Ugly American back espousing euro-socialist values and ignorance.
Here is Andy's original article here: http://www.dailyevergreen.com/story/24198
You might remember Andy's last propaganda article which focused on the wrong belief about 220v electricity: http://palousitics.blogspot.com/2007/10/turn-off-lights.html
I think the only thing I can really agree with Andy's article is that Italian women are beautiful. After my trip to Kennedy Space Center, there were many beautiful Italian women visiting since the "Harmony Node", aka Node 2 to the ISS, was built by Italy.
Mean while back at the ranch, Mr.Jones wrote something else that was full of crap: Diesel Engnines. Mr. Jones is correct about the efficiency of diesel engines but he is incorrect about the emissions from the engine.
When a diesel engine burns the diesel fuel it does put out black smoke when it starts up and some black smoke comes out when you put the pedal to the metal. This is unburned diesel fuel. When you start up your gasoline car in the morning you will see a lot of white smoke and when you throttle up the accelerator you will see white smoke. This is from unburned gasoline.
The reason why so many people in Italy, Europe and the rest of the world use diesel engines is the effiecency of the engine is about 25%, while the gasoline engine runs about %13. Another reason why diesel is used is it is cheaper than gasoline because you do not have to refine it as much. Go anywhere in Europe and the rest of world, except for the U.S.A., the cost of gasoline is more than twice the cost of diesel. Another side note I wish to add is that one liter of diesel yeilds more energy than one liter of gasoline.
I am willing to bet Mr.Jones has never seen smog before. He probably thinks that if Italy replaces all the diesel vehicles with gasoline, the smog will go away. Wrong, the smog will remain and probably increase since more gasoline will be needed to run the vehicles.
Ciao.
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Friday, December 07, 2007
Friday, October 05, 2007
Turn off the lights?
Looks like Andy did not research on Italy's power usage or appliances they use.
Looks like Andy Jones' pro-green article in the Daily Watermelon: (http://www.dailyevergreen.com/story/23471) missed the toilet and got on the floor. Looks like Andy did not research on Italy's power usage or appliances they use. Even in socialist Italy, power costs are huge even compared to the east coast of the U.S.A. Italy's power prices are 45% higher than that of the EU (http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf101.html) If your electricity prices are high, you do not use much. One thing Andy did miss and missed big time was that Europeans use tankless water heaters, they use less electricity or gas, but it is not exactly hot water on demand, some delay and they do not have the room for a big water heater like we do.
Now we come to my favorite part of this article- AMPS DO NOT EQUAL POWER! Current, which is measured in Amperes or Amps for short, is the rate in which electrons flow. Voltage, Volts for short is the electromotive force, which "pushes" the electrons. Power is measured in Watts and how we manage to measure watts is current multiplied by voltage equals power (P = I * E). We run a TV off 110v and draws 2 amps of current, that means we use 220 watts of power. The same TV, only a European model runs off 220v and draws 1 amp of current, that means we use 220 watts of power. It does not matter what voltage we run with because the device will use the same amount of power. If you look at the back of your computer on the power supply or other appliances, you might see a switch that indicates 110v or 220v. Some companies make power supplies that can switch off between the two voltages while others make a fixed voltage supply because it is cheaper. If you use an Amp meter to measure the current of the same TV in the U.S.A. against the one in Europe, you will notice a higher current draw by a factor of two. But the TV in Europe has a higher voltage so the amount of power used is the same as the U.S. TV.
In Europe, they use a different voltage, a different frequency ( 50Hz vs. our 60Hz) and they use the metric system too! Guess what? There are other electrical systems across the world that are different voltages going to people’s households. In closing, Mr. Jones should do a little more research and less playing the X-Box.
Looks like Andy Jones' pro-green article in the Daily Watermelon: (http://www.dailyevergreen.com/story/23471) missed the toilet and got on the floor. Looks like Andy did not research on Italy's power usage or appliances they use. Even in socialist Italy, power costs are huge even compared to the east coast of the U.S.A. Italy's power prices are 45% higher than that of the EU (http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf101.html) If your electricity prices are high, you do not use much. One thing Andy did miss and missed big time was that Europeans use tankless water heaters, they use less electricity or gas, but it is not exactly hot water on demand, some delay and they do not have the room for a big water heater like we do.
Now we come to my favorite part of this article- AMPS DO NOT EQUAL POWER! Current, which is measured in Amperes or Amps for short, is the rate in which electrons flow. Voltage, Volts for short is the electromotive force, which "pushes" the electrons. Power is measured in Watts and how we manage to measure watts is current multiplied by voltage equals power (P = I * E). We run a TV off 110v and draws 2 amps of current, that means we use 220 watts of power. The same TV, only a European model runs off 220v and draws 1 amp of current, that means we use 220 watts of power. It does not matter what voltage we run with because the device will use the same amount of power. If you look at the back of your computer on the power supply or other appliances, you might see a switch that indicates 110v or 220v. Some companies make power supplies that can switch off between the two voltages while others make a fixed voltage supply because it is cheaper. If you use an Amp meter to measure the current of the same TV in the U.S.A. against the one in Europe, you will notice a higher current draw by a factor of two. But the TV in Europe has a higher voltage so the amount of power used is the same as the U.S. TV.
In Europe, they use a different voltage, a different frequency ( 50Hz vs. our 60Hz) and they use the metric system too! Guess what? There are other electrical systems across the world that are different voltages going to people’s households. In closing, Mr. Jones should do a little more research and less playing the X-Box.
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