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Post by lynn on Apr 26, 2010 18:31:45 GMT -5
Yeah, we really need to get on clean water before Waterworld happens. We're having some issues with drought in Australia at the moment, so water issues solved would be bug for us too. I mean, not as big as those poor people in Africa but still...
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Post by Gilberto on May 6, 2010 17:01:17 GMT -5
Nerf cars on monorail tracks... check
Sun dried water bottles... check
It's going to be a bright tomorrow.
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Post by lynn on Aug 14, 2010 2:13:41 GMT -5
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Glip
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Post by Glip on Aug 18, 2010 5:54:54 GMT -5
Cycling is a good option. I ride my bike 40 kilometers a day to work and back. MP3-player with some podcasts, taking in the scenery (which in my part of Holland is still pretty rural).
Gameconsoles like the Wii also provide some healthier way of playing games I should mention.
My son is autistic so he doesn't get out to play with other kids much but he stays in pretty good shape through his wii-board and other stuff hooked up to it and man he works up a nice healthy sweat on a daily basis.
I've been reading into some books like "Science of the Impossible" by Michio Kaku (he's on the forefront of new quantum mechanics and all) and he says that some amazing stuff is going to be available in 50 to a 100 years if we really put some effort into it.
Like roomtemperature superconductors (supermagnets) to lift the most heavy loads and have clean superspeed magnetrail-trains with a tiny amount of energy cunsumption.
Anti-matter which at this point is just a tiny byproduct of nuclear research but if it could be the main goal of production we could have an enormous supply of energy with practically no waste or nasty nuclear byproducts (plans are already on the table to build an anti-matter gatherer in the south of France by 2040)
Problem is... resources.
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Post by lynn on Aug 18, 2010 20:31:35 GMT -5
I think superconductors are massively cool. I remember playing with them in high school, making things float and all that. The possible uses for not only transport but also for energy transfer (do you know how much electricity is lost through transfer through wires?) are so vast... especially when at the moment so much of our problems have to do with energy.
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