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Resilience - Does Yankee Doodle have resilience to this:
The astounding Chinese have epoched the great GM, of U.S.A. in producing an Electric/gas/plug-in car! They are driving them in the streets of China as we speak, they will be retailed in the U.S.A. by 2011, they will cost half the price of a "Volt" and they are "On Order" for Israel! GM take a deep breath, your naughty parts have just been cut off by a Chinese high-tech competitor, and the "Volt" is still "Vapor-ware"! See:http://www.cleantech.com/news/3983/chinas-byd-sells-first-mass-produced-plug-cars
Can Mrs, America give up her stainless steel marvel fridge with ice-maker attached for this:
revamp notions about fridges
This fridge and a solar model at http://www.geekologie.com/2008/08/zero_carbon_footprint_the_sola.php
Einstein Fridge - http://www.gomestic.com/Consumer-Information/Eco-Fridge-That-Uses-Zero-Electricity.285375
Will GM be resilient enough to compete with Honda in light of this:
Honda just dropped a bit of a bombshell on the world with its announcement that their heat-harnessing hybrids recapture more lost energy than even Toyota's hybrid drive during highway driving. This is fantastic news http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/1380/
Do Americans display resilience in light of the truths of the modern aged like this:
An acre of U.S. corn yields about 7,110 pounds of corn for processing into 328 gallons of ethanol. But planting, growing and harvesting that much corn requires about 140 gallons of fossil fuels and costs $347 per acre. Even before corn is converted to ethanol, the feedstock costs $1.05 per gallon of ethanol
Some Americans are resilient, but this resilient?
For a time, Beverly Hills doctor Craig Alan Bittner turned the fat he removed from patients into biodiesel that fueled his Ford SUV and his girlfriend's Lincoln Navigator.
http://www.forbes.com/technology/2008/12/21/fat-fuel-biodiesel-tech-sciences-cz_pcb_1222fatfuel.html?feed=rss_technology
Every night, young radiologists in Bangalore read CT scans e-mailed to them by emergency-room doctors in the U.S.
Can American resilience overcome the Indian fact of American life?
Will resilience overcome the dive in lifestyle in the states like this:
http://www.blacklistednews.com/
The Great Depression has reached Detroit. The average price of a home is now $18,513 and unemployment has reached 21%, and it’s expected to get worse 12/31/08
Be resilient now, and tell the truth, How much is the money you have worth in light of this factoid:
Under the US Mint Act of 1792, the dollar was pegged at 24.75 grains of gold. There are 480 grains in a troy ounce. Thus it took 19.4 US dollars to purchase a single troy ounce of gold. As of Feb 23, 2007 it takes nearly 863 US dollar to purchase that same troy ounce of gold, representing a 97.8% drop in value!
Be resilient now and understand the true power in the U.S., the corporate lobby:
REFUSING TO GROW HEMP in America during the 17th and 18th Centuries WAS AGAINST THE LAW! You could be jailed in Virginia for refusing to grow hemp from 1763 to 1769; Hemp in Colonial Virginia, G. M. Herdon. http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=3774
Show resilience and a great deal of understanding, when you realize that large corporations (GM in particular) hold back inventions showing societal good, but not amenable to their current investment structures:
New piston engine!
Directory:Massive Yet Tiny (MYT) Engine http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Massive_Yet_Tiny_(MYT)_Engine#Comments
And, remember in your resilience in passing through these hard times:
Only the small secrets need to be protected. The big ones are protected by public incredulity.
-- Marshall McLuhan
But in our resilient and resourceful survival efforts, the Brits will come to our rescue with this contribution:
http://theinfochief.com/
A £2 energy-saving lightbulb that lasts for 60 years has been developed by scientists at Cambridge University. The researchers have designed a bulb that is three times more energy efficient than today’s best offer and can cut lighting bills by 75 per cent.The bulbs are 12 times more efficient that conventional tungsten bulbs and three times more efficient than compact fluorescent “energy efficient” bulbs. They can burn for 100,000 hours and they illuminate instantly and can be dimmed, unlike energy efficient bulbs.
And, we still shit, so if we follow the pattern set by these folks we might still have public transportation, and less pollution:
Free, friendly and non-fossil – biomethane from human waste will soon power public transport in Oslo, the capital city of Norway. http://ecoworldly.com/2009/01/29/human-sewage-to-power-buses-in-norway/
And, adding a product from Solar Power to Coal might help, if we can get past our monumental V-* egos:
adding H2 gas from solar power installations to coal by-products makes gasoline and diesel fuel as follows:{The Fischer-Tropsch process is a chemical reaction in which a synthesis gas -- a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen -- is converted into liquid hydrocarbons of various forms. The process produces synthetic petroleum for use as a lubricant or fuel. See: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090131095501.htm
And it is only in resilient dedication to resolving unfair monopolies in our system that even the Vitnamese can show us the way:
VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Information and Communications has issued an instruction on using open source software products at state agencies.
Accordingly, by June 30, 2009, 100% of clients of IT divisions of government agencies must be installed with open source software; 100% of staffs at these IT divisions must be trained in the use of these software products and at least 50% use them proficiently.
SEE: http://english.vietnamnet.vn/tech/2009/01/822425/
Great resilience for making the necessary changes will be needed. Jut switching to fish, foul and pork will save our resources SEE:
“Cattle are fed prodigious quantities of corn. At a feedlot of a mere 37,000 cows, 25 tons of corn are dumped every hour. It takes 1.2 gallons of oil to make the fertilizer used for each bushel of that corn. Before a cow is slaughtered, she will eat 25 pounds of corn a day; by the time she is slaughtered she will weigh more than 1,200 pounds. In her lifetime she will have consumed, in effect, 284 gallons of oil. Today’s factory-raised cow is not a solar-powered ruminant but another fossil fuel machine.” SEE: http://www.earthsave.org/environment/foodchoices.htm
See this movie to know why we must resolve to aviod the nuclear "easy-out"
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5384001427276447319
Resilience and resistance against evil, all powerful corporate interests will be necessary to divert catastrophe, SEE:
Monsanto stole patented wheat from Indian farmers
SEE: http://www.boingboing.net/2004/10/13/monsanto-stole-paten.html
We must be resilient in our Quest for Solar, Wind Wave, Hydro, Tidal, and Geothermal perpetual, or renewable, if you will, power resources, even our competitors know this. SEE:
China has approved three solar-energy power plants: the 1-megawatt Chongming Island Project in Shanghai, the 255-kW project in Ordos in Inner Mongolia, and the 10MW solar project in Dunhuang. See: http://cleantech.com/news/4174/chinese-firms-plan-solar-electricit
Show resilience and:Please donate your old boxes to a church-group or some needy student in these hard times! To comply with the law, and with Microsoft's leasing policy, you can now replace Microsoft OS with the free (download from the net) Ubuntu OS, which can be set to erase the hard drive of all traces of the “illegal to give away ” Microsoft system and your private information, before donation! Now, explain to your lucky recipient that all the manuals they will ever need are available for free on the internet! Just ask for them in Google! OpenOffice, which is installed already is plenty adequate for homework assignments and with a little exploring, everything else can work well too! Happy computing!
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