I'm still trying to figure out why san_jose_guy post about the Malaysian flight on this thread! Perhaps a subtle attempt to change the subject? If so, brilliant! But probably futile!
Just read in High Country News about this Molycorp and their SoCal mine. In the article they predicted the bankruptcy filing, as Molycorp had already gone into default.
Change back to maps and do some zoom outs to see where this is.
What the article was actually about were Energy Critical Elements. 20 such have been identified. Most are Rare Earths, but not all. Some are transition metals.
In July 2015 Flying Magazine, they talk about Airbus building plug in electric and hybrid electric airplanes.
Central to this is Siemens building some most carefully designed electric motors.
That writer for High Country News did not fully understand the Physics and Chemistry behind this. The Rare Earths or Lanthanides have f-shell electrons. These have so much angular momentum that you have to consider relativistic effects to accurately predict their behavior. These extremely high velocity electrons are why they are so important to high strength magnets.
I would think that as a would be Master of the Universe, as well as a TUSCL Egomaniac, @Dougster would be interested in such things.
Christian Science Monitor Weekly, Aug 31, 2015 has feature article by David J. Unger about batteries. They mean batteries for electric cars, and for storing energy created by solar cells and wind turbines.
They say the price per kilowatt hour had been about $1000. But now it is around $410. But you still see the problem with this, a Tesla Model S, most often being sold with 85Kwh. This means the battery costs around $40k.
They say that if they can get an affordable electric car which can do 200 miles per charge, then electric car sales will really take off. As I know Nissan Leaf and Fiat 500 e only do about 60 miles.
Tesla Model S supposedly does 300 miles on 85kwh, but people say it is more like 260 miles. But still, it is too costly.
Now, some of what is in this article is coming out of Amory Lovins and his Rocky Mountain Institute. In my experience, his stuff is usually bull shit. He is boosting for business as usual, by saying all problems will be solved, so don't worry.
So if you factor him out, it still does sound like there is a huge interest in batteries. Tesla's Power Wall, the home battery, is being sold to lots of places who want uninterruptable power.
But the article's other idea, that fossil fuel plants are going to go out of business, I find to be extremely excessive. Getting most power from wind and solar is still way out. But still it is all interesting.
What I find most interesting is that the Tesla people believe that with their Giga Factory, in Nevada ( just 3 miles past the Mustang Ranch I insert ) they will be able to drop battery prices by a factor of two.
But also, this guy from MIT is making a new type of battery. Instead of Lithium Ion, it is Liquid Metal:
I've never said nothing good comes out of the South. Here, U Alabama working on next generation high strength magnets. Of course these are wanted for sensors and information recording. But today they are also important for the motors for electric cars and airplanes, and also for micro scale electric power generation.
To do this work though it depends on extensive quantum mechanical simulations, of a scale not possible without array super computers.
Lots of institutions right now are doing work in this area.
Remember those Aurora Slot Cars of the 1960's. Well in the 70's they came out with the more pricey A/FX version. These had rare earth magnets, really strong ones. The cars were much faster, almost too fast.
Well think today, people doing massive array processor simulations at a quantum mechanical level, to figure how to make even stronger and more economical magnets, and for 12" to the 1' kinds of toys.
These sorts of computer simulations would never have been possible without array processing super computers. A multi-electron Schrodinger equation is otherwise just impractical to solve, and especially if you are considering molecular orbitals.
A/FX type with screw on rear wheels with locknuts and glued on spongy tires and higher final drive ratios, and those super strong rare earth magnets:
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=AFX+…
Details the history of the mathematics underlying Solid State Physics, but this new work on stronger magnets will have to be added to a second edition:
http://www.amazon.com/Out-Crystal-Maze-C…
This is treacherous, as I've just been looking at a magazine article about it. The grade gets as steep as 2.65%. Now this might not sound like much, and there are steeper grades in North Carolina. But if you do some simple calculations you will see that it would be very hard to get the needed traction to pull much of a train over that. The ratio of the combined car weight relative to the locomotives is just too great. And also, you should have some safety margin for water and ice.
So the only other way over is Feather River Canyon Pass. I don't know what the actual railroad practices are. But I do know that Union Pacific has always been the one with the biggest locomotives, and their baseline calculations for fuel economy often involve 150 car container trains going from Oakland to Chicago. This would make sense too, because Chicago is so far away, and because with the container ships you have such a big load all grouped together already.
But I do not know how they get it over that pass.
Should have electronic motor controls on each locomotive axle, and a positive traction control computer for each axle too. Wheel spin on railroads just burns up the rails and the wheels.
I have not read this anywhere, but I suspect the difficulties in getting over the Sierras must limit the use of that Alameda container port, Los Angeles being preferred.
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I don't think I've ever heard that mentioned here before....
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2…
Found 4000 miles of ocean away from presumptive crash site:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/La+R%C…
https://images.search.yahoo.com/yhs/sear…
Technically Bankrupt, trying to sell two of its A-380's
http://mashable.com/2015/06/01/malaysia-…
No further explanations being given for cause of crash, or for originally getting off course and off of radar.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molycorp
their mine:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_P…
Here we can see their mine:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Mounta…
Change back to maps and do some zoom outs to see where this is.
What the article was actually about were Energy Critical Elements. 20 such have been identified. Most are Rare Earths, but not all. Some are transition metals.
http://science.house.gov/sites/republica…
These are deemed necessary and critical for many high tech applications.
But Molycorp has the only mine in the West, and right now the industry is being dominated by China.
But people don't see a problem here. The problem is actually that there is no price floor. This is why Molycorp is in such trouble.
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https://www.hcn.org/issues/47.11/why-rar…
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Central to this is Siemens building some most carefully designed electric motors.
That writer for High Country News did not fully understand the Physics and Chemistry behind this. The Rare Earths or Lanthanides have f-shell electrons. These have so much angular momentum that you have to consider relativistic effects to accurately predict their behavior. These extremely high velocity electrons are why they are so important to high strength magnets.
I would think that as a would be Master of the Universe, as well as a TUSCL Egomaniac, @Dougster would be interested in such things.
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They say the price per kilowatt hour had been about $1000. But now it is around $410. But you still see the problem with this, a Tesla Model S, most often being sold with 85Kwh. This means the battery costs around $40k.
They say that if they can get an affordable electric car which can do 200 miles per charge, then electric car sales will really take off. As I know Nissan Leaf and Fiat 500 e only do about 60 miles.
Tesla Model S supposedly does 300 miles on 85kwh, but people say it is more like 260 miles. But still, it is too costly.
Now, some of what is in this article is coming out of Amory Lovins and his Rocky Mountain Institute. In my experience, his stuff is usually bull shit. He is boosting for business as usual, by saying all problems will be solved, so don't worry.
So if you factor him out, it still does sound like there is a huge interest in batteries. Tesla's Power Wall, the home battery, is being sold to lots of places who want uninterruptable power.
But the article's other idea, that fossil fuel plants are going to go out of business, I find to be extremely excessive. Getting most power from wind and solar is still way out. But still it is all interesting.
What I find most interesting is that the Tesla people believe that with their Giga Factory, in Nevada ( just 3 miles past the Mustang Ranch I insert ) they will be able to drop battery prices by a factor of two.
But also, this guy from MIT is making a new type of battery. Instead of Lithium Ion, it is Liquid Metal:
http://www.ambri.com/
Now I know with a Master of the Universe wanna be like our friend in Manhattan, this stuff is just like waving the red flag at a bull.
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To do this work though it depends on extensive quantum mechanical simulations, of a scale not possible without array super computers.
Lots of institutions right now are doing work in this area.
http://mint.ua.edu/wp-content/uploads/20…
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Well think today, people doing massive array processor simulations at a quantum mechanical level, to figure how to make even stronger and more economical magnets, and for 12" to the 1' kinds of toys.
These sorts of computer simulations would never have been possible without array processing super computers. A multi-electron Schrodinger equation is otherwise just impractical to solve, and especially if you are considering molecular orbitals.
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A/FX type with screw on rear wheels with locknuts and glued on spongy tires and higher final drive ratios, and those super strong rare earth magnets:
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=AFX+…
Details the history of the mathematics underlying Solid State Physics, but this new work on stronger magnets will have to be added to a second edition:
http://www.amazon.com/Out-Crystal-Maze-C…
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Siemens ACS-64, overhead wire powered locomotives for Amtrak, max train speed 125mph, peak short term power 8600hp
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This is treacherous, as I've just been looking at a magazine article about it. The grade gets as steep as 2.65%. Now this might not sound like much, and there are steeper grades in North Carolina. But if you do some simple calculations you will see that it would be very hard to get the needed traction to pull much of a train over that. The ratio of the combined car weight relative to the locomotives is just too great. And also, you should have some safety margin for water and ice.
Average snow fall, 10.45 meters per year!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donner_Pas…
So the only other way over is Feather River Canyon Pass. I don't know what the actual railroad practices are. But I do know that Union Pacific has always been the one with the biggest locomotives, and their baseline calculations for fuel economy often involve 150 car container trains going from Oakland to Chicago. This would make sense too, because Chicago is so far away, and because with the container ships you have such a big load all grouped together already.
But I do not know how they get it over that pass.
Should have electronic motor controls on each locomotive axle, and a positive traction control computer for each axle too. Wheel spin on railroads just burns up the rails and the wheels.
I have not read this anywhere, but I suspect the difficulties in getting over the Sierras must limit the use of that Alameda container port, Los Angeles being preferred.
SJG
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According to guitarist Chris Iorio, the album cover is an interpretation of when Rick DeJesus met a young woman who worked in a brothel, when he went to Tijuana, Mexico - "Rick met the girl and she poured her heart out to him and it really touched him...people’s lives can be so tough – we’re in a recession,
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In a world full of change and uncertantity, it's good to know one can always depend on this thread being bumped...
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