New PTBC Members

25 members

Argentina, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada (Alberta, B.C., Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Saskatchewan), Cayman Islands, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Dutch West Indies, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Eritrea, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Lebanon, Luxemburg, Macedonia, Malaysia, Malta, Mauritius, Mexico, Montenegro, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Palestine, Philippines, PI, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Scotland, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Somalia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Venezuela, Uganda, U.K., United Arab Emirates, U.S.A, Wales

Welcome!

Jerry Jernigan

polar131_AT_gmail.com

Tok, Alaska -- 10/06/09

Pablo Rivas

privastoday_AT_gmail.com

San Diego, California -- 10/15/09 I'd like to join your club. About me, I love making machines. As a kid I'd take things apart just to figure out how they worked. I really believe we have to have a renewable power source for the average person and a reasonable price. Solar panel systems are very expensive and not for the average person on a budget. I’ve been trying to make my own solar powered engine. So far I have a 96" x 96" dish. For reflective material I used acrylic Plexiglas with a mirror finish. My dish rotates on two axes. I'm currently working on a tracking system. Next comes the engine. I was searching the internet for ideas and that's how I found your club. I'd love to be part of your club and will try to contribute ideas where I can.

Olof Haggren

olofhaggren_AT_hotmail.com

Gothenburg, Sweden -- 10/28/09 i would like to become a member because i would like to learn more about the tesla turbine and may be build my own one day to experiment with

Robert Rousseau

8rousseau_AT_gmail.com

Los Angeles, CA -- 10/31/09 I’ve been tinkering around with solar power ( converted satellite dishes for over two years now and I’ve come up with some very inexpensive ways to convert old sat. dishes into parabolic mirrors with a very high reflective surface.

Daniel Trzebinski

owen_AT_konto.pl

Rybnik, Poland -- 11/01/09 Ph.D. student

Irvin Queen

irvque_AT_verizon.net

Bronx.N.Y. -- 11/11/09 I am much interested in learning how to construct and operate the Turbine Generator. I am a sustainable energy enthusiast. I work as a licensed Teacher in NYC Dept. of Educ. H.S

Bo McGowan

bo_AT_logcraft.co.uk

Gwynedd, North Wales - 11/22/09 www.logcraft.co.uk  I have a co. sustainablechoice ltd situated in a small off grid woodland yard. its on the rocks at the moment but it could diversify

Bo Moffett

Email unlisted

New Braunfels, TX  - 01/04/10

Ken Norman

eGeoWind, LLC

Info_AT_egeowind.com

Lubbock, TX. USA – 01/07/10 I am interested in finding out how to setup my own shop to build TT's. I am looking for information on what tools and equipment I would need to do this. Initial production would be for 5-10 devices for testing and marketing purposes.

Mark Early

mark_AT_batesearly.net

Seattle, WA - 01/08/10 I have an interest in renewable energy and am currently working on a small solar energy project.  My wife and I live in Seattle Washington most of the year, but have a small house in the Tucson foothills where my little energy project is based.  Worked in the metal forming, digital electronics and software industry for the past 30+ years.  Have a cousin who lives in Phoenix who might be interested in PTBC as well.

Years ago my father's aerospace metal forming company built some solar reflector test panels for Boeing Solar Research Co (no longer in operation?) and we produced aluminum and steel skinned 4-meter diameter parabolic dishes used by the microwave industry, with a few used experimentally by some solar energy companies in the 1980's.  These parabolic concentrators used his proprietary metal forming processes (a derivative of his patented "Axial Load Bulge Forming" process), had very inexpensive tooling to produce gore sections of the dish, which came off the hydraulic press at a rate of 90 seconds "floor to floor time".   I still have a few sample steel gore sections for a 12' diameter dish, however most of my solar thermal interests these days is in the area of low cost parabolic trough concentrators and simple solar hot air flat plate panels.

PTBC sounds like a great organization.

Wayne Hunter

healthyhomellc_AT_comcast.net

Acworth, Georgia USA - 01/08/10 Would like to become a member of you club and hopefully be able to contribute something.  I am a 30 year commercial and residential contractor with many skills.  I do not live in Arizona but I think the principles of the solar steam turbine is the best way to go for the area in which I live, based on power output versus time availability throughout the year.  Thanks for the site, it is very interesting and hopefully helping a lot of people to GET OFF THE GRID.

Willy Steinle

candelux_AT_t-online.de

Frankfurt / Main, Germany - 01/08/10 www.candelux.de Interest for joining the Club. - To Build TESLA-Turbine!

Michael Reeves

mjreeves_AT_gcom.net.au

Elphinstone, Victoria, Australia - 01/10/10 I am interested in joining your club. I have built several solar collectors but am at the stage of wanting to connect them to do something a bit useful. As I write this from central Victoria Australia, the temperature outside has now dropped from 42 degrees Celsius to about 37 so there is no shortage of solar energy outside! I have attached a couple of photos of solar projects I have constructed over the past couple of years for your interest. I am quite interested in generating electricity from steam and the Tesla system is of interest. Probably a bigger issue here is of fire safety due to the fire danger, particularly if the mirror gets off-target.

Tony

scptony_AT_yahoo.com

Warren, OR - 01/11/10 I would like to join your club. I have a full CNC machine shop and I am wanting to do some research based on the Tesla design.  I am trying to get some idea on what would be the physical dimensions of a turbine that could produce around 10hp running off of propane or low grade fuels such as oil or diesel.  I am also interested in any pump info as I would like to build a pump that could run in the neighborhood of 400GPM of water. Has anyone tested this design as an air pump and if so could you point me in the direction of some conclusive data in regards to size, rpm, cfm, pressure?     Like I said I have a full CNC machine shop and if I can be of assistance to you or your members I would enjoy helping out in anyway I can. Any assistance as to my questions would be greatly appreciated.

David Humbert

hughs500_AT_comcast.net

York, Pennsylvania - 01/15/10

Jacques Gilbert

jacques.gilbert_AT_gmail.com

Reichlange, Luxembourg - 01/15/10

Sjur Haugen

sjhaugen_AT_online.no

Norway - 01/15/10

William Stevens

vbcos12003_AT_yahoo.com

Front royal, VA - 01/17/10

Andrea P Luxton

andrea.luxton_AT_gmail.com

Ritchie, Northern Cape, South Africa - 01/19/10

Merlo Susy

susy.merlo_AT_gruppozilio.com

Cassola, Italia/Vicenza - 01/21/10 www.ziliospa.com

Peter Offermans

honda-legend_AT_hotmail.com

Beek, the Netherlands - 01/25/10

Amanatidis Alkis

aamanatidis_AT_yahoo.com

Greece Salonika - 01/27/10 www.interboat.blogspot.com 

Bob Fernald

Sailer1_AT_optonline.net

Copiague, NY - 01/28/10

Tim Driver

Driver1820_AT_comcast.net

Kokomo, Indiana - 01/29/10

Martin Butina

martin.butina_AT_terraron.com

Ljubljana, Slovenia - 01/31/10 www.terraron.com   I would really like to join the club! I'm dealing with renewable energy, I have also patented a stationary elongated parabolic collector. Now I'm looking for some usable efficient energy converter. I hope tesla ORC is it.