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Hoping to bring the trophy to Philly. Need ideas for environmental product
Jun 27, 2007 | 9:55 AM
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Hello.  I am entering a world-wide electronic design contest.  I hope I can bring home the trophy to Philly (or whatever the prize is).  The main rule and the winning design must be a way to help the environment in some way.  Any idea's from you guys out there?  Examples are an electronic light bulb that reduces power or something that cuts down emissions, etc...  Think small and simple.  Or perhaps think big.

I think you guys and girls have the brain power to come up with something good for me to design and submit.  Any idea's?  One idea I had was "something" to put old dead batteries into rather than throwing them out.  It will convert the dead energy to some power that will do something, not yet sure what.  Any brain power and ideas are welcome!  Thanks and wish me luck.

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-JT- read my blog view my photos
Jul 12, 2007 | 8:50 PM

Huh.
David_Aldrich read my blog view my photos
Jul 17, 2007 | 8:42 AM

electrons
Jul 17, 2007 | 7:31 AM

David,

Last night I experienced first hand, the death of a thunderstorm as it blew itself apart. It was really hammering hard around 10:30PM. Frequent lightning, high winds, etc... Then all of a sudden came a huge downpour for 10 minutes or so with lots of wind. When the rain let up, not a single rumble of thunder, not a single lightning bolt. It literally blew itself apart. It was neat to experience that.

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Wow. Very cool.
-JT- read my blog view my photos
Jul 17, 2007 | 5:25 PM

Huh.
AlexR read my blog
Jul 20, 2007 | 12:33 AM

Dunno if it is too late..... but maybe try to convert rain water into energy? I dont know how effective it would be, but just think how easy it could be.

Rain water is naturally built up on your roof..... and it naturally goes down a chute using gravity.

If you could somehow.. put a small turbine into it and allow the water to go down in few spurts..... maybe it could produce something

I have no clue where i even thought this up, and it probably is so ineffective it isnt even funny, but as I look at all the ideas here... its kind of the best and only one out there :P

Good luck bro.... got my support
David_Aldrich read my blog view my photos
Aug 7, 2007 | 9:04 AM

If you thought your home computer was expensive...check this out.

Copy and paste ONE line at time.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/06/technology/06ibm.html
?_r=1&oref=slogin


FROM THE NY TIMES...

"The new computer is to be the first supercomputer capable of one thousand trillion mathematical operations a second — a computing benchmark known as a petaflop. Placing it in Illinois, however, has led to expressions of concern in California and Pennsylvania, where computing laboratories also bid on the contract.

The machine will become a magnet for the world’s most advanced and challenging scientific research projects. Unlike many academic research supercomputers in the United States that serve a large community of users, the supercomputer will concentrate on a handful of Grand Challenge science projects, like simulating the impact of global warming.

“This will be a rather special machine,” said Jack Dongarra, a computer scientist at the University of Tennessee, who is one of the researchers who has helped rank the world’s fastest supercomputers. “It’s like the Hubble telescope.” "
David_Aldrich read my blog view my photos
Aug 7, 2007 | 9:05 AM

Wish we could use it for everyday weather.

Faster computing speed equals higher resolution / more accurate forecasting data.
electrons read my blog
Aug 7, 2007 | 9:23 PM

Now that is some data power!
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