Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!canterbury!elec140 From: elec140@csc.canterbury.ac.nz Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Gold saves energy. Message-ID: <1991Jun7.123256.987@csc.canterbury.ac.nz> Date: 7 Jun 91 00:32:55 GMT References: <2470021@hp-vcd.HP.COM> Organization: University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand Lines: 26 In article <2470021@hp-vcd.HP.COM>, johne@hp-vcd.HP.COM (John Eaton) writes: > Perhaps we should try mercury filled power lines. > > > John Eaton > !hp-vcd!johne Now there's an idea! Substitute phone lines for power lines and sell it to AT&T for millions! You wouldn't need to send dc power down the phone lines then, you could pump the mercury down one line and back up the other, and use the flow to drive a turbine at the subscribers end! Of course you'd have to have a non-continuous flow at the sub's end, otherwise their phone line would be permanently shorted. A minor technical difficultly :-) ********************************************************* Chris Kaiser Postgrad - Elec Eng Dept Canterbury University Christchurch, NEW ZEALAND E.MAIL: kaiser@elec.canterbury.ac.nz ********************************************************* "When you're fresh out of lawyers You don't know how good it's gonna feel" - Al Stewart, 1988 *********************************************************