I DO wish to brag....

just don't dissapear like Tesla, I mean govsnatchers don't like inventions that would set us free

I just want to brag a bit more, partly to bump this (fairly positive) little thread up & partly because I did a thing and it pleases me...

Last week I bought a 600watt "grid tie invertor" off ebay for about 80 quid, to go with the free smallish second hand solar panels I won last year. (and the dirt cheap, cracked, full sized ones I bought (cough) four years ago!) I still haven't got any sealant for the big ones but two of my little ones finally started producing me electricity that DIRECTLY REDUCES OUR grid consumption by 200watts or so during the sunny bits of yesterday. That means that when I fully deploy the large cells (I Need to seal them with varnish first) I will eventually (in the summer) generate a level of power that will produce and overall surplus back to the grid.

The "trouble" will start of course, when we submit our first reading where the numbers have actually reduced overall, but that is still a way off into the future, and will require me to have both a reservoir for surplus electricity, and a big UPS for peak demand applications..

Later today, our fusion group will be meeting, and since we aren't gaining any traction at all with the publicising of our helium production device, I'll be taking the boot off our chief designer & development guy who originally designed the thing to produce power, and which I've been stymying for ten years for reasons of both public safety, (I had identified the development process as not without risk of uncontrolled power excursions, and got them to focus on the transmuting aspects of the device, rather than power production) and of course, "personal safety"! (Successful energy pioneers tend to live short and complicated lives, recent history would suggest..) 

I had planned to do the power production research myself, because our dev engineer has a less safety minded may of doing things than I do, and I don't think he understands the mechanism I see for creating a positive feedback loop and consequent sudden power excursion that I do. (we run our fusion in cycles, allowing a cool down period in the plasma between fusion events, which gives us the transmutation effect, but for power we need to run the thing at or very close to a "resonance" point, and controlling "resonance", is a complicated task, as any audio or rf engineer will tell you... 

NEXT year, I plan to resume the actual exciting science stuff I was doing ten years ago, investigating the relationship between voltage / geometry / materials and the physical movement that results from getting it right. Ten years ago I set up some apparatus, made a graph of the results I got after careful measurement and I then extrapolated that graph.

The extrapolated data showed me that if I arrange the materials just so, and create a waveform of a certain unusually high voltage, I can lift a model (and it's power supply & fuel source) quietly and without noise into space from our back garden! (I've GOT to have a go at that...)  

Social distancing!

Yes I had to social distance from my father almost my entire life.  He made it clear that I was the shame of the family and that we must not be seen together because he was obsessed with his reputation and his standing in the community.  He just went on and on how we must not be seen together in public, what will people think of him? If someone saw me. 

So social distancing in public is something i was familiar of, well before COVID.

I regularly rotate my food stores.  I try to use food at least 3 months before the  date expires.

I still remember people keeping their distance from me on public footpaths.  At the same time social distancing was being totally ignored in other places.

I look back at the COVID restrictions with nostalgia.

Rotate your stocks. Stuff goes off a lot faster than you'd expect, even oatmeal hobnobs...

And FYI, trying to stop a corona virus with an N95 mask is reputed to be a similar task to trying to stop a swarm of mosquitos with a chainlink fence... It really is a case of "full bio warfare gear" for the outdoors, and sterilise it with the UV-c whilst obeying strict hygeine protocols or you are just playing at protetcing yourself, like our leaders instructed you to do. 

When it's the survival of yourself or your loved ones, then you really don't want to do half measures. Most people do do half measures though..

Ditto. It's called life. 

I coped better, than most, during Lockdown. But when the knives were out for Boris, the USSA ran amok. Suddenly, we had Ukraine flags shoved down our throats. 

We have problems here, in our own doorstep, with Republican Hardliners targeting Drug Dealers. Also the undemocratic imposing of Non-Christian values. I need to stay away from News. 

Same here. I loved the lockdown lifestyle during Covid. It felt like I was born to live like that. I have been practising social distancing my entire life. 

"During Covid, we had a far less scary time than most people, because I knew what to do... And in times of gross uncertainty, we 'spergs can come into our own"

Absolutely this.  When Covid lockdown came into place my anxiety and MH improved dramatically, I joked with friends that I had been "training" for such a situation all my life.  Little did I know!  I was actually diagnosed with ASD during Covid and suddenly my lockdown reaction made sense.

I used to catch everything that was going around before Covid. I had to make some rapid changes. 

This lovely big furry cat, is very orange in his colouration. His "sister" is a long haired tabby version of the same basic model. They have "maine coon" tufts on their ears. I've always loved my cats, but these two are quite beautiful.

For me the lockdown was a godsend, I hated the virus because I caught it once and I was really ill for weeks, but I loved the lockdown, peace and quiet on the buses, few people in shops, no signing on in job centres, my finances recovered.

I stocked up with food and other essentials,. I'm still stocked up.  Yesterday I bought a box of 50 masks for £2, that works out at 4p per mask.  I hope compulsory mask wearing comes back this Autumn/winter.

Orangefurry? is it some kind of carnivorous plant? 

I miss having them around ;/

Btw viruses don't tolerate me as well. Never caught anything.