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"What is the future of energy?" CNN survey

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Re: THE COMMON MAN SAVES THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!

Unread postby wisconsin_cur » Sat 06 Oct 2007, 03:57:24

And, of course, the really scary thing is that people will vote for the canidate who promises to deliver lightening in a bottle.
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Re: THE COMMON MAN SAVES THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!

Unread postby Laughs_Last » Sat 06 Oct 2007, 12:52:27

I have a plan to harness CNN's readers:
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Re: THE COMMON MAN SAVES THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!

Unread postby TheDude » Sat 06 Oct 2007, 14:51:59

Thats from Conan the Barbarian, right?

Dug around in your photo album laughs, wazzup with this John Howard is Gay photo?

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Photoshop special I assume.

I notice a lot of informed responses to some of the answers, including strong criticisms of hydrogen and some of the wackier notions. Gotta admit I love the guy who bemoans all the energy lost in springs. There are also contributors who bring up subjects like population control.
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Re: THE COMMON MAN SAVES THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!

Unread postby Ferretlover » Sat 06 Oct 2007, 15:07:16

I read a few of them-but, my jaw could only drop so far.
The stupidity is overwhelming.
I'll bet a great many of them will Still be discussing what "will save us as soon as someone researches it" while they are dump diving for food....
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Re: THE COMMON MAN SAVES THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!

Unread postby Judgie » Sun 07 Oct 2007, 19:00:03

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', 'T')hat last one is just precious.



I FEEL VERY STRONGLY THAT OUR ENERGY NEEDS IN THE FUTURE WILL BE ABSOLVED BY THE RE-DISCOVERY OF THE VAST SEA OF ETHERIC ENERGY THAT SURROUNDS US AND CAN BE OBTAINED EVEN IN THE VOID OF SPACE. MAGNETICS WILL HELP US UNDERSTAND HOW TO EXTRACT THIS ENERGY. PERPETUALLY....


Feel the etheric energy all around us..... 8O


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Re: THE COMMON MAN SAVES THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!

Unread postby jdmartin » Mon 08 Oct 2007, 13:10:25

:lol: :lol: There's some great ones. This one is priceless:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'F')rom: Christina Wimberly, Rome, NY
Date: September 20, 2007
Your view: Honestly, I believe that in the year 2020, America and many more developed countries will be running on things as simple as salt water and paper! It sounds ludacris at the moment, however, now it is quite possible. I mean, I just read an article about the new nano battery that is as thin as a sheet of paper and can potentially serve for better purpose than the regular old double A....or any other type for that matter. Also, saltwater, some super smart guy actually figured out a way to combust it using radiowaves. True story and our future! It really is as simple as that.


Maybe it sounds Fitty-Cent or Jay-Z instead of Ludacris, at the moment :lol: . Can't even get out of her Ipod long enough to realize that Ludacris, contrary to popular opinion, isn't really a word, though ludicrous is.

This was a great thread, though. And illustrates why there's such a plethora of doomers. For every well-reasoned post there were at least 10 idiotic ones....
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Re: THE COMMON MAN SAVES THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!

Unread postby Cabrone » Mon 08 Oct 2007, 15:05:48

Denny Wrote
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'L')ike if you took all the AA batteries in the world, what it represent of the electrical powoer used in one day? 3 seconds? 15 seconds? Not sure, but it wold be insignificant, that is for sure.


Civilisation (according to my figs) runs on around 13TW so thats 312TWh p.day.

Taking a standard Duracell AAA battery that you'd use on the TV remote,

Voltage = 1.5 V, Amp hrs = 1.15
Therfore energy content = 1.725Wh or 0.001725KWh

By my maths, that's 1.8 * 10^14 AAA batteries to power civilisation for 1 day.

Looks like we're saved.

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Re: THE COMMON MAN SAVES THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!

Unread postby lexicon » Mon 08 Oct 2007, 17:37:14

I know where this guy gets his ideas from:

From: yefim k, queens, NY
Date: September 15, 2007

But if you want a short term solution, how about this... Build more gyms and tread mills, and connect them to some kind of energy harvesting technology. That will solve not just energy problems, but also some other problems that we as people are experiencing.... How many people would get off their couches to save some money?

Here is another solution... im preaty sure some other people must have thought of this, but may not have said anything due to a fear of being judged in a bad way... We are a source of energy (people and all living things). We use a lot of it, but we store a lot of it too. So when someone comes up with some kind of a machine or a method to extract energy from a dead body (as gross as it sounds).... it would change the world.


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