From: John Woodgate
Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design
Subject: Re: How to build a windup generator?
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 07:00:31 +0000
Organization: JMWA Electronics Consultancy
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I read in sci.electronics.design that Steve Andrew
wrote (in <8JyE9.13773$hg1.34613@news-
server.bigpond.net.au>) about 'How to build a windup generator?', on
Mon, 25 Nov 2002:
>Mike Harding wrote:
>> On Mon, 25 Nov 2002 10:49:09 +0000, John Woodgate
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I read in sci.electronics.design that Tony Williams
>>> wrote (in
>>> <4b9ad93c11tonyw@ledelec.demon.co. uk>) about 'How to build a windup
>>> generator?', on Mon, 25 Nov 2002:
>>>> The project, (of cheap radios to people who could
>>>> barely afford radios, let alone the batteries), so
>>>> gripped Trevor Bayliss that he was in tears when
>>>> he was shown around the first manufacturing plant
>>>> in South Africa.
>>>
>>> Emotion of parturition. I wonder whether inventors get an oxytocin
>>> flood
>>
>> What's oxytocin?
>>
>> Mike
>
>AFAIK it's a synthetic hormone.
>
No, it's not synthetic, although it is possible that it can be
synthesized. It's a powerful hormone controlling oxygen levels in cells,
and is released during sexual pair-bonding between adults and during
childbirth.
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