| Did you hear the one about the Sanibel Beach Inevntor? |
[Jul. 8th, 2007|07:27 am] |
Florida Islander Invents Salt Water Fuel(?)
This article is a little high on claims and kinda light on details, but interesting none the less... it seems that a man in Florida was tinkering with some machines... from what i can tell he was playing around with some sort of Rife/Prioré/Clark frequency generators for cancer treatment (While that part may sound odd to you, check out those three links up there, it's really no different than an opera singer hitting the resonant frequency of crystal and shattering that -just a lot smaller...)
"Observing a bright blue flame, John Kanzius claims that it is salt water and salt water alone that is burning inside a test tube ....During his garage experiments Kanzius says he ignited plain old salt water with the same radio wave generator he was using in his cancer treatment." Wow. If this is true, the implications are huge!! read more: "Kanzius gave technicians at a Pennsylvania machine manufacturer a demonstration of his discovery. 'We saw it go up to 1500 degrees centigrade. That temperature, that's incredible,' exclaims a lab technician." And back shed or not-- this guy is not some backwoods invent, he's been using the flaming salt water to power a stirling engine, so obviously he knows a thing or two.... way to go Mr. Kanzius! This shows promise, and I hope to read about your name tree times for every one time i come across those stupid Steorn people :DD |
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[May. 2nd, 2006|05:27 am] |
D.I.Y. Stirling Engine
No secret lotsa peeps love these External Combustion Engines. Sure, they've been around for 190 years now (invented by the Reverend Robert Stirling in 1816), and sow of course, making a huge comeback in the California deserts 9in a parabolic kinda way). So what are they exactly? Well, they heat and cool sealed gases (like 'air') and generate lots of energy from that heat. And you can see for yourself for about $5, with this free handy do it yourself plan ((and bonus point to anyone who figures out a way to mod these plans with a solar over)).
So, you'll need three tin cans, three aluminum cans (one's gotta be a big-boy can), a (knitting) pin, a pvc elbow, some epoxy and a tube or 'RTV gasket maker' mmkay? Then follow the instructions
Have fun! |
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| Rich Diver for President! |
[Feb. 16th, 2006|01:15 pm] |
Sandia Does it Again: Solar/Stirling/Hydrogen manufacturing
It seems like these days I have a Sandia story a week! And they do kinda deserve it, looking at all the milestones pass, regularly.... And today it has been announced that Sandia researcher Rich Diver (6218) has invented a whole new way to make hydrogen to power automobiles and homes!! Way To Go!!
His invention, the Counter Rotating Ring Receiver Reactor Recuperator (CR5, for short), splits water into hydrogen and oxygen, using a simple, two-step thermochemical process (it acutaly sounds a lot like a stirling engine version of that Rothman Technique i gushed over last year) It's a stack of rings made of a reactive ferrite iron oxide materials. Every other ring rotates in opposite directions. Concentrated solar heat is reflected through a small hole onto one side of the stack of rings. The side of the rings in the sunlit area is hot, while the other side is relatively cold. As the rotating rings pass each other in between these regions, the hot rings heat up the cooler rings, and the colder rings cool down the hot rings. This arrangement results in a conservation of heat entering the system, limiting the energy input required from the sunlight. Steam runs by the rings on the cooler side causing a chemical reaction to take place, allowing the ferrite material to grab oxygen out of the water, leaving the hydrogen. The hydrogen is then pumped out and compressed for use. Rich Diver says: “We are combining a mechanical engine with a chemical producing device — something not done before to produce hydrogen.” This is still in early stages.. They talk about high yields of hydrogen but the testing has just begun... Expect to only see this come online over the next couple of years, still a major step has been taken!!
[source:the always amazing FuelCellWorks] |
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| mah' durling, sterling engines: plans unfurling |
[Aug. 10th, 2005|10:34 pm] |
aiiight! good news from the left coast these days.... it seems that SoCal Edison has just signed a deal with (yes, yet one more stirling engine company) Stirling Energy Systems of Phoenix arizona. And what a deal it is!! on an undisclosed 4,500 acre site, these wacky energy peeps are going to put up 20,000 solar reflectors aimed at a bunch of, yup you guessed it....
STIRLING ENGINES!! 'cause these babies will take all the heat you can throw at 'em and turn it all into electricity. How much you ask? how's 500Megawatts an hour sound for you? that's enough juice for over 275,000 homes. in air conditioned southern california! yikes! the project is going to take 4 years to complete, and create 1500 hundred jobs (win win anyone? the only people not happy with this, i'm sure, are the desert inhabitants, scorpions, sidewinders, rattlers... sucks for them... and also sucks that as they say in this article, it will only be completed in 2011 (4 years? erm isn't that 2009??) still cool, and at least i don't feel silly for saying how hot stirling engines are anymore... they turn warm hands into charged 9V batteries, can turn pooh into streetlight, and now can turn 275,000 homes on to clean renewable energy! |
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| more amish news!! |
[Aug. 8th, 2005|12:11 pm] |
Y'all thought i was kidding last week when i posted something about that Amish e-commerce site (dedicated to energy-free lving and cool tools). Jokes on you! It seems more and more people are looking at the Amish for some eco-sanity in these "interesting" times ...So a recent article from the post Gazette focusses on how there are Amish who are forced to join us normals ...but won't do it in a dirty polluting way... So they're tinkering with alternative energies. including this:
as you know, my fav. tech, the Stirling Engine (this one runs off the heat from your hand... seriously. They are available for purchase from nonAmish websites, this is just their version)
i love it. think we can learn quite a bit from these people (aside form the cool beards!) |
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| poo power for the 5 bourroughs!! |
[Jul. 30th, 2005|06:41 pm] |
well kinda. it's gas, really. and way kewl.
New York Power Authority just teamed up with the guys from NorthernPower, to build an electricty producing system at their Owl's Head Wastewater treatment center in Brooklyn NY. The system uses these babies:
 Stirling Engines-- which BTW are some of my favorite engines-- and what was before a waste gas byproduct of anaerobic digestion, and up to now lit on fire in mad-max style flares.. see, stirling engines take heat and turn it into electricity by putting two dissimilar metals next to each other... these things can really kick butt, and the technology is only like a hundred+ years old... not STM Power, the folks who build the engines, i think they've been around for about 7, but still its a great way to reduce the demand on coal and nukes, and besides the gas was being flared out before, the only difference now is it's not being flared for naught! |
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| Ultrawideband fuel cells Stirling engines show that sometimes good ideas wait 'till the time is ripe |
[Jan. 6th, 2005|06:48 pm] |
great article by Tom Standage in Technology Review |
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