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Possible power generation with nature's high-efficiency technology

机译:具有大自然的高效技术的可能发电

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The rapidly growing fuel consumption in engines and turbine that power the world's transportation vehicles and power-generation plants will nearly exhaust the world's supply of petroleum by the end of the next century. These engines and turbines run at high heat-input temperatures because their efficiency is limited by the Carnot cycle. Muscles used for propulsion by animals are not limited in efficiency by the Carnot cycle, so we see dolphins getting 3,000 miles of travel from a food quantity that contains the energy equivalent of one gallon of gasoline. Leaves on plants capture the energy in sunlight to extract carbon from carbon dioxide in the air, and hydrogen form water, to manufacture carbohydrates. Scientists and engineers studying these processes are amazed by the computing power and data storage required to make these processes work. For example, a tiny grape seed contains the data and structural technology required for quickly constructing the plant's fuel-producing leaves and the structures that support them. Even the stiff thorn that discourages intruders from entering the grape bush has an effective design. The data stored in the seed specifies the color of the grape plant's blossoms, commands the production of the sugar-containing fluid that goes into the grapes, and even the data content of the next-generation seeds in the globules of each grape berry. In this report, we explore energy-conversion processes that nature has developed in plants and animals. We explore the possibility of adapting them into techniques that reduce our consumption of petroleum fuels.
机译:发动机和涡轮机的燃料消耗迅速增长,电源世界运动车辆和发电厂将在下一世纪末几乎将世界上的石油供应耗竭。这些发动机和涡轮机在高热输入温度下运行,因为它们的效率受到圆形循环的限制。用于由动物的推进的肌肉不受圆形循环的效率的限制,因此我们看到海豚从含有一加仑汽油的能量相当的食品量获得3,000英里的旅行。在植物上留下阳光下的能量,以从空气中的二氧化碳中提取碳,以及氢气水,制造碳水化合物。学习这些过程的科学家和工程师对使这些流程工作所需的计算能力和数据存储感到惊讶。例如,微小的葡萄种子包含快速构建植物的燃料生产叶子和支持它们的结构所需的数据和结构技术。即使是僵硬的刺,也劝阻入侵者进入葡萄丛中的设计有效。存储在种子中的数据指定了葡萄植物的花朵的颜色,命令含有葡萄葡萄的含糖的流体,甚至是每个葡萄浆果的小球中的下一代种子的数据含量。在本报告中,我们探讨了自然在植物和动物中发展的能量转换过程。我们探讨了将它们调整为减少石油燃料消耗的技术的可能性。

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