Editor’s note: This question was asked in response to Electronics Cooling’s recent webinar by Roger Stout. To view the webinar, click here. Question: Was your dome house more expensive to build than conventional construction? Answer: Actually, not really. It was built 8 years ago, at a finished cost of about $100/sq.ft. (excluding property). At the time, that was low-end … [Read more...]

Editor’s note: This question was asked in response to Electronics Cooling’s recent webinar by Roger Stout. To view the webinar, click here. Question: Did you say thermionic coolers are perpetual motion machines? Answer: No. I tried not to say that. In thermodynamics, we learn about perpetual motion machines of "type 1" that violate the 1st Law of Thermodynamics. That would be … [Read more...]

Editor’s note: This question was asked in response to Electronics Cooling’s recent webinar by Roger Stout. To view the webinar, click here. Question: You mentioned using only the top 100 m of ocean depth when considering how much the temperature could go up in a century? Isn't that an oversimplification? Besides, average ocean depth is something like several km, isn't … [Read more...]

Editor’s note: This question was asked in response to Electronics Cooling’s recent webinar by Roger Stout. To view the webinar, click here. Question: You suggested that we are already using as much total energy as we could harvest from all solar sources combined. Aren't you being a tad pessimistic? Answer: Yes and no. I listed my assumptions: using only 1% of Earth's land … [Read more...]