 BartendingBear says: Video at either clipped source. A perfect example of KISS in action. Never wok. Can't make billions out of it. work I don't know, I think there could be a huge market for these if they can be made simply and sold cheaply. Give me an array of these on the side of my house and I can power my radio, my lamps, and maybe even laptop and router. Never wok. Can't make billions out of it.So, ponder these so-called words of wisdom from the experts in thier field. And laugh hard like I do all the time at people who have no clue. Predicting the Future ... Man will never reach the moon regardless of all future scientific advances. -Dr. Lee DeForest, Inventor of TV The bomb will never go off. I speak as an expert in explosives. -Admiral William Leahy, U.S. Atomic Bomb Project There is no likehood man can ever tap the power of the atom. -Robert Millikan, Nobel Prize in Physics, 1923 Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons. -Popular Mechanics,forecasting the relentless ... This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us. -Western Union internal memo, 1876. The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular? -David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s. The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a C, the idea must be feasible. -A Yale University management professor in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service. (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.) I'm just ... If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this. -Spencer Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3-M Post-It Notepads. So we went to Atari and said, Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you. And they said, -No. So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet. -Apple Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs on attempts to get Atari and H-P interested in his and Steve Wozniak's pe... As the clipped articles state, they were inspired by the inventor's work in Haiti, and were envisioned as power-sources to replace lantern's used to light housing. With the advances of LED technology, to say nothing of battery tech, this is quite feasible. At least one commercial use was identified in which they would eliminate the need to regularly replace batteries in air-movement sensors in HVAC systems in office-type buildings, a potential savings of thousands over the life of the installation. Sometimes, the simpler it is the better. Everyone else is working on nano and silicon, etc. This is perfect for non-industrialized countries. This is truly thinking "Outside The Box". I like it. And the new $100 laptops (now $178) run on about 2 watts total. But no one will buy them. What a shame. I think it is fantastic, and showed that it does work. Less parts to be serviced is always better. |
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