ping Morris

"Nonny" wrote

That is EXACTLY the kind of folks who should be getting research money!

I like him.

"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.

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. :(

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

How do the 6 Billion get fed?

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

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...