PV Gap

Jamie Said:

If you were to live on TRITON in the year 2100 (Neptune's moon), what would you do?

We Answered:

The neat part about living on Triton is that you would be like a greek God of Fire walking around the place: The crust is solidified water (ice), so your footprints steam into the very rock of Triton. The volcanoes or triton spew molten, liquid WATER, so you would take baths in the volcanoes. Probably cold baths though. You could shape "rocks" with your hands, you would breathe out rocket fuel, and fart ocean water. No, literally!
The oxygen in your breath would liquefy and fall to the ground, where it would mix with the natural gas "liquids" on the surface and instantly explode.. and the oceans of triton are liquefied natural gas- methane, ethane, and such.

OOH, and so that brings me to how we would live on Triton, if we were given a blank check, some sci-fi help, and about 300 more years practical experience living in space: we would use the oceans for fuel for all of our needs. If would keep us warm, fuel our fuel cells (co2 scubbing to recycle o2), power our generators, and somehow help with our algae farms that would feed on hydrocarbons, wather than sunligh (anaerobic bactieria do it already).

But we would have to put our house someplace special, or it would be so hot in relation to the world that we could literally melt the planet in half.. so, up on some mountain somewhere.. like a mout olympus or something- where our heat could be insulated/radiated away

And we would be eating nasty algae slime for food- algae that is tailor made to grow nutrients out of the local recources.. heck, we can call it Manna if we like.

So the problems of living on Triton would be rather harsh and inconvenient, but the benefits of stomping around the place like a fiery greek god may actually be worth it all :D

Jose Said:

more solar panels?

We Answered:

Look at these:
http://www.howstuffworks.com/solar-cell.…
http://www.sungroper.asn.au/project/sola…
http://www.goodideacreative.com/spsample…

Michael Said:

How does solar ups (uninterruptible) works and why we need 12 volts batteries when we have solar panels?

We Answered:

Because the sun does not shine 24 hours a day.

A solar UPS uses a solar array to charge the battery. Depending on the size of the array, this could take a long time. Ordinary UPS's use the AC line to charge the battery.

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Virgil Said:

powerpoints,how to add videos?

We Answered:

You can try downloading the video onto your computer, but if that isn't possible then you might find it difficult to do it. By the way, a reminder - videos isn't like pictures when you insert into PowerPoint: you have to keep the video files where they were in order for PowerPoint to find it. If you move it or delete it, PowerPoint will say it cannot find it and you'll have to re-link the file.