Seen in a shop window in Salzburg:
The caption on the card behind is purely fortuitous!
Andy
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OT: Not the answer to the energy crisis
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In message , Andy Champ writes
I beg to differ ...
I have one of those. I'm saving the world, dontchaknow
It was actually turning today
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I obviously have no way to know what this is a picture of, but way back in the 90s I used to give people Christmas presents of solar powered plant turners to help save the planet, but I suspect that the manufacturing and transport costs out weighed the saving brought about by sunshine turning plants around very slowly!
Brian
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I couldn't help looking at the picture marked 'French Switchgear' and wondering where you'd come across that!
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It's a desktop toy wind turbine, powered by a solar cell on the base. The cell is illuminated by a halogen lamp. On the car behind it says "laugh and the world laughs with you".
Andy
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wondering where you'd come across that!
France. No, really!
It's in a hotel called Château de Villeray, Condeau. I don't think it's connected any more, they just leave it for interest. The place has a water wheel; it's possible they used to generate their own power.
Andy
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wondering where you'd come across that!
I'm more interested in the location of the 'Mysterious Building'. It looks like a cross between something from the early industrial revolution and the concrete Dombunkers used to house WW2 German railway guns in France.
Colin Bignell
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It's on the outskirts of Durham. And I still don't know what it is.
Andy