Steve Jones - SSC Editor (2/1/2011)

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kswartze (2/1/2011)

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Steve,

I find that after reading "What's a Passive Server?", I still don't know what a passive server is. The only bone you threw...

Steve,

I find that after reading "What's a Passive Server?", I still don't know what a passive server is. The only bone you threw us was at the very end...

10 minute charge sure sounds great, but can anyone dig up details on this "250kW high power charger" that's required to do it?

I think a typical residential electrical service is...

About 50% of the energy in fossil fuel or nuclear plants is sent into the condenser as waste heat that is unrecoverable (entropy). So for every KWH of energy...

Can you define "chemical efficiency" and/or explain how it is more valid than thermodynamic efficiency for comparing electric v gasoline cars?

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I should stay on topic. That is something...

Sorry, Steve. The topic has gotten out of bounds and I'm a chief culprit. I will take up my idealogical topics elsewhere.

msbassinger:

Regarding the relative efficiency of internal combustion...

"...The AGCC movement seems to be comprised of anticapitalist, pro-socialist people. That makes me wonder if the AGCC is simply a vehicle (no pun intended) for making our nation...

Some good points, mbasssinger, but you're all wet on this one:

"...Nope, not true. 50% of the energy generated (aside from hydroelectric) to make electricity (even in nuclear power plants)...

I personally believe that AGCC adherants are vastly unscientific, which is different than thinking AGCC is a hoax. I own a mainstream science history book published in the early...

Hydrogen is NOT a power source! No matter how many times you refer to it as such (i.e. everywhere in the referenced article opining that "Hydrogen won't matter for...