Direct Use of the Sun's Energy
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From: Morris Dovey on 7 Jun 2010 00:14 On 6/6/2010 3:01 AM, samsloan wrote: > Direct Use of the Sun's Energy > By Farrington Daniels > Farrington Daniels was born March 8, 1889 and died June 1972. I don't particularly want to rain on your parade, but the state of the art has advanced considerably since the author's passing. -- Morris Dovey http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto/
From: samsloan on 9 Jun 2010 14:31 On Jun 6, 4:01 am, samsloan <samhsl...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Direct Use of the Sun's Energy > > By Farrington Daniels > > Foreword by Sam Sloan > > A few years ago I took a girlfriend of mine to a stockholders meeting > of a technology company listed on the American Stock Exchange. At this > meeting the company had on the dais a bunch of impressive looking > experts. Their various experts spoke on subjects related to what this > company was doing in the field of high technology development. > > What it boiled down to is they were working on a way to eliminate the > need for electrical power. They were going to create a unit inside > your home refrigerator to keep the refrigerator and other household > appliances working, all without the need for an electrical cord. > > I listened politely as stockholders and other members of the public > asked questions about this new technology they said they were > developing. > > As we left the meeting my girlfriend was very excited. She wanted to > run out and buy this stock right away. > > I had to explain to her that this was all baloney. The process they > were describing could not be done. They were actually explaining how a > nuclear power plant works. I knew what they were talking about as I > had been a physics major at the University of California at Berkeley > and I knew that what they were claiming that they were doing was > either impossible or, if it was possibly they would be the richest men > in the world not to mention the winner of multiple Nobel prizes. > > Almost needless to say, that company no longer exists. My girlfriend > saved her money. > > The point is that one needs to be aware of both what is possible and > what is not possible. This book will not only tell you what can be > done, but what cannot be done. > > Farrington Daniels was born March 8, 1889 and died June 1972. > > He was succeeded by his son, Farrington Daniels, Jr., who was born > September 29, 1918 and died November 12, 2002. > > Sam Sloan > Bronx NY > June 6, 2010 > > ISBN 4871877124 > 9784871877121 http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?ISBN=4871877124 http://www.amazon.com/dp/4871877124 Several people have asked me about this, so I went back and looked it up. The name of that girlfriend was Passion Julinsey. She is the one who says that she was never my girlfriend. If you Seek her, be sure to say hi for me. The name of the company was Intermagnetics General Corporation According to their website, they actually did what I said was impossible to do and they sold out to Phillips. Amazing but possibly true. The book is out now, by the way. Sam Sloan
From: Jürgen R. on 9 Jun 2010 15:20 samsloan wrote: > Direct Use of the Sun's Energy > > By Farrington Daniels > [nonsense deleted] Here is the copyright registration record: RE-568-635 TITL: Direct use of the sun's energy. AUTH: Farrington Daniels CLNA: Farrington Daniels , (C) DREG: 7Jan92 ODAT: 18Nov64 OREG: A741600 OCLS: A Author died in 1972. The bbviously is obviously not in the public domain.
From: Morris Dovey on 9 Jun 2010 17:49 On 6/9/2010 1:31 PM, samsloan wrote: [ posting from alt.solar.thermal, games groups deleted ] Sam... If you're still interested in physics, you might find these pages interesting: High efficiency passive solar heating panels (the conventionally-built structure in the photo has stayed at 65�F or above indoor temperature since 2007) http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto/solar.html and a collector pipe for parabolic trough collectors that can be constructed to provide extreme absorbancy (required physics help from some of the folks on alt.solar.thermal) http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto/solar.html New stuff being developed all the time. :) -- Morris Dovey http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto/
From: Tim BandTech.com on 10 Jun 2010 08:31
On Jun 9, 5:49 pm, Morris Dovey <mrdo...(a)iedu.com> wrote: > On 6/9/2010 1:31 PM, samsloan wrote: > > [ posting from alt.solar.thermal, games groups deleted ] > > Sam... > > If you're still interested in physics, you might find these pages > interesting: > > High efficiency passive solar heating panels (the conventionally-built > structure in the photo has stayed at 65 F or above indoor temperature > since 2007) > > http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto/solar.html > > and a collector pipe for parabolic trough collectors that can be > constructed to provide extreme absorbancy (required physics help from > some of the folks on alt.solar.thermal) > > http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto/solar.html > > New stuff being developed all the time. :) > > -- > Morris Doveyhttp://www.iedu.com/DeSoto/ Yes, and the cost of PV panels has dropped substantially. A 4kW system of the low cost panels will take up about 340 square feet; enough to power a typical home in New Hampshire. As for cost, well, I can beat $7/watt for a straightforward grid-tie system. Then there are the incentives- $6k from the state, healthy tax break from the feds for 30% of system cost; bringing system cost to roughly $3.40/watt. For a sunny location and at 0.15 $/kwH the system payback with incentives is down to 13.5 years if prices hold. So don't pooh-pooh solar electric. As the wave steepens these figures should improve, but already supply and demand economics coupled with these incentives has brought a nice change in just the last few years. - Tim |