@TERRY67:
Regardless of your
OPINION that it is a "silly teen social media idea that capital letters meant screaming," there are certain customs we who post regularly on this forum try to follow. AVOIDING THE USE OF ALL CAPS WITHOUT THE INTENT TO EMPHASIZE IS ONE OF THESE CUSTOMS. It has nothing to do with shouting, although all caps is as distracting as someone shouting "FIRE!" in a crowded theater when in fact there is no fire.
And you are
wrong that letters have no volume, inflection, or tone. That is why there are different fonts, case sizes, colors, bold, underlining, strike-outs, and italicized letters, just to name a few things the printing arts use to emphasize, gain attention, and promote the written word. Words themselves can convey emotion, so it is not surprising that the letters used to represent them can do so too.
As for wasted energy burned by HHO... this exists only in your imagination. The energy gained by HHO combustion is always less than the energy used to produce the HHO that is burned. This is generally true for any energy source if you examine it closely. Entropy always increases. We have a name for this type of incorrect notion here: Woo Woo Science. And there is
a special forum recently devoted to it. You will notice that after a brief (or no) exchange of posts, each thread there is closed to further discussion. We don't like, or tolerate, Woo Woo Science here because it is waste of our time. Steve is spot-on with his signature line:
Thermodynamics. It's not just a good idea. It's the law. There are three fundamental laws of thermodynamics. Briefly, the First Law says you can't win. The Second Law says you can't even break even. And the Third Law says you can't get out of the game. For more information visit
this link.
The company I recently retired from performed filtered cathodic-arc, reactive depositions of titanium nitride thin-film coatings for a major automobile manufacturer to reduce aluminum die core-pin sticking, extending the life of the steel core pins considerably. Molten aluminum viciously attacks steel, eventually causing the core pins (used to create holes in the die-cast aluminum engine block or head) to seize as the mold is being opened. This halts production until a crew can be assembled to force the die halves apart and free the core pin, so usually the core pins are replaced before this happens. I am not aware of any alternatives to cathodic-arc reactive-deposition in vacuum that actually work, including plasma depositions, so good luck with your magnatron approach.
I have personally used a small particle accelerator for heavy-ion depositions with 1,000,000 volts (and higher) acceleration potentials at milliampere ion beam currents. Problem with that is the ions get buried beneath the surface, instead of depositing on it, because of their high energy. For what I was doing, this was desirable, but it clearly isn't the way to apply thin-film exterior coatings. We would have performed TiN (as well as other reactive combinations) coatings on medical devices, but our machine simply lacked the throughput necessary, nor did it possess a multi-axis-orientation part-holder to ensure a uniform coating of a complicated medical appliance, such as a ball-and-socket knee replacement.
Finally, allow me to welcome you to Electronics Point. Apologies to the group accepted.
