My apologies for being a slug

I was going to start this blog and learn as I went and add plans and suggestions as I found them on the internet.

I didn't suspect that my lack of authoritative knowledge was going to hold me back from doing that.

I need to figure out how to make a permanent front page and how to put an index on it that will let you access pages directly instead of having to click on "september 2010" and then thumb through the posts to find anything useful. I'm going to do that in the next few days.

Thank you for visiting. Come back soon, or if you want to say anything about making a front page from the blogger widgets, feel free to post. But be nice, I'm new to this.

Where to start, where to start

Okay, I'm not sure where you'll want to start on this project. The end product will be you, your house, your yard, and your roof, a bunch of energy-generating devices, a generator, and evidently you need a professional electrician to hook you up to the grid. If I were you, I'd probably build my first machine just to feel successful and motivate myself to press on ahead.

I will elaborate on this tomorrow when i'm not as tired. Which is to say, later on this date because I haven't gone to bed yet.

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Cute, apparently I can't tell one blog from another. I put up a rant about sheltering a vicious dog for the rest of his life. This will become a real post soon, and on the subject that it's supposed to be on.

Dutch girl age 14 sets out to circle the globe solo in thirty-eight foot boat

Could someone give this dumb girl a real seaworthy boat, please.

How about we start with an index?

Once I get going, this page will be an Index with subjects in alphabetical order, or maybe by category and then in alphabetical order, and then links to the pages by name. That way I'll be able to list things as I learn about them, and not have to make files off site, and hold them back until I have a fairly complete page.

New blog.

Okay, I don't expect anyone to see this for a while.

A while back, I saw an item on the TV about a father-son team (the son was perhaps 12 years old) who had taken up energy-generating devices as a hobby. They would make a little electricity generating machine, hook it up to their electricity hookup, and reduce their electricity needs, and thus reduce their electric bill.

They had become so involved in this hobby that they ended up generating more electricity than they needed, and they were selling electricity back to the company.

I thought this would be such an interesting hobby to people that it would be fun and useful to people to blog about it. I promise to put up a post each day. I will be discussing the basic information such as how to convert your wind turbine's DC electricity to the AC that all our country runs on, and I will be providing ideas on machines to build.

There will be a range of suggestions, from cardboard-and-tinfoil contraptions right on up to extremely elegant machines costing thousands of dollars. I invite you to contribute your suggestions as well.

If anyone stumbles onto this blog, please bear with me. I intend to edit individual posts repeatedly, even after they're put up. But more than that, I also intend to move the plans and diagrams to a professional site sooner or later. Nothing is final.

And last, I need to raise money to live on, so there will be ads. I wish I had control over the content of those ads, but the best I can do is provide keywords and hope that useful ads show up here. Please take pity on the poor people who are paying Google to run their ads, and click on them only if you are serious about finding something. DO NOT EVER click on an ad just to donate two cents to me. I appreciate that but it's sooooooooooo damned unfair to the poor guy who's trying to sell his ebook or whatever, because it costs him money every time you do that. Hopefully, maybe some day, I'll be able to put up ads that I choose and which are useful to you.l