Re-Generation

Skip having the squirrels run endlessly across belts to generate your energy! And let those kids out of the basement and off those bicycle-run generators! How about your very own mini windmill! Check out the photo and very intriguing story at Off Grid Living.

I’m very much in favor of self-generating electricity. I’m going to be having one of my sons study the Tesla Coil over the summer. This ingenious invention enables the harnessing of electricity wirelessly, without a battery source (and battery manufacturers and battery manufacturing prices). Last year sometime I’d heard that Britain was starting to experiment with it more. Tesla’s discoveries are about a hundred years old, but were overridden (for some strange reason) by Edison and his businessmen cronies. You know, they could invent a battery or a light bulb that lasts much, much longer… but they won’t. Now why is this, I wonder. [inject sarcasm]

PBS has a segment about the Tesla Coil here. And there’s a lab project about it here. Interesting!

Anyway, I love the idea of generating my own electricity. But I think there are laws prohibiting it in New York State. As with everything here, ya need a license and you need to pay “fees” and “surcharges.” We’ll see. As we all move away from the corporations, I’m sure little do-it-yourself energy kits will pop up everywhere.

It’s our third sunny day in a row today! I am slowly getting my energy back after being sick for a while. I got my Reliance grape vine in the mail a few days ago, and I can’t procrastinate any longer– it MUST go in the ground today. Plus, I have to get my potatoes in soon. I’ll have a Growing Challenge update soon.

In other news, they want me to mention shower stool, but I have no idea how to fit it in. Oh wait! I just did! Well, well! Off I go to the garden now!