Notes concerning “Thermodynamics”
Air conditioning
2007 to 2009 (21 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)
Evaporation chimney
2013-05-17 (13 minutes)
Heat exchangers modeled on retia mirabilia might reach 4 TW/m³
2014-07-16 (updated 2019-08-21) (14 minutes)
Can you read the lunar lander’s plaque from Earth? Or write a new one?
2015-09-03 (9 minutes)
US$10M for a new, much better McMurdo Base, or less
2016-05-18 (updated 2016-05-19) (7 minutes)
Phase-change heat reservoirs for household climate control
2016-06-14 (updated 2016-06-17) (13 minutes)
Thermodynamic systems in housing
2016-06-28 (24 minutes)
Regenerator gas kiln
2016-09-05 (updated 2017-04-10) (9 minutes)
Regenerative fuel air cutting
2016-09-06 (4 minutes)
Subterranean glazing
2016-09-06 (25 minutes)
Sun cutter
2016-09-06 (9 minutes)
Laser ablation of zinc or pewter for printed circuit boards
2016-09-19 (4 minutes)
Cross current zone melting
2016-10-06 (1 minute)
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)
Millikiln
2017-01-17 (updated 2017-03-02) (4 minutes)
An electric furnace the size of a sake cup
2017-02-25 (updated 2017-03-02) (10 minutes)
Passivhaus seasonal thermal store
2017-03-02 (updated 2017-03-07) (2 minutes)
Passive dehumidifier
2017-03-20 (14 minutes)
Ice pants
2017-04-04 (updated 2019-01-22) (17 minutes)
¿Se puede armar un colector solar de agua caliente que anda en invierno acá en Buenos Aires?
2017-04-17 (2 minutes)
Fast sea salt evaporator
2017-06-01 (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)
Coolants
2017-07-04 (updated 2017-07-12) (11 minutes)
Pipe dome
2017-07-19 (7 minutes)
Rubber air conditioner
2017-07-19 (2 minutes)
Zombie contingency plan
2017-07-19 (9 minutes)
Deep freeze
2017-08-22 (updated 2019-01-22) (7 minutes)
Salt slush refrigeration
2017-08-22 (updated 2019-10-08) (12 minutes)
Data archival on gold leaf or Mylar with DVD-writer lasers or sparks
2018-04-27 (5 minutes)
Radiant heating
2018-05-20 (3 minutes)
Heating my apartment with a plastic tub of hot water
2018-06-17 (3 minutes)
Hot water bottles
2018-07-14 (4 minutes)
Notes on circuitry for the Nutra seed activator
2018-08-16 (20 minutes)
Household thermal stores
2018-12-02 (updated 2018-08-19) (27 minutes)
Friction-cutting plastic
2019-02-25 (8 minutes)
Sous vide
2019-04-02 (2 minutes)
Waterfryer
2019-04-20 (1 minute)
A phase-change soldering iron
2019-05-08 (updated 2019-05-09) (14 minutes)
Things in Dercuano that would be big if true
2019-05-24 (updated 2019-08-21) (24 minutes)
Reducing nighttime bedroom CO₂ levels
2019-07-08 (updated 2019-07-09) (14 minutes)
Intermittent fluid flow for heat transport
2019-07-10 (4 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)
Phase change unplugged oven
2019-12-15 (0 minutes)