If money was not an issue, there is a good chance I could run my home on little or no fossil fuels. The technology is out there.
Here is what I would do...
First I would install two windmills. From the minimal research I have done, one windmill would give me a little less than half of the energy my home consumes.
Second, solar panels would be installed. I would install both photovoltaic and hot water panals.
Third, geothermal would be installed. This would help with the solar hot water panels. Then, this geothermal would help in cooling and heating the home. This combined with the hot water solar panels would greatly reduce the need of electricity to run a hot water heater. For that matter I would work it out to install an on-demand hot water heater. Not sure how that would work, but I'd figure it out
When the system is running at full power with excess, I would take the electricty and electrolyse water to make hydrogen. This hydrogen would be stored for future fuel cell usage. Potentially to power my automobile or any other mechanical device for that matter.
Lastly, with advances in batteries and fuel cells my automobile could certainly run on the excess electricity provided by the other means on the property.
Yeah, so money aside, I am going to make this happen. I just decided.
There will be a continuation of this post with the hope to elaborate on these technologies
...and they thought Einstein was crazy.
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Friday, July 6, 2007
Knight in Shining Armor
This past week I had the privledge of seeing both Transformers and Live Free or Die Hard. Both will go down as summer blockbusters. They were both great action movies with plenty of over-the-top stunts, but they were fun none the less.
Out for a walk with my wife, I asked her, "Why is it, in these fun-loving, action movies, that the male lead is always disfunctional?" For example: John McClain is divorced, his kids hate him, and he has no friends. Sam, in Transformers, is your weird, computer geek, single child, who's dad yell's at him for walking on the lawn. This character didn't necessarily bother me, except for one shot. This shot ruined his character for the rest of the movie. The Transfomers came to earth as asteroid form. When they are coming, mikela, the girl lead, hold's Sam's hand and then steps in front to protect him. For as macho as Micheal Bay seems by his explosions, I was disappointed. Sam continues to be indecisive and squirlly. Mikela drives the tow truck and knows cars. Not necessarily a bad thing, but seriously when will the man come back to the movies?
My wife did make a good point in that today it is difficult to relate the strong, confident male, who is the Knight in Shining Armor. My response to that was, it makes sense and it sells movies, but shame on the man for not at least protecting the girl.
Out for a walk with my wife, I asked her, "Why is it, in these fun-loving, action movies, that the male lead is always disfunctional?" For example: John McClain is divorced, his kids hate him, and he has no friends. Sam, in Transformers, is your weird, computer geek, single child, who's dad yell's at him for walking on the lawn. This character didn't necessarily bother me, except for one shot. This shot ruined his character for the rest of the movie. The Transfomers came to earth as asteroid form. When they are coming, mikela, the girl lead, hold's Sam's hand and then steps in front to protect him. For as macho as Micheal Bay seems by his explosions, I was disappointed. Sam continues to be indecisive and squirlly. Mikela drives the tow truck and knows cars. Not necessarily a bad thing, but seriously when will the man come back to the movies?
My wife did make a good point in that today it is difficult to relate the strong, confident male, who is the Knight in Shining Armor. My response to that was, it makes sense and it sells movies, but shame on the man for not at least protecting the girl.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)