Saltwater Powered Generator

https://phys.org/news/2019-07-ultra-thin-layers-rust-electricity.html

Many have been waiting for graphene to be produced in larger volumes for this sort of thing, but this discovery means every ship in the world could possibly extract all their electricity out of the water, and anyplace that has the ability to deal with large volumes of steel can generate renewable energy. However, its early days yet, and we'll have to see how it works. Around the world, old ships are often sunk as part of storm walls and coral wreaths, and we'll just have to wait and see how the technology scales and whether it is as practical as it is promising.

The Pentagon already has plans to deploy 40,000 drones in the ocean that only need to be recharged once a year, if that often, and this technology will likely go into them as well.

 

They should be making power plants that run on salt water. I've been saying that for years. If the oceans are rising then let's use the water, there's gotta be something we can do. We could use it somehow to power everything and it would be good because it would free and healthy for the environment.

If we can apparently put a man on the freakin moon, and man on Mars next year or so and we can't figure this one out then I think that humans might pretty much be garbage.

 

well.. they are developing wave power.

 

That's good. But does it restrain rising waters? But yeah that's what I mean lol but somehow I dunno, evaporates water and turns it into drinking water somehow too hehe. And powers the world.

If we can't do that we are garbage.

 

oh i see! a high demand.

i'll get working on it now.

 

interesting!

Simon

 

Tried To Develop That Years Ago.......Was A Big Flop......Too Many Surfers Were Stealing

The Swells For It To Ever Work......



Cheers Glen.

 

I have always seen a future in wave power in the same way as solar and wind energy, but to date, it has not proved cost effective. The vast areas that would be needed close to the coastline are a major problem.
The floats also need to be light enough to float and produce kinetic energy at the same time, but heavy enough not to be torn apart in a storm. This proved to be a costly and ineffective combination.
I think that using the wind that creates the waves in the first place will end up as the preferred option.

Looking more deeply, If we generate enough energy from the wind to meet world demands, since we are absorbing the power of the wind, what affect will this have on world climate. Water is picked up into clouds to form rain over the oceans and it is purely wind that drives these clouds overland. Without wind, all the rain would fall back into the sea.
We all quote Newtons law that states, "Energy can neither be created or destroyed". Perhaps we should start looking at, "For every action, their is an equal and opposite reaction".

On a lighter note, I was told by my teachers that I would probably spend the later part of my life walking around London wearing sandwich boards.
The front board would read.....The End is Nigh.....And the rear board would say......Look out, Here it comes......
Many a true word spoken in jest.

 

The first quantum thermal diode, or Maxwell's Demon, was just created in the laboratory. It can move heat from a cold source to a hot one, without expending any energy in the process, using a superconductor. An Indian professor has declared he has found a room temperature superconductor and, shortly after his paper came out, a DARPA scientist patented the first room temperature superconductor. Its made of relatively cheap materials and is basically a quantum version of coax cable.

Mass, energy, heat, and everything imaginable are all turning out to be self-organizing and growing. It turns out, quanta sometimes prefer a little noise in the system and information can be conveyed without requiring mass and energy, and the physics for exchanging the two are known as dimension squeezing, but that includes temporal dynamics. Modified Bayesian probabilities vanishing into indeterminacy, and expressing pi or a multidimensional equation in the process. In other words, the next scientific revolution is starting with or without a theory of everything, because its all based on bullshit.

Everything appears to be self-organizing and growing, including the Big Bang and Dark Energy, which can all be described as expressing particle-wave duality, making half of life inexplicable, or just right.

 

Why can't we just suck all the water up into space? There's too much water, God damn it.

 

Archemedies tried that already, only to discover that gravity sucks harder.

 

Well there's too much God damned water, and I agree with Irminsul that if we don't get rid of it then we're trash.

 

Not a problem, just allow sea levels to rise and start investing in stilts. It will eventually go back down again. Drown the trash in their own trash, let the rich buy stilts. Its easier to walk over dead bodies using them. New Orleans was just a start. It was like God scattered the whole corrupt city across the nation and turned anybody who looked back into salty water. Florida's next, and they're installing walkers at rest stops.

 

These diodes are effectively a heat pump, where the heat is dissipated by other components in the circuit.

Conventional heat pumps are ideal for cooling, with typical COP (coefficient of performance) values of around 3. This enables 1kw of power to pump 3kw of heat. However for heating applications they will not work below 5 degrees centigrade ambient, due to icing of the evaporator.

Water expands when it is heated and contracts when it is cooled. However at around 4 degrees, the coefficient of cubic expansion reverses, causing ice to come to the surface. As a result, the bed of a river never falls below 4 degrees.
In 1953, the Royal Festival Hall in London was built as part of the festival of Britain (the only structure intended to be permanent). It was heated entirely by heat pumps with the evaporator tubes situated in the bed of the Thames. Obtaining COP 4, it was seen as the future of heating office buildings all along the river.
However, problems soon emerged with suction regulation, to control evaporating temperature of the refrigerant and keeping the evaporating tubes clean on the outside. The evaporators prevented routine dredging and became buried in silt. The plant was decommissioned after about 7 years, when the design load of 200 tons duty dropped to little more than 50. Conventional boilers were installed. Part of it's demise was as a result of maintenance engineers not fully understanding it's workings.

Few people even knew that the plant existed, but since my late father was the design engineer for the drive systems, I was there at it's commissioning. I was 4 years old.

 

How about piping it up to the moon.?
We could fill a few lakes and build a town up there. I don't think that too many people would emigrate. but it would be a great place to build a few prisons.

 

It was recently discovered that there is an enormous volume of fresh water under the oceans, apparently the earth has a lot of fresh water flowing around inside, and it would take forever to try to pump enough water to the moon to see any difference, because it would just keep floating to the top again.

 

How DO you destroy water?

What are we, idiots?

 

The biggest problem with piping water to the moon would be having to untangle the pipe every 24 hours.
Silly me.!!!!!!!

 

I got it. Instead of taking water to the moon, we mine salt on the moon and dump it into the ocean.

 

Nah, the pipe just goes around the equator, sucking up water in a 26,000 mile circle like a vacuum and isn't anchored to anything, and gets a free ride through the Suez Canal. That way Disney can have the best water ride to the moon. Too bad it would require weeks to get there, and the gravitational side-effects could cause foul weather, but some damned fool has to be the first to sail to the moon.