super-neo-techno-wigwams

[Dingus Mungus]

3KW/day in solar still requires over 100 kilos of equipment.
With a wind turbine the same weight unless its designed
to be lighter than air, but then you need a heavy object to
tether the turbine to. I'm trying to think of something that
one man can carry that could provide 3KWh and it doesn't
exist yet to my knowledge. I really am trying to help here,
but the overall requirements are rather unrealistic to me.

I helped build a 1987 GMC school bus that drove from NYC
to LA on less than one tank of diesel fuel. Most of the time
it was running on free greasel we pilfered from restaurants.
We had to start on real fuel and get up to speed on real
fuel, but once we were moving we could switch the fuel line
to the fuel pump and change over to strained additive free
grease that was heated by the very engine it was running.
This also meant free electricity when parked. Simply start
the engine, let it idle till warm, switch the fuel and use the
inverter to charge phones, run lights and radios. A Greasel
RV is the most efficient nomadic home I have ever seen.

Why do you think a lot tour hippies own them???

~Dingus Mungus

[lancaIV]

Bom dia,Dingus Mungus :
you told me something,what has been my first info process-some years before !

I did not write about a 3 KWH per day consume,
I wrote to install a 3 KWp(eak) e-plant and to optimize the appliances efficiency ,
based by the    
http://www.spacebox.info/ 
numbers:"Technical Information,page 3 and 4"
1,3 KWp(A) for room heating and 4,0 KWp(B) for kitchen/bath/light et c.  e-consumer !

3 KWp= up to 8766 hours x 3 KW per year = 26298 KWH / year !
Optimizing the energetical need from 1,3 to 0,35 KWp(A) and 4,0 to 2,5 KWp (B)
give us the 3 KWp opportunity ! 



Gen-set:
From the conventional IC-engine/electric generator combination to the
Rolf Walge ic-engine/gear/electric generator concept,had been in the regional TV-news
and public exposed,
with 200% electric output improvement
(but the base is not maths-100% efficiency,neither Carnot-100%,as you know) !
http://v3.espacenet.com/textdoc?DB=EPODOC&IDX=DE3835502&F=0

Optimizing the alternator,probably with a "Symetron" controller www.rasertech.com/media/movies/html/alternator.html     or similar
improvement technology !

Using less fossil fuel, at first an hydrogen supply like:
http://www.autogas-india.com/fuelcell.html  or similar devices,
then Bio-/Algae-Fuels,can be also hemp oil.
For the final stage a CO2-absorving process and 2 fuel-recycler:
but this only +/- 2 decades later !

These efficencies are real and approveable,
but not in geral use !

Not to forget the waste heat to electricity potential !

S
  dL

[xenobard]

I was thinking about the possibility of a portable hydrogen fuel generator producing hydrogen fuel from rain water and then using the hydrogen to produce electricity. I was also thinking about using this in conjunction with an electrolosis sytem that is built into the septic system whereby a 'battery' is created on site rather than it being lugged around from place to place.  Using wind power, solar fabric, producing hydrogen fuel - if combined - could all act together to produce enough KW of energy to power a super-neo-techno wigwam.

[Dingus Mungus]

Hydrogen is a way to store energy not make it.
So far it requires more energy to make hydrogen
than you'll get back out of it. So that idea needs
a bit more flushing out befor you could impliment
it. I am interested in hearing more about how a
septic battery's chemistry would work...

How heavy will this septic tank with electrodes be?

[IronHead]

I too am interested in this septic battery idea.
Let us know more about this when you have some numbers.