On 11/02/2021 10:16, John Rumm wrote:
On 09/02/2021 15:35, Andrew wrote:
On 09/02/2021 15:25, Chris J Dixon wrote:
John Rumm wrote:

On 08/02/2021 22:35, Paul wrote:

There's this one

https://www.ien.com/product-developm...y-than-it-uses



Might be the same one.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2017/09...ctric-vehicle/



It's a transportation job, with net energy output.

I wonder how many quarrys have that kind of setup where the raw
material
needs to be transported *down* from the quarry?

Shame the welsh slate quarries are no longer in bulk production,
or you could update the old solution of a horse drawing the
empties uphill, and gravity taking everything down laden.

Chris

Even more fun, use those handy zip-wires that are installed
to send the stuff down.

Am I the only one now thinking about the Fred Dibnah's arrangement with
self counterbalancing milk churns on a cable for getting stuff down from
high chimneys?


I must have missed that, but I remember Hoffnungs brickie lament

https://monologues.co.uk/Sketches/Bricklayers_Story.htm