In my coop maginize in december they were talking alternative electricity. Have any of you heard of this. I do hope I typed this right.

-- ET (bneville@zebra.net), February 09, 2000

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My dear Mr. ET

Sir if you know how to look up the archives over on the preps forum. I posted information about how to build a Static Charger" to use in charging up battery banks...You might find it of interest

"As for me...I shall finish the Game"!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Shakey~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

-- Shakey (in_a_bunker@forty.feet), February 09, 2000.

Shaky,

If you know where the link is :-)

A few years ago I looked into solar distillation of grain alchol.... seems after you get all the fuel out of it.... it makes a better livestock feed than you had before :-)

Hmmmm :-)

-- Casper (c@no.yr), February 10, 2000.

No that is not want I am asking my cop electric power said they were testing alternstive power. Some kind of in house power.

-- ET (bneville@zebra.net), February 10, 2000.

ET,

You might ask Bonniville P.A. what they have in mind..... wind perhaps?... the gorge is known for wind.... :-)

-- Casper (c@no.yr), February 10, 2000.

ET,

Check out this site. This is probably what they were talking about.

Power Plug

Ballard has done some good work with cars, and are also developing several stationary units, including a 250 kW unit (hospitals, small plants) and are working on both larger and smaller units. They recently signed an agreement with Coleman to develop 50 small mobile units.

-- rocky (rknolls@no.spam), February 10, 2000.

Yeah...alternative fuel article in last night's paper...given the usual speed at which the State Government in Hawaii works, it will be another 30-50 years before anything substantial happens...unless it can be swung to profit some insiders...

-- Mad Monk (madmonk@hawaiian.net), February 10, 2000.