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Bolshevik

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  1. I don't know if twi is worth talking about or not. Talking about them doesn't make them go away. Sometimes talking about it diffuses the pressure. Sometimes it doesn't.
  2. he's constantly vibrating . . . we could harness the energy of a billion of these . . .
  3. nope. but those are good options too. here: http://discovermagazine.com/2008/oct/29-the-element-that-could-change-the-world/?searchterm=vanadium%20flow%20batteries
  4. there's simpler things . . . building materials that hold and release heat energy around certain temperatures . . . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase_Change_Material (google for more info) there's a guy in Utah or Colorado built his house around this concept. I think greenhouses use vats of water in a similar way. Leave the water in the sun during the day and let it cool during the night, releasing it's heat energy. Some materials change their crystal structure at temperatures we like, absorbing energy and releasing it where we like it. Works great I hear. They also use these materials in batteries and bombs . . . . . . oh, and with the hamster wheel, store what he does in a battery, it may take time but that battery could later run something more significant than a calculator. That's where batteries become important. google "vanadium flow batteries" . . .those are cool. Uranium flow batteries sound cooler.
  5. I thought this was something they do every year. I may be wrong. "Congratulations . . .you are this year's biggest looser"
  6. when was a kid at an ROA I remember two ladies talking as they sucked on cigarettes about how long they were believing to live for. One of them said 300 years. Why stop at 300 I wonder?
  7. Ham, http://hackedgadgets.com/2008/02/27/hamster-powered-generator/
  8. Mrs. W was the uh, gold standard for faithfulness, or whatever.
  9. ants move as a unit, like one organism, does the individual matter to the ants? since all energy and matter is recycled, and can become parts of many new beings, do individuals really exist? and individuals are constantly changing, each moment is a snapshot, and then it is gone and reinvented. there is no "i", not really "I" don't think
  10. another thing is swamps, marshes, fens . . . not for energy . . . but waste removal there's a dude nearby I've thought about studying under. He studies the bacteria and such in swamps and wetlands, even has a fen established nearby I like to go to. He thinks we can take wetlands and turn them into waste processing factories. You could take the chlorocarbons from the drycleaner and feed it to a wetland, where some critters see it as food, and make it harmless and environmentally friendly and yada yada. sweet, now after energy production comes the problem of load leveling and energy storage. Like batteries, although, an elevated barrel of stored rain water would do. I know one dude whose family builds there own energy harnessing devices. Also met a dude who is totally off the grid. . . Don't know why more people don't build there own electricity generating devices. Probably the same reason nobody eats vegetables.
  11. there's another idea where you take a large football shaped balloon and add flaps around it, like a turbine. Add wires to each end and wrap them to a long rope and let the apparatus lift into the air a bit . . . bam, something to zap your kids with. I've always want to harness the energy from rain gutter water. And the torrent that fills the depression behind my apartment. I don't think the landlords would like it. . .
  12. no I don't think you or I could afford the packages it comes in. (I used the rabbit ears) It's a channel all about alternative energy and going green. It's cool. all kinds of neat ideas you can use and concepts they talk about. I hope to get to the dump, you can make a electricity generating wind mill from a treadmill motor.
  13. hey, have you seen that channel Planet Green?
  14. are you saying alternative energy will undermine cheap labor? No, there will always be hungry mouths everywhere. they'll just stop digging coal and start assembling more batteries. Of course, alternative energy contraptions are still reliant on fossil fuel for raw material.
  15. their building the world's largest hydrodam and a lot of the alternative energy studies are done by the Chinese.
  16. Perhaps I will. There uh, "teachings" were, I dunno, contradictory or, didn't flow together, IMO. Throw in some talk about love and heart, and any "apparent" contradiction or inconsistency could be "smoothed over". Or whatever.
  17. you might want to check on that, don't student loans dissolve upon death? At least, that's what I assured my wife . . .
  18. I thought they had the world's largest middle class. They even have Walmart, and a Chinese version of it also.
  19. Isn't China's pollution just part of a cycle? Just like developed countries went through? As they obtain wealth, they will change their methods?
  20. Bolshevik

    hello

    I get it sometimes, but it's usually gone the next day. I use both firefox and explorer on multiple computers.
  21. yeah, but it also taught that the young people are to provide a retirement for their parents. So I'm supposed to provide a retirement and receive an inheritance. Maybe it's me, but it seems like bad math.
  22. well I guess bucholz did okay. I've almost forgotten about dice-k-load-the-bases I expect a stronger push by the yanks and rays now. this could get ugly. I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if at the end of the season the 3rd place team in the A.L. east also has the 3rd best record in the American League. Not much consolation for not making the playoffs.
  23. I could probably Ebay the collaterals and some PFAL books
  24. My wayfer folks taught me if I want to buy a house I should wait for some of our relatives to die. The inherited money they leave would help to not go into debt and stay right with God. They did not have any other ideas. It's good to give your children goals and nice things to look forward to, right?
  25. crap, I went to give your post a +1 and missed, sorry Lugo for warm beer sorry for the scare Penny only goes like 5 innings on a good day, gives Masterson the ball Buchholz does seem a little ancy, and is not proven like halliday is. It seems like the Jays should hold onto him, but the Yanks taking him? that's scary
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