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KB2VXA > FUEL 01.02.11 19:04l 48 Lines 2412 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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Hi Barry and all,
Bob DOES have a point but the way he tries to make one is a long way off
from reality which leads to much frog tossing. I'm well aware of the wind
patterns in the area, we have "prevailing westerlies" here that our wind
farms take good advantage of. My point was and is that knowing the
characterisics of any particular area is a far cry from being a constant
observer in residence which Bob always passes himself off as. How many
times has he bandied about "I live here and you don't, I'm the
know-it-all and you're not!" CRAPOLA in a lame attempt to make himself
feel superior and/or make others feel inferior? That got old and worn out
a LONG time ago yet is still a great frog attractant.
Ah stop guessing about keeping wind turbines spinning (;->) since nobody
but an electrical engineer can answer the question and I doubt we have
any here. Eh, it's a moot point now since the challenge these days is
keeping them from catching fire, flying apart and toppling to the ground.
Yeah, I'm being funny but it does happen more frequently than the public
knows since it's almost always kept out of the news much like the rather
frequent cell phone tower fires. We had one here just the other day...
giggle.
Now that's a surprise, I'm wondering how an electric bus can cross three
lanes without some rather unusual catenary or weirdly long trolley poles.
Yup, electric transport is coming back everywhere there is a need for it
and Sydney is no exception. Being a rail fan I have some pictures going
back quite a few years (eh sorry, no horses unless you go to Gawler SA)
and between the buses and trams the city had quite a transport system.
Some such as those on Darling Street were a bit odd with detatcable
weights that took some of the load off the electrics going downhill,
regenerative braking backfeeding the catenary was quite efficient. Oh and
BTW I have some "aqua tram" photos where they went right off the end and
into the harbor, funny to look at when people get all soaking wet, madder
than hell and don't drown in the process.
Your dad must have had a rather long antenna on the '38 Willys, did they
call him Sparky after that or maybe just Old Smoky? (;->)
73 de Warren
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Message timed by NIST: 11:31 on 2011-Feb-01 GMT
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