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Power with Pride going Belly-up?
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Posted by one under god, Thursday, 10 September 2009 10:28:26 AM
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Dear FG,
It's a step in the right direction - but it's in early stages - it needs financial incentives to develop and educate the power producing industry and politicians. Renewal energy such as solar and wind - particularly in a country such as Australia is a more immediate solution to energy production. Currently in China, a solar power system is being built that will serve a population of three million. If they can do it - what's wrong with us? Admittedly, it takes a large area of solar panels - but in the interior of Australia, of vast emptiness, and never ending sunshine, we have the means that no other country can boast of. Posted by Foxy, Thursday, 10 September 2009 1:44:40 PM
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Pericles: "Sounds pretty cruel to me."
These guys aren't being treated too badly. My understanding is it is more usual to give the algae a bad case of sunburn by drying them in the sun, then squish 'em between huge rollers to extract the oil. The remains of the algae carcases are feed to the pigs, and we burn the extracted oil in our cars. Sure is a hard life, if you are algae. But that is what they get for being so selfish and making us belt the oil out of them. If they were more cooperative like these little buggers http://j.mp/TVYdK and put the oil in their poo, life would be much so much easier for everyone. But I would not worry about it too much. Since these new kids on the block are 3 times as much oil as the algae, it is likely the algae will find themselves relegated to a retirement scum in the pond before too long. Posted by rstuart, Thursday, 10 September 2009 2:16:08 PM
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Imagine..that you have lived your entire life in a dark tunnel..
under one god, Imagine..that you have lived your entire life in a brightly lit room so bright that you are blinded. Well, that's what happened to all the left-wing do-gooders. I venture to say that a number of lives are lost due to the ignorance & non-caring of such blinded members in society. How many times do we see their idiocy on the news. Throwing people out on the street because they can't afford the rent because they lost their jobs. People have to sell their homes to pay for lawyers to fend off some idiotic claim. People not being able to get their money back from unscrupulous Super annuation schemes. People being treated like scum by bureaucrats because they stood up & reported wrong-doing. The list is endless ! Yes, many people have committed suicide because of such situations in which the LAW has let them down. The tax Dept. haunts people forever because they owe a few hundred $ yet some callous individuals seem to get the support of officialdom to rip off others with impunity. It is often reported but hey, was is being done about it ? Zilch ! If some of these victims then resort to taking their own lives again no notice is taken. Where are the help lines for families who hit rock bottom ? Where are the help lines for public service bullying ? Where are the help lines for youngsters not finding a place in society ? Nowhere ! Ask your local member to address these issues. This far more serious then some politically incorrectness on which so much resource is constantly wasted. Address peoples' needs not their vanity. By all means report suicides but report why & not how ! Posted by individual, Thursday, 10 September 2009 3:01:40 PM
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Appologies about that, clicked on the wrong button
Posted by individual, Thursday, 10 September 2009 3:13:15 PM
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It was good having PtB on the thread so soon, Forrest thought.
PtB's observation with respect to mass energy "All matter is energy. ...... the maxim was ... Now the maxim is .... Little particles in motion; Circles within circles." was deep. It stirred old memories in Forrest. The silent relentless click of the clathrate gun was now being drowned out by the much more audible chatter of the Maxim, allowing Forrest some respite from the mental load of constantly envisioning a planet with a runaway greenhouse effect due to increasing methane levels in the atmosphere. For some reason it called up some of the lyrics of 'Windmills of Your Mind': "Round, like a circle in a spiral Like a wheel within a wheel. Never ending or beginning, On an ever spinning wheel ..... . . . . Like a clock whose hands are sweeping Past the minutes on its face And the world is like an apple Whirling silently in space Like the circles that you find In the windmills of your mind" The mind was a funny thing. From where had Forrest remembered that tune, those lyrics? What had triggered the memory? Was there a link somewhere that could make it all plain? Try as he would, Forrest just couldn't get to grips with it. PtB's reference to 'the Good Lord’s little helpers, grass, trees, vegetables and grains', was all very well, but what about the blooming cyanophyta, the blue-green algae that were a major part of the subject of this thread? They were being left right out in the cold, just like the Australian public were in the political arena with respect to utilities privatisations. That's what Forrest wanted to get ventilated. Fire sales of public assets to fund the lifestyles of the politico-bureaucracy, the headlong retreat from open source and non-patentable technology by the custodians of existing public utility enterprises, and the appropriation of taxpayer funded or assisted research into proprietary technologies. All of it predicated upon the delivery of a captive market to privatised utilities by the politico-bureaucracy: a sell-out of the electors. Posted by Forrest Gumpp, Thursday, 10 September 2009 4:32:12 PM
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the return..for acres..equals an small oil well..in algie that converts into oil...get control over the oil refineries...algie costs cents to the barrel
but it depends on our point of vieuw
A poor man..trudged up and down..the steep staircases..in the high apartment buildings..in his neighborhood...He knocked on doors and asked for charity...At the end of a tiring day,..he sat on a park bench and counted the coins people had given him.
His mind wandered and he dreamed of better times.
"One day,..I will be rich...I will own great fortunes..and have a lot of influence in the community."..The poor man rubbed his hands..and his forehead became wrinkled..as he thought.
"Then,"..he thought to himself,.."I will make a new law...All new houses which are built..will have to be only one or two stories high. My life will be much easier!..I will not have to climb all those stairs in order to collect alms!"
His greatest fantasy was to have an easier time..while collecting charity!..He did not realize that there is more to life than begging.
Although he was dreaming of a bright future,.he could only imagine it by comparing it to his present conditions...We should not make the same mistake when thinking about Moshiach.
Imagine..that you have lived your entire life in a dark tunnel...Your parents and grandparents lived there too,..and so did their parents and grandparents...You have grown accustomed to the darkness and developed the necessary skills to survive.
You move through life,..sometimes staggering in the dark,..at other times feeling your way along...You are totally resigned to the fact that this is what life is,..and that it will continue to be so.
But you have been told..or have read in some ancient books..that long ago,..your ancestors lived in a very different,..well-lighted place...You have heard..that there is indeed a light at the end of this tunnel,..that you don't necessarily have to spend your entire life in darkness.
And besides,..you have learned to cope here,..to make yourself comfortable in the darkness,..so why would you want to risk changing things