Two of My Suggestions for Making the World a Better Place

[Ozz]

Originally posted by newfangle
3) Hydrogen extractors used on human fecal matter. This one is for you Ozz . (yes such a beast exists).

Really the best thing we could do for the earth is get off it.

 

[Perfection]

Originally posted by Ozz
Really the best thing we could do for the earth is get off it.

I start building us an interstellar spaceship

 

[Richard III]

Originally posted by bobgote
and also, rmsharpe and RIII, do you actually read newfangle's posts
or do you just scan them for the words "socialism" and "cuba" and
then come to some ludicrous conclusion???

Re: Knowltok and little windmills, generally the windmills are big-ass huge ones, which is what makes them efficient. They get stuck on farms or along dead land alongside the Great Lakes and such - or at least, that's what they are starting to do up here. I think the last one I saw had 40 foot blades or something like that, on the coast of Lake Ontario near Cobourg.

Bad for birds, bad for the scenery, great for free power. Can't win them all!

Re: socialism and cuba, you've caught me out, bobgote! I am, actually, a Bot. I was programmed by ex-ARPANET researchers in 1991 to roam the GopherNet looking for references to communism, and respond to them with references to obscure jazz offshoots. I have evolved since then to cover my tracks with other auto-post features that make me appear to be sentient.

Finally, I am exposed.

R.III

 

[Perfection]

I have a large windfield about an hour from where I live. Its kinda fun to have a picnic and watch thme twirl

 

[bobgote]

Originally posted by Alcibiaties of Athenae
Wouldn't mushrooms in a subway lead to massive vermin problems?

NY already has a lot of Rats in it's subway, doesn't sound like a good idea to give them something more to eat.

At least it will lead to healthier rodents. This would mean less diseases in the city, and all the rats would be congregated in convenient places. And especially in a place where the homeless live too! a convenient food source. You see, Everyone benefits!!1

Originally posted by Richard III
Re: socialism and cuba, you've caught me out, bobgote! I am, actually, a Bot. I was programmed by ex-ARPANET researchers in 1991 to roam the GopherNet looking for references to communism, and respond to them with references to obscure jazz offshoots. I have evolved since then to cover my tracks with other auto-post features that make me appear to be sentient.

AHah!!! I thought as much!!1 I also believe that at least one poster on these forums is actually a number of trained monkeys on typewriters with some kind of slave worker to put it on the net.

 

[Perfection]

But it would be bad for the rats that got eaten

 

[bobgote]

Originally posted by Perfection
But it would be bad for the rats that got eaten

Not if you held educational classes informing them of their place in the whole scheme of things.

 

[Eowyn of Rohan]

Several new ideas: those of you who have ever been in Tunisia, their system of building is very efficient. Essentially they are huge open houses made of stone, with large windows: they soak up heat in the day and release at night. The Tunisians don't have a word for "central heating system"

Energy breakthrough! My friend Alicia's family has stopped paying the energy company for heat and water bills [just net and 'tricity] because of their innovative central heating system: a water tank on the roof with pipes through the walls, and also solar panels. The house looks wierd but if you take a shower you're using ZERO ENERGY! [well except that needed to pump the water...] And it feels just like the real thing.

 

[knowltok2]

Originally posted by Eowyn of Rohan
The Tunisians don't have a word for "central heating system"

And the eskimos don't have a word for air conditioning. What's your point? Great on those living in that climate for not needing to have a central heating system (You sure they don't have a word for oven, or fire pit?). Where I live, you just aren't going to find a building design that keeps me from having to heat my home in the winter.

 

[Perfection]

Originally posted by bobgote

Not if you held educational classes informing them of their place in the whole scheme of things.

Wouldn't that take away some of my hard earned money via taxes?

 

[Richard III]

Originally posted by Eowyn of Rohan
Several new ideas: those of you who have ever been in Tunisia, their system of building is very efficient. Essentially they are huge open houses made of stone, with large windows: they soak up heat in the day and release at night. The Tunisians don't have a word for "central heating system"

Energy breakthrough! My friend Alicia's family has stopped paying the energy company for heat and water bills [just net and 'tricity] because of their innovative central heating system: a water tank on the roof with pipes through the walls, and also solar panels. The house looks wierd but if you take a shower you're using ZERO ENERGY! [well except that needed to pump the water...] And it feels just like the real thing.

Yeah, the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp (a government-owned company) and a few housing design/supply exporters teamed up a few years back and designed a standardized, totally self-sufficient house that collects its own water, uses only insulation and solar power for heating, water cooling for air conditioning, solar power for electricity, etc.

Its only flaw is that its water self-sufficiency depends on its use of natural filters to recycle your urine, a'la "Waterworld." I'm not sure consumers - myself included - are ready for that innovation quite yet. Perhaps I will have one built on the Pacific coast and substitute a desalination plant for the urinator...

R.III

 

[newfangle]

Recycled urine is the key to the future. Mmmmmm nitrites....

 

[Perfection]

In the middle ages the spanish used stale urine as toothpaste.

 

[newfangle]

Urine is the most sanitary thing the body produces. But enough about waste, lets here some more ideas!

 

[Perfection]

How about gardens on roofs of houses, (unless its allready coverered with solar panels )

 

[Ozz]

Originally posted by knowltok2
Where I live, you just aren't going to find a building design that keeps me from having to heat my home in the winter.

Dig down 40 feet and built yer house so 7 feet of earth cover
it entirely. It will remain at a constant 56 f year round if its
below the perma-frost depth. Not practical on the Canadian
shield though.

 

[knowltok2]

Originally posted by Ozz


Dig down 40 feet and built yer house so 7 feet of earth cover
it entirely. It will remain at a constant 56 f year round if its
below the perma-frost depth. Not practical on the Canadian
shield though.

Not practical for my psychology either.

 

[Ozz]

Originally posted by knowltok2


Not practical for my psychology either.

How much time does the average person spent outside
in a day? For most people it wouldn't make any differience
as long as you ran periscope shafts down to bring in some
sunlight.

Most people are Morlocks by choice.

 

[bobgote]

Originally posted by Perfection


Wouldn't that take away some of my hard earned money via taxes?

Get the homeless to teach them, they get to work for they're food. (If educating rats can be called work)

Originally posted by Ozz
Dig down 40 feet and built yer house so 7 feet of earth cover
it entirely. It will remain at a constant 56 f year round if its
below the perma-frost depth. Not practical on the Canadian
shield though.

There's a town in South Australia (I think) called Coober Pedy, and they live underground there. Apparently it's very nice living underground, much better than living in the desert above. Very good energy wise too.

Just a thought, it may not work, but why not make roads out of rubber, and tires out of asphalt/concrete?

And more mass transit is good. Everyone should have trams like melbourne does

 

[Ozz]

Originally posted by bobgote
There's a town in South Australia (I think) called Coober Pedy, and they live underground there. Apparently it's very nice living underground, much better than living in the desert above. Very good energy wise too.

Emerald or Opal mines i believe.