Re: desert ice

2005-09-15 Thread Wesley Bruce
Bob Fickle wrote: For cooling, you'd want a well-insulated flat plate solar collector. This would provide a large surface for radiating heat into the sky at a wide range of angles. You wouldn't want a low-E surface on the panel, because this prevents radiative cooling. My first experiment

Re: Desert Ice - fact or fiction

2005-09-14 Thread Grimer
desert ice, for dessert, following your post impala-steak dinner on Safari... is it possible? Jones BTW should have added that there are several ways to move heat energy for cooling. One is the gas-fired refrigerator which has been discussed here before, along with Fred's swampper

Re: desert ice

2005-09-14 Thread Jones Beene
- Original Message - From: Alex Caliostro would this system also work at night ? http://www.energylan.sandia.gov/sunlab/PDFs/solar_dish.pdf Alex, It's not that simple, unfortunately. But these Solar-Stirling arrays can definitely be a part of an expanded and reengineered

Re: desert ice

2005-09-14 Thread Bob Fickle
For cooling, you'd want a well-insulated flat plate solar collector. This would provide a large surface for radiating heat into the sky at a wide range of angles. You wouldn't want a low-E surface on the panel, because this prevents radiative cooling. My first experiment would be a

Desert Ice - fact or fiction

2005-09-13 Thread Jones Beene
this works for you. -- This is an experiment you can conduct yourself if you are in the right kind of location. It may be that without advanced insulation (but maybe using straw ?) one can indeed have desert ice, for dessert, following your post impala-steak dinner on Safari... is it possible

Re: Desert Ice - fact or fiction

2005-09-13 Thread OrionWorks
Jones sez: No, not a misspell of 'dessert ice' (not this time anyway)... ... I loved this post! My first knee jerk reaction was to assume someone (who shall remain nameless) was trying to pull my leg, but then, after I pondered it for a chilling moment... hell, yeah, why shouldn't it