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 Post subject: Alistair Hillier Manser
PostPosted: Wed Nov 23, 2011 5:43 pm 
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Just found this gem on a story about LED light bulbs, I may have discovered the new Kadir-Buxton -

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Wait for the "plasma paint" I have invented. It is a bottom coat of conducting metallic paint and a patented pebble dash mixture of LED material as the middle coat. In fact you could say it is thousands of tiny LEDs.Then a translucent white paint (or other colour) to make it look nicer as the LED self colour is a greyish brown. It works at a safe 12 volts DC and two square metres of paint gives three times the light that a 100 watt bulb gives. It is dimmable down to zero light. So your ceiling could be painted all over and give you all the light you need. It uses about a tenth of the power that an incandescent bulb would use to light the same areas. Early signs are that an installation would cost about £200 per average ceiling which would recover the cost in electricity in about two years. This will be introduced in 2012 unless I am killed by an electric bulb company to stop my invention progressing.
- Alistair Hillier Manser, Sandbanks UK, 23/11/2011 16:14


Could be Poe but he has a bit of history on science stories. While RedRoseAndy may have invented Economy 7 I bet he never shook the scientific community to it's core but disproving the Big Bang theory -

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Lord Rees. When a bomb explodes it is caused by something which was there before. Yes? So, what was there before the Big Bang. You cannot have an explosion without matter and you need a reaction which sets of the matter. Unless the Big Bang was a previous universed sized black hole (perhaps from another universe) which reached Big Bang proportions and went off. In any case, something caused the Big Bang. What or who do you think it was?

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Isn't the whole point of the big bang being the starting point in our understanding a bit of an indication that we don't know what was there before?

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 11:46 pm 
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Wait for the "plasma paint" I have invented. It is a bottom coat of conducting metallic paint and a patented pebble dash mixture of LED material as the middle coat. In fact you could say it is thousands of tiny LEDs.Then a translucent white paint (or other colour) to make it look nicer as the LED self colour is a greyish brown. It works at a safe 12 volts DC and two square metres of paint gives three times the light that a 100 watt bulb gives. It is dimmable down to zero light. So your ceiling could be painted all over and give you all the light you need. It uses about a tenth of the power that an incandescent bulb would use to light the same areas. Early signs are that an installation would cost about £200 per average ceiling which would recover the cost in electricity in about two years. This will be introduced in 2012 unless I am killed by an electric bulb company to stop my invention progressing.
- Alistair Hillier Manser, Sandbanks UK, 23/11/2011 16:14


Calling bull on this one since "LED material" would be 2 layers of stuff, there are physical limits on the size of an LED
(OK he's vague about the "Pebble dash" so he could be describing an array of small diodes like a television).
You would need another conductor on the other side (Front) for the current to flow.

£200/room seems a bit steep, and his cost savings projection is relative to incandescents.
As an alternative, plug in 2 or 3 energy saving lightbulbs (A tenner).


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 Post subject: Re: Alistair Hillier Manser
PostPosted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 11:52 pm 
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That's a 0.9 x Kadir Buxton. In fact it may be the sainted Andy himself.


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 Post subject: Re: Alistair Hillier Manser
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This programme makes me think it is the mentally ill watching the mentally ill. It was banned in our house after one accidental viewing some years ago when we thought it was a cooking programme.
- Alistair Hillier Manser, Sandbanks UK, 16/3/2012 15:15


'Banned'? I think not.


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Why are athletes wearing clothes? Oh! Yes! Because the human body is dirty and disgusting. Makes you laugh really.

- Alistair Hillier Manser, Sandbanks UK, 27/7/2012 8:12 Rating 8

I went out on my bicycle this morning, happy to be clothed.


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