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The_Templar
your Country52797 Posts
On March 10 2014 06:02 Epishade wrote: Why do commercial wind-turbines cost so much? I read that they cost anywhere from 1 to 3 million dollars to make one, depending on the amount of energy output you want it to take in. Why do you want one? | ||
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sacade
166 Posts
On March 08 2014 09:50 3FFA wrote: What journey must one go on before reaching true enlightenment? A journey to the sun. Enough light to enlighten everyone. | ||
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[UoN]Sentinel
United States11320 Posts
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corumjhaelen
France6884 Posts
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[UoN]Sentinel
United States11320 Posts
On March 10 2014 06:34 corumjhaelen wrote: Why is there something instead of nothing ? Nothing is something. Something is everything. Everything is anything. Anything is nothing. | ||
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Dark_Chill
Canada3353 Posts
Slight paraphrasing done, of course. | ||
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Epishade
United States2267 Posts
Saw on Vsauce about stopping/lessening hurricanes by putting wind-turbines out in the ocean to generate power and take energy away from the winds. You'd need tens of thousands of them though, so I looked up how much it would cost for just one turbine and found that the whole project would be very expensive to say the least. You'd think they'd cost less, right? It's all pretty much just steel and a generator, isn't it? | ||
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AlgeriaT
Sweden2197 Posts
On March 08 2014 09:50 3FFA wrote: What journey must one go on before reaching true enlightenment? You must search the world until you find the perfect Philly cheese steak sandwich. To make your journey easier I'll tell you right now that they have it at the Ritz Carlton hotel in LA, room service. | ||
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[UoN]Sentinel
United States11320 Posts
On March 10 2014 06:49 Epishade wrote: Saw on Vsauce about stopping/lessening hurricanes by putting wind-turbines out in the ocean to generate power and take energy away from the winds. You'd need tens of thousands of them though, so I looked up how much it would cost for just one turbine and found that the whole project would be very expensive to say the least. You'd think they'd cost less, right? It's all pretty much just steel and a generator, isn't it? In the same way that a space shuttle is a couple fuel tanks and a box to put the people in. | ||
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corumjhaelen
France6884 Posts
On March 10 2014 06:39 [UoN]Sentinel wrote: Nothing is something. Something is everything. Everything is anything. Anything is nothing. Something like this ? | ||
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[UoN]Sentinel
United States11320 Posts
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sacade
166 Posts
On March 10 2014 06:33 [UoN]Sentinel wrote: Why does Marty McFly's mom meet Marty, say "that's a nice name", and then goes on to call her first son Dave? Father's choice probably. | ||
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Catch]22
Sweden2683 Posts
On March 10 2014 06:40 Dark_Chill wrote: Isn't it awesome how smart the first humans/predecessors were? Just thinking about it, at some point they were like "the skin and hair on this meat is worse than the inner parts, let's throw it away". Then they said "woah, we can wear this to keep warm and use what we wouldn't have used otherwise". Slight paraphrasing done, of course. Like the first guy to eat moldy cheese and like it?  | ||
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rosenberg
United States2 Posts
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corumjhaelen
France6884 Posts
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Dark_Chill
Canada3353 Posts
When cooking brisket, why is it advised to cook it in water while it's wrapped? Like, the water isn't touching the brisket, and I don't see how the steam is going to keep the meat moist. | ||
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Orcasgt24
Canada3238 Posts
On March 10 2014 08:03 rosenberg wrote: Gonna visit Vegas for the first time this summer. Anybody got any experience with http://las-vegas.hotelscheap.org/ or can you recommend any other websites that have cheap hotel rooms? Vegas.com is a good place to book. Search any site you can think of and look every day to price gouge. Every site will have different deal so look around. Vegas + Summer = scorching hot so be prepared. The ultra dry heat can catch alot of people off guard and heat stroke is a very real danger | ||
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Simberto
Germany11805 Posts
On March 10 2014 08:55 Dark_Chill wrote: If anyone with knowledge in chemistry/physics can answer this. When cooking brisket, why is it advised to cook it in water while it's wrapped? Like, the water isn't touching the brisket, and I don't see how the steam is going to keep the meat moist. Probably a case of the temperature. Cooking water is always at 100°C (depending on how pure it is and pressure slightly more or less, but this is irrelevant for cooking), so if you want to slowly cook something at that temperature, water is pretty nice. If you just throw something onto an iron pan you can get much higher temperatures. Similarly, water with ice in it is very good if you want to keep something at 0°C. | ||
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AlgeriaT
Sweden2197 Posts
On March 10 2014 08:55 Dark_Chill wrote: If anyone with knowledge in chemistry/physics can answer this. When cooking brisket, why is it advised to cook it in water while it's wrapped? Like, the water isn't touching the brisket, and I don't see how the steam is going to keep the meat moist. Water draws out the juices from the meat while slightly dissolving its texture on the outside. So, the meat becomes dry in the center and a bit "mushy" on the outside. A physicist/chemist might attribute the drawing out of the meat juices to osmosis, but I'm not 100% on the terminology here, my experience is from kitchens. So, if you wrap it in plastic, you allow the meat to cook in its own juices and nothing gets lost. This is becoming more and more popular today, with all kinds of meats being first vacuum sealed in plastic and then slow cooked for hours (sous-vide cooking). Usually you don't go up to boiling temperature, but let the meat cook very slowly at ca. 60 degrees C. Immersing it in water also means that the heat is distributed evenly, and can be quickly and precisely measured. Cooking brisket directly in water isn't necessarily bad though. If you intend to partly cook it in broth or sauce at the end, as long as you haven't overcooked it so the center is dry, the "mushed up" surface is actually better at drawing in the sauce/broth, which then gives more of its taste to the meat. | ||
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3FFA
United States3931 Posts
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