MDI, (Motor Development International) , a France based company, has developed a motor that is powered mostly by compressed air. I’ve written about the forkencycle (Electric DIY motorbike), I use a little electric Razor Scooter to get around when not going far, and today is the day to learn about air cars !
I always like to get the best bang for my buck. Whenever I buy something online and near the checkout they have a section for a coupon code, I immediately pause the transaction and start googling for coupon codes for that specific site. While doing this, I stumbled upon bestonlinecoupons.com. They are good enough that I feel the need to share them with you.
This site is free, doesn’t require registration, and they’ve got tons of the most popular coupon codes and will point you towards the places with the best deals. They have a huge database of all the current specials in popular stores. All this information, all in one place ! It’s perfect for the frugal techie like me !
Over the last few weeks I’ve been exchanging emails with Maria from SolarSuno in Spain who is in the process of installing a solar system with her husband Emileo at one of their customers. I’ve been helping with little details by email and Maria was kind enough to send some pictures of the installation so far.
They installed four 210 Watt, 24 volt solar panels. Total power being generated equals 840 Watts of power per hour of sunlight ! The solar panels are connected to a Tri-Star 60 Charge Controller.
They connected 10 12 volt 200 amphour batteries into a 24 volt configuration. So, 5 pairs of 12 volt batteries are put together in series. With that we now have five 24volt cells of 200 amphours. They connect those five cells together in parallel and now have a 24 volt 1000 amphour battery bank ! That’s a total of 24000 Watts inside the batteries ! If they only use the top 40% of the batteries (in order to keep them alive MUCH longer) that still means they have 9600 Watts of usable power just from the batteries. (Lets not forget that the solar panels are recharging these batteries at a whopping rate of 840 Watts per hour of sunlight, and Spain gets lots of sun !) The batteries are connected to a 3000 Watt, 24 volt Outback Invertor. (Model VFX3024E)
The “Solar House” in Spain. Solar Panels are by the top left of the picture, to the right of that is the Solar Hot Water heater. I’m curious as to what the tower is for though. Wind turbine ? Antenna ? Hopefully Maria will clear this up for me.
Maria and her husband are doing a great thing. They’re spreading the word about alternative energy and are reducing the worlds carbon footprint one house at a time ! Keep up the good work !
If you’re interested in alternative energy, you may also be interested in these articles :
Kingston, Ontario Solar Power Installation
How to calculate how many solar panels you need
Thanks for visiting TechieNATION ! If you need help / advise please feel free to leave a comment and I will reply ASAP. If you have pictures of your own alternative energy installation I would love to get them and any details you have about it.
Lastly, if you would like to learn how to build your own inexpensive wind turbine, or how to put up solar panels, you may want to consider getting this set of e-books. (Or you can read all my articles and ask me your questions which I will answer to the best of my knowledge, for free ofcourse.)
I did not write this myself, I simply stumbled upon it on this site but found it funny enough to post. 
| Drug dealers | Software developers |
| Refer to their clients as “users”. | Refer to their clients as “users”. |
| “The first one’s free!” | “Download a free trial version…” |
| Have important South-East Asian connections (to help move the stuff). | Have important South-East Asian connections (to help debug the code). |
| Strange jargon: “Stick”, “Rock”, “Dime bag,” “E”. |
Strange jargon: “SCSI”, “ISDN”, “Java”, “RTFM” |
| Realize that there’s tons of cash in the 14- to 25-year-old market. | Realize that there’s tons of cash in the 14- to 25-year-old market. |
| Job is assisted by industry’s producing newer, more potent mixes. | Job is assisted by industry’s producing newer, faster machines. |
| Often seen in the company of pimps and hustlers. | Often seen in the company of marketing people and venture capitalists (same thing). |
| Their product causes unhealthy addictions. | DOOM. Quake. SimCity. Duke Nukem 3D. ‘Nuff said. |
| Do your job well, and you can sleep with sexy movie stars who depend on you. | Damn! Damn! DAMN!!! |
What seems like a long time ago, I decided to learn how to create my own power from scratch. Partially because my little sister lives in an off-grid home, but mostly because it’s just plain cool ! It took a few months of intensive studying, but I figured out Solar Power pretty fast. At the same time that I started learning how to generate power from the sun, I was learning how to generate power from the wind. It took me until now to finally understand JUST THE BASICS of this subject enough that I feel confident writing about it and starting to work on my own set of wind turbines. This article is about the very BASICS of wind power, as I understand it.
I’ve always thought what this cartoon is saying. School doesn’t help THAT MUCH as far as real life experience and skills for ANYTHING. You’re basically paying to get your foot into the door of a company that might hire you, which is obviously a good thing. However, for the most part, if you’re a good “social engineer” you can get your foot in the door just by being confident.
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