Given that no current flows due to contact potential
between dissimilar metals;
1, will the contact potential charge a capacitor?
2, will photons striking one of the metals of
the metal couple charge a capacitor connected
across it?
Fred
BlankRobin wrote..
We will be testing a series of throats with the hope we may achieve some
acceleration of the vortex funnel.. hmmm.. fun stuff.
[snip]
Isn't this going to result in explosive decompression of the water in the vortex
making it vaporize? (Just a vague memory).
Howdy Robin,
You
I might be mistaken, but I think there is a significant performance drop at
low temperatures with solar cells... someone please correct if wrong.
Wood pellet fueled heat engine (Stirling, Ericsson, etc.) turning a series
of low RPM generators (windmill type) with radiant heat to melt all that
John Steck wrote:
I might be mistaken, but I think there is a significant performance drop at
low temperatures with solar cells... someone please correct if wrong.
What's worse, there's a totally catastrophic performance drop when
they're covered with 2 of snow, or an inch or two of ice. I
FWIW, from the peanut gallery there has yet to
be an affordable Stirling Engine that will compete
with a comparable-sized Steam (Vapor Powered) Engine.
That is why I suggested going to (In the words of
Kyle McCallister) going to a F...ing used Scroll compressor
off an automotive air conditioner
Kyle, I can relate totally to what you're saying having dealt with
stupidity, feigned or otherwise, when I was trying to eke out a living in
the solar energy design business (many years ago). So much for being a
highly paid consultant - a phrase usually thrown at me by overpaid,
Kyle R. Mcallister wrote:
snip my post regarding home-built passive thermal collectors
I didn't think it was that bad of an idea, or at least not bad enough to
warrant:
1. No on list response
2. A (very nasty) negative off-list response
On the gripping hand, if I were to post a reply to
Kyle R. Mcallister wrote:
snip my post regarding home-built passive thermal collectors
I didn't think it was that bad of an idea, or at least not bad enough to
warrant:
1. No on list response
2. A (very nasty) negative off-list response
Say what?
I didn't send you a negative off-list
Stephen A. Lawrence wrote:
John Steck wrote:
I might be mistaken, but I think there is a significant performance
drop at
low temperatures with solar cells... someone please correct if wrong.
What's worse, there's a totally catastrophic performance drop when
they're covered with 2 of
- Original Message -
From: Stephen A. Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: vortex-l@eskimo.com
Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2006 9:59 PM
Subject: Re: [Vo]: Musings on grid-independence and personal
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Say what?
I didn't send you a negative off-list response! I didn't send
Frederick Sparber wrote:
FWIW, from the peanut gallery there has yet to
be an affordable Stirling Engine that will compete
with a comparable-sized Steam (Vapor Powered) Engine.
It's been a while since I looked up Stirling engines but IIRC they're
not available from a lot of companies --
Terry Blanton wrote:
On 12/27/06, Stephen A. Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That's amazing -- I had no idea a 3 KW inverter could be had for a few
hundred bucks!
Careful, modified sine wave inverters can be quite noisy and will
not run some loads. A true sine wave inverter at 3 kW
Michel Jullian wrote:
Hi Stephen, it won't take that long if Nanosolar, mentioned by Terry
in an earlier post, delivers as they seem poised to do since they
have secured 100 million dollars of financing and are going into
production in 2007, cf: http://www.nanosolar.com/articles.htm
Terry Blanton wrote:
On 12/26/06, Stephen A. Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
After a mental walk-through counting watts, it appears that, more or
less in line with Terry's recent post, something like a kilowatt or so
of continuous power would do us (if we turn off all unnecessary lights
thomas malloy wrote:
Stephen A. Lawrence wrote:
John Steck wrote:
I might be mistaken, but I think there is a significant performance
drop at
low temperatures with solar cells... someone please correct if wrong.
Groping around on the web I ran into an off-hand claim that they
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