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    #11
    Originally posted by PAH View Post
    Sounds like he'd be better off getting rid of the solar panels and putting up a system where electricity is generated from the mechanical energy of birds landing on spring loaded panels.

    Has the added bonus of the spring recoil punting the birds off the roof freeing up space for the next ones coming in to land.

    [Off to patent a bird table leccy generator that also stops fat birds from eating all the food. ]
    It already exists, it's called Weight Watchers!

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      #12
      Originally posted by PAH View Post
      Sounds like he'd be better off getting rid of the solar panels and putting up a system where electricity is generated from the mechanical energy of birds landing on spring loaded panels.

      Has the added bonus of the spring recoil punting the birds off the roof freeing up space for the next ones coming in to land.

      [Off to patent a bird table leccy generator that also stops fat birds from eating all the food. ]
      I once designed a panel that captured the kinetic energy from falling bird plops. It produced enough power in a year to fire up my 'kung foo hamster' for six and a half minutes.
      do a google for 'EO's arseolar panels'





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        #13
        Originally posted by PAH View Post
        Is it not a good idea then?
        What happens when it is not raining?. Should we (CUK) not all work together and prepare a product and business plan and present it to Dragons Den?
        Let us not forget EU open doors immigration benefits IT contractors more than anyone

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          #14
          Originally posted by DodgyAgent View Post
          What happens when it is not raining?. Should we (CUK) not all work together and prepare a product and business plan and present it to Dragons Den?
          a nanohydra-solar-windmill-waterwheel
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            #15
            Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Post
            a nanohydra-solar-windmill-waterwheel

            Do I get 20%?
            Let us not forget EU open doors immigration benefits IT contractors more than anyone

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              #16
              Originally posted by DodgyAgent View Post
              Do I get 20%?
              Only if you can get ground source thermal pump in there somehow...

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                #17
                Originally posted by DodgyAgent View Post
                Do I get 20%?
                only on the nanohydra-solar-windmill-waterwheel-slavedriven model




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                  #18
                  another beauty today


                  Maurice Strong, senior advisor to Kofi Annan, U.N. Secretary-General who chaired the gigantic (40,000 participants) “U.N. Conference on Environment and Development” in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 , who was responsible for putting together the Kyoto Protocol with thousands of bureaucrats, diplomats, and politicians, stated: “We may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse. Isn’t it our job to bring that about?”
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                    #19
                    Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Post
                    another beauty today


                    Maurice Strong, senior advisor to Kofi Annan, U.N. Secretary-General who chaired the gigantic (40,000 participants) “U.N. Conference on Environment and Development” in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 , who was responsible for putting together the Kyoto Protocol with thousands of bureaucrats, diplomats, and politicians, stated: “We may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse. Isn’t it our job to bring that about?”
                    Splendid!

                    Let's all go back to the Dark Ages, and move to Wales.

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