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Seymore4Head July 18th 17 12:26 AM

Generating electricity
 
Does anyone watch "Horizon" from the BBC? In one of their latest
shows they have a glider attached to roll of string that is using wind
power to pull the string connected to a generator. It says it then
uses 5% of the energy to wind itself back up.


[email protected] July 18th 17 03:51 PM

Generating electricity
 
On Mon, 17 Jul 2017 19:26:40 -0400, Seymore4Head
wrote:

Does anyone watch "Horizon" from the BBC? In one of their latest
shows they have a glider attached to roll of string that is using wind
power to pull the string connected to a generator. It says it then
uses 5% of the energy to wind itself back up.




https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Horizon_episodes

.... couldn't find it.


Taxed and Spent July 18th 17 04:01 PM

Generating electricity
 
On 7/18/2017 7:51 AM, wrote:
On Mon, 17 Jul 2017 19:26:40 -0400, Seymore4Head
wrote:

Does anyone watch "Horizon" from the BBC? In one of their latest
shows they have a glider attached to roll of string that is using wind
power to pull the string connected to a generator. It says it then
uses 5% of the energy to wind itself back up.




https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Horizon_episodes

... couldn't find it.


Here is some reading on the topic, for starters.

https://www.google.com/patents/US8421257


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