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The Wonderful Pleasure Gained From A Propitious Breeze?

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The Wonderful Pleasure Gained From A Propitious Breeze?
 
I’ve loved kites for donkeys. Have made and flown homemade ones in my younger days memorably in Richmond Park where an open landscape enabled me to let out my endless line until the ‘hawk image’ kite I held to one strong single thread disappeared pretty much into the clouds. For a moment a real hawk flew by on one kite flying occasion and seemed to remonstrate with the rival kite image come into its domain. Also; bringing the kite quietly down I was able to horizontally float it away-off just above the odd grazing sheep’s head which looked up somewhat bemused at an uninvited irritation touching the sheep’s back…
 
Kite design and history goes back millennia…
 
Today I add a link in which giant kites come into their own as aids toward ‘our ever growing green culture’.
 
 
Bob Clark  
Submitted by robert on Tue, 28/04/2009 - 8:24pm

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Submitted by Jack on Wed, 29/04/2009 - 6:44am.

Very interesting stuff, many thanks for the link.  Reducing the energy consumed during frieght transport is clearly an important aim.

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Submitted by robert on Wed, 29/04/2009 - 9:05pm.

Additional link re 'Kite Power'

 
Now...

while veering away from 'kites' I see Ebico (one of the gas and electricity power supplying companies) is promoting a scheme toward helping its customers to install ‘alternative energy’. –

 
As a present subscriber to this company I would be interested to learn about similar schemes which rival power suppliers are offering. –
 
It occurs to me that, in order to push vigorously for those extra ‘alternative power deals’ from the big power suppliers we should petition more with e-mails and letters to said companies. The more ‘petitions’ power supply co’s receive the more ‘a market’ is engendered into the power company’s psyche causing them to offer installations of solar panels, back-garden-windmills, etc.
 
E.g. There’s a probable scenario that future households can be completely self-generating of their power; a sizable surplus proportion of which ‘power’ may be sold back to the ‘big-boy power co’s’; which would sell on at ‘their profit’ elsewhere to less power generating enterprises private or public.
 
It would be marvellous to see a Peckham Power project facilitating (with appropriate grant and professional expertise) ‘a nominated Peckham residential road or street’ wholly transformed where residences were self-generating of necessary domestic power.
 
May I nominate my street for starters for such a ‘self-generating Peckham Power scheme’?    
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Submitted by Jack on Thu, 30/04/2009 - 6:58am.

Hi Bob,

Excellent ideas.

Please could I invite you come along to our free event which is happening this Saturday (starting at 2pm) where we will be discussing strategies for generating local energy renewably.  More details of the event can be found here:

http://peckhampower.org/event/02-05-2009-community-energy-workshop

Also, we are gearing up to run a feasability study for strategies for reducing the CO2 emissions from an entire street.  It's possible that the street has already been chosen but I'll pass your comments on to the person who is organising the feasability study.

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Submitted by robert on Thu, 30/04/2009 - 6:46pm.

Thanks Jack...

Would have liked to have attended; but; am away to Gloucestershire for a reunion of old friends this w/end.

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