Are you the next Thomas Edison?

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Calling all would-be inventors and entrepreneurs in South Africa! Use this thread to describe your invention, gadget, gizmo or idea for saving or generating power. The more unusual or whacky the better. I'm not looking for ideas like "switching off the lights when you go to bed". New things, new ideas, lateral thinking - that sort of stuff. Let's use mind-power for these bulbs!

Even if you've got some odd gizmo you're trying to promote, let's hear about it.
 
Why don't they try Maglev Wind Turbines?
Maglev wind turbines have several advantages over conventional wind turbines. For instance, they’re able to use winds with starting speeds as low as 1.5 meters per second (m/s). Also, they could operate in winds exceeding 40 m/s. Currently, the largest conventional wind turbines in the world produce only five megawatts of power. However, one large maglev wind turbine could generate one gigawatt of clean power, enough to supply energy to 750,000 homes. It would also increase generation capacity by 20% over conventional wind turbines and decrease operational costs by 50%. If that isn’t enough, the maglev wind turbines will be operational for about 500 years!

Construction began on the world’s largest production site for maglev wind turbines in central China on November 5, 2007. Zhongke Hengyuan Energy Technology has invested 400 million yuan in building this facility, which will produce maglev wind turbines with capacities ranging from 400 to 5,000 Watts. In the US, Arizona-based MagLev Wind Turbine Technologies will be manufacturing these turbines. Headed by long-time renewable energy researcher Ed Mazur, the company claims that it will be able to deliver clean power for less than one cent per kilowatt hour with this new technology. It also points out that building a single giant maglev wind turbine would reduce construction and maintenance costs and require much less land than hundreds of conventional turbines. The estimated cost of building this colossal structure is $53 million.
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I posted this one on a earlier thread of Power stuff but still i would like to get it out there.
Here is a law that could be past.

1) Any shop may not be open during the day, but should rather open at night 21:00 till 07:00

Industries may only operate at night - printing, car manufacturing etc.
During the day Schools businesses and restaurants are open.

People can learn to shop at night; we need to do something like this till we have enough power stations to run "normally".
We are not using less power, we just using it at the right time.
 
The government should strongly encourage all geyser owners to put a timer on their geysers.

It can save up to 45% on their electricity bills, and in turn we could get back to the modern age.


Where u get the timer? .. a pool shop
 
Thomas Edison was a patent wh0re. He is a bad example of a scientist. Also, his debates with Tesla were miff, he used to hire thugs to disrupt Tesla`s exhibitions and electrocuted an elephant once.
 
w1z4rd said:
Thomas Edison was a patent wh0re. He is a bad example of a scientist. Also, his debates with Tesla were miff, he used to hire thugs to disrupt Tesla`s exhibitions and electrocuted an elephant once.
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It's the sentiment of coming up with new ideas to solve our problems that's important. But thanks for illuminating us, anyway!
 
JK8 said:
You wanna steal our ideas?:eek:
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Yeh! Like I'm the only one who can read them. If someone comes up with the "next big thing" like copy-and-paste or cell-phones he can keep it.
 
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Pooky said:
Yes, he only invented the lightbulb, what a lame-o.
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His argument with Tesla of which was better to run a cities power (ie, the fight between AC and DC) were legendry. He tries to prove that Tesla`s AC was more deadly than his DC, he got AC used in the electric chair. It was not a pretty story. He wanted to provide DC to cities, but Teslas AC was better in the end. Interesting story that.
 
what is up with u ppls? the thread is about was to figure out our problem !!!
sigh :D:);):p
 
Tesla was working with the concept of wireless power: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:TeslaWirelessIllustration.png
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?patentnumber=0645576

Way before M.I.T profs had a go at it: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2006/wireless.html
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061115-8229.html

He was accused of witchcraft.

He also said he had come up with the answer to teleportation.

However, to get back on OT : http://www.wavegen.co.uk/ (I wonder how financially viable this is.
 
JK8 said:
You wanna steal our ideas?:eek:
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If he does, something might come of them, instead of lying there in someones mind and not coming to fruition unless some other bugger gets the same idea and actually does something about it.;)

I had this idea, before the internet about car engines. Many okes like myself do not know much about them. Now say you want a spare part from the shop, you click on that part of the engine where it sits and the drawing zooms in on that - say the carburettor. Then you click again on the section where the jets sit and the drawing zooms in on that. Now the parts salesman can check it out and advise you what you need. This can then be linked to bin locations and stock levels etc.

But now this seems so lame...:mad:
 
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