The energy needs of the world’s economy seem to be easy to model. Energy consumption is measured in a variety of different ways including kilowatt hours, barrels of oil equivalent, British thermal units, kilocalories and joules. Two types of energy are equivalent if they produce the same number of units of energy, right? For example, […]Continue reading “How Renewable Energy Models Can Produce Misleading Indications — Our Finite World”
Category Archives: Uncategorized
How Solar Energy Benefits the Environment — Midlands Traveller
2020 barely started and we are already dealing with the environmental and social consequences coming from the bush-fire devastation in Australia. It’s so sad on many levels. And despite some people still deny it, the climate crises should be our main concerning problem this decade. There is no way of ignoring it. Meanwhile, the mother […]Continue reading “How Solar Energy Benefits the Environment — Midlands Traveller”
Circuit Breaker Arcing — Chandra Lockey – Blog
Circuit Breaker Arcing | Here’s an infrared photo that shows a circuit breaker in a panel arcing. A real fire is the next step! Circuit Breaker Arcing – Very Dangerous and Fire Happens! An arcing circuit breaker like you see in the photo above can kill you. The arcing can get so hot the actual […]Continue reading “Circuit Breaker Arcing — Chandra Lockey – Blog”
Rethinking Renewable Mandates — Our Finite World
Powering the world’s economy with wind, water and solar, and perhaps a little wood sounds like a good idea until a person looks at the details. The economy can use small amounts of wind, water and solar, but adding these types of energy in large quantities is not necessarily beneficial to the system. While aContinue reading “Rethinking Renewable Mandates — Our Finite World”
LED Lighting Ceilings — April Seven
Finally the time has come to present you my next Diorama projects, that I have created for customers recently. It was a very big undertaking because these Dioramas have illuminated ceilings. They make an impression, don’t you think? In the first design there are two light sources, a LED strip along the edge and aContinue reading “LED Lighting Ceilings — April Seven”