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Strong
23-11-2009, 01:32 PM
Hamsters!
I think all their little wheels should be connected to the grid, think of how much electricity those little buggers must be capable of generating. We should have slave armies of them beavering away in the bowels of hamster power stations. Think of it, at a stroke we could cut our green house gas emissions from fossil fuels dramatically.
Do you think they give nobel prizes for just thinking?
Cryren8972
23-11-2009, 01:35 PM
Do hamster farts produce ozone depleting emissions?
Strong
23-11-2009, 01:42 PM
I don't know, but I bet we could burn it and power a gas turbine!
Cryren8972
23-11-2009, 01:43 PM
I wonder why they haven't harnessed bovine emissions?
iowadawg
23-11-2009, 02:20 PM
All hamsters alive today are the descendants of a few hamsters found in Syria about 100 years ago.
julien_simon
23-11-2009, 03:47 PM
take it to real size and make gyms connected to a central. All these people running and cycling, rowing could produce lots of energy.
Ideas for saving the world from what?
julien_simon
23-11-2009, 09:31 PM
from lazy hasmters
iowadawg
23-11-2009, 09:35 PM
CATS!
http://www.livenudecats.com/amateur_full.php?id=25
Guess again.
How green is your pet? - environment - 23 October 2009 - New Scientist (http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427311.600-how-green-is-your-pet.html)
Eco-pawprints
Then there are all the other animals we own. Doing similar calculations for a variety of pets and their foods, the Vales found that cats have an eco-footprint of about 0.15 hectares (slightly less than a Volkswagen Golf), hamsters come in at 0.014 hectares apiece (buy two, and you might as well have bought a plasma TV) and canaries half that. Even a goldfish requires 0.00034 hectares (3.4 square metres) of land to sustain it, giving it an ecological fin-print equal to two cellphones.
Strong
24-11-2009, 02:07 PM
But if you must own your own, think about getting an animal that serves a dual purpose. He recommends hens, which partly compensate for their eco-footprint by providing eggs. Or there is an even better alternative, if you can stomach it. "Rabbits are good," he says, "provided you eat them."
Interesting article.
Oh well, back to the drawing board. Now what was that Cry was saying about bovine methane production? Any body know if we can burn methane?
Cryren8972
24-11-2009, 02:18 PM
Interesting article.
Oh well, back to the drawing board. Now what was that Cry was saying about bovine methane production? Any body know if we can burn methane?
Why sure you can! :sqbiggrin:
Strong
24-11-2009, 02:20 PM
OK! So now all we need is a gas capture device.
(Who would be willing to test such a device btw?)
Cryren8972
24-11-2009, 02:23 PM
Well looky here!
YD Industries - Products (http://www.ydindustries.com/bmcs.html)
I don't think that cutting greenhouse gas emotions is going to save the world. That is why I had to ask.
In fact I'm not so sure it would even help to save the world. I think it's more a case of it simply being the right thing to do, and so let's just start doing it.
I don't think that cutting greenhouse gas emotions is going to save the world. That is why I had to ask.
I second that...
Crap. My real thoughts are inadvertently coming out. I hate when that happens. lol
Well to the best of my knowledge, that was simply a spelling error, but I will not discount the possibility that there may be more to it than that. lol
Crap. My real thoughts are inadvertently coming out. I hate when that happens. lol
Just means you're evil human.
julien_simon
24-11-2009, 02:58 PM
Well looky here!
YD Industries - Products (http://www.ydindustries.com/bmcs.html)
you designed that didn't you? :sqwink:
Just means you're evil human.
What happened is I misspelled emissions in the reply window, then the spell checker came up with choices for the correct spelling and my mouse pointer inadvertently, i.e. due to a crappy mousepad, clicked the wrong choice.
That is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help me Carl Sagan. lol
Cryren8972
25-11-2009, 08:51 AM
you designed that didn't you? :sqwink:
Sure! I'll take you all to lunch when they start selling like hot cakes.
Build a better mousetrap, and they will come...
julien_simon
25-11-2009, 12:09 PM
Sure! I'll take you all to lunch when they start selling like hot cakes.
Build a better mousetrap, and they will come...
yeah for free lunch!
That is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help me Carl Sagan. lol
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/sagan-man.png
:3smile:
Ideas for saving the world, free one way tickets to the moon. lol
julien_simon
25-11-2009, 01:23 PM
Ideas for saving the world, free one way tickets to the moon. lol
free scuba diving lesson:
go in the middle of the ocean and swim down as far as you can.
I think that the entire globe should be encapsulated by Plexiglas. This will create jobs for many years to come and save the planet at the same time.
Strong
25-11-2009, 01:54 PM
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/sagan-man.png
:3smile:
Talking of Carl Sagan, an update of The Cosmos was recently released. It included the whole of the seminal series plus updates on the science and how it has progressed. Now that would be a xmas present!
ewomack
28-11-2009, 03:27 PM
Drastically reducing the birthrate would be a great start... we're already overpopulated...
Doing my best here. Not long to go now, I feel confident I'll make it.
vectro
28-11-2009, 04:55 PM
Besides the exercise machine idea, which would actually work because it generates kinetic energy which can be transferred to power the gym, I would use alternatives to supplement the current power grid. Things like wind and solar energy won't replace the system we use now, but can be an inexpensive way to use less of it. People also forget that hydroplants can be used to generate energy from water. These alternatives only generate weak power but they still work and will become better over time like any technology. The way this could become viable is if businesses start to research and develop these concepts into viable products and services which sell, which they're starting to do.
iowadawg
28-11-2009, 05:11 PM
I did my part today to save the world and every living creature.
I did not kill this bee, but instead opened the door and shushed it out.
Muddy
28-11-2009, 05:15 PM
We should have slave armies of them beavering away in the bowels of hamster power stations.
Pure literary genius!
Ferre
28-11-2009, 05:16 PM
Hemp
Seriously. We can reduce pollution drastically and replace hundreds of oil based products with Hemp based products, and this includes fuel for cars and plastics.
iowadawg
28-11-2009, 05:38 PM
I have carpets I would love to turn into fuel.
ewomack
29-11-2009, 12:43 AM
Laptops that don't heat up my goodies...
Strong
29-11-2009, 08:53 AM
Drastically reducing the birthrate would be a great start... we're already overpopulated...
On a serious note that is an excellent idea, and indeed India's idea of more people going vegetarian thus resulting in less cattle, sheep, goats, pigs would be a step in the right direction. But it seems to me to be unrealistic.
Remember China had a big drive to limit each family to one child and look at the problems that caused, socially speaking. Reducing the birthrate is credible only if done voluntarily. And it can happen, but only through education and a better standard of life. Many European countries have falling native populations, in particular Italy (hence Berlusconi is trying to single handedly jump start a wave of natural births). Why is the important question. Conversely, why do people in the second and third worlds have larger families?
I think the answer is education and better living standards.
tsdesigns
29-11-2009, 12:24 PM
On a serious note that is an excellent idea, and indeed India's idea of more people going vegetarian thus resulting in less cattle, sheep, goats, pigs would be a step in the right direction. But it seems to me to be unrealistic.
Surely more people going vege would mean more cattle, pigs, whatever?
Also, that'd put a lot of farmers out of work...
Strong
29-11-2009, 03:19 PM
No and no. The theory goes like this... It takes up more land to rear an animal then it does to grow crops to feed a person.
Going vegetarian would lead to more animals, but only temporarily over the very short term. Farmers wouldn't keep cattle if they couldn't sell them, for instance.
It would put farmers out of work, the land would be used for growing crops instead of rearing animals. Farmers would have to move with the times, if they couldn't then, yes, their particular skill set would be outdated and no longer required. At least not so many of them would be needed to rear animals.
iowadawg
29-11-2009, 03:25 PM
You go vegan.
Not me.
And what about your theory?
How about the sea?
You must be a PETA person.
See all animals dead and gone.
Leave only plants.
Strong
29-11-2009, 03:38 PM
Go vegan? Are you mad!?!
I actually am a vegetarian. But I was just making a point about Ed's post from earlier on which developed into a side issue. It is the Indian government that is advocating we all go vegetarian. Personally I don't think it would work, because humans are basically omnivorous creatures.
Although, perhaps it would help stop the ever increasing encroachment of farm land into the all too little wilds and give the wild animals a chance of surviving man's so called 'progress'?
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