Comments by "B. Xoit" (@b43xoit) on "Technology Connections" channel.

  1. Yes. That is why another term for a swamp cooler is "desert cooler".
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  2. Yes, and so?
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  3.  @RedFathom  No doubt. Electrical tinkerers (like my father in his childhood) did not always have silicon rectifiers to play with. The wet rectifiers had electrodes and an electrolyte; I don't know what substances were used in any of those three roles. I guess they switched fast enough to detect amplitude modulation of radio-frequency signals.
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  4.  @RedFathom  What kinds of forward and reverse resistances would one see, for a small cell?
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  5.  @RedFathom  I see. Well, my dad had been monkeying around with some about the size of a baby-food jar, or maybe two or three times that volume. Since his primary interest was radio, I suppose he was trying to use them as detectors.
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  6. Kerbal Space Program, only the actions are a bit different. You build rockets.
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  7. I would say no. That big a magnetic field would probably jam stuff up.
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  8. Yes and some of them have special functions determined by magnetics.
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  9. You sure do "we" a lot. Whom do you include?
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  10. Capacitance?
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  11. I know of a case of such a method being used in an office building. Two tanks.
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  12. Maybe it was routed to the condenser and all evaporated thence.
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  13. Why is Hotel capitalized?
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  14.  @onebylandtwoifbysearunifby5475  Well, that's interesting. So, you are not talking about just some random hotel. You are abbreviating something like "The Such-And-Such Hotel" as "the Hotel." Like if I said, "the _Times_" as an abbreviation of "the New York _Times_."
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  15. The reason the magneto was called a magneto is that that is what it was.
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  16. Yes.
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  17. A right-handed person would prefer to dial with her right hand. So the handset goes in the left hand.
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  18. So the radiometer works from gas effects. Say you start in the dark and turn a light on it and keep the power of that light steady for a while. Does the speed peak and then fall some, due to conduction of heat from the dark side of each vane to the light side? Without a temperature difference across the thickness of the vane, there would be no difference in pressure from the heat-driven gas effects, and so no torque, so we should expect the bearing, even as good as it is, to absorb the rotational energy.
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  19. English-speakers use the Latin, "automaton", plural "automata".
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  20. [withdrawn due to proven ignorance]
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  21. It won't let you press two letter buttons or two number buttons at the same time. Some kind of interlock.
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  22. Too many "we."
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  23. Not Turing-equivalent.
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  24. Depends on which one you release last.
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  25. No, the buttons are latched somehow so you can't press two letter or two number buttons at the same time.
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  26. Probably no auto-defrosting feature built into the design of that one.
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  27. Which is why they are also called "desert coolers".
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  28. Why the apostrophe?
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  29. Typewriters used to not have a "1"; you would use "l".
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  30. The were not general-purpose computers.
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  31. A fan will not cool a dry thermostat.
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  32. No. A "bulb" has to have a bulbous shape.
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  33. What would that do? They only bend a bit and stop.
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  34. A term for this is "district heating."
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