Solar cooling with 2 clay pots ! Very cheap genius idea !

[hartiberlin]

http://www.techawards.org/laureates/stories/index.php?id=131

http://www.worldaware.org.uk/awards/awards2001/mobah.html

Have a look at this great invention from:
Mohammed Bah Abba

[Creativity]

hmm i am surprised thet they haven't used it already there this invention is at least a few hundred years old,in greece and roman empire they used it a lot.I remember constructing one of those for myself from a pot for flowers,when inspired by history classes book (i was mybe 12 years old that time ) 
So at least it is wel tested i hope they will use it!

[ResinRat2]

What's interesting here is that we have a sustained and confined heat differential.
How do you turn a heat differential into an energy generator? Personally I don't know how to do that, but maybe someone has an idea.

Let's brainstorm everyone. Throw out some ideas if you have any.

[ResinRat2]

Just a silly idea, running a pipe filled with liquid through a large apparatus, the cooling would cause the liquid to flow downward,  heat on the outside would cause the liquid to warm and rise, producing a liquid flow that might move a water wheel (fan?). The sun would power the whole unit by evaporating the water from the pots.

Just an idea, even though the sketch it very crude, I think you get the gist of it.

Thanks for your interest.

[wile_coyote7]

ResinRat2:

Why not simply have a matrix of pipes painted pitch black (or covered with tar paper or something to absorb heat), joined to another matrix, either buried in the ground or at least in the shade. Fill that with whatever fluid. Plop a turbine in the middle. You gotta heat-diff turbine. Hook the turbine to a generator........
Hmm....what if there was no sun out? Then maybe the option to bury the cooler side in the ground would be better. As long as there was a difference in temp between either side, there will be a movement of the fluid.