Blue Sky Limousine

There’s a post at Misinterpreted.org about how Global Warming is spurring us to act, while Big Oil keeps our actions slow and steady. Apparently, the theory is that as long as we prolong the hybridization phase, and stave off total technological solutions, Big Oil will be happy. It makes more money that way, [...]

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If Global Warming turns out to be mumbo jumbo, the scientific and technological breakthroughs that are achieved as a result will still be worth it. Maybe we need motivation at this point in order to move forward, even if that motivation is built on a lie.
Just think. We could be so much further [...]

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When it gets cold outside during winter, the air gets really dry. I sometimes enjoy that, because the air seems cleaner, and easier to breathe. So I’m wondering if excess humidity would make it harder to breathe. I think it would.
The hotter earth gets, the hotter the air gets. Since warmer [...]

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Today I had the idea that what if part of the reason the earth is warmer is because there are more warm bodies running around? Six billion is a record for worldwide population, right? And in “The Matrix,” the body heat from “endless fields” of people was powerful enough to power the machine [...]

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In the movie “The Saint,” Val Kilmer and Elisabeth Shue found a working method for Cold Fusion and gave the world free energy — clean, safe, and capable of producing as much power as we could possibly need. What if we found technology like that? How would the world be different?
We’d no longer [...]

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I read somewhere, it might have been Yahoo, that the current infrastructure won’t provide the needed bandwidth in the future when net demand skyrockets. But won’t FiOS fix things?
The article sounded like it was written just to scare people into reading it. Of course things won’t work if we stop growing and do [...]

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I’ve heard that people have been turning to trains as a way to avoid the problems that one encounters with airline travel and high gas prices. It makes sense.
Could low oil reserves force us to create a nationwide network of trains that all travel faster than the speed of sound?
Could we engineer a magnetic [...]

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If we pollute and pollute and pollute, and throw all kinds of dust and dirt and chemicals and greenhouse gases up in the air, will some major storms and high winds clean it all up?
Are tropical storms, hurricanes, tornadoes, and the like similar to automated pool cleaners? Do they move around spontaneously for various [...]

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Recently we’ve had a few (weather-related?) temporary blackouts. At first I was disappointed, as I figured living in the year 2007 we should have figured out how to eliminate such events altogether. Then I thought that maybe we’re continually rebuilding things that are nearly guaranteed to break. My only comfort with that [...]

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Years ago environmentalists were shunned by the public. Scorn was heaped upon tree-hugging hippies. Global Warming was seen as ludicrous. Caring about the environment seemed unnecessary. Now, everything has changed. Going Green is the thing to do.
What happened? I think major works like those of Al Gore, the UN, [...]

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