Dies
irae, Dies illa!
Solvet saeclum in favilla,
Teste David cum Sybilla
(Day of Wrath, the day of Burning,
Seer and Sibyl speak concerning,
All the World to Ashes turning)
Tomasso Di Celano, Dies Irae
The utterances of Dr. Michael Taylor, Climatologist and Head of the Department
of Physics, Pure and Applied Sciences, University of the West Indies at the
Energy Conference 2011 on Monday September 19th 2011AD suggests that
we humans are being slow boiled in a stew of our own making.
Global warming, theorized to be on
the increase due to human activity, will increase energy consumption, whether
or not we switch to Alternative Energy sources in Jamaica as stated in my blog article entitled “Dr. Taylor's states Global Warming increasing Jamaica's
Energy Bill - Vybz Kartel's Summertime Soylent Green”.
65% of energy consumption wasted on
Refrigeration and Cooling is a lot of energy, not to mention a serious dent on
ones Electricity bill, to which there are no easy short term solutions. So at
this point, I have decided, on inspiration, to throw my engineering design hat
into the debate and design a solution that would help to reduce the cost of
Refrigeration and Cooling via a redesign of the Fan.
A curious invention, the Fan!
Basically a motor with a shaft attached to a set of curved blades, its design
is to push air in order to cool object via convection, as the rapidly moving
air carries away heat from the surface of the object rapidly, thereby creating
cooling. Air Conditioning units and Refrigerators are all based around fans and
may be responsible in part along with the compressor for their 65% electricity
consumption.
The technology of the Dyson HOT
Bladeless Fan as stated in the article “Dyson heats up with Hot bladeless Fan”, published
SEPTEMBER 14, 2011 6:00 PM PDT, By David Carnoy, CNET News – Crave provides some inspiration and
shines a light towards what is possible. But the fact that it still has to be
plugged into a power source to continue working makes the technology a novelty
redesign of the Ionic Breeze Fan with the same power consumption problems.
What if the Fan could produce its
own power or derive its power from a source external to the PUC (Power Utility
Company)? With this in mind, a suggestion floats into my mind for such a Fan
that may start out expensive, but with time may be adopted as a standard.
My suggestion is simply to:
1. Reduce friction within the Fan
design by removing the motor and replacing it with a different technology to
turn the Fan in a friction-less manner
2. Decouple the Fan completely from its
analog electrical plug via the use of Integrated Solar Panels as stated in as
stated in my blog article entitled “Alternative Energy and Solar Power - Die Another Day”
3. Include technology to recapture the
Wasted Energy generated by turning the Fan blades and turning it back into
electricity to power the Fan as suggested in my blog article entitled “Powering Gadgets by Recycling Waste Energy - Alice's
Windmills in my Mind Through the Looking Glass”
4. Include a Lithium-Ion Battery in the
design, so that the Fan would have a reservoir to store any recaptured Wasted
Energy and thus make its reuse by the Fan more efficient
5. Fan should be programmable and
controllable via an app on ones smartphone and be powered by an Open Source OS
e.g. Google
Android
I will deal with each design
suggestion one step at a time.
First, the redesign of the Fan to be
frictionless. The below diagram best illustrates a proof-of-concept
actualization of such a Fan whose blade is levitating in a magnetic field that
rotates it, effectively making it frictionless!
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Such a theoretical Fan design in the
above self-explanatory design would only have to be plugged in ONLY once to
charge the Lithium-Ion Battery pack, which would best be optimized to last for
a 24 hour period. Once fully charged, the Frictionless Alternative Energy Fan
or FAEF would thus be self maintaining, powered by electrical power that
trickle charges the Lithium-Ion Battery from either of the following power
sources:
1. Integrated Solar Panels
2. Sound to Electricity conversion kit
from Ubeam
3. nPower PEG Kinetic charger that
would be the axle of the Fan blades, balanced on self-lubricating ball
bearings.
Albeit appearing to be an attempt at
a perpetual motion machine, friction would eventually get the better of this
contraption controllable via a smartphone installed app. At that point the Fan
would have to be plugged in again – six to eight (6 to 8) months later,
assuming the household in sufficiently well lit, has lot of noisy occupants and
are regular users of the Fan.
The use of the technology gear from
a partnership between University of Pennsylvania graduates Meredith Perry and
Nora Dweck and their Ultrasonic Power Transfer Technology start-up uBeam and
the sound conversion technology of graduate student Sang-Woo Kim from the
Institute of Nanotechnology at Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul, South Korea as
described in my blog article entitled “uBeam's Perry & Dweck Ultrasonic Power Transfer -
Rafe Needleman's Hidden Village of Sound” is included in this
design.
This along with Integrated Solar
Panels similar to Apple’s
concept as stated in the
article “Apple eyes gadgets with built in Solar panels”,
published January 22, 2010 7:46 AM PST by Martin LaMonica, CNET News -
Green Tech and the article “Apple patent bid combines solar with touch screen”,
published June 7, 2010 6:31 AM PDT by Martin LaMonica, CNET News -
Green Techwould help to cut the analog Power cord, the last vestige of the
Analog World.
But more interestingly, is the fact
that this concept used in this appliance could be extended to other appliances,
making them self-powered and possibly Google Android 4.0 aka Ice Cream powered by
2015AD as stated in my Geezam Blog article entitled “Apple’s Revolution: Android @ Home and IceCream Sandwich in
2015AD”.
By then, Apple will
have caught wind of this development and would have begun licensing Apple iOS for
use in such self-powered Appliances and All-Electric Vehicles, Blade
Runner (1982) Style…….
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