If you ever go to an Old-Time Miners celebration, you may watch a group of competitors drilling holes through rock by hand with a cold chisel and a hammer. (You can see an example here). In the competition the contestant has 5 minutes to drill either a ¾” or 1-inch diameter hole as deep as […]
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There is a trick that one can learn while a teenager, which comes with the introduction “I so strong that I can blow a brick over!” Upon finding a suitable victim to impress, the brick is placed over a deflated balloon, which is then inflated, raising the brick which then, if suitably placed, topples onto […]
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Mar
Mar
A high-pressure waterjet will penetrate into a material by penetrating into small cracks in the surface and pressurizing those cracks, so that they grow and join together freeing material. This mechanism changes where one moves to add abrasive, but that discussion will come later. The larger the cracks in the material, then the lower the […]
02
Dec
Dec
In the earlier posts on this chapter of waterjet technology I have dealt with the changes in cutting performance when a waterjet stream cuts in to material that is either under pressure, or contains internal stresses that may not be obvious at first glance. In this post I will focus, instead, on the changes in […]
07
Jul
Jul
There are, simply, three major parts to the coming global economic mess that will be created as we enter into the period of Peak Oil. The first of these comes from the current rising demand for oil, particularly emphasized by those countries, such as China and India, where demand is rising fastest. The second part […]
