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This has always baffled me.

Ok, this is explained very well in Elegant Universe but I'll take a stab at it here. We must first imagine flatland. Flatland is a two dimensional universe, one without the dimension we think of as height. Every object is constrained to move around on the same flat surface. Now if we live in...
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- Post #37
- Oct 27, 2004
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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earth battery

I know the the current most-likely model which was discussed the the 3rd annual space elevator conference at Sandia National Laboratory was the tethered string type. This works in exactly the same way that you can swing a bucket full of water in a circle and not spill any. Centripital forces...
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- Post #17
- Oct 12, 2004
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watercooling 90 degree elbow bend

Don't be ridiculous HardWarrior, in the complete abscence of any numeric data and without solving any of the governing equations I can not be definite. The scientific community as a whole generally frowns on speaking in absolutes, especially when one is not absolutely sure. I would be very...
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- Post #15
- Oct 10, 2004
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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watercooling 90 degree elbow bend

To put it simply, don't worry about head loss from 90° elbows. Their effect in a situation like yours is purely academic, you should not notice any reduction in velocity through your system for having put them in. Hope that helps.
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- Post #11
- Oct 10, 2004
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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watercooling 90 degree elbow bend

Please allow a chemical engineer to weigh in on the subject, we tend to know quite a lot about flow through tubes. The head loss experienced by a 90 degree bend in a pipe is a function of many things, fluid viscosity, fluid density, fluid flow velocity, pipe diameter, and pipe roughness. Since...
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- Post #9
- Oct 9, 2004
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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Why does rubber "dry"?

quentinterintino is exactly right. In fact "new car smell" is actually plasticizers evaporating from all the brand new PVC in your car. And that greasy haze that can form on the inside bottom of new windsheilds on very hots days....you guessed it, plasticizers from the dash board condensing on...
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- Post #4
- Oct 8, 2004
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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Hydrogen leakage

I can think of one method of storing hydrogen in such a manner that *none* will leak. Heat it to a plasma (in this case until it is more stable as atomic hydrogen than as molecular hydrogen) and then stuff it in a magnetic bottle. Voila, none of the H+ ions will be able to escape from...
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- Post #7
- Oct 8, 2004
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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This has always baffled me.

This proof that particles actually do pop into existence is very interesting and was conducted in the 1950's. It has just recently (last two years) in conjunction with obersvations taken with the Hubble Space Telescope led to the formulation of the *fifth* fundemental force. Last I heard, this...
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- Post #19
- Oct 8, 2004
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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Why no amd 90 nm review on anadtech or any of the other greats?

I agree with you BDSM, AT seems to be s...l...o...w...on this one.
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- Post #4
- Oct 5, 2004
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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how much power does modern PC use?

Except that electrical resistance heating is very inefficient when compared to direct combustion of heating oil.
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- Post #13
- Oct 5, 2004
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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Thermoelectric Cooling???

linky put very simply, when voltage is applied to a plate a temperature differential is created. One can set up a heat pump to exploit this difference thus making one part hotter than ambient and the other colder than ambient.
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- Post #2
- Oct 5, 2004
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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Make the best quite computer?

The Sonata might still be far too loud for your needs. You should look into running a power supply with a single 120mm fan at 7V as well as 7V case fan(s) to really hush things up. Also check into using a large all copper heatsink with a large (92mm) fan running at 7V to cool it. You can also...
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- Post #8
- Oct 5, 2004
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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Why AMD 64 vs. Mobile XP

I agree with Zebo, the A64s do more work per clock than do the XP's (both mobile and not) regardless of bit-width. This translates directly into faster 32-bit computing.
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- Post #16
- Oct 5, 2004
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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how much power does modern PC use?

We also need to consider what the processor is doing in any given day. Sadly mine seldom sees more than 1% load anymore as all I do is email/internet. Now if I was folding 24/7 I would use *much* more juice than I do now.
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- Post #11
- Oct 5, 2004
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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This has always baffled me.

String theory or superstring theory (and m-theory) also calls for space to be rolled up on itself. Actually, string theory claims that there are nine spatial dimensions which are rolled up, six that are rolled so tightly that only strings can notice they are there at all, and three that have a...
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- Post #8
- Oct 5, 2004
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional

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