video, with some "electricity in, a dash of widely available deuterium, greater than electricity out" negativity.

REgards Neil

[myglaren]

Some rather unsettling energy stuff from Tesla:
Beeb.

Questionable 'energy'.

[Gibbo2286]

Some rather unsettling energy stuff from Tesla:
Beeb.

Questionable 'energy'.

It says:
"It's one of a number of locations run by Tesla BioHealing - no relation to the car company - dotted around the US."

But I bet it's using the name because it sells. The claims are all protected by the small print, all they're offering is a good rest and meditation which I'm sure some will say is good for you.

[mickthemaverick]

[Ross_K]

Some rather unsettling energy stuff from Tesla:
Beeb.

Questionable 'energy'.

Americans will jump at this kind of nonsense because it's cheaper than actual healthcare.

As Homer Simpson's doctor said about his hair restoration cream "Any improvement may be purely coincidental"