We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "The Medway Handyman"
saying something like:

We also went to a working water mill. Incredibly efficient,

Err, no. I had charge of a watermill a few years back and basically it
would have been simpler and cheaper to hoik a genset in than try to
harvest usable power from the bloody thing.
For some applications, in some circumstances, the generated mill power
is usable - for heating, etc. Not really much good for proper mains, not
without a deal of expensive engineering.


much better
that those windmills. Wonder why we don't use more local hydro electric
schemes?

Hydro schemes need a big setup to work properly.