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breezer
transparent heat efficent rads, then you could see what is wrong
what would you have?
what would you have?
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stop trawling the plumbing forum
your getting an obsession
your getting an obsession
breezer said:
Ah, but you would also see all the grot floating about in the water. Heating installers would have to start using different materials, and fill the system with a different liquid... perhaps a silicon oil of some variety? They are good for heat transfer and are relatively inert.
Not sure what you would make the rad from: glass is too good an insulator, although I am sure they could use additives to improve that. Same with plastics.
You could have metal sections and glass sections, that way you wouldn't lose too much heat efficiency but you would gain visibility. However, there is one big problem with that: a cocktail barman I used to work with said "Whatever you do, never buy a half-glass, half-metal cocktail shaker." The different thermal expansion coefficients can cause the glass to crack.
alright adam youve got me i used to work in transformers (big ones ) cant remember the bl**dy name of the fluid but it was silicone based
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How about a toilet seat with a wireless connection to the toilet roll holder. When the two conditions are met (pressure applied to seat, and low paper level) an alarm is sounded. Thus giving you the opportunity to go upstairs to get another roll before committing yourself.
When are we going to have TV sets that can be programmed with our taste of viewing. Instead of ploughing through the papers, we could just turn on the set and let it suggest something we'd find interesting. Better still, arriving home after being on holiday, it would have automatically recorded a few programmes that it decided you absolutely should see.
Still on the subject of TV. A system that turns down the volume when a compressed audio signal is detected, saving that effect of having adverts blast out, in the middle of a film.
Or how about a directable water jet with PIR that automatically squirts cats when they enter your garden, thus encouraging them to leave, before they dig up the flower beds, raid the koi pond, and cr*p on the garden furniture.
When are we going to have TV sets that can be programmed with our taste of viewing. Instead of ploughing through the papers, we could just turn on the set and let it suggest something we'd find interesting. Better still, arriving home after being on holiday, it would have automatically recorded a few programmes that it decided you absolutely should see.
Still on the subject of TV. A system that turns down the volume when a compressed audio signal is detected, saving that effect of having adverts blast out, in the middle of a film.
Or how about a directable water jet with PIR that automatically squirts cats when they enter your garden, thus encouraging them to leave, before they dig up the flower beds, raid the koi pond, and cr*p on the garden furniture.
Around 83 or 84 I made a working mock up of the "scarecrow" device using a PIR and a solenoid valve from a smoke machine, parts laying around at work for exactly what that device is sold for these days to scare cats away from the Koi that a work colleague was having trouble with. Never thought to patent it or even to try to sell it, just helping out a buddy as they say. I always wonder if he was the one that patented the idea and is selling it now?
It just goes to show that there is no such thing as an original idea. Some b*gger has always beaten you to it.breezer said:
But extending the idea, how about a similar aproach to squirt burglars. I recall some time ago, a technology where water could be given a unique "code". I can't remember the exact method used. It was some kind of complex molecule that could be tailor made to order (a bit like DNA), when this is added to the water, its source could be uniquely identified.
If the water contained something like this and a flourescent dye, the villain would have a lot of explaining to do. Anybody showing signs of the dye could be pulled in for routine questioning, and then the marker could be used to collaborate, or disprove his explanation.
TexMex said:
Tivo was meant to be like that, not sure if it ever really delivered though.
That would be good! I have found this especially bad with Sky: presumably for sound they now have a much bigger dynamic range to play with, so the adverts appear even louder. Whats really bad is when I'm watching something really atmospheric and dark (so volume up quite high), then I go to attend a call of nature and can hear the "borrow your way out of debt" adverts blasting at 120dB (I am baffled as to what "babble you with science" means!)
If only I could have .......... Manoeuvred the right leg appropriately with regard to Ms's Loren, Monroe, Bardot, Mansfield, etc, etc !! sadly never had the chance !!
If only I could have .......... Been Cary Grant, and taken the chances !!
If only I could have .......... Been Cary Grant, and taken the chances !!
breezer said:
It sounds pretty geeky, but I would have the holodeck and replicator off Star Trek. And possibly their computer too.
You know they make that self-cleaning glass now? Why not put that technology into car paint, and have a self-cleaning car? That would be pretty good.
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