I'm the proud owner of about 325 solar cells.And sometime in the next few months I will put together one panel using whatever wood or plastic or cardboard I can get my hands on.If I build one using cardboard it will stay inside the house like in a window.triffid

Quote from: triffid on May 05, 2010, 06:22:23 AM
I'm the proud owner of about 325 solar cells.And sometime in the next few months I will put together one panel using whatever wood or plastic or cardboard I can get my hands on.If I build one using cardboard it will stay inside the house like in a window.triffid

i sure hope you got a good deal on them ...

i have a few like 10 or so .. they are nice but there cheep something like 1 will charge a BOOST CAP in less than a full day as i understand ! there 2 by 2"

2 bucks each i got them from gadget ..  i imagine he gets them MUCH cheeper ... 

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Quote from: triffid on May 05, 2010, 06:03:55 AM
Just when you thought you only had the US government to worry about.A story comes along to worry you even more.The following site tells what would happen if Iran or some other rouge nation decides to explode a nuclear bomb 300 miles up over the USA and in the center of the nation and what would result from the following EMP.
http://www.onesecondafter.com/
cars before 1965 could be made to run
And a faraday cage might protect your personal computer but a lot of people would perish in the resulting chaos

Exploding a rocket overhead would actually require a rocket.  Do they even need that?
They could go to a Muslim country in North Africa---let's assume they have the compliance of the national Gov't of that country.

Then they build a tunnel a few hundred feet deep from the shore toward the continental the shelf as they follow the underwater sloping drop-off.  When they're satisfied with the distance, they place an atomic bomb at the end of the tunnel and detonate it.  The resulting tsunami inundates Christian countries to the north in Europe.  Terrorism!!!

However, this has to be as big a bomb as possible, ans then using it would destroy their country as well as causing a tsunami.  But they like suicide bombs, anyway, right?  This would probably a last-ditch scenario for them.

All this is hypothetical.  I really don't hope it comes to that.

--Lee

We need to quit giving such simple evil minds such good ideas with going public about these statements... It is our wit which may lead to our own demise the good folks give men with little power great power by making comments about certain things to do with our inner workings ... Many of these evil people do not have half of a brain to come up with ideas of there own hell I don't know how many movies it took before there was a plane hijacking like the one in 9/11 ... Creativity falls out of reach of the most evil it is someone else who contributes to there thoughts.

Triffid sweet deal on the Solar Cells might I ask you to find someone around just wanting to get rid of old single pane glass windows you can easily seal them and refurbish them to make them weather proof you will get no where near the power in a window then you could get outside... Look at my solar panel for an idea as a word of caution never use hot glue on anything in the sun it will melt and run off...

I will be building a new panel myself in the near future... This time using 6x6 cells hopefully this thing will give me something a little more exciting then 70 - 120watts

I have a wind idea that has really never been attempted as well that I need to work on and the cool thing is I have never once seen the concept used in power generation but I am sure it could be used other ways as well! but I need to finish a PMA with bearing issues before I forge on to that project...

Everything requires time it seems and with a full time job it is nearly impossible to use enough of the off time to get fun projects done when you are pushed by other things like mere survival and rest needed to preform your full time job.

Quote from: infringer on May 05, 2010, 11:50:55 PM
We need to quit giving such simple evil minds such good ideas with going public about these statements...

That wasn't classified information that I'm aware of...and... I didn't say everything on my mind to make it even simpler.  I don't think they're up to the engineering par of Ted Kaczyinski, but they do go out of their way to do the most with what they have.  They merely try to impose their religious will on others like Kaczyinski did with his personal agenda.
I have a Careerbuilder resume which isn't publically available!! that addresses some of the concerns you do with respect to the Muslim Jihad-is.  No exceptions.  I can say more, but I won't.  Don't ask.  "No further comment" on that subject.

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I have a wind idea that has really never been attempted as well that I need to work on and the cool thing is I have never once seen the concept used in power generation but I am sure it could be used other ways as well! but I need to finish a PMA with bearing issues before I forge on to that project...

You can try to apply for a patent, but if it's deemed classifiable by the CIA, NSA, or maybe even Homeland Security, no one will ever see it.  Since when is that a patent?  It isn't.  I applied for a patent once and I was in the Air Force, so I know something about security, having dealt with it personally.

--Lee