the branch of physical science that deals with
the relations between heat and other forms of
energy (such as mechanical, electrical, or chemical
energy), and, by extension, of the relationships
between all forms of energy.
Some cool software to CHECK OUT that you may find interesting.
Yeah - I'm no physicists, but I have a cool experiment that is never ending and this seemed like
a good place to put it. Here's the low down... Quite a while back there was a phase where people
were coming out with these stupid camping air conditioners that you were supposed to put in
your tent to stay cool. Which is stupid. Wait I typed that already. Anyway, being stupid myself along
with my stupid friends, we decided we could all come up with something that would be way better than
the stupid ones smart people were making.
So the each of us set off with our own ideas and began prototyping. One of us actually completed his
and was successful in bringing down the temperature about 20 degrees F in a small size tent. It was powered
with a lead-acid battery, a few fans, and a submerged system that circulated water with an electric pump over a
radiator coil that air passed over (from the fans). He had a solar panel to charge the unit duing the HOT
SUMMER day, and then to cool you off a night after the sun went down. The other one of us had some
great ideas but they stayed on paper.
I was special though - like I just am... So I had to come up with something radically different than most of
the designs I had seen either proto or on draft. At the time there was a new product out for camping called
the BioLight that used peltier technology to generate electromotive force from temperature differentials. The
technical references is:
Pel·tier ef·fect
/ 'peltyâ ǝfekt / noun [PHYSICS]
an effect whereby heat is emitted or absorbed when an
electric current passes across a junction between two materials.
HERE is a wiki link to keep you from having
to google the subject or make any effort typing or anything... In case you want to read what I'm going on about here... Anyway
the only way to find out was to purchase one of the peltier plates and experiment with it. So I went to the only lady I know
from the Amazons - and found this fella:
I actually got two of them to start with. My idea was to use the differential between ice cold water and the ambient HOT heat
of summer time to generate a little voltage. I only needed a little to start with - but the issue was could I place the peltier
plates in series to 'add' up their voltage. I discovered that worked, and actually think it is the worse way to go about it, but
I wanted a quick result so I didn't care to mess with it further until I was gratified that getting more would generate more juice.
So I bought a whole bunch more. And this is what I did with them:
*atomkey original movie Peltier Energy from a water cooler...
Click here to watch in a new tab/window if you don't want to watch the tinsy-tiny one...
