Sunday, June 29, 2008

Best Air Conditioner Invention

If you had solid state fan such as an ion fan (Web search under "solid state fan") Here's the Thorrn Micro Technologies site link.

And you had solid state cooling such as the a Bismuth telluride thermo couple, which utilizes the thermo electric effect.
Then if you attached a solar panel to those air conditioners you would have infinite cold air production.

This is the very best air conditioner that is possible with the current laws of physics. Because this is solid state and will never break down and can be made to any temperature. But it does have the one draw back of not being the most efficient form of cooling. Which is not a draw back if you attach a big enough solar panel to it.

LATER ADDED: The following quoted from wikipedia under "thermoelectric cooling":
Thermoelectric junctions are generally only around 5–10% as efficient as the ideal refrigerator (Carnot cycle), compared with 40–60% achieved by conventional compression cycle systems (reverse Rankine systems like a compressor). Due to the relatively low efficiency, thermoelectric cooling is generally only used in environments where the solid state nature (no moving parts, maintenance-free) outweighs pure efficiency.
But what I think about this is that I guess I just like the solid state nature of thermoelectric even if they use more energy. So as long as you have a large enough solar panel then you won't have to worry about the energy usage. And you also never have to recharge it with freon or have to worry about finding the hole that the freon is leaking from. And it makes absolutely no noise, which by the way anybody would appreciate having a more quiet house. Any rich person would prefer this technology because of it being so user friendly, and energy expenditure is meaningless to rich people.
Also it can be tuned to the temperature that you want most by only having a potentiometer(also called a variable resistor) and it has to be the right sized potentiometer to never be able to burn out the thermoelectric cooling plate. So you need the thermo electric module's specs for this reason.
And if you can find lots of cheap cooling plates, all you have to do is stack them for a compounded cooler end plate, with only the need for one ion fan. And less demand would be put on each individual plate, when combined.
Web search the phrase "Thermoelectric cooler" for products that you can buy. But be sure to only buy a product that comes with specs, so that you know all of the things that you can and cannot do with the device for maximum performance, without the device ever being able to burn out.

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