Posted by Speed outfuckinstanding! your compositions are flawless and the sharpness you are achieving in some of these is amazing. You are extremely talented. Excellent work!

Thanks! I can't take much of the composition credit unless I'm cropping in post or the wife's the model.

Posted by skatchkins Thanks! I can't take much of the composition credit unless I'm cropping in post or the wife's the model.

She's a good shooter
You really out did yourselves with this set.
You turned that bitch out!
What are those weird overhead fan shaped objects?

My s'plore partner Steve is a boss shooter too. (his flickr link)
Thanks.

The discs are a failed solar farm project. A pretty cool idea harnessing steam, just not windy desert proof. I've been wanting to get out there with the suit for a while.

It's not a hard location to find and it's a good write up so here's a link: http://www.atlasob.../delta-solar-ruins

Posted by skatchkins My s'plore partner Steve is a boss shooter too. (his flickr link) Thanks. The discs are a failed solar farm project. A pretty cool idea harnessing steam, just not windy desert proof. I've been wanting to get out there with the suit for a while. It's not a hard location to find and it's a good write up so here's a link: http://www.atlasob.../delta-solar-ruins

Kudos to Steve
So those plastic panels were fresnel lens?
WTF? They used a combustible material not direct solar heat to steam conversion?
Do you know what the combustible was?

This one of the most unique sites I've ever seen here.
Excellent

Posted by blackhawk Kudos to Steve So those plastic panels were fresnel lens? WTF? They used a combustible material not direct solar heat to steam conversion? Do you know what the combustible was?

We looked and only saw a large black ball inside the chrome lined "collectors."
I just googled for more info and one of the first sites to pop up was Utah solar-production company actually a tax ‘sham,’ feds say

"It produces heat well-above what you would get on a solar collector, more than 1,000 degrees," Johnson said. "The lenses concentrate the sunlight on my [photovoltaic] systems that produce electricity. We collected that and put it on the grid. We demonstrated that and put it into production." Too bad it's a lot of hot air, according to a suit filed Monday by federal attorneys who say Johnson's inventions are part of an "abusive tax scheme." It already has cost the federal treasury $4 million and it needs to be shut down... A key aim of the scheme is not to produce energy, but reap federal tax incentives intended to spur the spread of solar power, according to the feds' legal action... The company's lenses, which sell for up to $3,500, are merely thin sheets of plastic. After exposure to desert conditions for a few years, many are now broken and dangling from their frames, the ground underneath littered with plastic shards, the suit alleges.... The customers get federal tax incentives for participating in a renewable-energy project and the companies pocket their investments, federal attorneys say. They have sold hundreds of the lenses, but most have never been mounted and remain in storage.

From another article:

"The lenses … do not and will not produce solar energy that could be collected and used for any purpose that Congress intended to encourage through tax credits," the Department of Justice stated.

Even though the science of it seems cool, it looks like the scam version rings true.

And apparently this wasn't this company's first rodeo

Before the solar thermal lenses the RaPower3 website said he developed with assistance of Hubble Space Telescope scientists, there was a new communications system called Digital Wave Modulation, which Johnson was promoting heavily from 1995-96. The news releases claimed, among other things, that the machine could transmit 1.8 billion bytes of information per second and network with up to 1,000 computers at a time, according to the SEC filing in federal court in Salt Lake City. During the 12-month period the news releases were going out, the SEC noted that stock of International Automated Systems rose from $3.50 a share to $40 a share. The claims of Digital Wave Modulation's abilities were simulated on a computer, and Johnson never "physically" built a machine or an operational prototype, the SEC said.

http://www.deseret...energy-scheme.html

Wow! This looks really fun.

Good job getting such an authentic look down!

The collectors don't make good use of space.
Bladeless turbine; that would be Tesla's disc turbine. They are real. They are also used to pump fluids. They work by surface tension.
Tesla was brilliant.

I still don't see how he would collect the heat.

Guess he's chillin at club fed now

MMmmmmm, man I can taste the grit, well done with this series as always.

Is Pic No 2 as buttocks clenching as it looks?

Posted by Sheavy MMmmmmm, man I can taste the grit, well done with this series as always. Is Pic No 2 as buttocks clenching as it looks?

Thanks. Standing there, no. On the way around to there, semi. On the way back, yes for sure.