Are The Best Ideas Started In Garages?
The storage of electricity has always been a problem and it’s one that will get worse as we get more renewables like wind-power, that tend to produce electricity at variable times.
So this article on the BBC web site caught my eye. I particularly like this bit.
The technology was originally developed by Peter Dearman, a garage inventor in Hertfordshire, to power vehicles.
Just like Hewlett-Packard, which started in a garage.
What is the most significant fact, is the IMechE have got involved.
This might be one of those ideas that runs and runs.
It has a lot of things going for it.
- It’s all technology we have had around for years.
- It doesn’t require large amounts of land.
- The plants could also be used to say produce liquid carbon dioxide, nitrogen or oxygen, where they are needed, instead of bringing it in by tanker. On the other hand liquid oxygen is dangerous stuff to have around.
I shall be watching this story in the future.
The Anonymous Widower 
Now that I am nearly 70 wind power has always been of great intrest as a boy in the Scouts we used to be invited to the Rovers Hut which was in the midle of nowhere but it was beside a lovely trout river (North Esk Midlothian) The hut was also on the edge of a moor where the Great Lothan Coal Seam came to the surface so coal was there just outside our door but the best thing was the wind that used to blow over the moor. Some of the older Rovers had built a windmill with a bank to 12 volt battries so back then we had Free Food (Fish and Game), Free Coal and free Electricty so what more did you need and remember this was 60 years ago. Are we going backwords !!!!!!
Comment by George Bell | October 2, 2012 |
Creative, Innovative . . . Men, enjoy their Special Moments of Thinking . . .
In my cartoons I see the ideal conditions for creative men are . . . fishing, outoors, the Aussie Dunny, in a Bath {Eureka} & in Garages . . .
I agree, with both above . . . no, we are not going backwards in 12 days a Mate of mine is starting back Creating in His Garage & His Lifestyle.
Comment by Steam Lover | October 2, 2012 |