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- Are you interested in becoming an organizer in your area?
- Maybe--But Not Sure What to Organize
- Tell us about your experience with alternative energy:
- I have studied numerous of the alternative energy technologies.
- What excites you about this campaign?
- It is the right personal action at the right public time.
- What do you want to do to help?
- I am a writer and an inventor, as well as being very well-read in philosophy, economics and ecology. I'd like to help provide historical context and philosophical justification to the movement.
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Happy New Year Michael,
Last year I helped so many members of Pickens Plan learn about personal home energy plans. It's all about conservation of power, and home power generation, things I have been doing at my residence to lower my electricity costs. Send me a friend request a to add me Michael, I'd be honored to have you as a friend here.
BTW, Texas: I just posted an article link on my pickens page about Home Wind Systems in Texas. Your state's representatives, governor, and public utility commission officials are not in your corner with this "weak policy" on Net Metering. Instead they have the tables turned against green power for businesses and homeowners. Texas has created multiple sets of rules for loopholes and you have less rights than people in other states. You should read that article, important.
Come visit the group "Paradigm Shift Institute", a proposed nonprofit organization dedicated to education, innovation, entrepeneurship, and meeting global and national challenges.
Best Regards,
Norman
Thanks for the response.
As far as I know thermoelasticity has not been widely studied. A yahoo and google search didn't turn up very much. However, it is a very easy phenomena to demonstrate. Just take a balloon and do what I described in the contest write up. I suspect that any real success will come from an examination of various elastomers and measurement of their thermoelastic properties such as dynamic temperature range and specific heat. Because the process does not involve phase change it may be Carnot cycle limited to temperature ranges of a few tens of degrees. I would like to see more work done on the candidate materials so if you know a good polymer chemist that would be a good place to start.
There is another idea that could probably have greater market appeal. It is a relatively simple low cost collision warning system for aircraft. I entered this idea into the same contest but in the transportation category. If you would like to take a look go to
http://www.createthefuturecontest.com/pages/view/entriesdetail.html?entryID=1303
This device can be made from commercially available components but would require FCC and FAA certification. Take a look and let me know what you think.
I have several other concepts including a hand held skin cancer detector, a cosmetic surgery outcome prediction system, and a skin graft modeling system using autologous skin cells that can create precision shapes such as ears, cheeks, eyelids etc.
Maybe we should talk.
Chuck Ivie