From: sciencescot@gmail.com   
      
   On Sunday, 7 July 2019 18:01:06 UTC+1, Jim Wilkins  wrote:   
      
   > You make using less than you do sound like such a sacrifice. Some   
   > friends were Native Americans who lived happily without electricity or   
   > running water, as I had learned to do in the Army. I helped them as I   
   > could but they didn't ask for much beyond filling their water jugs,   
   > and let me cut firewood on their undeveloped land. I've never seen   
   > anyone else so immune to cold weather.   
   >   
   > I'm a degreed scientist and custom equipment designer/builder who   
   > spent a career carefully analyzing customer requirements and creating   
   > a minimum-cost solution that satisfied them.   
   >   
   > When I applied that analysis to my own life I found a lot I didn't   
   > need and ways to cut the cost of things I did, such as improving the   
   > insulation in my house. Trying to invent something new and useful for   
   > the energy market isn't a fetish, it's a business plan.   
   >   
   > It helps that I can design and build electronic and mechanical items I   
   > want but can't buy, for instance I've turned old laptops into portable   
   > TVs that receive and record over-the-air broadcasts through a largely   
   > home made 50' high antenna system while everyone else around here   
   > relies on expensive cable. The laptops can connect to a larger high   
   > def display for the few programs that are worth it   
   >   
   > Scotland question: What did the "Picts" (Latin for Painted) call   
   > themselves, and what happened to them?   
      
   What I am most interested in is providing the same power which people have in   
   their comfort zones now, but with renewable energy and supplied for the most   
   part via the grid, because that is the only way I know of to transition to   
   100% renewable energy.   
      
   If my Wind, solar, storage and back-up system designer also can help those who   
   want to go off grid, for whatever reason, then so much the better.   
      
   I am not at all sure that you really need my designer tool's help though Jim.   
   You seem quite contented with your power situation as is?   
      
      
   The Picts suffered some kind of cultural absorption by the Gaels around the   
   year 900 AD, I think but it is not my area of interest.   
   Google is my friend for that kind of thing.   
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picts#History   
   There is one guy who called himself a "Pict" if that counts?   
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbie_the_Pict   
      
   I'm not for resurrecting "the Picts", per se, myself but I would like to see   
   Scotland win its independence, in which case exporting renewable energy power   
   to England could be a profitable business for Scotland.   
      
      
   By the way, congratulations to the American ladies football team which just   
   won the world cup 2-0 against the Netherlands.   
      
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