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Engineers Without Borders Australia (EWB) is building LEGO wind turbines in capital cities across the nation for Engineering Week! Event details The public’s imagination will be captured by participating in the construction of over 3,500 LEGO bricks (...) (17 years ago, 10-Aug-07, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.mediawatch, FTX) !
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In lugnet.loc.au, Ross Crawford wrote: -snip- (...) And from (URL): (...) Giving Sydney one week head start might hinder the chances of true competition happening somewhat. Still, one can never underestimate the complacency of Sydneysiders, I guess. (...) (17 years ago, 10-Aug-07, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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(...) Just creating a level playing field, I would have thought :-) Kerry (17 years ago, 10-Aug-07, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Interstate rivalry at it's finest! ;-) Cheers Richie Dulin (17 years ago, 11-Aug-07, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Well, handicapping in sport is the great Australian tradition, isn't it? Look at the Melbourne Cup ... I must say that while handicapping makes sense in social competitions, I can't understand it in professional sport. Image applying it in (...) (17 years ago, 12-Aug-07, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Thorpie was a swimmer? Yes, I seem to remember hearing he used to do a bit of swimming. Actually, I'd like to see runners in the Stawell Gift handicapped with hobbles of various lengths depending on their record, rather than just giving the (...) (17 years ago, 12-Aug-07, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Sounds very odd to me... ROSCO (17 years ago, 12-Aug-07, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Kerry and all No I don't think that will happen as Ken and I were Tech Advisor at the Brisbane Practice build at UQ today. I don't think there will be any level playing fields in this comp It will be interesting after today if any state (...) (17 years ago, 12-Aug-07, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Actually All from all my mail with EWB I did not even know that this comp is classed as a speed build ?? I was under the impression it was a fundraiser and a test to see if the states could actually make the turbine provide power just using (...) (17 years ago, 12-Aug-07, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Hi Rosco, This sounds like a great project! Will you be publishing the details of the design? I would be interested to know how you went about selecting the size of the various components, gear ratios etc. Greetings, David Wegmuller (17 years ago, 12-Aug-07, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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(...) Well, don't get mad... get even. Cheers Richie Dulin (17 years ago, 12-Aug-07, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Ross Nothing to do with the question just general is the Lego Wind Turbine scale to a real one?? Just interested would like to build a display one of my own (of course you get the dedication for designing it) but I was looking at scaling it (...) (17 years ago, 16-Aug-07, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) No, it is inspired by many. (...) Sure, go for it. But you should credit the EWB guys too - they designed the nacelle and all the gearing, I just designed the tower & blades. ROSCO (17 years ago, 16-Aug-07, to lugnet.loc.au)
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