Power Play

This might interest you Don...

http://www.nuenergy.org/pdf/static-electricity-converter.pdf

My dad used to tell me about an old-timer 'back north' (up near Algonquin Park) that had a bunch of old car batteries in a shack, all hooked to a "long piece of wire" (he wasn't too clear on the technical specs or anything) and that he powered all the lights in his barn with it...

I've been meaning to try this myself, but with the price of copper wire being what it is, you'd have to hide it or it'd be stolen...

I can remember when my uncle installed electricity on his farm in Kenya, in the mid-fifties. It was very sophisticated. When you turned on a light, there would be a distant rumble as the generator fired up, then after a few seconds the light would come on.

I think "unattended starts" would be banned in the UK today.

G