-=> Ward Dossche wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

 WD> The question always remains: how does one tap it and how does one store
 WD> it...

That's always been the question and unfortunately we're still working on 
good answers.  We're getting there but it's far from effecient.

 WD> BTW, loved the pingpong-ball story.

I'm glad.  I come from a family of tinkerers and engineers.  My late 
maternal grandfather was an electrician's mate for the US Navy in World 
War II.  After that, he worked for various electronic companies 
(Fairchild Semiconductors was one) and at NASA Goldstone in Barstow, 
California.  He was an electrical engineer on the Pioneer and Voyager
spacecraft projects.  One of my uncles is also an electrical engineer.  
He was hired by a large fan company (the name escapes me right now) to 
get the hum out of their fans.  He also designed a ride at Disneyland 
(Big Splash?) that works literally like a toilet: it fills a giant 
2 million gallon container and "flushes" the water out into the pool, 
causing a big wave to ride through the pool.

He got the idea while using the restroom. 

I leaned more towards computers though I do have a grasp of basic 
electronics and can read schematics and build kits.  My cousin (the son 
of the above-mentioned uncle) is also an electrical engineer.  I didn't 
have the opportunity to go to college until much later in life as I 
waited 24 years after I graduated high school to go back but I am still 
proud of my family's tinkerer and electronics talents.

I design and build my own amateur radio antennas for fun.

(Sorry for the long-windedness...)

Later,
Sean
 
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