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03 Nov 2009, 2:06 am

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Native Americans considered how their acts would affect the seventh generation forward.

We borrow the world from our children.


That is nonsense. We are under no compulsion to have children. And some of the plains indians drove buffalo herds over the cliff to get their meat. The injuns were too technologically primitive to be as wasteful as we are.

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03 Nov 2009, 3:25 am

The last question.



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03 Nov 2009, 5:08 pm

ruveyn wrote:
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Native Americans considered how their acts would affect the seventh generation forward.

We borrow the world from our children.


That is nonsense. We are under no compulsion to have children. And some of the plains indians drove buffalo herds over the cliff to get their meat. The injuns were too technologically primitive to be as wasteful as we are.

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obviously a taker not a leaver


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03 Nov 2009, 11:35 pm

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Energy is all around us, the problem is harnessing it. Easier said than done.


Harnessing and producing Energy can take Energy. Hydrogen may be facing a chicken & egg situation as we need Energy to combust hydrogen to create Energy!

I was reading a new theory on the origins of life, it mentioned the efficiency of ATP chemical reactions common in cellular life. It sounds like a free lunch and more. Maybe we could utilise that, at least for low demand situations? Imagine a Biobattery that recharges itself, and could be used to supply startup energy for something like small hydrogen powered car?

Also with the Sun and Solar Power, research the "Photovoltaic Ceiling".



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04 Nov 2009, 12:16 am

I would like to see the science behind driving a herd of buffalo over a cliff. Two guys flapping blankets would get stepped on.

I know the dig, the top layer were butchered, but thunder and lightning is the most likely cause, and oppertunity the butchering.

After 13,000 years of use America was a climax of perfection.

A few hundred years of superior Europeans left it a mess.

First the looting and destruction, now leaving a National Debt to the future.

Someone else's grandchildren can pay for it.



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04 Nov 2009, 6:43 am

Ahaseurus2000 wrote:
0_equals_true wrote:
Energy is all around us, the problem is harnessing it. Easier said than done.


Harnessing and producing Energy can take Energy. Hydrogen may be facing a chicken & egg situation as we need Energy to combust hydrogen to create Energy!

I was reading a new theory on the origins of life, it mentioned the efficiency of ATP chemical reactions common in cellular life. It sounds like a free lunch and more. Maybe we could utilise that, at least for low demand situations? Imagine a Biobattery that recharges itself, and could be used to supply startup energy for something like small hydrogen powered car?

Also with the Sun and Solar Power, research the "Photovoltaic Ceiling".


There ain't so such thing as a Free Lunch --- Robert A. Heinlein.

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04 Nov 2009, 8:47 am

The world is full of Aspie energy too. :P


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04 Nov 2009, 11:00 am

ruveyn wrote:
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Native Americans considered how their acts would affect the seventh generation forward.

We borrow the world from our children.


That is nonsense. We are under no compulsion to have children. And some of the plains indians drove buffalo herds over the cliff to get their meat. The injuns were too technologically primitive to be as wasteful as we are.

ruveyn

Canada was founded on the fir trade. There was only one type of boat at the time that was capable of transporting all those men and their supplies thought he Canadian wildeerness, and was light enough to pick up and carry on their shoulders for "portage". Indian technology.



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04 Nov 2009, 11:02 am

Hail to the Indians.


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