Richard Ha writes:
Caption contest! Watch this rather spectacular short video and give it a creative caption (as though it were a photo).
Send your entry to: leslie@leslielang.com by this Friday, February 15, 2013.
Winner gets "1 pair rubbah slippahs!"
Fresh running photo-shop!
Actually, that is real. On a much larger scale, some guys are bringing up this idea to have a large holding pond up the hill, alongside a rapid stream. This large upper holding pond would have a very steep pipe downhill with fast current electric turbines at the outlet to another holding pond at the bottom. This holding pond would have a very high speed pump powered by solar panels and a battery bank, to pump the water back to the upper holding pond. Initially, the upper holding pond would be “charged” by filling it with a sluice gate from the naturally flowing stream. The reason to do this is the upper holding pond then becomes a continuous fast current so the electric turbines would operate continuously, heavy rain or not. It’s not free energy because it is taking solar panels to keep the water pumping up to the top to come back down.