Alternate Electric Power

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I have an old gas powered DC welder, could I use it for a wind turbine to power my shop? Could I also couple a hydraulic pump to the turbine blades and run hydraulic lines down to a hydraulic motor which would then be coupled to the DC welder to produce power?

Niko

Are Product Plans in Place?

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The U.S. medical device industry can expect increasing scrutiny in the near term as the FDA revises pre-market notification and product safety requirements. Device makers should prepare pro-actively to ensure that they can continue to compete and innovate as regulations evolve. The electronic medica

M.Phil in Management

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Dear Friends,

I am willing to do M.Phil in Management through Distance Education system, Could anyone please provide me the info in which universities of India such course is available.

I have recently completed my MBA-Finance from Sikkim Manipal University.

Rgds.

Delay Timers

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I am a fresh electrical design engineer for desiging of control panels.i have some confusion that where i have to use ON delay timer & OFF delay timer in the control circuit

if any one guide me i am very thankfull.

How to Insert Graphs, Tables, and Links

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1. While I reply to a quiery in CR 4, I want to attach a graph and some other data and attach a photo so that it can be fully understood. I am not able to do this and How to ATTACH DATA OR PASTE DATA, I would prefer PASTING DATA.

2. Many Participants of CR4 members, they mention "LOOK HERE

For and Against the New Energy Bill

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Photo: Osman Orsal - Miners take a break in a coal mine in Turkey's Black Sea city of Zonguldak May 10, 2010.

Last Thursday, Democracy Now sponsored an interesting debate on the new energy “and climate” bill. The debate was between Phil Radford of Greenpeace USA and Joseph Romm of the Center for American Progress’s blog ClimateProgress.org. The bill itself is not a climate bill just because it might have a slightly good effect on climate change if all goes well. It’s also not strictly a cap and trade bill either, because it puts a price on carbon and will return money to consumers (that’s good).   The bill makes so many allowances for many polluters (what they call “small” polluters) that make up “only” about 30% of the USA’s greenhouse gas emissions. It also doesn’t mandate that we actually do anything that will get us to 80% reductions in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, but it seems to think that’s a nice  goal to shoot for anyway. You can read the transcript of the debate below after the break.

Setting an impossible goal is nothing new, but it’s unrealistic. It’s like a person saying their goal is to write a great novel, then doing nothing but scribbling sentences on Post-It Notes, then reaffirming constantly and everywhere that their goal is to write a great novel and this will lead to it. No it won’t. You can’t write a great novel by writing thoughts on Post-It Notes, and you can’t get to 80% emissions reductions by including an increase in coal and oil and natural gas use in your so-called “climate” bill while emphasizing creating jobs and increasing manufacturing. It’s nonsensical. It could only work if we could immediately reforest every parking lot and overpass in America, somehow stop rainforest cutting tomorrow, and take every energy conservation measure possible immediately, and that won’t happen. There is no political will in the United States to do what is seriously necessary to stop climate change. A real and realistic climate bill would focus on renewable, non polluting non-fossil fuels exclusively, or, set the goal date for a 100 years in the future maybe, not 40 years.

Anyway, most people in Washington know this and just play along and call it a “climate bill” to shut up the big environmentalists and the scientists, because it’s all a big game anyway. The announcement of the American Power Act was politics, and it was completely corporate. (The entire thing will be on Climate Files soon).

There are a few notes of optimism on this bill and subject from Bill McKibben. McKibben recently wrote a strange one-page advertisement/open letter to readers of The Nation. He defended himself from an attack by someone he would not name, who ‘accused’ him of supporting the American Power Act and saying we should reject the bill and push for something else that would actually work. McKibben says [...]

Ooops I Did it Again well nearly

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DAY 548We are out of practice doing the blogs at the moment we are finding that the weeks are not going to be exciting enough for you and we are sure that you donrsquot want to hear about the boring work stuff we have a good weekend planned ahead of us so hope that it will be a little bit more exciting for you so here goes.With the sad news of the death of Jack still heavy in our hearts we had

New York 2010

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Hi peopleIn the last couple of months I have done some really nice weekend trips in Europe and Marrakech. ALthough I haven't put these bogs up yet I want to include you all in my latest trip to New York and Costa Rica. I have been working quit a bit the last year so this is a well earned one month holiday. Together with Bart I headed off to New York to do a quick city trip. We have had a wonderf