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"Life is Good Today" a son's video tribute to a father after a waterman's week
Spencer Washom visits father Byron Washom in La Jolla CA for a week of surfing, sailing, paddling and libations. Set to the music that perfectly depicts how perfect beach and ocean life can be in southern California. A week together that neither of us will ever forget. Up next is visiting Spencer on his way to Kaneohe, Hawaii for a 3 year tour in the Navy.
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Spencer's and Byron's Waterlogged Week in La Jolla, CA
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Father-Son "Waterlogged Week" highlighted by surfing, paddling and sailing as Spencer Washom passes through La Jolla CA on his way to Kaneohe Hawaii for a 3 year tour of duty as a Navy Flight Officer.
10 mi, 2 hr, blue water outrigger paddle from Maliko Bay, Maui with Kimokeo Kapahulehua
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The tranquil departure from Maliko Bay on the north shore of Maui did not portend the next 2 hours and 10 hours of blue water paddlding with Kimokeo Kapahulehua. Capsized five times by half way and lost water bottle at mile 1; thus no rehydration for the entire paddle.Kimokeo has sequentially paddled the length of the Hawaiian archipeligo which is the equivalent of New Orleans to Las Vegas. Phy...
"Days of our Youth" Punahou '67 beach memorial to classmates 2012.MP4
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The Punahou class of 1967 gathered in Kailua upon their 45th reunion to celebrate and remember our classmates that are no longer with us. An outline of "67" was made in the sand and filled with the plumeria flowers from the memorial service on campus the night before at the reunion. We gathered in a circle and sang Kui Lee's "The Days of our Youth". The plumeria flowers were then placed into th...
Honor of manning the hoi of Polynesian sailing canoe Gaualofa from Samoa
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Had the honor of manning the hoi (steering paddle) of the vaka Gaualofa representing the Samoan Islands within the Pacific Voyagers Fleet. Joining them in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico prior to the fleet's departure to the Cocos, Galapagos, South Pacific, Tahiti, Samoa, Vanuatu, Fiji and finally the Solomon Islands. Aboard with skipper Nick Henry from Cooks Island, Brynne Eaton from Samoa, and David H...
Haka greeting of the Pacific Voyagers vaka crew at sunrise opening ceremony of Pacific Arts Festival
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"Hakas" or chants were given by both the arriving crew of the Pacific Voyagers crew aboard 7 vakas that had just completed a 21,000 mile circumnavigation of the Pacific. Using onlyancient Polynesian celestral navigation and renewable energy to accomplish this epic journey.
Solomon Island Tomoko War Canoes arriving to greet Pacific Voyager Vakas
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During the Pacific Arts Festival in the Solomon Islands in July 2012, the seven Polynesian sailing canoes were the featured guests after sailing as a fleet for 21,000 miles throughout the Pacific using only celestral navigation passed down by their eleders. The fleet of Tomoko War Canoes were once used in the Solomon Islands to go on headhunting battles to neighboring islands. First of a series...
Pacific Voyagers departing San Diego 1/23/12
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Continuation of the voyage from San Diego
Pacific Voyagers departing San Diego 1/22/12
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finally underway after wintering in San Diego
Pacific Voyagers' prayer and greetings departing from San D
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the circumnavigation of the Pacific by six vakas and 100 crew of the Pacific Voyaging Society. starting 2nd half of journey from San Diego to Cocos, Galapagos, south Pacific, and ending Solomon Islands on July 1, 2012
Pacific Voyagers departure from San Diego 1/23/12
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The circumnavigation of the Pacific continues by six vakas and 100 crew from San Diego to Cocos, Galapagos, south Pacific and ending in the Solomon Islands for the Pacific Arts Festival on July 1, 2012.
World Record Setting Solar Parabolic Dish Stirling System, 1984
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The Vanguard Solar Parabolic Dish Stirling System set eight technical world records for the conversion of solar insolation to grid electricity in 1984. Foremost was the 29.4% conversion efficiency that remained unsurpassed until Sandia National Laboratories surpassed it November 1984. Advanco Corp was the prime contractor to US Dept of Energy and the small company was owned and led by Byron Washom
2 Pacific Voyagers tacking in front of USS Midway prior to American's Cup Finals in San Diego
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Pacific Voyagers invited to parade two ancient Polynesian vakas as a precursor to the modern day AC45s and AC90s multi-hull racers in the America's Cup. Only vessels on the course prior to the race.
John Chuka crewing on Polynesian vaka sailng canoe
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Manhattan Beach's John Chuka spent a day crewing on vaka during the America's Cup World Series in San Diego.
Modern AC45s dart in front of 2 vaka polynesian sailing canoes
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Modern AC45s dart in front of 2 vaka polynesian sailing canoes
. that was a very odd day indeed Seconded only to Tesla's flipping The Hydro Electric Power Switch in the 1800', none of the numbers could be agreed upon yet Only The Disbelievers were not surprised at It when it became operational. . If you were not there, the scene looked like The Shocked Look when, in the movie "Stargate" as Jaw's Dropped when The Gate Was Activated, it not only Exceeded Expectations, a Fear of what they May Have Unleashed Gripped Everybody. . We were glad we never allowed The Media to the event. The Argument was, and still is, did it need to be That Large To Work !..!?? . . Forgotten to History and Never Actually Known to the public, there never was Any Classification for Military Use. What Was Known, instantly, was This was no death ray - it was More Than That.! - February 1984
Fantastic ❤❤❤
For large scale projects a Solar Island (Google!) could be used and, at night, the Stirling Generator could use fuels to power it. Solar heat could also be stored in molten salt tanks.
Those canoes were once used to load heads for the demon gods
Explain in detail the components of the solar dish collector head, its reflectors, and the steam hoses.
Can I buy a system??
Tell the world!!!
Perfect for a lot get started
👍👍👍 Keep going. Next video please!)) Where is it? Virginia Beach?
Wow...
I am watching now on 2021😂
23% efficiency for solar power was pretty good for 1984
29,4%
Tourist there filming while attacking with axe, that reenactment is a great display of power and I can see how it was fast. Unbelievable history in Oceania and Solomons
Stirling engine are not external combustión engines since there is not combustión at all.
Too much energy, too little cost, it is not a business..... DENIED...
So time losted...
Too bad these things aren't as common as solar panels. smh >:L
i guess the prize killed it and now pv-panels have caught up in power density, but it´s still noteworthy that these thing don´t reguire much of toxic materials and can basically built out of steel and glass
23% efficiency in 83-84 is pretty good! Make it today and I bet you could 25-30% and that would rival the better solar panels out there. Yes a bit more maintenance, and the initial cost might be higher but you could drive it with a computer that costs about 5$ today and with really efficient servos/solenoids (or whatever). In the 80's that solar tracking computer was probably 5k usd alone and so on...
Currently, commercial Sterling engines run at around 30% efficiency. swedishstirling.com/en/ Some designs use standard solar panels above to capture light and generate electricity and as the panels warm up in the sun the waste heat is used to power smaller sterling engines below. Total output efficiency there is approaching 40-45% for the combined system. The sterling engines were mostly 3D printed and molded from recycled plastic. They had very few metal parts in bearing and heat plates but the overall cost of manufacture was very small compared to an internal combustion engine. The lead engine has over 10,000 running hours on it with no maintenance at all.
Unfassbar - vor 37 Jahren über 90% und heute ist man in der Photovoltaik stolz auf 30%.
Das "92% efficient" bezieht sich natürlich nicht auf den Wirkungsgrad der Umwandlung von Solarenergie in Elektrizität, sondern auf den Nettoanteil an der Bruttostromproduktion, der nach Abzug des Bedarfs für das Trackingsystem für eine Netzeinspeisung/Nutzung übrig bleibt. Wie man auf 7:26 sehen kann (Sonneneinstrahlung und Stromproduktion), liegt der Wirkungsgrad nicht weit über 20%. So oder so, entscheidend sind die Kosten pro Stromertrag, nicht der Wirkungsgrad. Und diesbezüglich ist Photovoltaik heute unschlagbar.
Nachträglich bemerkte ich den Rekordwert von 29,4% in der Videobeschreibung. Aber das ist wie gesagt nur ein Rekordwert und bezieht sich zweitens auf die Bruttostromproduktion, ohne Abzug des Strombedarfs der Anlage selbst. Und insbesondere in Regionen mit häufiger Bewölkung ist noch zu betonen, dass solche Anlagen anders als Photovoltaik nur direkte Sonneneinstrahlung verwerten können, kein diffuses Licht. Damit geht in Ländern wie z.B. Deutschland ein großer Teil des potenziellen Ertrags verloren, der "effektive Wirkungsgrad" (Stromertrag pro Lichterntefläche) sinkt unter den von stinknormaler Photovoltaik (polykristallines Silizium). Will man nur direktes Sonnenlicht nutzen, gäbe es dann übrigens auch noch die konzentrierte Photovoltaik (CPV) als weitere Option mit hohem Umwandlungs-Wirkungsgrad. Da liegt der höchste Modul-Wirkungsgrad derzeit bei 41,4%. Aber wie gesagt, da normale Photovoltaik bzw. normale Solarmodule so billig geworden sind, sind Systeme, die auf Tracking angewiesen sind, nicht mehr konkurrenzfähig.
Sterling engine from solar heat. Great. Using steam engine technology over 200 years old using mirror array over 2000 years old.
Stirling engines going to make a come back no water consumption very little maint no moving parts highly efficient. Easy and cheap to make but with precision.
@@togowack no moving parts? Lol. It’s a great toy. Now scale it and produce HP and torque
@@joeseabert8391 Hi, you scale it by multiple cylinders, and a single engine is able to produce 500 watts. That will do, the key is that the engine can take any type of fuel, during a time when the world is coming off of gasonline.
Put glass bilding around it.you get lot more heat.
you need also cooling ;-)
For those of you curious as to what I have been up to the past 12 years, I have served as Director of Strategic Energy Initiatives at UC San Diego. Here is a video of our accomplishments. Onward, Byron Washom th-cam.com/video/Nd0HMN481N4/w-d-xo.html
Is this technology ali/ advanced since then? Or it dissapeared together with the inventors ?
There was some progress, but after the radical price decline of photovoltaics, solar stirling dishes can't compete any more.
Look up Scheffler mirrors, e.g. the India Solar One power plant. Or for cooking, Shirdi Mahakitchen
I want one....but like a MW one of those....I mean why not get paid for adding a little extra power on the grid....
That thing is enormous, only useful for mass power generation. Shrink it down to mount on a roof, then advertise it as friendly to recycle. And oops, Shillary Cunton just had her bestie right you a wonderful eulogy after your unfortunate 25 gunshots to the back of the head while hanging from a rope.
What is the cost of installed unit ?? These are not setup and forget machines, meaning, they are not suitable for private use.
I am interested in your project Pls send yours mail id My mail id spaceautoengg@gmail.com
th-cam.com/video/M1l5ApYrU3Y/w-d-xo.html
What is vangarde website
Looks expensive to me,maybe thats why we dont see them?
This might be interesting to read: ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19840020173.pdf There're some point to optimize in this engine, which imo lead to that low efficiency (perhaps not too low for 1984, but for today standards)
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making this by the 10,000 is better that 3 jets 1 aircraft carrier ,scumbag trump true 50 missile @ 1 million each = accomplish jack shit in syria
No matter how efficient it's still way to costly. A million dollar solar dish that can only power 15 houses. What a joke. Just a science project.
energyeducation.ca/encyclopedia/Solar_power_tower
Some would say it was 'Bought & Buried'. Just like the National Enquirer does. But Solar Panels are far more simple.
Less efficient. takes up more space & requires more maintenance.
but it doesn't take specialty equipment, this is available to any human with simple items if needed. solar panels require more technical and specific rare tools
You are right Karl.Cant get simpler than pointing solar panels at the sun.Trackers made economic sense when when solar power was 8-15 dollars a watt,at 35 cents a watt trackers make no sense.
you copies from INFINIA OR SO. THEY FAILED ALREADY.
I thought I invented this a year ago...then I find out it was invented THE YEAR I WAS BORN??? Why aren't people using these to power everything? It's actually pretty cheap to make something like this. The mirrors are 1000x cheaper than solar panels, steam engines are pretty damn cheap to build, and the most expensive part would be the batteries for storing power. I get that humans are greedy af but it's even cheap to make so it would probably be a profitable thing to do..
Nothing is cheap, try to buy one of them.
Agree with Christian
If you do believe so, why not start a business?
They are in use, suncatcher by tessera, Maricopa plant
So I missed HOW they handle those 6000F/3000C degrees if even metals evaporate
IKR XD
cooling loops on the cold side of the Stirling engine. I've seen some designs that did the similar straight onto special PV panels - actively cooled... those loops supply a "cold" fluid which draws off the heat as part of the thermal differencing that makes the cylinder move - and that cooling loop is then usable for something else too, like warming up sewer water to evaporate water off for condensation... the key to making any of these cost effective is reusing the low grade heat in a chained system. You could also use it as input to some sort of power generator working off expansion of refrigerant type engine...
Concentrated sodium.
That's one of the critical points imo too. If all that energy isn't handled properly it'll be lost at the entrance of the heat chamber. Given that heat doesn't transfer thru vacuum, but light does, I think a glass vacuum bubble around the heater entrance would allow to capture most of the energy from the dish - except for the infrared radiation generated from the high heat. Also if the concentrated power is indeed to high to handle with currently available materials (at reasonable costs) the entrance surface can be increased, perhaps in a spherical shape, so that the sun light isn't concentrated enough to melt the materials, but still reaches the heat chamber.
What a convincing hoax. Must be a hoax Cos you don’t see those things around and about
i dont know how practical it would be for line voltage on the earths surface, but i bet those boys from nasa were tickled over that thing and probably bought hard into it (if they didnt have it already), it seems like space would be much more practical place for it, still, very cool, thanks for the upload.
Mark Bowles not really, it need the gases of the atmosphere to cool it down, having the entire engine to overheat would stop it.
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This technology is good to be used in a hot desert,
I left my wallet in El Segundo
This must have been terribly expensive. Yesterday I visited a cousin, he has solar panels on his house, he told me yesterday that his daily gain was that day 24 kW. That is the same amount of energy for a fraction of the costs.
You possibly mixed up power (kW) with energy (kWh). The nominal power (peak power) of this dish is 25 kW. This means, with e.g. 10 hours of perfect irradiation, the gain would be 250 kWh. Nevertheless you are right. Nowadays, photovoltaic systems are much cheaper than solar stirling dishes, related to their production of electricity. Especially in rather cloudy countries, because PV can utilize scattered light, which solar stirling dishes can't.
Yeah, sometimes my fingers go to quickly over the keyboard, indeed there is a letter missing. But through the context it should have been clear anyway. I meant kWh!
Anyway, "the same amount of energy" was wrong. Vanguard: 25 kWh within 1 hour of full insolation (25 kW x 1 h). Your cousin's PV-plant: 24 kWh within one sunny (?) day in february. In South Africa? This means many hours of insolation. Probably, this solar stirling dish would rather be comparable to your cousin's PV-plant: th-cam.com/video/ekSS8C_vvSs/w-d-xo.html 3,3 kW nominal power, which should easily produce 24 kWh within a sunny summer day. But you can't buy it, the company filed for bankruptcy in the year 2013. Maybe, because PV became so much cheaper at this time.
If Jimmy Carter had been reelected, petroleum would be past tense as we speak.
the external combustion is the sun or fuelled flame. thus the name
I looked for Byron Washom and what happened to him. His is now Director of Strategic Energy Initiatives in Universty of San Diego. Great for him.
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