Re: Energy

[Charles J Knight <c dot knight at juno dot com>]

> > I found an article in an old Popular Mechanics (or was it Pop 
> > Science?),
> > scanned the pictures, entered the  text, and uploaded it to 
> > http://www.keelynet.com years ago.  I'm looking up a direct link 
> > 
> > http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/freenrg/minto.html
> > 
> > It requires a temperature difference of at least 3 degrees F to 
> > function, but it will function for centuries.

> 	This is really cool! And the funny thing is, I was just 

I thought it was neat, myself.  Wally Minto was an incredible inventor,
everything he did was solar.  This particular little wheel was a gift to
the world.

It's just a closed cycle steam engine, and not particularly efficient,
but simplicity like this requires GENIUS.  Installed at the core of a
spherical house, it could be like living inside a skeleton clock, with
a walkway through the central hub.

OK, so that's not completely practical, but it'd be a wonderful
"sculpture" for the space.

> Billb's site earlier this week, for a different thing. He's got a 

Yeah, Bill's got a LOT of really neat stuff on his site.  I especially
like his hand-drawn holograms, but that'a getting off topic for this
particular list.

> 	That Minto Wheel is a neat sounding gizmo. Not sure I need
> *another* project, but that one might be fun... :-)

If I had *any* mechanical fabrication skills (beyond an ability to fold
cardboard, etc) I would make one for myself.  But, it's beyond my 
abilities.

Anyone want to whip up *2* of them?  One for themselves, and
one for me?  :-)

     -- Chuck Knight
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