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anyone know if a 42" bodyboard will fit in a suit cover?
you know those hangers that you put your wedding / dinner suit in?
i snuck the booger in to my work locker as the car was too hot, but i imagine ill start to get a few weird looks after doing it a few times.
thought of stealthily carrying it in, in a suit carrier.
I regularly smuggle my wetsuit in to dry, but not sure how ill get my longboard or shortboard in. may have to lock them up with the bikes in the underground carpark.
might have to befriend someone in the labs down stairs for a place to store stuff.

I have been working on an invention since 95 for a kinda solar powered car airconditioner, but i keep working for companies that make me sign intelectual property clauses that mean they get any idea i come up with, so it keeps getting put on the back burner.

If you could buy a device that cooled your car while it was parked, using solar power, and it let you leave your boards in the car on a hot day would you buy one?

I leave my board in the car? Never been warped. Cant get bubbles. Dont really see the problem here..

marcus wrote:I have been working on an invention since 95 for a kinda solar powered car airconditioner, but i keep working for companies that make me sign intelectual property clauses that mean they get any idea i come up with, so it keeps getting put on the back burner.

If you could buy a device that cooled your car while it was parked, using solar power, and it let you leave your boards in the car on a hot day would you buy one?

Marcus, that's not just useful for surfboards. There has to be a market for it, provided the price is right.

yeah ill get back to working on it, its pretty simple electronics.
I just need to fix some condensation issues,but that should be easy.
the hard part is working out whether to patent or not, and convincing the wife i need to buy weird electrical parts on my credit card.

KMD wrote:I leave my board in the car? Never been warped. Cant get bubbles. Dont really see the problem here..

Gday KMD
your not the first person that has said that to me, but i find it really hard to understand how you have been so lucky while i know others including myself have had both surfboards and bodyboards warp, change shape, bubble or have wax melt off inside a hot car.

someone on here once said they have never had a leash snap, something else i just cant fathom. but hey, hope you keep having good luck.

hot days for me have meant a habitual check that i havent left some sort of board in the car.

TrevG wrote:

marcus wrote:I have been working on an invention since 95 for a kinda solar powered car airconditioner, but i keep working for companies that make me sign intelectual property clauses that mean they get any idea i come up with, so it keeps getting put on the back burner.

If you could buy a device that cooled your car while it was parked, using solar power, and it let you leave your boards in the car on a hot day would you buy one?

Marcus, that's not just useful for surfboards. There has to be a market for it, provided the price is right.

Yeah parents who lock their kids in the car whilst off gambling at the casino will be lining up around the corner for this one!

--++sunstroke++-- wrote:

TrevG wrote:

marcus wrote:I have been working on an invention since 95 for a kinda solar powered car airconditioner, but i keep working for companies that make me sign intelectual property clauses that mean they get any idea i come up with, so it keeps getting put on the back burner.

If you could buy a device that cooled your car while it was parked, using solar power, and it let you leave your boards in the car on a hot day would you buy one?

Marcus, that's not just useful for surfboards. There has to be a market for it, provided the price is right.

Yeah parents who lock their kids in the car whilst off gambling at the casino will be lining up around the corner for this one!

marcus wrote:

KMD wrote:I leave my board in the car? Never been warped. Cant get bubbles. Dont really see the problem here..

Gday KMD
your not the first person that has said that to me, but i find it really hard to understand how you have been so lucky while i know others including myself have had both surfboards and bodyboards warp, change shape, bubble or have wax melt off inside a hot car.

someone on here once said they have never had a leash snap, something else i just cant fathom. but hey, hope you keep having good luck.

hot days for me have meant a habitual check that i havent left some sort of board in the car.

Both my boogers have PE deck so no bubbles either way. Warping, well maybe the stringer helps with this? Honestly i dont know, maybe its the lower end boards that are prone to warping? Both of mine i got on the cheap ($150 each) but are top of the range boards so this might be it?

As for my surfboard, well the melting wax is an obvious issue, but i find once you hit the water it hardens up. I keep a stick of wax and comb in the car. I cant stand driving around not having at least a board in my car, if i happen to head past the beach or go somewhere and cant surf id be kicking myself.

I have my board in boot as a permanent fixture. The only time it comes out is when i surf and when i get a new board to replace it. Never warped or bubbled. Melted the wax slightly a couple of times, though. PE deck all the way.

marcus wrote:yeah ill get back to working on it, its pretty simple electronics.
I just need to fix some condensation issues,but that should be easy.
the hard part is working out whether to patent or not, and convincing the wife i need to buy weird electrical parts on my credit card.

Don't waste your time, there is no way you can get enough energy out of a car sized solar cell to cool a car in the sun.
Ya cannay change the laws of physics.

interesting......what if u had a duel battery system.....that recharged by solar .... too cool your car?

like your cars sitting in the hot sun...suxing that engery in....converting it....too cool your car for free

how good that be....fuc k...brillant idea...i want free shares...non surfers love it tooo

now imagine....if the left over power other it air con u car so it's not a melt box on opening ran your car ....all the way home....after sitting in the car park for 8 hrs...baking..like you got home for FREE...no paying for petrol

fuc.k yeah
other than that....i just take my board out and leave it in the maintence office....there good for it

fuc.ken mal riders gotbe good for something

plus if i work late...i know where they hide the key

I think you're onto something there Fong, if only there was some form of market mechanism to encourage investments in ideas like that...

fong im already on it
tested it out on an esky, now have work out if it will work for the volume of a hot car

intersting.....while i'm dreaming the future...instead sloar panels


how about a paint that did that

like instead of putting panels on your roof your house....you just painted it and the paint did the same thing

i'm stupid i know....but maybe someone read this and....maybe...one day

mustkillmulloway wrote:intersting.....while i'm dreaming the future...instead sloar panels


how about a paint that did that

like instead of putting panels on your roof your house....you just painted it and the paint did the same thing

i'm stupid i know....but maybe someone read this and....maybe...one day

Definitely not stupid Fong.
Just......................too late

Solar Paint

Solar Paint is an environmentally friendly solar cell technology that will allow every household in Australia to generate their own electricity, affordably and sustainably.

The invention involves the development of a completely printable organic solar cell based on semiconducting polymer nanoparticles dispersed in water. Essentially these tiny particles in suspension are a water-based paint, which can be printed or coated over large areas. In the first instance these coatings will be put onto plastic sheets that can be placed on the roof of a house. However, in the longer term it will be possible to directly paint a roof or building surface.
About the Inventor

Professor Paul Dastoor is a Professor of Physics at the University of Newcastle in Australia. He received his B.A. degree in Natural Sciences and his PhD in Surface Physics, also from the University of Cambridge. After completing his doctorate he joined the Surface Chemistry Department at British Steel before taking up his present appointment at the University of Newcastle. He was an EPSRC Visiting Research Fellow at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, UK in 2002 and a CCLRC Visiting Research Fellow at the Daresbury Laboratory, Cheshire, UK in 2004 – 05. He has published over 60 papers in refereed journals and has extensive commercialisation experience with 3 patents. He is the Founding Director of the Centre for Organic Electronics at the University of Newcastle that is focussed on the development of electronic devices based on semi-conducting polymers. These exciting materials offer the tantalising prospect of paints that generate electricity directly from sunlight.
Contact

For more information about Solar Paint, contact the following:
Email: Paul. [email protected]

I am aware of these things;
http://www.thefind.com/garden/info-sola ... -auto-vent

WANDERER wrote:I am aware of these things;
http://www.thefind.com/garden/info-sola ... -auto-vent

similar idea wanderer, but its a thermoelectric device, saying anymore would give it away ( like i do with all my ideas anyway).
(insert rolling eyes icon)