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this might be of interest to you.
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ping Morris
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"Nonny" wrote
That is EXACTLY the kind of folks who should be getting research money!
I like him.
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"Lee Michaels" wrote in message news:4baa4aaa$0$9210$ snipped-for-privacy@news.astraweb.com...
Morris seems to have his head screwed on right, also. If I was the gummint, I'd send him a few bucks to do research as well.
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It is.
"If there's an Achilles' heel to Nocera's invention, some scientists say, it's that it needs other devices to offer a complete energy package."
Hmm. I don't want to rain on the professor's parade, but those other devices (solar panels and fuel cells) are pretty spendy items - even for folks living in relatively affluent societies.
There is a company claiming to have achieved a US$1/Watt manufacturing cost, and the last time I looked at fuel cell prices, I sighed and crossed 'em off /my/ shopping list - permanently. :(
[ One of my yardsticks is the little village Joe Agro visited and posted photos of back in January:
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- If you haven't seen Joe's photos, they're worth a look. ]
My own efforts to deal with third world energy difficulties have been a lot less spectacular, but it seems that I'm slowly and painfully zeroing in on a solar power head that, I think, will be usable for pumping (the original objective) and (almost by accident) for electrical power generation.
Anyone who's interested can follow along at
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my most recent prototype design effort is sketched out at
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may be worth noting that this work is being done by volunteers, each of whom bear the full cost of their part of the project.
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How do the 6 Billion get fed?
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If'n the gummint was to send it, I'd have to worry about all the strings attached - so thanks, but no thanks. :)
I just bent my best crowbar into a pretzel shape to add the few tools needed to prototype the current fluidyne pump design sketched at
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pix can be seen at
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tools are all from HF and I've managed to apply _two_ of their 20% off coupons (one on each of two items), but it's still difficult for me.
At least I'll also be able to look forward to using these to build a few of the woodworking tool ideas that have been sitting on the back burner...