> -----Original Message----- > From: Norm of Bandersnatch
> Well, see, that's where you go astray Arild, assuming that stuff is > produced and by competent people with integrity. > > As with the space shuttle Challenger, engineers are sometimes ignored by > the suits who are motivated by greed and glory. REPLY Mea culpa!! I am forgetting we now live in the era of cheap chinese knock offs. The good designs still emerge but then the bean counters get involved and zip! . . the production is shifted to china and next thing you know its available at Wal-Mart. Norm Wrote: > The best-built wind generator I have known was the Amp Air. > English built, it was superbly designed and constructed. Unfortunately it had a low > output, suitable for keep up batteries of a boat on a mooring, but not for > daily living. REPLY Yep! if only we could go back to living without electrics except navigation lights. < VBG> But then we couldn't talk to each other because we would not have any computers, or internet, or . . . . Guess we just gotta invent something more efficient. cheers Arild _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
