Thursday, November 16, 2006

GEOTHERMAL HEATING FOR SAFER ROADS

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AND AS A SOURCE OF ELECTRIC POWER

The heat flow of the earth is being used to heat houses. The temperature 21 ft down say is always the same year round so with pipes below the house the earth is cooler than the heat of summer and warmer in winter. (In this weather it's so cold, I'm well shaven, the wind is so sharp, it cuts my beard right off! Or it's so cold, it freezes and falls off, this is when my breath goes clunk!) This is used to make the house indoors more like the constant temperature of the earth, so the temperature indoors is more constant year round, this is known as geothermal heating. A good use may be for electric power. Roads around the holidays are slick, and this makes Thanksgiving the most hazardous of any day about being on the road, your wife the chef loves her family and can always find the thyme! If there were geothermal wires parallel to the road below the top, the usual motif of geothermal power might be used via collectors of distinction in the top and foundation. This may be a use of electric heating and cooling, would be a big source of power for the power companys, and in winter it would see if ice and snow was on the road, and the power wires would rewire some of the year round electricity to short towers (short for camo like on superhighways, they might be built in with road signs). They say the towers would use some of the power from the wire and some from the geothermal source, more or less with power load, and availability of heat, how much was of value, and so on. Microwaves would be from each tower, and they wouldn't heat the air much, just the road. This is much like a microwave oven. The waves would just find the areas with ice and just heat these areas, so save power. Power would be generated year round, except for cooling parking lots in the heat, but for roads the summer power would be more profit for the financers of the road, because it would send out power to the companies most of the year, for just the addition of the main wire below the road and wires to the top that reach the heat when the road was built. It would cause no heat pollution because the source of the heat is the heat from the pressure of the earth, this will be a source of heat for billions of years. This may be power source for other types of machines, like trains with collectors of the downward weight that convert the pressure to electricity, this would then be used to aid the power of the train so it would be more like at 100% efficiency.
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