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by weirdo27 » Wed 15 Mar 2006, 21:37:24
I was wondering if when the end of electricity comes-- to get our electricity needs mett if we can have like humans run on wheels to produce electricity. lol and this is totally just something stupid but i wonder if it could ever work. Like a gerbil on a wheel? hmm...
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Re: back to work
by 0mar » Wed 15 Mar 2006, 22:08:40
Electricity isn't going away.
You can make electricity pretty easily using household materials. There isn't going to be a systematic breakdown of science and society overnight. The technical know-how to generate electricity won't vanish, even if every engineer was killed. There are literally millions of papers on how to generate electricity.
Producing electricity is one of the easiest things to do in modern civilization. Hell, we had electricity back in the 1880s.
Anyways, using humans is just stupid. Horses or oxen are much more suitable as beasts of burden.
You can make electricity pretty easily using household materials. There isn't going to be a systematic breakdown of science and society overnight. The technical know-how to generate electricity won't vanish, even if every engineer was killed. There are literally millions of papers on how to generate electricity.
Producing electricity is one of the easiest things to do in modern civilization. Hell, we had electricity back in the 1880s.
Anyways, using humans is just stupid. Horses or oxen are much more suitable as beasts of burden.
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Re: back to work
by NeoPeasant » Wed 15 Mar 2006, 23:16:19
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', 'h')ttp://www.windstreampower.com/humanpower/hpgmk3.html
Reminds me of Edward G. Robinson charging up the apartment batteries in "Soylent Green"
The battle to preserve our lifestyle has already been lost. The battle to preserve our lives is just beginning.
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Re: back to work
by MattSavinar » Thu 16 Mar 2006, 00:36:38
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')You can make electricity pretty easily using household materials.
')You can make electricity pretty easily using household materials.
Yeah, it's pretty simple to make large amounts. You do have to have some coal or natural gas but who doesn't have tons of that or tons of copper and silicon for solar panels sitting under their sink?
Heck, give me some aluminum foil and a few minutes and I'll have the whole neighborhood off the grid in no time! Easy as pie.
Best,
Matt
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Re: back to work
by ThunderChunky » Thu 16 Mar 2006, 01:56:10
If bitter sarcasm were an energy source Matt Savinar would be our savior.
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Re: back to work
by 0mar » Thu 16 Mar 2006, 02:23:30
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MattSavinar', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '
')You can make electricity pretty easily using household materials.
')You can make electricity pretty easily using household materials.
Yeah, it's pretty simple to make large amounts. You do have to have some coal or natural gas but who doesn't have tons of that or tons of copper and silicon for solar panels sitting under their sink?
Heck, give me some aluminum foil and a few minutes and I'll have the whole neighborhood off the grid in no time! Easy as pie.
Best,
Matt
lol, not quite the point I was trying to make.
Electricity is much less a concern than transportation because of a few things.
The infrastructure is already available to take different sources of electricity.
The ease of generating electricity is readily apparent.
The materials for generating electricity are widespread.
The overall cost of generating electricity from different sources are competetive.
In short, electricity suffers from almost none of the problems that petroleum does. Other than a full scale nuclear war, there is simply no way that electricity will disappear. There may be shortages and such, but it won't go away.
Joseph Stalin
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