Steam and trains

[Zoggite]

PV=NRT?

See Ideal gas law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Have heard of Gay-Lussac but not the other fellow.

2 fellows, actually: Mr Boyle (No relation to Susan), and Monsieur Mariotte, who both came to the same conclusions in the 1660/1670s.

[johnep]

Oh dear, I think we all a bit nerdy, I remember asking for a minutes silence from my class on Bastille Day in memory of Lavoisier? who was executed on the premise that the revolution has no need for scientists.
johnep

[Pharmanaut]

Oh dear, I think we all a bit nerdy, I remember asking for a minutes silence from my class on Bastille Day in memory of Lavoisier? who was executed on the premise that the revolution has no need for scientists.
johnep

Down with science it is the devil's work.

Can't remember who said it, but it has been said if it wasn't for the catholic church we would have colonies on Mars by now.
Suppression of scientific discovery eg Galileo etc.

[johnep]

Don't get me started! The main problem today is overpopulation. Malthus being proved right. Oscar Wilde had a solution, but not pc.
On TV is the Human Journey. Not possible today as no longer any fertile empty space in the world. Hollywood has it's own solution in the new disaster film being promoted now.
Watching Slumdog made me realise that nature has not been able to implement it's own solutions. The Black Death helped to end serfdom in Europe. The law of supply and demand is always there.
johnep

[Pharmanaut]

Back to steam then...
What did your search on Stirling Engines turn up?

[johnep]

Have been so busy with searches on Caramelized nuts and Toffe Banana, coupled with the fact cannot use my hands properly at present.
Somebody should have bought me a round tuitt for Christmas.
johnep

[Zoggite]

nature has not been able to implement its own solutions.
johnep

Am I preventing Nature from implementing its own solutions every time I dispense antibiotics to a sick child, who might otherwise have died without medical intervention?

[Fleegle]

Have been so busy with searches on Caramelized nuts and Toffe Banana, coupled with the fact cannot use my hands properly at present.
Somebody should have bought me a round tuitt for Christmas.
johnep

Re. bananas....Best attempt at a chat-up line I think I ever heard was from one of the lads, late on a Saturday in Aberdeen, to a local quinie... "Is that your nose or are you eating a banana"? Caramelized nuts require their own thread, I fear.

Re. A round tuitt..leave it with me, and I'll get a round tuitt.

Fleeg.

[johnep]

The whole theme of humanity is to live in harmony with nature. We interfere precisely because we are human. We chop down trees and the result is Easter island. We drive cars, warm ourselves etc-- global warming. Societies that have managed to live in constricted areas do so by various means. A proportion of children are sent to become monks, nuns, priests etc where they devote their lives to others and do not increase numbers. Some practice war on their neighbours and occasionally eat them. This tends to keep the population stable and sustainable in an area with restricted natural resources. Remote valleys in the Himalayas and New Guinea were examples.
Nature will eventually rectify the situation by one or more of the four horsemen.
I do not have the answer to mankind's problems and have spent my life thwarting nature. I am taking up resources that I shouldn't as I have been saved from dying of a stroke by modern medicine.
However, either we control our population or nature will eventually do it for us.
johnep

[johnep]

Had a google, utube has lots of videos. Amazon has very elegant design at £90 others available from about £30.
Lots made from soft drink cans etc.
The Stirling Engine Society has a twin piston model demoed on utube running a generator.
johnep