Clean Energy 2030 - a knol by Jeffery Greenblatt

Clean Energy 2030 - a knol by Jeffery Greenblatt


Some thought...

SODIS, short for Solar Water Disinfection.
This is a process where water in a regular plastic bottle is put under the sun for at least 6 hours to make it drinkable. How about making the plastic bottle special. Keep the outside same while inside make the inner surface as rough as possible or maybe it is the other way around; rough on the outside and smooth on the inside. We can even make water tanks with the same design. Just like solar covers for swimming pools that heat up the swimming pool water much faster. Please pass on this information to NGOs that are helping the poor with water purification devices.
My invention # 309.
Applying the same principle we can make solar panels that have a very rough surface this way the amount of area that will be heated by the sun will multiply many fold. And the amount of heat produced will increase sharply thus generating extra electricity. We already have solar panels that are flat and now someone has invented solar tubes which catch extra sunlight. Tubes are an improvement over flat panels. Extremely rough on the surface tubes and even extremely rough surface flat panels will generate more electricity. ( There! I do not need a PhD for a common sense improvement!) In fact the number of rough surface area shapes can be numerous and the ideal shape for the rough surface area for the solar panel must be thoroughly researched.
SODIS, short for Solar Water Disinfection.
This is a process where water in a regular plastic bottle is put under the sun for at least 6 hours to make it drinkable. How about making the plastic bottle special. Keep the outside same while inside make the inner surface as rough as possible or maybe it is the other way around; rough on the outside and smooth on the inside. We can even make water tanks with the same design. Just like solar covers for swimming pools that heat up the swimming pool water much faster. Please pass on this information to NGOs that are helping the poor with water purification devices.
My invention # 309.
Applying the same principle we can make solar panels that have a very rough surface this way the amount of area that will be heated by the sun will multiply many fold. And the amount of heat produced will increase sharply thus generating extra electricity. We already have solar panels that are flat and now someone has invented solar tubes which catch extra sunlight. Tubes are an improvement over flat panels. Extremely rough on the surface tubes and even extremely rough surface flat panels will generate more electricity. ( There! I do not need a PhD for a common sense improvement!) In fact the number of rough surface area shapes can be numerous and the ideal shape for the rough surface area for the solar panel must be thoroughly researched.