Gents, We had an outage for Gas turbine for replacement of oil seals. During the outage we found out that there was scoring on shaft. To my amaze, the journal bearings were ok. There was no damage on the babbitt material. If this shaft scoring / pitting had occurred due to presence of foreign con
How Variable Frequency Drive (VFD) Works & Saves Energy
Hai Hello Sir,
I want to know the basic principal, that how a variable frequency drive works & saves electrical energy ?
How Climate Change is Like Fight Club
What was the first rule of Fight Club? Don’t talk about it. What was the first rule of Climate Change legislation? Don’t call it that. Call it “energy legislation”.
This is what Sen. Harry Reid plans to do, except now, at this point, that’s all it will be. It is not nearly enough to fight climate change.
Our hopes for a climate change bill in 2010 are gone. The situation was the same last year, and it’s incredible that we are saying the same thing this year, considering the mine disasters and the massive oil spill off our coast. It’s a situation that is nearly beyond belief.
There are a lot of reasons why this happened. According to Senator Bernie Sanders, who appears every Friday on the Thom Hartmann radio show, in large part the blame lies with the lack of will to get it done in the Congress. From DemocracyNow last Friday, the blame lies with President Obama, who did not fight for a climate bill, and broke another campaign promise: that climate and energy would be addressed with common sense and science. Didn’t happen. Instead, politics controlled how the various climate and energy bills were dealt with from start to finish. After the Shirley Sherrod debacle, I think I know why — this White House reacts less to science and more to the”gotcha” right-wing media. If you have a government who reacts more to the media than the people, you won’t get things done that need to be done. The media is nearly brain-dead on climate change. They choose to create time-wasting debates and other crises to mislead the public and prolong problems, instead of doing journalism.
As Senate Dems Give Up on Climate Bill, What Does the Future Hold for US Climate and Energy Policy?
Amy Goodman of DemocracyNow! interviewed environmental leaders and writers last Friday in her attempts to find out what the BEG (Big Environmental Groups) are going to do now that climate change legislation is dead in the U.S. Here is part of the interview. You can read and listen to the entire segment here. Read on for how Climate Change is like Fight Club.
AMY GOODMAN: Kate Sheppard, let’s begin with you. You’ve been writing in Mother Jones magazine about energy legislation. What do you make of this—well, of this energy bill that has little or no teeth?
KATE SHEPPARD: It has almost absolutely no teeth. This is basically the least ambitious plan they could come up with. It not only—it has very valuable things for oil spill response; it’s probably going to focus on reforming some important regulatory agencies and raising the liability cap so that BP pays what it owes in the Gulf. But going beyond that, it doesn’t really do much of anything. Ideally, this is going to be a bill that addressed carbon pollution, is going to be a bill that actually started phasing in clean energy, but it doesn’t do [...]
Synchronous Machines
Please explain the modes of operation of a synchronous generator/motor/synchronous condensor. Please explain how the capability diagram fits in.
Neutrinos; A Small Slice of a Large Apple
Alright! Now we get to discuss neutrinos without me having to worry about being reduced to my component parts. And while I think my component parts are lovely, I’m sure you would rather not go there.
Neutrinos are interesting little guys, meaning literally “neutral elementary particle”. An elementary particle is simply something which is not known to have smaller parts. We used to believe atoms were the smallest possible units of mass. Now we know, of course, that “atoms” are whopping HUGE units of mass.
No, it's not "cute" - This was the first ever hydrogen bubble chamber to detect neutrinos
When we start talking about “elementary particles”, you’re really talking about particle physics. You quickly get into leptons, bosons, positrons, muons, tau neutrinos, and lots of other really cool words you swore in freshman algebra you’d never use.
Guess again.
Particle physics is also where String Theory comes in, but we aren’t playing around in THAT sandbox today.
Okay… here’s the very basics. You can accept that everything is composed of small parts, right? I mean, c’mon guys. You swallowed atomic theory without gagging, right? You’re just going to have to realize that an atom is the apple, and it can be sliced and diced into all kinds of little parts and pieces. Some of these parts have a positive charge, some a negative charge, and some are neutral. Still with me?
You just never realized how very many pieces and parts atoms could be sliced into.
Really, you’re more than half-way there. You have the concept of atoms down, right? You have the whole negative/positive/neutral thing going, right?
We’ll leave string theory for another day.
How to Evaluate Human Memory
how can i evaluate human memory...whether she or he have good memory..
An IBR Inspector
How To be an IBR Inspector?
Technical – Change in Pipe
Consider a pipe of wall thickness 17mm with 2" od & 10feet length closed on both side with plug having diesel inside the pipe.
And if we put the pipe in a liquid whose temperature is 95" celsius what will happen to pipe
ASTM C582
Good day to all!
Anyone of this forum had a old version of ASTM C582?
Can you share it to me..
Thanks and Advance
Use of SA-434 Material
Can we use SA-29 material as an alternate of SA-434
Definition of Ir and In in MCCB
Please, give to know the differences between Ir and In in MCCB according to IEC recommendation 974-2.
Thank you in advance
Seasteaders to attend the 2010 Singularity Summit
Several TSI members plan to attend the Singularity Summit this year in 2010. If you answer yes to any of the following questions, maybe you'll be interested in meeting up with us there!
Vaarreis 2010
26 juli St.Jean de LosneEven de voorbije week samenvatten. We zijn hier aangekomen op 18 juli met het idee hier een week te blijven liggen.Maggy en Jules zijn ons hier komen bezoeken. Woensdag aan gekomen en maandag terug naar Belgie vertrokken.We zijn met de wagen naar Dijon geweest en twee dagen gaan varen. 175 km naar Auxonne en de dag erna terug.Vandaag nog boodschappen gedaan hier in de bu
Day 21 San Francisco Garberville
Today we were heading towards Portland. We werenrsquot too sure where we would end up as we had the next few days to get there. After brekkie we jumped in the car and headed towards the worlds crookedest street which is not too far from the Hotel. Lombard Street is the worldrsquos crookedest street and it is famous for the sharp turns and being very steep. We drove down and took a few pics
Juli arriving in Seward
We arrived yesterday to Seward which is on the Kenai Peninsula. It must be the most beautiful place in the world mountains everywhere glaciers waterfalls Resurrection Bay creeks wildlife spruce trees. It is like combining the best of Oregon and Colorado and adding steroids. Jaden and I challenged ourselves with a four hour sea kayak tour from 711 pm while Kevin Dax and Blaze went on a
Dax in Seward
Seward was awesome Itrsquos a really nice town. Seward is pretty small but it is right next to the ocean which is pretty cool. We stayed at a RV park in a little place called Millerrsquos Landing. The first night we were there we went deep sea fishing for salmon and other fish. We went from 5 to 9pm. The weird part was that only one person caught a salmon. Everyone else caught black bass
Blaze in Seward
I went fishing in Seward. Jaden and mom went kayaking. When we went fishing I saw a orca. We also ate black bass in Seward it tasted really good. We went camping yesterday. We returned our Rv today.
Palmer
It was wonderful to wake up and hear Rowanrsquos little cute voice in our camper. He came up to our bed right away After breakfast we made a plan for the next three days. We started out by going to Target to get rowanrsquos supplies for the week. It was easier to buy them here than to haul everything on the plane. We brought his carseat from Carson. Then we went to visit Uncle Dick. Daisy wa
Leaving…
WellIt's come to an end.An incredible 2 months has gone unnaturally fast and it's time to come home.I've gotta head to the airport now and will be in kelowna at 1029 tonightThanks for keeping up with my blog I hope you enjoyed reading it as much as i enjoyed writing it.See you soon
Life lessons etc.
Well wersquove been in Mumbai almost one week but not quite yet and it feels like forever. Thatrsquos not a bad thing at all. Itrsquos just that therersquos been so much to do and see although we feel like wersquove barely scratched the surface. Partly this is because our sleeping patterns are still crazy. Our bodies are just not adjusting quickly enough Itrsquos getting better tho