Sweat and Wedge

Very often I am thinking about a wedge inside an air duct with air flowing over it. The wedge is able to seperate the air flowing over into two air flows, one air flow is high energy molecules, the other is low energy(Warm, colder). 

My thought experiment is inspired by sweat, when we sweat the fluid evaporates on our skin and the molecules that have high energy evaporate first and leave behind lower energy molecules, your sweat is separating high and low energy molecules and that is why it cools you down. Our bodies cool us down because molecules that have more heat evaporate more quickly so there is an imbalance. 

If you could seperate high and low energy molecules in the air then the air flows will change the air pressure around them, the warmer air molecules will cause normal air to expand and the low energy molecules would cause the surrounding air to shrink. In an enclosed space the shrinking and expanding air would cause wind, that would turn a turbine and generate electricity. 

The question is how could you cause the high energy molecules to go on one side of the wedge and low energy molecules on the other without using more energy than the turbine generates? The goal of the system would be to reduce net heat in the air to generate electricity. It is a puzzle I created in my head that I can't solve. I would love to have a small workshop and build test rigs to try different things. 

Wedge Thoughts

Very often I am thinking about a wedge inside an air duct. I was thinking that if air passed through an air duct and passed into a wedge, could there be a very energy efficient way to cause colder air molecules to go on one side of the wedge and warmer ones to go on the other side. If I give the air molecules a small charge and there is a magnet in the surface of one side of the wedge, the air molecules with more energy would be less effected by the magnetic field and pass through that side of the wedge more easily. 

Then I wonder if I can make the lower energy air molecules meet the warmer air molecules further down in the device so a strong vortex is created that can turn a turbine. 

Every time I have such a thought I think to myself that the energy harvested from the two air flows would be less than the energy used to prepare the two air flows. 

I am certain it wouldn't work so then I try to change it again and again inside my head. I try to make machines in my head that take heat from the air and convert it to electricity but I fail every time. 

This is what makes me happy, trying to solve a problem in my head that seems impossible to solve, like a dog chasing his tail. 

Car and Global Famine Thoughts

On this last bit of summer, I have become convinced there will be a global famine in the near future so I was thinking it would be a good idea to store extra food that lasts a long time for a grim period. We all live off plants, we eat tomatoes and rice, farm animals eat plants so even people that eat meat are eating plants. When crops fail a lot across the planet then food will become scarce and very expensive. Best to store light things like pasta and not too much tim food, the tins would be too heavy and damage the floor if you had thousands of them. 

I was also thinking about what I would call the 'EV super deal'; owning an new electric vehicle and paying only £200 per month for Finance, Insurance and Recharging. A car deal that resembles a phone contract. As far as I am aware, no such deal exists at the moment but I keep looking. 

I also was thinking about e scooters, wouldn't it make sense just to paint an orange line on the pavement, the pedestrians know to stay away from the orange line and the e scooter rider knows they need to stay as close to the orange line as possible. Electric scooters make sense because they are powered vehicles and use electricity, they are good for the environment. 

I also tried to imagine what an electric car would look like in the future. I imagined there would be more space in the cabin because there is no engine block and no bonnet, there would be room for 9 seats and the car would still be small. I also imagined the wheels would be smaller than today's cars because the breaking system doesn't use friction so the wheels don't need a large surface area to cool down, the factory that makes the wheels could fit more of them in a truck if they were smaller. I also imagined there would be a lazer projector on the car that projects dots onto the road because they don't make any sound and people get run over often so they should see the lazer dots on the road before the car. I also imagined the car would be covered in solar panels that let visible light pass through but use infrared and Ultraviolet light to generate power. I also imaged that the kinetic transmission is in the wheels, there would be no kinetic transmission inside the car itself. In today's cars, kinetic transmission starts in the middle of the engine block and moves backwards to the gear lever cartridge then through an axel to the wheels; in the future the wheels themselves would be the electric motor. This is all just a guess based on my logic. 

Preppers

This summer, a large portion of the Earth was either soaking wet or burnt to a crisp. In my view, this climate instability threatens the Human food chain. I think that it is very likely that we will have a global famine very soon. Perhaps it wouldn't be such a bad idea to put away the odd tin can of food for long term storage. I could put 10 cans a week or something like that and make sure they are used before the best before date so they are rotated. Not saying I would do that, I'm just writing down that I am thinking about it. Those doom's day preppers on TV don't seem crazy anymore. They are very logical. 

If there is one thing I can be grateful for it's having plenty of food to eat now, perhaps like Joseph in Egypt, I am seeing a vision of a future where the food is interrupted, crops failing, bees dying fruits not being produced, wheat and rice running low. Now? No, I can go to the market place and buy a 7.5 kg bag of potatoes for less than £2  but perhaps in the future it won't be that easy, we will see. 

New Controller

I recently damaged the two controllers for my Sega Mega Drive mini  replica emulator, I spilt coffee on them; The Sega mega drive is the same as Sega Genesis but it was released for Europe because our TVs worked differently to the American ones in the 90s. 

I ordered new controllers, wireless compatible ones. The new wireless controller is much better than the original one, it has an extra three buttons and is compact, it fits in the hand better and has a nice feel to it. The controller is wireless so I can sit where I want. If 90's Alan was playing on my Sega mega drive emulator he would prefer to play the side scrolling platformer games like sonic the hedgehog or mega man but I am different now, I prefer the RPG games, there is 4 RPG games on there. 

Sega mega drive was one of the major games consoles of the 90s. I want to collect all of them, I want to collect all the licensed replica mini emulator consoles that were popular in the 90s; The 80s Nintendo (NES) , Super Nintendo, PC engine/TurboGrafx 16, Atari VCS, play station one. If they make a Sega Saturn and Nintendo 64 mini emulator I would like to have those also. I would also like to assemble a Raspberry Pi and put a DOS emulator on there. 

Turtle Power

When I was a young kid, I would watch an animated TV show called Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. It just dawned on me that I am the real Mutant Ninja Turtle. I am slow, stubborn and cool,  "Give me a break". I am a turtle. 

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I went to one of those discount food supermarkets, I won't name them, they have metal baskets that sell Yoga mats and Bird feeders and things like that. When I got to the checkout, the clerk was scanning the food very quickly and piled the food up into a small mound before I could bag it up. Then she said "That is £40". I said "ok, hold on while I finish bagging up these items". She repeated the price to me again she said that will be £40. I said, "thank you" and I carried on bagging up the items slowly. She then said "You're holding up the queue". I said, "Sorry about that, and carried on slowly bagging up the items". Then an alarm went off because the payment was taking too long and the store manager came out and looked at me. Then when I finally finished packing the items I paid the £40. The store manager and the clerk looked pissed off. I thought to myself 'turtle power' because I stayed cool. They didn't know that I was angry because I didn't want to be rushed and I was still polite and stubborn at the same time. I am the real Mutant Ninja turtle, "alantello". 

When I drive I follow the speed limits, drivers accelerate behind me at 50mph on a 30mph road and suddenly slow down because my car is in their way. Then they flash their lights at me to drive faster and I don't respond, I just carry on driving at the correct speed. They give me special signals with their fingers and I don't care, I just carry on driving as if they weren't there, super cool and slow.  "Cowabunga", what ever that means. 

Mid August thoughts

Common thoughts that I am having in the middle August in 2021 is realising that there is a lot of Ragime changes this year, Myanmar, Afghanistan, Hungary, even the USA. 

I am also regularly looking for the E.V. super deal, I want an electric vehicle that costs less than £200 per month to run including insurance, recharging and finance. I sense it will only come along when someone invents the low cost high capacity battery, the power cell that doesn't use rare earth metals like Lithium. I wait patiently for a genius to invent it and change the world for the better. 

It was in the middle of August that I used a smart bulb for the first time. I can ask my smart speaker to turn the light off or on for me and even change the colour. I can also set routines so the light changes colour and turns off and on at different times of the day according to a schedule set by me. I can even set time triggered routines so my smart speaker will say things without being prompted. If I learn a lot from my smart speaker, then it is worth getting.