Verrrry interesting! Given the installation costs of these units, we know it’s not economics that’s driving former President Bush to install a windmill at his retreat in Kennebunkport, Maine (a.k.a. Kennebushport). So it must 1) he’s trying to be more green, or 2) he’s taking measures to secure an energy source at Walker’s Point, his TEOTWAWKI retreat. I think it’s the latter. What does Sr. Bush, who had access to ALL Top Secret information the U.S. holds and father of our existing President know that we don’t? Hard to say, but maybe we should take his latest action at Walker’s Point as a case in point (pun intended) that we should make similar preparations.
It’s my belief that when SHTF we’ll move back toward a more agrarian society where food and water are the most valuable commodities. It wasn’t all that long ago when it was extremely common to see small windmills on farmland across the nation. History repeates itself.
FMI on the windmill at Walker’s Point: http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/story.php?id=149555&ac=PHnws
FMI on small wind turbines: http://www.wind-works.org/articles/small_turbines.html
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1 mountain scout // Nov 25, 2007 at 9:28 pm
NICE BLOG
2 CJ David // Dec 4, 2007 at 5:07 pm
Overheard: “Dad, climate change will bring tornadoes to Maine, and since I’m not doing anything about it, you should better install a tornado detector”.
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3 Ponce // Jan 7, 2008 at 9:30 pm
No winds here in the woods of Oregon so what I have is 5 generators and a 110 solar pannel with two deep cycle batteries……. getting two more this week.
My favorite generator is my 2 cycle 1000 W generator that uses one gallon of gas for 4.5 hours.
Had to use it for three straight days this week.
4 Ponce // Jan 12, 2008 at 9:50 pm
I can only hope that this is true………
Teenager from Uzbekistan invents air-powered perpetual car engine
Front page / Science / Technologies and discoveries
11.01.2008 Source: Pravda.Ru
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A student of the academic school in the city of Samarkand (Uzbekistan), Maruf Karimov, invented a “perpetual” car engine power by a very unusual kind of fuel. The student managed to start a conventional internal combustion engine with the help of air pressure.
Teenager from Uzbekistan invents air-powered perpetual car engine
The fuel – air that is – flows into the engine from a special tank filled with air under high pressure. It is worthy of note that the tank refills itself automatically non-stop. The engine designed by 15-year-old boy can thus be described as perpetual.
Karimov installed his invention on his friends’ old car and drove several hundreds of meters. The speed was very low, but the young engineer is certain that the output of the engine is only a matter of time and effort.
The drawings and calculations of the Uzbek student have already been sent to specialists from Germany. It is not ruled out that Maruf Karimov will continue his research work in Germany, Fergana.ru reports.
Scientists and engineers accept the possibility that the current understanding of the laws of physics may be incomplete or incorrect; a perpetual motion device may not be impossible, but overwhelming evidence would be required to justify rewriting the laws of physics.
The recorded history of perpetual motion machines date back to the 12th century. Proponents of perpetual motion machines use a number of other terms to describe their inventions, including “free energy” and “over unity” machines. The earliest references to perpetual motion machines date back to 1150, by an Indian mathematician-astronomer, Bhaskara II. He described a wheel that he claimed would run forever. Villard de Honnecourt in 1235 described, in a thirty-three page manuscript, a perpetual motion machine of the second kind. Robert Boyle’s self-flowing flask appears to fill itself through siphon action. This is not possible in reality; a siphon requires its “output” to be lower than the “input”.
In 1775 Royal Academy of Sciences in Paris issued the statement that Academy “will no longer accept or deal with proposals concerning perpetual motion”. Johann Bessler (also known as Orffyreus) created a series of claimed perpetual motion machines in the 18th Century. In the 19th century, the invention of perpetual motion machines became an obsession for many scientists.
Many machines were designed based on electricity, but none of them lived up to their promises. Another early prospector in this field was John Gamgee. Gamgee developed the Zeromotor, a perpetual motion machine of the second kind.
Devising these machines is a favourite pastime of many eccentrics, who often come up with elaborate machines in the style of Rube Goldberg or Heath Robinson. These designs may appear to work on paper at first glance. Usually, though, various flaws or obfuscated external power sources have been incorporated into the machine. Such activity has made them useless in the practice of “invention”.
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