skipped a year
i missed a whole year of blogging.
Don't know why...
honing my writing skills and solidifying ideas, i guess, looking back over 2011.
i have been trying to apply these ideas to real life, and see if they are true.
that is the original idea of dream made facts
Anyhow, here is one that worked for me, for heating water.
Water is usually heated with a flame or electricity.
With the flame underneath, or an electrically resisted wire as a heating element within.
Using electricity for heating water this way is extremely inefficient.
The "work" is done by the electrons heating the element, and that heat is transferred by conduction to the water.
But, by using the electricity instead, to run an electric motor, that agitates the water, puts that "work" directly into the water, heating the water, too. And if that same water is recycled through the same electric agitator, the water gets hotter, and hotter.
So for instance, by putting a submersible sump pump in a barrel of water, recirculating that same water, will heat that water, not from the inefficiency of the electric motor, but by the work the motor is doing to the water.
(my half horse power sump pump will heat a 40 gallon barrel of water, to 100 F. in about 12 to 24 hours, depending on the external and starting temperatures.)
In this sense, one could take a generator, barrel, and a sump pump, and make a hot water tank, with pressurized (from the sump pump) hot water.
Think, camping with hot showers!
Don't know why...
honing my writing skills and solidifying ideas, i guess, looking back over 2011.
i have been trying to apply these ideas to real life, and see if they are true.
that is the original idea of dream made facts
Anyhow, here is one that worked for me, for heating water.
Water is usually heated with a flame or electricity.
With the flame underneath, or an electrically resisted wire as a heating element within.
Using electricity for heating water this way is extremely inefficient.
The "work" is done by the electrons heating the element, and that heat is transferred by conduction to the water.
But, by using the electricity instead, to run an electric motor, that agitates the water, puts that "work" directly into the water, heating the water, too. And if that same water is recycled through the same electric agitator, the water gets hotter, and hotter.
So for instance, by putting a submersible sump pump in a barrel of water, recirculating that same water, will heat that water, not from the inefficiency of the electric motor, but by the work the motor is doing to the water.
(my half horse power sump pump will heat a 40 gallon barrel of water, to 100 F. in about 12 to 24 hours, depending on the external and starting temperatures.)
In this sense, one could take a generator, barrel, and a sump pump, and make a hot water tank, with pressurized (from the sump pump) hot water.
Think, camping with hot showers!
posted by youknow at 12:42 PM
