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2008/07/20


2008/07/15
 
This just in...

Farming with seawater for food, fuel and fodder...

and solar powered windows?


More Efficient Solar Energy Collectors Attach to Windows

Andrea Thompson
Senior Writer
LiveScience. com Thu Jul 10, 2:11 PM ET

A new, compact way to collect sunlight from windows and focus it to
generate more electricity could make those multiple expensive rooftop
solar panels a thing of the past.

The solar panels that cover the tops of some buildings today contain
photovoltaic cells that convert sunlight into electricity. Unlike
burning coal, collecting and converting solar energy releases no
greenhouse gases, which warm the atmosphere. Limited efficiency and
high construction costs have kept solar from producing more than about
0.07 percent of U.S. energy needs in 2007, according to figures from
the U.S. Department of Energy.

Solar concentrators can be used to increase the electrical power
obtained from the photovoltaic cells. But most concentrators in use
today "track the sun to generate high optical intensities, often by
using large mobile mirrors that are expensive to deploy and maintain,"
said MIT's Marc A. Baldo, who led the team that created the new type
of solar concentrator.

New approach

Instead of covering a large area with solar cells, the new method only
requires locating cells around the edges of a flat glass panel.

The MIT solar concentrator involves a mixture of two or more dyes
painted onto a pane of glass or plastic. The dyes absorb light across
a range of wavelengths, reemit it at a different wavelength and
transport it across the pane to the solar cells at the edges.

"Light is collected over a large area [like a window] and gathered, or
concentrated, at the edges," Baldo said.

Focusing the light like this increases the electrical power generated
by each solar cell "by a factor of 40," he added.

The work was funded by the National Science Foundation and the U.S.
Department of Energy's Office of Science.

Old idea

Scientists had tried using similar solar concentrators in the 1970s,
but abandoned the idea when not enough of the collected light reached
the edges of the concentrator. The MIT engineers revamped the idea by
using a mixture of dyes in specific ratios, which allows some level of
control over how the light is transmitted.

"We made it so the light can travel a much longer distance," said
study team member Jon Mapel, an MIT graduate student. "We were able to
substantially reduce light transport losses, resulting in a tenfold
increase in the amount of power converted by the solar cells."

Because the system, detailed in the July 11 issue of the journal
Science, is simple to manufacture, the team thinks that it can be
implemented within three years. It could also be added on to existing
solar-panel systems, increasing their efficiency and reducing the cost
of solar energy.




2008/07/13
 
Click here:

Daily Source Code 775

Your system may ask permission to download etc... it's perfectly safe and free to play this, yes, yes, yes if you have to. The point is, play it and listen to it.

Some entertainment that you can subscribe to listen to a few times a week....

Best played when you are busy doing something mundane like sewing on a button or watching paint dry...




2008/06/07
 
I've been assimilated...

I'm now a hybrid geek... WindozeXP VM'd on a Mac Book Pro 17" high def c/w Time Capsule, ReadyNAS, gigabit LAN, iPhone and Kindle. Read all about in the Hobbit HouseLemonade Stands...




2007/11/19
 
StrawJet brings in the Sheaves...

Some pix of the shop after bringing in this years rice straw harvest for drying.










2007/11/17
 
Just back from looking at land in Selma Oregon.

Kim of www.indiandogs.com is hoping we can buy back the land he sold that adjoins his. Problem is that he can't afford it, but would sure like some neighbours that hide there - he would rather have some true blue adventurous pioneers on the land to help him bring his valley to the productive living community he can only hope for now.



Even the worst day of the year couldn't take away from the magic of bottom land just south of Grants Pass and emptying into the Illinois River just east where John Wayne found his farm. It's eighty acres virtually all cleared, and ready for grape plantings. With a gorgeous little home up on a knoll, it has 160 degree exposures to the sun in all directions, unlimited ground water, some woodlands, and a neighbor, Kim, with 45 acres in productive grape and more planted, two homesteads and lots of heavy metal for all your farming and development needs.
TheTwelve.com
A perfect home for TheTwelve and the Transcendentnation
to set up shop for the next millennium coming in 2012.



 
This just in....



courtesy of www.rocketboom.com



 

Still peeling the onion.

On another note, take a look at this link:

It's from this quote:

"If you aren't linking things now, you are probably about exploding things now..." JC

as in: 'if X [is happening etc.] now then X [is happening etc.] now...'

eventually a site of ifXerz and thenXerz sharing. The ifXerz ask the questions, thenXerz answer the questions.

The portal would be through a new clan - Oracles. You craft the question, thenXerz are inspired to answer. thenXerz gain role by traffic as ifXerz.

A thought - All clan zone traffic is dynamically quantified so that every member is constantly being rewarded for communication density they are responsible for. Quick response trumps volume. Reciprocal response trumps cold entries. You need an algorithm to feed tracking data to the user's benefit. Attentiontrust.org can set you up with one you control. I've known these guys since the print era. In other words, millions paid billions over the years to get these guys' content. They live on the secret, the obsurd, the no-brainer, the 'plain to sea' truth kind of guys.

Other than that, type why don't you? thumbed out or cerebrally challenged? say something, anything.

BTW. My brain shuts off when there's a microwave tower stuffed in my ear. Keyboard's my saddle. My cell conversation is anything but amicable.

Still seeing some passé one-liners scattered about your sites. I hate old shit. It reflects negatively on the messenger's nowness.

Case in point:

'This is Lion pride, looking for new talent, conscious sons and daughters of Zion."

Stumbled on that one here

Zionism has been stolen by the Born Again Christians, the BACk to the Future folks who bring you the 'BombingForJesus' friendship club.


--

J^-*-_-*-^C

Quotes for the Hour [generated by the hobbitbot]...

There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more. - Woody Allen
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. - Neils Bohr

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Here's a link to recent podcast I was talking about.

http://downloads.oreilly.com/digitalmedia/2007/11/dmi20-quantization.mp3

If you like you can have one-click to this, all of their latest plus a rolling list of NPR radio playlists similarily lined up in a playlist. This one came from this link (just click it... Media Player should open with a playlist and start playing the first entry. As of today, the Digital Media Insider was the second conversation in the list.

Once a playlist of this format (.asx) is double-clicked and then displayed in Media Player, and a Portable Audio Device is plugged in, it is possible to have Media Player simply copy the "tracks" to your mp3 player so you can listen to you own selection of folks sharing things from the community you are interested in.

Podshow.com is where you create your own .asx playlists. Several 10's of thousands of folks are listed there talking and playing their hearts out.

BTW, the trip to Selma and the time at Kim's place with JonnyShekinah - He's still tripping and, fortunately, has enough response on the move to keep him afloat. Check out Transcendant Nation for what is the latest from his circle of peers. It's a wonderful place to initiate an extended endlessly increasing colossal waste of time. Definately a treat for the 'non-working class' of folks. Here's some great listening, local talent...

This from your best 'close to the bone...' bro.

Sorry, no pix yet... too lazy at this point in time.

"If you aren't linking things now, you are probably about exploding things now..." JC

Check out ifxnowthenxnow.net for more, the place for what if's become what is.

--

J^-*-_-*-^C

Quotes for the Hour [generated by the hobbitbot]...

A woman either loves or hates; she knows no medium. - Publilius
Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. - African Proverb

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2007/11/06
 
I've been patented again..

Turns out that HobbitTech is a company and domain name. Oh well. I've changed my WMP playlist from HobbitTech to HobbitzTech... Hopefully the Google Gods will take pity and continue to link to me at the new keyword from this old link at Podshow.com. Between the Podshow jocks and the Google guru's I'd think that they'd drop the old and refresh with a new trackback...



 
Finally ! I've been spidered...

As you know, I prefer conversing via my PlainToSea forum. It's the best place for information about the SHCS for Solar heated greenhouses. Well it's more so now. This past month Google has been indexing the Sunnyjohn.com writer's private forum. It's an old, un-updated phpbb site, so theoretically it can't be indexed. But the Google Gods have spoken - my PlainToSea forum is being indexed. I guess all the fabulous content there has finally spilled out into the cloud. GGod Bless!





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