Re: [TCML] [Australia] Backyard boffin's shocking hobby

["Peter Terren" <pterren@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have had about 50,000 hits this week after being slashdotted and a lot of 
follow up including 3 newspaper sites, radio and TV appearances.
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/15/1734224
There was also a 12 minute program on Dutch TV about my stuff that should 
have screened a few hours ago.  I will put up the link to the download when 
it appears later.
Peter
www.tesladownunder.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "davep" <davep@xxxxxxxx>
To: "Tesla list" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 2:26 AM
Subject: [TCML] [Australia] Backyard boffin's shocking hobby


> www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4797417a4560.html
>
> Backyard boffin's shocking hobby
> By ASHER MOSES - SMH | Friday, 19 December 2008
>
> PETER TERREN/Tesladownunder.com
>
> By day he's a doctor but, when the sun goes down, Australian amateur 
> scientist Peter Terren spends his spare time tinkering with 500,000 volts 
> of electricity, practising the art he's dubbed "electrickery".
>
> Some middle-aged fathers with the urge to build things spend their 
> weekends holed up in a shed making spice racks and cubby houses, but 
> Terren, from Bunbury in Western Australia, is happiest conducting 
> ambitious experiments with his giant lightning machine known as a Tesla 
> coil.
>
> "The thrill of being next to something that is potentially lethal, 
> incredibly noisy ... that's the stuff I like - control and power - just 
> like kids like playing with blasters," Terren, a 52-year-old father of 
> three, said.
>
> [...much etc...]

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