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bagwa-john

10/20/07 12:39 PM

#48588 RE: fuagf #48583

Good day there fuagf!

'Watch out in space; lot of junk out there. :)'

Hehhe, it depends on which body you use whether it is a problem or not!

I think we'll start seeing water collection infrastructure going into place in many places. Rainfall patterns are saturating some areas and other areas are in worse drought. We'll have to follow the rain and spread the drinking water around, which means huge cistern collection points, home collection, and of course pumps and piping. It'll be as much fun to put into place as wind and solar, and of course that is moving slowly.

More fun and games for sure.

I'm going to check out PACWIND here in Torrance and get a pricing for a home sized turbine. They're a new design, quiet and can work in minimum wind. Whether Torrance code allows them or not is I guess, the issue. I expect a no no, you can't do that, too ugly, in which case they're saying suffer and like it.

http://www.renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/partner?cid=6949
http://www.pacwind.net/

But who knows? I could be pleasantly surprised.

Water is going to be a tough problem. While I can, I want to put a rectangular cistern next to the house to fill with the city water to create a reserve tank. In at the top, back to the house at the bottom, for pressure, although a pump would work just as well for that.

I have to put in new gutters to collect the scant rainwater we receive for the yard.

Simple measures that help, but its still desert here.