Inventions Needed Solar Electric Furnace 12 20 2012
So how does one design a furnace to heat their home in the
winter using the power of the sun?
A furnace has two basic main parts a fan and a heated coil.
1.
The Fan Circulates air through the heated coil
and also through the duct work and rooms of your home.
2.
The Heated Coil is called a heat exchanger. It looks like a radiator on a car. In a natural gas furnace it is heated by a
torch stream of natural gas.
So how to make this solar powered. Very simple.
You need to heat the coil with electricity just like your
electric oven heats the heating element.
That means that you need a heating element that is powered by
electricity and of the same dimensions as the heat exchanger in your
furnace. (might need to be a little
bigger.)
The next thing that you need is a solar array on your
rooftop to put electric current to that heating element and heat it up life the
coil in your oven or the coil in a tungsten light bulb.
So you say that what happens when it is night time and there
is no sunlight to produce electricity?
Very simple your solar photovoltaic array should be connected to a
battery that it can charge and discharge in endless cycles.
Such a battery should be able to collect and store enough
electricity from your rooftop array to power the coil and fan at
nighttime. But ideally you want that
rooftop array to be so efficient that it can power all of your homes electricity
needs.
The chemicals in the battery should be as benign as those in
soda pop.
Now because it is new technology and we still have the
natural gas grid you want to have a back up natural gas heated heat exchanger
located downstream of your primary photovoltaic electric element. That way your furnace can indeed switch to
gas in the effect we have dark sky ages!
So the solar powered heating element should also be able to
switch to your utility electric grid if per chance you run low on sunlight
power per dark ages.
But the electric grid should be one where photovoltaic electricity
from the brighter southern states can augment the north in times of need. Eventually it should be a system that
encompasses an entire free world.
And if your primary heating element cannot be fed power from
direct photovoltaic to panel or battery to panel or grid to panel then it
switches to the natural gas secondary element.
What if we had dark ages entirely?
Could natural gas be used to power the two fans in your furnace? Interesting concept? It would involve heating a stream of water to
produce steam in a steam pressure system.
Which leads me to the next question? How many advances have been made in steam
valve powered motors? For example how
light can such a steam valve powered pressure motor be and achieve maximum
horsepower. What has everyone thought of
since it has been abandoned in favor of the gasoline engine. Then the next question becomes, can the
technology that was conceived with regard to the advanced steam engine be
transformed and applied to other types of engines other people are working
on? What is the simplest design for a
steam engine that wins the award for producing the most power per thermal unit
input? What is the most efficient in
terms of horsepower produced when compared to the weight and durability of
construction with regard to weight of the steam engine.
There is enough electricity produced in an 18 inch by 18
inch amorphous solar panel to run a motor the size of the one in your
refrigerator. And your refrigerator is
indeed said to be the item that consumes the most electricity in your
home. I have always thought that we
should have refrigerators that stick out the side of the house like a large
extruded rectangular bubble so that in the winter the outside cold can keep
things in there cold. Very simple to
do. And indeed no odors from the inside
may be able to find their way outside as this would attract pests. It would just need thermostat controlled
venting that open and close to let air in a shell layer. Possibly a fan could help keep it cool over a
heat sink type element. The fan would
also be controlled thermostatically so that the right frig temp is always
maintained whether it is forty degrees outside or zero. At zero degrees the shielded and freeze proof
vent work closes.
But you shouldn’t have to keep the door to your refrigerator
open all the time.
It is just a matter of configuring new types of things with
the same types of controls used on legacy technology and foul proofing the
design. If we didn’t have limited liability
we would have a lot more foul proof designs and a lot more new products that
are competitive last.
So you can’t sell any more of your product because you made
it so well and it lasted forever and everybody loves it? Isn’t that the way the businesses of the future
HAVE to be! And if you cannot sell anymore
product because you aced the design it means that you had the knowledge to
create such award winning product, you had the innovation, you had the creativity-
you can make other good stuff just like that in different types of
markets. So human beings no longer
compete in business but in the arts?
They compete in writing and literature and song, and of course the fat
men compete in gay ballet.
Copyright 2012 Thomas
Paul Murphy
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