Re: If I Don't Post Here Again
mimus
> mimus wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 11 May 2008 09:35:40 -0400, mimus wrote:
>>
>>> It'll be because (hopefully) I'm trying to set up housekeeping in my
>>> basement after the top part of the house gets blown away by what's
>>> bearing down on us here in the middle Ohio River Valley this very
>>> A.M., a wave of nasty big hot storm cells movin' fast complete with
>>> severe thunderstorm warnings, hail warnings and high wind advisories
>>> (no rotation warnings yet) . . . .
>>
>> Yep, they're babbling now about the whole front moving 45-60 miles an
>> hour, with penny-sized hail, and wind-gusts at 60 to 70, and the high
>> wind advisory is for the next nine hours, and tornado watches are going
>> up all around, and now there's at least one tornado warning _behind_
>> the line, down in central Kentucky . . . .
>>
>> <ORV Fatalism:>
>>
>> Time to fix a drink and go sit on the porch and watch.
>
> You're not planning to harness the power of the storm? Like to charge
> up some Leyden jars or energize a gigantic dynamo? I would do that if I
> had a gigantic dynamo and a multi-acre energy collecting array.
Maybe inject a salt-dome with alternating layers of conductive and
insulative semi-solids and hardeners, and stick a lightning-rod on top?
(the insulator could be that thick black crap left over after they've
sucked everything useful out of petroleum, which is wot they use in
asphalt and on roofs.)
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Igorth do not "tetht the printhiple". Thtrap it
to the bench and put a good thick bolt of lightning,
that'th our motto.
< _Thief of Time_