Comments on: Putting Nature’s Power to Work http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/02/07/putting-natures-power-to-work/ Yesterday's tomorrow, today. Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:39:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: cryptogon.com » Archives » Magazine Article About Wave Power from 1932 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/02/07/putting-natures-power-to-work/#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-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-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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