Notes concerning “Energy”
Air conditioning
2007 to 2009 (21 minutes)
A comparison of prices for different forms of energy
2007 to 2009 (2 minutes)
Food miles imply insignificant energy costs
2007 to 2009 (4 minutes)
The economics of solar energy
2008 (27 minutes)
Predictions for future technological development (2008)
2008-04-19 (11 minutes)
Pensamientos acerca de diseñar un calefón solar
2012-10-15 (2 minutes)
Más pensamientos acerca de diseñar un calefón solar
2012-10-15 (5 minutes)
Passively safe solar hot water
2012-10-15 (updated 2012-10-16) (6 minutes)
Notes and calculations on building luxury underground arcologies for whoever wants them
2013-04-17 (updated 2019-08-27) (66 minutes)
Illuminating yourself with 10 kilolux of LEDs to combat seasonal affective disorder
2013-05-17 (5 minutes)
Bike charger
2014-04-24 (2 minutes)
Notes from a Buenos Aires blackout, summer 2013-2014
2014-04-24 (15 minutes)
The future of the human energy market (2014)
2014-04-24 (19 minutes)
Fukushima leak
2014-04-24 (6 minutes)
Building a resilient network out of litter
2014-04-24 (4 minutes)
Keyboard-powered computers
2014-10-25 (updated 2018-10-28) (26 minutes)
A hand-powered computer?
2015-09-03 (updated 2017-07-19) (11 minutes)
Jellybean ICs 2016
2016-07-14 (updated 2019-05-05) (17 minutes)
How would you maximize the energy density of a capacitor?
2016-07-27 (5 minutes)
Solar dehumidifier
2016-08-11 (5 minutes)
Pulley generator
2016-09-05 (2 minutes)
Spring energy density
2016-09-05 (updated 2019-04-20) (3 minutes)
The internet is probably not going to collapse for economic reasons
2016-09-06 (9 minutes)
Low-power microcontrollers for a low-power computer
2016-09-06 (updated 2018-10-28) (18 minutes)
Lithium fission energy
2016-09-06 (updated 2019-09-16) (6 minutes)
Soldering with a compound parabolic concentrator or even just an imaging lens
2016-09-07 (2 minutes)
Mic energy harvesting
2016-09-07 (updated 2016-09-08) (5 minutes)
Solar-powered portable computers
2016-09-17 (updated 2018-10-28) (15 minutes)
License-free femtowatt UHF radio transceiver ICs under a μJ per bit
2016-09-19 (5 minutes)
Recuperator heat storage
2016-11-01 (updated 2019-08-21) (4 minutes)
A design sketch of an air conditioner powered by solar thermal power
2016-12-22 (updated 2017-01-04) (29 minutes)
Self replication changes
2017-01-16 (5 minutes)
Reflections on rebraining calculators with this RPN calculator code I just wrote
2017-04-11 (4 minutes)
Illumination cost
2017-05-31 (3 minutes)
A quintuple-acting vacuum cascade to recycle heat for more efficient distillation and desalination
2017-06-21 (updated 2019-12-27) (3 minutes)
Japan can achieve energy autarky via solar energy, but not much before 2027
2017-07-12 (4 minutes)
Solar computer 2
2017-07-19 (3 minutes)
Energy storage in a personal water tower: pretty impractical
2017-07-19 (2 minutes)
Zombie contingency plan
2017-07-19 (9 minutes)
Salt slush refrigeration
2017-08-22 (updated 2019-10-08) (12 minutes)
Exploration of using RF current sources instead of ELF voltage sources for mains power
2018-04-30 (updated 2018-07-05) (29 minutes)
Turning off the power supply for every sample to reduce noise
2018-06-18 (2 minutes)
Lithium battery welder
2018-06-21 (updated 2019-01-22) (2 minutes)
Notes on the STM32 microcontroller family
2018-06-30 (updated 2018-11-12) (42 minutes)
Text editor design for e-ink displays
2018-10-28 (23 minutes)
Three phase oscillating belt
2018-10-28 (4 minutes)
Cheap textures
2018-10-28 (updated 2019-05-05) (5 minutes)
Atmospheric pressure harvesting phoenix egg
2018-11-23 (14 minutes)
Household thermal stores
2018-12-02 (updated 2018-08-19) (27 minutes)
Balcony battery
2019-02-11 (updated 2019-12-06) (6 minutes)
Groping toward a high-efficiency speaker driver
2019-04-02 (15 minutes)
Things in Dercuano that would be big if true
2019-05-24 (updated 2019-08-21) (24 minutes)
Terrestrial lithium supplies provide adequate energy storage to reach Kardashev Type 1
2019-07-25 (6 minutes)
Energy storage efficiency
2019-07-30 (4 minutes)
the oversold-as-low-power Renesas RL78 microcontroller line
2019-08-27 (10 minutes)
Can you bitbang wireless communication between AVRs? How about AM-radio energy harvesting?
2019-08-27 (updated 2019-08-28) (37 minutes)
Can artificially-lit vertical farming compete with greenhouses?
2019-09-08 (12 minutes)
Heliogen
2019-11-19 (6 minutes)
Why you can't run a diesel engine on water and diesel fuel with electrolysis
2019-11-24 (2 minutes)
The Suburbean: a minimally-mobile dwelling machine with months of autonomy
2019-11-24 (updated 2019-12-03) (32 minutes)
Underwater energy autonomy
2019-11-25 (9 minutes)
Phase change unplugged oven
2019-12-15 (0 minutes)
Argentine electric bill
2019-12-18 (3 minutes)