Comments on: Solar Ice Maker: No Moving Parts, No Electricity

By: Robert

Robert — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 10:23:32 +0000

is this brilliant idea allready commercialized? Wher can i buy such equipement or are ther assemblingplans available?

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 22 May 2011 22:05:24 +0000

Are their any designs available for the DYI folks to follow in building one of these for ourselves?

By: Saurabh

Saurabh — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 11:57:29 +0000

Hello,
Great job done I really appreciate your work and congratulate you for your success. I am also interested in doing this solar ice maker. So can you please help me in doing so.
Regards,
Saurabh

By: Keith Pinster

Keith Pinster — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:40:54 +0000

The term “moving parts” implies mechanical working parts. A moving gas or liquid is not considered a “moving part” that can physically break. Nor is electricity considered a “moving part” when it goes through a circuit board.

What they are saying is that there is no engine to compress the gas, it is done solely using thermodynamics and values.

To be honest, I’m not quite sure why you are quibbling about terminology. Do you think this is useless because you disagree with what the term “moving parts” means?

The bigger picture here is that the system doesn’t require any external, man-made energy source, which is the most important aspect of the system. And there are no machine parts to break down. Just simple hoses and values that are cheap and easy to replace, as opposed to high-cost, hard to obtain machinery parts.

By: Keith Pinster

Keith Pinster — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:29:11 +0000

before I could put my solar water heating system up on my house, I lost my job and ended up having to move into an apartment. but I still have all the parts for my solar furnace and most of the parts for a solar water heating system. As soon as I get another house, I will put those into place.

But consider something else: how about solar water heating for apartment buildings? As an apartment owner, I know one consideration is keeping your costs as low as possible, but why not incorporate solar water heating systems and then raise the rent slightly? Seems to me like they would be able to easily and quickly recover the cost of installation and then the extra rent would be nothing but profit.

I guess there just isn’t enough “forward thinking” in this country.

By: solar panels uk

solar panels uk — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 17:40:44 +0000

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By: jim

jim — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:13:23 +0000

Are you saying, a working gas is not part of this process or if one circulates that not a moving part? If so, then I say the writer used no working parts to write this.