Carbon Limited VS Carbon Balanced - Ugly Stage

[Dan_P]

Just as a side note you should know that once I’m happy with the initial results I can stop dosing organic carbon and silica and observe the difference, meaning that this tank will become a control,

Nope, this system won’t function as a control but will be another experimental starting point with an incompletely defined initial state with all the short comings of the first study. The plan is more like a meandering path through factor space with most of the factors unknown, uncontrolled and unmeasured.

 

[sixty_reefer]

Nope, this system won’t function as a control but will be another experimental starting point with an incompletely defined initial state with all the short comings of the first study. The plan is more like a meandering path through factor space with most of the factors unknown, uncontrolled and unmeasured.

In your opinion?

 

[Dan_P]

In your opinion?

Nope, it is the standard way good experiments are designed. I think you have already pointed out that what you are doing is not an an experiment but a let’s-see-what-happens exercise. This short of fishing exercise is sometimes a first step, or a way to get your feet wet.

 

[sixty_reefer]

Nope, it is the standard way good experiments are designed. I think you have already pointed out that what you are doing is not an an experiment but a let’s-see-what-happens exercise. This short of fishing exercise is sometimes a first step, or a way to get your feet wet.

Algae Growth. Dead v Live Rock

This is just an interesting demonstration. I placed 200 mL aquarium water in each of two identical plastic 0.25 L containers. In one container I placed a piece of clean aragonite rubble and in the other a piece of aragonite rubble that has been in my aquarium some months. The containers were...

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From all folks posting I did expect more from you, if you would like to see a idea of how a control would look like this link should illustrate that. Just as this thread they both share a fishing exercise.

 

[BeanAnimal]

At the end of the day I don’t need to know how a combustion engine is build or works to drive a car.
Meaning that I would not have to know all the pathways to evaluate a result on the input of two nutrients.

Yes—let’s stick with that analogy, shall we?

The rub here is that you present yourself as an engineer, confidently explaining that feeding an engine a specific ratio of fuel, air, and heat can be used to control the torque curve and determine tailpipe emissions.

The rest of us are trying to explain that there are countless other variables from ignition timing and compression, to engine load, and more that actually control the torque curve and emissions. You’re misapplying the fuel-air ratio concept to draw conclusions that simply can’t be drawn.

Each time we challenge your claims, you propose a new theory, equally misguided, and the discussion wanders as you continue to pretend to be an engineer. You toss around terms like camshafts, valve springs, and push rods to sound informed, but it’s obvious you have no real understanding of how these components interact to affect horsepower, or what they have to do with fuel-air ratios.

In reality, your understanding of an internal combustion engine boils down to knowing it burns fuel, needs air, and has some internal moving parts. The actual engineering and physics governing these systems is far more complex than you acknowledge or seem to grasp.

 

[Dan_P]

Algae Growth. Dead v Live Rock

This is just an interesting demonstration. I placed 200 mL aquarium water in each of two identical plastic 0.25 L containers. In one container I placed a piece of clean aragonite rubble and in the other a piece of aragonite rubble that has been in my aquarium some months. The containers were...

www.reef2reef.com

From all folks posting I did expect more from you, if you would like to see a idea of how a control would look like this link should illustrate that. Just as this thread they both share a fishing exercise.

I think this post is good lesson for you about how to take advantage of questions and challenges. This is also a good example of how limited the knowledge you obtain from these types of demonstrations. It was any early step, just did not learn much except from the questions and critiques.

 

[Dan_P]

Yes—let’s stick with that analogy, shall we?

The rub here is that you present yourself as an engineer, confidently explaining that feeding an engine a specific ratio of fuel, air, and heat can be used to control the torque curve and determine tailpipe emissions.

The rest of us are trying to explain that there are countless other variables from ignition timing and compression, to engine load, and more that actually control the torque curve and emissions. You’re misapplying the fuel-air ratio concept to draw conclusions that simply can’t be drawn.

Each time we challenge your claims, you propose a new theory, equally misguided, and the discussion wanders as you continue to pretend to be an engineer. You toss around terms like camshafts, valve springs, and push rods to sound informed, but it’s obvious you have no real understanding of how these components interact to affect horsepower, or what they have to do with fuel-air ratios.

In reality, your understanding of an internal combustion engine boils down to knowing it burns fuel, needs air, and has some internal moving parts. The actual engineering and physics governing these systems is far more complex than you acknowledge or seem to grasp.

This seems like a fair assessment.