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Asteroids may yield precious metals, cosmic riches
Using space-faring robots to mine precious metals from asteroids almost sounds easy when former astronaut Tom Jones describes it -- practically like clearing a snow-covered driveway.
Jones, an adviser to a bold venture that aims to extract gold, platinum and rocket fuel from the barren space rocks, said many near-Earth asteroids have a loose rocky surface held together only weakly by gravity.
"It shouldn't be too hard to invent a machine like a snow blower to pick up material off these asteroids," explained Jones, a veteran of four space shuttle missions.
But it will be risky and monstrously expensive, which is why some of the biggest and richest names in high-technology -- including the barons of Google and filmmaker James Cameron -- are behind the project.
If the plan gets off the ground as planned, robots could be extracting cosmic riches within 10 years.
Outside experts are skeptical because the program would probably require untold millions or perhaps billions of dollars, plus huge advances in technology. Yet the same entrepreneurs behind this idea also pioneered the selling of space rides to tourists -- a notion that seemed fanciful not long ago.
JD L130 snowblower(42inch) - Snowblower Forum : Snow Blower Forums
The gearbox on my 42inch snowblower (attachment for my L130) has a broken shaft. The replacement part for it from JD is over $600. Does anyone know if JD is using third party parts on their blowers. I recently rebuilt the Tuff Torq transaxle in my L130 with parts directly from TT. JD wanted $800+ for the part...I spent just over $100 including shipping to repair the transaxle. If I'm not mistaken your snowblower should not be completely interchangable with other snowblowers. I did a search on your L130 to determine the manufacturer and found that it was made by John Deere and not some other company, therefore the parts may be different. Hopefully someone with more experience with these tractors will come along to confirm this. Thanks
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Shovels, ice melt, warm clothes and snowblower repair were in high demand as 2 inches of snow reminded people winter is approaching fast.The Engineer (blog) - Dec 03, 2010
In the G-Wiz, heated seats can reduce the energy used for climate control by as much as 75 per cent compared to a blower heater.
USA Today - Nov 15, 2010
"We can have a snow blower on the front one day, clean a parking lot with a sweeper the next and then clean tar balls off the beach," Halloran says.Southtown Star - Nov 14, 2010
five bar stools, a bedroom set, patio furniture, a lawn mower, snowblower and other stuff in the Orland Park house valued at a total of $2500.