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Post by Melinda on Dec 27, 2010 12:22:33 GMT -5
well, y'all aren't going anywhere, and i'm not going anywhere soon, so it should work fine
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Post by Jason on Dec 28, 2010 10:11:27 GMT -5
Hopefully so. The trick is to keep it going nonetheless.
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Post by Brandon on Dec 28, 2010 15:51:15 GMT -5
Of course, it isn't organic, so it's not really alive anyways
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Post by Melinda on Dec 28, 2010 23:33:56 GMT -5
thats what you think. everything is organic in some way shape or form.
just like people (myself specifically) photosynthesize (sp?)
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Post by Jason on Dec 30, 2010 2:11:22 GMT -5
Wouldn't that be nice?  |
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Post by The Honourable Ninja-san on Dec 30, 2010 20:05:21 GMT -5
People photosynthesize? And whether or not everything is organic depends on your definition. I think Brandon means organic in the sense of "organic matter," meaning matter from formerly living things. In that sense, not everything is organic. Though if you mean organic as in "from nature," then yes, everything is in a sense, organic.
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Post by Jason on Jan 2, 2011 4:58:10 GMT -5
Being able to use sunlight as a food source, that would help a lot of things.
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Post by The Honourable Ninja-san on Jan 6, 2011 10:00:13 GMT -5
I'd be happy with solar panels that actually worked as well as burning fossil fuels.
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Post by Melinda on Feb 14, 2011 1:31:46 GMT -5
solar panels are a bad idea in certain parts of the world, but not others. for example, we did a suvey once about alternitive energy, and everyone said that soalr in alaska would be a horrible idea. it is dark there half the year, how effective is that? but somewhere, say, mexico, the equator, somewhere like that, it would be great. even arizona, which is farther south, and so doesn't have such drastic changes in light during the year
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Post by The Honourable Ninja-san on Feb 19, 2011 11:34:07 GMT -5
A solar-powered car would be awesome. But in order to work, it would need to use the sun to charge a battery, so you could drive in the dark, and it would need to be able to use other energy sources too, just in case. It would be great to not have to buy gas.
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Post by Melinda on Jul 21, 2011 8:46:00 GMT -5
geothermal energy sounds cool. i remember watching "scientific american frontier" once, and they went somewhere (i want to say greenland, but i'm not positive) that had a lot of gysers (like yellowstone!) and they were harvesting the energy from it, and making it into power. it was pretty cool
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Post by The Honourable Ninja-san on Jul 22, 2011 21:59:07 GMT -5
That would be cool.
I've head of a project to help poor kids (in Africa, I think) have light to do their homework. The people make these...now I forget the name of it. It's playground equipment where you hold on to a bar, run around the thing to make it turn, and when you get enough speed, you jump on and enjoy the spinning. Anyway, the project people designed some of these so that when the kids make them spin around, it generates power that charges lanterns. The kids play, charge their lanterns, then take their lanterns home so they have light to do their homework.
I bet we could make a lot of electricity by doing that same kind of thing but hooking it up the the exercise equipment in gyms.
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Post by Melinda on Jul 23, 2011 12:02:42 GMT -5
i love that idea!!! kids need to run around and play anyhow, so why not make it charge lights, and make electricity?
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Post by Brandon on Jul 31, 2011 14:58:25 GMT -5
Kelli - Are you talking about a merry-go-round?
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Post by Melinda on Jul 31, 2011 18:58:05 GMT -5
you could do it with a bike too, or a swing, or...
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