Saturday, August 6, 2016

The ulimate hot dog cooker

In high school I got to design a hot dog cooker. I have learned a lot since then and here is how I would design it today. Ohm developed a horse shoe battery using two canisters, one tank containing hot and cold water. It would consist of two water bottles with a short garden hose between them. It would make a horse shoe shape. It would look like the following.
So The hot water would expand pushing the cold water up into the system where it could be heated by the heat lamp. Then it would fall when cooled and then encounter the hot water. The cold water is denser than the hot water so it pushes the hot water into the tube containing the hot dog. To initially make the water hot I would suggest a model based on the lettuce plant.
The plant family has been around a while and developed after many years of evolution for optimum survival. Imagine a mesh made out of coffee straws which is contained in milk shake drinking straws.
50pcs Solid Party Drinking Paper Straws Metallic Silver

So what we have is a black piece of paper which collects the light and the coffee straws woven together in a mesh so that they are hooked around one another so that they are pulled in a diamond shape. The longer part of the diamond is to be pointed towards the outside parameter of the leaves. The leaves are to be shaped like the lettuce leaves with multiple branches extending from a central hub.  The benefit of the diamonds is the strength. The benefit of shaping it after a lettuce leaf is that it is bent in the middle to represent reflection.

This way it is like the back to the future scene where the doctor tries to capture a bolt of lightening. However the current (duration) compensates for the intensity (voltage) of the electric circuit. The best material for the upper part of the leaf is the fake grass you can get at model train stores. Then you use the rubber cement to fasten the bottom of the fake grass sheets to the straws. You can form as many circles out of straws as you want as long as they all connect to the bottle designated for the hot water. Good luck with any aspiring people wanting to do this for the science classes. May this inspire the next generation of photovoltaics and solar cells.
Lettuce leafExpanded Steel Diamond Mesh
A tealight candle and a small piece of clay in a cup of water.  The candle floats while the clay sinks.
Fake grass
Bachmann - Grass Mat - Green (100" x 50")


View also;
Documentary of Ohms law https://youtu.be/mB1z_x7J5Aw
Lecture of Photovoltics https://youtu.be/WxOX3t_AN3w

Cartoon on Photosynthesis https://youtu.be/uixA8ZXx0KU
Cartoon on Photosynthesis https://youtu.be/iLDbW_XvxHQ
Lecture on Conductance https://youtu.be/VVT-VLu1iVM


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