Grimer wrote: > > Would one be better off with one big one or lots of > little ones, or even a long cylindrical one? > Are you thinking about energy, or sex, Frank? :-)
Fred > [Original Message] > From: Grimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Date: 5/6/2006 12:21:15 PM > Subject: RE: Joe Cell Theories > > At 12:08 pm 06/05/2006 -0600, Fred wrote: > >I wrote. > >> > >> I really don't care about the theory if .....etc. > >> > >> No matter what theory fits, there's only a few practical ways to > >> get shaft power out of nature's energy sources. > >> > >Undeterred by the early Greek philosophy that in effect said that > >everything can be figured out mentally, Crookes' built a "Radiometer" > >that was the first Light-Insolation-Solar-Powered (LISP). > > > >A 2 meter diameter (tilted axis?) Radiometer-Generator sounds attractive. > > > >Using Buckminster Fuller's Geodesic Frame with glass panels one > >might make a Radiometer-Generator the size of the Astrodome > >located in Richard's Texas province. If it don't float away,No? :-) > > > >Fred > > > I've often wondered how a Crookes Radiometer would scale. > > You seem very fond of calculating things, Fred. How about > working out the relation between size and power output? 8-) > > Would one be better off with one big one or lots of > little ones, or even a long cylindrical one? > > Frank > > > >
