First 10 Minutes of the Day

I woke up this morning with a different, interesting thread running through my head. I woke up thinking about window washers and how they dangle a thousand feet in the air just to clean the windows of a skyscraper. Sears Tower (never Willis) has 16,100 bronze tinted windows. Each year, the windows are cleaned by people repelling the outside of the building either on dangling ropes or electric scaffolding. 

Here is how that train of thought derailed... why can’t drones clean the windows. It seems to me, a fleet of drones could make short work of the job if programmed properly. But how do the drones handle the weight of the wash material? Water is not lightweight and introducing chemicals seems to be counter productive to my environmental focus. 

But if you replaced the glass with self cleaning glass, that would make it so you never need drones to clean the glass. By using self cleaning glass, there isn’t water waste, it doesn’t do harm to the environment and it reduces harmful radiation a bit. https://www.azonano.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=5510

Wait, if you decided to combine the self cleaning glass function with transparent solar panels, then you not only are reducing the amount of cleaning, you are producing energy. This would make it so the glass covering the entire building not becomes power production. These skyscrapers all over the city could be creating a substantial amount of electricity thereby reducing dependencies on coal or oil. https://ubiquitous.energy/

Wait, buildings also have to have blinds and shade tints applied to the windows to stop occupants from being blinded by the morning sun. What if we added a layer of smartglass to the self-cleaning, transparent solar cell? Then the occupant can with a click of a mouse, limit the amount of light coming into the office or room without requiring manual cleaning of those ugly blinds. https://www.switchglass.com.au/

So there you have it, my 10 minutes of morning brain. Now, to go an figure out how to eliminate nuclear waste... oh, right. https://www.terrapower.com/

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