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Well I am most thrilled to say it’s another first for these pages and boy what a scoop it is!!
What you are looking at there folks is a genuine Sky Harvester, or an Awyr Cynaeafwr as they are called here in greenest Wales. It’s not an exaggeration to say that Wales, this small and sparsley populated land, is not just a world leader in this kind of green technology, but decades ahead of the rest of the field.
The drivers of these high-tech gizmos are locally known as ‘Mad Maxers’ and this one here, he’s about to turn left and head towards those clouds you see there. When he gets directly below, he will extend those telescopic side arms upwards and they will in effect, snag the cloud which is then dragged back down to earth and then towed off to a Cwmwl Ysguboe for storage. These Cwmwl Ysgubors or ‘Cloud Barns” are, as you can imagine, enormous great affairs, but as you would expect from the creators of such advanced tech, great care has been taken to blend them into the countryside by making them look like hills. They can be seen throughout my landscape photos and I could easily point them out, but unless you have a keen trained eye - one like mine, you would mistakenly think you are just looking at an ordinary hill. Sigh. I know, I know ….frustrating right…. What can I say……apart from this is why Wales is so hilly - cloud barns.
In times of severe drought, the cloud barn is opened up and a cloud towed out to the brown and parched field. It is then caused to dissolve in effect through vibrational frequency undulation - but not another hi-tech gizmo, oh no, the method employed here is traditional and hands on. The entire inclusive green community will turn out men, women, children, babes in arms, grandmas and grandpas, and they will sing as one, as only a Welsh choir can sing and as they do they march bravely into the cloud voices undulating as they sing the song “the green green grass of home” which was famously introduced into the world psyche by the Welsh fertility god, boombox, Vegas blue rinse babe magnet, and some might say pop-singing Priapus incarnate, the icon and indisputable true King of all Wales by both birth and deed, the living legend that is - (put your hands together and have your underwear at hand) - Mr ….. Sir …..Tom …… Jones! And, as the inclusive eco friendly community choir close the song down, the cloud in effect melts and hey presto! We have rain, and of course, a very wet inclusive choir and re-greened agricultural field.
And that is why, generally speaking, Welsh people are such unbelievably fabulous singers with voices like angels, because from the earliest age, they have learned to sing in the clouds……
Continuing with the "phlebotomy" theme from my previous post, this is a high tech collection system for the sap from maple trees and eventual syrup production. It reminded me of an intravenous system. The tubing can be either gravity fed, i.e. on a hillside, or with a pumping system.
The Pompidow Centre was inaugurated in January 1977, in Paris.
It's an innovative, risky, striking building that would forever change the landscape of the French capital, and especially that of the Marais district.
Forty-one years later the Pompidou has established itself as the most important modern and contemporary art museum in Europe.
It was designed in the style of high-tech architecture by the architectural team of Richard Rogers, Renzo Piano and Gianfranco Franchini.
Die UCH11 war eine Trioden-Hexoden-Verbundröhre für regelbare Mischstufen und besass statt des für Röhren häufigen und charakteristischen Glaskolbens einen Stahlkolben. Es gab verschiedene Hersteller, dieses Exemplar wurde von Valvo/Philips in Hamburg für die deutsche Wehrmacht hergestellt.
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The UCH11 was a triode-hexode composite tube for adjustable mixing circuits and had a steel bulb instead of the glass bulb that was common and characteristic for tubes. There were several manufacturers, this one was made by Valvo/Philips in Hamburg for the German Armed Forces (Wehrmacht).