{"id":513,"date":"2012-11-13T22:07:42","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T21:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.morbidcornflakes.ch\/thduggies_blog\/?p=513"},"modified":"2012-11-13T22:07:42","modified_gmt":"2012-11-13T21:07:42","slug":"kites-cars-and-generators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/2012\/kites-cars-and-generators","title":{"rendered":"Kites, cars, and generators"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once again, it’s time for a trifecta of trivia.<\/p>\n

First, we have the lovely kite flying of Ray Bethell<\/a>, the kind of kite flying I don’t even deserve to wish I could do, given how little effort I’ve put into flying kites in the course of my lifetime.<\/p>\n

Second, an Arizona woman who clearly needs a civics refresher, particularly on how that electoral college works.\u00c2\u00a0 In frustration over Romney’s loss, she ran over her husband for not voting<\/a> – even though Romney carried Arizona.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s not known if she drove a Civic in this incident.<\/p>\n

Finally, we have four Nigerian teens who have developed a way to convert electricity and urine into hydrogen gas<\/a> for a generator.\u00c2\u00a0 Though that sounds like a silly wannabe perpetuum mobile, its advantage would be to store energy from an unreliable source (wind, sun) in a pressurized container.\u00c2\u00a0 (The site is temporarily unavailable as I write, probably because several news platforms have linked to it.)<\/p>\n

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Once again, it’s time for a trifecta of trivia. First, we have the lovely kite flying of Ray Bethell, the kind of kite flying I don’t even deserve to wish I could do, given how little effort I’ve put into flying kites in the course of my lifetime. Second, an Arizona woman who clearly needs a civics refresher, particularly on how that electoral college works.\u00c2\u00a0 In frustration over Romney’s loss, she ran over her husband for not voting – even though Romney carried Arizona.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s not known if she drove a Civic in this incident. Finally, we have four Nigerian teens who have developed a way to convert electricity and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":514,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions\/514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}