Sydney Australia

[Genevieve]

Hey peoples - from the other side of this beautiful country!!!!!!!!!!

A few points i want to address.

First of all - great to see you people actually making a move and getting to KNOW each other in person. There are benefits to living in a more densely populated part of the country - as there are benefits to where i am living!! There comes a point tho where all the talking in the world and all the best "plans" will achieve nothing compared to actually MAKING A MOVE!! lol
( insert Monty Pythons "This calls for immediate discussion!!" )


Bowspearer - can you elaborate further on your idea of rain providing a power source??

I am no technically qualified person but i "absorb" ideas from all sources. It has long been dream of mine that here in australia with abundant sunlight, presumably some wind flow and a shortage of water - we should learn to integrate all three.

Solar power has the limitation in that it is presumably difficult to "store" this power.

We all realise the importance to "Store" water - so any community of people would have to have a fairly large storage of water. And the flow of water itself can also be a source of power.

Wind power can be utilised by a simple windmill.

Now if you stored all you water uphill - you could use the flow of water downhill (gravity alone) to create a small power source. eg while using that water for drinking water or irrigation

If you also had a collection dam at the "base" of your system you could collect all grey water from housing and irrigation and use the windmill to pump that back up into a top dam (not the drinking water dam obviously)

Solar panels may perhaps be enough in daylight hours to regulate the flow of the uphill /downhill flow (as in computer regulated). That way at night you could again let the water down to generate a power supply via the stored energy of the uphill water??

This is described very basically but it is a system i have long thought to be feasible and achievable - i just dont have the ability to create a total system!!

I seriously wanna meet a computer geek!!! lol

Anyway - nice to meet you all.

Live Laugh Love

[henners]

Just another note someone asked about. I was a metal worker with lots of experince in fabrication, welding, etc. I am also technically minded in regards to magnetic power tec, if i can be of any help with anyones plans , please let me know.

[bennycog]

thanks vesta,
i would love to organise those south of me for meeting. and reunite i didnt mean to meet in secluded areas where there are no people. libraries, pubs galleries. places where you can sit and think

[stal]

hey all. unfortunatly work commitments won't permit me to be in syd for the 8th nov (or go to nexus #$@% it!). however i will be in/around syd from 9th oct untill 21st oct if anyone would like to hook up. pm me if you like

[vesta]

Hi Stal,

sorry to hear you won't be able to make it for either gathering........ I guess you're feeling pretty disappointed too!

We'll just have to organise something else for we regional folk at another time and see if the sydney folk would like a w/e in the country???

Bennycog, Tez, Manda, Eddie and a few others might be happy with that idea too - perhaps a regional hub town in the central west???

Blessings,

Vesta.

[bowspearer]

Count me in on that Vesta

[bowspearer]

Originally Posted by Genevieve

Bowspearer - can you elaborate further on your idea of rain providing a power source??

I will once I sit down and actually finalise the design, right now it's more a rough concept than anything.