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Old 06-24-2017, 04:31 PM   #230 (permalink)
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My personal electricity needs are met by 5.3¢/kWh power from the same Grand Coulee Dam that Woody Guthrie sang about.

If I were to try to employ wind power it would be wind->compressed air->electricity.

Probably a vertical axis windmill on top of this 25ft 1" hex-bar stock I have, with an air compressor (that currently needs a new motor) at the bottom of the tower. The hex bar would store energy in torsion, until it kicks over the air compressor.

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I have not heard anyone arguing for colder winters
You haven't been listening to me, then. Or many another skiier who gets tired of slush in January.
Or myself, who would argue for being able survive progressively colder and hotter extremes, with time.