It is quite obvious that solar power alone is not bad for general consumers but will not meet the power demands of industry. -------------------------- If the sunlight falling on powerline right-of-ways was converted to electricity at an overall efficiency of 3% it would match the current capacity of the grid. Solar thermal can store energy cheaply and with long life. It makes more sense to do solar thermal in a distributed manner so that the bottom end heat is space heating and hot water. Since this would destroy the current energy paradigm it wont happen from the top. I have been studying low temp thermal engines and there is a better solution than Stirling. The Stirling has reciprocating flow through the regenerator so there is a problem with that. It seems a Brayton cycle with regeneration, which is unidirectional flow so regenerator size is moot, can achieve 71% efficiency. That is higher than any other process I know of. Page 481 of Thermodynamics by Yunus Cengel and Michael Boles (McGraw Hill) confirms this so it is not something I am the first to notice. A friend and I hope to have a prototype within a year or so. It appears 10 suns is adequate so optics can be inexpensive.
Kirk -----Original Message----- From: Rosaleesmaks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 26, 2003 4:41 AM To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Subject: [biofuel] Diesel and Alternative power Hello all; My name is Peter and my work is in heavy transport , busses and trucks and an interest unfortunately with not enough finance to cover the cost of the work I would like to do to build what I have researched for alternative clean power generation systems. It is quite obvious that solar power alone is not bad for general consumers but will not meet the power demands of industry. Wind farms are springing up all over the place to help in producing electricity and helping local power grids, but are only good while we have wind and as a mechanic I can see there will be quite a lot of work involved in servicing all the windmills and the generator turbines.. This will not be cheap. Where I live in a hilly area not far out of Melbourne in Australia some farmers growing flowers for nurseries and florists world wide wanted an inexpensive way of irrigating their fields and I came up with thermal tunnels, Clear plastic covers that ran from the farm dams and waterways at the bottom of their paddocks to the top of the hills on their plantations. The sun heats the air and draws moist air up during the day and condenses at night and runs down the roof and walls back into channels and into tanks. I have since looked at nature and the way nature build its clouds, makes its wind and moved things all arround. I came up with my S.T.I.C.S system. Solar. Thermal. Interactive. Convection. System. And better than that---- It even works on a smaller scale. I want to build a bigger scale project.. I need about 2,000 acres and about 5 years to work on the system.. The areas that will work best for my system are at between 20 degrees and 30 degrees north or south of the equator. You see the STICS system up and running as I have designed could easily be described as a Solar Powered Jet Engine. I did attemt a patent on the system, but I do not have any money to do that.. So I am looking out for some one who could help me further my work. Kindest regards from Peter & Rosalee [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.483 / Virus Database: 279 - Release Date: 5/19/2003 ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Get A Free Psychic Reading! Your Online Answer To Life's Important Questions. http://us.click.yahoo.com/Lj3uPC/Me7FAA/CNxFAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
