Technology that could improve swamp coolers, also known as evaporative
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I read about how, when making activated carbon, the carbon is soaked in a solution of calcium chloride then dried to crystallize the calcium chloride; the proliferation of the microcrystals at the carbon causes a big increase in the surface area of the
carbon after the calcium chloride is rinsed out. Noting that swamp coolers have evaporative pads that evaporate water, it seems possible that the microsurface area as well as the total surface area of a cellulose material could be increased with the
same ionic-crystal microtexturing treatment that produces more surface area at activated carbon. The benefit is that the new hyper surface area evaporative cellulose pad could wick away even more moisture at a smaller actual pad size. Smaller pad size
could make the entire swamp cooler smaller, possibly making them slightly cheaper to produce.
Another possible technology at swamp cooler moisture pads is to microtexture/custom surface the cellulose pads with a laser to produce a very hydrophilic positive contact angle surface; a positive angle contact surface is kind of the opposite of a:
negative contact angle surface, NCAS is a kind of a thing with superhydrophobic projections all over the surface. I saw an image of a hydrophilic positive angle contact
surface (PACS), it looked kind of like: \___/ \___/.
At a swamp cooler, whether the smaller improved moisture wicking pad is improved with crystal-caused activated carbon like treatment, or a laser texturing of the cellulose material to make PACS, the greater moisture wicking ability could support a new
type of airflow: coanda air flow, and a variety of air sheet entrainment could cause much larger amounts of air to flow past the moist pad.
Air quotes: a modification to Twitter software, or other communication software, that causes more people to voluntarily enjoy tweeting, and to tweet more:
A popular tweeting person could be imagined as tweeting or retweeting quite a few tweets per day; thay have a bunch of followers; it is possible that the rapid feedback of seeing other people retweet their content and/or comment on recent tweets right
away causes psychological reward, a feeling of fun, and behavioral psychology word: shaping that causes them to tweet more items even more frequently. That could be a popular twitter user. My perception is that (2019 AD) there are also some twitter
users who get few views, retweets, or any kind of reinforcement-loop creating feedback.
If there was a feature at twitter that could increase the actual number of persons that are popular tweeters then beneficially quantitatively more high-participation people would tweet more things, more frequently. Such a feature could be: Air quotes.
Air quotes at twitter would be little thing like an emoji “” immediately followed with the contents of a tweet that the popular tweeter did not write, but that another person wrote. A person who is not yet popular could ask a popular tweeter, “
hey could you airquote this”, and then the popular tweeter puts the tweet they did not write into the air quote form/format. Then all the many followers of the popular tweeter can react to the airquoted content from the new, yet-to-be-popular writer.
It is an easy software structure that allows people to easily share and ride on each other’s coattails when they like each other. If it works the popularity of the fresh material writer goes up causing a quantitative increase in the number of twitter
users that have lively psychological-reward feedback cycles, aka people having fun while communicating.
My perception is that during 2018 AD Twitter had a very simple user interface. There is a simple user interface way to queue up airquotes material: A popular tweeter could just have a page next to their ID page, their airquotes page, that has say 8
textboxes on it, and anyone visiting their airquotes page could write anything they liked in one or more of the 8 textboxes. The view that the popular tweeter has of the multi-textbox page has a little “send” icon next to each one. All the popular
tweeter has to do is to click “send” if they like what the airquote content says. Airquote suggestion textboxes are editable anytime by anyone, so itis really casual.
Note: although airquotes is a twitter technology I emphasize that there are many other intellectually and socially growthful sites and applications and software available online and even offline on phones and consoles. I think that research that compares
something like the top 100 most popular communications and group participation sites and applications as to their effect on intellectual capacity maintenance and growth, cumulative drift or variations produced at a measure like the big five personality
test, as well as the 100 most popular sites/applications effect on subjective well being (happiness) would have value.
cytoNucleus drugs. I read that nuclear transport proteins, peptides, and possibly even little organic molecules like melatonin may cause things to be preferentially moved across the nuclear membrane into the nucleus. Generally recognized as safe GRAS
food additives are numerous, and there is a list; The list of all FDA, EU, Chinese approved drugs is another list. Take both of these lists then make a variation on each of the GRAS chemicals as well as all the pharmacopia drugs with a nuclear
transport peptide, protein, or perhaps just melatonin molecule attached to it. That creates several thousand new testable drugs, of unknown effect, that can be screened as a library to find any, active at the nucleus, that do beneficial things. I
perceive many things are published as having epigenetic effect, at least one thing in the nucleus though could affect “epigenetic silencing” so it is possible screening the GRAS/drug nuclear transport peptide/protein/little organic molecule drug
library could find new drugs with epigenetic effects.
Another possible nuclear membrane passing drug that could reach the nucleus is a blob of lipids, like some lipid bilayer fragment, with just one chemical or drug attached to it. Theoretically the external cytomembrane as well as the actual nuclear
membrane will take up the extra lipid bilayer fragment that has the drug attached to it, it might even be that the incorporated lipid bilayer fragment has an even chance of pointing the drug molecule into the cytoplasm or outwards towards the between-
cyte space. (As to the drug attached to lipid bilayer becoming a part of the cytomembrane or nuclear membrane: hey it could work; radioactive labelled lipids swap out, i perceive, more than 1/3 of a cytomembrane’s composition in less than 1/2 an hour).
I have heard of a lipid raft; a more sophisticated or possibly more effective thing than a bilayer blob with a drug attached to it could be a lipid raft with a drug attached to it that gets spontaneously incorporated into the cytomembrane.
I could think better if I knew more math.
If it does it might be easier to produce at new human genes, gene therapy or GI tract bacteria
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