Tuesday, September 05, 2017

Remember the "White Roof" movement to safe energy? That idea was taken one step further.

This is the American method of growing product integrity and ultimately efficiency. It was why President Obama decided to push the technology sector to engage new ideas and concepts.

It is the way American invention works. The ideas take shape in the rough and as time goes by and more and more is learned, the technology becomes perfected. It is at the stage of 'learning' that investment is most helpful and proves to be profitable. A wise investor sees the potential and encourages it's development and perfection to make the world a better place.

The improvement in the quality of life by modern day technology can't be understated. This is the next step in WHOLESOMENESS to the moral American. Unfortunately, greed has become an American standard that is rarely identified. There is a vast difference between wholesome moral values and that of greed.

September 4, 2017
By Robert F. Service

Most of us have heard of solar water heaters. (click here) Now there’s a solar water cooler, and the technology may sharply lower the cost of industrial-scale air conditioning and refrigeration.

The new water coolers are panels that sit atop a roof, and they’re made of three components. The first is a plastic layer topped with a silver coating that reflects nearly all incoming sunlight, keeping the panel from heating up in the summer sun. The plastic layer sits atop the second component, a snaking copper tube. Water is piped through the tube, where it sheds heat to the plastic. That heat is then radiated out by the plastic at a wavelength in the middle region of the infrared (IR) spectrum, which is not absorbed by the atmosphere and instead travels all the way to outer space. Finally, the whole panel is encased in a thermally insulating plastic housing that ensures nearly all the heat radiated away comes from the circulating water and not the surrounding air.

Researchers at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California....