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Termyn8or -> RE: Organic Rankine Cycle (5/8/2011 8:48:14 PM)
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That's pretty minimalist. You have any idea what 480X240 looks like at 80" ? And at 18 watts even in a totally darkened room without having ever smoked pot it'll take your eyes about two days to adjust so you can see the picture. And 99 bucks ? With the way they build shit these days I think it'll be about 99 bucks a month. But if you can deal with it fine.
I am forming the opoinion lately that the next great stride in this technology will be, in a way, backwards. Sell garbage.
I was riding around today and I noticed something. Dandilions. They're all over the place. People want rid of them but down where the corn grows the good ole boys can make wine and booze out of them. Booze can be burned if it's over half alcohol. You walk around stealing dindilions off people's yards, not only will they not call the cops, they'll probably bring you out cookies and milk, or with any luck a beer.
Forget the high tech projector. If you spend a grand on one it's junk within a year, and by that I mean it won't work. Anything new you buy is junk. Every business in this world seems to be run as if it's going out of business next week. You can't count on high tech. Try low tech. One time I expressed an idea. Forget batteries.
Use the solar power to run a pump that fills a sort of a silo. When the sun goes down, turn it around and let gravity turn the generator(s). We have to think outside the realm of extreme chemistry here for many reasons. Use the KISS theory - Keep It Simple Stupid. How can you store energy ? There are many ways of course and I believe the best of them involve gravity.
Even though I am an electronics type dude, I know that it is not the way. Too much process. Every conversion costs. You need water pumped so you have a dam, the water spins a generator and then wires get maybe three quarters of the electricity to where it's needed and what does it do ? Runs a pump. See how stupid that is ?
True advances in this field will come from eliminating some of the steps involved in converting energy.
And 1,500 watts wouldn't run my stereo on a Friday night. I had to get rid of the really big one, it kept tripping a fifteen amp breaker. And that's nothing if anyone needs to arc weld something here. That little buzzbox would melt any battery. Forget McGiver welding with a penny off a car battery. Sure, maybe it could be done but don't count on the car starting afterwards.
I think in the end, gravity is the key. If a vehicle climbs a hill, it uses so many ergs, HP, whatever to do it. That is then potential energy which can do work. A simple pulley lifting a heavy weight stores kinetic energy. Pumping water into an elevated tank stores energy. We have to get it though our thick fucking heads that electricity and electronics are not the do all and end all of this subject. That's for the school taughten folk. We need to go beyond that.
Think you need electricity for a refrigerator ? Hell no, ever hear of absoption refrigeration ? Seems oxymoronic because it actually uses heat to cool, but it works and has for a hundred years or more. Now the heat could be stupidly supplied by an electric element. More intelligently it would be provided by the burning of fossil fuel or whatever will burn. But then there is the sun. Use the heat of the sun to cool ? The hell you say, but it sure as hell can be done. In fact absoption refrigeration was invented before any of us were born.
I guess I'm just old. Does anyone else know why the main voltage source inside elecronic equipment is called B+ ?
(going to craigslist to find me a rockin chair)
T^T
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