Solar technology

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Solar technology

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Given the great success with solar panels in reducing our household electricity bill, we decided to invest in more solar technology: a solar-powered clothes dryer.
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Geez Ray, you must be behind the times a bit out Rutherglen way. We've had those solar powered things for ages. I remember mum using something like that when I was a kid.
And on rainy days, you could bring it inside and put it close to the briquette heater. ;) Ask any of the millennials if the have ever seen a briquette. :roll:
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Yes, Dave,
It was a leg-pull.
My mum had a wooden one as well.
But we didn’t have a briquette fire, just a kerosene heater.
Spotted the same model (Fyreside… even remember the brand!) in a country museum last year… makes me feel old!
Likewise some of the tools I inherited from my dad — and still use. 😳
I even have a cast-iron nail-puller my father inherited from his father-in-law! A bit worn now, and not as grippy on nail heads, but still works. No batteries! 😁
It works on the same principle as the Grampa’s Weed Puller you can now buy at the Hammer Shop (patented sometime in the 1800s). One moving part: half of the cast iron claw which grabs the weed by the roots. Fiskars have made a 20th Century version (yes, 20th — it’s that old) with four moving claws and lots of mechanical complications to clog or break down.
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We have a meme up on the wall in the office, two millennial women talking in the backyard looking at a clothes line strung between two poles, caption "It dries the clothes using the very latest technology, a combination of both wind and solar power"

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And Americans wonder why their power bills are so expensive… there are LGAs where “unsightly” outdoor clothes lines are prohibited; they MUST use an electric clothes dryer. 🙄
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