OLIVE MAKES SOME ELECTRICITY
OLIVE’S FIFTY NINTH POST
Olive
Mike has just shown me a strange thing
Mike
Yeah, I asked you to guess what it was.
Olive
And I couldn’t
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Mike
It has to do with our Wind farm story.
Olive
The one that’s being built at Silverton
Mike
That’s right. With hundreds of towers.
Now, last time you said you didn’t completely understand how a wind farm works.
And so I wracked my brains to find something which would help explain the principle, and I came up with this thing
Olive
Did you? Well, you’ve still got me beat.
Mike
Let’s try a movie clip. It will be easier if I show you that way
Olive
As you wish.
Mike
Katya can shoot my explanation
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Mike
After that we talked about other important things.
Indeed, you gave us a clue as to why you think you’ve lived to 108, Ollie.
That came after we’d found out about your exercise program and your punching abilities
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Mike
The last thing is the news that Eric has been promoted.
He’s now a featured writer on the internet paper he writes for, OhmyNews, International
Not bad of our 88 year old journalist, eh?
http://english.ohmynews.com/sub_form/column_list.asp?article_class=36
Olive
That’s wonderful!
Mike
Did you see this marvellous clip, everyone? . Don’t be put off by the Zombi look.
This is brilliant and so relevant to our interest.
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Tuesday, January 29th, 2008 at 12:20 am
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January 29th, 2008 at 1:32 am
Perfect advice for the rest of us Olive; stand up for yourself! I love those flashlights, I have yet to get one for myself, but they fascinate me.
I would love to see you attend the opening of the wind farm, if you can get to it, that is.
You make me smile, Olive!
January 29th, 2008 at 5:31 am
Hello Olive and Mike,
I think wind farms are a fabulous idea and I’d love to see many more of them popping up.
January 29th, 2008 at 5:33 am
Being born and raised on the prairie in Canada I keep hoping that wind farms will become a big thing here. Especially since it is more often than not windy, very windy.
January 29th, 2008 at 9:10 am
The idea of explaining wind farm is nice and i want that flashlight or torch too. I hope Olive will enjoy and be amazed when she sees the real wind farm. I want to see her reaction.
I am really happy watching the video…thanks.
January 29th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
Hi Olive
I just saw your item on the wind farm !!
It is so recognisable, because in Holland we do have a lot of windmills, the old ancient types and the new ones like in autralia !!
I will try to post some from my neighbourhood !!
January 29th, 2008 at 10:55 pm
Hello Olive, how are you? My husband has one of those torches! I bought it for Christmas for him and it comes in really handy! I believe you can also buy wind up radios now as well!…saves you having to buy batteries, and I dont think it takes too much ‘elbow grease’ to wind up!
I love those wind farms! I know that a lot of people dont like them but they fascinate me! Theres something really relaxing about those massive ’sails’ moving round! There are some off shore where we go on our holidays and I could sit for hours watching them!
Keep up the excercises Ollie! xxxxxx
Karen UK
January 30th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
Mike and Ollie, I love reading your latest discoveries and hearing your stories, so I’ve nominated you for a “You Make My Day” award, Hooroo,
Christine in very HOT Sydney
http://missmuffettwo.blogspot.com/
February 1st, 2008 at 2:34 am
Great blog today Mike and Olive. Congrats to Eric for the promotion…Cheers!
February 2nd, 2008 at 2:38 pm
I see your quite the gal and I’ve never seen a windmill farm.
One of my friend bought a windmill but they did something wrong when they installed it and the bushing berring went out.
I need to check out oh my news.
Olive your some gal and Thank you Mike for letting us know about Olive an her blob.
Dora, Naples Idaho USA
February 2nd, 2008 at 3:08 pm
Hi Olive, Mike and Katya
Sorry, I haven’t been around much, life has been rather hectic for the last few weeks. However, I pop in every now and then to make sure you’re all behaving yourselves…glad to see you are…keep an eye on the other two, Olive!
February 3rd, 2008 at 9:22 am
Hello, Olive, and Mike,
I’m very glad to see you feel good.
I can’t see the videos… I’m sorry…
Kisses from Burgundy, in France…
Flo
February 11th, 2008 at 11:13 am
Hi Mike and Olive.It’s been a while since I have gotten to visit you. Olive looks beautiful as always and Mike, you are a handsome chap and that pie looks delicious. Shame on you for teasing us like that.:-).I am sorry your wife is sick and wish her a speedy recovery. Take care. I will check back soon.
Pat
Hi Pat, so glad you’ve come back for a look to see how we’re going. The photo of me is not recent, sadly. But all of us and now in good health. Ollie has bounced back, as has Katya. Did I tease you with pie? Mostly I was teasing myself since I’ve now sworn off them. Mike the helper
February 13th, 2008 at 3:40 am
What a way to learn about electricity. Have one of those torches myself and yet never really knew how they worked. Thanks for the lesson Mike and Ollie, I think you make an outstanding visual instructor with just the right amount of humour and punch-strength for the job!
Wishing all of you well and thanks for the reminder that clean energy is our most important task for the future.
Spaz
Susanne, hopefully, we’ll be talking more about energy and the wind farm in the future. Mike the helper
February 13th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
hi! I am a 5th grade blogger from SAS and I came to your blog because of your blog was updated on lots of blog rolls! your blog is Great! Comment on mind too Thank you!
-Arial-
Welcome Arial. Where is Sas. is that Saskatchewan in Canada? Mike the helper