Wot, no SUV!??!?!!?
The Feds will be after you!!;-))
Like all the ideas, look forward to hearing about them when they're
built.
So how about starting a group like this for your neighbourhood?
Clive :-))
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Beyond_cheap_fuel@..., "lee bell"
<leebell@l...> wrote:
>
> Yup, It's about time this group was started. Thanks Clive. I'm
glad
> to see I'm not the only one around that thinks this way.
>
> Oh yes, I'm an US citizen but I don't own one of those rediculasly
> oversized SUV's. I actually prefer to ride a bicycle most of the
time
> instead of driving our car but am I one of the opposite end that
sits
> around hugging trees either. I'm just an average person that does
see
> the writing on the wall and doesn't understand why everone around
me
> can't.
>
> Be that as it may, I'm trying to do the same things as you but I'm
> just getting started. As I understand your home page this group is
> about what we as INDIVIDUALS ARE doing to try to survive in the
> upcoming lack (and high prices) of fuel supplies?
>
> I'm planning and setting up a number of small power sources in my
> back yard , almost all solar powered (hot water type). None of
these
> are going to put out more than a couple hundred watts max but I
plan
> to make a bunch of them. I'm using a 15' by 75' strip, half of my
> backyard (over half is garden) for what ever I can use that
generate
> electricity from various type of solar power primarily. I live in a
> neighborhood and windmills are pretty much out of the picture
except
> for very small ones less than 35' high (wouldn't even clear the
local
> trees) - I plan to use 4 of them in a row about 25' high down the
> middle of my back yard anyway - a little power is better than none
as
> far as I'm concerned.
>
> Some examples of what I'm doing can be seen here:
>
http://www.leebell.net/workshop/minipwr.htm
>
> Lee B
>