Comments on: Putting Nature’s Power to Work http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/02/07/putting-natures-power-to-work/ Yesterday's tomorrow, today. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:15:36 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Energy Tough Love Blog » Tidal Generators - Let’s harness the Moon before it drifts away http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/02/07/putting-natures-power-to-work/comment-page-1/#comment-1067902 Energy Tough Love Blog » Tidal Generators - Let’s harness the Moon before it drifts away Fri, 08 May 2009 16:06:31 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/02/07/putting-natures-power-to-work/#comment-1067902 [...] Proving once again that there is little new under the sun (or the waves) is this 1932 version of the wave power generators that we showed here and here. It works on the basis of an “inertia motor” where “When a wave starts to lift the hollow sphere, the massive weight inside, because of its inertia, resists the movement and exerts terrific pressure in the lower cylinder. Finally the inertia of the weight is overcome. Then it possesses momentum. When the sphere reaches the crest of a wave, the combined effort of the momentum and the recoil of the huge, semi-elliptic springs exerts an equal pressure in the upper cylinder. The tremendous pressure is applied to oil, which, in turn, operates a special turbine which runs a generator. The current is conducted to the shore by submarine cable.” ::Modern Mechanix [...] [...] Proving once again that there is little new under the sun (or the waves) is this 1932 version of the wave power generators that we showed here and here. It works on the basis of an “inertia motor” where “When a wave starts to lift the hollow sphere, the massive weight inside, because of its inertia, resists the movement and exerts terrific pressure in the lower cylinder. Finally the inertia of the weight is overcome. Then it possesses momentum. When the sphere reaches the crest of a wave, the combined effort of the momentum and the recoil of the huge, semi-elliptic springs exerts an equal pressure in the upper cylinder. The tremendous pressure is applied to oil, which, in turn, operates a special turbine which runs a generator. The current is conducted to the shore by submarine cable.” ::Modern Mechanix [...]

]]> By: cryptogon.com » Archives » Magazine Article About Wave Power from 1932 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/02/07/putting-natures-power-to-work/comment-page-1/#comment-1045673 cryptogon.com » Archives » Magazine Article About Wave Power from 1932 Tue, 05 Feb 2008 03:56:34 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/02/07/putting-natures-power-to-work/#comment-1045673 [...] Modern Mechanix: The cover of Modern Mechanix magazine, August, [...] [...] Modern Mechanix: The cover of Modern Mechanix magazine, August, [...]

]]> By: jayessell http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/02/07/putting-natures-power-to-work/comment-page-1/#comment-60997 jayessell Thu, 08 Feb 2007 00:48:00 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/02/07/putting-natures-power-to-work/#comment-60997 The need of water for evaporative cooling...in the desert! seemed to have been glossed over. Capturing waste heat from auto exhaust... I saw one that used it for cooking! An early mention of regenerative breaking. To us in the 21st century, it seems more applicable to electric or hybrid cars. I hadn't heard about the trains where decending ones send power to acending ones. Neat! "Much has been written about atomic power..." Really? I'd like to see some of them. "...but scientists are by no means sanguine that a method of applying the atom’s power will ever be devised." Was the problem they were trying light elements? Oh.... 1932.... years before the neutron was discovered and the first uranium atom split. The need of water for evaporative cooling…in the desert! seemed to have been glossed over.

Capturing waste heat from auto exhaust… I saw one that used it for cooking!

An early mention of regenerative breaking.
To us in the 21st century, it seems more applicable to electric or hybrid cars.

I hadn’t heard about the trains where decending ones send power to acending ones. Neat!

“Much has been written about atomic power…”
Really? I’d like to see some of them.

“…but scientists are by no means sanguine that a method of applying the atom’s power will ever be devised.”
Was the problem they were trying light elements?
Oh…. 1932…. years before the neutron was discovered and the first uranium atom split.

]]> By: Stannous http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/02/07/putting-natures-power-to-work/comment-page-1/#comment-60987 Stannous Thu, 08 Feb 2007 00:10:27 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/02/07/putting-natures-power-to-work/#comment-60987 These are VERY cool! My mom told me that growing up in Miami in the 20s & 30s it was common for people to put pipes on their roofs and paint them black for 'free' hot water. These are VERY cool!

My mom told me that growing up in Miami in the 20s & 30s it was common for people to put pipes on their roofs and paint them black for ‘free’ hot water.

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