The Rising Reign of Heat Pumps: Redefining Home Comfort and Energy Efficiency
In recent times, American homeowners are making a significant shift towards embracing energy-efficient heat pumps over traditional gas furnaces. This trend signals a noteworthy transformation in the landscape of home heating and cooling solutions across the nation. According to the latest report from the Air Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute, heat pump shipments have surpassed […]
How To Survive the Power Grid Going Down
The biggest threat to humanity is a grid-down scenario, and many people don’t even think about it, give it the light of day, or have even considered it. Yet, the fact that this looming threat is not a question of if but a question of when should give many people pause. Now, America’s power grid […]
What Happens to Grounded Electricity?
Where Does Grounded Electricity Actually Go? by Real Engineering discusses the grounding system in power plants, substations, and transmission lines. The grounding system is designed to ensure that the touch potential and step potential, which are the voltages that can be felt by a person who comes into contact with a grounded object, do not […]
What would happen if a light bulb were filled with a non-conductive liquid, like oil and then turned on? Would it last forever?
No. Let us assume a high-boiling non electrically conductive oil in a tungsten filament lamp, and compare this with a low pressure gas, which is the normal method (i.e. a vacuum but not a perfect one). In the case of the oil, what would happen is like an element in an electric kettle. The element would get hot […]
A Liberal argues with a Conservative: Should America be Considered a Terrorist Country?
A LIBERAL ARGUMENT BY lilmikeT: “This is why America can now be considered a terrorist country“ Murca’s not zactly blowing up buildings every day, but we did atomic bomb 2 innocent Japanese countries, not to mention the concentration camps we racially put Asians in during pearl harbor. Let me not forget how our drones attack […]
The Truth About A Taboo Subject: Nuclear Power Peoples Action for Clean Energy Annual Awards
A Critical Analysis of France’s Nuclear Power: France’s nuclear power program has long been hailed as a success story in the global energy landscape. However, a closer examination reveals a different narrative, one that challenges the notion of nuclear power as a sustainable and safe energy solution. In a recent address at the Peoples Action […]