Scrapheap Challenge 2000

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Windmill – the teams

Manic Mechanics

Tony Glavey, Wayne Turner and Christopher Wright are three cheeky young geezers who all work at a Suffolk BMW garage. Tony is the team captain and is building his own computer, Chris constructs go-carts in his spare time and Wayne has a prize goatee. They're hoping that their day-to-day engineering experience can help them scoop the Scrapheap prize.

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Tony Glavey	Wayne Turner	Christopher Wright

Techno Teachers

Tim Harris, Andrew Samuels and Juliet Grant are a team of technology teachers all working at the Heath Park School in Wolverhampton. The first two are university friends. When they started teaching at the same school, they met Juliet working as the school technician. Larger-than-life Tim is team captain, Andrew is head of the department and usually Tim’s boss, and Juliet is a demon with a welding torch. Can a lifetime of learning be their trump card?

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Tim Harris	Andrew Samuels	Juliet Grant

The experts

Giles Pearson (Techno Teachers) is a Zimbabwean who has been building windmills all over the world for 20 years – in Germany, he helped with the largest horizontal-axis machine ever constructed. He now calls Cornwall home, and makes his living building small vertical-axis windmills to generate electricity on yachts.

Jim Barr (Manic Mechanics) is a lecturer in computing who designs water features – water pumps made from scrap – in his spare time. He has built many horizontal-axis machines from odds and ends and has written books on the subject.

The consultant/judge

For the past 15 years, Gordon Proven has run his own engineering company that devises alternative energy solutions, including hydro and solar energy systems. He has patented his own windmill blade design that prevents the destruction of the rotor by high winds. He claims that his mills have survived wind speeds of 150mph. Check out his website at www.provenenergy.com.

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