[TheForge] Oh Great minds

Tue May 13 14:30:00 2003

This was obviously a solution looking for a problem.   A nicad battery 
and wall wart charger would have kept him listening to music all day.  
Years ago I set out to build a small generator using a sterling engine 
as a power source.  The use was to provide lighting for night fishing 
for a friend of mine.  At that time several very practical people asked 
why I didn't just get a big battery.  My answer was that a sterling 
engine spinning all night was mor ineresting than watching a battery 
discharge.

Charles

Andrew Vida wrote:

>klgeorge wrote:
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>>This is a story from a guy at work. A neighbor of his uses a weed eater
>>motor to run a 12 volt car generator to charge a battery so he can play a
>>radio in his shed. Sort of Rub Goldberg  huh?
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>	Rube comes less to mind than noisy and horrifically inefficient.
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