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Bench

Battery or Cell?

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Watch, “coin-size,” AAAA, AAA, AA, C, and D sized single electrochemical cells are marketed and sold as “batteries.”

The cell’s voltage and amperage are dependent upon chemistry of its electrodes and electrolyte (including surface area, chemical purity, and volume) as well as its storage and operation conditions.

Technically a battery is made from multiple cells connected in series or parallel. A twelve volt automobile battery and a nine-volt battery are examples of batteries comprised from multiple single cells.

PETER TEREZAKIS
ITP MASTER’S CANDIDATE
TISCH SCHOOL OF THE ARTS
HTTP://WWW.TEREZAKIS.COM

Sustainable Energy

Captive ratepayers are the single largest impedement to success of alternate energy

Edison Employees rack up millions in expenses

“The highest-paid 10 percent of Southern California Edison employees earned at least $418.8 million in combined total compensation during 2011, and charged at least $11.8 million to their expense accounts, according to a report the public utility filed with the state.

SCE’s most recent annual report showed 19 executives and other SCE employees received more than $1 million in total compensation during 2011, and at least 130 others received $300,000 or more in total compensation. The 2,094 employees who earned at least $125,000 (but less than $250,000) in base salary racked up a combined $10.5 million in business expenses.

Four of the employees charged more than $100,000 to their business expense accounts, with the top-spender, identified only as “Manager 3,” charging $192,402, according to the report. The median expense total for the 2,094 employees was $3,358.” – Morgan Cook, Orange Country Register

2011 corporate report

Every incentive in the world for management and ownership of public utility monopolies to not change the paradigm of their lucrative compensation methods of doing business.

If Christ was sold out for thirty pieces of silver, is shaking the tree of Sempra Energy, Southern California Edison, or any other public utility, really an option?

Peter Terezakis
ITP
Tisch School of the Arts
http://www.terezakis.com

NYC

Malthus

Malthus had a vision that humanity would be unable to continue a path of unchecked growth as it would outstrip its resources, specifically with respect to a society’s ability to feed itself. With a current estimated population of seven billion, heading toward nine billion in twenty years it could be that island Earth and Easter Island have more in common than ocean and sky.

Peter Terezakis
ITPme.info • http://www.terezakis.com

Why food riots are likely to become the new normal

“We now know that the fundamental triggers for the Arab spring were unprecedented food price rises. The first sign things were unravelling hit in 2008, when a global rice shortage coincided with dramatic increases in staple food prices, triggering food riots across the middle east, north Africa and south Asia. A month before the fall of the Egyptian and Tunisian regimes, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) reported record high food prices for dairy, meat, sugar and cereals.” – The Guardian

Sustainable Energy

1969: Artist patents power generating technology using waves

Among other works of art created while at MIT’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies, the artist TAKIS designed and patented a device to extract power from waves (ocean) in 1969. I have always found his work inspiring. As an artist-engineer, Takis has always been one of my favorite artists.

TAKIS wave power invention

Takis - patent

Peter Terezakis

Tisch School of the Arts
http://www.terezakis.com

Basic Analog Circuits, Earth, Sustainable Energy

Schumann Frequency

c = λ × f λ = c / f = c × T f = c / λ
Wave frequency in Hz = 1/s and wavelength in nm = 10−9 m
frequency = f and wavelength λ

A 7.43 Hz wave is 40348917.63122477 meters (132378338.68512061 feet) in length.
This means that the length of wire to construct a quarter wave antenna would have to measure 10087229.4078061925 meters (33094584.6712801525 feet) 6267.91 miles in length.

There has to be an easier way than hoisting a satellite into space….