Recent content by Loboguy

The guy's research on the Einstein refrigerator is quite nice. The problem is, I understand the concept just fine but I'm having trouble following all the equations, haha. And I need to understand the equations to calculate the pressures required and the amounts of water, butane, and ammonia to...

Neither had I, lol. I found it purely by accident. But it is extremely promising. This fellow, Andrew Delano, built one for his Master's / Ph.D. He got below freezing on his first try, apparently. http://www-old.me.gatech.edu/energy/students/andy.htm

That makes sense. After some research I think I'm going to go with an Einstein refrigerator to do the cooling - it has no moving parts and is a closed system. Whatever it may lack in efficiency it makes up for in reliability, and I'll be using free solar energy to power it anyway ^_^

I found a pretty nice PDF, but it mostly covers efficiency and cost (yes, I know those are important). I can't find many resources detailing the physics behind these systems. Perhaps I'm not looking correctly.

I am working on a concentrated solar heater using a linear fresnel reflector. I want to learn how I can harness this heat to power a cooling system, preferably with minimal use of electricity. I am in India, so this has a huge ground for application. I was looking at ideas here, and while...

To get a quick 'n' easy introduction to programming, you can try: http://codecademy.com http://learncodethehardway.org http://processing.org (there are more, but I don't know them offhand.) To learn electronics as well, I'd suggest going with something like Arduino, as it teaches the basics of...