Environment World

I thought this series of slides showed us all what we (or I) really want and not in just a government offices.

I had an idea while I was at Virginia Tech University studying Computer Engineering. I had a assignment to design a build a … whatever. The goal of the project wasn’t to design and build anything in particular but have an idea, design it, and program a computer chip to make it work. It was a very challenging project and fun in a geeky sort of way (that’s me, fun in a geeky sort of way). It occurred to me yesterday that this is the sort of thinking that will fix the world, especially being fun in a geeky sort of way. The idea is to build a device that will help everyone control how much energy they use. My idea is a device that is controlled by Wi-Fi, screws into a light fixture and a light bulb screws into it. Energy use in the U.S. has run out of control because of the low cost of watts there. But no matter the cost is, it still ends up putting crap into the atmosphere that effect everyone in the world. The ideas are free here, make use and do something with them. Yes, I know what you’re saying, what the difference between that and a wall light switch? If you build it you’ll add simple things like timers and motion detectors that are cheap to add and would be invaluable if you’ve little ones running amok and don’t really understand there no monsters under the bed (the monsters are in Washington, D.C.). Make the device, and whatever you come up with, inexpensive and we can solve the woes of the world.

I just an epifinay (mabe) on the global power requirements that the computing industry is consuming. The idea came to me after reading the following article; U.S. servers slurp more power than Mississippi | CNET News.com. It seems to me that much of the power goes to the infrastructure (mostly air conditioners with the new CPUs coming to market). It seems to me that air conditioners are not really needed if we can find a way to keep CPUs from melting. My idea is to put channels in the CPUs while manufacturing them to allow a viscous fluid (such as water or an oil) to flow into the CPU to draw heat away and running that warmed water/oil to drain into a storage container with room temperature water/oil (cool). The viscous fluid is pulled at the bottom of the tank and deposited at the top. It should keep the CPU cool without the need of A/C. One thing I learned during my engineering schooling, a profound lesson, is KISS. Keep It Simple Stupid. It’s a simple idea and one that won’t get into production ’cause the designer didn’t think of it first.