From: The Butterfly (salsbury_at_bootstrap.sculptors.com)
Date: 03/13/98
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 09:38:46 -0800 Message-Id: <199803131738.JAA13835@bootstrap.sculptors.com> From: The Butterfly <salsbury_at_bootstrap.sculptors.com> Subject: Re: depostition
-From: "C.A. Cook" <coreycook12_at_email.msn.com>
-Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 15:28:52 -0600
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-I am looking for more information about salt-water deposition as a means of
-construction, a la
-( http://www.sculptors.com/~salsbury/Oceana/Oceana.html ).
-Does anyone know of any good books, articles, or web resources?
-
-C. A. Cook, LF
-coreycook12_at_email.msn.com
-
Excellent question! I have a photocopy of an old article where
someone did some research on it years ago. I've been meaning to transcribe
at least the chemical formulae that show how the process works. I did some
experiments a year or two ago to test the theory, and plan on doing more
with this in the next few years. I'd actually like to start working on a
new experiment in the nearby Pacific.
It takes very little electricity to get going, and I envision a
floating platform of solar cells, running the electrodeposition underneath
the surface. Also, catching the hydrogen runoff and diverting it to
fuel-cells to provide a somewhat regenerative power source. I figure that
over time, you'll get an ever increasing amount of sunlight + hydrogen,
giving more power, giving more hulls to be electrodeposited, giving more
hydrogen, giving more power... etc... :-)
Is anyone else on either of these lists in the San Francisco Bay
Area? If so, we can start playing with models of this, and start something
growing in the ocean...
-- Pat ___________________Think For Yourself____________________ Patrick G. Salsbury - http://www.sculptors.com/~salsbury/ --------------------------------------------------------- Disclaimers are silly. ;^)