Sunday, March 2, 2008

First blog post

We have an idea! Yes, impressive, we know, and only the first month of the challenge. Well, here goes. I mean, I'm not the type to dither, stall, or try to flesh out an incredibly short blog post. So, like I said before, approximately one line ago, or possibly more if the blog spaces this out more, here is the idea.
The village is above a stream, right? So we have a lever, anchored to the base of the village, that catches the streamwater and catapults it into the village. But you're probably wondering how this lever operates. Well, we have 2 ideas. First, we have a bucket attached to the catapult with a pulley. The bucket fills, and at the bottom of the tank, hits a stick thing that knocks the bottom out. You kinda have to see it. The other idea is that we divert the flow from the spigot, arcing it more so that the bucket won't fill when it gets close to the bottom. Again...you kinda have to see it.
The ideas are good. We know they are. But for the uninformed, clearly unintelligent reader, we will explain why. There is no electricity, so if this thing goes wrong in Africa, it's easy to fix without having to teach every African village how. Also, the parts are easily replaceable. This device is very adaptable, both for the purposes of the challenge and in real life. We can alter the height of the lever or size of the bottom, allowing each village to determine its own needs. This is just an idea, but we hope to go ahead with it, and fine-tune it as we go.

1 comment:

aWarrior said...

who's making apocalypse vaults for seeds? Did anisha write this post?