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clockmanFRA

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Can i turn my wind turbine into a washing machine?
« on: March 20, 2020, 04:59:38 AM »
Couldn't resist this.

Vibration and balance is going to be a problem.

Getting up 40 feet will need a special ladder, (might need a new partner, if any will have me?)

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We here are not very well and need some light relief, as my youngest and me have the virus 19.  And France is in lockdown,

Had it about a week, boy got it at school about 12 days ago, schools closed here in France 7 days ago.

Boy had very bad flu symptoms 6 days ago for about 36 hours.

Me, suffered Flu for 3 days, coughing wheezing spitting up gunk, heavy aching chest, streaming nose, cant clench a fist and weak as a kitten, etc etc.
NOT NICE.
We both are normally relatively healthy but the virus keeps coming back. Yesterday I felt well and looks like a recovery.  Today I feel like sh.t coughing and streaming nose again. 

Mrs and other 2 boys in UK but can no longer get back to France.

If I travel into our local town I have to fill out a Form to give at the police/military road blocks, explaining I am shopping for food.      Problem is there is very little food as the City folk have arrived in the Country and demand is high just in town.

We have about 2 weeks supplies of essentials, after that goodness knows!

Our local Doctor surgery is overwhelmed just answering the Phone, and virus here is confirmed with deaths locally, they wont test until a hospital admission status.

The mirreibelle Plums are in full white flower bloom, which is always cheery this time of year.

Everything is possible, just give me time.

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Re: Can i turn my wind turbine into a washing machine?
« Reply #1 on: March 20, 2020, 05:33:00 AM »
I'm sorry to hear that you are suffering, and that other people's thoughtlessness is making your position worse.

Lots of 'adults' don't seem to deserve the title and rights, given their behaviour...

I had what may have been a very minor mild bout of the virus, though it may have been something different with overlapping symptoms.

I got out the house this morning for the first time in many many days after my 'quarantine period' expired, and took an early walk to the corner shop to get a few essentials (eg crisps and instant coffee!) while my other half is fighting her way through the baying hordes at the supermarket right now.

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Re: Can i turn my wind turbine into a washing machine?
« Reply #2 on: March 20, 2020, 07:42:07 AM »
Set it up with a mechanical tilt like the did with the furling ring brakes on windmills...only it dumps when you pull the lever.  You could devise a catapult to either load the washing machine or redecorate the neighbor's yard depending on the wind.

I hope guys all do well.  I have acquaintances in Italy, Spain, and Turkey and I genuinely fear for them.  I haven't been able to reach any but one of them :/

This will blow over.  The world will walk out the other side of this.  But it will be different.

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Re: Can i turn my wind turbine into a washing machine?
« Reply #3 on: March 20, 2020, 07:43:40 AM »
I want to help something fierce, forgive the suggestion - sunshine, get plenty of it, bundle up and loiter & lounge in fresh air and direct sunshine... 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plum_blossom_tea 

(EDIT: there is something about dark chocolate that soothes the Vagus Nerve - longest and most complex of the cranial nerves w/ face and thorax to the abdomen, heart lungs bronchi motor nerve - So if you maybe want to try a bitter chocolate as lozenges ONCE for a few hours and see if that helps?)





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Re: Can i turn my wind turbine into a washing machine?
« Reply #4 on: March 20, 2020, 05:02:46 PM »
Sorry to hear you are ill, there is a head/upper respiratory virus going around with the same symptoms of Wuhan Flu... I have had it half the winter, about the time you think you get rid of it it comes back to slap you down again...

I have been getting some sun/fresh air in the yard starting garden cleanup. Ways to go before frost is out but a head start means less to do later on. Seems to help...

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« Reply #5 on: March 20, 2020, 11:58:01 PM »
The flu is hitting Canada now, too, but not many sick yet.  My workplace shut down, and so did my son's college, meaning everyone's back home to stay. 
Our deep freezer and pantry are well stocked so with some rationing we won't need much for a couple of weeks.  There's a good chance that we've gone into lock-down in time. (Perhaps too early?)

Still ski season on the tracks out my back door so I'm using it as much as I can for as long as I can.  Stay strong and healthy so that when the bug does get us, we're best prepared as possible.
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Re: Can i turn my wind turbine into a washing machine?
« Reply #6 on: April 08, 2020, 04:39:59 AM »
For DanG,

Wednesday 08/04/2020   ….  Here in France, me and the boy are still shuffling around, I am still working around our farm when I get some energy, all our access gates are closed.

Both of us still get bad days, 4 weeks later.

 At present we both have no appetites and seem to have lost our taste buds.

Boy's school keeps sending him work to do on line, and want it back on line, teachers sending hand outs without teaching the subject, so he is mighty miffed, especially as I have to wave the proverbial stick all the time to get his work done, and his mum is constantly on my back from her twice daily Skype chats/lectures with us.   AAGGHH.

France use some peculiar software that only works on FireFox and the like, and is poor and clunky and constantly falls over.

Only been out shopping/chemists visits 3 times in 3 weeks since France Lockdown.

As usual there has been Politian's meddling with what's good and bad methods and techniques.  (sse my story later)

I have to fill in a form to travel and state time of travel and date just to go shopping. Only food shops are open, petrol stations are open and Animal feed merchants are semi open, everything else is shut for the past 3 weeks.

My normal solitude work here is occasionally with some cleaning chemicals that over the past 40 years has made me very allergic, so I wear a full chemical suit, (made in Germany), that specifies 99.8% protection.






Our First week ………
Doctors surgery told us not to come in and self isolate, No they wont test unless we are admitted to hospital.

Felt better yesterday, the virus comes and goes even 20 days later, sick, vomiting, aches and painful muscles, bad coughing, sore throat, headaches, bad breathing difficulties etc etc, and we are normally healthy.

Needed food, or else the wife's ducks, dog and cats were starting to look tasty. So Went shopping yesterday, Tuesday 24th March, in my local French town.

I was dressed in a full chemical suit, that can be hosed/washed down dried and re-used, (I use it in my chemical room, as over 40 years I have become sensitive to my working chemicals).  Not easy driving my car with that lot on.  But hay I can keep my own germs inside.

The chemical filters have a life of 100 hours and can be removed and Isopropyl alcohol cleaned.
If I get splash of virus on my suit, ie someone sneezes, ….. it can last up to 9 hours even if washed off.


Last Tuesday 31st March, went shopping for food in another nearby French small town ..........

I went to our local French Town, to go to the Chemist/pharmacy for paracetamol for the boy and me as we still get bad headaches.

I duly waited in the 2 person line at 2 meters apart.

I was about to go in the shop when a Police car pulled up and beckoned me to them sat in their police car.
Yes, I thought I have the correct paper work for visiting the Chemist.

But No, the French police sergeant asked me/then ordered me to remove my Face mask.
He said that I was sacring people, "what people" I remarked as the streets were empty.

He then ordered me to remove my mask, and he said "Only paper towels are allowed".

Both policemen had no masks on, I said "me and the boy have had the virus and are  recovering and only come out once a week for food and medicines, if I remove this mask both of you are likely to catch it or you will be contaminated",  silence ensued, then the Sergeant said, " I have my orders".  I said No and walked away to my parked car.

He then shouted, "If I see you again with that mask on, I will arrest you, I have my orders".

Telling you! I couldn't make this up if tried.



The above story of mine went viral here in France, there's me trying to protect others and the morons in charge are still protecting there own rears.

Down the road from me is a French couple who have there daughters at the same school as my 13 year old. He is a log cabin builder here in France and she works as a specialist in the French medical service dealing with mentally disturbed patients.

In France the Mask shortage and the PP equipment is ordered on a just in time process, and now that everything has gone to pot, and stocks are very low, the medical professionals are very concerned, including my friends .

I have lent my friend a spare mask, boxes of Nitryl medical work gloves and chemical suit, and isopropyl cleaning equipment, that i have.
 She said, "I asked my boss, and he said i can not wear it , as other medical staff will demand the same".
 

As i originally said most of the French nation were probably contaminated about a 4 weeks ago and the epidemic has not peaked here.

Yes, people are dying around me, and there is no vaccine as yet, you just get paracetamol, and if your immune system is week you get pneumonia and need oxygen.


Tuesday this week went shopping again, different chemists, different town, but i know the staff at this supermarket. And they were pleased and reassured to see me in my chemical suit. The staff were wearing plastic gloves and paper masks and doing there best.

Hopefully i can keep my infestation to my self.

In the streets on Tuesday, not many folk out and about, half were wearing some sort of mask, the other half that were not seem to be a much older generation, and some old farmers seem to think the whole thing is a big joke!. 

I am reliably informed by medical gurus that I know, that its the micro droplets that just waft around in closed environments, and they can live for up to 9 hours.

Its No Joke, Just self isolate as much as possible and stay safe guys!


 
Everything is possible, just give me time.

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Re: Can i turn my wind turbine into a washing machine?
« Reply #7 on: April 08, 2020, 04:42:15 AM »
This made me chuckle...…





Not my sheep dog, mine is normally unkempt. Mrs cleans ours and he heads straight for the nearest freshest CowPat.
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« Reply #8 on: April 08, 2020, 08:53:34 AM »
Nice suit!
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« Reply #9 on: April 08, 2020, 09:26:27 AM »
 for 3 weeks masks were bad news according to Dr.Tam  our chief medical officer .  yesterday she says masks are good.

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« Reply #10 on: April 08, 2020, 10:58:13 AM »
Hi

Here in the UK, one news broadcast they say the masks don't do anything, the next one someone is saying they are good, so I think it is up to the individual.

I used to do a lot of spraying with 2K paint so I have several 28 day masks. The filters are in sealed packaging once open they offer protection against organic gasses and micro fine particle for roughly a month. After that they still filter out dust and the fine particles so if they make masks in public a legal requirement, I will crack a couple of those out, they at least protect against aerosols that are in peoples breath.

I suppose I could dig my SCUBA gear out but it is hard to talk with a big lump of rubber stuck in your mouth. As it is I will just carry on stopping in and only venture out for essential shopping. I thankful I live in a rural area not a big city.

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« Reply #11 on: April 08, 2020, 11:22:48 AM »
As strange (Not really for the average person) as it may seem or look.
People at the 'marts are being much nicer than say this time last year.
At least that's the way it seems. Most stores I used to visit people were always nicer than say a Big-Box store.

BUT now even at the Super-duper stores people are giving each other "space" they all nod and possibly smile ( Can't tell behind the varied mask types) Even the hombres are looking like they're doing the right ting by wearing that chic skull&crossbones bandana .

Being that I work in an "essential" field, I am required to wear a mask and go into work everyday, but that doesn't keep me from being fashionable about it.  ;D
I now don my Chili-head bandana on my face 8). Some say it's an improvement  :o

Y'all stay safe!!

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« Reply #12 on: April 08, 2020, 11:58:36 AM »
Here in the UK, one news broadcast they say the masks don't do anything, the next one someone is saying they are good, so I think it is up to the individual.


It depends on how exactly they examine the affect.  Surgical masks offer essentially no protection to the wearer should the contamination be broadcast over their body, and if the wearer is infectious they do not filter out the virulence.  What they do is significantly decrease the broadcast range...meaning if you were give a "healthy" cough you'd be spraying particulates two meters away, but with a mask the distance is cut down to a fraction because a mask, properly worn, reduces the velocity of those particulates.  Depending on your news source agenda, this can mean anything from "the masks do not work" to "the masks reduces spread of the contagion".  What news and media outlets are doing a really terrible job of doing is stressing that the masks are not to protect you, but to protect other people from you, and exactly how they accomplish this goal.

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« Reply #13 on: April 08, 2020, 12:27:27 PM »
Here in the UK, one news broadcast they say the masks don't do anything, the next one someone is saying they are good, so I think it is up to the individual.


It depends on how exactly they examine the affect.  Surgical masks offer essentially no protection to the wearer should the contamination be broadcast over their body, and if the wearer is infectious they do not filter out the virulence.  What they do is significantly decrease the broadcast range...meaning if you were give a "healthy" cough you'd be spraying particulates two meters away, but with a mask the distance is cut down to a fraction because a mask, properly worn, reduces the velocity of those particulates.  Depending on your news source agenda, this can mean anything from "the masks do not work" to "the masks reduces spread of the contagion".  What news and media outlets are doing a really terrible job of doing is stressing that the masks are not to protect you, but to protect other people from you, and exactly how they accomplish this goal.
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« Reply #14 on: April 08, 2020, 02:14:09 PM »
Clockman, I am happy to see you standing up.

It is better to be looking like an alien, standing up, than in bed, and looking human.  ;)

I totally agree with DanG. Direct sunshine on any part of the skin works miracles. Lots of Vitamin D helps healing.

Stay safe everyone.

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« Reply #15 on: April 08, 2020, 02:23:23 PM »
Where I live in the US, south Florida, people are beginning to wear masks in public now. These same people either don't understand science and biology or are just trying to be polite. In crowded countries like Japan and South Korea, Vietnam, it has been the practice to wear a common mask in public/on the subway as a way of being polite. It won't save anyone from this bug, though. I am also angry at the mass of sheeple here that have been scared into hiding over a bug that is simply the brother of SARS. No one panicked over the original SARS. If this was for real places like Bangladesh, India, Pakistan would have failed long ago. Where are you going to find clean running water and hand sanitizer for everyone, rich or poor, there?

 I rent a room in a house from a pediatric nurse's assistant that cares for completely disabled/some on life support children. Most of them she says will die in that hospital, but there is money to keep them alive indefinitely in the hope they will get better. Most were either born with severe birth defects or drowned or abused at home. She doesn't like talking about it because it's not really fun work.

Cynthia gets some space and respect in public because it's obvious from her attire what she does for a living. But she can't take N95 masks home. I wonder what will come of this. Lee Frank was a control room operator at TMI when it melted down in 1979. He had proper radiological instruments at work but could not take them home to protect his family. He made it his life's work after that to make affordable surplus rad instruments available to any member of the public that wanted one.

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« Reply #16 on: April 08, 2020, 08:19:19 PM »
GOOD to hear from you clockmanFRA and thank you for the glimpse of how the rest of the world is doing. I hope you tried the Plum Tea, no?

Nothing to report here... well, except perfecting scratch-built egg noodles and dumplings that are getting MUCH better, going on perhaps the 100th batch of barley/rye/rice/pumpernickel flour(s) and have found steaming the raw pasta over a simmering meat broth before stirring it in to cook down a bit before serving makes it memorable for the right reasons.

Any how - You write insightfully on things beyond any of our control - I am selfishly hoping to see many more 'Clockmans Log: Stardate 200804.7' diary entries from you!




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« Reply #17 on: April 08, 2020, 09:27:56 PM »
Good to hear you are hopefully on the mend clockmanFRA

Keep us posted on what you see there.  It is helpful to know what we might be in for in the rest of the world. 

Now to the original question, I believe your turbine would make a much better dryer than washing machine.  Just a basket attached to the rotor and you're in business.

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« Reply #18 on: April 10, 2020, 03:52:20 PM »
Not much of the virus out in rural MN yet... 1 case in the county my doc/Walmart I get meds at is in, 2 cases in my county, 5 in a county I usually shop in so I have been shopping the smaller Walmart(I need little so it works out). About 1/3 h people in Walmart were wearing a mask... if more get sick I will wear one to go shopping, it CAN stop you from breathing in those airborne droplets sick people spew out. Or at least limit it way down and your body can fight off the smaller dose of virus easier. I always have a stock of N95 dust masks on hand, and if needed can swap to my paint respirator with the super fine particle filters(Better than N95). I use the dust masks all the time when crushing barley for beer, grain dust isn't good for the lungs!

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« Reply #19 on: April 10, 2020, 04:37:40 PM »
I've now seen both the 3M N95's and the KN95 versions.
I'll get a pic of them side by side if people stop taking the KN95's from my desk!

They are not the same.
I'd be guessing,  but I'm hoping they work the same.
The 3Ms are at least 2x thicker.
I agree with Mary B , anything that stops the large "droplets " is a good thing.
Tho, if someone becomes infected , big droplets or little doesn't matter.
I also use the painter/sander's  masks they're built to ward off nasties from your lungs

Y'all stay safe

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« Reply #20 on: April 10, 2020, 09:42:36 PM »
ClockmanFRA, I am sorry to hear of your troubles.  We have the virus here in Chicago as well.  A friend of mine that I worked with became the 2nd employee at my former employer to pass away from this virus. 

I would point out a note of caution about that mask you were wearing around the police and others at the pharmacy. That Drager X-plore or similar, at least all of them of similar design that I have ever inspected, and I have been trained on similar mask designs, pull air into the mask through the filters on the side, however, they expel the air through a  one way flapper type valve without any filtration.  While that type of mask will protect you from them, it will not protect them from you as there is no filtration to remove any droplets or particles from the expelled air.  They may have inadvertently caused themselves harm by their actions.  They should have been trained by now, and know better, than to not have at least a cloth over their mouth and nose when around other people, but I see such similar half measures here that are leading to disaster after disaster.  Half measures do not work, and we are going to have to learn how to work safely in this contaminated environment as we will be in it for a while.  Stay safe and good luck through this crisis as I think we all need it now, Rich
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