Using alcohol as a working fluid in boilers

[Beaconator]

No, it can't. Water boiling is not "combustion." It's boiling.

Engines do not define combustion.

A human body is very combustible in a mostly-oxygen atmosphere.

Couldn't parse that woo, sorry.

1: ice is a compound. Not an element.

2: engines define the amount of energy that can be transformed into motion.

3: we do combust. That is what drives muscles to move, but not what makes our consciousness to continue?

4: nothing is to be parsed I speak plain English

 

[billvon]

1: ice is a compound. Not an element.

You said "Any liquid turning into a gas can considered combustion." Water is a liquid. It is also a compound.

2: engines define the amount of energy that can be transformed into motion.

You said " . . .doesn’t mean we have an engine to help define it apart from an explosion." You do not need an engine to define it as anything. And engines do not define the amount of energy that they either use, transform or produce. Engines have efficiencies whch quantify how well they do that.

3: we do combust. That is what drives muscles to move, but not what makes our consciousness to continue?

No, respiration is not combustion. They are two very different oxidative processes.[/quote]

 

[Beaconator]

You said "Any liquid turning into a gas can considered combustion." Water is a liquid. It is also a compound.

You said " . . .doesn’t mean we have an engine to help define it apart from an explosion." You do not need an engine to define it as anything. And engines do not define the amount of energy that they either use, transform or produce. Engines have efficiencies whch quantify how well they do that.

No, respiration is not combustion. They are two very different oxidative processes.

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How so? Is that like fusion is not like fission because they both create heat.?!

rust creates heat yet we haven’t made a molecule that transforms rust heat into electronic energy. We have on the other hand created molecules that function an an engine.

 

[billvon]

How so? Is that like fusion is not like fission because they both create heat.?!

Good example. Both can create heat. That does not mean that fusion is fission, just like respiration is not combustion.

 

[Beaconator]

Good example. Both can create heat. That does not mean that fusion is fission, just like respiration is not combustion.

But it generates heat therefore?

 

[trevor borocz johnson]

You'd get more torque and a lower top speed. Since torque times RPM is power, your total power would stay the same.

Are you saying the size and strength of the magnet is irrelevant to the amount of power it can produce?

 

[billvon]

But it generates heat therefore?

What's "it?" Combustion? Yes, combustion generates heat.

 

[billvon]

Are you saying the size and strength of the magnet is irrelevant to the amount of power it can produce?

Magnets do not produce power. Motors made of magnets can convert electrical to mechanical energy.

If you have two BLDC motors with exactly the same construction but different strength magnets, the one with stronger magnets will have more torque but a lower top speed, and the one with weaker magnets will have less torque but a higher top speed. Both will produce the same power.

 

[trevor borocz johnson]

?? Were you not aware that things boil at lower temperatures when the pressure is reduced?

I bet if you took the pressure of a glass of alcohol, let it vaporize for an hour, it would remain cold and could be used for cooling systems mainly an indoor AC unit, currently the one's they have pump the hot air from the condenser out into the outdoors.

 

[exchemist]

So I take it you see nothing wrong with the statement before it?

Take your meds.

 

[billvon]

I bet if you took the pressure of a glass of alcohol, let it vaporize for an hour, it would remain cold

Nope. A closed glass will reach equilibrium in pressure and temperature, and then will warm up to the ambient temperature. How long that takes will depend on its thermal mass and its thermal conductivity.

and could be used for cooling systems mainly an indoor AC unit, currently the one's they have pump the hot air from the condenser out into the outdoors.

Every heat pump must exhaust heat somewhere. No exceptions. That is a consequnce of the Second Law of Thermodynamics.

 

[Beaconator]

What's "it?" Combustion? Yes, combustion generates heat.

I think therefore!

I generate heat… but you can’t turn me into energy.

 

[billvon]

I generate heat… but you can’t turn me into energy.

And lets hope no one does!

 

[trevor borocz johnson]

I think therefore!

I generate heat… but you can’t turn me into energy.

Do you have lettersnumbers puzzle to go with your conjecture? Everyone uses lettersnumbers puzzles who thinks the smartest. Mine's Gravity G + Weight Wg is equal to Energy Engnyg

 

[Beaconator]

Do you have lettersnumbers puzzle to go with your conjecture? Everyone uses lettersnumbers puzzles who thinks the smartest. Mine's Gravity G + Weight Wg is equal to Energy Engnyg

Nope. Should I? if you can decipher my puzzle? I abstain from latex… it makes everyone else’s head fuzzy

 

[billvon]

Mine's Gravity G + Weight Wg is equal to Energy Engnyg

If you are trying to talk about potential energy it's pretty simple: E=MGH.

 

[trevor borocz johnson]

Nope. Should I? if you can decipher my puzzle? I abstain from latex… it makes everyone else’s head fuzzy

Beak sometimes I just read from my subconscious answers and say enter like my brain is a computer this way. like 17 times 48 is 1376. and to me that's somehow the answer to your riddle.

 

[Beer w/Straw]

Nope. Should I? if you can decipher my puzzle? I abstain from latex… it makes everyone else’s head fuzzy

Nope.

Give the math.

 

[Beaconator]

Nope.

Give the math.

Math only defines things. It does not create yes but it is imperfect when placed under the scrutinies of reality.

for example: in order for hydrogen to exist or be created( the first step in the universe existing at all) it must go from a completely null void to a point that could have a defined mass and angular momentum based on our current models.

btw… alloys can be heterogenous and still have slight chemical bonds. And no you should not have known that.

I don’t think anything in our technology can make the leap from quantum to chemical.

 

[trevor borocz johnson]

If you are trying to talk about potential energy it's pretty simple: E=MGH.

Energy does in fact equal Ms. McGilahuddy