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I stated previously that I started thinking about renewable power and one idea I had was the bellows hoover, updated and modernised to be powerful, quiet, cheap and entirely energy free.

It looks like the concept was abandoned decades ago, probably with the advent of the electric hoover.

My idea was to have a design much like a modern upright vacuum cleaner but with the wheels driving a rubber belt to two opposing cams driving push rods to pump two bellows in opposition so that there was suction all the time to two rows of nozzles sucking the dust from the carpet. The same cams and push rods would open and close valves which would allow the dust to be collected into an attached waste container that can be removed and emptied periodically.

Without a heavy motor or electrical cable and using low cost, long lasting parts it could be efficient, very cheap to purchase and run, light and manoeuvrable and have a very long service life.

Perfect for the global environment in this time of climate crisis.

Good evening dear reader. Some of you may remember me from some time ago and have even wondered why I haven’t posted or read your blogs for a couple of months so I’ll give a brief explanation.

Once again being undesirably dosed with antipsychotic medication has caused me immense problems and I deleted my blog and all of its contents, much of which I was incredibly pleased with. I guess now no one will ever know whether the Jupno people of Papua New Guinea have a weird perception as the University of California think or whether I’m correct and it’s just about their use of language; I can’t go backwards far enough to find that post. I’ll leave it up to your imagination.

Anyway my healthcare is finally improving a great deal having been transferred to Dr. Joanna Moncrieff and I feel I may be well enough to seek paid work again in the new year. Maybe I am due a Lotus Esprit but I won’t hold my breath.

I’ve done a lot of thinking recently and had some really interersting (to me) ideas about mental health science, renewable power generation and much I can’t remember now. I hope to post these ideas here and maybe someone will wonder whether I’m on to something, rather than just on something.

In the meantime here’s a song from an Australian band that makes me laugh out loud when I listen to it. There could be something affective in all that sunshine…