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

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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wind solar etc | 29 comments (29 topical, 0 editorial)

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