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European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch -13. January | 139 comments (139 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: This, That, and the Other (4.00 / 3)

I must say I'm puzzled. I don't see how they can say it is using "windpower". I had a look at their website and it confirms my first impression: their system plans to use the airflow generated by the car movement. However, the energy retrieved from the airflow by the turbines will increase the aerodynamic drag, thus requiring at least the same amount of energy to counter it...

"Dieu se rit des hommes qui se plaignent des conséquences alors qu'ils en chérissent les causes" Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

by Melanchthon on Mon Jan 12th, 2009 at 03:41:15 PM EST
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Re: This, That, and the Other (4.00 / 2)

Green hi-speed, green hi-tech: isn't that you?

Just buy it and be magical.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Mon Jan 12th, 2009 at 03:58:34 PM EST
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Re: This, That, and the Other (4.00 / 2)

Just buy it and be magical.

Perpetually, to boot.

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."

by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Tue Jan 13th, 2009 at 02:57:22 AM EST
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Re: This, That, and the Other (4.00 / 2)

Hey, owning a perpetuum mobile has always been a great status marker.

Most economists teach a theoretical framework that has been shown to be fundamentally useless. -- James K. Galbraith

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Jan 13th, 2009 at 02:59:49 AM EST
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Re: This, That, and the Other (none / 0)

Yes, but will it play my CDs?

The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman

by dvx (dvx.clt ät gmail dotcom) on Tue Jan 13th, 2009 at 03:07:16 AM EST
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Re: This, That, and the Other (4.00 / 9)

Yeah, yeah. They are breaking laws of thermodynamics left and right. What are you? Physics cop? Come on man, don't be a snitch. If we don't let the physics enforcement people know, we can have all the energy we need for free. Now, here is my suggestion for generating green energy. Weights and pulleys:

See, the weight going down is 9kg, the one going up is 6kg, and then of course, at the top and bottom the 6 flips to 9 and the 9 to 6...

by someone (s0me1smail(a)gmail(d)com) on Tue Jan 13th, 2009 at 03:00:05 AM EST
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Re: This, That, and the Other (none / 0)

Haaaa!

Most economists teach a theoretical framework that has been shown to be fundamentally useless. -- James K. Galbraith

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Jan 13th, 2009 at 03:01:43 AM EST
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Re: This, That, and the Other (none / 0)

Now I understand what's meant by 69.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Tue Jan 13th, 2009 at 03:53:36 AM EST
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Buthow do the bricks (none / 0)

go around the wheel. It doesn't look it's very practical?

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Tue Jan 13th, 2009 at 04:12:41 AM EST
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Re: Buthow do the bricks (none / 0)

This is of course just a schematic drawing. The real implementation would include a more sophisticated drive system where the weights would pass comfortably by the pulleys.

by someone (s0me1smail(a)gmail(d)com) on Tue Jan 13th, 2009 at 04:20:21 AM EST
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Re: Buthow do the bricks (4.00 / 4)

When we first tested the machine, we did configure it with "fluid bricks," though we were forced, for cost considerations, to use discarded breast implants. They worked fine and were nice to play with. But they sometimes morphed strangely, allowing the six to morph into a null. This put too much strain on the system, often breaking the spaghetti.

We couldn't get it to work consistently, but the basic 6 9 concept received our full approval.

i return to my work on getting windmills to rotate in both directions at the same time, doubling the energy output (in theory.)

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin

by Crazy Horse on Tue Jan 13th, 2009 at 04:53:44 AM EST
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Re: Buthow do the bricks (none / 0)

Crazy Horse:

getting windmills to rotate in both directions at the same time

That's putting a new twist on the technology!

The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman

by dvx (dvx.clt ät gmail dotcom) on Tue Jan 13th, 2009 at 07:07:57 AM EST
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