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Can anyone tell me what accounts for the difference in home prices in these two places? What is it about Isle of Palms that makes it more 'exclusive' in terms of real estate? Thank-you.
Isle of Palms vs. Mt Pleasant
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It's on a barrier island. There's ocean front property there.
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I see. Thanks! What waters do the beaches of Mt Pleasant front?
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The Cooper River, the Wando River, the marshes, the ICW. Anything with a nice view will cost big bucks.
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Mt Pleasant is not exactly a beach town but it is next to beach towns. There is plenty of water front in Mt P (as suewoo pointed out) but not "beach on the Atlantic Ocean" like Isle of Palms (or Sullivan's Island).
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Mt. Pleasant is a town. Isle of Palms is a beach destination.
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ok. Thanks for the information. It helps. How far from Mt Pleasant to the beaches of Isle of Palms? Is there a particular area in Mt Pleasant that would afford good and quick access to the Atlantic Ocean beaches as well as to the city of Charleston? Thanks!
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If you take a look at a Charleston area map, you will see that Mt. Pleasant, Isle of Palms, and Sullivan's Island are all east of the Cooper River from downtown Charleston. Isle of Palms and Sullivan's Island are then across the ICW and marshes from Mt. Pleasant. Mt. Pleasant is the middle ground. It doesn't have any beaches, but it is bordered by the rivers and marshes. Depending on what part of Mt. Pleasant you are in, you could be in downtown Charleston in 10-15 minutes or on the beach in 10-20 minutes.
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I agree with Betsy. It will be clear to you if you look at a map. I lived in Old Mt P, about a mile from the ocean at Sullivan's.
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Thanks and that's great advice.
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So it's just location, location, location that accounts for the difference in home prices? Thank you.
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Are there beaches around Charleston Harbor in Mt. Pleasant?
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No. The beaches are oceanfront. The harbor is busy with ships. And yes, it's all about location.
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Again thanks
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I just remembered. There's a little beach at the resort over at patriot's Point. If I remember correctly there are some little beach houses connected to the resort right on it.
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Sue, what about south of Charleston along the mainland side? There was a question here a while ago with a wedding that was going on down that way. I, of course, know nothing about that area, but was interested when I looked at a map of it. It may be too marshy--even for SC waterfront!! LOL Have I got a lot for you type thing!! LOL
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No, it's all harbor. Waterfront Park is on that side so maybe that wedding was there.
There is an island at the mouth of Shem Creek where pelicans nest. You can get there by boat but it's pretty stinky!
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It has been discovered that plasma containment by a chamber having multi-pole magnetic cusp reflecting walls in combination with electronic injection for electrostatic containment provides the means for generating magnetic field free quiescent plasmas for practical application in ion-pumps, electronic switches, and the like. 1250 "Alnico V" magnets 1/2"×1/2"×11/2" provide containment in one embodiment. Electromagnets embodying toroidal funneling extend the principle to fusion apparatus.
1. Plasma containing apparatus comprising,
(a) a container vacuum tight to maintain the plasma pressure,
(b) a plasma chamber within said container,
(c) said chamber having magnetic multipole ion reflecting walls made up of an array of at least thirty magnetic poles of alternating sign, and
(d) means for injecting electrons into said chamber in sufficient quantity to maintain the resulting plasma at a substantial negative potential.
2. Plasma apparatus as defined by claim 1
(e) wherein said walls are made up of parallel ferromagnetic rectangular bars to which adhere permanent magnetic poles.
3. Plasma apparatus as defined by claim 1
(e) wherein said means comprises a heated tungsten filament.
4. Plasma apparatus as defined by claim 3
(f) wherein said walls comprise a plurality of small permanent magnets.
5. Plasma apparatus as defined by claim 1,
(e) wherein said walls comprise a plurality of small permanent magnets.
6. Plasma apparatus as defined by claim 5
(f) wherein said magnets are arranged in a broken line-cusp array, each broken line-cusp being made up of a plurality of like-sense poles spaced apart by a predetermined distance, and said array comprising a plurality of parallel broken line cusps of alternately opposite sense, spaced apart by a second predetermined distance of the order of said first distance.
7. Plasma apparatus as defined by claim 5
(f) wherein said magnets are arranged in a broken line-cusp array, in further combination with:
(g) an exit port in said chamber, and
(h) electrostatic lens means to direct ions from said chamber into an outlet pipe.
8. Plasma apparatus as defined by claim 1
(e) wherein said chamber is in the form of a toroid, in further combination with
(f) a closed core of magnetic material linking said toroid.
9. Plasma apparatus as defined by claim 1
(e) wherein said poles are provided by horse-shoe electromagnets.
10. Plasma apparatus as defined by claim 9
(f) wherein said magnets are arranged in a broken line-cusp array.
11. Plasma apparatus as defined by claim 9
(f) wherein said magnets have hollow cores proportioned for torroidal funneling.
12. Plasma apparatus as defined by claim 11
(g) wherein at least one of said magnets is linked by a closed magnetic core of magnetic material which links also wire windings by which said plasma may be heated by induction.
13. Plasma apparatus as defined by claim 9
(f) wherein said means comprises an electron gun external to said chamber.
14. Plasma apparatus as defined by claim 13
(g) wherein said electrons are carried from said gun to said chamber through the hollow core of an electromagnet.
15. Plasma apparatus as defined by claim 9 in further combination with
(f) means for injecting ions into said chamber.
16. Plasma apparatus as defined by claim 15
(g) wherein said last-named means comprises
(h) an ion generator, and
(i) a hollow electromagnet to guide said ions from said generator into said chamber.
This invention relates to vacuum systems, and more particularly to the containment of plasma within a vacuum system, and to a high-speed ion pump, means for generating a strong ion beam and other applications described herein.
In my papers with Professor K. R. MacKenzie (Ref 1) "Magnetic Multipole Confinement of a Magnetic Field-Free Plasma" Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Quiescent Plasmas, Elsinore, Denmark, September 20-24; (1971 p. 22 ff.) (Ref 2) "Magnetic Multipole Confinement of a Magnetic Field-Free Uniform Quiescent Plasma" Bulletin of the American Physical Society, (November 1971 p 1222) and in (Ref 3) my Ph.D. dissertation for the University of California, Los Angeles, "Parallel Magnetic Multipole Confinement of a Magnetic Field Free Plasma" Department of Physics March 1972, we have described results of a new electrostatic plasma containment scheme. In the tested devices, the walls of the plasma vacuum chamber were lined with rows of permanent magnet bars alternately oriented to provide a mirror cusp field which decreases exponentially electrical energy. The control of the electrical conductivity and temperature of such a contained high density and heated plasma is also useable for such applications of controlling and enhance the chemical reactions of atoms and molecules for the purpose of manufacturing chemical compounds and obtaining coherent and noncoherent electromagnetic radiation. By replacing the permanent magnets by electromagnets as well as using an external electron source for the plasma containment, it is also the object of the present invention to provide means for containing plasma for fusion reaction in a closed and hydromagnetically stable magnetic field configuration.
The electrostatic containment principle of plasma with injection of electrons in a multipole cusp device, has not been investigated heretofore either theoretically or experimentally. However, magnetic-field free plasmas with and without magnetic cusp containment have been studied.
Theoretical and experimental investigations have encountered the fact that the presence of metallic or dielectric boundaries and the consequent electrostatic sheaths, increase the plasma loss at a rate proportional to the ion acoustic velocity, tending to reduce the uniformity, plasma production, and density of the plasma.
In the steady state, without electron injection into the plasma, the number of positive charges carried to the walls by ions must equal the number of negative charges carried to the walls by electrons:
Ie =Ii. (1)
Since the ions are at least 1800 times heavier than an electron the velocity of the electrons is much greater, so that the plasma quickly becomes sufficiently deficient in electrons to acquire a high positive potential so that ions are pushed out in greater numbers, and electrons are held back in sufficient numbers that equation (1) is satisfied.
The resulting plasma potential Vp (volts) is given by
Vp =(KTe /4e)ln(mi /me) (2)
where it is assumed the electron temperature Te is much less than the ion temperature Ti ; e is the electron charge, which in the mks system is 1.6×10-19 coulombs; K is the Boltzmann constant, 1.381×1s-23 joules/degree Kelvin; mi is the ion mass, me is the electron mass.
For multipole cusp devices, without the forced electrostatic containment, condition described by equation (1) is still approximately valid, however, first order calculations show (page 83 ref 3) that for the new condition the flux to the multipole wall is mass independent and is proportional to the temperature of the specie in question. Since, however, the electron temperature for most plasmas is larger than the ion temperature, the electron flux is still larger; and a smaller electrostatic sheath with a still positive plasma potential is obtained. However, a reduction of the ion less rate is attained by the use of multipole cusped devices, since the effective wall area is reduced to about NrL 2 where N is the total number of cusps (assumed here circular) and where:
rL =mi |vi ×Bo |/|e|Bo 2 ( 3)
rL is the Larmor radius, vi is the vector velocity of an ion, e is the charge of the ion (usually the electronic charge) and Bo is the magnetic field strength at the pole piece in webers/meter2.
The condition for electrostatic ion containment in the multi-cusp device is brought about by the injection of electrons with a total current Iee. The conservation of charge, then requires:
Ie -Ii =Iee ( 4)
With sufficient injection of electrons, the resulting plasma potential is not positive, as in the case of equations (1) and (2) but becomes negative, thereby tending to hold back positive ion current, and containing the positive ions.
For a system, where the injected electrons also produce the plasma, the increase in the plasma density is due in part to the increase of the plasma production, since the emission electrons are being partially contained by the multipole structure. However, the dominating effect is the increase of the ion lifetime due to the electrostatic containment. In the experimental system tested, a plasma potential as negative as much as -7 volts (page 56 of ref 3) has been obtained. With such a negative plasma potential and an ion temperature of about 0.6 ev, only a small proportion of the more energeticions escape to the wall.
To compare theory and experimental performance three systems were constructed by the inventor.
Two identical one-liter systems, one with electrostatically forced positive ion containment and one with nonmagnetic walls, were constructed and tested. The direct comparison shows (dissertation p. 40) a performance improvement in the electrostatic multipole device of better than a factor of 100. On page 42 of ref. 3 an improvement of over three orders of magnitude is obtained in the newer 86 liter device. The total improvement is due to the improvement of the plasma production and reduction of plasma loss to the walls.
The experimental plasma lifetime in the electrostatically forced multimagnetic device (page 58 of ref 3) is compared with the plasma lifetime of the same multimagnetic device without electrostatically containment (page 62 of ref. 3 under Afterglow time). A plasma lifetime increase as much as 80 has been measured in the electrostatically containment device.
Many discharge plasma sources without magnetic fields have been constructed. One of the more recent systems have been reported by Taylor UCLA Plasma Physics Report P. 70 and by Hoog and Schott, (cited in ref 3).
Taylor at the UCLA Plasma Physics Group has produced plasmas improved in quiescence and uniformity by installing numerous electron-emitting filaments around the periphery of the vacuum chamber, and restricting the emission rate to 100 milliamperes (ma) per centimeter (cm) of filament length. Hoog and Schott report a similar approach in Rev. Sci. Inst. 41,1340 (September 1940).
Magnetic plasma containment by electromagnets with an alternate north and south pole is covered by Harold P. Furth in U.S. Pat. No. 3,369,140, Feb. 13, 1968. Sadowski in Rev. Sci.
The magnetic containment with multipole cusp devices of nonfusion plasma, using permanent magnets has been applied in ion thrusters as disclosed in Electro-Optical Systems Inc. Report 7240 on NASA contract NAS7-587 and by W. Knauer in AIAA Paper No. 70-177 AIAA 8th. Aerospace Sciences Meeting, New York, N.Y., Jan. 19-21 1970 "Power Efficiency Limits of Kaufman Thruster Discharges". The forced electrostatic containment of plasma in a multipole system has not been investigated either theoretically or experimentally prior to my thesis research.
I have found that small, commercially available permanent magnets have sufficient strength for use in a magnetic multipole structure for the forced electrostatic plasma containment of nonfusion plasma, to increase the plasma lifetime and thereby reduce the ionizing requirements by one to three orders of magnitude compared with a system without the magnets.
The effectiveness is such that an ion source as described may be employed to provide an improved ion pump; and an improved electrodless discharge device.
I have extended the principles of containment to the case of a fusion plasma. Requiring higher magnetic fields, electromagnets are employed, and the loss of ions at the pole faces of the permanent magnets is reduced by permitting them to pass through the open core of the electromagnets to reemerge at the opposite pole.
Other objects and features of my invention and of these embodiments thereof will be better understood from the following specification taken in conjunction with the annexed drawings of which:
FIG. 1 is a representation of a vacuum system employing a plasma chamber in accord with the invention;
FIG. 2 is a detail of a portion of the magnetic wall of the chamber of FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 is a representation of a vacuum system employing the vacuum pump of the invention;
FIG. 4 illustrates a torroidal plasma chamber providing a controllable circuit for the transmission of alternating current power;
FIG. 5 is a diagram, partially cut away of a fusion machine in accord with the invention;
FIG. 6 is a detail of the machine of FIG. 5 showing the feature of torroidal funneling and induction heating, and
FIG. 7 is a detail of the machine of FIG. 5 illustrating the operation of auxilliary minor poles.
FIG. 1 is a representation of a vacuum system employing the novel laboratory plasma source. It is the 86 liter system, conceived, constructed, and tested by the inventor for such a purpose. A vacuum container 10 contains within it a plasma chamber 20 made up of a first section 30 and a second section 40 separated by insulators (not shown). The first section comprises a base ring 56 and an end ring 57 connected by a plurality of connecting square rods 59, to each of the rods 59, magnets 60 adhere arranged in alternately opposite polarity as indicated. Similarly the second section comprises a base ring 66, and end ring 67, and connecting rods 69. The ends of the chamber is closed by a plurality of parallel rods 70, likewise carrying a reflecting array of magnets 60. Centrally in each section, a number of tungsten filaments 75 are supported on leads 77, 78. The leads pass between the connecting rods and between like polarity magnets. The electrically heated filaments are biased negative with respect to the multipole structure to emit electrons for the plasma production and plasma containment. The center cusp region of the polished and nickel-plated magnetic pole faces serve as the anode for the discharge and also establishes the plasma potential for the system. Alternately, a separate anode placed in front of all of the magnets may be advantageous for some applications.
An effective pole should be at least several times the Larmor radius wide to provide a good anode and a good potential reference for the plasma, but should not be too large.
Given the pole size and the magnet material, the magnet length L is that which will be required to gain the desired field strength.
For a magnetic field-free plasma of given volume, the plasma loss rate is proportional to the number of magnetic poles and the square of the Larmor radius. Increasing the pole size and therefore the pole spacing will increase the magnetic field penetration and therefore the volume of the contained plasma. The magnetic pole size, shape, and length depends also on the magnetic property of the magnet material. The numerical solution of the magnetic field is a standard procedure of magnetic circuit design.
For the 86 liter system tested, a broken line cusp geometry was selected, consisting of rows of like poles as illustrated by FIG. 2. Only the polarity from one row to the next is alternating. The complete wall surface was aligned with a total of 1252 "Alnico V" magnets with a pole face of 1/2"/1/2" and a length of 1.5". A center to center pole spacing of 1" between poles of like polarity and a center to center spacing of 1.5" between poles of opposite polarity was selected (ref 3 page 19). Increasing the spacing between the poles of opposite polarity increased the plasma density but also reduced the contained plasma volume. The trade-off can be weighted to favor one of these factors at the expense of the other.
It will be recognized that there are many configurations that will result in the cusped field configuration required for confinement. Three configurations have been tested by the inventor. I prefer the rectangular array because of its symmetry and simplicity. A hexagonal array is possible in which poles of one sense, say "North" are each surrounded by a hexagonal fence comprising the matching "South" pole which is shared with the six neighboring "North" poles.
Although practical results have been obtained with the simple square pole shown, an improvement, however, can be obtained by reshaping and reducing the pole faces of the magnets.
With this system, most gases, including the vapors of solids and liquids, can be ionized and contained effectively within the volume of the multipole structure with a minimum expenditure of energy.
FIG. 3 is a representation of a vacuum system employing the novel ion pump of the invention. A vacuum container with a wall 110 contains a plasma chamber 120 of the type of chamber 20 of FIG. 1, cylindrical in form with an exit port 124 and an electrostatic or magnetic lens 126 such as the screen 122. Within the chamber 120 are a number of tungsten filaments 175 supported from without by leads 176, 177 and fed with electric power from the power supply 180. The walls of the chambers are constructed as shown in FIG. 1 with the permanent magnetic mirror structure. This structure permits a neutral gas to enter to be ionized by the emission electrons. The ionized gas within the magnetic mirror structure can be extracted from the vacuum chamber. The curved screen 126 with a negative potential greater than the emission potential, draws ionized particles out of the chamber and serves as a simple illustrative way to direct them through the iris 130 into the outlet pipe 134. A grounding plate 136 relieves the ions of their charge and deflects them toward the fore pump (not shown) or a second stage of an ion pump. Alternatively, the ions may be withdrawn by condensing them on a negatively-biased circulating pool of mercury.
The pump requires that the mean-free-path of the ions shall be long enough to reach the outlet pump; but this amount of vacuum may be readily achieved with available mechanical pumps.
The emerging charged particles will tend to bounce against and carry along neutral molecules, assisting thereby in increasing the pumping.
To further assist in pumping, a titanium electrode 190 within the plasma chamber is bombarded with electrons when positively biased from a source 194 to evaporate and condense titanium for better pumping.
For a system of the size of the 86 liter system, experimental data as well as calculation, show this device could be used in conjunction with an electrostatic lens to obtain a pumping speed of 20 liters/sec and 160 liters/sec for helium and argon per ampere of emission current. Since this system, with cooled multipole structure, can be operated with more than 100 amperes, a pumping of 2,000 to 16,000 liters/sec can be obtained for all gases.
With a redesign of the ion extractor to an ion accelerator, the system may be used as an ion engine. This system may use hydrogen as the propellent for maximum thrust per unit mass utilization.
For chemical processing, atomic excitation, molecular excitation and whenever heating is required energy may be pumped into a partially or fully ionized gas through induction heating of a multimagnetically contained plasma. This is accomplished by constructing the multimagnetic mirror container in a configuration such that the contained and ionized gas forms a one turn, shorted out, secondary of a transformer (s). One such configuration would be a plasma of the form of a donut. An alternating or pulsed signal applied to the primary of such a transformer will produce ohmic heating in the conductive plasma medium.
FIG. 4 illustrates a high-power electronic switch configuration. A hollow torroidal container 410 links legs 412 and 414 of two transformers 416 and 418 respectively. Within the container 410 is a torroidal plasma chamber 420 made up of a large number N of sections each of which may be substantially similar to the section 30 in FIG. 1 except that the base rings and end rings of each section are not parallel but lie in planes meeting with a dihedral angle of 360/N degrees.
Each of the chambers contain closely spaced permanent magnets 460 to form reflecting cylinder walls, and filaments 475 for ion injection. The filaments are connected to a bias and power supply 480 by leads 481, 482.
When the filaments are heated and biased negatively, a plasma is produced and maintained, but when the filaments are biased positively, the plasma is extinguished within a fraction of a millisecond. Since the electrical resistance of plasma is of the order of 10-3 ohm-centimeters, a torroidal chamber with a cross section of 1000 cm2 and a circumference of 2 meters, would have a resistance of only about two milliohms. Alternating currents of many thousands of amperes may be induced to flow in the plasma with efficiency approaching metallic conductors, and without contact wear and with high switching speed.
Referring to FIG. 4, an input power source 485 is connected to a primary winding 486 of the transformer 416, an output load 488 is connected to the secondary winding 490 of transformer 418. When a plasma is sustained in the chamber, power flows from the source 485 to the load 490.
Sometimes the object is only to heat the plasma, to accelerate a chemical reaction, for example. An induction arrangement requiring only one transformer may be employed.
Of course the metal parts of the plasma container and plasma chamber, and the bias wiring must be arranged so as not to form closed loops of metallic conductors encircling a transformer leg, as is well known in the art.
To contain high temperature high density plasma for fusion reactions, the magnetic field strength and pole face size has to be increased. This can be achieved by replacing the permanent magnets of the multipole system by electromagnets. The general arrangement of a fusion machine constructed in accordance with the invention is shown in FIG. 5. The machine comprises a generally elipsoidal chamber 510 of generous proportions. At one end, an electron gun 512 injects electrons into the chamber through the central core of a strong electromagnet 514 which provides a "North" pole at the end of the chamber. At the opposite end, an ion generator 516 admits ions into the chamber through the center of another strong electromagnet 518, which provides a pole at that end. Between these poles is arrayed a large number of "horse-shoe" electromagnets to provide the broken line-cusp array substantially as in the case of the permanent magnets.
I have found that the substantial containment achieved by the permanent-magnet arrays is still subject to unacceptable losses for a fusion machine. The losses in the permanent-magnetic arrangement are in large measure by way of collision with the pole faces. In the case of electromagnets it is possible to guide the ions through the open core of magnet to reemerge at an opposite pole. I call this "torroidal funneling".
I have also found that losses can be minimized by inserting weak auxiliary poles between the main poles.
The arrangement of these magnets may be better understood with relation to FIG. 6 which is a highly schematized sectional view of a portion of the machine of FIG. 5 taken along an axial section 6--6.
The electromagnets 610, 611 are arranged so that the north pole 613 of magnet 610 is one element of one broken-line cusp, the south pole 615 is an element of the next line cusp, the north pole 617 of the magnet 611 is part of the next line cusp, and the south pole 619 of the following line cusp, successively in the axial direction of the chamber.
The magnets comprise funnel portions 622 and torroidal portions 624, the funnel portions being flared to obtimize ion capture. The lines of force 625 flare generally as indicated.
Passing around the chamber are rings 630, 631 of laminated magnetic iron forming a closed magnetic circuit. It will be seen that plasma forms a closed loop around one of these cores at each magnet, the circuit being completed by the main body of plasma. Windings 640 (FIG. 5) also link the cores 630, 631. Power from a heating power supply 650 may be fed to these windings to induce heating of the plasma for the purpose of initiating fusion. Heat is also added by the electron gun 512 and when ions from the ion generator 516 are captured by the negatively charged plasma.
FIG. 7, also highly schematic, indicates the location of auxilliary weak poles 710 between main poles 613, 713.
The main poles are preferably of eliptical cross section of as much elipticity as the resulting mechanical stress can be made to tolerate in a practical structure. The presence of the auxilliary poles, which are weak enough to be negligible in the active volume of the plasma, serve to reduce the effect of low field regions which otherwise would be present between the main poles of like sense.
For clarity, the drawings omit many practical factors of great importance. It will be understood that the torroidal portions of the windings will include windings to introduce a helical field to be added to the torroidal to eliminate the so-called ExB drift.
Since this is contemplated as a steady-state machine, cryogenic superconducting magnets are preferred for the electromagnets. Effective thermal insulation, and efficient mechanical support are required for these.
A fusion reactor generates neutrons and heat. The neutrons are absorbed, reflected and converted to heat by a blanket of lithium and lithium hydride or the equivalent which must be fitted around the magnets. The magnetic materials, like all the materials exposed to the neutrons, must be selected for their nuclear properties, as well as their primary properties.
The entire container is permeated with piping to carry a working fluid, liquid sodium, a hydrocarbon, or pressured water, for example, which enters the reactor by a pipe 790 and leaves the reactor by a pipe 792 to carry heat to a using apparatus 794.
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The GNOME Project is aimed at making UNIX attractive and easy to use. To help achieve the goals of the GNU project, we want to make sure that users are presented with a full suite of applications, as well as a desktop that enables them to manage their computers effectively. The GNOME team has been focusing on creating a reusable infrastructure of development libraries and tools, along with productivity applications based on this infrastructure.
The goals of the GNOME Project can be divided into three areas:
a full-featured desktop environment
a set of interoperable applications with a consistent, easy-to-use interface
a powerful application development framework
The desktop environment is not the set of applications, such as a web browser or a spreadsheet, with which a user interacts with the system to do useful tasks; rather, it is the utilities which provide the user with control over the working environment. As the most immediately apparent part of GNOME, the desktop environment includes the file manager, panel and help browser, as well as other utilities necessary for the day-to-day maintenance of one's computing environment.
The GNOME session begins with the GNOME Display Manager which grants access to the system. The beauty of this process is that the author of GDM rewrote the whole login sequence to be secure and extensible. The GDM code base is designed to be robust and secure.
From there, the GNOME panel and the GNOME file manager provide the desktop functionality to let users launch applications and manage their information see Figure 1).
The GNOME desktop was the first desktop to include application themes. Application themes are a way to make applications look different. People can choose to make their desktop look like other popular systems, or tune it to suit their needs and personal interface desire. The next major release of GNOME will include a new, updated and better integrated theme mechanism, and also theme packages that will affect the entire desktop, not just the applications.
We also integrate the GNOME personal information management system (calendar, address book, task list) with the Palm Pilot, and more systems can be plugged into the system. To learn more about this feature, visit http://www.gnome.org/gnome-pilot/.
Just being able to choose a screen saver, organize icons, browse application menus and move files doesn't mean you are a productive member of society. What users want is a set of applications to help them accomplish actual work. This is where the GNOME Workshop project comes in. Many applications not done by the core GNOME team are available, but would be much more useful if they were integrated with each other and the desktop. The GNOME Workshop project wants to make a set of highly integrated applications to do what you need, whether it is managing finances, writing letters or editing a picture. Components of GNOME Workshop that have already reached a functional state include a highly capable spreadsheet (Gnumeric), a word-processing application (AbiWord), and an image-editing application (the famous GIMP). Other component applications are coming along quickly, and news of their releases will be listed on the GNOME Workshop home page.
Another important part of GNOME is the development environment. UNIX has not had a history of applications with a consistent and powerful graphical interface. The few graphical applications that existed all behaved and looked a little differently, usually did not have a powerful interface, and were not easy for their developers to write. GNOME addresses this last need by simplifying the development of applications, allowing the creation of easy-to-use and powerful graphical interfaces.
GNOME provides a high-level application framework which frees the programmer from having to worry about the low-level details of graphical application interfaces, allowing him to concentrate on the actual application. Glade, a tool for user-interface design used by many GNOME applications, takes this concept a step further by allowing graphical creation of a program's user interface. The Libglade library allows user interfaces to be created at runtime from the XML interface description files saved by Glade. GNOME also recognizes that not every programming language is useful for every kind of job. We paid special attention to making the GNOME APIs easy to wrap and export to other programming languages, to let people develop their GNOME-based applications in their language of choice.
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With more than a dozen museums, several gardens, the zoo, etc., Balboa Park is America's largest urban cultural park. It has so much to offer that during the day El Prado, a wide promenade that runs through the middle of it, can be really crowded.
When the sun goes down and the crowd begins to thin out, I think that is the most magical time of the day. Constantly changing but slowly fading, the soft light coming from the western end of El Prado reveals the beautiful silhouettes of the California Bell Tower and palm trees.
Working with a limited palette consisting of ultramarine blue, brown madder, quinacridone gold, cobalt blue, turquoise, cadminium red, and a little bit of white really worked well to create a mood of the moment that I so cherish at my favorite place in San Diego.
Balboa Park Sunset, San Diego I
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Media: Original watercolor on paper
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Eugen Chisnicean
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Very atmospheric painting of the wonderful place,you live! Great work, Keiko!!
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Thank you, Eugen. Always a joy to hear your comment. Have a happy B-day!
Manuel Rivas
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Me gustan mucho,un amigo
Keiko Tanabe
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Manuel, I'm glad you like it. Thank you for your visit!
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Bravo Keiko, c'est toujours tres bien, il me tarde le mois d'octobre. Jacky
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Merci Jacky, moi aussi, je suis vraiment honorée de rejoindre les autres aquarellistes dans le salon que tu organises.
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The front desk staff was very friendly and helpful.
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I'm not playing the game, waiting for the September update, maybe this and exp/merit bonuses will make come back.
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The power holiday declared by APEPDCL has hit industrial production hard --particularly in micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME).
Industrialists, who say imposing power holiday has become a regular feature for APEPDCL, say that this exposed lack of planning on the part of the government. The Discoms should have kept in place a contingency plan for implementation whenever the demand-supply gap widened.
"The sudden imposition of three-day power holiday has come as a high voltage shock administered by APEPDCL to the industries particularly SSI sector. This is contrary to the assurance given by Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy to us on April 14, reducing the power holiday duration at that time to just one day and without any peak hour restrictions on the use of machinery load," said Ramakrishna Narappareddy, president, Visakha Autonagar Small Scale Industrialists Welfare Association.
He said there was no justification for sudden imposition of power cuts under the pretext of increase in demand and drastic fall in power generation. It showed their total lack of planning and casual manner in facing the power shortage. Anticipating such a problem, they should have purchased power from the private producers and assured sufficient coal reserves for the thermal plants to function well in advance to effect normal supply to the priority sectors like industries, commercial and domestic consumers.
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Symbiosys Technologies CEO Naresh Kumar said APEPDCL had the distinction of being the highest revenue earner but it was being meted out a raw deal by the government while allocation of power to various Discoms.
"Our Discom was a profit-making commercial organisation even before the rates were increased. It was making crores of rupees profit even at old rates. Now the rates have been hiked all over the State and even in Vizag where it is not needed. Our losses at six per cent are the lowest in the country. We have received national awards. Other Discom losses are in excess of 16 per cent. Still power supply is not reliable here," he regretted.
The State average losses are 16 per cent. This means if other Discoms are as efficient as APEPDCL, their losses would have been pegged at six per cent. "By doing so we could have saved 7,800 million units worth Rs.3,000 crore. The present situation is due to carelessness and sheer negligence," he remarked.
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|Sep 11, 2012, 09:22 AM
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Yes,it will move CG back a little,move battery forwards a little.There is nothing for free in EDFs.The extra weight of motor with can and windings will handle more heat and be able to dissapate it better.The performance of course will really improve, over 500 watts more will be noticed! I have triple the stock power and can takeoff in grass in shorter time then stock can takeoff a runway, and I go straight to verticle. It all depends on what YOU want. Joe
|Sep 11, 2012, 10:03 AM
Here is another option from Gary and it's 3200 kv with 4 mm shaft.
Any information on power on 5S would be nice.
|Sep 11, 2012, 10:25 AM
What fan/housing are you using?
I have tons of room in the front as I moved the ESC to the intake ducting, So adjusting the CG up to 1/2inch forward is relatively easy. The main reason I'm looking to switch is I'd like to run retracts and with the added weight I wanted to have more power. I fly off a rough grass field.
|Sep 11, 2012, 10:40 AM
habu omg too expensive
Went into the local hobby store, the Parkzone habu all dressed up in thunderbird colors. all foam edf 70mm for $299. I saw this and went ok i can understand $199, but $299???????
they have no retracts, no thrust vector, no smoke system or drag chute or pilot ejection. No LED lights. What makes it worth $299?
I can buy one of the best EDF's on the market, Freewing su34 with everything included for $169. used to be $199. So i ask what makes this worth $299?
|Sep 11, 2012, 10:41 AM
No,but I have this motor in another setup.Its a pretty bullit proof setup for H2.
I run Mach alloy fan and a Mega 16/45/1 on 6s 3300 65c batteries.
Thats how I get away with the battery and ESC up front.Counter balance is the key to high powered setups.
I fly off of rough grass also....
|Sep 11, 2012, 11:22 AM
I owned a Freewing edf jet before and it was the biggest pile of junk ever.
|Sep 11, 2012, 11:27 AM
If you love to tinker than the cheap ones are great, if you want to fly you can't go wrong with the parkzone planes.
|Sep 11, 2012, 11:28 AM
I've seen the Habu in action and frankly i flew circles around it with my FMS F16 and another person flew thier su34 from freewing. Both out flew the habu so tell me what makes this worth $299?
|Sep 11, 2012, 11:32 AM
You're confusing speed with quality. I could build an EDF model AIM-9 Sidewinder missle that would be stupid fast but I wouldn't call it better.....
|Sep 11, 2012, 11:39 AM
if i did switch out the servos id use MG Tpro. i like them better than hitec, $6 per vs $18-22 per is pretty good.
Lately many of the manufacturers like FMS and Freewing are including MG servos on their planes. SU35 has them on the elevators. I dont see a need for them on alierons or rudder, maybe for steering but thats it. Since their realatively priced, lets look @ the FW su35.
SU35 is twin 70mm, has Thrust vectoring. stock setup is plenty fast (100mph) and has retracts. Granted the rear retracts can have issues but normal maintenance ever 5-6 flights can prevent any real issues. Same goes for any plane.
What do you get with Habu2 for $20 more? Look im trying to find an excuse to buy this and it's rather difficult for me to buy a non military edf at this cost.
Works right out of the box doesn't work for me. I have many planes with the exact same benifit. id say 80% of my EDF's have worked flawlessly right out of the box. Is it the electronics? beefed up? Power wires are size 10AWG vs 14AWG? What sets this EDF apart from the rest?
|Sep 11, 2012, 11:43 AM
|Sep 11, 2012, 12:17 PM
You've been really lucky to not have servo failures on those birds. But on the Habu servo failures are very few and far between.
I guess you could compare it to buying a Honda civic vs buying a Cadillac. They'll both get you where your going and after changing some parts the honda may even be faster, but the Cadillac will be more refined and probably last longer.
Comparing the SU35
1) it is a twin so requires bigger batteries. Could be a plus or minus depending on what you have... for me it is a minus as they cost much more and I have share 4 cell packs in all my planes. Habu, 3dhs 57" Extra, and future 71" slick.
2)Thrust vectoring. To me it is kinda overrated, I mean I can do so much more on my 3dhs plane. If I want crazy aero I'll fly that one. The freewing/FMS need TV to fly well at slow speeds the habu doesn't. Again not really a plus of minus on either except the extra servos($) needed to move the nozzle.
3)"SU-35 stock setup is plenty fast (100mph) and has retracts. Granted the rear retracts can have issues but normal maintenance ever 5-6 flights can prevent any real issues." -- Stock Habu it about 90mph so that's really close. Retract pockets are molded into the H2 wings and the E-flite retracts are bulletproof and once setup can honestly be check twice a year. (Though I strongly recommend doing it every 10 flights)
It just boils down to quality. The Habu is in general a bit better quality than the others mentioned.
I will say that if you are an accomplished EDF pilot already the habu might be slightly underwhelming. Like I stated from the start it was designed to be beginner friendly.
Changing the ESC to a 75+amp unit and using a 5S pack will transform it into a much faster plane though. But now we're getting into modifications....
|Sep 11, 2012, 12:33 PM
ok i see what your getting at..
Thanks for clearing it up.
|Sep 11, 2012, 12:46 PM
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--I only got around 950ish watts- 68 amps with BI3600 - HET fan on 2650 4s(worked great but mine eventually burned out)
--3200kv velocity motor would probably perform like stock motor on 4s or 5s--just heavier
--3700kv velocity motor would probably perform better on 4s than stock motor on 5s -- and still be able to handle 5s-- just use heatsink--larger motor would also balance better in Habu with bigger packs
--HET fan will probably pull more amps than stock fan
--Now I want one--
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Dundee University scientists have made a major breakthrough that could stop devastating Parkinson's disease ''in its tracks''.
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The scientists have discovered a molecular ''on-off'' switch for Parkinson's that acts to protect the brain from developing the killer disease.
The research has helped scientists understand how genetic mutations in a gene called PINK1 lead to Parkinson's in patients as young as eight and could eventually lead to new ways to diagnose and treat the condition.
The breakthrough has come after a decade of intensive research at the MRC into the PINK1 enzyme (which is made by the PINK1 gene). Scientists already knew that the job of some proteins inside cells is to switch other important proteins on or off. Understanding how these proteins work and which proteins they target could be the key to why nerve cells die in Parkinson's, and how they can be saved.
Now the Dundee team has found that PINK1 switches on a protein called Parkin, whose main job is to keep cells healthy by removing damaged proteins. Mutations in the gene that makes Parkin can also cause inherited forms of Parkinson's in younger patients.
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''Parkinson's is a devastating degenerative brain disorder and currently we have no drugs in the clinic that can cure or slow the disease down,'' said Dr Muqit, a Wellcome Trust clinician scientist in the Dundee unit.
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Quotes for a new A/C system
Hello. I'm hoping to get a sanity check on some quotes I have gotten for replacing my heating and air conditioning.
I live in a Los Angeles suburb, and currently have a 1970's era 5 ton Lennox heating and air.
I've gotten quotes from a few dealers which include the furnace, condenser, coils, and also replacement for the old ducting and new return. Basically a whole new 4 ton setup including moving the furnace into the attic with any electrical and plumbing work needed.
Lennox XC14, Lennox SL280V, not sure about the coils, HC10 filtering system Honeywell prestige thermostat. $13850 ($3000 of which is the new ducts and registers)
Second one is
Carrier Gas Furnace Model 58PHX090116
Carrier Two Speed Outdoor A/C Unit Model 24ACB748A003
ADP Horizontal Cooling Coil Model C48H210D576
T1800 Venstar
Last one is American Standard
16-SEER/ 13-EER system 1-stage condenser, coil, 2-stage Variable speed furnace.
Honeywell 6000 Wi-Fi thermostat
Comparing these with some of the other quotes I see on this web site is very hard. These quotes are much much larger than the ones I see here, but at the same time I think there is less work involved when compared to my quote.
I would appreciate any advice that could steer me to a better decision.
Thank you,
Those prices do seem a little high, although I'm not that familiar with the Los Angeles HVAC market. The equipment specified is good quality but not the best. While you probably don't need a 95+% furnace, at those prices you should be doing better than 15-16 SEER on the AC (they appear to be biasing the equipment to more expensive 80% furnaces at the expense of A/C - did you ask them to do that)?
Get a few more quotes, try a Rheem Prestige system also.
Thanks sktn77a for sharing your opinion.
To answer your question, no I did not specify anything other than I would want 15 SEER or above. So I have quotes for 15, 16, 17 and one 18 SEER from each contractor. I eliminated the 15 SEER since due to rebates there's practically no price difference between 15 and 16. The 17 and 18 are between $1500 and $2000 higher and I don't think have enough payoff.
One of the contractors (recommending the carrier performance boost) mentioned that the furnace can wring up to 1.5 SEER out of a lower efficiency air conditioner. I did not relay that info to other contractors. They might be thinking the same thing though.
I do have one more contractor coming in tomorrow and I will ask him if he can specify Rheem.
Thanks again,
I got a Rheem/Rudd quote
Rudd RGPE10NBRMR 80% variable speed
Ruud CE60D4421 16seer cooling coil
Rudd 14AJM49A01 14seer condensing unit
I'm a bit confused about the 14seer condenser + 16 seer coil. I've emailed the contractor. Seems to me you want those to match. Following a trend that ktn77a pointed to this one also seems to match a higher end furnace with a low end condenser.
The price is $11300. The interesting part with this one is that this one includes and new refrigerant line set, instead of flushing that all the other contractors specified. Looking online there is not consensus as to a line change is needed, but most lean towards a flush being adequate, if the sizing of the line does not warrant a change.
Again, I would love to get any opinions on the set of quotes and the line change vs the flush.
The SEER rating is for a matched system of a furnace, condenser, and coil. A SEER rating for just the coil is meaningless.
I am not familiar with the Rudd model numbers. But I could not find the coil model number you listed. I did find some other matches with various Rudd coils with the furnace and condenser. The SEER rating ranged from 15.1 to 16.0. I am not sure what this contractor is proposing to you. His quote raises some flags for me.
As a general rule you should change the line set when going from R22 to R410 refrigerant. Flushing is done when the line set is difficult to change and it is the correct size for the new equipment. Then you have to rely on the contractor flushing it out correctly. There are various opinions on how well a line set needs to be flushed. You are better off replacing it and not have to worry about it.
If the lineset is accessible, it's common to change it because not all contractors do a good job flushing the old one. On the Ruud equipment, that AC condenser is bottom of the line, not the Prestige series. That's a very high price for bottom of the line equipment! You should be able to get a 16 SEER 2 stage Prestige series AC condenser with a 2 stage furnace for that price (and that's taking into account the $3000 for new ductwork).
Guys, truly appreciate your input.
I asked one of the contractors about changing the line set instead of flush. He said it would be $600, but he has had no issues with flushing. I'm wondering whether this changeover from R22 to R410 has been long enough to show issues if the flushing has not been done properly. For peace of mind I'm leaning towards having it changed regardless of the promise of doing the job correctly.
Regarding the low end AC, I'm starting to wonder if he is just putting things together from a catalog, rather than truly knowing the model numbers and matching them correctly. For what it's worth he did come recommended by a family member who he did a good job for. But then again, the contractor mentioned that he has stepped away from residential for a while and has been doing commercial installs.
The other quote he gave me which I had not included was for an American Standard
4 ton platinum SV furnace AUD2C080ACV42A
4 ton gold XI conditioner 4A7A6048H1000A
XADDH1360 16seer Coil
This is the same price ($11600) as another A-S quote (above) except that one is a 5 ton gold SV AUD2C100B9V5VB and this one includes the new line set.
Setting aside contractor competency (which I'm not discounting at all), which one of these works better as a system (and possibly has better value for the money)
A) American Standard
4 ton platinum SV furnace AUD2C080ACV42A
4 ton gold XI conditioner 4A7A6048H1000A
B) American Standard
5 ton gold SV furnace AUD2C100B9V5VB
4 ton gold XI conditioner 4A7A6048H1000A
C) Rheem/Rudd prestige
Lastly, on the Rheem, there is RGPE10N and RGPE10E differentiated by Heating Input Designation, electric ignition vs Nox model. What is the difference there?
Thanks again.
I'm in the same boat as OP, sanity check on my quote which seems really really high!
For me it's a brand spanking new install as right now we only have a single Wall Furnace. That means I need everything from ducting to electrical, etc.
House: 1050 sqft
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Quote Details:
Lennox SL280V Furnace
Lennox XC14 Condenser
ActiveTek INDUCT 2000 "Air Scrubber Plus" Indoor Air Quality module
MERV10 5" Filter
7 New Ducts and Registers
The quoted price is ~$16.5k which came in at almost double the other quote our friends got from a different contractor for a lower end Amana install. Is the equipment price really that different? I have my own thermostat (NEST) as well.
@adhesiv: I can tell you a bit about my experience. Before I forget, in my humble opinion you might want to think twice about Amana. For what it's worth Amana, Goodman, and York come at the bottom of Consumer Report's customer survey regarding reliability. American Standard (which I'm going with)/Trane and Rheem/Ruud, Carrier/Bryant, and Lennox are tightly grouped at the top.
Here is another thing I came across. This being capitalism, the contractors can ask for whatever the market bears. When I asked for a quote from a contractor who was based out of an expensive neighborhood, I got a quote many thousands more than the same equipment from another reputable contractor. When I mentioned this to him, he immediately dropped his price by $2500 dollars (he was still overpriced).
I kept looking, getting more information, and found a contractor which gave me a better price for better equipment. Now, pretty much everybody says try to avoid the least expensive contractor. They are cheap for a reason. For me, I did my due diligence on a couple of contractors that came within my budget, and everything else being equal, I picked the less expensive one which also turned out to be the least expensive.
My install starts in 2 days, so I'll see whether I picked a winner. I can refer you to him once I feel comfortable that he did as good a job as I expect.
Thanks for the update, i'm just shocked at the wide variance and really wish this was so less shady of a negotiation than I'm experiencing so far. Seems that none of the contractors are willing to share their hourly labor rate with me and mention that it's all bundled in the price...convenient.
I had already discounted the Amana due to those very factors but i can't see the Lennox costing almost $6K more.
What was the final system/quote you ended up accepting? I'd like to look up the specs of that AS setup.
Here is the final quote I got:
Gold XI Air Conditioner American Standard 15 SEER, 4-ton Mod# : 4A7A6049H1000AA
American Standard Gold ZM Gas Furnace 80,000 BTU, 4-ton furnace 96.5% Efficiency Mod# : AUH2B080A9V4VBA
American Standard evaporator coils 15 SEER 4-ton Horizontal.
Mod# : 4TXCC008CC3HCBA
New line set, Honeywell Wifi Thermostat (I believe 6000 Wifi)
All new ductwork and grills (8).
This is oversized for your square footage (well, depending on insulation and a bunch of other factors. You should make sure what you're being quoted is proper for your house). What tonnage are they quoting you? You might even want to be below 3Ton, but do not take my word for it. You should be able to get a 3 ton system, excluding the air quality equipment below $10K.
I just looked at your quote. It is way higher than my Lennox quote.
As far as pricing goes, I cannot bring myself to call it shady. I have easily called one of the quotes I got insane, but hey, if the guy can get that much, good for him. He just won't get it from me.
If I were a middle easterner (I am by birth, but not by temperament) I would bargain the hell out of each quote, like I've seen some of my relatives do unashamedly. I generally move on, or just ask if they can do better. I don't think there is anything wrong with them asking whatever they want, and you offering whatever you think you're willing to pay. Don't ever worry about them losing money, they won't. They know what least price they can offer and still do well.
Lastly, again in my humble opinion, the indoor air quality equipment you are looking at might not be worth your money. Read this article: