Solar-powered 'guiltless green' home theater system makes your Wall-E Blu-ray very happy
By Ross Miller 
posted April 18th 2009 11:42AM
posted April 18th 2009 11:42AM
posted April 18th 2009 11:42AM
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Wow! In the second/third pic, I though I was looking at the biggest blu-ray player ever in that guys garage! lol
* thought
Oops.
When enough rich people buy enough solar panels to keep these manufacturers going long enough to develop better and cheaper panels, we all win.
Watts don't have to be defined in MKS, for a very long time, they weren't. Of course if you have a system defining them dependent on time, there will be a time component. Potential isn't time dependent, power isn't time dependent, *work* is time dependent.
charles, I honestly can't tell if you're being facetious or you're actually that stupid.
power=work/time
*sigh.
I am far from stupid, but I am *not* appreciative of someone who is so critical of someone who has done a good thing (demonstrating a "green" alternative) and spent his money and time to do so, being torn down by someone who insists that he has said something "wrong." Your insinuation that anyone who disagrees with you is stupid, is ludicrous. Get over yourself. Go do better than he has.
exactly who said "go back to school" dismissively up there? you're still the person who insists that someone said something "wrong."
As a newbie to power and electricity reading all these comments, I am now more confused than ever about power. Where is "Juniors First Electrical Book"? Thats what I need. I really want to know about these things, but I find them muddling. :( Help?!
Power need not have anything to do with electricity. Power is work done per unit time. It's the rate that energy is used. Watts are the unit of power. 1 Watt = 1 joule used in 1 second. One joule is the energy required to move something one metre at a force of one newton.
Therefore, 700 watts is actually quite a lot of power.
Anyway, in electrical terms it's also equivalent (by design thanks to carefully chosen units) to current multiplied by voltage. Voltage is the driving potential that moves electrons in a circuit, analogous to the pressure of water in a pipe. Current is the rate at which those electrons flow, analogous to the flow rate of water in a pipe. Note that the flow rate of water in a pipe is the volume moved per unit time. This is the same for current, where it's the number of electrons moved per unit time.
I did after you insisted he had said something wrong. Wikipedia is known to have both erroneous and incomplete information, education is the best cure for ignorance, which is not saying that you are stupid, simply that you have incomplete information.
keep digging that hole
http://library.thinkquest.org/10796/ch13/ch13.htm
http://books.google.com/books?id=tqJ0Bz6zjnYC&pg=PA10&lpg=PA10&dq=ampere+coulomb+per+second&source=bl&ots=jo7ObdS4ZS&sig=2JnO6_UvDKf4F1o7G8FD7wqVutE&hl=en&ei=UR_qSeyDDejgtgeC2rnVBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7#PPA11,M1
http://books.google.com/books?id=iliZztwXnxAC&pg=PA30&dq=ampere+coulomb+per+second&ei=jR_qSannAY-6ygS06ficCA
@charles
you are as obnoxious as you are foolish
You can only go green if you're loaded!
ha, he said "the electricity that the home theater generates" now you can really trust him
Carrying solar cells haphazardly on your back up a ladder? Now that's a bright idea...
Oh, boohoo. A self admitted jeesusfreak has called me obnoxious, whatever am I going to do?
Why don't you try factoring all of those MKS definitions and see if the time factors out?
Personally, I find that the criticism of the man for a slip of the tongue is obnoxious. At least I admitted mine, he hasn't the bollocks to admit his criticism. Nice lake, go jump in it.
lol you said bollocks on the internet.
you fail.
Watt = Joule/ second
It's units of energy/time
Doesn't matter what unit system you're using, It's always units of energy per time.
As for being green. I don't consider Solar Green yet. It still costs too much grid energy, aka coal, to make them. Not to mention that no one who does the assessment of tech like solar factors in the fact that there is no sensible recycling pathway for any form of doped silicon substrate. In other words, 15 years from now, we're going to have a huge as landfill of solar panels that don't decay, rot, etc, period.
W = J/s
J = N * m
N = Kg * m / s^2
***W = Kg * m^2 / s^3***
Q.E.D.
About the headline, environmentalism was not the point or purpose of Wall-E. It's a sci-fi romance, and the earth being trashed was just part of the story. Disney, who probably does the marketing for Pixar, thought it was all about environmentalism so they did things like make the case for the soundtrack out of paper. But that's not the movie's point.
Perfect reason for staying inside when the sun is shining.
Does this setup have a subwoofer? I only saw them install the in walls in the vid.
Weird all those titles and they are using Monster Cables and power.... HMMMM, he must've gotten the job because he knows nothing about HT equipment. Wait, could it be that those pieces of equipment are better connected with Monster and the guys at Engadget just have a bug in their craw with the company? I wonder.
Monster is a HTSA partner. As is Integra, Speakercraft, and Salamander Designs (seating and rack). Monster is low quality. It just over priced.
I love how when people are sourcing things to prove other people wrong, they just use Wikipedia.
Come to Germany then you'll see how proper grid-connecteted solar systems are built. http://www.sma.de/en/products/references/solar-inverters.html
"seven hundred watts an hour"
why don't people know what a watt is?
ONE WATT = ONE JOULE PER SECOND
a watt per hour per would one joule per second.. per hour? wtf
First, in-wall speakers suck. Big-time. If you want a good theater system, get real speakers. That will cost you at least $10k for good system. Klipsch, Definitive Technolgy, etc. Integra receiver, what a joke. 100in screen, really? Why waste your time. My 60" Sony has a better picture than and Sharp projector.