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why mess with water when any weight will do, and some are so much denser?

anyone remeber those cuckoo clcks where you pulle a chain to raise a weight, and then it slowly ran down, powering the clock?

having said that, i do think that many of our best initiatives will be to encourage swamps, estuaries, marshlands, bayous and fens, because per acre these support the most fauna, much of it edible.

i aslso believe we will make water a much bigger feature of planned landscapes, for its aesthetic and therapeutic value, as much as for storage.

so much rainwater rubs off uncaught, leading to such absurd scenarios as rainy england suffering intense water shortage.

for terraforming, grey water purification, and aquaculture/greenhouse combos, expect to see much heightened consciousness of water, its preciousnessness and its balancing qualities on many levels.

aquarius - the water-bearer...

can we imagine if a tiny portion of the 8 billion$ a month poured into the black hole of baghdad were redirected into battery research?

instead of 'assault-and-battery'?

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Sun Jan 28th, 2007 at 11:00:49 PM EST
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water is a lot easier to move up and down than solids.  I don't want to think about how complicated and expensive a mechanical system of weights and pulleys would be.

People are exploring spinning flywheels and battery systems though.

by HiD on Sun Jan 28th, 2007 at 11:48:51 PM EST
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can we imagine if a tiny portion of the 8 billion$ a month poured into the black hole of baghdad were redirected into battery research?

Indeed.  Talk about opportunity cost...

Now where are we going and what's with the handbasket?

by budr on Mon Jan 29th, 2007 at 06:44:11 AM EST
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