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Terri, you don't have to say this.... They're all experts here....<p>Terri, you don't have to say this.... They're all experts here....<p> If you are just noodling around, without power company approval, make sure you disconnect from the line if the outside power goes off so you don't have some poor...

I thought the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything was an irrational number. Did someone round it up to 42?<p>[ May 12, 2005: Message edited by: terri ]</p>

Ahhhh, that felt good. Thank you, stephen, for looking a the back of the picture, that is, the underside of the solar cells!<p>Hu! Hu! Toro!<p>[ May 01, 2005: Message edited by: terri ]</p>

peter-f :<p>What I basically stand for is a rational examination of the energy problem. For your information, I just paid my electric bill. One hundred forty-five Kilowatt hours. My car gets about 27 mpg -- an older station wagon, needed to cart crap around, so you can't say I'm a wastrel.<p>But I a...

Wow! I could bengle (bend-mangle) one of those gears just by looking at it from ten feet away!<p>(My father taught me that term. He also said I could break an anvil just by looking at it. Terri: "Jeeze, Pop. I don't know. I was just looking at it and it fell apart!".)<p>Not for my thick ca...

josmith: "Or you could go to home depot and buy one for 15 bucks."<p>Waddayou, some kinda wise guy?<p>Sheesh! A practical and inexpensive solution on this Board? No using PICs? No plans for building a sooperdooper Theremin for this application?<p>Sheesh!<p>Actually, I went through this. I ...

Well, I guess one bird killed is too many. The current philosphy seems to be that bird kills are more a siting problem --keeping the 'bines away from migratory patterns, etc.<p>Various things have been proposed, including whistles on the blades (but actually, birds don't hear as good as humans at th...

That's pretty cool. You can use a solid conrod through a stuffing box, like in a double-acting steam engine piston, but with no crank --it's onnected directly to the rotating part. <p>Huh! <p>Machining/production costs might outweigh this advantage, though. Also looks complicated to lube properly.<p...

Thanks, both of ye!<p>COMMENT: I found that Sewing Machine oil which is labeled "non-gumming" seems to work pretty well in my bathroom exhaust fan. It used to lock up about every six months, and it's been running about a year now with no problem after I used this apparently pretty high-qua...

Git 'em Dean! Git 'em good! <p>A couple of weeks ago (on this forum) I analogized all this stuff to pushing in on a balloon. You push in here and it comes out there. <p>And!<p> And! <p> And I'm glad you're pointing out the subsidy system! I was afraid to bring that up the last time around since I go...

I got this little fan to slip under the baseboard hot water heating in my apartment to extract more heat from the hot water flowing through the finned pipes.<p>View of the motor/fan: http://www.mpja.com/productview.asp?product=15584+FN <p>This motor/fan is made in Germany.<p>Among all the other desi...

jwax and David Bridgen:<p>All as my "wrong" answers B and C indicated. <p>There's also a slight difference for higher concentrations of deuterium and tritium oxides, but that comes under C.<p>[ April 21, 2005: Message edited by: terri ]</p>

Gesundheit!

Uh-oh. I see philba's mighty resistance crumbling... Yep, he's putting on his climbing shoes....

Fear this:<p>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/03/10 ... _googling/<p>Very interesting.