Posted on 06/08/2014 8:31:40 AM PDT by ckilmer
Ronald Ace, photographed at his home in Laurel, Maryland, May 4, 2013, said his flat-panel "Solar Traps," which can be mounted on rooftops or used in power plants, will shatter barriers that have stymied efforts to make solar energy cheap, clean and reliable. His claimed discoveries, which exist only on paper so far, would represent such a leap that they're sure to draw skepticism.
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Quick, notify liberals that he is proposing injecting large amounts of superheated liquid underground at incredible pressures near major cities. Wonder how long the anti fracking argument survives.
I planted a cherry tree in front of our living room window that faces west. I have a couch against that wall. In spring and summer it's full of leaves but not so many that I can't see through it, but it blocks most of the heat from the sun. In the fall and winter the leaves fall away, allowing all the sunlight in. And it's pretty seeing all the blossoms and cherries in spring.
When a patent is granted it publishes every minute detail of components and describes how it works. The patent grants 17 years of “legal protection”, not actual “secret” protection. If someone copies the patent the government does not prosecute the violator, you have to sue them in Federal Civil Court at your own expense.
I know some inventors and chemists that prefer to not patent and instead hold the secret to themselves. Of course that secret is easier kept with chemical formulas than with mechanical things.
“It was widely in use in the south prior to the advent of widespread residential air conditioning. White shingle roofs, white gravel roofs and silver metal roofs were quite common. They’re not so common anymore. Dimensional architectural shingles in stylish colors, most not very light in color, are the norm now.”
Naa, vented attic (i.e., vented soffits and ridge vents) and Polar Play (foil-lined plywood, with the foil facing down, into the attic) do just fine - I only have about a 10 degree increase in my attic versus outside temperature.
(of course being in Houston, that is still a toasty attic much of the year)
“Naa, vented attic”
Access to attic is in garage. Feels like a wind tunnel when open and garage door open a few inches.
Ah, so you were trolling for an argument. Have nice day, bug someone else. ...
There is an uncovered courtyard on the other side of that window. No room for a tree.
No room for a tree and I don’t want anything I have to take care of. That window also faces the street and I don’t want anything blocking it.
Window faces an uncovered courtyard. No room for a tree.
An awning would not look right where that window is. I am buying solar shades for all three windows that face west. The other 2 are not that bad since there is an olive tree in front of them. The huge window is in an uncovered court yard so solar shades are the best option.
You might enjoy this podcast: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2009/05/boldrin_on_inte.html
It’s on IP and the history of IP in the US.
Tell me what you think of his analysis.
Oh contraire, my FRiend. I was asking pertinent questions regarding your contention that oil companies had and continue to make subversive hidings of useful energy patents and the only factual answers possible aside from detouring, did not support your far out juvenile conspiracy about “evil oil”.
-——“Crowd Funding”.——
Ahh... you are certainly correct
Want to help develop a crowd funding prospectus for a company that has designs for revolutionary solar water heater panels?
You are a liar. You haven’t even watched Tom Valone explain it yet you want to scruff up an argument. Run along,that’s all you’re getting today.
The ‘2647 patent app currently be prosecuted had to have been written by good old Ron. No Patent Attorney would write like that.
Looks like it touches on moral questions, dealt with also in the battle over government power.
If the goal is the maximum immediate convenience of the maximum number of people, there is little justification for patents. Or, arguably, restriction on government power.
But if the goal is to avoid violating God’s will in “Thou shalt not steal”, that will lead to much different economic arrangements.
“He’s “recycling” intense heat created by concentrating sunlight. If you had a means of getting to the temps cited, what was it, 2400 degrees, and cooling fins on the other side or outside to create a large temperature differential, “
How do you recycle the heat if it goes out the cooling fins?
Valid point. If he’s proposing 100% efficiency that’s heat loss and cannot be.
Good perspective. Take a listen this week and tell me what you think. I’m curious to read your take on it.
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