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  • From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Moron Award
  • Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:26:49 -0700

The proposition is as idiotic as a plan to generate electricty at a
hydro-electric plant, use that electricity to pump the same water back into the lake,
and then generate more electrictricy with it.

Whatcha do, see, is connect cables to the upper limbs of white oak trees, which live for about three hundred years, so plenty of time for payback. As the trees grow upward the cables pull a lever which through appropriate gearing turns a wheel which is connected to a generator, thus producing electricity. Yes, a very small amount of electricity, as white oak trees do not move upward very fast. But you do this with millions of trees. Combine all those tiny amounts of electrical generation together and you would really have something, eh? (We are going to Canada next week to see our new grandson and I am practicing my Canada-speak.)




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