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wind solar etc | 29 comments (29 topical, editorial)

Re: wind solar etc (3.00 / 0) (#15)
by kurt on Sat Apr 19th, 2008 at 08:47:03 AM MST
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i have you beat my computer runs off a potato and i have a picture...

http://www.reresource.org/

IRC
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Re: wind solar etc (3.00 / 0) (#16)
by DamonHD (d@hd.org) on Sat Apr 19th, 2008 at 10:21:56 AM MST
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And it cooks itself with the heat from the screen! Two for the price of one! B^>

Rgds

Damon

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Re: wind solar etc (3.00 / 0) (#17)
by ghurd on Sat Apr 19th, 2008 at 12:50:25 PM MST
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I plant potatos under my monitor. It grows 2 for every one used.

I am saving the extra potatos to go off-grid.
Then buy an LCD monitor with the savings, doubling the production per potato used.

Watt potato, 2 potato, 3 potato, overunity...
G-

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Re: wind solar etc (3.00 / 0) (#18)
by DamonHD (d@hd.org) on Sat Apr 19th, 2008 at 01:18:01 PM MST
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Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

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Re: wind solar etc (3.00 / 0) (#20)
by ghurd on Sat Apr 19th, 2008 at 02:35:14 PM MST
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Too late. Big oil offered me a bookoo-bazzillion dollars for the idea.
And I took it, like everyone before me.
US$, GBP, Marks, Euros... No matter... Next week, starting on Tuesday at noon, they will all be know as "ghurds".

They gave me a post-dated check.
The guys who wrote the check (John Smith and William Jones) explained why this kind of transition can not happen on a Monday.
G-

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Re: wind solar etc (3.00 / 0) (#21)
by valterra on Sat Apr 19th, 2008 at 08:25:27 PM MST
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You know,

Just a few postings of that picture in the right places, or actually showing someone how the potato is plugged into your PC, and suddenly there will be people in this world who swear they "know a guy" or "heard about a guy" who ran a computer with a potato. Nobody will remember you specifically, and the source of the (mis)information will be lost over time. Too funny. That's how that kind of thing gets started.

Kinda like the "hydrocarbon powered ECO-Vehicle" bumper stickers I bought from Glenn Beck. You should see the stories about people getting interested in hyrdocarbons to save the earth.

I love that potato picture. We should start a thread of people showing all the stuff they run off of potatoes.

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Re: wind solar etc (3.00 / 0) (#24)
by richhagen (richhagen (a t) Juno.com) on Mon Apr 21st, 2008 at 10:22:05 AM MST
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Did any of you guys make the lemon battery in science class. Why not a potato battery, it could open up a whole new avenue for Idaho farmers, solving the energy crisis. I believe a tomato battery was in the works until it was suppressed by some conspiracy or other too. No, wait, it IS the next big thing, that's the ticket, better get on board by sending me a hundred dollars now I have the secret formula for it developed by a person with a real PHD and scientifically proven to put out more power than the sunlight used to grow it. It's posted on the internet, so it must be true. Get on board now. Rich

P.S. Note to the stupid, this is sarcasm, please don't actually look me up and send me a hundred dollars - there actually is no tomato battery in the works here.
'A Joule saved is a Joule made'
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Re: wind solar etc (3.00 / 0) (#25)
by valterra on Mon Apr 21st, 2008 at 01:01:59 PM MST
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oh - darn it Rich! I didn't read your entire posting until AFTER I sent the $100. So go ahead and just "Return to Sender," okay? Or better yet, can you just send me $100 back now? You should get the one I sent in a day or so. That'll speed up the process.

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Re: wind solar etc (3.00 / 0) (#27)
by richhagen (richhagen (a t) Juno.com) on Mon Apr 21st, 2008 at 09:34:32 PM MST
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The check is in the mail. . . . . Rich
'A Joule saved is a Joule made'
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Re: wind solar etc (3.00 / 0) (#29)
by elvin1949 (elvin1949@yahoo.com) on Tue Apr 22nd, 2008 at 02:06:12 PM MST
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You 2 sound like my Daddy and my Uncle.
They sold the same 29 Ford back and forth to
each other raising the price by 5 dollars each time. One day someone else offered Daddy $15 more so he sold it.
Uncle got mad,we was both getting rich till you sold the car to someone else.
HAHAHA
later
Elvin

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Re: wind solar etc (3.00 / 0) (#22)
by spinningmagnets (velmis1450bc(at)aol(dot)com) on Sat Apr 19th, 2008 at 10:18:54 PM MST
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Is this similar to making a battery with a lemon, a nail, and a penny? This picture is worth a kilo-word.

Whats the C20 rating on an average potato? After its is so drained it begins sagging when the hard drive tries to spin up, you can brew it into ethanol to power your back-up 1.1 Watt micro-generator:

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2004/11/22/daily41.html

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Re: wind solar etc (3.00 / 0) (#23)
by valterra on Sun Apr 20th, 2008 at 06:22:04 AM MST
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Similar, except that Kurt's been able to develop a way to simply plug directly into the potato - no nail or penny necessary.

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