Hiya Folks,
Paul here (back off my hols).
A couple of event announcements for our UK based readers. Firstly – I thought you might like to know about a public appearance of the Nemesis Wind Powered Car happening on the 12th/13th September at the Science Museum in Wroughton, Near Swindon in Wiltshire. It will be part of the family oriented Festival of Innovation. I am hoping to be there with my family on the 12th – so might see you there? It is a free event (although high carbon producing transport will be charged £5 to park).
Here’s the event page for the Festival of Innovation on Facebook.
Also – Ecotricity are hosting a kite festival to celebrate the power of the wind on the 13th September 2009.
Help us to fill the sky with kites and celebrate the power of the wind at Thistledown Environment Centre, near Nailsworth (Stroud).
- Free Admission
- 500 kites to give away (or fly your own)
- Explore 70 acres of natural environment and wildlife
- Free soft drinks courtesy of bottlegreen
- Professional kite demonstration
I also created a Facebook event page for the 500Kites event too.
Take it easy, and we hope to see you at one or both 🙂
Paul
Thanks Paul.
I will look forward to seeing the car on the 13th
Derek
I’m a kite fan too and know the sense of awe you get when hauled off your feet on the end of a string.
There’s another wind festival that I came across while cycling round Corsica – maybe you could link up in the future?
http://www.lefestivalduvent.com/
Anna
Cheers Anna – I will check that out.
I have some friends that play with big kites.. never tried that myself, but I used to *love* getting my box kite into the air with extended string watching it go up to a dot and keep it up all afternoon. Ah – those were the days.
These days I would be wanting to attach wireless cameras to them 😉 Hmm…. I wonder….
this loks like it should be good fun – a Great opportunity for those budding photographers too!
Get down there!
Hello Everyone,
The mention of kites got me thinking – I was sure I had seen something on the web about using them to generate power.
These were not the concept that I remember reading about but interesting and amusing to those of us of a techy bent nevertheless:
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/10/71908
http://www.kitegen.com/en/
No doubt this sort of approach would alarm the Civil Aviation Authority, but if we all have to give up flying to hit the UK’s carbon reduction targets I assume that ceases to be a problem.
I will try to dig up some more – but I have just been reminded it is bedtime.
Best regards,
Jonny.
Hi. We saw you there. Have just found your website and have been reading the updates on the car.
I’m looking forwards to the day when I can drive an electric car without worries or a massive overdraft.
For now, I’ll stick with the bike and good old public transport. All the best though. We need the pioneers as well as the big-bucks to drive the engineering forwards.