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HooJanx SuperHero Uber Mime

Fun facts about HooJanx Uber Mime

  • The talking mime – Stutters when not telling the truth "ma ma ma ma mimes are th th th the ba ba ba ba best!"
  • He mimes up an imaginary wall to thwart enemies trailing him.  For his super powers to work he has to go silent.  Turbo mime mode.
  • All his emails are mime encoded.
  • What kind of mime can speak?  An uber mime can.
  • Mimelaid laid down to make pursuing vehicles spin out. 
  • He was abducted by imaginary space aliens who probed him with their imaginary gazoo.  Now when he farts it makes the sound of a slide whistle.   This is his achilles heal.  Except it is in his butt.
By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

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By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

Addiction to Jelly Belly

At first I thought Jelly Belly were merely good and this explained the popularity.  But one can not know at first just from the flavor why they sold so many.  Only after eating enough to develop "The Jelly Belly Addiction" can you know the full scope of why sales went parabolic.  It is as though they add space dust to them and you get addicted.  Once the addiction kicks in look out!   You will madly shove these chewy flavor bursts into your mouth as fast as you can.  I am surprised they do not sell them at crack houses. 
 
You know how it works. Put the money in the mail slot and down the drainspout rolls Jelly Belly's. Sonofa! they rolled me stank flavors!
 
And there in lies why I can never eat Jelly Belly's again.  Once an addict always an addict.  I just have to admit I have a problem. 
 
By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

Phoenix Arizona solar energy collector furnace by sky harbor is Southwest Solar Technologies Research Park that uses hybridized engine design where each dish unit can utilize natural gas to replace the suns heat during cloud cover or after sundown

Phoenix Arizona solar energy collector furnace by sky harbor is Southwest Solar Technologies Research Park that uses hybridized engine design where each dish unit can utilize natural gas to replace the suns heat during cloud cover or after sundown

If you drive down the I-10 in Arizona past Sky Harbor Airport you will see a dish to the south.   It is a hybrid solar / gas electricity generator system that covers generation shortfalls with gas and as an option compressed air energy storage.

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I love technology and from an early age was fascinated by solar energy.   That being said I always snicker when I hear liberals tout solar energy.  They like solar energy because solar is easier for them to understand as compared with say nuclear.  Solar is the hemp fabric of energy.   What really made me laugh as I wrote this was the metaphor of liberalism.  As time progresses those without engineering skills feel more and more irrelevant.   Global Warming is the left's passive aggressive religion and since it requires them to fight for the earth by doing nothing!  Curbing energy use is their solution!   This is what makes them feel relevant.    The tagline for solar energy should be

          Solar!  Passive energy for Passive agressive people!

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

Conversion of Optical Photons into Electrical Photons as might occur in a battery

See previous post on how a battery and electrical condustors work.  In that post it describes a process in which a visible light photon is generated inside a battery by the 1.5 volt chemical reaction.    I was curious when I wrote that how the optical photon could be converted to an electrical photon.  The above diagram gives a possible explanation how that could occur. When you have an optical photon generated inside of an opaque material it can not propagate very far.   It forms a region with increased photonic pressure.   It is absorbed at some high level excited state of a charge carrier.  It then can cascade downwards in the small steps of the conduction band.  This allows the energy to propagate along the copper in the form of electrical current.

You can also imagine a solar cell acting in a similar fashion with the source of the optical photon being sunlight instead of chemical energy of the battery.

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

How do electrical conductors work?

My previous inquiry into how batteries work to produce power lead me to a new question:

    How does the power produced in a battery propagate along a copper wire conductor when the 1.5 volt battery potential yields a visible light photon that is known NOT to propagate in a metal?

The following auxiliary questions arise and are answered by the above

-1- What is "DC" current?   ………  DC is a reservoir of electrons transitioning from the higher energy state to the lower and supplying the "bump" a photon supplies to the load.

-2- Why is high voltage more efficient use of power for long distance transmission?  Lower "current" is equal to saying "lower rate of electron transition which means less interaction with the elements of the lattice.  Each interaction carries a probability of bleeding off some of the energy as heat.

-3- what is voltage and current as classically used terminology? Voltage is the same as classically described.   Current is not really a flow of charge past a point but rather the rate of energy level transitions at that point

 

The probability of transition from valence band to conduction band goes down with increasing energy gap.  Why does this affect conduction?  See the next diagram.  The circles are base states of electrons. The figure eights are the first excited state of an electron.  These states are used in a representative fashion to depict relative energy levels and should not be interpreted too literally.

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Observations

  • A conductor or semiconductor sets up a wave guide for the propagation of a photon
  • In a semiconductor the photon must be the result of a 0.7 volt electron volt potential drop more or less to exceed waveguide cutoff frequency
  • In a conductor there is no forbidden band due to the conduction and valence band overlapping.  Thus waveguide cutoff frequency is more or less 0 hertz   
By Fudgy McFarlen, ago