I was quoting from the WP article I found to refresh Poisson which I learned about a long time ago and used in various engineering sampling projects....
If events are rare, like some failures, and not related to each other, i.e. random, the Poisson distribution applies and the number of events by time...
Note that while virtual the energy requirement is all too real. In a few years of more growth, the bitcoin computers, if rated as a country, will be...
Weill a star radiates away energy, so it depends where you draw its boundary, it gets lighter. If it goes supernova and explodes, the mass is ejected...
Should it be used? A forever question with any illness or personality trait that seems to be a danger to the person or to others. Same with physical...
Yes the stirling cycle is different from using a compressor. The important difference is the two heat exchangers, one of which absorbs heat from the...
Well England joined Scotland 1603 under James 6 of Scotland and later added Ireland, uniting the British Isles under one king. The United Kingdom of...
Here is the basic problem.. you cannot raise the T of heat without doing work. You can get heat from work, but not all the heat can be turned back to...
Ok what is the turbine doing? If that work can assist the compressor you edge the COP upwards towards 1, never more without vapours. What is the air...
Am a chartered engineer, UK which means a degree and apprenticeship and some professional work, in fact I was a technical consultant and new product developer for many years. Now I have a manufacturing business making float tanks.
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Norfolk UK and some of me is in Northern France
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Physics, philosophy, consciousness, poetry, wines of the world, real ale, not necessarily in that or
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kind of working retired, always an engineer I guess
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When we realize that patterns don't exist in the universe, they are a template that we hold to the universe to make sense of it, it all makes a lot more sense. Originally Posted by Ken G