So, I’ve decided to take my own advice and start making things myself, hopefully taking some small steps towards the edge of the box that is the system. 
Recently I’d advised all to start making bread… So that’s where I started. Making bread is like making love, if you try too hard you won’t enjoy it, and the end result will be rather embarrassing. I wanted to make a pure, yeast free, gluten free, seed loaded organic country loaf. My first attempt wasn’t actually all that bad. I got a basic yeast free recipe, modified it slightly with some ground seeds and oregano. If you don’t have a coffee bean grinder, I’d strongly advise getting one. Very cheap and there’s so many things you can turn into a fine powder. Anyway, my ‘country style’ loaf was… edible. But only by me. The female members of my family looked upon it with disdain, gave it a short sniff and steered well clear. I did hear some giggling from another room but I’m sure they weren’t laughing about my bread. In the end I gave in to their suggestions. Keep it simple, stupid. Ego slightly bruised, I attempted something more basic…. but then…. After disasters 2, 3 and 4, and much more mocking and amusement at my expense, I was about to throw in the towel. What was I doing wrong?
Millet Flour.
Finally, I searched for some recipes that were actually designed for millet flour. And there I discovered my problem. Millet bread is the most basic, simple bread to make in the world. I had used baking soda, sea salt, olive oil, seeds…. when all I needed to do was add water to the millet flour in equal quantities.
Hopefully there’s a home run looming. I have to buy some more millet flour first.
Free Electricity?
Anyone ever heard of the Peltier effect? Ever seen a peltier module?
These little bad boys are amazing.
If you run electricity through them, they pump heat from one side to the other. Meaning one side gets very cold and the other side gets very hot. The down side being that the heat pumped out needs to go somewhere. And fast. They may look small and innocent, but trust me, these things can pump VAST amounts of heat very quickly. Just ask my burnt fingers. For my initial tinkering and experimentation I had chosen a flat, square copper plate to use as a make-do heat sink. This was not such a good idea. If you really want to get the best out of these things you have to use a proper heat sink (or two). Not forgetting lots of thermal paste. I actually discovered peltier modules a few years ago, but just never managed to find the time to play around with them. Would you believe that I could discover a potential conspiracy theory whilst playing with little square plastic heat pumps?
Hmmm. Guessing that wouldn’t be a huge shock then?
When I discovered the modules, like I say some years ago, there was all kinds of information about them all over the internet. Thousands of videos, pdf documents, ebay listings galore. And so I was rather shocked to find that these days there is……………
It’s ALL GONE !!!!!! Really!!!! Everything!!!!!
The videos the pdf docs, it’s all disappeared!
Don’t believe me?
How on earth would I know what a peltier stack is? (One of my experiments this week was to stack some peltiers, put heat paste in between each, the bottom module’s negative wire becoming the main negative of the stack and the positive wire of the top module becoming the main positive, with all modules in between connected negative to positive. Otherwise known as: A Peltier Stack)
I remember seeing used stacks of ten modules listed on ebay and countless documents and webpages explaining how to make your own. How else would I know how to do that? My burnt fingers were a product of underestimating just how much heat these things can pump when used in a stack. The point being that if you connect a stack to a battery and keep one side of the stack hot and the other cold, you can generate lots of free electricity. (Providing you use a free source of heat. For example, a rather large ball of red hot burning gases that your planet regularly rotates around).
Yes, I don’t usually use google, but for this I will
Google search: “peltier stack”
Okay, so there’s a few bits and bobs regarding cooling microprocessors and some nonsense about cortical blood flow, whatever that means. But in terms of the real magic of peltier modules, which is by far their potential for turning heat into electricity, there’s absolutely nothing worth a click. Try and see if you can find instructions on how to put a peltier stack together. I’m completely at a loss here trying to work out exactly what happened. Maybe I’m not searching hard enough? Possible, but like I say, I am positive that I was able to find all kinds of diagrams, pictures etc concerning the stacks, just a few years ago.
Where did all the good stuff go? Where did all the brilliant youtube vids go?
I do know that some of my facebook truthy buddies have been frantically ranting on about SOPA this week. Something about pending internet censorship that will be so bad that only William Gates III himself will be able to post an update on facebook or twitter. I haven’t had time to look into all this yet myself, but somewhere in the dark corners of my mind I seem to recall some similar kerfuffling on the Alex Jones show a few years ago. Something about Internet2?
I remember Jones, with his usual manic shout rant blood boiling voice, “Internet2 people!! This is it!! There gonna take over the internet and you won’t even be able to jack off over your favourite porn site anymore!!!”
As I’ve said many, many times on this blog. I stay away from google as much as I can. Not because I’m worried about my IP address being logged, or my search data being sold on for market profiling etc. No, the reason I try not to use it is that it’s obvious to me that untouchable monopolies are not safe in any industry. How the hell have we gotten to the point that THE WHOLE WORLD is using just ONE search engine? Whatever happened to the days when all we used to hear about was ‘anti trust lawsuit’ this and ‘monopolies and mergers commission’ that?
Whatever happened, I’ve got a long road ahead with these peltier modules. Not to mention a steep learning curve and burnt fingers. If anyone else out there has experienced ‘net Bermuda triangle syndrome’ or ‘netBites’ as I’ve just decided to call it, please let me know.
Goodnight.
Tags: alex jones, box, bread, censorship, conspiracy, peltier, shill, SOPA, system
