So who the heck are you?It may not seem so to the regular readers of "THERMIONjournal", but I consider myself to be "Joe Average". I'm Ken - a 34 year old father of two, an angst less designer, trying (sometimesdesperately) to balance and cement - personal relationships, professionalresponsibilities, family ties, household maintenance, financial obligations, dog obedienceand personal hygiene into a cohesive mass. I live in Vancouver, Washington - a suburb of Portland, Oregon, work in Beaverton, OR at Nike's world headquarters as a Facilities Designer. My prevoius employer was the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry where I served for five years as an Exhibit Designer. I started there as a college intern. I attended school at Central Washington University - Hardly Ivy League. I earned a graphic design degree after dropping out of the Flight Technology program and AFROTC. I grew up in the desert if Eastern Washington, near the Hanford Nuclear Reservation where my father and my brother are employed. Prior to that I have lived near the finest Nuclear power plants and Naval Bases in the country. |
So what the heck is a thermion?Literallly— a thermion is a device that converts heat directly into electricity. A heat source (usually nuclear fuel) is used to heat a cathode on one end of an vacume chamber, causing electrons to flow off and collect on an anode on the other end of the chamber voila! electricity. Not-so-literallly— |