| Housing and smart houses. I believe that we | | | | window. Due to the little amount of moving |
| could have avoided this upcoming Natural Gas | | | | parts and the pure physics and mechanical |
| Shortage by building smarter and more | | | | nature of this without adding any complexity, |
| efficient homes. For instance by using small | | | | it should be trouble free forever pretty |
| devises which are simple such as using the | | | | much.The only other way I can see this |
| idea of mini-hydro pumps, reflective energy | | | | working is to use a "U" shaped water pool |
| boosting solar efficiency by 2.5 from a water | | | | with a membrane in it on one end, then |
| pond (with 1-2 inches of water covered by a | | | | dropping in one side concentrated crystal |
| polymer substance of a couple of molecules | | | | layers, which would attract the water past |
| and a reflective bottom surface), | | | | the membrane and such the water into the one |
| condensation and gravity. These small things | | | | side rising the water level and then using |
| can improve the energy efficiency by 10-fold. | | | | that raised level to flow back to the other |
| Here are a few things; this is how I propose | | | | side through small hydro-pumps. The membrane |
| which could be done.Put in a pond which has a | | | | could be easily constructed something like a |
| reflective ceramic bottom and is filled with | | | | tempered solute mono layer at a lower level |
| water of 2-3 inches depth out side of the | | | | of the house and the remaining heated water |
| house on the East side. The sun comes up and | | | | continues upward in a condensation cloud |
| reflects off the water onto a side of the | | | | which would cool later and provide more hydro |
| house which has a convex/concave lenses | | | | when the temperature cooled in the top of the |
| shaped glass window facing 30 degrees as an | | | | shaft of the tower. I do not believe this |
| over hang off the house. On the other side of | | | | cannot work.The pond at night would also |
| the lens enclosed is a shaft where the air is | | | | provide a starting point for the heating and |
| heated.The pond is connected to the inside of | | | | allow you to use less energy for hot water |
| the house and the water evaporates up as the | | | | cooking and showers in the house, giving you |
| air heats up to the roof. The top of the roof | | | | a head start of about 100 degrees since |
| on the inside of the shaft is at a 45 degree | | | | heating water is usually the most energy |
| angle, as the water cools it follows the roof | | | | consuming.One last thought, the spinning |
| line down the other side of the house through | | | | wheels could be connected to a sound machine |
| small wheels at each floor providing | | | | creating a hi-pitched sound, focusing the |
| electricity and running your mini-hydro | | | | sound wave into a steel tank filled with |
| pumps. The sun coming up on the water is | | | | helium, and as the helium heated up the |
| reflected increasing your solar power by 2.5 | | | | molecules would bounce off each other |
| as you stated and is further magnified by the | | | | creating friction and heat to make steam to |
| lens window. The air stays hot in the day and | | | | super charge the water in the winter within |
| the water roiling back down is used for | | | | the bottom of the tower if your pond became |
| heating, and electricity for lighting, etc. | | | | iced over. Also it is a good way to make |
| When the pond freezes in the wintertime you | | | | additional energy for heating the air, with |
| will still have your energy.Another | | | | fans at the top of the tower you would be |
| innovation for this project would be to use | | | | able to heat the house too by blowing the |
| those small spheres ceramic glass coated | | | | heat into floor vents you talked |
| beads, that look like ball bearings look like | | | | about.Mathematically this is all feasible, |
| shiny golf balls in a chamber around the lens | | | | based on an article I read in Modern Solar |
| area, so that at night they can cover the | | | | Magazine about the 2.5 times increase of |
| lens and keep the heat in, these would be | | | | solar radiation of Beta and Alpha particles |
| enclosed in a pain of glass covering the lens | | | | in water reflection. |