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morning, i have just posted two longer more detailed videos of the grain mill working in the wind. they are on the bottom of the video page of our website. http://www.granaryat stonehenge.org i am sorry for the long download times.
the 9MB video has an overhead view of the carousel turning in the wind and should answer a lot of your questions about how the sails work. you can see the sails opening and closing.

enjoy

that is
http://granaryatstonehenge.org

sorry

is this a joke. cos its got me laughing. !!!!

Apart from the engineering aspects of you theory, have you given much thought to the logistics of operating such a construction?

It seems to me that the volume of grain needed to make such an endeavour worthwhile would be massive. It would take an awful lot of people an awful lot of time to transport enough grain to one site. Then it would take them an awful long time to get it back to where it was needed. They're on foot remember, probably carrying the stuff on their backs. There's got to be a certain radius around the site, beyond which it would be impractical to haul your grain. The area within this radius would presumably be the area within which you'd be able to recruit for building. It should be possible to indicate the population density needed, then by comparing the population density with the avilable amount of grain you could feasibly have grown in such an area, you'd be able to work out if you could feed enough people to make such a contrivance theoretically possible.

Firstly respect is obviously due, for a new idea about stonehenge and the balls to follow it up so enthusiastically. the model looks very tempting, a full scale replica made from all the right materials and with the same building techniques would be even more so.
But when you say the idea wont go away, why wont it ?
what is being done to get the tests performed, EH and the arceoes would have to both want it and they're not specially well known for accepting another persons point of view especially about their beloved stonehenge
It would be good to know something specific about the place but i'm afraid that nothing will ever come of this brilliant idea, and then end up as another theory about prehistory.
But also people like stonehenge the way it is... mysterious. Wouldn't something as seemingly mundane as a grannary be a tad dull.
Which would you visit a suspected alien landing pad or dusty miller's place

Something similar yet unrelated is this. In Axum Ethiopia there is a church dedicated to St Mary inside is the Ark of the covenent rediculous isnt it?
And yet all the information says it to be so, but of coure no-ones aloud inside and it cant be proved one way or t'other.
It's similar because no matter how fantastic the theory if everybody isn't on your side it will fall through at some point and end up as a footnote at the end of a chapter in someones book.

Educating the young .. "From Stonehenge to the Big Bang:"

http://www.wired-gov.net/wg/wg-news-1.nsf/0/3B5128A7A6ABF22D80257410005AEE5B?OpenDocument

"One activity saw students pulling each other along with their little finger on a mini wooden sledge running on rollers, to demonstrate on a smaller scale how some of the stones weighing more than a bus full of people were transported hundreds of kilometres" TMA infiltrates the young ;)