Michel, are you absolutely sure that you are French? You don't want to eat
your horse and your English is better than that of most native speakers... I
think the point was that the *water* began to run out and horses drink a lot
of it so, to conserve supplies, they get thrown over first...
You are too indulgent Nick. Not so many French eat horse meat actually, I would
say much less than one in ten. I had got the point about the water, I still
think it would have made more sense to eat the horses than just throw them over
board... but of course I wouldn't expect an Englishman,
At the risk of stirring up another Hundred Years' War,
let me opine that the British Taboo on horse meat
seems to be fairly recent, or else ignored in
Yorkshire, and now has evolved into an item of jealous
yearning ...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1551693/The-merits-of-horse-meat.html
Hmmm...would that be fast food?
Lawry
-Original Message-
From: Jones Beene [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2008 10:39 AM
To: vortex
Subject: Re: [Vo]:Re: Eye of the Gyre
At the risk of stirring up another Hundred Years' War,
let me opine that the British Taboo on
Looks like this company beat Michael Foster to
market...
http://www.sunrgi.com/
... or not
CAVEAT: an (open-minded but non-gullible) associate of
mine, who follows this technology from silicon valley,
in a phone call just now - says he is skeptical of
this particular outfit- he stopped short of
Would cost more than plain cell wouldn't it?
Michel
- Original Message -
From: Jones Beene
To: vortex
Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2008 6:08 PM
Subject: [Vo]:Fresnel focused solar
...
If Nanosolar is for real, maybe they should get
together with a Fresnel maker ?
Jones
Small problem: frenels make cheap concentrators, but then you need
sun-tracking mounting, not shown, and that can be quite expensive.
Non-focusing concentrators have been devised, but such are not shown.
Mike Carrell
- Original Message -
From: Jones Beene [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
Howdy Jones,
Looks like Sun-glitch has figured out a way to use seal beam headlamps for
solar concentrators.. probably be lotsa old cars with empty tanks missing
headlights it these guys can get off the ground.
Vancouver has become the rival of Las Vegas for creating a whole new
industry of
--- Michel Jullian wrote:
Would cost more than plain cell wouldn't it?
Much less, supposedly.
Here's why (without citations): the cost per unit of
surface area of solar cells is many, many times more
expensive than the fresnel concentrator (which is
relatively cheap). Plus the concentrator
See:
http://lenr-canr.org/News.htm#Downloads
--- Mike Carrell wrote:
Small problem: frenels make cheap concentrators,
but then you need sun-tracking mounting, not shown,
and that can be quite expensive.
There is an added cost, of course, but supposedly
there would also be a fast payback, especially in
winter and especially for modular
In reply to Jones Beene's message of Sat, 3 May 2008 09:08:01 -0700 (PDT):
Hi,
[snip]
Looks like this company beat Michael Foster to
market...
http://www.sunrgi.com/
[snip]
Q10: Will this technology have an effect on the dependency that the U.S. has on
foreign oil?
A: Yes it will. Right now very
In reply to Mike Carrell's message of Sat, 3 May 2008 13:03:03 -0400:
Hi,
[snip]
Small problem: frenels make cheap concentrators, but then you need
sun-tracking mounting, not shown, and that can be quite expensive.
Non-focusing concentrators have been devised, but such are not shown.
Mike
It's so much fun to hear all you folks speculate on what's happening in this
particular field. First, no one or no company has beat me to the punch in
using fresnel lenses to concentrate sunlight for a photovoltaic system. This is
an old and obvious idea, newly revived because of the run up in
--- Michael,
Hey, we kibitzers were merely waiting for you to
focus some light on the subject, so to speak ...
BTW- have you had a comparative look at what would be
the optimum level of 'shrinkage' for the solar cell
itself when under Fresnel concentration ?
... let me see if I can ask that
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