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On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:56:17 -0800, Bruce in alaska
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z wrote:

Actually some new people bought the old foster place down the road
from me a few miles and I got the trust fund impression. We were
talking about home power at a BBQ and they were telling me how they
had big plans for putting in wind power etc.

For one thing the spot they bought is terrible for wind power but
that didn't seem to bother them. Like me they'd need to send the
power at least 3/4 a mile to get any wind. And I was reminding them
of 140 MPH winds we get from time to time and how to make a
tower/turbine that can withstand that. And they've got no road or
access to the only place on their property to do wind, and its on
steep hill with timber .. its a big ****ing job in anycase.

No problem they were like 'well we can get these wind turbines for
only 30,000 so we're thinking about putting two in to see how they
go.

Oh.. right. OK then if you want to spend unlimited amounts of money
on it than I guess it can be made to work. The thing they COULD do
on that place is hydro so I was talking with them about that. The
guy was convinced he wanted to use an archemedes screw with a
concrete shoot of some kind with some home made rare earth magnets
he had to generate power. We were all pretty drunk by that time so
I'm going to have to talk with them more seriously at some point.

But the 30k turbines cracked me up. Yeah I could buy a russian
nuclear sub and put it in the creek and run off the power plant in
that thing too if I had a bazzillion dollars to spend on it.

So I think thats what got me in the trust fund mood -- I get so
tired of people telling me 'just buy a bunch of solar panels' and
the like

It's all relative. Somebody asked me once why I didn't just pave the 6
miles of road leading to my place. Either he thought that paving was
cheap, or that somebody driving a 10 year old car is secretly made of
money. :-)

Thats classic.

Just wave your hand and make it so!

I get that kind of advice about my bridge a lot. People are 'why don't
you just get a rail car that'd be easy'.

Yeah easy -- 90 foot rail car trucked in and then somehow moved up a
mountain logging road, then put into place. Even if the rail car was
free I'd still need a double truck & a serious crane. Serious bucks --
it would be a good solution but probably cost 10k min .. maybe more.

The cable bridge was *much* easier and cheaper.