Comments on: Oilfield’s Ablaze! (Old Sketchbook Doodle)

By: Sally ala Fixpert

Sally ala Fixpert — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 03:14:15 +0000

@Jake - You are a genius, what do we need to do to make this happen?

@Tim - Bummer! I guess you have school, hu?

By: Tim McCormack

Tim McCormack — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 23:17:30 +0000

SXSW is one of those things I would love to go to but in the end won’t be able to make, such as Wikimania and @media.

By: Jake Ingman

Jake Ingman — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 05:53:09 +0000

SXSW - I’m already signed up (so is Dane).

Allow me to nerd out a bit more on the parking lot idea:

Not only do parking lots already act as great solar radiation collectors - they also are a bit like oceans w/ tides. Cars pile on top of them in the morning, then slide off at night - like tides on a beach. Along those same lines, if the entire parking lot was on a spring-loaded raised platform, you could turn a generator w/ the weight of the cars. Cars drive on in the morning - turn the generator one way as the parking lot sinks — cars drive off at night, and the springs/pneumatics/whatever push the platform back up. They already do this with ocean tides — why not with car tides?

We might actually have a shot at this “all the worlds problems” thing.

By: Dane

Dane — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 05:49:04 +0000

We will conquer the world with meta.

By: Tim McCormack

Tim McCormack — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 22:36:01 +0000

SXSW? OMG yes!

We will conquer the world with math.

By: Sally ala Fixpert

Sally ala Fixpert — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 15:27:33 +0000

Haha, this is great. Wow I just realized that if we could get Dane, Jake, and Tim together (perhaps at next years SXSW? eh? eh?) you could probably solve most of the world’s problems in an afternoon.