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Michael de Podesta
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Experimental physicist, professionally retired since April 2020, but still experimenting. I've been writing about science since 2008 at http://protonsforbreakfast.org

Very concerned about the Climate and sustainable living.
Sadly, not tonight. :-(
November 12, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Yes, Elmhurst does need to acknowledge its own part in the poor use of EPCs. Basically EPCs as deployed now are not very accurate - because the basic task is not very simple.

Elmhurst are obsessed with process, but the process itself has problems that Elmhurst need to address. M
November 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I used chromatography a couple of times while I worked at NPL, and what I learned is that being even semi-quantitative is quite hard.

I've got a few more spectrometer experiments to try first, and then maybe I'll think about something more complicated!

All the best

Michael
November 6, 2025 at 10:36 AM
The spectrometer is incredible. There is so much physics to do - and so little time!
November 5, 2025 at 11:16 AM
I looked at that document but I need to read it again. The condensation efficiency specification makes sense, but I could not understand the energy efficiency specification at all.

It didn't seem to mention the latent heat of water anywhere? That's nuts!

I will read it again this morning
October 6, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Yes. In Experiment#2 the clothes weighed 7 grams less at the end than at the beginning. I am pretty sure that was due to entrained moisture - or different levels of dryness.
October 6, 2025 at 10:14 AM
That's interesting too! I may need to develop my measurement protocol!
October 5, 2025 at 9:59 PM
@wiilp.bsky.social Oh! Thanks for this information. I will attempt to process it all and get back to you!
October 5, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Wherever you go... there you are.
October 5, 2025 at 5:48 PM
soundcloud.com/dylanesque19...

You are right. Here's a song I imagined singing in a few years time, but it already makes sense now.

"I long for the long rainy summers
I used to know in my youth
Long cold rainy summers
I wish you could know them too."
September 19, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Now correctly rendered.
September 14, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Here's my month by month costs for the last 4 years and the annual carbon dioxide emissions. The yellow shows the avoided emissions from exported electricity.
September 14, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Typo: "Monopiles": very confusing!
September 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM
So at higher temperatures one would need to vacuum insulate using multiple reflector layers.

Best wishes

Michael
September 4, 2025 at 9:33 AM