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Solar design t-square for designing solar cooker reflectors

I tried this on a small scale model and then scaled up. It can better be  used on a larger scale. You could also  design flat parabolic "plates"  with mirrors  on a sheet of  plywood  to make powerful mock parabolic dishes.  (In that case only one laser shining straight down is needed) This shows ...
By: gaiatechnician

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Posté le mardi 5 janvier à 4h54
Hand Cranked Flashlight Mod plus Joule Thief

I have a couple of hand cranked flashlights laying around and I was never satisfied with their performance.When I got them fresh out the box they worked great. But when their batteries ran out it was too exhausting to recharge the batteries manually. And after a couple of years, it was almost imposs...
By: Biotele

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Posté le mardi 5 janvier à 4h54
Kyoto trough solar cooker mimics a parabolic dish without a thousand cuts!

The kyoto trough uses troughs with their curvature at right angles to each other to mimic a parabolic dish. Bending and cutting sheet material to make the trough requires as little as 2 cuts of the sheet material.. On the other hand Cutting sheet material to make a parabolic dish is a massive undert...
By: gaiatechnician

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Posté le mardi 5 janvier à 4h54
Charge Your Cellphone Using Wasted Heat (and Build a Steampunk Wall-E)

We updated the instructable with a new implementation you can build without spending all that money on those expensive seebeck generators. This one uses Peltiers in reverse to generate rather than cool. They aren't as efficient but they are much more affordable. Plus most of the parts required are ...
By: splitreaction

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Posté le mardi 5 janvier à 4h54
How To Make A Tesla Turbine (Greenest Turbine)

If you like this instructable please vote for it in the Epilog Challenge coming up. I have spent alot of time and effort trying to make this easy to understand and easy for anyone out there to do. I hope you enjoy and please rate and vote. This Instructable will show you how to c...
By: CrazyMachinist94

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Posté le mardi 5 janvier à 4h53
Software for solar design. Help improve the explanation.

It IS working! 2august 2009 and the latest scene file is wfunnelandotherstiltedforward and is available for download and improvement belowhttp://blip.tv/file/2429375/ is the latest how to about using the art of illusion software.check it out! (It is 11 minutes but worth it and I could not edit the ...
By: gaiatechnician

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Posté le mardi 5 janvier à 4h53
Wind powered ametek 30 wind generator

This is a wind generator that I built with 2 Ametek 30 Motors. It is still in the experimental stage, with 3 blades on 1 and 4 0n the other. The 4 blade prop has a saw blade for a hub (Not recomended) . I will be using the 4 blade setup on the ones I am building now, along with an aluminum hub. I am...
By: aleutianwind

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Posté le mardi 5 janvier à 4h53
"Compound" parabolic solar cooker, make a template with technical drawing

Compound parabolic dishes have a super advantage over parabolic dishes. You rarely have to reposition them as the sun moves. So you can leave them unattended for long periods!There are many possible compound parabolic dish configurations and rather than me try to satisfy everyone, I though it would...
By: gaiatechnician

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Posté le mardi 5 janvier à 4h53
Intelligent Solar Garden Light - Part 2

Continuing from part 1In this part I'm adding a PIR sensor.
By: zzpza

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Posté le dimanche 9 novembre à 17h24
Intelligent Solar Garden Light - Part 1

I bought a solar powered garden light. The solar panel charges the batteries and when it gets dark the lights (3x LEDs) turn on until it either gets lights again or the batteries run out.It has a small amount of intelligence (turns on when dark off when light) but not enough! Time for some upgrades....
By: zzpza

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Posté le dimanche 9 novembre à 17h24