Solar Power Idea
I just sent this note to a guy in Canada who posted on ises.org about a Solar Power Idea he had:
I'll be devoting an entire article on this in the future, but I thought this was a good start:
Hi Kenny,
I enjoyed reading your idea on ises.org. I've been throwing around this idea for a while as well, with a couple added twists.
The seawater can be run through a series of dark pipes (perhaps through concentric coils), and being a closed system, would allow the pressure of the expanding steam to drive the electric turbine. The seawater would run through coils, pre-heating, while awaiting the pass under the concentrated solar array to turn it into steam.
Also, seawater is about 3% by weight dissolved solids, and when the seawater evaporates, there will be a residue left over. Most current de-salinization operations just pump the brine back into the seawater, killing the fish and plant life.
A Dr. Maynard Murray found that this residue contains trace minerals that can be used in agriculture to replenish the soil. He did experiments over 45 years and found that soil fortified with sea solids grew stronger, faster, tastes better and were much more resistant to disease and pests (less fertilizer and pesticides needed).
http://www.championtrees.org/topsoil/SeaEnergy.htm
http://www.seaagri.com/docs/SeaEnergy.htm
This idea would solve three major problems:
1. clean water
2. electricity
3. depleted topsoil
200 million tons of straw are burned in the United States annually. If you stop burning the straw, and instead combine it with the sea solids, and humanure, imagine the compost you would get! Plenty of nutrients to re-energize quite a bit of soil.
Well, those are some of my ideas. It's nice to see other people are interested in something other than the short-term. We have to start thinking about the future of mankind instead of the quick buck.
Here are a couple of other links of interest:
http://www.seawatergreenhouse.com/
http://www.skywindpower.com/ww/index.htm
http://www.otherpower.com/
http://www.picoturbine.com/
I enjoyed reading your idea on ises.org. I've been throwing around this idea for a while as well, with a couple added twists.
The seawater can be run through a series of dark pipes (perhaps through concentric coils), and being a closed system, would allow the pressure of the expanding steam to drive the electric turbine. The seawater would run through coils, pre-heating, while awaiting the pass under the concentrated solar array to turn it into steam.
Also, seawater is about 3% by weight dissolved solids, and when the seawater evaporates, there will be a residue left over. Most current de-salinization operations just pump the brine back into the seawater, killing the fish and plant life.
A Dr. Maynard Murray found that this residue contains trace minerals that can be used in agriculture to replenish the soil. He did experiments over 45 years and found that soil fortified with sea solids grew stronger, faster, tastes better and were much more resistant to disease and pests (less fertilizer and pesticides needed).
http://www.championtrees.org/topsoil/SeaEnergy.htm
http://www.seaagri.com/docs/SeaEnergy.htm
This idea would solve three major problems:
1. clean water
2. electricity
3. depleted topsoil
200 million tons of straw are burned in the United States annually. If you stop burning the straw, and instead combine it with the sea solids, and humanure, imagine the compost you would get! Plenty of nutrients to re-energize quite a bit of soil.
Well, those are some of my ideas. It's nice to see other people are interested in something other than the short-term. We have to start thinking about the future of mankind instead of the quick buck.
Here are a couple of other links of interest:
http://www.seawatergreenhouse.com/
http://www.skywindpower.com/ww/index.htm
http://www.otherpower.com/
http://www.picoturbine.com/
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