The Windup Girl is the latest "it" book, although The Dervish House is coming up fast. One bit of McGuffium in the book was the use of kinetic batteries wound by gene-mod elephants. (read the book, it makes way more sense in context) Is this the face of our post-oil world? Saturday, S.F. got a chance to try it out. There was a bicycle powered concert in the park. Web-Site Link Generators, driven by bike linkages, powered the stage. Not quite the same as Outside Lands, but I suspect a lot more fun. And in a similar vein, a pdf containing a subsection on flywheel storage. I think we'll see more of this one in the future as high-strength materials become more cost effective.
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