Dinosaur tracks revealed due to severe drought conditions at Dinosaur Valley State Park

[Hans Blaster]

Hydrogen has storage / transport probs of course
but the core problem is the energy needed to
separate hydrogen from oxygen. (electricity)

Well good news then. This magic engine generates the hydrogen directly from the water through some form of electrolysis (using energy from the motor?) and then burns the hydrogen to turn the engine.

 

[Estrid]

Well good news then. This magic engine generates the hydrogen directly from the water through some form of electrolysis (using energy from the motor?) and then burns the hydrogen to turn the engine.

Perpetual motion that produces a surplus!

Two miracles in one.

 

[AV1611VET]

Perpetual motion that produces a surplus!

Two miracles in one.

Did ... did you call that a "miracle"?

 

[Hans Blaster]

Did ... did you call that a "miracle"?

The "inventor" of that (fraudulent) engine thinks it is. Credits it all to Jesus.

 

[AV1611VET]

Two miracles in one.

Did ... did you call that a "miracle"?

The "inventor" of that (fraudulent) engine thinks it is.

Estrid invented a magic engine?

 

[Miles]

Dinosaur Valley State Park attracted a broad range of dinosaurs back in the day. Although some considered the name to be pandering, the park was nevertheless a popular vacation spot during the Cretaceous period. It was a big hit with Acrocanthosaurus. Sauroposeidon, however, wasn't as impressed.

 

[Ophiolite]

The longest 'rock' it takes to make in the lab is coal, and that takes weeks/months not millennia.

That sounds fascinating. Can you direct me to the relevant research?

 

[Estrid]

That sounds fascinating. Can you direct me to the relevant research?

Id like to see a paper on making
granite in a lab.

 

[Ophiolite]

Id like to see a paper on making
granite in a lab.

Actually that one is reasonably easy. You take a selection of appropriate minerals heat them till they melt, then allow the melt to cool slowly. I would probably slowly rotate the melt container to counteract the gravity separation of forming crystals. You could produce micro-granites (crystals only a couple of millimetres across) within a week or two - in the lab. In the real world the insulating effect of the rest of a likely large magma body would take years, decades or centuries. Experiments of this sort were carried out by Norman Bowen, over a twenty five year period in the early part of the 20th century. , at the Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution for Science of Washington. This work revolutionised igneous petrology.

 

[Estrid]

Actually that one is reasonably easy. You take a selection of appropriate minerals heat them till they melt, then allow the melt to cool slowly. I would probably slowly rotate the melt container to counteract the gravity separation of forming crystals. You could produce micro-granites (crystals only a couple of millimetres across) within a week or two - in the lab. In the real world the insulating effect of the rest of a likely large magma body would take years, decades or centuries. Experiments of this sort were carried out by Norman Bowen, over a twenty five year period in the early part of the 20th century. , at the Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution for Science of Washington. This work revolutionised igneous petrology.

I was thinking macrocrystalline?

 

[Ophiolite]

I was thinking macrocrystalline?

In that case a year or two in the lab and proportionally greater in the field. Of course the problem is complicated by the fact that many granites do not form from melts, but through metamorphic and metasomatic processes. H.H.Read adddressed this in a 1957 book, The Granite Controversy, the executive summmary of which is "There are granites and there are granites."