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Post by Polarengineer on Nov 24, 2022 20:41:04 GMT 1
I had a brainwave tonight after several glugs of bubbly celebrating my daughter's birthday. We were discussing the annual insurgence of ladybirds and beasties that seem to get in through any tiny opening by the windows and especially the numberous flies that have established their graveyard in the attic rooms. I thought, What if we could harnass the energy of all these beasties with some sort of machine, say, a FLYWHEEL?
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Post by Aardvark on Nov 24, 2022 22:31:56 GMT 1
You're gonna have a stonking headache tomorrow morning.
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Post by Polarengineer on Nov 25, 2022 7:54:34 GMT 1
Nah. All good. Been working all night on the flywheel.
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Post by houpla on Nov 25, 2022 7:57:16 GMT 1
While you're at it, PE, could you invent a viable, powerful, solar-powered agricultural pump for mucky water? Please?
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Post by Polarengineer on Nov 25, 2022 8:03:16 GMT 1
They should exist already houpla, the pump type is with an open impeller. Depending on how much water, how far and to what elevation you need to pump it, will determine the size of the solar installation and its batteries. Not cheap.
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Post by Nifty on Nov 25, 2022 8:35:02 GMT 1
It has bee patented
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2022 8:54:23 GMT 1
You would probably need to register as a farmers you would be technically keeping animals 😃
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Post by houpla on Nov 25, 2022 9:45:37 GMT 1
They should exist already houpla, the pump type is with an open impeller. Depending on how much water, how far and to what elevation you need to pump it, will determine the size of the solar installation and its batteries. Not cheap. I know Seeing as it would need to shift water 24/24 around 8000m2 and up a damn' great slope, I'd need an array the size of Belgium
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Post by Nifty on Nov 25, 2022 10:04:11 GMT 1
Plenty of room in the Atacama. It’s a lovely place. The problem is finding it and then getting it up there.
Fly like a beagle…….
btw. I have never seen a beagle wearing trousers.
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Post by Nifty on Nov 25, 2022 10:28:30 GMT 1
I had a brainwave tonight ….. I thought, What if we could harnass the energy of all these beasties with some sort of machine, say, a FLYWHEEL? something like what an engineer told me before he died? Be warned, one has to be sure that the steel is up to it. One could always use brass of coarse. In which case one might fair better in Derbyshire rather than Sheffield.
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Post by robertarthur on Nov 25, 2022 11:03:42 GMT 1
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Post by pcpa on Nov 25, 2022 11:46:14 GMT 1
I had a quick schuufti and the crane part is at 24 minutes, it looks like it will be a fascinating video Robert, I am going to watch it all tonight, a benefit of not having a TV!
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Post by robertarthur on Nov 26, 2022 13:10:04 GMT 1
@ PCPA, the guy who started thinking and doing about this fascinating project - happy childhood here, the ongoing maintenance of that castle must have triggered something - also engaged in almost scientific historical studies. Not easy to recover forgotten medieval construction techniques. One of the case studies, lime mortar.
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Post by robertarthur on Nov 28, 2022 20:51:46 GMT 1
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Post by Le-Dolly on Nov 29, 2022 10:22:03 GMT 1
As a six year old I was taken, on a school trip, to see the Bayeux Tapestry when it was on 'tour', a very rare occurrence. It was on show at Reading Museum alongside a reproduction produced in 1885 by Leek School of Art Embroidery with a connection to William Morris. The reproduction was slightly different to the original in that some of the characters were "dressed" so as not to offend Victorian sensibilities. The copy still hangs, as far as I am aware in Reading Museum.
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