Alternative fuels

[eldog]

[QUOTE=Drew;1130863896]When I worked high tension, I got to travel a lot of the lines through central and west. Spent a lot of time staying at the camps at the power stations. It's pretty cool.[QUOTE]


Tempted to map out the power stations and transmission lines in the nth and sth is and make some road trips

Often good photo opportunities at dam/lake sites.

Would like to goto Spring Creek Coal mine - made some machinery for them I did. and visit some of the west coast while I'm at it - interested in the gold mining history in NZ

[bogan]

http://www.viralalternativenews.com/...esla-free.html

[Drew]

http://www.viralalternativenews.com/...esla-free.html

Put 'Tesla' on anything, and fucken crackpots will sign up and scream. "It's the second coming"!

[Big Dog]

Put 'Tesla' on anything, and fucken crackpots will sign up and scream. "It's the second coming"!

Tesla does Dallas...

[oldrider]

Conventionally Yes. but not in the case of the system now in use.
Ever heard of the Transpower HVDC line?
It was I believe the first in the world designed by the for runner to ABB.
Its the North island umbilical.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HVDC_Inter-Island

Don't worry about how it actually works and can be more efficient because few people actually understand it at Transpower as well (true story)

Steady husa. - That comment is simply not true!

[oldrider]

I don't see any magic here.

He is using fuel in semi split cycle internal combustion / steam powered system.

Keep in mind a std motor is only 20% efficent recovering some waste heat and using it as steam would inprove the efficency, in comparison a steam boiler/ triple expansion steam motor is 60% efficent. They however are heavy and have a low performance per kg.

Folks have been water injecting motors for ages. One thing they do is clean up the emmissions espcially in diesels.

Keep wearing the tin foil hats, they really do block alien signals.

Flip - have you ever looked at this project? - I have been keeping tabs on it and am more than a little disappointed at how slowly it is progressing! http://www.cyclonepower.com/