(Hopefully George will follow up this post with an update! – promoted by eli_beckerman)
I went walking down by Magazine Beach today
and picked up
a clear plastic cup with clear cover
a black plastic cup cover
a white plastic cup cover
a smaller plastic cup, crushed
a broken white styrofoam “clamshell” container
a brown plastic tray for cookies or something like that
a white plastic spoon, dirty
and an orange straw
Add a black plastic tray with clear cover and
a torn chip bag with an aluminized mylar coating
And that’s all you need to make a number of small solar devices
from water purifiers to heaters, coolers, and cookers,
many kinds of low temperature heat pumps or engines
After all, simple solar Is
dark gets hot,
light reflects,
clear keeps the wind out
and dark, light, and clear materials are available here
In fact, you can probably generate enough heat to melt
some if not all of the plastic
With a little imagination,
instead of becoming trash,
fast food containers could recycle into
solar devices
All that I know about simple solar is online at
http://solarray.blogspot.com/2…
http://solarray.blogspot.com/2…
cross posted to bluemassgroup.com, dailykos.com, eurotrib.com, and globalswadeshi.net
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