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 something sociopolitical, > then I would be guaranteed at least an on-list response calling me an > uneducated, imperialistic American. > > Does anyone here REALLY want to do something about the energy crisis,...? > I loss my butt on that after the 1973 oil embargo Kyle. So did many others. We had practical-proven answers for a kilowatt to 3 Megawatts. Joe Hamrick (a retired NASA engineer, Roanoke Va) used the engine off the C-130 aircraft (externally fired) to burn biomass and cow dung in the mid 1980s. At age 86 he's still going strong and has pushed the power up to 12 Megawatts on sawdust and municipal trash. > > I'm not going to apologize for that either, I am tired of the cheap talk and > 'great promises' of bio-this-and-that and what have you. I make shit for > money, but I put a nice fraction of what I have left over into my own > research. So far I ended up with a fuel-efficient Chevy that the state took > away on a technicality, and not much else besides a lack of creature > comforts compared to others my age. I've seen a lot of strange stuff, but > getting past the "it might be something" point to the "this is the real > deal" point has eluded me, primarily for lack of income, and moreso, lack of > anyone to listen. > The energy barons hear you Kyle, just like they heard the Murchison brothers (former owners of the Dallas Cowboys) that put/lost millions into a bio-digestor--pipeline quality methane plant at a 250,000 head feedlot in Oklahoma, but the pipeline companies wouldn't let them use the pipelines to "wheel" the gas to consumers. We hit the same snag for wheeling the power on the grid using Joe Hamrick's system. > > So...barely above poverty, putting almost all of my disposable (ha!) income > into research that maybe will do something (one in a billion), buying the > most energy efficient stuff I can find for heat and electricity because (big > surprise to Vortex, I bet) I do care what happens to our civilization and > our planet, trying to help the local biodiesel guys, trying to help get > awareness stirred up in the locals (some developers too, at this point) > about using passive solar collectors, and that they can be cheap....if that > isn't why I am supposed to be here, I don't know what is. > A friend of mine has two sons that are experienced-top-rated auto mechanics that had no idea that the scroll compressor existed and is used on the air conditioners on several makes of vehicles even though their older brother in the dairy equipment business is selling equipment using scroll compressor refrigeration units up to 30 KW to folks that are replacing their hermetic piston compressors with them because they "last forever".
> > And if it makes me an uneducated, stupid American, then please bury me face > down when I die, so the world can kiss my ass. > Picture that. :-) Fred > > --Kyle >
