Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] nuclear psub? (fruity goodness)

[David Buchner <buchner@wcta.net>]

I think I overreacted. My mail software must have had some kind of a 
hiccup, because I seem to have duplicates of all these bingo-fodder 
messages.


On Sunday, Jan 5, 2003, at 15:41 US/Central, Michael B Holt wrote:
> ...American Science and Surplus catalog....  latest Good Idea... 
> inexpensive power!... getting the
> involvement of the women in our lives... bushels of, say, apples... 
> eat the power sources... blah, blah

We should get Ed Begley Jr. to subscribe to Personal Submersibles. 
(Remember the Simpsons episode where he had a car powered "by my own 
sense of smug self-satisfaction"?)

Once after seeing an ad for a potato clock (and drinking vodka in the 
Airstream we were living through a Minnesota winter in), I spent much 
of an evening feeding past-ripe fruit, mostly citrus (thinking the 
higher acidity would help), through the Cuisinart. Then I poured it 
into these big green cylindrical jars my potter friend had made 
(actually for battery cases, believe it or not-- but he'd been planning 
on sufuric acid from scavenged car batteries) and inserted a couple of 
probes through a plastic lid. By hooking several of these in series I 
was able to get just enough power to make one of those common, 1.5V 
clock movements to twitch and not quite make it to the next second. 
Then it was time for "X-Files," and we lost interest. I dumped the 
whole mess on the compost pile after a few days. Where did I go wrong?




David
buchner@wcta.net
Osage, MN, USA
(another "Flag-flying, patriotic, life NRA member," in case anyone's 
counting...)