Sustainable Living?
I ask:
Can anyone offer up a short list of what humans need to sustain life?
x amount of potable water
x amount of calories / food
oxygen
shelter from the elements
?
COMMENTS
Mike:
For a specified amount a time ?
What is the gender age and weight of the person?
Are they carieng for themselves or are there others involved?
What is the region they [...]
Economics Of Alternative Energy Consumption
This article is part of a series on The Waterfall House energy experiment.
At the beginning of a this experiment, an economist said, “Using water will be cheaper than using electricity to control our environment.” A scientist said, “It can not be done.” So, the economist set-up the scientific experiment in an attempt to prove the [...]
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Cooling System Formulas
This article is part of a series on The Waterfall House energy experiment.
The Waterfall House had been up and running for several months.
After having two record days of heat in a row, I was asked:
Q: HOW IS YOUR COOLING SYSTEM WORKING NOW!!!???
A: Great! The details follow. In a nutshell — Yeeha! Unfriggin’ believable!!!
60 [...]
About Waterfall Homes and Aqua Living
This article is part of a series on The Waterfall House energy experiment.
Using steam, solar and hydro to help reduce your energy consumption has many benefits. Two of the most obvious benefits are saving money and reducing your “footprint”.
Following are more ideas:
I. What Living In A Waterfall Does
1. cools the house evaporatively (roof [...]
Introducing The Waterfall House
Prelude
Introduction
Q: Is a waterfall house possible?
1. Is it physically possible?
2. Is it economical?
A: Yes.
The escalating global energy crisis, and resulting climate crisis, is a problem worth solving. My preference would be nuclear fusion; however, the scientists have told me it is many years away. In fact, it may not ever be possible on [...]
The Hydro Fusion Heating and Cooling System
Introduction
Yes. For many years, I have imagined different types of living environments, such as “Tunnel Under.” Tunnel Under living has to do with living underground. It would be a last resort to escape from environmental threats. As a child, I did imagine these events would occur in my life time. Sorry [...]
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Forecasting: The Impact of Governance and Globalization
Traducción al español
Based on The Economics Of Y2K
Abstract: The Tunnel Under Thesis
Planning and control are two traditional functions of management. Once a plan has been determined, it must be carried out. The cost involved in controlling the plan is dependent on the quality of the plan. The quality of the planning function depends largely on [...]
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The Economics Of Y2K
The following thesis was started in 1998. As a group heavily involved in IT (information technologies), we were curious as to the implications of the Y2K (year 2000) computer “bug”. At that time, most computers had been built with the ability to handle dates using two digits for the year. When the [...]
The Pickle as Will and Idea
Is it possible to light up a pickle like a light bulb?
Abstract.
The seminal work on pickle electrification by Hamburgen et al.(1989) http://www.research.digital.com/wrl/techreports/html/TN-13/ raised many further questions, of which this work will address none. Instead we propose to explore the zeitgeist of the electric pickle experience in a global context, limning as it were, the Jungian [...]
Oil And Petroleum Products
(Turn out the lights… the fossil fuel party’s over.)
All of us depend upon oil. Almost everything we do involves oil. I am typing this message and you are reading it using products and energy that derive substantially from oil.
Here are some numbers:
world consumption in 2001: 77 million barrels per day out of this, 5 million [...]