Maybe it can be safely burned?

Energy storage costs money. A surplus for the noon hours every day doesn’t help anything.

Well anyone can 3D print something, but it’s the modeling of a printable object that is your skill. However modeling and designing are two different things.

If I had your equipment and skills right now I would start printing bathtub jet plugs. Convert a jetted tub into a non-jetted. Probably only a few different brands and designs to cover.

Aside from that, I’d get into mold making. You can 3d print a mold, or even a mold of a mold. Or a mold of a mold of a mold. Then you can cast objects in metal or ceramic, or silicone or even plastic (haha) or other materials that can be a liquid. Way more interesting than plastic shapes. Plus molds can be used many times.

As far as the business goes? No idea. Start by making useful objects that people want to buy. But that’s kind of a different skill of “inventor”.

I was just thinking about this. Love these videos. Cooling of a solar panel is a good application, as long as it gets cold enough for long enough to re-solidify at night.

An alcohol/NaCl solution with a stabilizer can make an ice pack that freezes colder than water. That could be used to keep ice cream frozen in an ice chest.

It would be cool to have recipes for a few different temperatures. There’s a German company Qool Products that sells PCM temperature elements (ice packs), at a variety of temperatures, to store ice cream up to red wine/cellar temp in their ice chest. With some trial and error I guess we could now make our own!

Thanks it looks like the Edgerouter X would meet my needs. I’m not sure I would need a switch though since it has 4 ports.

I’d really like if there was a high end router and switch without WiFi. I already have all my wireless handled by 3 access points. Is there a high end router/switch with 4 ports?

Here are my tick tips.

• Do not wear denim or yoga pants. Wear some kind of water repellent type of polyester hiking pant from REI. Ticks can’t jump they have to grab on. They can’t grab onto slick pants that don’t have holes.
• Use trekking poles to whack any grass before you brush your leg against it. They get really excited when something touches their blade of grass and they let go and fall to the ground. You don’t have to whack it hard. Whack it gently.
• Keep your eyes open. They aren’t too hard to spot on a blade of grass. They don’t jump. Take a close look.
• Ticks can be higher up than grass. When you see ticks don’t walk through manzanita or other shrubs, getting stuff in your hair.
• Should go without saying but stay on the trail.

Bark beetle galleries. Interesting info: some woodpeckers have long tongues rolled in their beaks. They peck on the bark to detect where the galleries are, then they drill in. Once they break into the galleries, they explore all the passages with their tongues until they can scoop out the juicy beetle larvae. Yum!